palmfacehn

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by palmfacehn 11mo ago
You've chosen a poor example to illustrate your case. The Dutch East India Company was a state granted monopoly. Obviously in this case, the regulations (state charter) empowered the abuses you feel so strongly about. More generally, I
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by palmfacehn 11mo ago
I always found it strange that I needed to: 1) Provide a phone number 2) Install a mobile app 3) Activate Google Play Services ...All to create an account for this "private" messaging service. After which I needed to disable locat
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by palmfacehn 11mo ago
Even more so when it is a summary.
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by palmfacehn 11mo ago
I don't think it is that extreme. The problem with the poster's assertion is that one individual's "free-market" as the poster defines it, is another's state capitalism. If the above poster feels that there is
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by palmfacehn 11mo ago
It isn't necessarily a mistake if you can scare people into clicking, or perhaps granting you special regulatory privileges. It may be unethical.
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by palmfacehn 11mo ago
It isn't enough to observe empirically how laissez-faire has increased living standards to the extent that it is permitted. It is also necessary to describe the impossibility of central planning due to the Economic Calculation Problem.
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by palmfacehn 11mo ago
The poster provided an example of poor abstraction. HTML for display, JS for client side logic. Combining them is part of the problem with other popular frameworks.
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by palmfacehn 11mo ago
More than 90% of the comments are partisan attacks on Trump. I'm happy for her win, but the topic doesn't stimulate a high quality discussion.
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by palmfacehn 11mo ago
Norway is a net exporter of petroleum. Here is a related tangent: >Norway walks back US Navy fuel supply boycott https://www.bairdmaritime.com/security/naval/naval-ships/nor...
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by palmfacehn 11mo ago
I projected my distaste for rampant partisanship into the comment. So far I've only seen one comment which is informative and on topic. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45537006
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by palmfacehn 11mo ago
Yes, many partisans are asserting that it is unprecedented. The selective omissions advance their narrative. They are acting in self-interest. The out-party hate is downstream and symptomatic. A less partisan view might find that it the act
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by palmfacehn 11mo ago
410 removed
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by palmfacehn 11mo ago
This is a second order effect of Google weighting Reddit heavily in Search.
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by palmfacehn 11mo ago
You're stepping into a distinct issue where you specify politicians or the political classes. Thus far I took the discussion to be about individuals engaging in informal political discussions. The poll itself wasn't limited to pol
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by palmfacehn 11mo ago
That is a good example of a bad faith presupposition. It assumes intent. You may passionately believe this and it may even be a popular view here at HN. However, it isn't a starting point for a dialogue.
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by palmfacehn 11mo ago
Specifically, it feels like the lack of discernment goes off the rails and falls into the chasm of derangement where people assume that their opponents do not have that common goal. Anti-natalists and population control advocates excluded,
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by palmfacehn 1y ago
I would hope that some would have the good sense to stop paying for bad services, but here we are.
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by palmfacehn 1y ago
The privacy implications are only one of the off-putting elements of the new norm of constant filming. There's something vapid and self-absorbed about everything being filmed and shared. Existing in the moment isn't enough anymore
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by palmfacehn 1y ago
I thought Netflix was a paid service?
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Strategy of Tension(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by palmfacehn 1y ago|0 comments
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by palmfacehn 1y ago
Enable "show dead" in your HN profile settings to observe this discrepancy: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=jacobin.com https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=mises.org
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by palmfacehn 1y ago
And you've yet to engage with the substance of the discussion. If you had bothered you'd have some appreciation of what I've expressed. Specifically, the futility of engaging in a partisan back and forth over perceptions of b
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by palmfacehn 1y ago
Even outside of the highly politicized articles, the tendency for editors to claim articles as their personal fiefdoms and engage in petty edit wars is illustrative. Even if you feel that Wikipedia's stance is normative in the partisan
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by palmfacehn 1y ago
I think it should be possible to disagree with some of Wikipedia's editorial outcomes, processes, aspects of this administration or any other politician. We shouldn't dismiss the possibility that Wikipedia has problems as well as
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by palmfacehn 1y ago
Regulation 1 mandates data collection, creating unintended consequences. Now, regulation 2 is required to counter the effects of regulation 1. Regulation 2's unintended consequences are similarly either unknown or ignored. This suggest
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Continuation of the National Emergency with Respect to Certain Terror Attacks(federalregister.gov)
4 points by palmfacehn 1y ago|1 comments
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by palmfacehn 1y ago
>And the ultra-libertarians around it. Here's a little perspective which might dispel you of that notion. If anything, the people you describe are willing to compromise any alleged libertarian principles they may hold for a seat at
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by palmfacehn 1y ago
Thunberg is the poster-child for Globalist technocratic management of energy consumption.
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by palmfacehn 1y ago
Name.com has always been more professional with less trick billing stunts. Easy to reach a human and they're not set on upselling you into garbage. However, if you aren't monitoring your inbox for expiration notices, you're a
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by palmfacehn 1y ago
It is a cute technique, but I would prefer if the fingerprint were used higher up in the stack. The fingerprint should be compared against the User-Agent. I'm more interested in blocking curl when it is specifically reporting itself as

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