shmulkey18

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by shmulkey18 12y ago
Same here, but I prefer a WM that supports (for want of a better term) "packing" 80 column wide Xterms and Emacs windows into the screen and doing static placement of things like Pidgin. The tiling WMs I've briefly looked at
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by shmulkey18 13y ago
I wonder why external drives are cheaper than internal drives. One would think that they would be more expensive, since the cost to the manufacturer of an external drive includes not only the drive itself but the adapter contained in the e
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by shmulkey18 13y ago
Precisely. No property rights, no desire to preserve property.
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by shmulkey18 13y ago
And exactly what "fanatical political ideology" is that? Must be pretty horrible mind-poisoning stuff if you feel compelled to warn people off of his blog ("if they must"), eh?
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by shmulkey18 14y ago
Sowell's "Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy" is also good.
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by shmulkey18 14y ago
No, Austrians are generally pretty unhappy with the present economic state of the world.
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by shmulkey18 14y ago
Hah! Fantastic!
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by shmulkey18 14y ago
This was not civil disobedience, which involves publicly breaking a law in order to demonstrate that it is unjust. Swartz, lacking the courage of his convictions, tried to commit a crime in secret. Now he wants us to help him pay the pipe
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by shmulkey18 14y ago
Exactly. Mr. "Demand Progress" needs to understand that we are a nation of laws, and that those who knowingly break those laws will be -- and should be -- punished. And, no, this is not a case of civil disobedience. If it was, Swartz would
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by shmulkey18 14y ago
Econtalk has some nice podcasts on IP issues, including patents: Epstein on Property Rights and Drug Patents http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2007/02/richard_epstein.htm... Boldrin on Intellectual Property http://www.econtalk.org/archive
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by shmulkey18 14y ago
Slave labor was too expensive to use because you risked losing your valuable capital. Instead new immigrants were used such as Irish (East Coast) or Chinese (West Coast).
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by shmulkey18 14y ago
Investment: noun. Political payoff made with other people's money.
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by shmulkey18 15y ago
Some relatively inexpensive headphones that many folks on Head-Fi speak highly of: Samson SR850 (very similar to/rebadge of Superlux HD668B): widely available for $50 - $60 (Superlux equivalent worth look at too: http://www.head-fi.org/t/5
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by shmulkey18 15y ago
I fail to see how you can own all the cartographic data, does Google have a special power which allows it to prevent people from drawing maps? Also if the barrier to entry was so high you would think that mapquest or bing maps wouldn't exis
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by shmulkey18 15y ago
"Researchers at Queen’s University in Canada have compiled a comprehensive study of solar power plants and found that improvements in financing, and industrial streamlining could allow for the technology to become as cost-effective as tradi
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by shmulkey18 15y ago
"It's blindingly obvious that a single person cannot pay for those public goods." ... "It's called shared sacrifice because it's meaningless unless everyone participates." Huh? By this logic, taxes are "meaningless" unless everyone pays ta
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by shmulkey18 15y ago
This guy kills me. He's more than welcome to write a big check to the US government. Until he does, you'll all forgive me when I consider him somewhat less than sincere in his desire to see more of his income go to the IRS.
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by shmulkey18 15y ago
If it were every consensus I find it hard to believe that they would be built. And removing the only Jews from an area is sort of the definition of ethnic cleansing.
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by shmulkey18 15y ago
Two very interesting Econtalk podcasts on IP issues and economics, both of which argue that innovative industries can thrive in legal regimes which offer very limited IP protections: Boldrin on Intellectual Property http://www.econtalk.org
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by shmulkey18 15y ago
Just to set the record straight: a game developer didn't come up with the concept of Finlandization. The term was long used by scholars in geopolitics to refer to the situation of Finland, which although internally free, had aspects of its
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by shmulkey18 15y ago
Thanks -- I corrected my post.
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by shmulkey18 15y ago
Oh, sorry! I often fall victim to the same phenomena -- people don't understand when I'm being sarcastic.
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by shmulkey18 15y ago
No, he couldn't. His remark is a flip one that is totally impractical. Had Ross Perot (another rich guy who likes to pop off) made this suggestion we'd all be laughing at him.
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by shmulkey18 15y ago
No thanks. There is something intensely annoying about Buffett: his hypocrisy. He claims that rich Americans are not paying their fair share of taxes, but doesn't take the obvious step of voluntarily paying more taxes by sending a big check
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by shmulkey18 15y ago
As evidenced by his recent interest in killing animals, I suppose.
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by shmulkey18 15y ago
"Have you ever heard Zuck speak? He doesn't talk like that." Dunno about talking, but he sure does IM like that: http://boingboing.net/2010/09/14/damning-zuckerberg-i.html ZUCK: yea so if you ever need info about anyone at harvard ZUCK: j
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by shmulkey18 15y ago
FB employee: - "but what we're working on in my group is light years ahead of the Facebook you see and use today" - "at the end of the day, all your profile are belong to us." Nice. With that kind of attitude, I hope that your group FAILS.
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by shmulkey18 15y ago
"Yes, we've had our stumbles with privacy, but will Google be any better? Any legitimate complaints that I've heard are either something we're resolving or is an inherent problem that any social networking site will face." Wow -- this is n
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by shmulkey18 15y ago
Thanks for posting these links; they look very interesting.
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by shmulkey18 15y ago
Here we come to the nub of the matter, at least for the average HN reader: a country which is characterised by slavish obedience to authority and a willingness to trade off autonomy and the right to do something that may offend others for "

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