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by CleanedStar 13y ago
> The conspiracy buffs are too busy howling in protest at the thought that their government could uncover how long they spent on the phone with their dear aunt. Let me break this to you gently. The government is not interested in your c
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by CleanedStar 13y ago
> But capitalism works based not just on what you can produce, but what you can withhold. It's a "tragedy of the commons" problem: if anyone can hit a "clone chair" button for zero cost, few would pay to sustain
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by CleanedStar 13y ago
A century and a half ago, Karl Marx said the only force outside of nature which could create value was labor. This was not a new concept, but in line with what economists before such as Adam Smith had thought. A counter-argument arose from
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by CleanedStar 13y ago
Absolutely. Several years ago I was at a company and we were hiring for a position. One guy came in, who was maybe in his mid-50s. His technical skills were excellent, he could answer any question thrown at him in detail. Aside from that
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by CleanedStar 13y ago
First world problems...right now the US is arming Syrian rebels so more Syrians can get blown to bits. You're surprised that the culture perpetrating atrocities around the world like that would also hurt the feelings of some upper midd
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by CleanedStar 13y ago
> It is little surprise then that Western liberals no longer breed above replacement rates. Denigrating motherhood is not the way for a people to last the aeons of time. I believe the future of the West is profoundly more conservative th
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by CleanedStar 13y ago
I'm an American, and my e-mails, text messages, phone calls, and I guess even this post I am making right now is being eavesdropped on by the NSA. Snowden informed me of this. The fourth Amendment to the Constitution is: "The rig
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by CleanedStar 13y ago
> you can't train people to be stars Just like you can't train people to be star athletes. Except you can. Star athletes get free college tuition. Star college athletes get sent to training camps and minor leagues where they
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by CleanedStar 13y ago
During the twentieth century, US economists promoting the values of those controlling production talked about how production was fundamentally controlled by laws of supply and demand, and economic theories thinking otherwise were silly. Yet
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by CleanedStar 13y ago
> Economists don't like protectionist unions. He who pays the piper calls the tune.
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by CleanedStar 13y ago
> Relying on Neumanns Behemoth, which depicted modern capitalism as Nazisms main basis, they argued that the revitalization of German democracy depended on a socialist overhaul of the countrys economy, failing to anticipate the possibili
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by CleanedStar 13y ago
> In a 2001 story, the New York Times reported that there were 23,068 reported pickpocketing incidents in the city in 1990, amounting to nearly $10 million in losses. Five years later, the number of reported incidents had fallen by half
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by CleanedStar 13y ago
> what professionalism means. It's less about the neckties and watercooler politics he imagines and more about treating your peers with basic respect and human dignity What planet did you just descend from? And what are these &quo
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by CleanedStar 13y ago
> [Sarah Lacy] said the BART strike exacerbated what she sees as a philosophical divide in the Bay Area. People in the tech industry feel like life is a meritocracy. You work really hard, you build something and you create something, whi
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by CleanedStar 13y ago
If technically Poland was under Soviet occupation, then technically Italy was under US occupation. There's much more of a case for Italy being a US satellite state than Poland being and independent state under foreign occupation. Ther
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by CleanedStar 13y ago
Yes. One must remember that pre-colonization India, say, the Mughal empire, included not only India, but modern Pakistan and Bangladesh of course. Not a central point, but an important one. In the Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith goes on abou
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by CleanedStar 13y ago
Yes, a VC is looking to unshackle the middle class, thank you! Someone is looking out for the US middle class, Scott Kupor, managing partner Andreessen Horowitz apparently. Barf. Who is dumb enough to swallow this? Sounds like an echo of
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by CleanedStar 13y ago
Obviously there is very little rational analysis or response on HN to this article or the issues it covers. It's obvious from the wording of the replies of those who are more sympathetic and those who are less sympathetic to those men
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by CleanedStar 13y ago
This piece is so awful, no wonder it's a Wall Street Journal op-ed...the WSJ is a good paper, but its editorial page was always screwy, even before Rupert Murdoch bought the Journal. Woolsey of course does what you'd expect - when
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by CleanedStar 13y ago
The whole essay is rife with upper class Panglossian obliviousness. Right before he talks about economic inequality he says "When I graduated from college in 1986, there were essentially two options: get a job or go to grad school&quo
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by CleanedStar 13y ago
"This trend is one of the main causes of the increase in economic inequality in the US since the mid twentieth century. The person who would in 1950 have been the general manager of the x division of Megacorp is now the founder of the
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by CleanedStar 13y ago
"The shift is occurring so quickly, and the potential costs are so high, that some fear rural China is once again the site of radical social engineering." Yesterday Detroit announced it would be defaulting on billions of debt - ju
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by CleanedStar 13y ago
The Wikipedia article is correct and covers most of it. Technically it is correct the current list is from 1982. But really the list surfaced in 1950. Another Wikipedia article to check out is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by CleanedStar 13y ago
It's obvious you've been little involved in "activism", and thus know little about it. Many things bely this, including usage of the word activism - most serious "activists" I know call themselves organizers,
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by CleanedStar 13y ago
"betrayed the Constitution. The founders did not create the United States so that some solitary 29-year-old could make unilateral decisions about what should be exposed." Actually, if you look at the Constitution, it says - "
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by CleanedStar 13y ago
Particular qualifications to address economic theory? What is this, quantum mechanics? There is a fight and a struggle over how the pie is divided up. To call the arguments around this "theories" which one must be "qualifie
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by CleanedStar 13y ago
Wikipedia doesn't have an emergency. Jimbo Wales had large ideological axes from the beginning, including topics such as who started Wikipedia. As Wales once said that conservative "[Friedrich von] Hayek's work on price theory is central
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by CleanedStar 13y ago
People can take note of this - Stalin fought the Nazis and liberated Auschwitz and other concentration camps, with over ten million Russian soldiers sacrificing their lives in the process. So who does this person say Jews hate? Stalin. R
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by CleanedStar 13y ago
From your post, I'm fairly confident that you are young enough to not have visceral memories of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_energy_crisis . Look at the picture of that line for gas on that web page. I can assure you that that
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by CleanedStar 13y ago
Engineers are underpaid. It is obvious to all of us in this respect. I'm not going to get paid $120k a year, unless my being there is generating $130k, or $140k, or more for the company. They're not hiring me to lose money. This is obvi

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