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by firstOrder 11y ago
This is a horrible idea. The Panglossianism that will result from this is indicative of the bubble hype which will destroy Silicon Valley, Y-Combinator and Hacker News. In fact, this is the worst idea I ever heard in my life. So continues t
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by firstOrder 12y ago
This reminds me of Javed Iqbal, an American satellite dish repairman who was thrown in jail for allowing Americans access (Hezbollah and supposedly Iran backed) Al-Manar television. Actually the article from NPR, a station often described a
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by firstOrder 12y ago
> Mitnick is a criminal and all the pro-hacking sympathies have been wasted on a very, very undeserving person. Wow, he hacked into some corporation's computers, that's just so awful. Pacific Bell - a shady monopoly who is gra
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by firstOrder 12y ago
I know nothing of your family, deduce nothing about them and have nothing to say about them. However younger people often have little or no idea what happened before them. Perhaps among the aunts and uncles of a family, an older brother or
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by firstOrder 12y ago
> If you're itching to start something new, why chase the nth iteration of a company already serving the young, privileged, liberal jetsetter? Because those are the projects which angels and VCs bankroll. Because those are the peo
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by firstOrder 12y ago
Unemployment is one of the pillars that capitalism is built on, it is a structural necessity for profits to exist, so any efforts to relieve it via reform are doomed to failure. Structural unemployment did not exist in Europe prior to Euro
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by firstOrder 12y ago
The article has a tweet from someone who says: > what about the fact that 170 people died in Homs on July 19th? any mention about those "Atrocious Actions"? no. antisemite. One reason to mention what is going on in Gaza and not
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by firstOrder 12y ago
Someone telling me I need the strength to love God is not someone who is making a rational argument to counter. I can't even conceive of how to address the "argument" that I'm weak because I don't love this deity w
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by firstOrder 12y ago
The author is the president of the American Enterprise Insititute. AEI's board are the CEO's of ExxonMobil, Dow Chemical etc. Including the CEO of Enron until he was ousted. They are bankrolled by Ford, GE, Chrysler, AT&T e
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by firstOrder 12y ago
You quote exactly what I am talking about from Wealth of Nations. How is the "support of domestic to that of foreign industry" free trade in modern parlance? That is protectionism. Your paraphrase echoes what I am saying as wel
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by firstOrder 12y ago
This article goes over much of what happens, but seems to have missed the point of things. It talks about how the mango went to some backwoods provinces of China - probably not electrified, where a farmer would be considered well-off if the
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by firstOrder 12y ago
Dogma has penetrated very deep. If you read Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations", the invisible hand is something that intervenes in markets to prevent free trade among merchants from different nations. Nowadays, 99% of the ti
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by firstOrder 12y ago
> Through the years that he has been at the California Institute of Technology (REDACTED) he has in my opinion made a definite point of knowing well and cultivating such persons as the president of California Institute of Technology, the
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by firstOrder 12y ago
I am confusing nothing. Israel claims the West Bank is part of Israel, and with IDF troops marching through the West Bank and settlements popping up everywhere, it is de facto Israel, and according to Israel, de jure Israel. Can an Arab in
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by firstOrder 12y ago
> While Islamic democracies elsewhere (such as Indonesia) are doing fine, in the Arab world the very fabric of the state is weak. The Western countries and Israel have been doing everything they can for the past century to keep Arab demo
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by firstOrder 12y ago
Some of the figures Altman gives are important. There are some more: http://monthlyreview.org/2008/12/01/financial-implosion-and-... If you read that article and consult the (mostly government) sources, you&
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by firstOrder 12y ago
What promising idea is that, making a business on the basis of ignoring the laws of the municipalities your business is in, or having the drivers, who were in business before Uber and will be in business after Uber, do all the work and weal
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by firstOrder 12y ago
> In a country with little or no place to gather for the free expression of ideas and no place to talk politics without fear of repression Edward Snowden revealed that the USA was monitoring its citizens and storing that data in a way th
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by firstOrder 12y ago
* Argentinian workers begin organizing, get better pay, get Argentinian resources into hands of Argentinian people * CIA and US military help organize a coup, help kill off opposition to dictatorship * Dictatorship loads on tons of debt * D
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by firstOrder 12y ago
I take this with a grain of salt. You have a security business trying to drum up business, anonymous NSA sources etc. I take the indictment of the five with a grain of salt as well - it very conveniently comes just when US corporations ar
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by firstOrder 12y ago
Well the existence of the UK is what erected a border between the 6 north counties of Ireland and the 26 south counties of Ireland. So what might remove some borders is a weakening of the United Kingdom.
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by firstOrder 12y ago
First world problems. Decades from now, under a portrait of Lenin, this article will be one of the readings of the lesson in a social studies class.
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by firstOrder 12y ago
I wonder if the bags manufactured in US prisons ever have notes slipped into them. You don't have to go to Saks, you can buy them online - http://www.iaprisonind.com/store/c/31-Plastic-Bags.aspx http:/
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by firstOrder 12y ago
One thing people tend to forget is China lucked out in some ways by 9/11. On April 1st, 2001, less than three months after Bush became president, he sent a US plane to the Chinese border, it rammed into a Chinese pilot's plane, k
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by firstOrder 12y ago
Here are some of those peaceful people you were talking about in Beijing - a soldier bloodied by the peaceful crowds beating, a soldier beaten to death by the peaceful crowd, a tank set on fire by the peaceful crowd etc. Glad they were pea
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by firstOrder 12y ago
This person makes my point. As I said, American students are more apt to know about what happened longer ago and farther away in Beijing than what happened more recently and closer to home in Los Angeles. When and if it is brought up, the
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by firstOrder 12y ago
In the United States, poor and working people in Los Angeles performed similar actions around this time of year back in 1992. They were concerned with the brutality of the local police, and how the government was unaccountable for it. The
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by firstOrder 12y ago
From the Google NY Times article ( http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/28/google-releases-emp... ) > Thirty percent of Googles 46,170 employees worldwide are women, the company said, and 17 percent of it
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by firstOrder 12y ago
> god help us, using the output of that mind as a platform on which to build suggestions on changing our culture Why not? There's what to do lessons and what not to do lessons. From what I read in the essay he talks continually abo
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by firstOrder 12y ago
You seem not to have not only read the article, but not read the title of the article. The entire point is that not only are US children of parents with low parental education behind countries like Portugal, Estonia etc., but US children o

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