sillygeese

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by sillygeese 11y ago
"Sophomoric" is not an argument, and the questions I brought up are very simple, and their answers are obvious too. You'd have to be insane to think it's in your interest when your money is taken by force and used as
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by sillygeese 11y ago
Of course they believe that. If they saw taxation for the extortion it is, they wouldn't be happy with having rulers either. They have shadowbanned me several times already, with different accounts. Plenty of people don't care abo
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by sillygeese 11y ago
His article was kind of skirting around where you're going now. > The internet is super powerful and a lot of global leaders realize that it is probably the most concrete challenge to their authority, anything that has the power to
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by sillygeese 11y ago
As I said, I'm moving on now :)
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by sillygeese 11y ago
Thanks for the civil response. I'll keep this brief, because we shouldn't keep this up anyway. no one is allowed to submit job ads as stories to HN --> Alright, a general rule. That includes YC startups
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by sillygeese 11y ago
Yes, but the point is that only YC companies get to advertise jobs here. They wanted to remind us that other companies can't advertise here, but also felt obligated to pretend that YC companies don't get any special treatment beca
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by sillygeese 11y ago
> Also, we've updated the FAQ to clarify that no one is allowed to submit job ads as stories to HN. That includes YC startups, since the job ads we let them post are not stories That's right. The job ads YC companies post her
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by sillygeese 11y ago
So we're not supposed to be afraid of Ebola anymore? Or will the new vaccine conveniently save a Western country from a sudden, mysterious outbreak of Ebola? The new Ebola vaccine is produced by Merck, and.. Oh look! Former CDC Direct
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by sillygeese 11y ago
> The Obama administration has determined that it must retaliate against China for the theft of the personal information of more than 20 million Americans from the databases of the Office of Personnel Management Someone tell me what u
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by sillygeese 11y ago
> I am pretty surprised by the far-reaching data collection that Microsoft seems to want. But, I am even more surprised by the fact that the settings all default to incredibly intrusive. I can't see why anyone would be surprised a
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by sillygeese 11y ago
Perhaps you're a troll, or just retarded.
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by sillygeese 11y ago
The thing is, "our" data is abused by all big companies at the very least, regardless of what they publicly tell us they're doing. I appreciate the sentiment there, but you'll have to close pretty much everything if yo
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by sillygeese 11y ago
They're devising new ways to shaft us, and using our money to pay for a luxury hotel to do it in. So yes, it's pertinent.
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by sillygeese 11y ago
That's exactly why they're working on it in secret.
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by sillygeese 11y ago
Do you think that's a satisfactory situation though? Suppose that there actually is a group within the government that's genuinely trying to protect us. Even so, the organization they'd be protecting us from is the exact same
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by sillygeese 11y ago
Not really. We all know what happens if we don't pay taxes. Very few see taxation for the extortion it is.
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by sillygeese 11y ago
> How can a government have jurisdiction over this? Or more broadly, how can a government have jurisdiction over anything, or anyone ? The answer is fundamentally: by force . For example, if I point a gun at you, I've just estab
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by sillygeese 11y ago
I wonder what it would take for people to see that political correctness is a problem.
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by sillygeese 11y ago
They just might accept PayPal though.
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by sillygeese 11y ago
> I don't think it's a problem with $1.50 in absolute terms. It's $1.50 compared to $0.99 from other vendors. Yes, but if you only have the $1.50 option for buying a song you supposedly love , it simply makes no sense t
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by sillygeese 11y ago
> I'm not going to risk $1.50 to an unknown website. $1.50 isn't much of a risk you know, even if you don't know the website. You'd probably even get the song! Also, if a song is on Audio CD, it's probably on
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by sillygeese 11y ago
>> Then those efforts suddenly stopped, and nothing in the records indicates exactly why. Nothing indicates why? It's not like they'd write down: "Got bribed. Stopped permit review."
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by sillygeese 11y ago
> It's really only when you find yourself with a problem that you can quantify that these tools start to make sense. Good point. Another reason to be careful is that there are too many half-assed solutions to problems that might n
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by sillygeese 11y ago
Ah yes, fat salaries on other people's money, and a fat pension on other people's money! Sweet deal!
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by sillygeese 11y ago
This silly zealot never intended to be objective to begin with. > I care about feeling the power of a modern operating system I'd say OS X has this one covered. It could even be said to be the most "modern" OS out there.
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by sillygeese 11y ago
What is this I can't even.. But in case it helps, let's make this a bit more accurate: How do you benefit from someone forcefully taking your money from you and then spending it for you? (Hint: If you actually did benefit, the
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by sillygeese 11y ago
> 1. Economy of scale 2. I can get 5% on my own but they can get 8%. If he invests my money for me for 1.5% then we both prosper. First of all, "he" is not interested in your well-being , so he might as well get a good deal
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by sillygeese 11y ago
> In an ideal democratic system, opposing parties would seek to expose corruption in public officials and use it to their advantage, thereby dis-incentivizing the misappropriation of public funds. Look, "misappropriating public fu
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by sillygeese 11y ago
> Certainly not, if the $10 is a bribe. Would you? Probably not, even if only because I'm not the kind of person who'd even get into a position to bribe someone for personal gain. But there's this thing called "psyc
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by sillygeese 11y ago
If you're in a position to hand out $5B of other people's money, do you think some people might want to bribe you to get it? What if you can only hand out $1M? Will someone still want to bribe you? -Of course, but he'll be

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