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by nirvana 15y ago
More context is needed, and preferably one without a racial component. (For instance, the racial rules on Rosa parks bus were put in place by the local government, not a private bus company.) Do you think that a gay couple should be forced
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by nirvana 15y ago
This response, and your personal attacks in general, are why Hacker News is not what it could be. You're getting up votes not on the quality of your response, but because you adhere to the same ideology as the up vote brigade. (which makes
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by nirvana 15y ago
Your post is not wrong, it is correct. You're getting down votes because you mentioned Rand without condemning her. I gave you and up vote. One of the numerous errors Rand made was condemning the libertarian movement, but this is pretty h
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by nirvana 15y ago
Those are not my feelings, they are the objective fact of reality. I'm sorry I wasted time giving you the benefit of the doubt when your only intention was to engage in personal attacks. If you were "genuinely sorry" for your actions, you
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by nirvana 15y ago
"You're either being extraordinarily disingenuous or ignorant if you're trying to claim that socialism and anarchism haven't historically been aligned with each other. " I find it amazing that you're using a strawman- something I've never
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by nirvana 15y ago
You make some good points about labor unions. On one hand, a voluntary association is intrinsically moral, and it could be a force for positive good. I don't know if you've read it or not, but Henry Hazlitt's "Economics in one lesson" is a
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by nirvana 15y ago
"I'm sorry to find that you're no more serious about your politics that all the other libertarians I've encountered. I had hoped you'd be willing to engage with the content of my argument instead of its dressings. I am disappointed to find
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by nirvana 15y ago
I hope that one day comments like mine aren't needed anymore because people on Hacker News have RESPECT for each other's comments and don't down vote reasonably valid perspectives like yours until they are hard for me to see. Also, I don't
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by nirvana 15y ago
The thing that always worries me when I see software people talking about songs not being property is then what does that make software? I see the act of creating software and creating a song or a movie as being very analogous. It takes a l
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by nirvana 15y ago
I read quite a bit of that, despite the very hostile opening, and found it to be a quite a rant. He seems to be claiming that everything is relative, and thus the NAP is meaningless. I really don't think the initiation is so meaningless. I
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by nirvana 15y ago
I didn't mean to characterize you, but your thesis. I apologize to the extent that I did this.
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I find it endlessly amusing that communists or socialists would call themselves anarchists. I think this is just an example of socialists attempting to coopt another movement. Libertarians are often anarchists because they believe the stat
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by nirvana 15y ago
When you sign a contract, you've voluntarily consented to its enforcement. When you're born, you've earned the right to your body, and I think the "involuntary" action is when someone violates this property right. When you trade your labor
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by nirvana 15y ago
Correct, I'd read this one piece and followed the "small s socialism" link to read that piece. Libertarians would have many issues to take with the quoted perspective, which is why I think the term "libertarian socialist" is an oxymoron. (I
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by nirvana 15y ago
More specifically, the GPL is a contract you agree to when you use the product. While strictly speaking it should be a more explicit contract, strictly speaking there's a lot of those kinds of issues with our society. The GPL is saying "He
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by nirvana 15y ago
This sounds like libertarianism to me, not socialism (small S or not.) Libertarianism is the term for people who believe in the Non-aggression principle. (NAP)[1] The NAP says "The initiation of force is immoral." Thus libertarians believ
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by nirvana 15y ago
I hope they publish the list of these users, along with any other information they can use (were they sharing porn?) etc. Bascially, I consider the entire MegaUpload / Bodog / Domain Siezures activity we've been having lately to be complete
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by nirvana 15y ago
Hypothesis: A relatively small number of relatively well funded defendants could have a huge impact on the system. EG: Martha Stewart could have done more good if she'd fought her conviction all the way to the supreme court (even if she los
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by nirvana 15y ago
Its kinda amazing but this article contains the primary thesis-es of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. This brings up some important questions that I think its worth pondering. Namely, that government creates crimes to control people, ("There is
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by nirvana 15y ago
I was in Berlin in the fall of 2010 for several months and we went to visit the DDR museum. (This is the museum about the former East Germany, which was the communist controlled half of Berlin and Germany.) One of the things they had in the
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by nirvana 15y ago
"In reality, our atrocious metrics for success have caused us to spend the past couple of decades slinging fantastic financial rewards at those who have inadvertently sabotaged our economy in their hunt for ever-greater returns." This is ex
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by nirvana 15y ago
"In fact, Mr. Dyson, Britain's most famous manufacturer, doesn't actually manufacture anything in Britain. He hasn't done so for 10 years, since he was refused local permission to expand his Wiltshire factory" That's it right there. He was
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What's fascinating to me is comparing the impression you get from the lawyers letter (wow, they really ripped off the warby parker website!) with the response (we're using off the shelf privacy policy, and industry terms.) It shows just how
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by nirvana 15y ago
I've been a huge fan of this show since I caught about 2 episodes of the Canadian version years ago. I was glad to see Shark Tanke come to america. On the wikipedia page you can find that the show has been licensed around the world and v
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by nirvana 15y ago
If you're building a distributed KV stores, you should benchmark against other distributed KV stores. Mongo and Cassandra aren't really. But Riak is. Plus, since its "distributed" here's the benchmark I'd like to see: 1. Set up a cluster
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FWIW, posting this without having seen the episode. However, watching it, I'm struck by the hyperbole. "iFactory"? Really? "the launch of an apple product is a cultural event, and that cult following..." -- going from "cultural" to "cult"
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ABC's Nightline looks behind the scenes of Apple's factories in China(hulu.com)
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by nirvana 15y ago
For the life of me, I can't edit the above post. 5 attempts, all eaten by the HN monster. When talking about benchmarks, I meant to say: "and probably loses to nodeDB in every single one-machine benchmark you can come up with (not that the
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by nirvana 15y ago
I love posts like this because, love it or hate it, it gives me a checkmark of thoughts to compare my choices to. I see three possible approaches, all with their advantages and disadvantages. (Of course people may fit between them with a mi
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by nirvana 15y ago
Glad to see Basho putting out new releases at such a clip. I'm envious, frankly. It is really impressive how far Riak has come in the last year. I don't think anything compares to it, and I think it should have an order of magnitude more i

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