MordinSolus

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by MordinSolus 14y ago
If you're on a Mac and are rather addicted to these sorts of websites, SelfControl (funny name) can be used to block sites for however long you want after some tweaking. I use it when I notice myself opening a new tab in the browser and ins
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by MordinSolus 14y ago
What do you mean by fair?
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by MordinSolus 14y ago
> Classes are giant Current CS undergrad at Berkeley. This is the main problem I have with Berkeley. You can interact with the faculty plenty (at least in my experience), especially when you get to your upper division classes. I don't r
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by MordinSolus 14y ago
If you read the entire article you'll notice that this isn't the only "interactive graphic". Go down further to where it says "How the Tax Law Might Affect You". It pretty much covers all the bases. This submission seems to be deliberately
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by MordinSolus 14y ago
I think the act of actually paying a tax is quite important, despite the bureaucratic overhead. For the same reason, I think payroll taxes and the like should be directly paid by checks (not just deducted from pay and handled by the employe
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by MordinSolus 14y ago
> Would you fire one of them if he sleeps with the other's girlfriend, or would you consider this a 'personal matter' and not interfere? If I am a small business and only have ~50 employees, I would probably fire them. It's only a perso
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by MordinSolus 14y ago
> As opposed to jetti, I'm not sure the wife would just have found somebody else. Irrelevant. Here's the problem: "At the same time, every time I see his face, I feel like that just kills me inside." It is silly to think that this doesn
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by MordinSolus 14y ago
> But here I am, feeling normal and useless. I lead a moderate sized club at RPI, but I don't even feel accomplished for it. I haven't seen any of the job offers that I felt were promised to me when I enrolled at the school, I haven't g
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by MordinSolus 14y ago
Does is matter what the rest of the world would call it? No. In America, Obama is certainly to the left.
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by MordinSolus 14y ago
If you're so well versed, perhaps you could provide a summary as to what is so wrong about the comment?
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by MordinSolus 14y ago
For point 1, I would call that the use of white space rather than negative space.
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by MordinSolus 14y ago
Libertarian is a broad term. You have anarcho-capitalists, minarchists, libertarian socialists, etc. The least authoritarian, an-caps, do wish that everything was voluntarily. Then there those in America who I'll call practical libertarians
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by MordinSolus 14y ago
True, but those things are quite inexpensive compared to all of the other stuff that governments spend taxpayer money on, at least in the United States.
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by MordinSolus 14y ago
Tax evasion is illegal. I doubt this is illegal, as that would be an incredibly dumb move, so it's not tax evasion. > (and the shareholders) Well of course they are telling their shareholders: they must be rejoicing with the news! Makes
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by MordinSolus 14y ago
Because it's still too expensive when compared to flying. Just look at the cost of the high speed rail plan in California. Until the price of jet fuel is much higher, economically, it makes more sense to fly. I say let the high speed rails
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by MordinSolus 14y ago
And the federal government for encouraging such behavior as well.
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by MordinSolus 14y ago
> (Not least because one of it's biggest problems is that it pisses off entitled white kids like you and starts pointless internet flames like this.) > Right now all you're doing is whining. Stop the nonsense. I'm going to specifica
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by MordinSolus 14y ago
> AA doesn't correct for immediate need, it corrects for the fact that people growing up in unpriviledged environments lack advantages. So poor white folks never grow up in unpriviledged environments? You're providing no justification
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by MordinSolus 14y ago
On the pharmaceutical industry: part of the problem is the government and the enormous number of regulations and necessary steps to bring a drug (which still could harm people regardless of how many trials are done) to market. As such, whil
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by MordinSolus 14y ago
I don't think you understand what I mean by liberty. Try to not let your political goggles blind you here. > "pursuit of equality" = giving medicine, schooling to the poor I'm all for achieving the best results. I want to see more educa
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by MordinSolus 14y ago
> a) the intent of the founding fathers was relevant to today's society and b) their intent was to have a limited size of government, both of which are pretty big assumptions. Their intent for a limited size of _federal_ government is a
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by MordinSolus 14y ago
Actually they have pretty different approaches to economics, yet they end up with similar conclusions (except for differences regarding the control of the supply). And you say that like it's a bad thing, when in reality we could use a healt
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by MordinSolus 14y ago
Whoops, I forgot that Mises is the only source of knowledge about economics. Silly me. If you don't like my reading suggestions, then perhaps try a Milton Friedman youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmzZ8lCLhlk
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by MordinSolus 14y ago
> You've swallowed the big lie of globalization -- that only by exporting labor to 3rd world serfs can we enjoy the standards of living that we enjoy. At the prices we pay today, this is absolutely true. We would be paying much more for
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by MordinSolus 14y ago
Perhaps this, and the related book, will explain it better: http://www.fee.org/nff/the-myth-of-the-robber-barons/
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by MordinSolus 14y ago
> 1. What constitutional limit? The limits imposed by the Constitution. It's really not that mysterious of a document. The interstate commerce clause might seem ambiguous, but it certainly was never intended to be as abused as it is tod
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by MordinSolus 14y ago
I don't read Mises, but thanks for the assumption. The causes of the housing crisis are and were, for lack of a better word, obvious. You don't need to read this or that, or even subscribe to a certain form of political thought to see why t
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by MordinSolus 14y ago
Liberty produces far more equality than the pursuit of equality could ever achieve, if I may borrow a line from Milton Friedman. It really is the fault of us citizens that we've allowed our government to grow so large and unaccountable. Mor
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by MordinSolus 14y ago
> As to Estonia, it's GDP per capita, is only 67% of the EU average and 17% of that of Norway, a socialist country. Estonia was annexed by the USSR. It's only been a free economy since 1990. Norway didn't have to deal with that. More im
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by MordinSolus 14y ago
> When you find yourself challenging the basis of nearly all economic theories Keynesian economic theories. And look at where they have gotten us today. Saving is a good thing, despite what many economists say.

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