nerdchum

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by nerdchum 3y ago
Monopoly? Its confusing how you can argue against monopolies but support the the biggest monopoly of all... the government. ANY fair system is completely impossible just by the nature of human beings. There is no world and no system which
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by nerdchum 3y ago
I had the worst customer service experience with T-Mobile than I've ever had with any company. There's literally nothing that could get me to go back to T-Mobile.
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by nerdchum 3y ago
not a single person is arguing for anarchy, but a small government to take care of the essentials and the free market will handle the rest absolutely.
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by nerdchum 3y ago
oh, you changed the subjects. I'll answer your question. The Democrats are the party of big government. Whether that's repressive zoning and taxes or repressive slavery or repressive public health regulations... the Democrats are
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by nerdchum 3y ago
This is a very articulately worded and elegant response.
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by nerdchum 3y ago
I would 100% come into the office if I didn't have to work in an open office environment like a child.
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by nerdchum 3y ago
I made a claim that the government has repressive housing rules. You made a vague claim that "society requires structure" to justify repressive housing rules. I'm presenting another example of government rules: slavery...that
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by nerdchum 3y ago
Is Phoenix going go be ok?
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by nerdchum 3y ago
Structure is a continuum ranging from repression to anarchy. For example the Democrats provided structure in the form of slavery in the south pre civil war but that was found to be wrong of the government and on the repressive side of the c
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by nerdchum 3y ago
My aunt owns a bunch of paid off homes she rents. She says her profit is about 20%. Which is kind of insane considering how high rent is and that these are paid off properties and she puts a fair amount of work into the management of them.
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by nerdchum 3y ago
I genuinely find it strange that after the mortgage is paid off...that you have to abide by zoning and pay property taxes for your shelter that you and your family need to survive or the government will take your house away.
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by nerdchum 3y ago
I find it strange that between zoning laws and property taxes, people don't actually ever own their home. The government is a permanent HOA with a whole bunch of rules to follow and money go pay.
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by nerdchum 3y ago
"Pick up the rice cooker bowl with a towel, and eat right out of it." They get me!
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by nerdchum 3y ago
Erlang not loved. Sad to see.
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Ask HN: Does Martin Skreli own these molecules?
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by nerdchum 3y ago
What does this mean?
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by nerdchum 3y ago
energy storage is the big one in my opinion. you can just pump electricity into the superconductor capacitor and it wouldn't have any loss it would just stay there until discharge.
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by nerdchum 3y ago
Yeah lol I was thinking the exact same thing. Autogeneration is a thing.
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by nerdchum 3y ago
how do you power a tiny robotic bee?
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by nerdchum 3y ago
The UK government is totally out of hand.
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by nerdchum 3y ago
Louisianas ENTIRE DMV records were comoromised. Basically the entire state. Every single aspect of a persons confidential info. Everything from SSN to eye and hair color.
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by nerdchum 3y ago
Immigration to replace the native population who originally made the country desirable to immigrate to. I don't know if that's the win you think it is.
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by nerdchum 3y ago
Theres a billion kids from Shenzen though. They could literally do all the work in America. Then theres 1.5 billion people in India on top of that. Meanwhile, Western countries birth rates are declining. I dont know what the solution is but
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by nerdchum 3y ago
Maybe the evolutionary biologist is so next level that they want humans to die out so other animals evolve.
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by nerdchum 3y ago
So much rationalization. Anytime someone has to rationalize to this great of an extent... I know they have an agenda. It's extremely simple. The wright brothers discovered/ invented flight. Ben Franklin discovered/ invented e
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by nerdchum 3y ago
> The solution is to end higher ed carve-outs in federal grant awards. Let anyone qualified apply for and receive NSF funds. Stop tying tax dollars to university affiliation. I think this is infinitely better than the current system of j
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by nerdchum 3y ago
You're the one you said to stop using technology invented by the government. Then I said I would be happy to if you could name a single one in the past 30 years. And you can't.
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by nerdchum 3y ago
I don't think you understand how the debt works.
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by nerdchum 3y ago
Electricity, radio waves, flight, antibiotics.. it seems to me that private industry and individuals produce the MOST interesting fundamental results. It might be good to check your confidence in your knowledge. > His work was funded by
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by nerdchum 3y ago
I find it telling you can't name one.

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