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by vedranm 10y ago
Have you read Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand? If yes, you might remember this moment of Hank Rearden's enlightenment: "He lay still, alone in the silence of his office. He knew that the meaning of his mills had ceased to exist, and th
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by vedranm 10y ago
Fully agree. Replied in a different place, same arguments apply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13955241
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You are being very naive at best. There is at least a couple of problems with current Microsoft: 1) Windows is still closed source, their OpenDocument support is broken, and Secure Boot gives them an amount of power incomparable to anyone e
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by vedranm 10y ago
I am aware of that. Call me idealistic, but I am hoping that he, like his father, also cares to spread the ideas of liberty more broadly and is therefore wiling to explain the principles behind his votes.
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He did, and that's what I find very inconsistent with his prior actions, so there must be something more going on; e.g. [1] says: "This undoes the 73-page publication [2] published on 2016-12-02 by the FCC, most of which took effe
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Perhaps there should be more freedom and the government should just do less.
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Let me correct you there: the American people did elect Donald Trump and he became president. Electoral College is the way to get elected, and popular vote has zero impact. That's why nobody who wants to win runs for the popular vote.
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by vedranm 10y ago
I'm not familiar with the greens, but have looked into the libertarians. Present Libertarian Party is an unprincipled joke; for a start, the candidate in 2016 did not support freedom of association. Right now, the party looks like a sh
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by vedranm 10y ago
Not a US citizen, but I would vote for Rand Paul if I was and had the option to do so, even in the 2016 presidential primaries. Why? He's, among the current set of senators on both sides, the most libertarian one and, despite not being
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by vedranm 10y ago
The entire Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. Three excerpts: 1. The government passes a bill which limits the number of companies a person can own, Hank Rearden contemplates the purpose of doing anything when your achievements are being taken aw
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Scientists and others in STEM should hold a particular ideology (mine)(insidehighered.com)
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Where do you see the trend of companies being politically active and taking a side in the debates happening in society going in the next 5-10 years?
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Isn't every protest about doing exactly that?
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I would say, with rise of SpaceX, some of us dream of those things again. Comments like this on HN make me think there are more of use than we think: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13706116
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It's not possible; human desires are infinite for all practical purposes and physical matter is inherently scarce. Have a great house? A car? A plane? Great... now, how about a spaceship?
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>This hate is being directed at anyone who appears to be doing better than they are of late: women, minorities, Jews, middle and upper class liberals attending private liberal arts schools, anyone with a non-STEM degree... You get the pi
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>They see a society celebrating women, minorities, the educated, the talented and crave the same. Society does not celebrate them. So that society, therefore, must be abolished. "Politics is downstream from culture" is a famous
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Unfortunately, the disagreements are not minor anymore, as you can see on the social networks and in the streets of the USA.
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Occupy and Black Lives Matter[1] have deep ideological differences to Tea Party[2] and Donald Trump. Do not trust those who classify all of those as the same kind of civil uprising. [1] https://pjmedia.com/trending/2016
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I do not feel guilty for playing games because I play them on Steam for Linux or on Steam for Windows over Wine using free and open source Mesa driver for Radeon. I report any bugs encountered to fd.o Bugzilla [1], and sometimes do benchmar
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This was true in Windows 8 times, but with Windows 10 the requirement to be able to turn off Secure Boot vanished: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/03/windo... The whole story around Secure
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I'm not sure how much you are following, but AMD is doing quite well on Linux/*BSDs (at least regarding graphics, but they haven't had any interesting CPUs for a while). Mesa 17 has just hit OpenGL 4.5 compatibility on last 4
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I'm not OP but I'm using Windows 7 for playing Steam games which do not work on Linux natively or using Wine. My reasons for avoiding Windows 10, aside from having everything I care about on Windows 7 already, are described well b
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by vedranm 10y ago
Thanks for posting this. Added to [1]. Will try running it on Mesa radeonsi OpenGL and OpenCL later. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_OpenCL_applications
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Johnson isn't a libertarian at all as he doesn't support freedom of association. As for Pauls being conservative, as long as they are not using government power to force you to be like them it's all fine in my books.
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In addition to the argument in the other comment, compare Donald Trump to Rand Paul or Ron Paul, which are the prime examples of what libertarianism is (unlike Gary Johnson). Both of them take a stance against illegal immigration and for st
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That can happen only in a society where there are no public services and all property is privately owned. Then crossing the "border" of the country is considered trespassing on someone's private property and it's up to t
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by vedranm 10y ago
Thank you for being open to a different perspective.
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That is being thrown around a lot and actually isn't true. Thiel did not accidentally back Trump and backing Trump isn't contradictory with being a libertarian. (However, claiming that Trump is perfectly adheres to libertarian pri
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There is a number of usual Left wing talking points which advocate violating freedom of association and therefore don't fit the classical liberal or libertarian world view [1]. Two more grave errors: >They know Trump is easily manip

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