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by whyme 13y ago
The number of variables to account for are far greater than the number of ideas coming from within comments here. I'll give you just one to try and add to your spreadsheet: When you add a saftey net and provide money to those that, oth
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by whyme 13y ago
"...is that governments manipulate the money supply for political reasons." That's the power hungry part I'm talking about. The government is not some machine that is broken, it's a select group of people within our
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by whyme 13y ago
LOL. It just dawned on me that post happy people are probably the most active people, thus best suited to do a job requiring quite a lot of work. I never seem to give pg enough credit.
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by whyme 13y ago
I think I'll skip the debate over "the size of things" and just suggest there's a significant problem with our current rate of utilization and fair distribution. If your argument is simply that we have room for optimizin
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by whyme 13y ago
Have you considered using some avg. rank threshold instead of karma for both this and down voting? or rather some blend of profile age, minimum karma, and avg. rank? I look at 1000 karma and wonder why you would empower people who could si
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by whyme 13y ago
What indication did I give you that leads you to believe I'm making that assumption? I didn't make any claim to suggest why poor nations are poor, did I? I simply suggested that as poor nations evolve, their people will consume mo
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by whyme 13y ago
I'm not sure you could to do straight math like that as it does depend on the implementation. I presume there would be corporate tax laws introduced that would re-coupe most dollars associated with employees. So a govt could craft what
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by whyme 13y ago
I don't think it matters which. We are potentially going to go from 7 billion people to 9 billion people. At the 7 billion mark we would need 5 planets worth of resources if everyone were to consume at the level Americans do, so where
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by whyme 13y ago
Obviously this is not a new idea... Twenty years ago I sat around with college mates, in Canada, listing the merits of the "Guaranteed Income" and quite frankly I still support the idea today. If you took all the salaries, propert
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by whyme 13y ago
I wish I could find the HN comment from a few months back addressing the same idea. If I remember correctly there was consensus that the US govt has enough legal power over American corporations to force their hand with even independent int
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by whyme 13y ago
I have to say, while I really like this article, I think it goes too far with the statement: "Argue with idiots, and you become an idiot." He prefaces that statement with a very black and white example of people who ban the color
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by whyme 13y ago
I've done business with IBM at a corporate level and I assure you that's not what's happening here. It's the clients whom are buying services from IBM saying "whoa, I'm using your services, but I don't w
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by whyme 13y ago
I find pg's earlier writings, like this one, to be the best.
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by whyme 13y ago
How is it that IBM would gain business? They are still an American company which makes them equally susceptible to this form of data theft. I can't see handing my data over to IBM any more than I would Facebook or Amazon. Surely the ar
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Canada regulators propose rules for crowdfunding of startups(ca.reuters.com)
1 points by whyme 13y ago|0 comments
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NSA MYSTIC program recorded all calls in a country(dailymail.co.uk)
3 points by whyme 13y ago|0 comments
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by whyme 13y ago
Do we really need comments telling people to read the article before commenting?
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by whyme 13y ago
I once worked at a company that made code to be owned by the gov't of Canada. I'm not sure if the government imposed the rules, but we did have strict rules to use Canadian word versions. Though this was like 1999 so I'd be s
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by whyme 13y ago
The the only sentiment I take from the article is that wealthy countries are open with their data compared to poorer countries, which author seems to believe, are intentionally hiding things. That does not sit well with me. I'm from Ca
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Canadian class action lawsuit against Mt. Gox and Mizuho Bank (ca.reuters.com)
1 points by whyme 13y ago|0 comments
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Meetup refuses to pay $300 ransom to hackers(reuters.com)
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by whyme 13y ago
We could create empowerment for the people. I deleted my Facebook account 3 years ago and up until a few months ago I was able to spin up anonymous google accounts when I needed them. Fortunately I have the skills to create Facebook and Goo
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by whyme 13y ago
If culturally we can get to a point where the world denounces privacy breeches and technologically we advance tools to easily expose these breeches, can't we establish some privacy standards and keep them in check? We don't need p
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by whyme 13y ago
I hadn't thought I was doing that, but thank you for saying it. I'll re-read and I give it some more thought.
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by whyme 13y ago
Makes me wonder why stories like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6107478 are so easily killed off on HN.
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by whyme 13y ago
HN is built using arc which is really just an abstraction layer built with racket (previously mzscheme).
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by whyme 13y ago
If iOS or android app development succeed, then you would be proving yourself wrong as they would be displacing the entrenched technology. It's that, or they are not real competition. I have no pipe dreams. Displacing the aforementione
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by whyme 13y ago
But not limited to them.
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by whyme 13y ago
One mans junk is another mans treasure. Looks like you're offended. I was suggesting to ditch specific technologies, not the "web" as you put it. So it's... what the web means... That I referred to.
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by whyme 13y ago
I think you're making a great number of assumptions. There's no reason we can't keep backward compatibility as long as it's desired. No one is "throwing away the web", what ever that even means. We can always p

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