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by rick888 15y ago
"They have poisoned the food supply through negligence, and undermined the farming system through monopolization." really? REALLY? "They have held students hostage with tens of thousands of dollars of debt on education, which is itself a h
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by rick888 15y ago
I just bought my own health insurance because I'm self-employed and I'm only paying $80/month. I can pay $150 and have doctor visits/prescriptions mostly covered. You must have had lots of health problems in the past or your are lying abou
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by rick888 15y ago
I actually might consider getting a job at Mcdonalds if I was working on a startup (if I could make enough money to survive). I could zone out and not waste any of my creative energy during the day and work on my own stuff when I got home.
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by rick888 15y ago
This is a typical response from someone with the social skills of a child. But this seems too common these days..
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by rick888 15y ago
"a business has never been entitled to the full value of a person's enjoyment of a product" ..and a user has never been entitled to the full enjoyment of a business's product. But it doesn't seem to stop articles like this from being writt
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by rick888 15y ago
I'm good with this, if you and everyone else who believe this also agrees that if I use your source code in my proprietary app (no matter the license), it's just the "shifting sands of humanity".
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by rick888 15y ago
"The market." It does, but when you rely on a subset of the market that will never pay for your stuff anyway, the value is more than just a little skewed. "Honey badger don't care, and neither do I." Good. I don't like paying taxes because
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by rick888 15y ago
"Our economics are traditionally based on finite resources" The finite resources aren't the final product, but the work that goes into it. Create Adobe Photoshop for me (not copy, but build from scratch). "this is where the future is headi
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by rick888 15y ago
When the guy that wrote the thesis theme for Wordpress was being demonized for violating the GNU license, people used the word "steal" and "theft", even though no code was actually stolen. It's interesting to me because when something invol
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by rick888 15y ago
I feel bad for these families, but nothing really has changed. The officers are just enforcing existing immigration laws. There are legal ways of getting into the US and more immigrants should use this route in the future or suffer the co
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by rick888 15y ago
This is why I stopped freelancing and moved onto making my own products. It's not worth the hassle of chasing down clients.
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by rick888 15y ago
well, the organizers didn't come out and say it was false, now did they. (for some reason my other post is -1)
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by rick888 15y ago
It's a valid thought. it's popular enough so you know they've seen it, yet they haven't denied it or stopped spreading the propaganda.
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by rick888 15y ago
well, the organizers didn't come out and say it was false, now did they.
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by rick888 15y ago
..because the people that are protesting are hugely mis-informed and come off like entitled kids? After hearing stories about people protesting because they weren't guaranteed a job after college and are now in debt, I can't take the protes
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by rick888 15y ago
"If you do not have a tax card, the employer must withhold 60% of your salary for taxes without allowances." Sounds great. Where can I sign up!
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by rick888 15y ago
Like communism, it sounds good on paper, but not in reality. Huge taxes creates a generation of people that depend on the system to survive. Over time, the system will eventually collapse because there aren't enough people putting money b
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by rick888 15y ago
Is anyone surprised here? Denmark has the highest taxes in the world. It's just one more thing the government wants to control.
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by rick888 15y ago
..and you are basing an individuals total tax rate based on income tax alone, which doesn't account for the many other taxes that someone has to pay. I suppose if you made money, didn't live in a house, and didn't spend your money in any wa
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by rick888 15y ago
"Women own about 40 percent of the private businesses in the United States, according to the Center for Women's Business Research" Okay, can the women's groups stop complaining then? Or does this number need to be 100% before they will sto
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by rick888 15y ago
from the actual CEO in the comments: "Michael, CEO and Founder of Grouper here. Sam - We set you up on an actual Grouper (of which we've done over 200). You, without warning, arrived with cameras and a fourth person then told the girls you
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by rick888 15y ago
This doesn't include VAT and increased taxes in other areas, so personal income tax might be 50%, but you are actually paying a much higher rate.
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by rick888 15y ago
70%+ taxes, no thanks. I thought this was HN, not reddit...
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by rick888 15y ago
If Obama is your idea of a Republican, I don't want your idea of a Democrat in office...ever.
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by rick888 15y ago
Are you legally allowed to even do that? Do you store card data yourself?
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by rick888 15y ago
I have a problem with using merchant startups. If they go out of business, what happens to my clients? If I have thousands of clients, I would not want to be forced to get all of their credit card info again (since I wouldn't be storing a
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by rick888 15y ago
I stopped pirating 5 years ago because of all of the streaming services out there (grooveshark, last.fm, pandora), and somethimes youtube.
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by rick888 15y ago
It's called an opinion. Why has this suddenly become illegal now?
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by rick888 15y ago
I had the same problem. This is why I feel that it's better to save 6 months-year of salary and quit.
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by rick888 15y ago
If you are interested in tech, Ann Arbor is really the place to be in Michigan. Lots of startups and also a great university. Some areas of Detroit are OK, but if you don't know your way around, it can get real bad real fast. I know at le

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