kaonashi

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871.
by kaonashi 14y ago
It's a bad time to be a whistleblower too.
872.
by kaonashi 14y ago
It's not a random person, it's an unnamed person. Without any details, I'm curious why the possibility the the claims might be correct are not even considered.
873.
by kaonashi 14y ago
You can't pay income taxes with bitcoins. If you make income in bitcoins, if you are an American at least, you will need to pay taxes on that income. In this way, bitcoins cannot replace the dollar for American citizens. The most it can
874.
by kaonashi 14y ago
> Chomsky presumes that the US and US foreign policy are evil Chomsky presumes that the US domestic and foreign policy are tailored to the narrow self-interest of US elites.
875.
by kaonashi 14y ago
Public debt is just bonds, i.e. the private sector savings. Why is it problematic that the private sector has savings? Why would we need to inflate that away, rather than letting it continue to exist to support people during their retirem
876.
by kaonashi 14y ago
QE only affects reserves, if anything it decreases net private assets as it takes interest bearing assets out of the private sector. Credit creation for bidding up existing assets is where the instability comes from. Tighten regulations an
877.
by kaonashi 14y ago
Perhaps it should be more cooperative.
878.
by kaonashi 14y ago
Taxpayers don't fund government, workers fund government (and it's expenditures in research). Government issues currency and draws upon the wealth of the nation for funding. Taxes drive demand for currency, they don't fund the government.
879.
by kaonashi 14y ago
Boy did I pick the right week to leave my last job.
880.
by kaonashi 14y ago
That's just the point. He's miserable when people _force_ him into social situations that serve no purpose other than socializing. He's not miserable when he's alone. I'm not sure why this is so hard to grasp for a lot of people.
881.
by kaonashi 14y ago
One person's 'basic social skills' is another person's 'complete waste of time'.
882.
by kaonashi 14y ago
I have several real-estate opportunities you should be interested in.
883.
by kaonashi 14y ago
Most 'free markets'.
884.
by kaonashi 14y ago
Way to chase the guy away again.
885.
by kaonashi 14y ago
Jailing is the only possible constitutional violation?
886.
by kaonashi 14y ago
The anthill at my feet is bigger than K2 in terms of letters.
887.
by kaonashi 14y ago
Wow, we're seriously recycling right-wing e-mail forwards on HN now?
888.
by kaonashi 14y ago
You think you're too good to wear the ribbon?
889.
by kaonashi 14y ago
Ireland and Greece are only quasi-sovereign as they adopted the Euro; their hands are tied unless they adopt their own currency.
890.
by kaonashi 14y ago
tl;dr Comments suck, documentation rocks.
891.
by kaonashi 14y ago
Because if we let these events go by without comment, then we are bad people . If we take up the mantle and struggle against evil, then we are heroic . That seems to be the thought process anyways.
892.
by kaonashi 14y ago
Angular doesn't mesh well with progressive enhancement, and if I'm going to use an all-inclusive javascript framework, I'm going to go with the speed and intelligent architecture of Ember.js.
893.
by kaonashi 14y ago
They should have mailed it to the Marx brothers. …I'll see myself out.
894.
by kaonashi 14y ago
Minor quibble: money doesn't facilitate barter, it is and always has been a credit relationship.
895.
by kaonashi 14y ago
What does a proper engineering evaluation entail?
896.
by kaonashi 14y ago
People want it to be a financial solution to political problems. It won't do that.
897.
by kaonashi 14y ago
A fictional character.
898.
by kaonashi 14y ago
That was kind of my feeling about Windows 8, why not just standardize around Unix like everyone else? The most obvious answer is inertia, but there might also be internal political roadblocks as well.
899.
by kaonashi 14y ago
Diversity is a problem in all of computing; to make it out that it is solely the problem of conference organizers is to miss the point and to over-concentrate the blame.
900.
by kaonashi 14y ago
Gaza is among the most densely populated areas on Earth. It is simply not feasible for civilians to comply with such orders.

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