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by thatswrong0 13y ago
A lot of the criticism seems to be directed at the icons. They really don't look that great to me. Sorry that I have an opinion on the matter, you can direct your vitriol at me if it makes you feel better. Here's a redesign posted
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by thatswrong0 13y ago
Do you use planes? Do you watch television? Do you have a computer or drive a car? Do you have electricity in your home? Do you live in a furnished and comfortable building? Do you have plenty of quality food in your pantry and refrigerator
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by thatswrong0 13y ago
While a lot of the material seems to be of high quality, certain things seem particularly dubious and not very enlightening, if not ideologically driven. That guide to deflation, for example: there are far better and broader reads in econom
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by thatswrong0 13y ago
> The greatest good for the greatest number is achieved through the state. Then why doesn't North Korea have the highest standards of living? In reality, the huge increases in standards of living in the past century has been due to incr
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by thatswrong0 13y ago
> The problem is that the state constitution and politics makes it easy to get rid of revenue, but really hard to get it back. As it is quite easy to start spending but not stop. > What do we do in the long run? Cut spending. Deal w
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by thatswrong0 13y ago
> When the super-rich have all the money, the super-rich drive up the cost of living. For the sake of argument, let's assume that the super-rich spend the same or a similar proportion of their income on necessities as everyone else (mea
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by thatswrong0 13y ago
I doubt the driver was scared of losing his job. I would say that the blame may fall, in part, on the company. I have a friend who owns a business which does a lot of trucking. If they work overtime, these drivers can make $70k+ a year (inc
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by thatswrong0 13y ago
Are you seriously (and erroneously) conflating libertarianism with Ayn Rand's Objectivism? And do you honestly think that, should someone have libertarian political views, we should disregard their opinion?
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by thatswrong0 13y ago
> Libertarian fiscal policy and lax government regulation is mostly to blame. Not only is this claim entirely unsubstantiated, it's wrong in quite a few ways. 1) In the U.S. we have not had libertarian fiscal policy in the slightest. 2)
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by thatswrong0 13y ago
The negative income tax really isn't a left or right issue, despite the fact it was advocated for by a free-market proponent. The only problem I have with it is not the idea itself (I quite like it), but instead the income tax all together
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by thatswrong0 14y ago
Exactly. Banks take higher risks these days precisely because they can thanks to government interference.
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by thatswrong0 14y ago
> Logic dictates you need to start with the higher probability safety issues and start working down so long as a mitigation strategy exists for each type of event. This seems to hinge on the assumption that we should value our lives inf
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by thatswrong0 14y ago
> For real life examples, see the classic USA situations of railway and oil magnates in 19th century - these monopolies weren't caused by the state and regulations, but by lack of it. In the case of Standard Oil, the consumers benefited
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by thatswrong0 14y ago
> but I'd want some kind of guarantee that at some point the entire infrastructure would revert to public control, just to prevent Comcast 2.0 from forming. You want to stop a monopoly from forming... by creating a government-run monop
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by thatswrong0 14y ago
> a monopoly is the epitome of capitalism and Telecom is printing money. But you said earlier: > Instead, we take the tacit monopoly granted to early operators and extend that into the abysmal dystopia we live in today, one where ca
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by thatswrong0 14y ago
By definition, it is not. What is your point?
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by thatswrong0 14y ago
Ironic how? If you're going to accuse an entire industry of trying to undermine the rights of people, you have to provide evidence and facts, not just a bunch of scary words. My response to said sensationalized accusation is obviously not s
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by thatswrong0 14y ago
I guess I just don't seem the point. Car manufacturers already see that this is the way to go, which is why we are seeing more electric cars / hybrids from car companies. If the government really wanted to get cars off gasoline, why not rai
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by thatswrong0 14y ago
> the provision strips the rights of federal courts to halt the sale and planting of genetically engineered crops during the legal appeals process. Guilty until proven innocent? > This dangerous new House provision, which we're cal
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by thatswrong0 14y ago
> The post office is actually in the constitution. Yes, except the right to be a monopoly is not. I'm fine with the USPS existing, but you must let private couriers exist as well.
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by thatswrong0 14y ago
> The huge military for starters, all that money that goes via the military to the industries that supply it. Money straight in to jobs. Jobs which create guns and bullets which are fired and kill people and do absolutely nothing for th
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by thatswrong0 14y ago
> seeks to create a low, predictable, consistent level of inflation Too bad seeking isn't reality, and too bad it isn't low and isn't consistent. Unless, of course, you alter the metric that measures inflation as the U.S. has done perio
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by thatswrong0 14y ago
It doesn't seem like the game is that taxing on decently good processors. It seems like you should easily be able to do those calculations if you have some extra cores lying around. One thing to keep in mind is that even in big, 16 city reg
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by thatswrong0 14y ago
I recently finished designing/developing my blog, and I agree to extent. I think the trick is to use the minimum viable framework. I just wanted to create a simple two column responsive layout with the ability to add columns easily within t
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by thatswrong0 14y ago
There's a huge difference between banning sugar and regulating labeling. Even Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson supports food labeling (though purists might be opposed to that).
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by thatswrong0 14y ago
I think it's a bit more complicated than that. It's easy to look at other countries and say, hey, that works there, therefore it will work here. But not all governments are created equal. If the government in the U.S. had a better track rec
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by thatswrong0 14y ago
Actually, it's not that simple. Someone else suggested the book "Why We Get Fat", which is a good place to start. There is reason to suggest that what we eat is just as important as how many calories we eat. I think this book mentions that
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by thatswrong0 14y ago
This is an aside, but needs to be said: if you're going to offer a mobile specific layout for your website, test the damn thing first. It's extremely jarring to have share buttons on the left side covering up the first letters of each line.
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by thatswrong0 14y ago
The U.S. already spends more than any other country on education. Throwing more money at the problem won't necessarily fix it. I also want to add that people of above average intelligence are not well served by the high school curriculum ei