natmaster

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by natmaster 18y ago
If they just need this for inbox messages, why don't they just expressly list that as the exception. I would be fine with that.
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by natmaster 18y ago
He makes a claim in the title, but never argues about it. Here is a summary: -I like the bailouts -Socialism is bad -Capitalism is good No where does he say anything about why anything is not socialism, let alone 'us'.
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by natmaster 18y ago
"Dirigisme has a place, of course, in the regulation and operation if not the design of institutions. A school cannot work without a teacher, a firm without a manager, or an army without a general — just as a body is directed by a brain in
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by natmaster 18y ago
I interned at Facebook, and let me tell you, there weren't many people enthusiastic about being stuck in PHP. A lot of modern sites are in PHP, because that's what the best choice was when they started (as far as they could tell), and now a
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by natmaster 18y ago
I have a great idea. Let's just bail them out when they loose the 100k for $100 at blackjack. See, that way, they never learn!
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by natmaster 18y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_School
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by natmaster 18y ago
And by setting a precedent for bailing out bad businesses not only are the people who have to pay for this hurt, but everyone in the future because businesses will be encouraged to be corrupt rather than produce goods. This is like in the p
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by natmaster 18y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_public_debt Also, who are we taking a loan from? China already owns most of America; now the Federal Reserve is just printing more money to make it look like the government can spend the money -
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by natmaster 18y ago
The idea of a loan, is that you'll pay it back at some point.
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by natmaster 18y ago
How is spending money you don't have helpful? How can this NOT cause harm?
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by natmaster 18y ago
Please show me this capitalist country so I can move there. It is true, Libertarianism does not focus on decreasing inequality - at least not in the sense of absolute privilege, because it is a meritocracy - Libertarianism does, however, fo
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by natmaster 18y ago
Libertarianism is all about distributing power, instead of consolidating in. This results in less violations of individual liberty (you don't have governments stealing from the poor and giving to the rich, or corporations polluting the land
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by natmaster 18y ago
Libertarianism is about the most basic pragmatic view of life. There simply isn't enough variance in human intelligence for a few people at the top to be able to make effective decisions for everyone else. Libertarians believe in three basi
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by natmaster 18y ago
My thoughts: Most scientists (myself included) tend to prefer models that accurately predict the future: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfascZSTU4o What Zed describes is in no way libertarianism. What the following to understand exactly w
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by natmaster 18y ago
In case you were wondering what this guy is describing. It's basically our current system of corporatism (where corporations control government) - which is not only the very opposite of Libertarianism, it approaches Fascism. More info: ht
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by natmaster 18y ago
I stopped reading when he misstated everything about Libertarianism: " 1. Corporations are more “efficient” than the government because of the “natural selection” of our capitalist system. 2. Corporations are therefore better th
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On Hair Color in France (by Leslie Lamport)(research.microsoft.com)
3 points by natmaster 18y ago|4 comments
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by natmaster 18y ago
Wow, McCains statements that Obama is a socialist were understated. This is communism!
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by natmaster 18y ago
It's because many people mistake learning a few programming languages as a computer science education. In fact, a degree in computer science education does not even include these things - they are assumed to be easily picked up in a student