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by rick888 16y ago
It's funny. Academia is much like most governments: Very inefficient, bloated, and wasteful of money.
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by rick888 16y ago
"Living on the road is no more expensive than living anywhere else. Less usually, since there's no rent or car payment involved. I can live large in Thailand for $500/month." When I say "travel", I mean living in other countries for extende
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by rick888 16y ago
"Basically, a businessman runs into a fisherman by the beach and is telling him how he should get a boat, a fleet, put in hard work to make a lot of money and then he can retire, take it easy, go fishing for a couple hours each day, etc. Th
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by rick888 16y ago
"i honestly can't think of one that isn't constrained in some form. in modern society, that is. freedom seems to be constrained by the existence of other people." When has it ever not been? In pre-modern society people still used some for o
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by rick888 16y ago
"What's wrong with earning a few dollars providing a useful service?" Nothing. It's when you have also have a service that promotes the sharing of other people's commercial work for free (and say it's because you thing that sharing is for
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by rick888 16y ago
"Ahh, but there's the rub. What good is a nice house and a family if you live at the office and devote every waking moment to your startup?" You don't need to devote every waking moment to a startup to be successful. I devote lots of my ti
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by rick888 16y ago
"is that what freedom means? it sounds like you're condition of freedom is to have money, and its only freedom as long as you can pay for it. not really that free." I suppose I could live in a cardboard box on the side of the road and quit
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by rick888 16y ago
[Citation Needed] (pirate bay founders create flattr) http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/12/pirate-bay-founders-flattr-... Here is the video where he talks about sharing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyGCsCpofVk "How do you know they are p
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by rick888 16y ago
"It's the Mexican fisherman story. Sacrifice your freedom and happiness so that you can get rich so that you can have freedom and happiness." and how do you suppose we do that? Freedom to me means: 1) not having to work for anyone 2) having
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by rick888 16y ago
I won't be using this service. The owners of flattr also own thepiratebay. I remember hearing a speech a few months ago talking about how everything should be free, just like when we were children (we need to learn to share). They have no
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by rick888 16y ago
"What seems to be missing, as usual from these piracy posts is that the 90% who pirated the game most likely wouldn't have bought it." We will never know this. When I used to pirate software in my younger years, I would buy software that I
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by rick888 16y ago
"well articulated op-ed piece about where our debt comes" This was an okay article and an opinion on where our debt comes from. I was merely pointing out the blogs and opinion pieces do get into google news. As for the links you just poste
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by rick888 16y ago
"you can't "pirate" a car. If I took your car, you'd be less one car. If I copy a game, nobody is less anything." What if I "steal" your identity? Technically, you don't lose anything. I am just borrowing your information. Should this be
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by rick888 16y ago
"Hardcore pirates will always find a new excuse. Most of them just don't want to pay. They can't be counted as lost sales if they never had any intent to buy." This may be the case, but allowing people to share your application freely will
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by rick888 16y ago
"People pirate games with DRM because the pirate version is better than the legit one." How do we know that the people that pirate games with DRM aren't doing it because it's "easy"? "You could easily argue that the DRM is increasing both t
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by rick888 16y ago
Interesting. So 90% of the people pirate the game (which has no serial number or protection). I thought the reason people pirated apps was because of draconian protection systems like DRM?!
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by rick888 16y ago
"1) Blogs are not inherently "news". Ergo, they should not always be put into a news feed." Here is something I just found on the google news feed: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31749_162-20012891-10391698.html This isn't news either, yet i
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by rick888 16y ago
"E.g. the state gives lots of support for home ownership, including government sponsored mortgage guarantees. Or the power of all those crazy unions. " Both of which has bankrupted many states..and the auto industry (union power).
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by rick888 16y ago
" Also, I pay up to keep the beggars and robbers off the street." More social programs just create a lower class that has a lifetime dependence on the government for money. It also doesn't seem to lower the crime rate. Detroit is a good e
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by rick888 16y ago
"In the Internet age, I find the concept of that laughable. If you want to show something to a great number of people, just post it on a social news/bookmarking site. Sending your info to Wikileaks is a hundred times as responsible an act a
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by rick888 16y ago
You should make the service free and allow people to send gifts to each other in the form of small icons/pictures next to their profile (but charge a small amount). I know this has been done before, but it works. The guys want to impress t
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by rick888 16y ago
"Occupation doesn't generally happen without bloodshed. Involving oneself in occupation is an investment in bloodshed. The jews who died during the Nazi regime didn't make a choice to involve themselves in bloodshed." And the people in the
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by rick888 16y ago
"What they're doing is precisely journalism." Journalists have a responsibility. If a couple of people have leaked information, the likelihood of anybody actually seeing the information is close to zero. Wikileaks has a huge audience that
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by rick888 16y ago
"Godwin's law so soon in this thread? Not helpful." Don't know your history? not helpful.
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by rick888 16y ago
"The story I've heard is that Wikileaks attempted to contact the White House, so the two parties could go through the documents and remove references to informants. The White House declined the offer. Has any evidence emerged to suggest thi
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by rick888 16y ago
"The jews weren't attempting to occupy Germany at the time so probably not the most fitting comparison." That's not the point. The point is that if information was given to the Germans, it would have resulted in many deaths. Occupation ha
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by rick888 16y ago
"I hate to put people on the spot with "well, what would YOU do." But Daniel's post implies that there is some wise oversight that can expose just the right secrets, without exposing the dangerous ones. I don't think that's realistic, unles
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by rick888 16y ago
"I'm fine with that. Assange isn't killing people. 3-star generals are." Yes he is. The information he released in the latest round of "secrets" gave away informants to people that can (and will) kill them. If he gave information about loc
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by rick888 16y ago
"I certainly think that education is important. I think the problem lately is people have been valuing formal education over life experience. College is not the only life experience, nor in my opinion, is it the most important one." College
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by rick888 16y ago
"Higher taxes don't necessarily mean less freedom with your money; a collective good that a group largely (or even unanimously) in favor of purchasing might go unpurchased due to the free rider problem." When you are taxed, that money may o

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