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by nika 16y ago
I've seen this in action. I think if people would just be in the habit of saying "I believe X leads to Y" that would be sufficient, and doesn't require being too formal. But I think that habit is way above the level of discourse in Americ
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by nika 16y ago
DH0, upvoted to 5 (while my comments are 0 and -1): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2138625 This was my first day. I stuck around for a day or two, then I just logged out and stopped participating. Just use this as a site to find lin
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by nika 16y ago
The situation in america will not change until people stop supporting those who enact and propose legislation like this. Who wants to give the president the kill switch? It would be good to know a full list of all sponsors of such a bill a
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by nika 16y ago
Especially in an environment where said nuclear waste works as a pretext for american military action. Previously americans invaded when they discovered yellowcake on old british survey maps. Nobody in somalia was even mining the stuff, but
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by nika 16y ago
That "official government" as you called it IS the "UK and US phantoms". They are not somalis, except for a few token figureheads. They are invaders from nearby countries, who have long coveted the land, funded and trained by the US and th
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by nika 16y ago
The truth. It's the anti-drug. Oh, I see now. In western propaganda the ethiopian invaders you armed and sent to take over our country are really somehow "Somalis" and your illegal and immoral invasion is somehow our civil war? Yeah, someo
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by nika 16y ago
There is no civil war and no perpetual inter-clan power struggle. What defines and "oppressive" level of religion is in the eye of the beholder. It is unfortunate that ideology causes americans to believe propaganda over the reports of peo
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by nika 16y ago
Ok, which indicators would you like to look at? Peter Leeson, from the Dept of Economics at West Virginia University did some research and published a paper. Here's a link: http://www.peterleeson.com/Better_off_Stateless.pdf This paper
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by nika 16y ago
I do not understand why it is popular to characterize somalia in this way. Have you got a reference to militias demanding money and offering nothing in return? It seems this would be a very dangerous thing to attempt in somalia, as the me
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by nika 16y ago
You're right. What I should have said is, this is a situation where the discrimination could be prosecuted for being discrimination based on religion which is currently against the law. Of course in some cases where the discrimination is r
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by nika 16y ago
Orthodoxy, in all ways seems to plague people. Plus you get that employee who has the unorthodox beliefs and you know you've got someone whose had to think about them. Someone whose had to overcome the inertia and social pressure for confo
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by nika 16y ago
I'm gay. If I were a politician, I would oppose laws (actually like Dawkins does here) that ban discrimination based on sexual orientation (as well as religion.) Would my thinking be suspect? Does that mean that I think that gay people sho
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by nika 16y ago
One thing that Apple has that Google doesn't seem to have is an affiliate program. Affiliates get %5 of app sales (or other iTunes sales) by driving traffic to the store. This provides a funding mechanism to incentivize people to make dis
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by nika 16y ago
Robbery is a fine term. However, taxes are not commerce because they do not involve consent. You reference the state deciding to provide services "at [prices] they deem reasonable". Would you go to a restaurant and let them decide what to
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by nika 16y ago
I stopped using pixelmator when they made it so that you can't edit photoshop files without saving them in the pixelmator format. Further in my workflow I have an app that will read photoshop but has never heard of pixelmator. So, their f
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by nika 16y ago
That wasn't a characterization, it was a statement of fact. That you need to characterize me as "a fucking idiot" reflects more on you than me. Please read this: http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
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by nika 16y ago
The department of commerce wants to create such an identity system. I'm not sure I like the idea, but it would be "single sign on". I think it is a safe bet that their intention is to eventually make it mandatory, and they have the "owner
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by nika 16y ago
I think this is another way of looking at the "Steve Jobs Risk Premium." (what's the opposite of a premium?) Apple's stock price is not highly valued relative to growth and income, making the company undervalued. The best argument for thi
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by nika 16y ago
Maybe I'm misunderstanding Square's business model, but I think it is more of an opportunity for them. The NFC lets people with iphones make payments. Square's dongle lets people take payments. Square could make a new dongle that receives
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by nika 16y ago
This brings us back to the original "point" of precious metals. They are small enough and valuable enough to hold physically. You don't need to buy a gold ETF, you can buy actual gold. And this is not just in case of a "black swan" event,
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by nika 16y ago
Both "index funds" and "ARM" is a gamble because you're advocating investing in them without regard to price. In both cases you're just buying something based on it being popular, not because it makes a good investment. If you do the math
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by nika 16y ago
Stock picking does work. You just have to pick stocks wisely. Looking at the recommendations of "financial experts" is not stock picking. What is the basis of these so-called "experts"? The fact that they are stock salesman. Do you let
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by nika 16y ago
You point out that most of RIAA's positions prevailed as a matter of law as an argument against representing them being a breach of professional ethics. I think that these are two different contexts. I don't like the term "ethics" so I'll u
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by nika 16y ago
Amazon legally organizing their business so that they can avoid being forced (under threat of violence) to pay money to a state (that has proven it cannot responsibly spend it anyway) is not theft. It is, actually, theft avoidance. Theft i
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by nika 16y ago
You're right. The fact that Amazon is running two trial services (fresh and tote) in the Seattle area does not substantiate the headline claim that amazon is going to roll out a grocery service nationwide. Skepticism is merited here.
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by nika 16y ago
HomeGrocer was a previous attempt to deliver groceries this way that was started during the end of the dotcom boom. The vans Amazon has in Seattle are all ex-Home Grocer vans. In the early days it was very obvious, though they've repainted