libertyEQ

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by libertyEQ 9y ago
I feel like those of us that are very scared of authoritarian tendencies demonstrated in this thread are being interpreted as promoting hatred. "The road to hell is paved with good intentions," could not be more applicable.
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by libertyEQ 9y ago
>this regulation isn't new. Well, according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality#United_States this rule Pai wants to repeal only took effect in 2015: "On 26 February 2015, the U.S. Federal Com
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by libertyEQ 9y ago
AT&T does not have any content prior to this deal, which is why it is called a vertical merger. They are simply not competing in any business. It is quite similar to Comcast buying NBC/Universal.
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by libertyEQ 9y ago
Spectrum is a product of the Charter Communications company[0]. Further, it is very rare (possible non-existent) for 2 cable companies to operate in the same market. Time Warner Cable and Charter did not compete in any market, as far as I k
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by libertyEQ 9y ago
You are replying to a comment about a distributed repository of software based on some sort of blockchain, while you are linking to a P2P messaging protocol. Not that isn't relevant to discussions about Skype, but it is irrelevant to S
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by libertyEQ 9y ago
Using nmap, and not changing the destination server, I've seen numerous outbound requests in a given hour.
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by libertyEQ 9y ago
> I hate when people use this as a former of argument and neglect all the difficult things the country has achieved. My point was it is difficult for 300M people to agree on something, and I don't know what you are talking about oth
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by libertyEQ 9y ago
Just to be clear: 60/300= 20% 80/300= 26% Not much of a difference, IMO. Make your case if you disagree.
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by libertyEQ 9y ago
That sounds like you are making an unfair assumption about my beliefs and my understanding is that we are supposed to be charitable in our assumptions for the benefit of discussion on HN. I made the distinction about lab synthesis (i.e. LSD
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by libertyEQ 9y ago
Holy shit! The idea that it's 60M instead of 80M misses the fact that it is an order of magnitude different scale. Would it help you people if I said, Germany is 10^2M vs 10^3M? I'm I pedant, but this is ridiculous.
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by libertyEQ 9y ago
>State populations are not monoliths. I never made that claim. It is simply that state level democracies is what we have in the US. I live over 1,000 miles from my nearest relative because that is where I feel most comfortable, even thou
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by libertyEQ 9y ago
>This 300M+ logic is the perfect strawman for people who don't want to solve problems Within the US, people are able to move across states at will very easily. It is not a "straw man" in that I did not present it as argume
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by libertyEQ 9y ago
>They require some form of collective action and solidarity This is perhaps easier with Germany's population of ~60M vs. the US population of ~300M. I'm much more comfortable with something like this happening at the state leve
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by libertyEQ 9y ago
Heroine (~1%), morphine(~5-13%), and codeine(~5-13%) are the active constituents in opium, which is a plant material consisting of many other benign substances. These discussions need to include factoids like these in order to be productive
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by libertyEQ 9y ago
We have a serious problem when we conflate plant material with synthesized, concentrated compounds. People call their pills "medication" and the 4 plants I grow every summer in my backyard "drugs."
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by libertyEQ 9y ago
>It’s no coincidence that climate change people are almost universally leftists — redistributing the means of production is their obsession; climate change hysteria is just a means to achieve that end. I used to think this was some Limba
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by libertyEQ 9y ago
Check this out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pervious_concrete "Pervious concrete was first used in the 1800s in Europe as pavement surfacing and load bearing walls.[3] Cost efficiency was the main motive due to
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by libertyEQ 9y ago
To elaborate further: "Chemical plants produce olefins by steam cracking of natural gas liquids like ethane and propane. Olefins are the basis for polymers and oligomers used in plastics, resins, fibers, elastomers, lubricants, and ge
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by libertyEQ 9y ago
To be fair, there doesn't seem to be many people willing to significantly change their lifestyle to drastically minimize their carbon footprint.
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by libertyEQ 9y ago
That's how The Outlaw Josie Wales pronounces it when he gives the red-legs chasing him, "a Missurah boat ride."
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by libertyEQ 9y ago
I appreciate semantics and nuance, and often get called a pedant, but you seem to be missing the argument being made. It's not technically 'invite-only' though it in practice, it is 'invite-only.' This looks like a
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by libertyEQ 9y ago
You stated in your original comment that is was a, "slight drop." I actually agree with much of what you wrote, but let the argument stand on its own, please don't use non-factual content to (note: the Iranian oil coming back
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by libertyEQ 9y ago
I wouldn't consider oil dropping from ~$100/barrel to ~$40/barrel a slight drop. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Texas_Intermediate#/media...
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by libertyEQ 9y ago
The appropriate spectral continuum to consider here is Authority vs Liberty. Some things to specifically consider: 1) 240 years ago, the USA was the first country founded to prioritize liberty. 'Everyone' else had authoritarian mo
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by libertyEQ 9y ago
It's almost as if some people are taking the poor state of the technology being proposed as some challenge, when most of us simply do not want to live in a police state. Do. Not. Want.
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by libertyEQ 9y ago
>If it's the safest and best in your opinion, While being a poor translation of what I wrote, based on facts you are completely incorrect. Just tell me what you are for. I am using statistics. Do I need to cite sources for you to b
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by libertyEQ 9y ago
I don't know for sure, but is it appropriate to use gross GDP numbers instead of GDP/capita? When one is choosing which metrics to use, bias is introduced.
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by libertyEQ 9y ago
Well, this was an unpopular comment. How do we properly incentivize progress and innovation? This is the safest, most prosperous time to be alive in the history of humanity, despite what you have been told.
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by libertyEQ 9y ago
>restricting voting to the educated is still restricting voting to the elite. At that time... Buuuut we now live in the age of the internet, and knowledge is a pure commodity. There are authoritarians looking to muddy the waters and make
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by libertyEQ 9y ago
I've got numerous concerns about YC, but I really like HN. There is a certain decorum we must not violate or we risk becoming like the mess that is the rest of much of the web right now. We need to focus on the content of the arguments

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