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by temphn 14y ago
Let's say the government does the exact same thing to make money that they do now : legislate that more money is printed. Which government? The US government? Or the Russian and Chinese governments? The USG is in decline and
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Right, I knew they were separate things. I meant only that widespread adoption of Bitcoin would obsolesce both; should have phrased that more clearly. it is simply a metric that private parties have chosen to reference when setting.
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There are two responses to something like LIBOR. One response is Taibbi's, which is to ask for the US government to crack down on bankers. This fails because of the tacit assumption that the US government is any less corrupt. The second res
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It would seem to me that Monsanto's best play might be to forget about the patent lawsuits and just increase the price of their Roundup herbicide to compensate. Get complete market dominance with the seeds, letting them be freely copied, kn
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The interesting part is that the article ends with him and McClure traveling to China for a conference circuit. Did they have any customers in China? As a rough proxy for the correlation between tech circuit exposure and results, it would b
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Relatedly, the thing I don't get is why people think preppers are so crazy. Didn't Vancouver and London just have serious riots in 2010 and 2011 respectively? Didn't the US have massive unrest in Katrina in 2005 and LA in 1992? Didn't most
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Pui-Wing Tam has been writing hit pieces on the Valley for the better part of a decade. Take with a grain of salt. Here she is stalking Benioff all the way back in 2006: http://www.talkingbiznews.com/1/ceo-calls-cops-on-wall-stree... She
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Research scientists will soon encounter similar pressures to entrepreneurs who negotiate the Medicare system. The scenario outlined in the article is similar to many of the prosecutions for "Medicare fraud". Briefly, Medicare fraud is alleg
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What if you had front loaded the open salary information in the hiring process? Something like, "We have a no-haggle policy on engineering roles. In order to streamline negotiations, please only apply for this job if you are comfortable wit
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the complete lack of agency you seem to believe the people that actually live in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Syria, etc had in deciding to revolt in the first place. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/21/barack-obama-ara...
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Well, you implied in your comment below that you weren't interested in a simple "discussion of how evil a regime is". Very understandable and I agree with you. Yet the thing is that without this context Americans just don't understand why t
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I would say, as others have pointed out, that this is in retaliation to the pieces about graft and wealth building by CN officials counter to the spirit of the revolution because it could cause internal PLA dissent/strife -and
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Yes, please read the article I linked: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/15/world/15aid.html?pagewante... Title: US Groups Helped Nurture Arab Uprisings Here is another. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/06/world/africa/weapons-sent-...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/06/world/africa/weapons-sent-... But in the months before, the Obama administration clearly was worried about the consequences of its hidden hand in helping arm Libyan militants, concerns that have
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I think it's important to understand the Chinese perspective on this issue, if only to see why they do these things. Start with this: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/15/world/15aid.html?pagewante... U.S. Groups Helped Nurture Arab Upri
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Generally sympathetic to this point of view, but Lockheed/Boeing actually started this war by publicly calling SpaceX's tech into question. From Dec. 18 2012: http://go.bloomberg.com/political-capital/2012-12-18/musk-vs... The Lockhee
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Let's say this Anon's action inspires other Anons within the federal government to take in a USB key and torrent a few GB of internal emails. Then it's a huge win. Any Anons with sysadmin skills will now join the federal government (they're
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they raised property crime slightly The article shows that they increased the murder rate substantially. Moreover, most people would prefer to have 10 murderers focusing their attentions on each other than having them next door. A s
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AirBnB has, at best, a $56 million impact on the SF economy. Ben Bernanke is printing $85 billion per month to buy mortgage backed securities via QE3/4: http://www.forbes.com/sites/afontevecchia/2012/12/12/qe4-is-... QE4 is here. Onl
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By past social convention, you'd give it to him for free. He saves money he'd spend on something else. For your friend? Maybe. But most people you transact with on AirBnB are not your friends. So this hasn't really commoditized a
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e) urge your representative in government Well, there are 700,000 people in the average Congressional district. Go ahead and urge, it will do nothing. You need some kind of political megaphone (like a newspaper) to get them to liste
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But the gov't wouldn't be interceding in the minutiae of a dispute between neighbors here, they'd be creating and enforcing legislation Every new law makes something that was previously discretionary either compulsory or forbi
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The United States government is currently responsible for funding people to move into previously peaceful communities and jack up the murder rate, with zero prior review of their propensity to commit violence. http://www.theatlantic.com/ma
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How else is a citizen supposed to hold an unelected federal prosecutor accountable? Do prosecutors ever screw up? Did they screw up in this case? Getting her out of office is going to require a big push but it will send a message to every s
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How about (3), a government not run by Bush/Greenspan/Krugman/Obama/Bernanke, a government not intent on creating housing bubbles in the first place? Let the banks go bust by all means, but let's also recognize that government regulation/in
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And how many of those people benefited directly from the bailouts? The idea that banks can't be allowed to fail is the fundamental fallacy that has underpinned the last five years. Of course they will argue that they "needed" their noses in
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The press will never get everything 100% accurate, but let's look on the bright side. A week ago, many lawyers (example: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5052339 ) were assuring us that seeing any accountability for Ortiz and Heymann wo
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This is very true and your next comment is also excellent as well (re: weed vs. drug traffickers, or antitrust vs. mergers). People want the DOJ's force to be used in causes they approve of and not in causes they don't approve of. Another o
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Who defines what a hacker is? The definition certainly does not include fealty to state power, let alone respect for Obama or any political party. You seem to believe that HN is a Democrat Party auxiliary.
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One approach is to reflexively attack Republicans even when they are on the same side. Another is to consider this a rare moment of bipartisan comity; if Republicans see the light on open access, copyright reform and prosecutorial abuse on

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