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by pelle 18y ago
More than 50% of people in working age in Denmark work for the government or make their living through some sort of welfare program. This means more than half the population of Denmark is prosperous exclusively because of income taken from
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by pelle 18y ago
Guess I misunderstood ;-) Just heard the argument I thought I heard so many times before.
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by pelle 18y ago
This is a common argument heard in Denmark to make us the Danes who left feel bad. While not as bad now, there was a time when the word "udenlandsdansker" (Danish emigrant) was synonymous with traitor when used by Danish politicians. The wa
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by pelle 18y ago
I also have to point out being Danish myself that the Danish education system is under heavy attack in Denmark as being uncompetitive. I'm too lazy to google it right now but I remember Danish test results being amongst the worst in Europe.
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by pelle 18y ago
Agreed. It's a complex issue. However historically the combination of small government, trust and openness has proved to cause growth throughout the world. The economist Mauricio Rojas wrote a very detailed analysis of the Swedish Economy a
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by pelle 18y ago
Good analysis. One point though about Sweden. Almost all of Sweden's large successful companies were created and grew during a period of very small government. Sweden's current face of big government didn't start until the 60s when all the
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by pelle 18y ago
You yourself just answered why regulation can't ever work correctly: "The real world is simply more complex than that." As a programmer you should know that extremely complex systems like the world can not ever be managed by a small group o
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by pelle 18y ago
You are talking about one of the most highly regulated markets in the US. It's been at least 100 years since the financial markets where free in the US.
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by pelle 18y ago
Cubans do not have higher purchasing power parity that Jamaicans, Guatamalans and all the others you mentioned. This might be true if there was anything to purchase but there isn't. If I start paying myself with wads of Monopoly money I wil
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by pelle 18y ago
You do live in a strange world very distant from the one that most of us readers of Hacker News lives in. Name me one real monopoly that isn't enforced through "social engineering". A free market may have ocasional dominant market leaders l
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by pelle 18y ago
It is a fact that any transaction between two people that is not distorted in any way by outside parties will leave both parties better off.
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by pelle 18y ago
Tarifs are indeed an excellent example. Another great example is how too much red tape forces businesses underground in the developing world. The economist Hernando De Soto http://ild.org.pe/en/home has done studies in many different coun
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by pelle 18y ago
Low numbers of extreme poor? You have followed a bit too much propaganda and not enough reality it seems. The only country that is worse off in the entire region is Haiti. Probably more than 90% of the population is in extreme poverty. Wors
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by pelle 18y ago
In almost all cases profit helps us all. A free exchange benefits all parties. You have something I want, I have something you want. When this situation gets distorted through monopoly or other forms of regulations it is generally speaking
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by pelle 18y ago
Health is no different than other services in 99.9% of the cases. We should not optimize the entire system for that 0.1% of cases. The market optimizes everything for the better if it is allowed. For the exceptions, use exception handling a
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by pelle 18y ago
Health care is no different than any other service. If you are able to increase the availability as well as lower the price it helps everyone. Including the poor.
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by pelle 18y ago
I agree completely. Unfortunately the outcome is normally very different when the market has to route around it. Rent control here in SF only affects people in older buildings. One of many unintended consequences of this is the ridiculous s
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by pelle 18y ago
You are right I missed a zero.
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by pelle 18y ago
It sounds like you are incorporating an S-Corp. There aren't really any IRS rules like that for C-Corps, which is why Steve Jobs can get paid $1 pa. The rule is essentially there to make sure that you pay FICA. The limit for paying FICA in
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by pelle 18y ago
Look. This is a real practical criticism of RubyGem which is absolutely valid. But these kinds of things are getting better. Rails 2x and Merb 1.x with their support of Gem dependencies are a lot easier to manage now than they were in the p
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by pelle 18y ago
Hold your horses Gregg. Maybe my language skills are not what they should be. Because that is not what I am attempting to say. I do not in any way mean to offend anyone. All I am attempting to say is that different people have different nee
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by pelle 18y ago
Hmm, I don't remember writing "fuck you all" in my post. I'm just talking about there being different domains in play here. Different domains have different needs. System management thanks in many ways to the great work of Debian but also v
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RubyGem is from Mars, AptGet is from Venus(stakeventures.com)
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by pelle 18y ago
I wrote a post about just this. http://stakeventures.com/articles/2008/11/12/is-the-time-rig... US lawyers are too focused on the traditional hourly model. We all need lawyers who can think and work in an agile way similar to what we do.
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3 ideas for innovating securities law(stakeventures.com)
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SEC to startups - don't you dare innovate(stakeventures.com)
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by pelle 18y ago
Their legal counsel had advised them that they were not a money transfer business and not required to do so. They had also been in business successfully for years before the patriot act passed. I also hardly think you could say that they di
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E-Gold founders avoid jail thanks to great judge(stakeventures.com)
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Agree2 for creating and negotiating agreements launches(blog.extraeagle.com)
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What Lawyers could learn from Programmers(stakeventures.com)
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