wooter

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by wooter 9y ago
Absolute nonsense. What mechanisms? The cases of fraud or misrepresentation are just that. Not preemptive regulation like NN.
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by wooter 9y ago
and Obama droned a 15 year-old American citizen without due process.
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by wooter 9y ago
I see plenty of things in that list where i find the democrat position abhorrable. same of some Republican positions. and a lot of positions where both parties switch as soon as they're in power
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by wooter 9y ago
weird post fact times? heres a CMU taught, Cambridge written paper that concludes: "we never had network neutrality in the past, and I do not believe we should engineer for it in the future either." Its the exact condescension and
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by wooter 9y ago
this isn't a mathematical proof. a few counter-examples are easy to create. i looked pretty comprehensively at your history and i think the bias is beyond obvious. > If you want to look at this objectively you have to work to suspen
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by wooter 9y ago
reading through your history there is an obvious bias in who you choose to say this to based on your personal ideology. not to mention your various strictly ideological and political submissions. disappointing as that seems like an abuse of
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by wooter 9y ago
https://mises.org/blog/if-sweden-and-germany-became-us-state... they would be amongst the poorest states by median household income, purchasing power parity, cost of living, and gdp per capita
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by wooter 9y ago
Totally and utterly false and uninfotmed nonsense. Quite accurate if leftist policies - the failures of which can be measured and hundreds of millions of dead bodies and collapsed economies. Is Peter Thiel comically uninformed?
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by wooter 9y ago
> Why are you participating in these discussions if the only solution you have to offer has been tried and failed for most of human history? So you agree we should stop massive government programs that have always resulted in centralizat
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by wooter 9y ago
and shit on the environment. this comment thread is full of the exact condescension that conservatives and libertarians are sick of. People who uphold the Constitution and the vision of the Founders are comically uninformed? Stanford's
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by wooter 9y ago
Your examples illustrate perfectly how government regulation establishes monopolies and cronyism
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by wooter 9y ago
because no one wants that. the overhead of those guarantees makes no sense given the diversity of protocols the "internet" is meant to create. people would just use faster protocols for their intended purposes. the beauty is that
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by wooter 9y ago
the problem is politicians (mostly local) who sell municipal monopolies in exchange for donations at a time when other parts of the world allow multiple companies to build/lease the dumb pipes to great success (like South Korea). its p
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by wooter 9y ago
when did the FCC fix monopolies in TV or Radio? Never. When did they censor them? Every time.
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by wooter 9y ago
as a card carrying libertarian johnson voter, trump was right.
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by wooter 9y ago
good video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6txA3pI0xJI short answer: These rules are 2 years old and did nothing good for the internet. the solution is to dissolve municipal monopolies. they do this all the time - ever
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by wooter 9y ago
any idea why my comment below is flagged?
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by wooter 9y ago
Not only top down, but 100% accountable to the government already. No new laws necessary (under Bush, Obama, or Trump). In fact, MOST Americans want to end these useless dragging wars. Really reveals how much they truly care about pollution
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by wooter 9y ago
Scary how ive been censored on here. Flagged, buried, and couldn’t answer any comment till now. I’m done with HN.
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by wooter 9y ago
so maybe we should reign in the largest polluter in history? The US Military. As a citizen, I think this is a logical first step. Isn't it fully within the government's control?
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by wooter 9y ago
really? you don't think its evidence that we invest varying levels of effort into things we care about? thusly, a candidate with typographical errors is closer internet-comment-level interested effort-wise in the position.
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by wooter 9y ago
Dumb law IMO. I like at-will employment. I would be pissed if my company was paying 14k on my behalf for something so unnecessary. I can budget my education much better than the government, thanks.
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by wooter 9y ago
> Pinochet. So just because he instituted some free market policies, hes capitalist? In no way did any capitalist figurehead advocate any of his violence. Also, what was Pinochet's body count? many orders of magnitude less than just
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by wooter 9y ago
scoreboard really. name a single capitalist totalitarian dictator? Capitalism implicitly does not incentivize centralization of power. Now name how many successful western countries haven't embraced capitalism as, at the very least,
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by wooter 9y ago
Thats a pretty shallow interpretation of history. To the degree that they did trade peacefully (free enterprise), they flourished - thus the lesson of Thanksgiving. Not to mention they were fleeing religious persecution themselves in North
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by wooter 9y ago
state capitalism is an oxymoron. NO capitalist leader/think thank/literature advocates it and they are explicitly anti socialism - which is what it is.
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by wooter 9y ago
were they legally able to switch employers?
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by wooter 9y ago
no. it isn't.
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by wooter 9y ago
none of those things have to do with capitalism. those were all acts of government and the antithesis of free enterprise.
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by wooter 9y ago
you can't possibly know that for a vast amount of situations right?

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