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by syshum 5y ago
I think you need to prove your claim that rnd would not work with out strong IP law. or that innovation would stop because of it In reality we have TONS of examples of competition and rnd coming AFTER something loses IP protection Everythin
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by syshum 5y ago
The problem here is we have an example in history of how this pays out... the POTS phone system. As more and more people moved off of POTS to wireless carries, the cost to maintain the system went up, and the willingness of the telco;s to
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by syshum 5y ago
I dont know much about all of the CEO's of AMD. However the grandparent comment said not to defer to MBA's not that the CEO was an MBA What i have seen in other companies is that even if the CEO is a subject matter expert, they ge
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by syshum 5y ago
I feel the latter to be the bigger impact.. MBA's are plagued by short term thinking around quarterly earnings not building sustainable businesses
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by syshum 5y ago
Because history repeats itself? Why is this even a question? Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it, and you can bet if people started divesting from the USD into gold and silver, gold and silver would be quickly ma
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by syshum 5y ago
>> you can even convert a significant percentage of it to precious metals that you bury in your garden. People tried that in the US once.. The government passed a law that made owning said metals illegal... Which was in effect from 1
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by syshum 5y ago
>>I have never met a human being who is anti–FDIC (what insures bank deposits in the US up to $250k). you have met one now. I am anti-FDIC, and really anti-banking in general, as well as anti-KYC laws, and anti-anti money laundering
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by syshum 5y ago
I would bank on Starlink and Amazon long before I would bet on TMobile who can not even get reliable service for 4G let alone think they are going to take over Home Wireless I still have my doubts that any wireless can ever replace the reli
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by syshum 5y ago
>>The incidence of recidivism is extreme hmmm >>The chances of a freed felon committing another felony are such that handing them .. a job in retail is very risky. I wonder what could be a cause of recidivism, could it be we st
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by syshum 5y ago
The ACLU Pizza video [1] from several years ago is a classic, but we continue to march ever slowly to that reality, few people seem to mind. [1] https://www.aclu.org/ordering-pizza
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by syshum 5y ago
Authoritarians are often surprised to find out that people do actually have some limited freedoms left in the US. When they see people exercising those freedoms they are often alarmed and quickly write their politicians to ensure those free
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by syshum 5y ago
This whataboutism while true is not really revelant here Further do you believe I would agree with this cancellation I do not, if a person is a danger to others they should be in prison, if they have deemed by the system to not be a dange
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by syshum 5y ago
>>>Frankly "taxes are theft" is a narrow-minded point of view Frankly the rationalization that taxation, specially income taxation is anything other than theft because of "democracy" is absurd The fact is that t
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by syshum 5y ago
It is all in the inactive ingredients not the drug. Most drugs are not just simply the drug.. There are all kinds of inactive things mixed in for various reasons. If you have a prescription and you go to CVS to fill your dog's medicat
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by syshum 5y ago
ohh please it is clear from the context of your post you were attempting to use the fact that he is libertarian and appeared on fox news as a reason one should not look at the link or consider any of the data. I have bigly doubts that you a
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by syshum 5y ago
Dr. Tom Woods hold degree's from Harvard and Columbia in history. He is libertarian and likely has appeared on Fox news but to use that to discredit him is ridiculous. He has many many books, and a popular show (not on Fox news) talk
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by syshum 5y ago
Clearly we should just cancel someone completely. Why stop at airlines. We should have a national list of undesirable people, any corporation can add any name to the list, and that instantly means you are unemployable, have all your bank
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by syshum 5y ago
This is laughably false, if the government just created infinite money the money would be worthless, would cause runaway inflation and could not be used to build anything Fiat Currency requires a careful balance of fraud like pozi scheme
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by syshum 5y ago
>> doing it at point of sale would be far more fuss One of the reasons why I oppose VAT style taxation Each citizen should at minimum see on a itemized bill the amount of money the government is collecting from them, IMO each citizen
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by syshum 5y ago
Or rather look at ways to why food is traveling more would should be counter intuative, and is likely caused by increased regulations and taxation in local area's that make food production unprofitable locally so it has to move further
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by syshum 5y ago
Where you are wrong is believing Apple considers its users customers... They do not, this clear by the way they handle the ecosystem. See a customer buys something from a company, after which they own it Apple on the other hand does not
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by syshum 5y ago
Not really. You could do Cloud to Cloud but Cloud like RAID before it is NOT a replacement for proper 3-2-1 backups
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by syshum 5y ago
That has been my pattern, I will find a different time suck. Leave Reddit, come to HN, leave HN, play a new video game, stop playing a video game, binge watch a tv show. Never anything productive
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by syshum 5y ago
>>Is it the like/upvote mechanism? Yes. This is what created the validation feedback loop, and what generally causes the social harm The like button, and the variations on it is IMO the biggest problem with social media Forums a
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by syshum 5y ago
>>that the USA would cower and wouldn't support Taiwan at all. At most that would only last 1 election cycle, so they would have to unify and hold it fast, very fast. Any Administration that would allow China to take over Taiwan
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by syshum 5y ago
>>scanning your passport in an airline mobile app to book an international flight comes to mind Why? Proof of ID would be required at boarding time, and by Security who simply verify the supplied info matches the actual ID, but does
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by syshum 5y ago
1. Depends, there are plently of Officers, and Plenty of Teachers that make decent money. This idea that we under pay all teachers, and all police is just a lie told by the public sector unions. Many of the police in my area are many 3-4
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by syshum 5y ago
>>but apparently the courts don't care The US Supreme court has a long history of disregarding the constitution in favor of legislative deference or perceived public will The 5th is just the latest in a long line of rulings that
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Also if you do not assert your right you lose them, case law about that do recently. It is a double edged sword because sadly the police view the public as the enemy in alot of cases, and if you know your rights under the law they view you
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by syshum 5y ago
>>As an aside, I appreciate like 90% of the work the police do. This would not be needed to be said if 1. There was a proper process to remove bad actors from the force 2. If we did not over criminalize society to the point that every

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