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by javert 12y ago
Thanks. Just the kind of explanation I was looking for.
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by javert 12y ago
Is there something novel here that I am missing?
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by javert 12y ago
And to add to my other comment, I'm willing to bet that large companies that break the law in certain areas sequester those activities away. They don't put their "regular, probably honest" employees into areas that are l
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by javert 12y ago
There's got to be lots of companies that, as a policy, don't do illegal things. Especially smaller businesses that can't afford to break the law. But larger ones too. Presumably, those kinds of places just wouldn't care
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by javert 12y ago
The proper term is "Objectivists," not "Randians." "Randians" is insulting (that is why mbrock is using it).
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by javert 12y ago
True, people developing Joomla sites are not the retards, their customers are. Just kidding. And I agree with you.
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by javert 12y ago
I think he was just talking about the people doing wordpress/joomla development, not locals in general.
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by javert 12y ago
Sounds just like grad school, except at least he's getting paid.
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by javert 12y ago
If somebody wants to bring up and talk about rights, I'll certainly add my two cents. And a lot of discussions were spawned off of my comment, with people talking about both sides, so I'd say I've used the site correctly and
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by javert 12y ago
Yes, but the modern libertarian movement is a direct outgrowth of Ayn Rand. Even though they dropped the non-political parts of her philosophy. Amazing how I get -4 for stating a historical fact. I did state that the idea is older than Ayn
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by javert 12y ago
Nor is it the place to unnecessarily presume political opinions that are widely disagreed with, which is why I made my comment in the first place.
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by javert 12y ago
It's not an opinion, you just haven't learned to be objective about morality yet. Nor has the UN.
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by javert 12y ago
In the US, all restaurants provide free water, voluntarily---it is not a law. It is a custom because we are not raging assholes. And if people are treated badly at a restaurant, they don't come back. I have never not been able to get f
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by javert 12y ago
I think the best term is "individual right," and the term "human right" should be abandoned. The original proponents of rights treated them as "individual rights." Later, people who wanted to violate "indi
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by javert 12y ago
The Nestle water situation doesn't actually pose any problem for the negative/positive rights distinction. I'm not familiar with the exact legal situation in parts of South America where that is an issue, but basically, if it
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by javert 12y ago
That's not correct. A human could live on an island. In society, we trade for what we need from others, which is different from saying we require that others provide us with things.
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by javert 12y ago
Well, the modern libertarian movement actually got it from Ayn Rand, though the basic idea is older than Ayn Rand. I also got the idea from Ayn Rand. I'm not a libertarian.
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by javert 12y ago
Sorry to nit pick but human rights protect you from having force used against you. You can't have a human right to something that someone else must provide. That would be a violation of their rights.
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by javert 12y ago
> You're forgetting that many people are poor because they never got proper financial education. No, that's not right. You sound like someone who has not known a lot of actual poor people. Of course maybe you have.
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by javert 12y ago
I think it's pretty timeless too. But still, I imagine there was a huge shift in this area after bitcoin became more well-known, so the fact that the article comes before that point in time matters. And given bitcoin's reputation,
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by javert 12y ago
Well, I was talking about high-yield investments and you are talking about crowdfunding. But that is my fault because the person I replied to was also talking about crowdfunding. However, I don't think people are spending money they ca
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by javert 12y ago
There is an excuse for this "small mindedness," it's that I think human well-being is strictly more important than the well-being of other organisms. And to think otherwise would be monstorous.
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by javert 12y ago
No, bitcoin isn't a ponzi scheme because it's not a ponzi scheme. A ponzi scheme is a very particular kind of scam. If I started an altcoin (like bitcoin) and promised people it would increase in value, it still wouldn't be a
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by javert 12y ago
I don't worry about that. Poor people who can't afford to lose money generally don't invest in online ponzi schemes that require the use of exotic digital currencies. Realistically, the "investors" are people who wa
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by javert 12y ago
Should say [2012] in title. This is an old paper that apparently predates the point in time when bitcoin started getting used for this kind of scheme. For example this one [1]. [1] http://insidebitcoins.com/news/trendon
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by javert 12y ago
Looks like we have already dealt with the problem by putting the waste into a giant lake. Earth is gigantic. This lake takes up maybe, what, .00001% of surface area? And is even less consequential by volume.
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by javert 12y ago
Let's look up definitions of compare. https://www.google.com/search?q=define%3Acompare&ie=utf-8&oe... I'm using it in a valid way, and not in the way you suggest, and it's clear from context which mea
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by javert 12y ago
China has no plausible deniability for anything at all, because it is run by a bunch of Communist cheats who censor the internet and violently put down any dissent. Practically any reasonable action taken by the US against China would not p
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by javert 12y ago
Except that we have free speech in this country, so Fox can be, and is, heavily and freely criticized freely all the time. And because we have free speech, there are multiple alternatives that act as checks and balances across our culture a
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by javert 12y ago
I think I'd like living in NYC, actually.

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