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by innguest 12y ago
The quality of their products (in the eyes of their consumers) is what enabled them to have all this money sitting around, that came from profits, to help deal with this situation. I see some correlation there, no?
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by innguest 12y ago
It's a marketing campaign that ends up helping people and the real world. They have that money to spare because their customers think their products are desirable. It seems to me you're trying to detract from what happened here by
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by innguest 12y ago
That means e.g. Venezuelans would be able to instantly drop out of the Bolivar and get into a stable currency, therefore instantly bringing about the tail end of hyperinflation, which drops the value of the Bolivar to zero - because now not
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by innguest 12y ago
Wow, someone that understands capitalism. :)
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by innguest 12y ago
I like this a lot. Obviously a lot of work and research went into this. Congratulations for the directed effort and the amazing results. On top of that, I'd like to thank you for helping rid the internet of HTML+CSS+JS. I can't wa
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by innguest 12y ago
I disagree. I think things are wrong on principle, and not just because of the results. See deontology for a better alternative to consequentialism: http://lesswrong.com/lw/1og/deontology_for_consequentialists...
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by innguest 12y ago
This looks beautiful and I have been testing your product yesterday and today. I have the following suggestions, which if implemented would convert the company I work for to your product. :) 1. Saving Basic Auth credentials so the user does
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by innguest 12y ago
> Edit: My, aren't we feeling pedantic today? Insulting is how the intellectually dishonest say "I'm out of arguments". > I have a great idea: let's argue semantics rather than content! How about you just answ
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by innguest 12y ago
> As if the parent comment wasn't as well. Tu quoque fallacy. Try again. > I was just pointing out that it's a two-way street. No. Watch closely. You said if we drop wages then people can't pay their bills, and the
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by innguest 12y ago
Very well said, and something I have specifically been thinking about. The Milgram experiment should be the experiment that opens our eyes and welcomes all ways of questioning authorities, and the missing link that connects all bad things
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by innguest 12y ago
"We shouldn't drop wages because people won't be able to pay their bills". Appeal to consequences. Try another.
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by innguest 12y ago
Why could they not have agreed to cooperate before NASA spent $650M on the Maven program which does the exact same thing that ISRO's $74M Mangalyaan does? I demand a refund.
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by innguest 12y ago
> There isn't "one company." Ok, so lest we shift the conversation - as right now we're talking about the specific prison and the specific banking corporation that this prison is using as described in the full article
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by innguest 12y ago
You're being myopic on purpose. > The drumbeat since Reagan has been that private companies Companies! Plural! The free market cannot exist when there is One True Company that the government let operate and Oh! See! The One True Com
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by innguest 12y ago
To me it is reminiscent of the way our government (and most others) works. Both involve a monopoly on banking, granted by the government, to enrich government-selected corporations, at the expense of non-bankers. No need to go back to the m
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by innguest 12y ago
How can we trust the government to solve this when it was the government that created the problem to begin with?
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by innguest 12y ago
How does your here-unjustified opinion help move the discussion? I don't mean to be rude, but so what that you think this or that is more important? The discussion should be based on the merits of each investment, not eric_cc's li
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by innguest 12y ago
The counterpoints in [0] are outdated. It shows the author has not read any of the anarchist literature. If you are interested in debating this, let me know. I'm working on a YouTube channel to bring these points to light, and having s
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by innguest 12y ago
> Projects like this generate huge amounts of value for a country Wow, I'm interested. Let's hear them! > they help to push money around the economy (worker salaries and equipment invoices) But that already happens with an
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by innguest 12y ago
You misunderstand money. Step by step: - Government charges people taxes. - Government uses tax money to pay scientists and equipment. - Government makes tax-over-tax profits by charging taxes again on scientists salaries (which were alread
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by innguest 12y ago
Why do people keep downvoting me? This is on point with the discussion and it is in the same tone of the surrounding conversation. The only difference I see is that I'm arguing the other side. Are downvotes votes of disagreement? If so
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by innguest 12y ago
Not having to compete with anyone does not make a product cheaper, it makes it more expensive. Competition drives prices down. So the government having a monopoly over a service makes that service more expensive. Advertising is not a waste
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by innguest 12y ago
- Everything the government does is more expensive than that same thing done by the free market (this is by definition, as the government creates bureaucracy around each of its endeavors) - Is the Mars mission the best allocation of those r
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by innguest 12y ago
Another vote from me. It seems from the comment that you have a product that is kind of exactly what many like me were looking for. I have brainstormed about this problem for a long time but I never took to implementing it because I was bus
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by innguest 12y ago
Seems like the kind of note-taking app I was looking for - something that does not constrain me to the one-dimensionality of text, and isn't just a poor work-around that fact as outlines are. I particularly like that one can visualize
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by innguest 12y ago
Siue, nimium linguam latinam diligis. Eruditio nunc mera charta est.
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by innguest 12y ago
"How will society function without taxes?" is a genuine question and several books have been written to answer this question. I'm currently reading one of them: Anarchy, State and Utopia. The answers are very interesting and
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by innguest 12y ago
> where is a good place to read about and/or discuss interesting philosophical questions You should explore similar books to these: - The Pig That Wants to be Eaten - The Duck That Won the Lottery
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by innguest 12y ago
Norway is not footing the bill as it has no money. It had to take $150M from its citizens pockets. I'm not sure how many Norwegians agreed to use that money to buy up trees. If most of them did, I guess you could say that is democracy
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by innguest 12y ago
The pope once said evolution can still be a fact without changing the belief system of the catholic church. You can try and adapt your thinking that way, but it is never as smooth as a principled theory. In other words, the buy-up-land thin

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