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by tn13 10y ago
That is why the word "maybe". Of course given the way China works miffing the government actually means an existential threat. Unlike American who take for granted things like trial by jury, protection from cruel punishment, unaut
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> Only in theory. Not really. For example you can create a startup that might help banks find dependable borrowers more effectively than FICO and you can totally decimate FICO. When I arrived in this country and wanted to borrow to buy a
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It only strengthens by argument. FDA saved people from Thalidomide ? What about over 100K people who lost their life because FDA delayed approval of Provenge and many other life saving drugs ? What about the near monopoly that FDA has grant
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FICO is by private companies to measure your financial discipline if you want to borrow from them. You can continue to exist without opting in into FICO. China's score is by government and it determines your mere existence. May be you
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> Regulation creates the trust that's essential for any economic activity. At the moment that seems completely false to me. I don't remember a single time I took any government regulation seriously. For example I take my mechan
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> ...mostly by regulation, right? Mostly by bad reviews, lawsuites and bad PR. One good example of this is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide While everyone thinks that it was an evil pharma that should have
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Magnet companies do not benefit when a child dies. On the contrary it can put all their business at total risk. Magnet companies are more likely to care about their customers than government caring about my child. > We don't sell fi
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I can least a zillion things on earth that can kill little children but parents might leave those things around. When I was a child I put a hairpin inside power socket and had caught a poisonous snake in the backyard. I don't think it
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Thanks for pointing out the threat. It was not immediately clear to me why anyone would ban magnets. I hope people who make toys out of those come up with clever ways to educate parents about their danger.
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Bullies are cowards. That lesson from school is generally true for bullies in real world too. Government is just that coward bully. True that US government's tyranny has been rise year on year under leadership of presidents of all poli
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An we will arrest you for obstructing arrest.
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> Software development, already dominated by tech behemoths, will become completely out of reach of small development teams simply because the regulatory burden is so high. I think what will prevent the above from happening is inability
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> healthcare is free to the patient at the point of delivery Sure I can offer you an rotten apple for free as the ONLY choice and claim you are getting a free apple. But that is not any better than USA where government mandates the floor
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I am not from USA and there is no country where politicians have achieved that. If they had wouldnt Americans move to those countries instead ?
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> Sure, no problem with pollution and exhausting farmland etc... None at all. > Citation needed. More toys != "much better life". Are you kidding ? I would rather be an average working man in USA in 2016 than a rich guy in 1
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> Comedy Central censors dramas because they choose not to show dramas. Yes that is my point. It is indeed and absurd way to look at it yet the underlying principle is the same i.e. a business selecting only specific type of things to sh
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This sort of comment actually vindicates my stand. Whatever I said was sarcastic, perfectly civil and closer to facts yet (what I believe to be) a reasonable person like you downvoted, flagged and attributed motives.
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Why is a Hispanic lady selling her home made dish is subject to regulation and jail term ?
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> If you don't like the deal, Facebook is not a right, and you can choose to not use Facebook or not, depending on your morals. No one in their right mind thinks Facebook policy's are their rights. Facebook can openly start cen
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> Oil producing countries and their citizens are usually royally fucked over Mostly fucked up by politicians. Nothing to do with the fact that people on Oil rigs and me both willing to co-operate. > Ways of living (farmland, hunting s
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This is BS.
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I am always fascinated by the fact that in a remote village in India I am eating with a disposable spoon which I deem cheaper than wasting 10 seconds washing a steel spoon. That disposable spoon comes from a local shop which buys it from a
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Milton Friedman's book "Free To Choose" opens with a reference to this essay. At the core of it is the idea that Human beings indeed co-operate and help each other at a massive scale that what we might perceive individually.
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'Fake News' Is Easier to Trace and Debunk Than Ever Before(reason.com)
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A lot of tax evasion is because of the complexity of Tax code. If you are in Mumbai and if you are selling an assembled PC you have to pay around 10 different taxes and 2 cess. The NDA government has finally come up with GST which will repl
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This article stinks of bias.
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I am unable to see the logic here. Fox news continues to support diversity of opinion lot more than CNN or ABC. The author in question was a consumer reporter with ABC who was fired once he started changing his own opinions based on evidenc
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There are large number of people who have seen faults with the examinations as well as conclusions and most certainly the implementations. > is the international community declaring that this is the case. Politicians not the people thems
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Visit CNN.com or read Paul Krugman's Columns.
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> These people are honestly scum, representing the apotheosis of cynicism in politics and media. That applies to the main stream media too. They too stoke fear and hysteria and undoubtedly are far more powerful and influential. Here is a

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