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by noarchy 12y ago
>The experiment's already been done. I'd love to hear about it. >No-one descended from the heavens and imposed our current governmental system; what we have now is what people did. "What people did", isn't wha
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by noarchy 12y ago
>I'm not equivocating at all. People use the term punish when they feel like they've been punished. I'm trying to figure out why people immediately think they are being punished by taxation somehow completely forgetting th
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by noarchy 12y ago
>Nowhere near 100%. Most people pay their taxes not because they're rationally responding to threat of force but because they think it's the right thing to do. As a thought experiment, imagine that taxation became completely vo
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by noarchy 12y ago
Many people who were sporting a 16GB Air model had to delete a fair bit of content and apps in order to free up the huge amount of space the iOS 8 upgrade required. And this was on Apple's then-latest and greatest tablet. So there are
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by noarchy 12y ago
>The state is a bit more legitimate than rich individuals because it's more accountable to the people. That isn't necessarily a universally-accepted idea. Democratic systems have the machinery of accountability, but some of us
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by noarchy 12y ago
>This presumes that most, if not all of the money gained by the rich is justly earned. I would take serious issue with this. Case by case, you may or may not have a point. Is the alternative to have the state take the money and spend as
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by noarchy 12y ago
>Philanthropy strikes me as anti-democratic. Why should the rich get to choose which causes are more deserving of their generosity? Let the elected government pool the money and make this determination. The reason the rich get to choose
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by noarchy 12y ago
>The problem with relying, even partially, on philanthropy to correct some of the imbalances of capitalism is that one encounters the free rider problem. Do you think that the free rider problem is corrected by state-run welfare programs
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by noarchy 12y ago
You might as well have thrown in the term "patriotism" while you on that buzzword kick. There is nothing in the actions of Apple or Google that will prevent search warrants from being issued. Now you'll need to go directly to
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by noarchy 12y ago
>So you believe that if there was no Cancon laws that the Canadian cultural identity wouldn't suffer? American culture has an enormous influence on Canadians as it is, and I fear that getting rid of things like Cancon would start to
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by noarchy 12y ago
>National Inferiority Complex. The Canadian content laws are bullshit anyway. Your tone will cause you to get downvoted, but there is a certain amount of truth to what you're saying. I think that some people here like to try to defi
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by noarchy 12y ago
There is a substantial amount of pressure from Canadian telecom companies to get companies like Netflix and Youtube to conform to the same regulations that tv/radio deal with here.
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by noarchy 12y ago
>Weird. I've seen libertarianism blossom everywhere except >seemingly in silicon valley which seems to have gone hard >leftist since the initial early pioneers (who were >libertainsl-- like Jobs and Wozniak) have left the s
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by noarchy 12y ago
As your comment shows, the topic might indeed be relevant to HN, given the libertarian bent of some in today's startup scene. The submission was no doubt intended to stir up debate about libertarianism. There are some who are made unco
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by noarchy 12y ago
>Tell me a legitimate reason to carry thousands of dollars of cash around. A legitimate reason would be whatever reason I happen to choose, no different than if I choose to use a credit card, Bitcoin, or write a cheque. No one should hav
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by noarchy 12y ago
He can stop, but that doesn't mean that he necessarily controls the succession process afterwards. That is, if you meant by "stop", that he could quit as monarch.
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by noarchy 12y ago
If the TrueCrypt devs are done with the project, is there anything legally preventing others from restarting development on it? I know the software had an oddball license that wasn't always well-received. My point here being, with the
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by noarchy 12y ago
I had the mount for my GoPro break while I was descending a mountain road at around 75 kph on a road bike. The camera careened down the road for who knows how long. The SD card had popped out of the camera, but in the end both the camera an
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by noarchy 12y ago
Governments might like the ability to offload responsibility for enforcement (and therefore, cost) to the banks themselves.
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by noarchy 13y ago
As someone who has put in tens of thousands of km's on bicycles over the years, I'm wondering when these alleged downsides are supposed to kick in. According to my own subjective, self-observations, it has done nothing but good fo
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by noarchy 13y ago
>For me, this whole story hinged on that one time she got caught driving without a license: there's no reason she should have been unaware of the consequences. Consequences such as, "People wound up in jail for months without e
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by noarchy 13y ago
It would be an investment, but for a software developer these are professional tools. The problem, though, is that free alternatives exist for those who don't mind a learning curve.
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by noarchy 13y ago
As I've said elsewhere, this is a solution without a problem. The discussions on HN have tended to be one of the highlights of the site, and I worry that they may take a major hit with this change.
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by noarchy 13y ago
Why is it necessarily a bad thing that the number of comments has grown? This only matters if the overall quality of posts has decreased. More comments can also mean more good posts.
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by noarchy 13y ago
I really like the idea of making pending comments anonymous (proposed by 8ig8). I strongly suspect that many current upvotes are based on who is making the comment, rather than the merits of the comment itself.
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by noarchy 13y ago
This looks like a solution without a problem. If there a desire to reduce participation in the site, then this change will likely work. Whether or not that is a good thing will reflect a difference in philosophies amongst the users here. As
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by noarchy 13y ago
I have to agree with you that this looks like a hostile change. There are, of course, many here who would prefer a smaller community. That's an elitist group, imo. I've always felt that the quality of discussion here has remained
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by noarchy 13y ago
>I applaud anyone who's willing to roll up their sleeves and get involved with the democratic process. It's the only way we're ever going to get this country moving again. I'm not sure I agree. I think that this indus
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by noarchy 13y ago
I haven't used Linode in a few years, but if they offer exactly the same thing, then DigitalOcean wins handily just based on price for many. I know there are other factors that can go into choosing a VPS or similar service, but price i
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by noarchy 13y ago
I'll assuming that this isn't a joke story. I'm imagining, with some amusement, the inevitable first clash with a city over such a service. You just know someone will complain that this clashes with obscure or arcane zoning l

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