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by henvic 7y ago
When I was something around 13 years old, Oracle made a presentation for its SQL database in a hotel in my hometown. I signed up, and the presentation should be a few days later. One or two days later, Oracle called my home and asked to spe
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by henvic 7y ago
It might be lawful, but it isn't ethical. It's just legal plunder at its best. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_plunder
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by henvic 7y ago
I'd disagree on the salaries drop. Imagine if poor immigrants weren't allowed in the US. Bathrooms wouldn't clean itself (maybe in Japan?). What would happen is that many more Americans would be working on entry-level jobs th
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by henvic 7y ago
You don't need to support it. What you don't have a right to do is to try to use the state to prohibit it. If you want to buy local, it's your prerogative, and there is nothing wrong with your choice. However, if your neighbo
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by henvic 7y ago
You say my comment doesn't reflect on me very well. Very well, except my comment was exactly trying to make you see you were doing exactly this: you suggested I'd be for using child labor for something [preposterously dangerous li
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by henvic 7y ago
oops! Sorry about that. I meant centralized power indeed, not federalism.
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by henvic 7y ago
What about if we move this discussion to focus on how you fear people from poor countries might have the competency to be your competitor in the job market? I used to make just USD 5-10 an hour as a senior software engineer before joining a
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by henvic 7y ago
No. Federalism creates most of the problems in the US: drug wars, invasions overseas, absurd military expending, reduced comparative advantages between states, the evil patents system, expensive medical care, etc. The more concentrated the
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by henvic 7y ago
Immigrants are what built the US recently (after the real Americans... the native ones). Why close the gates now? Please don't use them (or us; though I'm not in the US) as scapegoats; this is not just. No one should have a privil
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by henvic 7y ago
I had a pediatrician until I was 18 or 19. I remember that my mother came with me I went to him for a final check-up close to my 18 or 19 years old birthday (along with my 1-2 years old niece lol) as he would not take me anymore afterward.
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by henvic 7y ago
Yeah. Most of the time I see people complaining about SQL, I identify that they are trying to build complex nested joins and other stuff likewise for no good reason besides risky premature optimization... And they end up creating little mon
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by henvic 7y ago
Indeed, ORM is encouraged out of the box in many ecosystems... and sure enough, it is viewed as a silver bullet by many developers and this is a pity. Some ORMs are powerful and even have subsets of language for data transformation, and so
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by henvic 7y ago
I live near a big avenue that has 12 lanes (6 for each direction). There are two local lanes (that you can enter or exit only on a few places). It has been this way probably for longer than I'm alive (30 years). There is a huge traffic
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by henvic 7y ago
I'd make an order and immediately ask Amazon if I can keep it or if it was an error. Why? How come can I know for sure this is an error and not, say, a marketing strategy to show up for free on big news outlets? Free publicity for the
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by henvic 7y ago
New trains are like that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_air_brake
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by henvic 7y ago
Curious... Do you have data to back up your claims? * about more professional drones
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by henvic 7y ago
There is no barrier of entry to indexing the web. It is antiethical to force Google to make its index public through regulation. Google has its problems and we should attack them but not like this. It is not a monopoly. It is just the large
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by henvic 7y ago
You must see whether the money used in something is from the te sector or if it was stolen from the people through taxation. If it is the former, it's none of your business and indeed it doesn't make anyone poorer. If it is the la
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by henvic 7y ago
We shouldn't seek to ban insurance or force them to work one way or another. The problem you identified is correct but the solution isn't right. You should let people be free to choose to freely associate with one another (or what
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by henvic 7y ago
This comes up way more often than we imagine. I found a malware on a JavaScript errors notifications for Chrome in 2015 that affected 86k users and the developer was mad because apparently he made some money out of it (I was called a parano
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by henvic 7y ago
Great article. There are legitimate reasons to open a webserver locally. However, the benefits from these restrictions are great not to consider some sort of protection. Perhaps there could be an authorization request the user could allow (
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by henvic 7y ago
Proper black market is exactly a part of the industry that the state fights. One of the things I always wanted was to create a black market for electronics in my home country (Brazil) because taxation here is really high. You should also kn
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by henvic 7y ago
By the way, you can do business without IP... I recommend the following book: Against Intellectual Property by Stephan Kinsella. https://mises.org/library/against-intellectual-property-0
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by henvic 7y ago
Facebook as a threat to Africa? What the hell? Maybe it is a threat to the African states. Not to the people, though. Africa is poor thanks to statism. Not due to some "evil american corporates".
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by henvic 7y ago
Yes, an option for those who doesn't know how to live in peace respecting other people's property rights. They should do the right thing and emigrate to the middle of nowhere in order to not do evil against innocents.
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by henvic 7y ago
Yes. Or just liberal (if you're not in the United States - left-wings "robbed" the liberal word there long ago - to sell itself as people that praises liberty just to hide their real communist intentions).
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by henvic 7y ago
Yes, indeed. Or just... How about just someone honest who would not enslave another, I guess? How about respecting people's private property rights? I don't need to be the designer of a whole country (I might even be, if it's
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by henvic 7y ago
Is for the demons. Democracy is not about freedom nor liberty but depriving minorities to the willingness of a major party. It's about imposing plunder and violence and has always been. You can't deny it. No Orwellian doublespeak
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by henvic 7y ago
In the article it says that one reason may surprise. Come on, really? It doesn't surprise no one but people who think the almight state should be everywhere and is the answer to everything. If you search on-line you may find both opini

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