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by pravinva 8y ago
Some perspective please. At 14 dollars an hour, these workers are in the top 1 percentof all human beings on earth. Privileged, even, one could say
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by pravinva 9y ago
The writer tries to pretend that there is something drastically opposite from knowing that the state captured by business is different from the danger of mere statism. Well, the answer that preserves liberty is to reduce the chances of the
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by pravinva 9y ago
They want Scandinavian socialism. But not sure how many want the higher taxes and lowered import tariffs. Most taxes in Denmark are at the local level. National income tax is less than 5 percent. Most people would be slightly amenable to hi
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by pravinva 9y ago
No, no, no. The marginal revolution of the 19th century solved that question. Value is not determined by what it cost to do something. For eg. You can dig deep in south Africa to mine diamonds, but the bits of subterranean rock that emerges
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by pravinva 9y ago
There ought to be a #TooOld similar to #TooSoon
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by pravinva 9y ago
Just call it billing at the end user neutrality and be done with it. Nothing to do with treating packets equally. It's a question for economics and not technology. By insisting that status quo prevail, populists idiots who understand
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by pravinva 9y ago
It's a problem only if it's denominated in foreign currency.likely
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by pravinva 9y ago
Not at all.a few years ago, the Chinese monopoly over so called rare earths threatened to increase prices of all electronics. But it took barely 2 years for new mines to be opened outside China profitably and the monopoly was broken. Ammuni
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by pravinva 9y ago
The slippery slope towards empire for the east India company didn't start by protecting dams and dredging or performing economic activities. It began by superior ammunition and military services that they provided to the various kings
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by pravinva 9y ago
What are you on about? AWS practically requires BGP. Static routing is rarely the best choice when you set up DX. Netflix rolls its own CDNs because Cloudfront can't meet all their demands, yet.
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by pravinva 9y ago
All shares are valued solely based on their future potential (cash flows). It matters not a whit what you did in the past, if your future is bleak, you share price will reduce to under book value
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by pravinva 9y ago
Is non fossil fuel energy research too hard to be funded? Gates and Bezos etc have funded just about a billion. Why not 20 billion
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by pravinva 9y ago
So, people are status conscious.go over to overcoming bias.com and read it from the master Robin Hanson. Every thing we do is based on stay.including pretending to care about inequality
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by pravinva 9y ago
So the worry is that you need govt courts and police to enforce rules? That's not a great argument. The number of private police today is far greater than govt employed ones. Most international trade disputes are settled by private arb
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by pravinva 9y ago
" we don't live in aggregate; we live as individuals. If the U.S. economy grows 1% because of the efficiency of the international labor pool, but no individual's income grows 1% (except coincidentally); it doesn't help t