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by libertyEQ 9y ago
At the time (e.g. 18th century), it was the best proxy for education. In the age of the internet, we have at least the prospect of learning at our own pace regardless of financial means. This requires an interest in knowledge while minimizi
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by libertyEQ 9y ago
That's a distinction I haven't thought much about because I'm not sure I've contemplated the pure definitions. Without knowing how you mean these words, I would say starting from first principles, we optimize for liberty
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by libertyEQ 9y ago
>Your comment asserts that corporate tax has zero impact on corporate profit. I didn't intend to "assert" that, and I think it's fair to ask you to elaborate, as I believe there are assumptions embedded in your interp
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by libertyEQ 9y ago
>Only children and the very slow still believe in "democracy", which is obviously just another name for the rule of those who own the media and/or are rich enough to bribe politicians. As a citizen of the USA, this is quit
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by libertyEQ 9y ago
~"Capitalism is the worst system ever devised except for all the others." ;) Until we get to a Star Trek-like unlimited resources, it is the best way to allocate our resources to properly incentivize progress and innovation.
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by libertyEQ 9y ago
Given your comments, we seem to be similarly minded. What do you think about a wealth tax? To me, that would be the most appropriate given that incomes can vary year to year. Corporate taxes are a separate matter altogether, IMO, since corp
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by libertyEQ 9y ago
Your comment basically breaks HN guidelines by calling into question the motivations of all commenters that disagree with you. Some of us simply believe that taxing corporations makes little sense because companies set their pricing with ap
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by libertyEQ 9y ago
I'm trying to figure out who it is you're responding to exactly. My comment was more a general discussion of first principles in an attempt to answer my parent comments' query. You seem focused on a specific implementation de
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by libertyEQ 9y ago
We had the ability to do this at the largest merchant acquirer 10 years ago as long as your bank signed up. Walmart was one of the first customers and would stream SKU-level data straight to our servers from the POS terminal.
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by libertyEQ 9y ago
One of the founding principles of the US was individual liberty. The more the government is involved, the less liberty is possible. Now, most "anti-government" people I know differentiate between federal and state/local and i
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by libertyEQ 9y ago
>whereas they only know the total if you used a Mastercard/Visa This is simply not true with respect to the big retailers in the US. This started as far back as '06, though the details of the implementation have changed a bit.
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by libertyEQ 9y ago
I'm thinking, perhaps optimistically, that we are at "Final September" as our less nerdy brethren become accustomed to things we've known for 20 years.
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by libertyEQ 9y ago
This is going to take me a few minutes... WITS was discontinued 5 years ago. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/15/us/politics/theories-mean... https://www.thenation.com/article/wh
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by libertyEQ 9y ago
There are people in this thread claiming antifa and BLM are responsible for most violence in the last few years. The arguments being put forth by 'the other side' are not what you claim, and 'these folks' are going to co
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by libertyEQ 9y ago
It was Dallas, not Houston. >Most of the politically-incited violence of the past few years has been left-wing. Is this claim based on data or anecdotes?
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by libertyEQ 9y ago
When they want to discredit BLM, pundits (e.g. Hannity) just show the video from a few years ago where there are black people chanting, "pigs in a blanket, fry'em like bacon" while marching. They play it over and over again a
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by libertyEQ 9y ago
>We have selectively bred cattle for hundreds of years to build the modern dairy cow with specific genetics. I don't think it is a good idea to conflate selective breeding programs with gene splicing as they are very different.
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by libertyEQ 9y ago
What free market are you talking about? Until we fix the collusion between the American Hospital Association[0] and insurance companies through the National Uniform Billing Committee[1] to opaquely set pricing, there will be no free market
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by libertyEQ 9y ago
I think, but don't know for sure, they are arguing that "elite, progressive professors are indoctrinating our kids." Limbaugh has been making this claim since '89 at least when I first heard it.
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by libertyEQ 9y ago
My point was that localities differ greatly across the US (and Europe for that matter), and should be taken care of at a local level rather than from the centralized location of DC. I don't want to live in a police state, so I choose t
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by libertyEQ 9y ago
Since you mentioned MarketWatch and river of news, I think these folks do a good job: http://seekingalpha.com/market-news/all However, it does seem unnecessarily javascript-heavy when we are talking text, and it aggres
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by libertyEQ 9y ago
I am not the one making the extraordinary claim that the packaging industry is promoting recycling in order to relax environmentalists interest in solving the pollution problems of the entire planet. I made a cursory attempt to see if there
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by libertyEQ 9y ago
No, the US has no official language at the federal level: " English is the official language of 32 states; English and Hawaiian are both official languages in Hawaii, and English and 20 Indigenous languages are official in Alaska. Alg
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by libertyEQ 9y ago
>because of the way that you say it Because of the way you say it in English?
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by libertyEQ 9y ago
I don't think it's fair to claim KGIII's entire argument has been invalidated anymore than it's fair to characterize it as absolutist (b/c illegal speech was not supported in any of this thread by KGIII). In the U
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by libertyEQ 9y ago
According to their wikipedia entry: Pratt has organised the build of a $50 million, 100% recycled plastics plant in Sydney. This plant will enable Visy to make its PET and HDPE bottles out of 100% recycled plastic resin for everything from
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by libertyEQ 9y ago
I just watched an interview with Trump where the interviewer asked about the possibility of regulating tech and specifically mentioned all the info these large tech companies are gathering and "selling" our data. While it may be
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by libertyEQ 9y ago
The way you and your parent comment are discussing "marketing" I would think would be more accurate to discuss as promotions/promoting. This is an example of killing the language, and it minimizes the nuance involved. Adverti
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by libertyEQ 9y ago
The person you are responding to stated that they are not in the US.
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by libertyEQ 9y ago
The US is not a monolithic entity, and various states handle civil asset forfeiture differently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United... Many places in the US don't have these problems, so

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