stupiduser

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by stupiduser 18y ago
Anecdotally, it wasn't true of Einstein.
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by stupiduser 18y ago
"Free markets" are a disaster; without protectionist measures the United States would still be pursuing its comparative advantage against Great Britian--we'd be selling them beaver skins and acorns in exchange for their manufactured goods.
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by stupiduser 18y ago
It cuts both ways. Take a heavily state-controlled market like the entire US system during and after WWII and claim the gains are due to the free market.
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by stupiduser 18y ago
Sorry, your post is just completely wrong because this is not a market situation. The government regulates banks through the FDIC, and implicitly underwrites the insurance that is granted to savings accounts. Therefore people have absolut
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by stupiduser 18y ago
This boat is a great advertisement for progressive taxation; under more extreme progressive taxation Perkins would still have the biggest boat (which is all he really cares about), it just wouldn't have be nearly so big or wasteful =P.
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by stupiduser 18y ago
Sort of like how Joel Spolsky makes more money via the job board on his blog than via sales of Fog Bugz. Hmm, doesn't some other blog have a job board as well?
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by stupiduser 18y ago
Youtube doesn't do live video whatsoever. And yes, Justin was the guy with the camera strapped to his head 24/7. If a site doesn't make its history clear, you can usually check out wikipedia.
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by stupiduser 18y ago
Plastic is heavier than water; are you suggesting that plastic bottles degrade into smaller plastic bottles?
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by stupiduser 18y ago
>Every email I send through Gmail is Google's? No, but Google has a non-exclusive license to use it however they want.