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by lzw 16y ago
This is one of the areas where government has distorted the market via regulations, namely around copyright, to benefit big publishers over authors. I'm not sure of the best solution to this, but if we had thousands of independant publishe
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by lzw 16y ago
Why can't Mexico have somebody as talented as Warren Buffet? It is because Americans are prejudiced. (note this may not be true of HN readers, I'm speaking of the broader american culture.) They don't believe they are prejudiced, they don
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by lzw 16y ago
It is "very similar" in the way that buying a meal at mcdonalds is "very similar" to being mugged. In one case you do it voluntarily and the people involved are incentivized to do it efficiently.... and in the other case you do it at gun p
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by lzw 16y ago
I think the leave of logic is to reject economics and just believe in something for ideological reasons. Slim is making an economic point. Part of the reason there is no end of poverty in this US is due to the "War on Poverty" which destroy
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by lzw 16y ago
Americans operate under the delusion that our government is not corrupt. They see corrupt actions as legitimate. For instance, governments here regularly steal property from private citizens without having the citizens be charged with a c
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by lzw 16y ago
A monopoly is someone who owns an entire market. In the history of america, the only monopolies that have existed were government granted ones, like the US Postal Service. The government passed a law prohibiting the offering of first clas
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by lzw 16y ago
I haven't read Titan, but I can recommend "The Myth of the Robber Barrons". Excellent book. The short story is this: All those robber barrons did far more good for society than the government that broke them up. The propaganda about how t
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by lzw 16y ago
The education you're talking about doesn't exist in first world countries either. The education, from elementary school to college, is focused on "teaching" people to be good: citizens (that is, compliant with government demands), consumer
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by lzw 16y ago
Multiple app stores, multiple phone configurations, multiplies confusion for customers. I'd like to make apps for android, but it is such a moving target in so many ways.
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by lzw 16y ago
An entity who uses violence to extract wealth from people is not corrupted by other entities bribing them for relief. The very essence of government is corruption. It is simply the mafia with an indoctrination program that teaches kids to b
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by lzw 16y ago
"Behavior econometrics shows us that in some areas, our economic behavior is not what rationality would suggest. ... we expect upward movement of wages, and won't tolerate nominal decreases, even when buying power is increasing so that real
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by lzw 16y ago
I think it is very important for people to know that CPI is not inflation, it is not even a measure of inflation. At best-- and that is, if it were not so greatly "massaged", it would be a measure of the impact of trailing inflation on pri
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by lzw 16y ago
Some of these do apply to me. 3- I did have the chance to write programs on punch cards. This was nearly at the end of the punch card era and I only did a couple assignments that way. But it was still another two years before we stopped ha
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by lzw 16y ago
Government spending is not stimulative, because the inflation (or taxation if it is paid for that way) is detrimental to economic growth, as you have pointed out. The fear of deflation, however, is misguided and I think founded on a decepti
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by lzw 16y ago
He invested in a firm whose purpose is in trading a security that has no value currently, but which will be immensely valuable if the government passes laws requiring people to buy them... and for which Al Gore is actively campaigning to ge
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by lzw 16y ago
I don't have a sense for the compute power difference between a 1GHZ ARM and 1/64th of a Quad Core Xeon or whatever a VPS represents. But I also am continually surprised that SSDs are still independent devices. I'd expect at least Apple to
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by lzw 16y ago
Microsoft would have just used eminent domain. (Ok, just kidding. Microsoft actually built a campus near Seattle where, because the owners of some of the homes wouldn't sell, they built the campus around the homes and integrated the landsc
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by lzw 16y ago
Another, good useful response modded down to being below zero because it isn't politically correct.
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by lzw 16y ago
Right, in reality, government regulation is the cheapest way to make he public pay for the costs while keeping the profits. However, those who propose government regulation seem to not perceive government as anything other than an objective
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Ask HN: Any Hosting with tiny dedicated machines instead of VPS?
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by lzw 16y ago
Yes, but in previous years, it was on the 30th of the month that the release happened. This year it was on the 10th of the month so 10.10 could be year.month or month.day. They broke with tradition slightly to celebrate the day.
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by lzw 16y ago
There is a limit to how expensive oil will get, thus many of these expectations I disagree with. Right now what people think of as "oil" is only a particular class of oil- light sweet crude. This is easy oil and is cheap to produce. This
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by lzw 16y ago
I have noticed in the last decade that the left has started to perceive the entire south as racist and full of stupid people. This is one of their prejudices. Of course anyone who's actually lived in the south knows this is not the case a
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by lzw 16y ago
You're a fucking idiot, and a liar. If you had responded to what I actually said, I might have given your arguments consideration. FWIW, the socialist system you advocate is circling the drain. IT is a race between Europe and the States t
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by lzw 16y ago
It is astounding that those so ignorant of the law are so smug about their ignorance. I am not putting forth some random theory, I am pointing out what the law says. It is black letter law.
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by lzw 16y ago
I'm still reading up on this, but I'm very curious as to the tradeoffs between this and a Linode or Slicehost or other VPS system. Seems this would have the advantage of a lot more capacity, and while I'm not sure of the performance of th
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by lzw 16y ago
Chomsky is amusing to read periodically (but please not on hacker news) because he's usually right on context but totally wrong on his conclusions. It is not "illegal aliens" or "blacks" that will be the victims in the new regime, it is cap
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by lzw 16y ago
>In order for America's airports to be police states, they would have to be states. They're not. They're airports. You are a good german. A useful idiot. The kind that enthusiastically joined the nazi party and made snotty arguments to
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by lzw 16y ago
>Everybody is entitled to their opinions, but not everybody gets to have their own facts. >Global warming is not a theory, it is a fact, It seems you feel you are entitled to your own facts. The fact of the matter is, the planet is
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by lzw 16y ago
You make a very good point. However your point is not politically correct therefore it is being buries. Have an upvote. I find the fact that people who make valid points that don't happen to be in lock step with party ideology are buried on

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