littletimmy

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by littletimmy 11y ago
Just curious - how do you find this wrong? What utopia do you live in where money does not confer power?
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by littletimmy 11y ago
Why do you think you came to programming "late" if you are in your 30s? Have you faced any age discrimination?
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by littletimmy 11y ago
IMHO, it is a mistake to teach kids something like computer science early on in school. The focus of a school should be to teach kids transferrable skills in the classics: mathematics, art, latin, etc. The students will always have time to
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by littletimmy 11y ago
You got the last word in, congrats! Hope your life is more meaningful now.
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by littletimmy 11y ago
Dude, you have an inordinate amount of time on your hands and you're obsessed with me. I don't want a stalker. I'm out.
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by littletimmy 11y ago
You're being ridiculous. My question was about US laws, which is non-general information and also constantly changing. I claimed I have no knowledge about it, and asked if someone else did. What is your problem with that? You aren&#x27
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by littletimmy 11y ago
Well, no. I do not know anything about US laws. I do know stuff about US politics and history, however. I also know stuff about British history, but not British laws. What's the point of this long list you've compiled?
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by littletimmy 11y ago
As a non-american, this is so strange. Doesn't the US have pollution laws that say you cannot pollute near where people live? That seems to me like a very fundamental responsibility of the state.
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by littletimmy 11y ago
Really? Other countries don't have taxes?
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They'll pay the taxes. Also grumble for a month maybe, then go quiet.
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And in those countries too, businesses need the government.
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The short answer is that everyone can see the current system is not sustainable, and that any change will be potentially catastrophic. Holding cash is going long on fear, and being prepared to deal with a massive crunch when it comes. The s
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by littletimmy 11y ago
Are you serious? Where could Apple establish itself if not for the US? Or Google? Or Facebook? The government comes first, as a guarantor of civilization. Everything else comes later.
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Why isn't the government doing this? Why do we have to depend on the benevolence of billionaires to do something so essential?
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by littletimmy 11y ago
"Politics got really ugly" is a kind way of saying "the US fucked it up".
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What is your yardstick? Third world banana republics? People in the United States are less free than most advanced European countries. In those countries, governments tend to respect people AND limit the power of corporations so people can
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How will it lead to total civil war? All it will lead to is the police stops taking people's property without a court order or they risk getting shot.
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by littletimmy 11y ago
Can someone express this as a percentage of the claims themselves? The $5B figure is meaningless without knowing the size of Goldman's loot.
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by littletimmy 11y ago
A timeless read. It is almost sad to see how people who lived in in the early part of the twentieth century were so optimistic about technology. From Russell to Keynes, they all predicted an era of surplus where no one would have to work so
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by littletimmy 11y ago
I'm with you in not expecting stuff from people, but surely as a human you have a right on earth. Who gave the ones before you the right to own the planet and the right to make you work if you want to live on it?
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by littletimmy 11y ago
How do you suggest we modulate land price if not via the current system? How is land tax going to make things any easier? The US already has property tax - you want to raise it?
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by littletimmy 11y ago
It is not just the drive for success; it is the entire culture in general. The system is built to reduce happiness, because a happy and content person has less impetus to contribute to the economy. This is actually very intentional; see for
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by littletimmy 11y ago
Short answer: we don't want Zuckerberg to be directing the information consumption of a few hundred million people. He isn't trustworthy.
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by littletimmy 11y ago
It is wrong to assume corruption. It might just be that China prefers seeing local companies run the Chinese market, and engages in a form of protectionism. That is perfectly justified and not corrupt.
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by littletimmy 11y ago
I think OP means the values of classical liberalism, i.e. freedom from oppression of the state, and everything that goes with. When you empower the state to the degree that it will be empowered once they can keep tabs on everyone at all tim
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by littletimmy 11y ago
Isn't this a clear case of Israel interfering in US foreign policy to the detriment of American interests as determined by the administration? The article says "Mr. Netanyahu and his advisers had... coordinated talking points with
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I don't get whether you mean he is a good solid physicist or he is a crackpot. Considering he's an MIT prof, I'm thinking he's good?
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The financial crisis that is looming ahead is either a massive asset price crash, or permanent debt slavery for most of the population, as a result of the massive economic distortion created by the Fed. For some years now, orthodox economis
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US corporations should pay a global tax even if corporations abroad don't. That is because US corporations operate in a more beneficial corporate climate. In what other country does the government fight so hard for its corporations&#x2
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This wouldn't be so problematic if college (state and community) were free. By most estimations, the cost of making college free is around $60 billion, which is not that significant. Just force corporations to pay proper taxes, use t

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