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by s_baar 18y ago
Upvote for accuracy. This is the best solution to many problems. Liability should only be limited between two parties through a contract. It's ridiculous how by paying the government a higher percentage of your profits you better protect yo
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by s_baar 18y ago
I'm suspicious of the claim that there can be more than one silicon valley. With founders being more mobile and VC in... shrinkage (less willing to take risks setting up in new markets), the likelihood of any such concerted effort being pos
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by s_baar 18y ago
Sleep or take a shower, and slip into something comfortable. See if you can do it listening to music. If that fails, re-evaluate your life and introspect how all these deadlines mean that something is ending, giving you an opportunity to ei
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by s_baar 18y ago
Unfortunately, It's hard to defend Wal-Mart for all the good they do when they insist on lobbying local councils for direct subsidies or tax breaks, often taking money from their small competitors.
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by s_baar 18y ago
Real hackers use anarcho-capitalism.
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by s_baar 18y ago
Needs anti-aliasing.
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by s_baar 18y ago
Austrian BCT ftw! Well, at least China's not going to put up with it. They're grumbling for a new reserve currency, and hopefully that will be backed up by something of stable value and finite quantities.
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by s_baar 18y ago
Jeez, this sounds good, but if people here are like me then they already have about 5 books on their list that they want to read. I don't know how many would commit.
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by s_baar 18y ago
Nice! I love Clickpass. It's so neat and is the one startup I tell my non-geeky friends about.
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by s_baar 18y ago
This is a pretty bad list. Most of these are unoriginal and I don't see any of the high quality ones from armor games or xgenstudios.
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by s_baar 18y ago
The banking system isn't solvent if people can lose their money based on competing on-demand claims to the same cash. I honestly don't know why we don't shift to a time-deposit system. It would work nearly exactly the same in every way and
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by s_baar 18y ago
I'd like to see the Trademark Application for this. Is it public record? I mean, he certainly didn't start this, so where is this claim coming from?
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by s_baar 18y ago
Ruse of solvency. Are they even asking for input?
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by s_baar 18y ago
What! Stop destroying inner-city kids' dreams! Don't you know that if every kid in America had access to broadband, this country could be competitive in the international marketplace again?
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by s_baar 18y ago
This is good for a number of reasons. One, because everyone agrees that this improves the curriculum and shows that standardized tests can be a handicap even among honors-level students. Scarsdale has courage to be a trend-setter Two, it is
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by s_baar 18y ago
Why not 2bn or 10bn? I wish people would understand that this money will come at the expense of someone else, probably through inflation and a greater debt burden.
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by s_baar 18y ago
Unfortunately, India and China's cultures may compensate for this imbalance.
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by s_baar 18y ago
Prezzle.com still generates payments from Cambrian House. It's a way to send gift-cards without the user just getting an unthoughtful email or to send a message for free that can't be opened until a specific time.
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by s_baar 18y ago
I'm not very knowledgeable about this, but from the charts I remember seeing during the Sequoia "buckle-up" PowerPoint, isn't it an undisputed fact that there has been an unsustainable boom in VC? Investment in VC has been independent of it
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by s_baar 18y ago
This reminds me of the lack of AS fanfiction on the web right now. Someone really needs to rewrite this book once the it goes to the public domain, because there is potential, but so much is lost on her personality quirks and non-native Eng
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by s_baar 18y ago
I was thinking fractional reserve banking in general, but that is certainly true.
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by s_baar 18y ago
Poorly disguised Ponzi scheme... That reminds me of another certain banking system...
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by s_baar 18y ago
What isn't wrong with this logic? Any scam calling itself a bank that went badly now parallels real life? There is no parallel whatsoever; the crisis and these scams have no commonality.
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by s_baar 18y ago
The title was misleading. It's quite unfortunate that irrational choices can seem appealing when the market is manipulated, and it is even more tragic when it is done in the name of the American Dream and ends up wrecking families' finances
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by s_baar 18y ago
Why can't we downvote submissions again? This is just redundant and unnecessary.
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by s_baar 18y ago
Isn't that why insider trading laws exist?
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by s_baar 18y ago
Ron Paul, Austrian economists, lew rockwell. It may have been rash to say that people don't respect CATO. However, recently, previous disagreements are now seriously hurting opinions because of the bailout. The main beef with CATO is their
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by s_baar 18y ago
This is near facetious. These aren't "theories" that sprang up overnight like the bailout did. Austrian economists have specifically identified Freddie/Fannie etc. as the agents of credit expansion to the housing sector, BEFORE there were p
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by s_baar 18y ago
As a rule, when water flows uphill, the government is intervening. What free market do you know of in which the failure of a firm isn't a boon to their competitors?
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by s_baar 18y ago
Universal... except for the parts of the universe that can't be edited.

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