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by innguest 12y ago
But "crony capitalism" is a much more accurate way to describe the US right now than "Democracy", so why do you choose this over that? I think it's a very weak argument to say "this is the closest we can curren
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by innguest 12y ago
In my view, salaries for programmers should be going down, not up. For instance, I think house construction is overpriced because I think "what's so hard about putting up walls around some ground?". The answer is everything i
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by innguest 12y ago
I'm in NYC. Would love to talk it over in person. My email is on my profile page.
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by innguest 12y ago
Yes, this. When I say I regularly accumulate close to 1000 open tabs on Firefox (I use the Tree Style Tab plugin to put them on a column to the left) people think I'm crazy, but I just think it's a better way to recall what I was
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by innguest 12y ago
> why your morals are relevant to my opinions Please show an excerpt where I imply that my morals are relevant to your opinions. When I say 'I have a moral problem with your willingness to "force" someone to do something&#
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by innguest 12y ago
> I don't understand how it is unenforceable and unmeasurable. We already know certain ISPs do it today and we can test for it. Awesome. Then put up a website with your reports and make your case to convince people to switch to bett
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by innguest 12y ago
I'd like to point out that you have ascribed to me some sense of scorn towards others, and that you have insulted my approach to argumentation, but that that does not constitute a refutation and does not address the points I'm ma
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by innguest 12y ago
Because "force" means you're not willing to talk and argue your point. You are advocating that someone can pull a gun to other people's head and make them do what he wants, and this is unsustainable, detestable and immor
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by innguest 12y ago
> You force companies to carry all traffic equally That is not a solution, it is an intention. The solution is how do you go about "forcing" companies to carry all traffic equally. This is utterly unenforceable and unmeasurable
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by innguest 12y ago
Corporations are failing because the government is setting them up for failure through regulation. It's not easy to start an ISP and as your sibling poster noted, it is not because of technical issues, but the laws that are in place.
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by innguest 12y ago
That's because the road to good code is through the gates of increasingly smarter type systems.
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by innguest 12y ago
Upvoted and commented. Thanks for thinking good ideas.
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by innguest 12y ago
Instead of filling out forms over and over again with my name, address, phone number, etc, I could simply generate a one-time password that I give to the other person and they put my email and one-time password on their system, it sends me
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by innguest 12y ago
"The government is preventing people from hurting people" is not a binary assertion, but a spectrum. An agency can have a success rate of 20% at preventing violence (in which case they are lousy at it) or they can have a 70% or 80
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by innguest 12y ago
Politicians trying to leech off entrepreneurs trying to help the poor. Where are the folks that say Libertarianism can't work because we can't expect private enterprise to help the poor, and only a centralized government has the i
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by innguest 12y ago
I'm a "believer" in TGITP as you say it. It is not based on "blatant self-interest" but on moral principles (don't harm people, don't take their stuff, etc). Keep in mind what you're doing with that m
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by innguest 12y ago
It is a human rights violation because printing more money steals value from currency holders. Stealing is immoral.
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by innguest 12y ago
Seconded. This is a great idea, please submit it here for discussion.
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by innguest 12y ago
As a fan of memorable and incisive rebuttals, I tip my hat to you. I'm saving this in my arsenal.
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by innguest 12y ago
Let's say for the sake of argument that Basic Income results in 70% of the population sniffing petrol and drinking booze. Who are you to tell them they are doing anything wrong? If they're not harming anyone, they have the right t
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by innguest 12y ago
The private prison complex (the "well-to-do") benefit from jailing the poor who don't work. That's how the ward on drugs allows the well-to-do to benefit from the poor. The poor can still be exploited even if they don&#x
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by innguest 12y ago
The cost of producing dollars is much higher (both in terms of energy waste, and in terms of human rights violations) and it is just as imaginary.
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by innguest 12y ago
I don't think those are moral things to do. But if you vote you do, because you are funding a group of people (the government) that does exactly that: denies justice to the poor (e.g. the war on drugs), and steals from them (e.g. the p
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by innguest 12y ago
And the right to steal from, or "tax", the rich, comes from where? In other words, I'm curious how you think this is moral.
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by innguest 12y ago
Then stop voting for a government that has power to dole out to lobbyists.
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by innguest 12y ago
Nature and evolution seem to be concerned with passing down information. For that, Nature came up with 4 letters: A, T, C, G. You see where I'm going with this.
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by innguest 12y ago
It looks like you're making a point that these things are all inherently complex. Isn't it more probable that the tools we have today are just inadequate to deal with those problems? And maybe they are still inadequate after all t
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by innguest 12y ago
> alcohol very much is physically addictive > nicotine on its own is not particularly addictive No drug is addictive. This word "addictive" is a rhetorical strategy to shift the blame from people's genetic and psycholog
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by innguest 12y ago
This is many times more readable, simpler and safer than what Martin Fowler wrote. I wonder if he will ever grow out of the OO hypnosis. Maybe he just carved too comfortable a niche for himself that he needs to keep peddling it. I say this
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by innguest 12y ago
Please stop spreading this myth. Agnosticism is about whether you think it's provable that there is or isn't a god. Atheism is about whether you as a person believe in a god or not. You can believe in a god (be a theist) and still

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