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by nirnira 13y ago
To me, Samsung is a joke company. At a time when Microsoft is increasingly forward-thinking in the clarity and tastefulness of its UI and UX, Samsung just can't stop throwing glossy plastic, pleather, knock-off iOS 6 icons, random font
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by nirnira 13y ago
Sorry, what? Android isn't a productivity solution yet. Not even close. No manufacturer is trying with Android to build what Microsoft is building with 8.1+ - a coherent, unified, cross-device productivity and computing ecosystem.
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by nirnira 13y ago
Sorry, I have no idea what you're talking about. I've simply been trying to show that these allegedly disconnected economic phenomena (government lending, high fees, high students loans, defaults, political pressure to drop intere
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by nirnira 13y ago
Universities are run by people driven by a mixture of economic and ideological goals. I'm not saying they're purely in it for the money. I'm sure there are a lot of people involved who are genuinely passionate and excited abo
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by nirnira 13y ago
Because it's easier to compete with pre-existing universities. Better to spend $100 million on new facilities at an old university than $1 billion building one from scratch.
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by nirnira 13y ago
Hah I didn't see that, nice catch!
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by nirnira 13y ago
Thanks for the clarification, but it sounds like the net effect is exactly the same: bad loans are made, money is lost, the taxpayer is forced to subsidise the indiscriminate purchase of education. As always with such schemes, there is an o
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by nirnira 13y ago
If you think that, I think you didn't read both of my posts carefully enough. First I argued that the government was making bad loans. The respondent replied that they were making profit (implying they were good loans.) Then I noted th
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by nirnira 13y ago
Mmmhmm. Several problems: 1) Is that the most money they could have made with these loans? Are they getting a market return on investment? If not, then they're wasting the country's money. It doesn't matter if it's still
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by nirnira 13y ago
Why are student loans so high, the market so ridden with defaults, and the price of education so high? I think (well, I'm a little more certain than that) the answer is basic economics. Here's my take: You (America) have a governm
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by nirnira 13y ago
Firstly, I didn't call him mentally unstable. I suggested that, from another perspective (i.e. not the perspective of a stridently anti-government activist), he might be perceived as potentially being mentally unstable. Secondly, all o
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by nirnira 13y ago
If you read the blog post Techcrunch is summarising, you will find out: 1) The man is an anarchism/zero-government advocate. 2) He was wearing a provocative t-shirt featuring B52s and a slogan "Bitcoin not bombs." 3) He was n
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by nirnira 13y ago
No, people should just do their homework and choose the crowdfunding platforms with the best reputation (which will be the one which force funding seekers to verify themselves with the best identity platform). There should be a free market
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by nirnira 13y ago
So Sweden's government will have to become more Latvian.
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by nirnira 13y ago
You're obviously not familiar with the massive economic literature on the many, many various ways governments distort economies, create waste and hamstring growth - all while often utterly failing to achieve stated goals. This isn&#x27
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by nirnira 13y ago
Less philosophy, more inevitability really. As cryptocurrencies grow the power of governments to tax will diminish. I think it'll be similar to music and movie piracy - they will be simply used so widely that it will be impossible to
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by nirnira 13y ago
Governments like this should just fuck off and let people take their own risks. Jesus. If you're worried about people getting ripped off, why don't you just run a campaign giving advice on how to choose to spot scams? Why not trea
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by nirnira 13y ago
If by criminal you mean "in contravention of that which is decreed by state governments" then I think we should all be delighted that Bit/altcoins have such potential. It's about time the human race threw off the shackle
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Torture in North Korea(world.time.com)
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Sketching North Korea(fullcomment.nationalpost.com)
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by nirnira 13y ago
Um, I think you mean Orwell's world. Unless you're trying to compare us to people who are too busy getting high and going to senso-movies to care about anything important. Or are you implying we make babies in factories?
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by nirnira 13y ago
I'm not under that impression. But yes legalising all drugs would destroy the cartels. Hopefully one day when society comes to its senses...
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by nirnira 13y ago
Walmart and Amazon are hyper-efficient organisations that are able to deliver extremely low-cost goods. Hence their popularity. If ultra low prices are what consumers want, then what's to stop someone attempting to sell marijuana that
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by nirnira 13y ago
1. That might be true. I haven't thought about that in any detail. 2. I don't know why either, because I wouldn't.
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by nirnira 13y ago
I can't believe America sometime. Americans are supposed to cherish freedom. Yet they cravenly surrender and prostitute their freedoms at the slightest sign of moral outrage and censure from their fellow citizens. What free-minded pers
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by nirnira 13y ago
Well said. But that's the conflict of America - lip-service to freedom on the one hand, extreme moral conservatism and idiotic public policy on the other.
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by nirnira 13y ago
Why not? Legalising drugs destroys every single element which supports violent paralegel cartels. 1) It eliminates legal risk, so drug production becomes instantly a much more lucrative activity, enticing more people to do it. 2) Profits ar
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by nirnira 13y ago
Good. Although I have no reason to believe this particular coin will succeed, the more projects and attempts like this the better. The sooner governments around the world lose their corrupt and illegitimate stranglehold on currency the bett
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by nirnira 13y ago
That would be the Austro-Hungarian empire. Used to be a pretty big deal...
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by nirnira 13y ago
Thanks for the reply. Just noting that I'm not American (don't assume every ignorant-sounding person you meet on the internet is American!) I have visited several European countries and met and interacted with many young and old E

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