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by pvnick 9y ago
That's always been my biggest concern. It appears to have happened to Trump's team, which is very ironic because the republicans are supposedly the national security hawks that want this surveillance; but at the same time now the
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by pvnick 9y ago
Not sure that's true. His team seems to have been the victim of it, so that complicates things. May be a wake-up call to the party that's currently in power. It's fascinating because political abuse was exactly what Snowden a
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The ridiculous Not Hotdog app from 'Silicon Valley' is real(engadget.com)
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by pvnick 9y ago
You make an important point. Those with the most power in this country are perhaps the decision-makers of media companies (NYTimes, WaPo, CNN, FOX) and online platforms (Google, Facebook, Twitter). Funny that their political leanings are mo
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by pvnick 9y ago
> American conservatives love to talk about freedom [but here's why they are hypocrites] > ... if the Freedom Caucus gets its way, [bad thing] > ... few expect the Trump administration to [good thing] > the Trump administra
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by pvnick 9y ago
Companies that waste too much go out of business and are replaced by organizations that are more efficient. Governments that waste too much suck up ever more of your taxes or go bankrupt and cause misery for all.
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by pvnick 9y ago
Henry Hazlitt, one of the economists quoted in the article, wrote a book called Economics in One Lesson [1]. It is a brilliant, and very approachable, piece of writing that should be read by everyone interested in the basics of economic the
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by pvnick 9y ago
Ok well you made it about 10% through the article - at least you made a modest attempt at understanding the other side of the debate.
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by pvnick 9y ago
I prefer the rule of nobody but the consumer. That's what markets are for.
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by pvnick 9y ago
Read this article by the brilliant Ben Shapiro: http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2014/11/10/7-reasons... Edit: To those knee-jerk rejecting the argument based on the Breitbart domain, besides bein
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by pvnick 9y ago
Be careful of wishing for judicial oligarchy, because when it happens you may not enjoy what it looks like.
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by pvnick 9y ago
I'm a consumer and I think this is a good thing. Can't make all the people happy all the time. Edit: Besides, government policies reflexively guided by consumer sentiment is called populism, which is dangerous.
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by pvnick 9y ago
Fascinating. Would have thought artificial sweetener would be implicated, not the CO2.
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by pvnick 9y ago
Ok but that's not the point I was making.
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by pvnick 9y ago
Good to know, thanks
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by pvnick 9y ago
Completely unrelated, but thank you for posting the chicken papricash recipe on your website. Sounds really good. Just printed it out, am planning to try it.
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by pvnick 9y ago
Awesome. Maybe you can change the part of the culture that thinks it's good to censor troublesome (read: conservative) viewpoints.
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by pvnick 9y ago
Best of luck. Reddit needs a good kick in the arse. Since shortly before Steve Huffman's (Spez) return, Reddit has adopted a policy of top-down content curation - banning controversial subreddits, changing the voting algorithm to dis-f
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by pvnick 9y ago
It's not capitalism that pays for the author's salary - it's the state (he is a professor at a public university)
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by pvnick 9y ago
This article is garbage. Feels like the author pulled up a chair, sat in it backwards to seem hip, then laid down some "real talk, kids." The author is a professor at a state college. Which means taxes pay for him to think up such
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by pvnick 9y ago
Hope you're right
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by pvnick 9y ago
Corporate interests currently support net neutrality regulations for whatever reason. So you get entertainers like John Oliver pushing young folks who don't know any better to submit comments. Free market solutions are rarely in vogue.
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by pvnick 9y ago
If you lack the intellectual capacity to consider the motives of the other side believing that a freer healthcare market is a superior means to save lives (a notion backed by history and economic theory), then you have completely discredite
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by pvnick 9y ago
Tangent: Why does so much modern political discourse resort to profane language, either overtly or with puns?
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by pvnick 9y ago
For those who do not want to save Net Neutrality and would rather the FCC stay out of regulating ISPs, here is a website to find details to contact your representative: http://whoismyrepresentative.com/
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by pvnick 9y ago
This is a good point. If we could avoid massive expansion of arbitrary and innovation-killing biotech regulations, then the market will eventually correct the current shortcomings and will catch up and work within the current framework. Thi
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by pvnick 9y ago
I'm very torn on these kinds of studies. In my field we see a lot of studies looking at gender and racial disparities in healthcare offered (e.g. what kinds of _______ therapy are prescribed to various racial groups). While such dispar
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by pvnick 9y ago
My opinion regarding the NSA has changed over time. During the Snowden revelations (Snowden is still a hero of mine), I was greatly opposed to foreign spying, e.g. on Petrobras and Angela Merkel. Over the years I've realized how powerf
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by pvnick 9y ago
First question - yes, duh. Except it is unrealistic in the context of free market because some other guy will just copy your drug and sell it to me for the cost of half of my life savings. A silly argument you have made. Second paragraph -
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by pvnick 9y ago
You're right - government officials (not necessarily corrupt even) write legislation influenced by lobbyists who are hired by the big guys to protect their own interests. All legislation is influenced by lobbyists. It's just the n

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