HotKFreshSwag

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by HotKFreshSwag 14y ago
Plenty of artists have removed their music from Spotify because they pay next to nothing.
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by HotKFreshSwag 14y ago
How is the article class warfare or leftist? The article seems banal and centrist to me. Kicking in open doors and saying we should help poor people not go hungry and invest in education is what every politician does.
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by HotKFreshSwag 14y ago
How does this work for countries with different copyright laws?
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by HotKFreshSwag 14y ago
If you're feeling very John Galt take a deep breath. Remember that you're not a fictional character in a fictional society. You're a real person in real society where Entrepreneurs(with a big E) get subsidized security, roads, mail, water,
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by HotKFreshSwag 14y ago
In some cases, yes.
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by HotKFreshSwag 14y ago
Is the pursuit of equality really something you think of as strange or outdated?
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by HotKFreshSwag 14y ago
Economics used to be called political economics. Why Valve can't stay out of politics is because a lot of things worth doing are political in nature or related to politics. Politics is not a different sphere from everyday life.
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by HotKFreshSwag 14y ago
One way to cure this symptom of patriarchy is to try to stop being a 'troglodyte' as you put it. What would a non-'troglodyte' do? If you shrug, accept the status quo and say meh, it's a cultural problem you're functionally no different tha
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by HotKFreshSwag 14y ago
Humans see patterns where there are none. http://www.ted.com/talks/michael_shermer_on_believing_strang...
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by HotKFreshSwag 14y ago
Investing in infrastructure during a recession is what you're supposed to do. It creates jobs temporarily which increase consumer demand which drives the economy and increases revenue which reduces government debt AND you get the infrastruc
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by HotKFreshSwag 14y ago
On the other hand high bandwidth prices slow down adoption, usage and evolution for all other industries which uses these telecom services. The rest of the economy is held back by these prices. I would argue that the benefits of low bandwid
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by HotKFreshSwag 14y ago
The world does not revolve around you :-(
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by HotKFreshSwag 14y ago
A "little funding", are you serious? DARPA is part of the freaking DoD. Are you really going to criticize the government for investing in American companies of which a couple ones failed on a VC news site. Yeah, companies fail. Yeah, the Am
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by HotKFreshSwag 14y ago
Not so much two-party adversarial politics so much as big business and the 0.01% funding and controlling the two viable parties. The center-right party and the right party used to compromise. The system wasn't always this dysfunctional but
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by HotKFreshSwag 14y ago
Does anyone know what something similar would cost a large private corporation?
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by HotKFreshSwag 14y ago
“In civil cases it’s guilty until proven innocent and in a previous case I declined to give the details who I transfered the site to. They say if it’s not me, then I could easily say who it is.” That's kind of a weird legal system.
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by HotKFreshSwag 15y ago
I would call it black hat hacking, hacktivism or sabotage. I wouldn't call it a terror attack unless you feel terror when you realize you have to call your credit card provider. Lets save the word terror for things that terrify people like
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by HotKFreshSwag 15y ago
He only charged too little if his goal was to extract as much profit as possible from his customers.
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by HotKFreshSwag 15y ago
I would imagine that employees would get training for the software they use so the benefits of the software being easier to learn on your own isn't an issue for government workers or really any place where they train their employees.
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by HotKFreshSwag 15y ago
People who work at corporations have consciences. They are not run by robots yet. Corporations consist of people with kids of their own. They are human beings. They are not without blame just like the parents.
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by HotKFreshSwag 15y ago
I agree that the feedback loop between corporations who contribute to political campaigns with money and politicians that can regulate/deregulate and who need money to run their campaigns to get (re)elected is corrupting. They are extorting
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by HotKFreshSwag 15y ago
If you google it you'll find some more lists I'm not sure if the one I linked is the most comprehensive one.
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by HotKFreshSwag 15y ago
If you're one of the 95% of humans who live outside the US and Canada and you want to talk here is a list of numbers to call: http://www.suicide.org/international-suicide-hotlines.html
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by HotKFreshSwag 15y ago
Kooky is the wrong word to describe Ron Paul. Lets be clear about what Ron Paul's principles are. Ron Paul wants to eliminate the Department of Education, the Department of Energy, the Department of Commerce, the Department of Health and Hu
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by HotKFreshSwag 15y ago
Or, these "kids" understands copyright and did some economical analysis and figured out that the increased spending power that comes from the money saved by copying content at zero cost was more beneficial to the economy than any benefits g
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by HotKFreshSwag 15y ago
There's Buddy Roemer. He's better than pretty much all other candidates including Ron Paul when it comes to campaign reform. No superpacs. 100 dollar donation limit. It's in every citizens interest(regardless of party affiliation) to make m