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by devcpp 7y ago
Unfettered capitalism would do way more good than current-day crony capitalism. In fact, many people, namely libertarians, think it would do much more good than even honest capitalism.
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by devcpp 7y ago
Funny, because you'd be wrong about billionaires too, 69% of them are first generation https://www.cnbc.com/2014/10/03/two-thirds-of-billionaires-m... So which is it?
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by devcpp 7y ago
Oh hell no. More lawyers to find more loopholes. How about addressing the root cause: the lack of competition? The way to do this is lower the barrier to entry, which is made of 100% over-regulation. You can involve all the antitrust you wa
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by devcpp 7y ago
More importantly, the most brilliant minds (and there are still a LOT of them) are working for large companies on unimportant problems instead of doing research. Academia has lost all of its prestige, and companies pay ridiculously more.
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by devcpp 7y ago
I've been a Libertarian since long before I started programming, back when I used to earn next to nothing at the Army and realized the shortcomings of regulation. In fact, I started from the lower class, never had robots, computers, co
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by devcpp 7y ago
Please don't automatically turn to socialism as the solution to this. Over-regulation is in part responsible for the crony capitalism we're in. You will find that most of these 388 individuals are heavily invested in lobbying to m
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by devcpp 7y ago
Will Firefox stop copying Chrome's features that are hostile to power users at some point?
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by devcpp 7y ago
The difference is paid in taxes.
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by devcpp 7y ago
EU has many checks and balances, is governed by Germany and other like-minded countries, and has given lots of guarantees as well as an option to leave. If Facebook decides to discuss on that level, maybe an actual agreement could come out
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by devcpp 7y ago
Then these are incompetent people who forget to multiply the cost of the ransom by the amount of times it will likely repeat if they don't refuse to discuss with abductors. It's like saying "why would we put this guy is jail?
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by devcpp 7y ago
None of this points to free market being at fault.
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by devcpp 7y ago
>Adam controls the majority of voting right to the company This alone should be a massive turn-off for investors, nevermind this kind of personal eccentricity that makes this absolutely insane.
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by devcpp 7y ago
As with all things, it's a matter of demand and offer. If a potential CEO has a choice between a company that pays well no matter what, and a gamble which could leave him out of a job and without money, he'll choose the sure outco
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by devcpp 7y ago
Why compare it to Equifax? I'd just assume it's an unrelated malicious opportunist. I'd rather compare it to JND to have evidence towards proving that it's legit. Anyway it is legit since it's mentioned on the FTC s
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by devcpp 7y ago
"at the time" Also, I see no benefit to "trying out Chrome". I use it often for a few broken webpages (blame the devs but there are really few) or on co-workers' computers and find no benefit whatsoever. Firefox has
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by devcpp 7y ago
I can tell you that I gave my best during my 5 years at the IDF solely because I knew how well I would be paid afterwards if I did well, and I got directly hired at a FAANG. I can say the same about almost anyone I've known during my s
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by devcpp 7y ago
The all-seeing eye works for supermarkets all the way to the producer, it works for housing all the way to the builder, it works for cars, it works for services like garage, additional classes, etc. There is no reason people will all of a s
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by devcpp 7y ago
> Lots of [...] desirable universities You are aware that it is their small number that makes them desirable right? If you make them all the same level, they will be equally undesirable.
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by devcpp 7y ago
Except it is. Education in the US is relatively cheap and easy to get if you don't aim for private or top schools.
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by devcpp 7y ago
Or perhaps we should just even out the funding. Crudely redistributing wealth is a historically very poor way to solve inequality (assuming it is a problem), since it doesn't address the root cause. Investing in education, in particula
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by devcpp 7y ago
And you shouldn't have to care. No one should. The very fact that this exists and that we are expected to trust it is very disappointing.
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by devcpp 7y ago
I just installed some random googleapis link. This is so stupid, and very disappointing from Mozilla.
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by devcpp 7y ago
If you have been in Israel you know that Tel Aviv is as much a warzone as NYC, and much less than Paris. Though, something has to be added for context: 95% of people in Israel walking around with weapons are soldiers. So of course you feel
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by devcpp 8y ago
It's insanely easy for a program to recognize individual digits and then type them out. Saying a name would also be trivial (recorded, generated, etc). Audio captchas have existed for a while, they have been an alternative for a long t
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by devcpp 8y ago
That's why it's a monopoly. The region can tell companies "who can make these lines (some profitable, some less) for the lowest subsidies, while fulfilling these other requirements?" Then the private companies compete, o
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by devcpp 8y ago
Oh my God I thought he was kidding. How did it get to this? And how do we solve this?...
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by devcpp 8y ago
Solar and nuclear could serve to recharge car batteries so it's not completely inaccurate. As for the battery capacity problem, the combination of more recharge stations (say, next to the workplace) and more efficient car sharing/
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by devcpp 8y ago
Exactly. As a Java dev, I can't imagine creating a dependency for such a tiny thing. I would want a reputable library. My dependency tree can grow pretty big but not nearly as much as my typical node_modules.
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by devcpp 8y ago
Well, you need criminals to outsmart criminals. I'm not sure why you need that trait in software. You're (usually) not trying to beat other programmers. So I suppose the parent comment should have added "except in adversarial
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by devcpp 8y ago
Same here. It's the only thing that looked close enough like an open and secure platform, very much unlike LastPass and 1Password, which I can't believe so many tech-savvy people keep trusting. KeePass would be perfect if I had an

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