gragas

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by gragas 9y ago
Am I wrong? Is there not strife in the US between ethnic groups? Does Japan not have the one of the lowest crime rates in the world?
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by gragas 9y ago
>It's easy to say that we should take every opportunity we can to fight Nazis. That seems to be the meme of the decade. Do you think all republicans are Nazis too? You're living in a bubble. Think for yourself.
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by gragas 9y ago
The subtitle is misleading. >How a tiny country with high government spending bred a large number of vibrant young businesses The article then goes on to attribute almost all of Sweden's success to deregulation and anti-monopoly law
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by gragas 9y ago
The problem isn't taxation. The problem is Orwellian control over yet another major part of everyday life.
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by gragas 9y ago
>large amount of regulations that are involved with gambling, due to how addictive and potentially harmful it is. Regulation in the gambling industry is not there to protect you. It's there to enforce monopoly.
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by gragas 9y ago
I'm glad we're not a tech savvy state. A huge portion of the people I've met in tech are class-A douche bags. They are obsessed with salary, or the fact that they work for X instead of Y. They are extremely elitist. All of
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by gragas 9y ago
There is obviously a gradient of how impactful laws are on businesses. Federally insuring speculative businesses directly affects who wins and who loses in an industry. On the other hand, laws against fraud and bribery cannot negatively aff
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by gragas 9y ago
>lobbying(bribery), capital concentration, anti-union legislation, anti-small business legislation We've learned through the decades---and especially through the bailouts in the late 2000s---that slapping big business on the wrist i
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by gragas 9y ago
From Wikipedia on the Expedia CEO: >Ten years later, in 2015, Expedia awarded him $90 million worth of stock options as part of a long-term employment agreement, stating he would stay until 2020.
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by gragas 9y ago
I'm probably too harsh, but I can't think of a single developer who would welcome such a large PR with open arms.
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by gragas 9y ago
I'm not saying that your implementation of Git is bad. I didn't look at your code at all; it could be perfect, for all I know. What I'm saying is you are not using git effectively. It is much easier to read and understand m
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by gragas 9y ago
I'm unconvinced. >Means no more downtime, no possibilities of censorship, be it from states or from companies. Wrong. >historically, patch-based systems have been very simple to learn and use, but slow, whereas snapshot-based sys
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by gragas 9y ago
This is a +19k -8k line pull request. That is dumbest thing I have ever seen. For having written something that interfaces with git, this person obviously doesn't know how to use it effectively.
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by gragas 9y ago
I'm a US citizen. Banks are very nice when you know everyone who works there.
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by gragas 9y ago
Open a bank account in your home country? Or is it destroyed by corruption and government greed?
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by gragas 9y ago
Why don't you want to stay in India?
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by gragas 9y ago
You are wrong. I am in the process of opening a business account remotely.
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by gragas 9y ago
Yes? You can open a bank account on almost any bank's website. Even my local bank in town will let me open a business bank account remotely.
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by gragas 9y ago
>and it keeps the people of Africa as slaves to the first word countries. There are absolutely people who are out to exploit the poor and uneducated, but you make it sound as if someone wants to enslave for the purpose of enslaving.
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by gragas 9y ago
Those companies shouldn't be monitoring ideologies and morality. If they want to do that, it's their right. But I will purposefully avoid companies that ban any hate speech. I've already cut ties with Google and it feels grea
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by gragas 9y ago
>the supposed infiltration of Marxism into culture and ideas like White Privilege and Cultural Appropriation You can't argue that "white privilege" hasn't infiltrated culture. An alarming amount of people have openly
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by gragas 9y ago
Do what? Is spending four years to get an Associates of Arts degree not a bad idea? Does it not reinforce poverty? Typical HN. Moral superiority; avoiding direct answers; unable to cope reality.
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by gragas 9y ago
Yes.
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by gragas 9y ago
Yeah, didn't read it. Came straight to the comments to see all the righteous, selfless technocrats on HN tonight.
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by gragas 9y ago
A very large portion of the population is poor without intractable personal problems. If you're suggesting that ~30% of people in the US have such problems, and if you're right, then you got me; the world is screwed.
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by gragas 9y ago
Obviously, I don't see people with genetic disorders and think "man, what an idiot". You can't just assume that every person you see is poor due to their life decisions. But if you do , you're right about 99% of th
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by gragas 9y ago
>Being rich is risking losing your job in order to negotiate a better contract with your boss If you have a 9-to-5, you're probably not rich.
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by gragas 9y ago
>He could face up to seven years in prison, as well as fines from $40,000 to $400,000 That's bullsh*t. He's taken off well more than seven years of people's lives and he's made well more than $400k in performance bonu
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by gragas 9y ago
Honestly, I don't understand why everyone trashes Coinbase. I work very closely with numerous crypto exchanges for a living (I write code which interfaces with them). Outside of work, I've personally chosen to open a Coinbase acco
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by gragas 9y ago
Not saying all firms do this, but I immediately thought of malicious tactics like spoofing.

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