JanezStupar

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by JanezStupar 10y ago
http://instituteforenergyresearch.org/analysis/germanys-gree... When they have their surpluses - they are actually paying their neighbors to take power from them. I.e. they are selling it at a negative rate. When the r
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by JanezStupar 10y ago
The point is that Germany is exporting energy when nobody needs it and is thus causing problems for the grid. France exports energy when German solar cells and wind are in a dip. My point is that German exports are peak surpluses that cause
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by JanezStupar 10y ago
Offcourse they are exporting - or more accurately, forcing the neighbours to deal with their green energy surpluses. Context matters, a lot.
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by JanezStupar 10y ago
And you concluding that insane incarceration rates are predominantly due to racism is called critical thinking?
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by JanezStupar 10y ago
Have you considered the opposite? That perchance, Trump supporters may not be all the bad stuff some folks believe them to be. And that you are being a sheep and taken advantage off, by smart Trump supporters? Just asking.
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by JanezStupar 10y ago
What do you mean?
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by JanezStupar 10y ago
How would government censorship and regulation help with the Rwandan genocide? Or would the censorship actually help the perpetrators? I.e. by shutting down "fake news" reporting about the ongoing genocide?
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by JanezStupar 10y ago
Milgram and Stanford Prison experiments show us that "ordinary good people" are the ones who turn into monsters if you give them the right incentives/conditions. What was one of major factors in bringing down the Soviet Union
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by JanezStupar 10y ago
I have put forth an argument. It may be a bad argument, but it is the best argument I have. In response - your first post was snark and condescension. Now you are doubling down with vague anecdotes and sending me to "go educate myself
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by JanezStupar 10y ago
Yes, that is what dishonest, ax grinding anti-libertarians do constantly.
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by JanezStupar 10y ago
I don't give a damn if Oracle is stupid, incompetent, malicious or all of the above. I decided to have no business with Oracle and they have no way of forcing me into a relationship with it. If, however - Oracle were a government insti
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by JanezStupar 10y ago
> This touches on one glaring problem with libertarian utopia. Their replacement for the evil gubmint is a host of other bureaucracies (giant consumer groups, a bunch of non-profits doing testing, insurance for everything, etc.) that pre
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by JanezStupar 10y ago
Indeed. But law is not a contract. Law is law. That is my only point.
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by JanezStupar 10y ago
If you are defining law of gravity in terms of "contract" then you are having some issues.
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by JanezStupar 10y ago
I am not against society or law. I am against as framing law in the manner GP did.
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by JanezStupar 10y ago
A contract you had no participation in drafting and never signed, yet you are compelled at gunpoint to uphold it. Nice spin tho.
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by JanezStupar 10y ago
I would just like to note, that the gist of the problem with Hogan is that Gawker has been ordered to remove the said tape by a court and they refused to comply. That is the real reason why they got obliterated in the end.
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by JanezStupar 10y ago
Particles are constantly randomly changing their state. Entangled particles change in tandem. As the GP said - to find out whether a particular change of state was random or a signal, one would need to compare readings from both. Readings c
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by JanezStupar 10y ago
But you don't think it's possible that all the incentives are geared towards this kind of behavior?
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by JanezStupar 10y ago
Anecdotal observation. It is a public secret amongst farmers where I live.
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by JanezStupar 10y ago
Large agribusiness do other deplorable stuff - i.e. letting cows die and collecting insurance instead of treating them, etc...
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by JanezStupar 10y ago
Because all the incentives and subsidies are geared towards big agribusiness. Small agribusinesses are hardly getting by.
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by JanezStupar 10y ago
Except that the Brooks' chief architect is a person, who has the chops to build everything himself, but doesn't have enough time. While the product manager in practice is usually a glorified secretary getting beaten by both manage
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by JanezStupar 10y ago
This is so important. We all know beautifully "designed" API's or libraries. The secret is that the "elegant" API design you see is usually the n-th iteration. Growing code is much like growing trees. The tree grows
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by JanezStupar 10y ago
And life of a landlord is all rainbows and unicorns? Get real.
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by JanezStupar 10y ago
Offering people a service of housing, without having them to deal with the complexities of property purchase, financing, transaction costs, maintenance and whatnot comes with it. How dare they!
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by JanezStupar 10y ago
Taxation at gunpoint is thievery, no amount of rhetoric can change that. And don't get me wrong. I have no problems with participating in a community. I have a problem with government setting up barriers and maintaining a monopoly on c
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by JanezStupar 10y ago
And thus you are seeking rent from those with more property than yourself. Fantastic.
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by JanezStupar 10y ago
Your lack of self awareness is incredible. How are you yourself different from the vilified "rent seeker"?
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by JanezStupar 10y ago
You are simplifying to the level of dishonesty.

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