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by pliny 12y ago
>Why would I ever want to start a million dollar business if I knew the majority of my earnings would be taken from me by the government to support people that didn't need to do anything? Because the business itself is important to
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by pliny 13y ago
The shitty years at the end, or would you immediately deteriorate your current health ten years into your future?
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by pliny 13y ago
This is not something new the government is taxing, it's just extending the income tax from 'all income paid in money' to 'all income paid in money, goods and services', which is reasonable since money is just a pro
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by pliny 13y ago
It's espresso with sugar, dairy and syllables - still coffee.
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by pliny 13y ago
So this will finally make it impossible for judges to arbitrarily impose punitive measures on people who have not been proven guilty?
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by pliny 13y ago
>What you eat absolutely affects brain chemistry. Eg friends of mine in grad school were studying depression via tryptophan depletion. They'd give volunteers a homemade protein drink which would reliably knock down serotonin levels.
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by pliny 13y ago
One of the goals in the OP: >* Allow users to maintain a pseudonymous identity that carries anonymous trust across transactions. i.e. anonymous as in it's difficult to establish a real world identity for sellers not anonymous as i
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by pliny 13y ago
Some countries are more made up than others. Most of the countries in Africa and the Middle East were not formed by popular movements for self determination, but rather the result of foreign (mostly West European) political considerations
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by pliny 13y ago
2^8 = 256
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by pliny 13y ago
The theorem is fine, but there's obviously not a total order of 'general aptitude' on the set of people since there definitely exist two people and two jobs for which the first person is better at the first job than the secon
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by pliny 13y ago
$130 BTC in late february? Are they referring to goxcoin?
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by pliny 13y ago
>I wonder when precisely they realized that >700,000btc were missing. Once they stole the 700,001st bitcoin?
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by pliny 13y ago
Offer a split that creates an equal amount of Democratic and Republican senators.
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by pliny 13y ago
How do they keep the food off the games? Is everything covered in plastic?
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by pliny 13y ago
>Couldn't we please just swap the NASA and military budgets for one year? Just one. No, but we could just give DARPA to NASA, since they should both be doing roughly the same thing anyway, and the gov't probably loses some few
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by pliny 13y ago
>Google claims to "anonymize" IP addresses, but it turns out that they only obscure the last two or three digits, which isn't enough to conceal the identity of the individual. Is there any reason why they wouldn't jus
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by pliny 13y ago
Yudkowsky pushed a virgin into a volcano once.
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by pliny 13y ago
Missing 2007: Google invents C.
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by pliny 13y ago
If someone is 'the protector of freedom' and if 'the protector of freedom' is someone that doesn't boycott Syria, then that leaves Japan, South Korea, Australia and countries who's government don't make de
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by pliny 13y ago
The EU has a ban on trade with Syria since 2012[1]. http://ec.europa.eu/trade/policy/countries-and-regions/count...
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by pliny 13y ago
Only if you or a customer of yours are going to bomb them, otherwise you're better off being friends and selling them bombs.
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by pliny 13y ago
When comparing things (the US is one of the most amazing places in the world -> the US is amazing in comparison to most places) it's usually more important to focus on differences rather than similarities. State-sponsored slaughter
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by pliny 13y ago
A large company can absorb a lot more risk than an individual, or really any entity smaller than itself. In fact, that attribute - the ability to absorb risk (and failure) is the reason why a corporation is a useful structure in the first p
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by pliny 13y ago
Could be accounted for by apps with poor localization.
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by pliny 13y ago
SVO?
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by pliny 13y ago
Are there any billionaires on hn?
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by pliny 13y ago
Well, ever since Saddam tried to use power law to justify his invasion of Kuwait we've all been stepping on eggshells.
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by pliny 13y ago
Is there any doubt the judge was paid off? No sane person could make an argument that a serial criminal, a serial killer , should not face consequences for his actions because he didn't face any in the past.
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by pliny 13y ago
Just gained 100 dollars in a minute.
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by pliny 13y ago
>Either that's totally wrong (implies equal weighting) Equal weighting would be "Truth is always in the middle". >it's a near-tautology Another way to say near-tautology is "something that is true".

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