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by dabrowski 12y ago
Where is "Try this search on:" box that used to be on the right hand side? I found it extremely useful. Also the dropdown in search button that allowed to, say, sort the results by date. (I often forget query parameters) Overall I
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by dabrowski 12y ago
> As long as a more equal distribution of wealth would reduce suffering, we can certainly consider wealth inequality harmful. First you would need to prove that. Consider a world with perfect income equality. In such a world, there is no
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by dabrowski 12y ago
> (something that I've often thought might work pretty well for programmers) As long as it's voluntary of course.
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by dabrowski 12y ago
Perhaps. Some things are hard to copy though and would take time to reproduce by others (if ever). And how do you know it would result in a net loss for consumers? I guess by assuming that iPhone's form factor would not get invented, i
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by dabrowski 12y ago
More competition is always good. Also, if iPhone's form factor is actually better, then it would only benefit customers if other companies would adopt it.
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by dabrowski 13y ago
He obviously did use violence. However, are you suggesting that you need government violence to minimize goverment's involvement in economy?
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by dabrowski 13y ago
And now think that quite the opposite idea, the post Pinochet free market economy, was what made Chile the richest country in South America. As a rule of thumb, good intentions bring very bad results if you need government violence to imple
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by dabrowski 13y ago
I, for one, do not believe in intellectual property. Information not being rare commodity, it makes no sense to artificially limit it's supply by issuing state enforced monopolies. That actually infringes on actual property such as a h
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by dabrowski 13y ago
This reminds me of Lockhart's Lament, which I highly recommend reading http://www.maa.org/sites/default/files/pdf/devlin/LockhartsL...
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by dabrowski 13y ago
"Zimbabwe suffered from the second worst hyperinflation on record; it reached an absurd 231,000,000% in the summer of 2008. That means that the price of goods doubled every 25 hours." Unless the hyperinflation lasted only about 3