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by temphn 13y ago
The other bit that is glossed over in the article: the reason why these artificial prices and wages are what they are. Why are McDonalds' margins so low? Employees are triple taxed (corporate, income, and then sales tax). Why is the pr
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by temphn 13y ago
Yeah, that's very useful context. Sarah Sharp is not Linus. She doesn't get to to dictate the tone of the mailing list, and was obviously trying to publicly shame/attack Linus. One doesn't have to endorse Linus' man
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by temphn 13y ago
most actual economists Economists haven't had a great track record recently. Computer scientists have. Maybe the economists should take a few lessons from the people who've not just predicted the future, but invented it? H
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by temphn 13y ago
Taskrabbit is a great idea and very useful. Here are a few things they could improve: 1) Take a page from Exec and do flat-rate pricing in different verticals (e.g. $25/hour for Exec Errands). Doing a price auction every time is too ti
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by temphn 13y ago
one of the comments goes to great lengths explaining that those controlling the data collection are duly elected. And how powerless are they? The unelected Clapper did anything, while the elected Wyden could do nothing. The techn
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by temphn 13y ago
This is exactly analogous to covering your eyes to make yourself invisible. Covering DoD's eyes will not make these revelations go away.
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by temphn 13y ago
Why is the response to incompetence to increase funding? Incompetent businesses go out of business, they don't get more money. Others could do this job better - assuming we even want the job being done. The US became one of the most po
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by temphn 13y ago
> However, what our democratically elected government does to us is very much within our own power to change, and we have the ability to hold them to account. We do not elect the Director of National Intelligence and we did not have a pu
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by temphn 13y ago
Tone was lost over the Internet. Inclusion of "probably" was a joke: without Favreau or another speechwriter, Obama isn't going to sound particularly erudite, in the same way that an actress without makeup generally looks muc
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by temphn 13y ago
Probably Jon Favreau didn't ghostwrite this one. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Favreau_(speechwriter)
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by temphn 13y ago
"tapping overseas cables is NSA's stated mission, and so it doesn't follow that they're tapping domestic communications". http://bigstory.ap.org/article/secret-prism-success-even-b
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by temphn 13y ago
Google runs its own fiber. You want to bet that the NSA has, among its reported [1] "10 to 20" 641A clones, a tap into Google's trunk? I would bet on that. I would also bet on NSA operatives within Google, some clandestine. I
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by temphn 13y ago
What? They most certainly are exceeding their legal bounds domestically. It's called the Fourth Amendment And who even knows what the NSA's "lawful charter" is? Secret interpretations of laws (meaning secret laws) eviden
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by temphn 13y ago
Hold on just a second. Room 641A ring a bell? http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A All the pennies (and beam splitters) have yet to drop. I would be shocked if the NSA wasn't coupling company cooperation with
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by temphn 13y ago
Actually, it's the "moderate" Republicans and "moderate" Democrats who vote for extremely immoderate surveillance, bailouts, bombings, and invasions: http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2013&#x2
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by temphn 13y ago
Reagan funded revolutions in Eastern Europe and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Obama's State Department is giving arms and money to Islamic revolutionaries in Syria, Algeria, Tunisia, and other countries. "We came, we saw, he died!&
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by temphn 13y ago
Wow. Looks like you're right. The breach appears to have been aimed at unearthing the identities of Chinese intelligence operatives in the United States who may have been under surveillance by American law enforcement agen
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by temphn 13y ago
http://uncrunched.com/2013/06/11/connecting-the-prism-dots-m... See links to primary sources, including David Kravets: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/05/spy-court-stats&#
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by temphn 13y ago
Who's prosecuted? They are just disappeared via extraordinary rendition. https://twitter.com/SCClemons/status/343549654916542464
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by temphn 13y ago
Catch 22. Worth remembering that this is a secret program, governed by "secret law", run by secret police, with strong penalties (including international manhunts) for those who expose abuses. You want us to rattle off incidents?
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by temphn 13y ago
Rather than parsing the meaning of the term "direct access", this is what makes the most sense to me: that the NSA did this to Silicon Valley companies without their knowledge or consent by wiretapping the backbone in bulk via abu
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by temphn 13y ago
Rather than simply accepting this, it is interesting to think about possible technical countermeasures against our bureaucratic overlords. Could we make an open source "Silent Circle phone" using the new mobile OSes from Ubuntu or Firefox?
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by temphn 13y ago
The paper here is completely backwards. It is because of the AMA, HHS, FDA and the rest that doctors spend 30 years getting licensed. After this point they are isolated, and kept separate from the rest of the medical supply chain (drugs, de
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by temphn 13y ago
http://www.edmunds.com/autoobserver-archive/2009/09/tesla-mo... Looks like Eberhard now calls Musk a cofounder, though the situation was indeed messy.
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by temphn 13y ago
Regarding the first point, not that I don't believe you, but do you have a cite?
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by temphn 13y ago
Here is an easy answer: sum up the value of all the money laundering crime that (say) the Cyprus government protected its people from. Now sum up the value of how much the government stole from citizen bank accounts. We've outsourced our pe
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by temphn 13y ago
Go long on the dollar, we'll go long on Bitcoin and gold. Let's see where you are in a few years when QE-infinity keeps on going.
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by temphn 13y ago
spending that the private sector would not take on... The Internet would never...private telephone companies (dial up) would never...SpaceX would not...only something like a national government Note your continual use of "o
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Your factual claim that infrastructure would not exist without the government is actually not true; look at the history of private roads/turnpikes and rail in the US and Britain: http://eh.net/encyclopedia/article/klein.majewski.turnpikes
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by temphn 13y ago
The US government takes 5.62 trillion in local, state, and federal taxes from people each year, and when it unilaterally increases those prices people must pay up, renounce citizenship, or be thrown in jail at gunpoint. Where's the cost/ben

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