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by subverter 9y ago
I agree that the existing system is completely out of balance in terms of supply and demand. Why is that? I believe it's because government has intervened in the healthcare market, and removing them will lead to a market that's mu
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by subverter 9y ago
There's a significant part of the U.S. population that wants to roll back gay marriage. What if that happened? As it is, you'd have to move out of the country. You're relying on the right people being in office/power mak
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by subverter 9y ago
No, absolutely not. You're assuming that if the government didn't mandate health insurance, nobody would step in to help those people, which I don't believe is true. Lots of different groups – religious, businesses, municip
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by subverter 9y ago
How is it more regressive than the status quo where you have to move to a different country ? Moving states is less difficult, moving counties is even less difficult, moving cities is even less difficult, etc. The smaller you go, the less
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by subverter 9y ago
What's stopping the pedestrian from either holding insurance to protect against that or suing the driver for damages?
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by subverter 9y ago
I absolutely agree that people should help one another. In fact, it's inherently built in to a lot of people. I'm not arguing against that. I'm arguing against being forced to help others who I have no relationship with, li
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by subverter 9y ago
What is the social cost of some not having car insurance?
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by subverter 9y ago
Affordable for whom? It has become much less affordable for those who are healthy. How do you justify the healthy paying for the unhealthy? And is it really affordable, even for the unhealthy?
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by subverter 9y ago
What supports that conclusion? There are lots of services – most actually, even insurance services – that thrive with voluntary participation. And the prices are driven down by lots of different companies competing for those customers.
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by subverter 9y ago
The problem in Keynes thinking on "social services" is that it's impossible to gather all of the knowledge necessary to ascertain what those would be. That knowledge is dispersed among ~320m citizens (in the U.S.) who each ha
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by subverter 9y ago
- You switch to another browser that allows ad blockers or has a good one built-in.
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A Point-By-Point Rebuttal of “Is It Time to Break Up Google?”(subverter.co)
1 points by subverter 9y ago|0 comments
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by subverter 9y ago
48 experienced negative growth in the period, actually. You can take a look at the complete dataset in CSV format ( https://gitlab.com/subverter/cryptocurrency-growth/raw/maste... ) to see which they are.
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by subverter 9y ago
Err, yes. Apparently I need to go back and learn how to count months in a year again. I've updated the wording. Thanks!
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The Best Performing Cryptocurrencies of 2017 Thus Far(subverter.co)
60 points by subverter 9y ago|31 comments
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by subverter 9y ago
The market is certainly not perfect. There is waste, bad investment, etc. There's no avoiding that. Unlike government, however, the market is much more efficient in realizing and correcting for that.
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by subverter 9y ago
I get what you're saying. It's a common view that balances the two ends of the spectrum, as you point out. There was an article just a few days ago by Farhad Manjoo entitled Google, Not the Government, Is Building the Future ( h
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by subverter 9y ago
What you quote is part of the summary of the article I critique. To avoid any confusion, that's certainly not what I believe. :) That said, both of those are good examples that I don't even mention in the article.
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by subverter 9y ago
A good topic for a future article!
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by subverter 9y ago
I can see how that's confusing. I was thinking in broader terms of the private sector with that one. Although there is American innovation happening there, it's certainly not the only place.
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Debunking “America has become so anti-innovation – it's economic suicide”(subverter.co)
25 points by subverter 9y ago|72 comments
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by subverter 10y ago
I don't think anyone here is going to argue that the internet shouldn't be open. The real question behind that – and where we differ – is how the role of government fits into that. If you believe government is inherently good an
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by subverter 10y ago
Coin Center executive director Jerry Brito: > The Winklevoss ETF proposal was rejected because the SEC found that the significant markets for Bitcoin tend to be unregulated overseas markets that are potentially subject to price manipulat
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by subverter 10y ago
I think people are much more aware of it since Snowden. And, as with all knowledge, people have chosen to respond in different ways. Some have become much more privacy-minded and actively seek out like-minded products and companies. Others
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by subverter 10y ago
I'd actually say it's relative easy to find privacy information about a product or company. Independent researchers and organizations (like EFF) are exposing privacy violations all the time. It's oftentimes just a search away
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by subverter 10y ago
Does it though? If people don't care about privacy, then government is wasting their time creating regulation that doesn't matter to people. That's not useful. If people don't know about the privacy implications of t
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by subverter 10y ago
After switching to DuckDuckGo from Google completely more than a year ago, I have to say it's quite good. Bangs ( https://duckduckgo.com/bang ) are particularly useful. Are the results as good? Probably not. But there&#x
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by subverter 10y ago
I agree that a big share of responsibility lies with consumers not choosing privacy-minded alternatives. I wouldn't write off software developers completely though. There likely are some who simply do what they're told without spe
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You're on the Wrong Side of the Net Neutrality Debate(subverter.co)
1 points by subverter 10y ago|1 comments
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DHH: Exponential growth devours and corrupts(m.signalvnoise.com)
4 points by subverter 10y ago|0 comments

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