smokeyj

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by smokeyj 14y ago
You're confusing intuition with pragmatism.
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by smokeyj 14y ago
Isn't ideology rigid by definition? What's the alternative? Pseudo principles?
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by smokeyj 14y ago
What exactly is a moderate republican? Sounds like a closet libertarian..
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by smokeyj 14y ago
Which constraint is being a HS student? It's like saying "Hey guys, I have no bills or kids!". My only problem is if these projects start filling up the front page based on merit besides the project itself.
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by smokeyj 14y ago
Everyone hates him. He's too liberal for liberals and too conservative for conservatives.
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by smokeyj 14y ago
> eventually trigger revolution. These are the Chinese we're talking about..
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by smokeyj 14y ago
I agree, regulation is important. Too important to entrust to a monopolistic force on violence.
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by smokeyj 14y ago
Pure capitalism represents voluntary interactions. How exactly does coercion produce value? Pyramids?
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by smokeyj 14y ago
Sounds like you've never heard of supply and demand.
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by smokeyj 14y ago
These companies seem to solve very specific issues. It's possible they plan on building a sustainable business model before growing to tackle bigger challenges. Was Google a "big innovation" when it launched, or just another search engine?
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by smokeyj 14y ago
"It's cool guys, Arthur supports IP too."
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by smokeyj 14y ago
Did I claim China was freer than the US? I didn't mean to, and would have been outside the scope of the point I was trying to make.. which was American's are tolerant of censorship.
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by smokeyj 14y ago
The discussion is about attitudes towards censorship. The point of my comment was that Americans are willing to accept censorship, as long as it's "legal". And I think history is on my side. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_the_U
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by smokeyj 14y ago
> torrenting sites are by and large against the laws of the US Right. We have free speech as long as it's legal. Just like the Chinese.
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by smokeyj 14y ago
Trying too hard
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by smokeyj 14y ago
> The piracy issue is overblown only to those who have never experienced it first hand. It's not just the artist and the big music companies you're hurting, there's a ton of lower level people who work in the industry who are suffering
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by smokeyj 14y ago
Thats pretty low, but only reinforces the notions that IP is bad for consumers.
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by smokeyj 14y ago
Sure he's a hypocrite. What does that mean, we should keep patents around? So that.. everybody can abuse patents?
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by smokeyj 14y ago
Which patent did amazon need to "maintain their dominance"? Did they patent customer service?
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by smokeyj 14y ago
Instead of replacing the SEC, why have it at all? What service do they provide that I so badly need?
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by smokeyj 14y ago
You make it sound like there's a societal cruise control that magically improves our quality of living. I'm glad the activists of history didn't share your sentiment.
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by smokeyj 14y ago
> the military has an extremely valid reason for criminalizing contact between Wikileaks and active servicemembers Surely leaking classified information was already a crime.
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by smokeyj 14y ago
First sentence from parent's response: "As a liberal I find libertarians downright revolting.".
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by smokeyj 14y ago
The other cost to consider is bandwidth. Licensing a binary would be a convenient work around.
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by smokeyj 14y ago
Not trolling, just setting up the spike for a pro-market supporter.
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by smokeyj 14y ago
By promoting voluntary exchange, you're really talking about free markets and free enterprise -- but that isn't the only solution. Coercive exchange is a popular economic model that is rather prolific in the academic circles. Why should any
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by smokeyj 14y ago
Dealing with inconsistent API's across browsers.
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by smokeyj 14y ago
This is like saying people should avoid jquery because everything jquery does can be done with javascript. Some of us enjoy the convenience of not dealing with hacks.
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by smokeyj 14y ago
Does this mean the Fed owns a bunch of houses around the country? How exactly do they target mortgage rates?
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by smokeyj 14y ago
Where are moderate muslims at times like these? Probably busy not killing people and making a living. If moderate muslims had anything to say about this topic, how would you know about it? Honestly, is there a TV channel for moderates that

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