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by nirvana 14y ago
You're knocking down a strawman. The position is that higher tax rates reduce economic growth. Your evidence does not contradict that assertion. Doesn't even touch it. Further, you're dealing with claims and a study that are ideological
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I'm not at all surprised that people brought up on political propaganda think that this propaganda represents the opinion of the "vast majority of economists". The reality is, anyone who knows anything about economics knows that taxes inhib
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One day, your side will realize that it is your attempts to "fight economic inequality" that have resulted in the economic inequality you rail against. It is this lack of understanding of economics that makes it easy to manipulate you come
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Also, worth noting that the "tax cuts" they are opposing in this election cycle are the ending of the cuts put in during Bush. Those cuts reduced the tax rate for the poorest people in the country by %50, from %15 to %10, and for the riche
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by nirvana 14y ago
Hacker News is "peer reviewed", but that doesn't mean every top voted story is correct. I worked in a major lab in this exact area (high temperature superconductivity) and had papers published in much more prestigious journals, and getting
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by nirvana 14y ago
Please share with us your calculations to determine the intrinsic value of gold. I don't think you can do it, which is why I don't have an opinion about its intrinsic value. But if you look at the price of gold as actually the price of doll
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by nirvana 14y ago
Printing unlimited money has a political advantage as well-- not only does the Fed profit from it, but the government, and more specifically, politicians profit from it. A good example is Obama's "stimulus" which was a big old pork package,
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One additional point you didn't mention: The US Dollar was, for a long time, the worlds reserve currency. It still is in many ways. This means that for nearly 100 years the USA has been able to print dollars and have much of the effects o
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It appears that they don't actually understand what the problem is, and are solving it by introducing a situation where the database will just stop working in the face of a partition. Maybe that's not right, but they need to stop hand wavi
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by nirvana 14y ago
I've got a car that runs on water. No, really. The thing is, these other cars, they just decide to run on gas. Totally ignoring the potential of water power. Of course this design is really fundamental to the way cars will be built in t
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by nirvana 14y ago
The could use the same language, but they aren't. Even in this device which is copying the iMac, they copied the look of it, and failed to use the same design language!
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I look forward to the day when Hacker News moves beyond these "my language is better than yours" articles written by third rate programmers. In his first paragraph it makes it clear to me that he didn't understand the nature of any of the l
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by nirvana 14y ago
Wow, WIRED has really declined. It is nice to see these photos, but the text is so often completely wrong, nonsenseical or misrepresentative that I'm just astounded.
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>It seems like IP exists to empower corporations to monopolize segments of the market. It only started to "seem" that way in 2008 or so when Google-- a large corporation that wants to monopolize a segment of the market- started a propag
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by nirvana 14y ago
False. Apple obtained a license from Xerox for the technology being developed at PARC by selling them pre-IPO Apple shares. Further, by bringing this up, you are trying to say that Apple copied Xerox years ago, which is a form of trying to
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by nirvana 14y ago
False. Apple obtained a license from Xerox for the technology being developed at PARC by selling them pre-IPO Apple shares. Further, by bringing this up, you are trying to say that Apple copied Xerox years ago, which is a form of trying to
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by nirvana 14y ago
I really don't think that posts that consist of nothing but a single link, like this one, should be acceptable. You link to a web page and don't make any argument. This is disingenuous. It lets you pretend like you've taken a position or r
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I think this is hard for engineers, software engineers probably particularly, to get, but there's a thing called a design language. No question Apple has used Rahm's design language, they're unapologetic about it. In the past, Apple used F
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Maybe not an example of great or innovative design (other than the replaceable components part) but clearly something original. While we've seen black monitors before, the feet and the arm and all that are interesting and different. Contra
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It is kinda astounding how often people use this quote and seem to think it means the opposite of what it means. Steve Jobs is saying it is easy to copy. But if you're great, you steal the fundamental idea and do something totally new with
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by nirvana 14y ago
I've been kicking around the idea of building a visual programming language for about a week, so this article is well timed for me. Let me throw out a counter hypothesis, please feel free to tell me where I'm wrong. I can imagine that, when
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>There wasn't a deadline or anything; the FSP is still active. No, there was a deadline, and a contract. That deadline passed, and the contract became null. The FSP is dead, according to its own bylaws. What continues to this day is
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This is the risk of every special economic zone, but the problem is, increasingly the wealth is a result of information economy companies. Venezuala can nationalize the state oil company a lot easier than Honduras would be able to nationali
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Because he thinks government beating people over the head, robbing them, and then giving the money to him is "protecting human rights", and the idea that people should be allowed to live in peace, without being subjected to this violence, i
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by nirvana 14y ago
Argentina's government has taken a hard left turn, and has gotten the nationalization bug. This isn't the first time, either. This is a contrast to Chile- the government in Chile has been rather stable since Pinochet was voted out. Santi
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Alas, my source for info is a private wiki so I can't link directly. I did read up on the application in the recent past, and the hardest part was the requirement to get letters from Chileans saying you've made a contribution to the countr
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My list will be different than yours. I do recommend Chile. Thailand and Singapore I haven't visited, but both have their appeal. Thailand's limit is that you can't easily get residency (as I understand it) and so you have to do the bord
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I'm advocating a mindset, I think, more than the claim that specific countries are right for people. I think the first step for most people is getting it into their heads that the country they were born in is not the greatest place in the
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Our time in South America has been very enlightening. For instance, Chile has a pretty sizable middle class, and thus software developers and designers and other qualified people we could hire. I've heard from others that this is also the
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They are prohibited because every person who is serious about doing this knows that this would be a stupid idea. Plus, there's no reason to create a charter city just to try and export drugs--- you have competition from people all over the

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