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by pitaj 7y ago
An ideal free market is one is which no coercion occurs, including state coercion like regulations and taxes, and private coercion like theft and fraud. Colloquially, a free market refers to one in which a minimal amount of government inter
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Don't blame "the invisible hand" (the market) for those monopolies. Utilities like water, gas, and electricity are monopolized by the state: torn away from the market's invisible hand. Internet providers use government r
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https://slate.com/culture/2013/11/dallas-buyers-club-true-st...
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Removing parking requirements = fewer requirements = less regulation = deregulation. Deregulation does not equal zero regulation.
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For small economies it's absolutely possible. But as economies scale, the computational power necessary increases exponentially.
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Board cost is due to PCIe4 support mainly
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> It's obviously not insignificant of a cost but adding a trailer doesn't immediately halve the usable range. It probably would through aerodynamic drag at the same speed but if you're planning on towing you can just dri
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Array filling shares syntax with array typing and array declaration: [0; 10] // ten-element array filled with zeros [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] // equivalent array with ten zeroes typed out [i32; 10] &#x
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Types go after identifiers because then the types can be left out when using type inference: let nums = Vec::new(); nums.push(0_u32); // nums: Vec<u32>
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IRC has many drawbacks not shared by more modern protocols. Slack works when you're offline, saves history, has notifications, search, etc. IRC is not perfectly good or it would still be used.
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Corporate taxes shouldn't exist, especially in their current form. Corporate taxes are just reflected to consumers as higher prices or to workers as lower wages. In the current structure, corporate taxes benefit large businesses more w
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He edited his comment
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> It doesn’t actually break code, it just wraps it on mobile devices differently. I meant it breaks the flow of the code by inserting line breaks. > Make your window bigger (80 chars) if you want to see full lines. For mobile it’s sti
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Yes except that breaks actual code, especially affecting mobile devices where wrapping can make it very difficult to follow.
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Please don't quote with code blocks. It breaks formatting by forcing horizontal scrolling, and is especially bad on mobile. Requoted: > Employee and employer state Unemployment Insurance tax rates will apply to the first $34,400 of
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Please don't quote with code blocks. Requoted: > “This study can’t prove that chronic psychosocial stress causes mental illness or substance abuse later in life by lowering dopamine levels,” Dr Bloomfield cautions. “But we have prov
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> Which would no longer be protected from others obtaining copies of the film and showing it. We already live in a world where piracy is rampant, and yet rarely if ever are theater-quality copies of movies available. People have to recor
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> but I don't think they'll pay for a feature film with a $150M budget. Films get a majority of revenue from the box office. They could sell high-quality masters to streaming services, etc etc > Basically all the others requ
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That is not my argument. My argument is that supporting this one form of monetization does not justify the existence of copyright. Tons of creative work exists outside that system now and existed long before copyright was a thing. Additio
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There are many ways to monetize without the government granting monopolies on certain information. Including but not limited to subscription services, exclusive showings, advertisements, serials, donations, and Patreon
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> IP laws are important They're important in the fact that they do immense damage to our economy, with perverse incentives and rent seeking everywhere. There is little no evidence that IP improves innovation or even benefits creator
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Please don't quote with code blocks. It's painful to scroll horizontally, especially for mobile users. Without code blocks: > To add even more color to the kerfuffle, Lemonade filed a motion yesterday with the European intellec
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Totally agree. - there is very little evidence that patents are beneficial - there is a ton of very evident cases like this where patents are just used to rent-seek or destroy - patents are collected by companies to inhibit competition acro
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No, the government created the crisis by restricting supply of painkillers people desperately need. Purdue is a nice scapegoat though. Good job playing the same card as the drug warriors ("evil dealers").
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The pharma companies are merely a useful scapegoat for the real cause: awful state policies. This is blatantly obvious after only a small amount of research, like the fact that opioid overdoses have increased as opioid prescriptions have de
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He specifically said that he is not longer on the Word team.
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Such a great show. They really hit the perfect compromise between realism and fun.
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It's probably just using your IP address.
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X-rays are not alpha radiation. Alpha radiation is composed of alpha particles, aka helium nuclei. X-rays are EM radiation.
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Citation needed. Can you point to a replication from a reputable school or journal?

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