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by pgayed 6y ago
> a "private exchange" of your life for your stuff? What stops you from attempting that now? Consequences. You're assuming you would not also be putting your life at risk attempting to do so? (I'm not talking about st
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by pgayed 6y ago
One of Cameron Diaz’s best performances. I forget how talented she is because of how often she gets cast as “the girl in the red dress.”
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by pgayed 6y ago
You don’t need a state to enforce property rights. Humans do that all their own. Humans defend—and invade—land they wish to occupy. If such notions as private property emerge, I reckon it’s because the benefits of the idea are greater than
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by pgayed 6y ago
Capitalism is an emergent phenomenon. It is not “instituted” or enforced by any party or organization, though its practice may be supported or suppressed by them. It is the naturalᵃ consequence of private exchange . So long as two, conse
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by pgayed 6y ago
“Hi. I find the opinion you're expressing here abhorrent. People can't take care of themselves, learn, grow or adapt. We need government to protect them from the wolves in our society. I will be downvoting you now. Thank you.”
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Release 1.0 back issues (1983–2006)(radar.oreilly.com)
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by pgayed 6y ago
> Esther Dyson edited Release 1.0 from 1983 to November 2006, when O'Reilly acquired the newsletter and updated it to Release 2.0. It is our great pleasure to offer, free of charge, electronic versions of all back issues of Release
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by pgayed 6y ago
> But had Morris broken federal law? Turns out, he had. Can't argue with that airtight legal logic!
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The Morris Worm: 30 Years Since First Major Attack on the Internet (2018)(fbi.gov)
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by pgayed 6y ago
The thing that reveals the most about voter bias on hn is that the thread that spawned the most replies has a source comment with score = 0. (It would have been less than zero if not retracted.)
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by pgayed 6y ago
You cannot "cheat" and "steal" your way to massive wealth because those are forms of leakage on the primary pile. (You can only cheat, steal and siphon from piles of money people submit for services they desire—even if
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by pgayed 6y ago
No response to be seen. Just downvoting.
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by pgayed 6y ago
> the core goal is to do good and not to get as rich as quickly as possible How can you "get rich" without doing good? > which seems to be an operating principle of most private enterprises How else could private enterprises
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by pgayed 6y ago
Please point me to the facts being presented in this thread. Nearly every comment is voicing opinion. There's no data in the commentary.
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by pgayed 6y ago
Is the following not a serious attempt at a contribution? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25411636
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by pgayed 6y ago
If I recall, fraud and bribery were indeed issues at Standard & Poor’s and Moody’s. Not going to argue that. > good thing about government agencies is that they're not driven by greed So what are they driven by? And how do you k
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by pgayed 6y ago
So, are you suggesting for every transaction between two parties there should be a third to make sure it's all kosher?
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by pgayed 6y ago
Thank you. I am getting destroyed in this thread. I thought this was hacker news. I don't understand the level of confidence being accorded here to centralizing bodies.
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by pgayed 6y ago
I don't mean to be glib, and I am rapidly hemorrhaging rep points here by continuing, but the players will always be more athletic than the referees. (And there will always be more of them because the latter’s existence is derivative o
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by pgayed 6y ago
I fail to see how regulation of regulators is somehow invulnerable to the same failures it is trying to preclude.
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by pgayed 6y ago
According to Google cache and archive.today[0] this was available as of 12 December 2020. [0]: https://archive.vn/ExLUg
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Northwestern 404s emeritus listing for Joseph Epstein(english.northwestern.edu)
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by pgayed 6y ago
No, I'm assuming some minority of screwed users will build instead of "destroy". Building something fixes knowledge and know-how into something others can benefit from, at scale. Destruction does not scale. People do not
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by pgayed 6y ago
You're assuming consumer intelligence is a static property. You're also arguing a false dichotomy. (“Either taxpayers have to get smart, which they aren't, or we have to use regulators.”) Getting screwed is part of any learni
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by pgayed 6y ago
Then you shouldn't entrust your money to that business. The problem is the false sense of safety implied by regulatory control. Rather than inducing market incentives for transparency and increasing consumer intelligence over time, r
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by pgayed 6y ago
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by pgayed 6y ago
? It is coercion. But not all coercion is criminal.
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by pgayed 6y ago
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by pgayed 6y ago
First sentence: > Regulation needs effective supervision So, the regulation needs regulation. Great. Hold tight, folks, it's turtles all the way down.
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by pgayed 6y ago
It’s that second part. “I’m going to do x if you don’t y.” He’s under no obligation to disclose. But the second part is coercion. x itself might also constitute a crime.

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