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by rrc 13y ago
I agree with Rand. It's the duty of the CEO and other executives at any company to maximize return on investment for their shareholders. If Apple executives were to voluntarily increase their tax payments - thereby decreasing profits - they
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by rrc 13y ago
God this brings back memories: http://sixrevisions.com/web_design/popular-search-engines-in...
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by rrc 13y ago
One possibility I haven't seen mentioned here: 1. Government does actually know how the Internet works 2. Makes this attempt, knows it will fail 3. Waits until somebody blows themselves - or somebody else - up with a poorly made, 3D printed
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by rrc 14y ago
Can somebody recommend some good books on building distributed systems, both introductory and more advanced?
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by rrc 14y ago
It would happen if there was enough demand for it, just like the first power plant, the first radio, the first car, the first steam engine, etc. None of these items were developed in a vacuum; it's almost impossible to separate private and
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by rrc 15y ago
I got Dr. Sbaitso with my Creative sound card when I was little. I remember asking him all these questions about sex, then printing out the conversation. Then I panicked, thinking my parents would see it, and tore the papers up and hid them
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by rrc 15y ago
You're asking for more government intervention because of the poor results from the first intervention. If the government didn't bail out the banks in the first place, most of these banks would have been broken up and their assets sold off
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by rrc 15y ago
I do believe governments and central banks would like to suppress its use, though I wouldn't claim that's the only reason it isn't used in transactions today. It's in their interests to suppress its use because it's one way to spend more th
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by rrc 15y ago
> Every financial asset you own, whether it is paper money or a number in a bank account, is somebody else's liability. Gold is a form of money with no counterparty risk; if I own gold it's nobody's liability. One complication is that s
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by rrc 15y ago
I'll add one more reason I don't think we're in a gold bubble: as long as countries around the world continue devaluing their currencies, the nominal price of gold will continue to rise. While it's possible that the inflation-adjusted price
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by rrc 15y ago
I'd actually disagree. The constitution explicitly enumerates the powers of the federal government. Many (most?) modern federal programs, departments, and laws aren't _explicitly_ listed. The government has gotten around this limitation by
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by rrc 15y ago
Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if PayPal supported the law. Many regulations protect large, established players by raising the cost of entry for new market participants. PayPal can afford to post this bond, but many bootstrapped start-up
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by rrc 16y ago
I didn't down vote, but I don't think the issue isn't as black and white as you're suggesting. Let me offer an alternative possibility: The "bad guys" fail to act on this information and instead a group of newly informed (politicians|non-pr
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by rrc 16y ago
In a perfect system, I would like to see voting require a license. People require a driver's license because uneducated drivers can harm others. Uneducated voters can cause similar harm to others. Taken to the extreme, you could have a dire
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by rrc 16y ago
I thought about immortality, but I suspect you'd fail to enlist the (massive) religious populations of Earth since you'd be competing directly with their existing power structure and investment. It's odd to think that it's already a saturat
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by rrc 16y ago
I think hostile aliens are a specific example of a more general unifier: non-human common enemies. This might include hostile AI (think SkyNet), solar radiation, or perhaps even a terrestrial worldwide pandemic (bacterial or viral). I think
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by rrc 16y ago
Whether it's terrorism or leaks, neocons - like this author - appear to frequently endorse head cutting as an effective method of battling hydras.
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by rrc 16y ago
Many years ago when I attended First Aid/CPR training from the American Red Cross, I was told that you can actually get in serious trouble for performing CPR without a valid license. They explained that it's quite common to break ribs while
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by rrc 16y ago
Google Docs export functionality was also broken all yesterday, resulting in an infinite redirect loop upon download.
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by rrc 16y ago
I think I would have worded this differently: It's possible that Manning's actions would cost lives. It's also possible that Manning's actions would save lives, perhaps by aborting pending military actions. Actual metrics are impossible to
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by rrc 16y ago
On the other hand, Lamo might have argued that his status as a famous hacker makes him a regular target for the fabricated tales of script kiddies and weirdos worldwide. Encountering a boastful liar on the internet isn't a freak occurrence
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by rrc 16y ago
If you were in Lamo's position, how would you have handled it?
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by rrc 16y ago
Same here. I assume you're in Prague? I thought I was alone here...
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by rrc 17y ago
It's easy to be a profitable day trader when the market is melting up. Even the most incompetent traders would have been making money in the late nineties. The problem occurs once the market stops going up. At that point even the best day t
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by rrc 17y ago
Lambda the Ultimate ( http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/ )
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by rrc 17y ago
I really liked Gilad Bracha's presentation on Newspeak. His concept libraries as a nested class structure, with the ability to override just a single nested class seems like a great forking mechanism to encourage reuse.
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Ask HN: Who are the Alpha Geeks you follow?
25 points by rrc 17y ago|8 comments