nickff

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   by nickff 13y ago

   This is Huxley's "Brave New World", full of make work programs, opiates for the people, and no change.
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   by nickff 13y ago

   I cannot believe that you are defending the most vulnerable minority (the individual), what an outrage!
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   by nickff 13y ago

   There is and always will be scarcity, whether it is in gold, helium, cars, rockets, airplanes, ships, real estate, the time of skilled labor, new ideas, or thoughtful conversations. The market is a tool for allocating resources efficiently
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   by nickff 13y ago

   You are assuming there is no possibility of a third-strike, which may or may not be the case.
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   by nickff 13y ago

   Few people understand or take an interest in patent law, and the press is no better than the populace.
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   by nickff 13y ago

   Patent trolls can sue the customers of the software company (as Microsoft did to Google by suing Samsung), or the trolls can seek to obtain the money which is paid to the respondent (software company) from the USA. It is more difficult to
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   by nickff 13y ago

   I had a similar experience with the Vertex 2, and switched to Intel 320 and subsequently Samsung 840 Pro. Intel and Samsung drives have done a great job, while I had 3 Vertex 2 failures.
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   by nickff 13y ago

   How do these problems arise from asymmetric information? Blackmailers have information, which becomes valueless when it is made public; their activities have much in common with selling non-public information for the purpose of insider-trad
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   by nickff 13y ago

   There is no international agreement which requires costly action, and is adhered to; most simply require signatories to do what they would have done anyway. International agreements simply are a method of signaling at very low cost.
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    by nickff 13y ago

    Depends on what you mean by "impact", as Stalin and Mao were both responsible for more famine, torture, and death than even Hitler. On the other hand Hitler's "impact" was probably more relevant to Time's audi
11. 4451.▲
    by nickff 13y ago

    Wissler seems to want a comparison of the differences in results between the using 23AM and not using it. The FDA measures efficacy in absolute terms, not relative to the counter-factual.
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    by nickff 13y ago

    The question which follows from this is whether your idealism gives you the right to coerce others into living by your rules.
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    by nickff 13y ago

    I don't see what reasonableness has to do with government.
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    by nickff 13y ago

    One might easily argue that the majority of the population is too ignorant to participate in the computer market, the handheld device market, the automobile market, the housing market, the super-market, or any other market. Ignorance alone
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    by nickff 13y ago

    He is saying there should be a presumption of innocence.
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    by nickff 13y ago

    Your definition of "for profit" is somewhat misleading, as many Canadian doctors, nurses, pharmacists, etc. are the residual claimants ('profiteers') of almost any course of testing or treatment; and I suspect that this
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    by nickff 13y ago

    The FDA protects the public, but only from new things , it does not protect new from a disease, but it does protect you from a potentially unproductive test or treatment. One could say the FDA exists to ensure that all statistical errors
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    by nickff 13y ago

    Strictly speaking, the others are not opinions, they are subjective.
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    by nickff 13y ago

    23 And Me should only have to prove that it is better than the alternative, not that it is accurate (to determine whether the service is of net benefit to the public). Depending on the counter-factual, 23AM could provide a relatively inacc
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    by nickff 13y ago

    I did not confuse anything, you left the type of right undefined. I assumed that the undefined right could be either moral or legal, whereas you interpret "right" to mean "legal right" unless explicitly stated otherwise
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    by nickff 13y ago

    Based on your definition of collectivism, I would agree with you, but I think the definition is too broad. From the Wikipedia article on Collectivism: "Collectivist orientations stress the importance of cohesion within social groups...
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    by nickff 13y ago

    This is not necessarily the case, and depends on your view of rights. If you believe in natural, self evident rights, (such as owning one's self,) then property rights can be derived in a number of ways. This is only one example, as
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    by nickff 13y ago

    I agree with you about the state being given a free pass on violence and coercion, as well as some corporations having done the same. What you failed to mention is that unions have abused many of their members, used violence against replac
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    by nickff 13y ago

    Abolition of property rights is usually down through coercive means by some agent of the state, hence it is top-down. "Human thriving" can be defined any number of ways, including wealth, health, liberty (positive or negative), fr
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    by nickff 13y ago

    > Each level seems as apathetic to reigning in the NSA's power than the next (including the president). They are not just apathetic with respect to mass surveillance, they are its main proponents. They have good reason to champion
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    by nickff 13y ago

    Executive branch oversight of government programs has never been effective in protecting the citizenry from harm in the past, and there is no reason to believe this 'effort' would be any different.
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    by nickff 13y ago

    > One of the things that really annoys me is that there isn't more openness and sharing in the embedded space. Embedded products are time and capital intensive, which means that the cost of a compiler or other tool-set is very smal
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    by nickff 13y ago

    I agree wholeheartedly with this comment, as computer and embedded programmers approach completely different tasks from completely different paradigms. The embedded system may have to run for years on end, with no one pressing control-alt-
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    by nickff 13y ago

    They have been more statist than partisan in the recent past. The NYT editorial board is most consistent in its advocacy for additional powers being granted to the federal government. You might say it is a mouthpiece for the government, bu
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    by nickff 13y ago

    I am not sure if you are asking me, but in case you are: I do not know.