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by javert 11y ago
> I'm not arguing that we should completely give ourselves over to our base urges, but acknowledging they exist, that everyone has them, and that they can be a wonderful thing would be a great start. As soon as you say something lik
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by javert 11y ago
I would appreciate an explanation for why you say that.
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by javert 11y ago
Speaking as someone who's on your side in this debate... Rights are what you get if a bunch of rational, self-interested people get together and say, "What ought we be allowed to do without interference?" There is a single, c
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by javert 11y ago
Yes, they do, you just don't understand rights. Rights are the things that we would all agree should be legally protected if we were all rational about it. So they're a human construct, but they're still objective.
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by javert 11y ago
You're attacking a straw man. If you pay attention to the world around you, you see that time after time, better products win out over worse ones. It's practically common sense. But you have your head in the clouds and your finger
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by javert 11y ago
Gross miscarriage of justice. People have a right to buy drugs. Every single government actor involved in this case is far more guilty than Ross and, frankly, they are the ones that deserve prison. Yes, Ross should have realized you can&#x2
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by javert 11y ago
> The problem arises when the bad tech crowds the good tech out of the market altogether. That's not possible in normal market dynamics. When only shitty products are available, someone will start competing at the high end. The reas
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by javert 11y ago
Don't use bad tech. Some people will, but that's their loss. As long as it's a free society, we'll each individually have the choice to stay away from bad tech. Paying one of my local telco monopolies too much money to w
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by javert 11y ago
I agree. Edited my comment.
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by javert 11y ago
Almost impossible to read that font on my machine. edit: I'm on Linux/Firefox. I assume it has to do with what font sets I have installed.
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by javert 11y ago
Method to compute a result. More technically, method to produce or alter a piece of data. (Because we should not neglect algorithms that operate on data structures.)
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by javert 11y ago
Living in a mobile home is actually pretty decent. It's generally going to be nicer, and much more private, than living in the type of apartments that would be within range of someone at that income level. And the article mentions this
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by javert 11y ago
It's clear that regulation is the problem. There aren't enough mobile home parks to meet demand, because authorities don't allow new ones to be built. It says it in the article. Allow them to be built, supply will meet dema
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by javert 11y ago
There are people in the business of exposing corporate fraud, and the way they make money is by shorting the stock before exposing the fraud.
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by javert 11y ago
Business history is littered with the corpses of companies that had 99% market share. The main thing you can do with 99% market share is lose it.
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by javert 11y ago
It's also reprehensible to say that it's OK for companies to cheat their cusomters. I don't think the CertSimple guy was actually trying to boycott that guy's company, he was trying to make a point.
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by javert 11y ago
Companies calling out their competitors when they cheat customers and rip them off is a feature, not a bug.
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by javert 11y ago
No, the playing field is completely fair. If you can offer people a greater value proposition, you will win in the market.
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by javert 11y ago
You don't need a license from Windows to start an OEM and sell computers that come with a competing OS installed. That is what Apple does, for instance.
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by javert 11y ago
> You can't dismiss evidence ahead of time because you're convinced your theory is true. There is no possible counter-evidence. You'd say the same thing about lots of things---for example, that the Earth is spherical. So y
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by javert 11y ago
Thanks for your thoughts. If there is some advantage to devices having a few satoshis, it would be easy to just send them a few satoshis. (Or install a private key that lets them draw a few satoshis from an account you set up for that purpo
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by javert 11y ago
What an elegant solution. This is really cool.
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by javert 11y ago
I haven't seen a patent application for a time machine, so we can rule out the possibility that they're actually slowing down time. However, I do wonder how they implement this. Do you change timekeeping in the kernel so that a fr
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by javert 11y ago
If that were true, Linux, BSD, and Apple OS would not exist. The only strength that is strong enough to strangle competitors at birth is the long arm of the law. In other words, the only way to keep out competition is to use force. That is
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by javert 11y ago
> Towards that end, our team of PhDs in EE from MIT, Stanford, and CMU has built not just a chip, but a full technology stack around the chip — including reference devices, datasheets, a cloud backend, and software protocols. This is pur
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by javert 11y ago
Really nice to know my comment was appreciated, since it was such an uphill battle. If you want further reading, here [1] are some short excerpts about antitrust laws from one of my favorite authors. [1] http://aynrandlexicon.com
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by javert 11y ago
Thank you very much for bringing an insider's perspective to this. Very interesting. I had not thought about it that way, in terms of the specifics.
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by javert 11y ago
No, we differ in that you want to do it by force and government authority, and I don't. Arbitrary government exercise of power is incredibly dangerous.
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by javert 11y ago
No. I said that there is no such thing as a monopoly except legally-created monopolies. Those are, in effect, government created. I am totally against that. I am totally against government passing laws to favor certain people over others, t
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by javert 11y ago
No, I'm saying that there is no example possible that will negate the point. Because the point is true. I mean, you can keep taking it out one level, and competition can happen there. For instance: Can't compete due to OEM agreeme

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