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by temphn 15y ago
> And it’s used in 250 countries on 750 networks. There aren't 250 countries in the world. Must be a typo?
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by temphn 15y ago
Greece (and Spain, and Italy, etc) spend profligately, Germany is asked to bail them out yet again...and the Germans are the bad guys? I couldn't understand the worldview of the Greeks, but now I realize that the grasshopper -- by its very
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by temphn 15y ago
But it's not a cargo cult if it works, or even partially works.
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by temphn 15y ago
> the founders hold zero risk There is zero evidence for this claim.
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by temphn 15y ago
goodweeds' HN profile: An old sysadmin going through a career change, spending most of my time learning Ruby, Rails and developing small niche websites as a way to fund my lifestyle of friends, family, outdoor exploration, and
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by temphn 15y ago
No one imagines him sitting around spewing racial epithets or purposefully discriminating, or even thinking bad racial thoughts, but that is not a very high bar. Orwell had it wrong. His vision of the future was, in some re
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by temphn 15y ago
The people who murdered millions in the USSR also saw themselves as "building socialism". Today "socialist" merely means a Western European country bound for bankruptcy, with the formerly[1] free market US following close behind. I suppose
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by temphn 15y ago
Interesting asymmetry: if A calls B a racist, the onus of proof is on B to defend themself, and the standard for innocence is so high that this is usually impossible. B's reputation is usually besmirched. If A calls B a socialist or communi
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by temphn 15y ago
In seriousness, the only real solution appears to be cognitive enhancement: cybernetic, genetic, and/or pharmacological. The Singularity may or may not be near, but till we get AI we need to increase human intelligence.
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by temphn 15y ago
We get to the nub of the matter. There is not a single disruptive startup that did not break dozens of laws, either in spirit or in fact. It is impossible for them not to as laws are written by incumbents and are not written in the public i
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by temphn 15y ago
Yes, disagree. Yelp reviews, Google search results, and a million distributed reviewers provide a far more robust evaluation system for quality, safety, and accessibility than a centralized, single-point-of-failure government system. Qualit
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by temphn 15y ago
The solutions proposed here are to increase the number of startups by increasing government spending/taxation and increasing extension of credit/financing. However, if the goal is to have more startups that are "the envy of the world", then
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by temphn 15y ago
Interesting. I'd much rather have root on my machines, bag my own groceries, pump my own gas, find my own books and tickets on the internet, and drive my own car. Not only is it less expensive and more convenient, it is more egalitarian tha
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by temphn 15y ago
His point is made, though, and it's a good one. This is definitely not simple "racism" as a substantial fraction of Indians are darker than the average African American or Hispanic.
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by temphn 15y ago
The thing is that people generally feel that taking someone else's money from their pocket at gunpoint is a bad thing. But when a third party, the IRS, does this at their behest then people think it is a good thing. No one would pay taxes
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by temphn 15y ago
Here is the link to donate to the Treasury: http://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/reports/pd/gift/gift.htm Group A wants to raise their own taxes, and a (much larger) Group B does not want their taxes raised. Fantastic, the Treasury's donat
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by temphn 15y ago
But it's hard to store energy and to transmit it across long distances. This is the fundamental problem with solar and wind. You can put one of China's new thorium [1] or pebble bed [2] reactors anywhere on the face of the earth, and the wa
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by temphn 15y ago
The world's most economically successful and secure states today (China and Russia) would best be described as fascist or nationalist. The socialist states of Western Europe and the mixed economy of the US are in debt up to their eyeballs a
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by temphn 15y ago
1. Government by waiver is not the rule of law. 2. The waiver was only issued because he was embarrassing them in front of reporters. 3. The waiver does not cover intra-state operations, which would mean he would be unable to get early adop
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by temphn 15y ago
Well, if you agree he's right, why not write emails to the bureaucrats persecuting him rather than argue in a comments thread with him? Looks like the head capo is Jacob Appelsmith: jacob.appelsmith@abc.ca.gov [be polite!] Emails fro
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by temphn 15y ago
While you might be willing to break stupid bureaucratic rules, your investors won't be. You also assume that these regulators are lax in their enforcement. Make no mistake, the current administration wants to regulate the heck out of everyt
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by temphn 15y ago
Sure, Aaron Greenspan/thinkcomp complains too much about Facebook. But here he absolutely has the State of California dead to rights. This is about as clearcut a concrete example as you can get of how "regulatory uncertainty" kills business
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by temphn 15y ago
Right. We can bound this by getting the total market size of the macaroni business in Russia, and comparing to public investment numbers by Milner in other companies. Does the top down (revenue, profits) match the bottom up (sum of investme
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by temphn 15y ago
How would that differ from S3? Is the concept that people would also have a better local UI on their data directory?
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by temphn 15y ago
In theory, sure, a disinterested regulator would ensure that the cost of polluting was higher than the cost of not polluting. (Another solution to this problem is via property right enforcement, by the owners of the nearby polluted properti
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by temphn 15y ago
And that comment about the Deepwater Horizon not being able to drill closer to the shore... that's eyepopping. The shallow-water GoM in the Mississippi Delta has been drilled for decades. Shallow water drilling has been dis
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by temphn 15y ago
yummy: good question, and let me preface by saying I'm generally sympathetic to your worldview. I think the answer is that this policy is pretty much directly guaranteed to increase the human capital and GDP-per-capita of the receiving coun
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by temphn 15y ago
Overall good line of thought, but a few other things are worth considering. It is vastly underappreciated just how much the EPA has retarded energy development in the US. The retroactive revocation of permits for the mountaintop coal projec
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by temphn 15y ago
For god's sake. Sidwyn just experienced something only creators experience. Namely, that creating something often leads to a wall of hate rather than receptivity. It is useful for people to know this. It's probably the single most surprisin
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by temphn 15y ago
America is broke. If you want to tax the rich you need to let them into the country. And people buying a house aren't that rich anyway. Besides, this is very similar to the immigration policy of Canada or Singapore, which also give points i

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