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by hekfu 8y ago
Not nearly as liberal as the US though. Afaik you are very much limited where you are allowed to have ammunition loaded into the rifle, concealed carry isn't a thing at all and the police can ban you from owning guns
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by hekfu 8y ago
And how do you address the massive injustice in wealth and opportunity distribution already present because of centuries of capital and power sharing the same bed? I'd be all for your proposal if it included a way to nationalise all ca
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by hekfu 8y ago
Sure, but the EU is not an insignificant market and to be honest, this could have a similar effect to anti trust laws. Have European companies build up competition against the US behemoths. China is an unfree hell hole that I don't wan
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by hekfu 8y ago
> This may be an edgy and rebellious sentiment that makes me a radical anti-privacy activist, but unless you're storing levels of information on me that are similar to facebook/google/etc., I do not give a damn whether you
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by hekfu 8y ago
> Honestly though, I would _love_ to live in a world where you could walk into my home and install your 'adtreckr' eye tracking cameras on my TV. What you're describing is "trust", and I think the amount of it th
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by hekfu 8y ago
I agree, we should also get rid of copyright and property laws in the name of not "stifling innovation". It is absolutely ridiculous that I can't just walk into a peoples homes and install my 'adtreckr' eye tracking
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by hekfu 8y ago
Welcome to the real world. If your little hobby project leaks the personal information of a real person, then they don't care how much of an unimportant side project it was to you. For purely personal use "hey guys, this is just a
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by hekfu 8y ago
You don't really though? Unless I missed the bit on how you want to get payed. All I see is 'building a great open source infrastructure', which while I applaud and is noble, is not widely accepted to pay rent so far
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by hekfu 8y ago
Thank you
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by hekfu 8y ago
Transcript: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/01/dude-you...
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by hekfu 8y ago
Two cases: 1. I'm talking about equity, not options. Aka, part of the company is yours. With voting rights, or in the case of e.g. Google, at least worth cash 2. In a startup, it is a lottery ticket. If the company is public, you can i
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Charles Stross Keynote at 34C3 on AI, corporations and how they affect democracy(youtube.com)
5 points by hekfu 8y ago|3 comments
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by hekfu 8y ago
>You would do much better job by first learning what the world outside your country has to say about those simple ideas of yours. 1. This sounds a bit condescending 2. E.g.: Switzerland just voted to keep theirs. Seems to be seen as desr
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by hekfu 8y ago
> If I didn't know any better, I'd say it sounds like you're searching for people with passion so you can get them to work unpaid overtime for you. I don't know why else it would matter. Ding ding ding. Also in this
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by hekfu 8y ago
I would like to add another one: some people are worker bees, some people are inherently lazy, but both are not assholes and will try to not get you into shit if they think of you as a human being. If you can get them to care about you or t
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by hekfu 8y ago
If get clickbaited 2 or three times, I stop browsing your site.
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by hekfu 8y ago
> Labor unions depend on laws that inhibit the contract freedom of employers for the above-market wages they fetch their members. > They're rent-seeking organizations where the benefits concentrate to their members, while their c
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by hekfu 8y ago
> > without worrying about money fleeing the jurisdiction and we'd be able to fund things like ... > North Korea is horrible to its people so it has to lock them in. You're effectively wanting the same thing but for ever
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by hekfu 8y ago
And thank you for this. Despite my gripes with it, HN is indeed a community,not a 'platform'. Thinks like this policy keep it this way
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by hekfu 8y ago
Go to Germany. Better ROI for hiring tech, gonna stay in the EU, also cheap Ltd equivalent (UG).
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by hekfu 9y ago
IANAL but I think it's more complicated than that...IIRC if you want to do.business in the EU, you need to comply. Not sure if.you can argue that HN does 'business' though
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by hekfu 9y ago
As someone trying to start a business : boo frickin hoo. This is not kindergarden, this is adults trying to run a business. The deal of private property and capitalism is: private person figures out how to do things within the law, profita