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by viggity 13y ago
I doubt you'll find many libertarians/objectivists who actually think that there is zero role for government. Of course we need roads serviced and a legal infrastructure to protect people from coercion. Those are things that can only really
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by viggity 14y ago
It is either Higher Prices, or ZERO availability. I'll opt for the former.
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by viggity 14y ago
regarding the first link, in which Uber jumped fares during Hurricane Sandy - People who think price gouging have obviously never given the consequences more than a moments thought. He even mentioned that Uber reported the supply of drivers
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by viggity 14y ago
WARNING> SITE REDIRECTS YOU TO A NSFW DOMAIN NAME
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by viggity 14y ago
wtf. they are a lot more than just a website. they're a front end on top of "The Members Group" which IIRC is a financial services company for a ton of banks. But to say that all they are is a website is pretty lame. Sorry you couldn't move
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by viggity 14y ago
fwiw, my crypto/security classes in college all referred to "Charlie" as a third party :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_and_Bob
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by viggity 14y ago
Non-exhaustive list: Anything to do with plumbing, electrical, networking and audio cabling. Essentially if you ever think that you may one day want an in home audio system, security system, LAN, it is cheap as hell to put the cables in the
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by viggity 14y ago
Real Estate Agents are one of those things where the pareto principle applies. 20% of the agents, do 80% of the business. Just find one of the 20%, they'll have a ton of awards (million dollar club, etc). If you go visit them at their offic
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by viggity 14y ago
Let me preface this by saying my mom is an incredibly successful real estate agent. I think people underestimate how valuable a good agent can be. They know problem signs when buying a house, they know the market and they know how to nego
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by viggity 14y ago
If your auto insurance included new tires, oil changes and gasoline, imagine what would happen to the price of both auto insurance and gasoline? They'd both skyrocket. So why the hell are we doing it with healthcare? Insurance is about shar
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by viggity 14y ago
the fcc has nothing to do with it. there are plenty of places on the internet that have pr0n (legally). it is more about american social norms.
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by viggity 14y ago
There are (at least) three "bugs" in this quiz (i.e. artifacts from the alteration). The person who made them must have a crappy monitor if the differences weren't noticeable. That, or they were just sloppy. Still, fun quiz though. Here are
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by viggity 14y ago
most tax bills have a severability clause in them, meaning that is one part is struck down, the rest remain in force. I don't know that was the case with this particular law.
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by viggity 14y ago
Serious question, can one "retroactively" move out of the state? Isn't it kind of bullshit I wasn't afforded the opportunity to move out of the state before I sold my stock?
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by viggity 14y ago
It's not clever, it is quite simple. The federal government has the SOLE ability to regulate interstate commerce.
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by viggity 14y ago
http://www.harveysilverglate.com/Books/ThreeFeloniesaDay.asp...
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by viggity 14y ago
see also: http://thenounproject.com/
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by viggity 14y ago
looks neat. can you please make the regex textbox use a fixed width font, reading a regex is already hard enough, let alone when it is in Verdana
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by viggity 14y ago
or, perhaps, they'll make sure a house DOESN'T have a gun before they decide to rob it.
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by viggity 14y ago
vietnam, iraq and afghanistan are all proof that the largest military in the world can be defeated without having an aircraft carrier. But the citizenry can't be armed with pitchforks and expect to be able to overthrow the government (see N
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by viggity 14y ago
the authors of the amendment made their meaning abundantly clear. Since you obviously didn't read my entire post, I'll re-iterate this quote: "I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and mos
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by viggity 14y ago
1. I think you mean parable. not parabola. 2. You can give the second amendment any meaning you want, but unless it is the same meaning as the authors of the amendment, you're wrong. (from another HN comment) "I ask, Sir, what is the militi
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by viggity 14y ago
the author thinks (incorrectly) that the prefatory clause overrides the operative clause. The operative clause being that "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed" But, for the record, at the time the "militia
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by viggity 14y ago
Also, Not True. WP7/8 runs a modified version of silverlight. Now, both WPF, Silverlight and Windows 8 all use XAML, but you are not guaranteed that they will be cross compatible (close, but not quite the same). They all run C# code, but wi
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by viggity 14y ago
Light bulbs?!? You can't sell light bulbs. What will happen to the candle maker's guild?
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by viggity 14y ago
the Moon is 400,000km from the Earth and the speed of light is 300,000km/s. So, about 1.3 seconds, but since you need to send a command and get it back, you're looking at 2.6 seconds before you start receiving your data back.
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by viggity 14y ago
wow. I can't count the number of times I've thought about doing something similar. looks like I don't need to now.
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by viggity 14y ago
Taxing discourages an activity while subsidizing encourages it. Do we really want to discourage investing in companies? Seems very short sighted. Also, I thought capital gains were at a lower rate because profits have already been taxed at
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by viggity 14y ago
in every app I've written since 2008, I've added an interface named "ICanHazCheezburger", it has a single property "CanHazCheezburger". I don't actually have any classes that implement it, it is just a nice little easter egg for the next de
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by viggity 14y ago
They don't have 3D maps in the "maps" application, but they do in the "nokia drive" application. I love it, I'm considering purchasing another nokia to be my dedicated GPS unit in my car.

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