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by jes 13y ago
Can you explain why only the two outcomes you list are the only ones possible?
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by jes 13y ago
If someone offers you a job, for a certain wage, and you accept it freely, how are you not even when you get everything that you agreed upon? Alternatively, if the business makes losses rather than profits, would you kick in your share to k
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by jes 13y ago
Bill Gates did good long before he retired. He, with others, built a company that made low cost computing available to millions of people. People who willingly paid the prices Microsoft asked for their goods because those individuals decide
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by jes 13y ago
With respect, it seems wrong to suggest kidnapping people and threatening to kill them unless they indirectly finance your education. There are real expenses associated with running a university. Professors and staff have to be paid; buildi
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by jes 13y ago
With respect, you really haven't provided a good argument here. Some references that support your claims would be helpful.
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by jes 13y ago
Objectivism is not anti-government, and indeed, sees government as necessary in order to protect the rights of individuals (all individuals) from those who would otherwise violate them.
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by jes 13y ago
With respect, I don't think government should be facilitating the community or finding solutions for people's lives, as that quickly becomes a license to violate the rights of some individuals in order to give a benefit to some ot
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by jes 13y ago
Not to be too cynical, but I wonder how many government employees see themselves as dedicating their lives to public service, as opposed to those who simply prefer a government job over a private sector job. I think the whole public servant
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by jes 13y ago
I consider becoming unhealthy as irrational, because it leads to a diminished quality of life for me and the people I care about.
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by jes 13y ago
With respect, you seem to be generalizing from some wealthy people to all wealthy people. There are people who became wealthy without screwing other people in the process.
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by jes 13y ago
What do you recommend when dealing with an enemy that isn't interested in your good-faith efforts?
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by jes 13y ago
You might wish to read "The Ominous Parallels" by Leonard Peikoff.
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by jes 13y ago
Appears to be corrected at this time.
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by jes 13y ago
Speaking for myself, I'd like to encrypt the content of my communications as much as possible. But I can't control or encrypt the meta-data, such as numbers I dial, how long I talk, etc.
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by jes 13y ago
With respect, I don't think the article gets every point wrong, but there may be some merit in what you have written. I did a bit of reading. First, if you search the web, you can find articles about wire-rimmed glasses being banned fo
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by jes 13y ago
On a related note, I have read this book several times: http://books.google.com/books/about/Great_Boss_Dead_Boss.htm... The book, written in a Socratic style, is about tribes and tribal behavior in businesses.
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How Cults Seduce and What Marketing Can Learn From Them [pdf](scribd.com)
62 points by jes 13y ago|33 comments
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by jes 13y ago
For what it's worth, I was in full agreement with you right up until the "rich old white men" comment. Edit: Changed "fully" to "full".
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by jes 13y ago
I think that DuckDuckGo has seen an increase in traffic since this series of stories has broken. I use them myself. I would be happy to pay a reasonable premium to those companies that chose to take my privacy seriously. Companies that don&
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by jes 13y ago
Decades, or centuries, perhaps. I admire Ron Paul when he defends individual rights.
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by jes 13y ago
Respect for individual rights has been under attack for a long, long time in the United States. It didn't start with Bush, and it didn't end with Obama.
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by jes 13y ago
I'm 53, and have been doing projects since I was a young kid. Even had an oscope from a friend's amateur radio father in my bedroom as a kid. One thing I have learned, though, is not to say "How hard could it be?" Still,
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by jes 13y ago
Your comment is breathtaking in its misrepresentation of what Ayn Rand actually cared about.
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by jes 14y ago
Great, now I have two problems.
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by jes 14y ago
My engineering services business does regulatory affairs and compliance engineering work for medical device manufacturers, in addition to embedded SW. IEC 62304 and IEC 60601-1 3rd edition, etc. I can say that the parent comment is spot on.
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by jes 14y ago
Well, you have a whole bureaucracy on top of the TSA employees that you actually see at the airport. I'd expect that consumes a bunch of our money too.
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by jes 14y ago
So, I should work to be a great spouse (say), but not care whether I actually achieve that outcome? Why not work to achieve things of value precisely because they are of value to you?
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by jes 15y ago
Actually, Rand's view was that government wouldn't provide electricity, roads and education. These goods and services would be private and paid for by the people who wanted to use them. Defense was a different matter, in that in her view, t
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by jes 15y ago
Do you think you have the right to something that someone else has to work to produce? That's what Rand was against. You don't have a right to use force to cause someone else to work for your benefit.
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by jes 15y ago
I've found that doing some introspection helps me to deal with situations where I'm upset.

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