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by Strang 9y ago
Keep in mind that in the US, the Federal Government is not the only game in town. The EPA as currently constituted is not the only possible way for our society to protect our environment. It seems to me that conservatives often make the ca
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by Strang 9y ago
A naïve application of supply and demand isn't always right, but it often is.
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by Strang 9y ago
That's not "begging the question," it's "raising the question." https://afterdeadline.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/25/begging-t...
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by Strang 9y ago
I remain an enthusiastic reader of National Review after ~17 years. What do you think has become of it?
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by Strang 10y ago
It doesn't just "lean conservative," it is an explicitly conservative opinion journal, and an excellent one. Even if you are not a conservative, it's a great source for understanding conservative thought.
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by Strang 11y ago
I for one absolutely believe that Hacker News should be welcoming of viewpoints that _some would perceive as_ racist or misogynist. For example, a perennial topic around here is a lack of diversity in the software industry. My personal opi
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by Strang 11y ago
I believe he meant that trucks need access to the business so the business can receive its stock
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by Strang 11y ago
My point about copying files is more literal than that. I'm not trying to theoretically devalue the creative or economic worth of the work. I'm saying that nowadays those works are delivered as files, which are literally free to
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by Strang 11y ago
I think your conflating my position with another. I understand that eliminating copyright would be a massive upheaval. I do understand that many companies, industries, and career paths would be drastically affected negatively. I just don&
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by Strang 11y ago
I don't understand your reasoning. There are people that risk these penalties, therefore the penalties are just?
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by Strang 11y ago
I agree that the current creative industries would probably go bankrupt. Goodbye to the "summer blockbuster", pop megastars, etc. Is that really such a vital societal good that we need to take civil and criminal action against i
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by Strang 11y ago
Well, I fell for the clickbait headline. This is a puff piece about a minor experiment extrapolated to a ludicrous conclusion. At times like these I'm glad I block ads.
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by Strang 12y ago
I work for a great company and I'm happy with my job. They also happen to censor my internet (very mildly, I should add). In fact, there are plenty of sectors where all viable positions would include internet blacklisting. And final
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by Strang 12y ago
I see people complain about waving at a four-way stop all the time, and I really don't get it. I wave people through at four-way stops all the time, for the simple reason that it can be hard to tell who arrived first. Especially with
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by Strang 12y ago
That's an oddly aggressive response. No, I was not referring to the Articles of Confederation. I was instead referring to the system of limited government defined by the Constitution.
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by Strang 12y ago
Speaking as an anti-government American, I'm against the current form of American government because it has strayed so far from the limited government principles on which this country was founded. It's literally impossible for a
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by Strang 12y ago
The concept of "privilege" is not a reality, it's one subjective way of looking at reality; one that most people don't subscribe to. This is an important distinction that is all too often forgotten.
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by Strang 12y ago
This may be wildly off-topic, but I think this kind of disconnect is caused by a modern conflation of the concepts of "society" and "government". I think society should be against these businesses. I think government s
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by Strang 12y ago
"Immigrants coming here to freeload" and "immigrants coming to work industriously" are not mutually exclusive. The general concern is that immigrants work largely under the table. They therefore benefit from the welfar
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by Strang 12y ago
Unfortunately it's not as simple as that. There is a lot of gray area between lobbying and corruption. And lobbying has a bad connotation, but people and corporations both must be able to speak to their representatives and advocate f
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by Strang 12y ago
I definitely do not have as much of a voice as, say, Arthur Sulzberger, publisher of the New York Times. And I never will. My most realistic option for making my voice heard would be to contribute money to a person, campaign, corporation,
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by Strang 12y ago
You are discussing subjective matters. You can't convince anyone by asserting your personal beliefs as truth. And calling someone's good-faith comment a "tiresome excuse" is rather rude.
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by Strang 12y ago
Neither site is "beautiful." They are both just websites, and rather functional ones at that.
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by Strang 12y ago
Your game has far too many ads. I played a few levels and was irritated that I had to close a fullscreen ad after every other level. I uninstalled the game when the first video ad was presented. I don't pretend to know much about the
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by Strang 12y ago
Your point is technically true, but you can consider it an idiom for either "maximally free market" or "sufficiently free market".
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by Strang 12y ago
"Zealotry" is an unnecessarily inflammatory term. And do you really believe that every business owner has a responsibility to run his business as successfully as possible, even if it violates his own conscience? And do you belie
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by Strang 12y ago
Speaking as an industry outsider, I don't agree with the assumption that fresh-faced app programmers have the capability to solve any real world problems. Why ignore the possibility that writing apps, new web frameworks, and "pivo
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by Strang 12y ago
I think it's a polite way of requesting that emails not use garish fonts and colors. Just imagine how many submissions he must get in illegible "handwriting" fonts.
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by Strang 12y ago
I'm not sure why you assume that removing the union will result in all pilots making a pittance. I am not in a union, yet I make more than $16,000.
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by Strang 12y ago
I have a very specific question about starting out on SICP. A few months back, I worked through roughly half the exercises in the book. I got stuck on 2.2.4 (a picture language)[1] and was unable to run any of the examples or test any of

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