sukulaku

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by sukulaku 11y ago
You know laws are something written by rulers, and you know morals are not. Punishing people for not adhering to a particular law is not necessarily morally legitimate. Smoking weed is a prime example. You know those concepts are different,
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by sukulaku 11y ago
> On aggregate, I think we're past the point of "just about right" That's a ridiculous idea in the reality we live in. > IMO we need to trim regulations here and there Who's "we"?
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by sukulaku 11y ago
> Sure, US democracy is badly implemented, but that doesn't mean the idea is inherently flawed. If you believe the act of dropping a piece of paper into a box actually affects what a politician can do, I've got a bridge to se
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by sukulaku 11y ago
I'm sure you can distinguish between contracts and rights, so what exactly are you on about?
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by sukulaku 11y ago
> We don't need to; we already know how it looks like. So you think we're now experiencing too little draconian legislation then?
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by sukulaku 11y ago
> externalities are not handled well by entities that, by definition, have no incentive to care about them Entities like rulers, perhaps? You know "campaign contributions" are an euphemism for bribes, don't you? When the
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by sukulaku 11y ago
> And we have a name for contractual agreements with everyone in a society. We call them "laws". Except that no one asked us if we agreed. Without mutual agreement, there is no contract. In reality, laws are commands that we&
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by sukulaku 11y ago
> as far as I know, in the US police are never given orders to hurt protesters. In theory, they can even get in trouble for doing so. In the other countries you listed, this was official policy. Well, they don't need orders to h
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by sukulaku 11y ago
When you get downvoted on HN for arguing against freedom, you just know you've screwed up pretty bad.. :p
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by sukulaku 11y ago
> Forces are always present that create instability, so we need to continually make corrections by pushing back in the right direction. Tipping to far towards any ideology can cause catastrophic failure. By "instability" do y
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by sukulaku 11y ago
With whatever parties happen to be involved. No one knows, because those circumstances don't currently exist anywhere on the planet.
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by sukulaku 11y ago
> When Tesla becomes a affordable car seller then ok they will no longer be a company that specializes in selling very expensive cars to a wealthy niche. Another take is that Tesla is a company that's doing what it needs to , to
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by sukulaku 11y ago
> As for libertarianism - it has some good ideas, but the more extreme forms burst into flames at the first mention of the word "externality". Now correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems you're suggesting that "e
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by sukulaku 11y ago
> By "worth the price", if you are someone that considers a 60k to 120k car "worth the price" then yes. But personally I would rather not fool myself and admit I have the money and I want something luxurious. Value
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by sukulaku 11y ago
> If TPP was a legit trade treaty I would expect it to have anti-protectionism provisions Indeed. An actual free-trade agreement would be really simple to implement. Just stop intervening in trade in any way, and you'll have Free
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by sukulaku 11y ago
> Tesla is an extremely expensive car. Especially if you consider its value-to-price I'm not sure what you mean with "value-to-price", but aren't pretty much all Tesla owners in love with their cars? They seem to be
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by sukulaku 11y ago
Hasn't Musk said his long-term goal is to make electric cars even ordinary people can afford? Weren't the first Macs really expensive too?
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by sukulaku 11y ago
What a silly article. >> A lead author of the U.S. Patriot Act has some advice for European officials as they wrestle with the balance between personal liberties and security in the wake of the Paris terror attacks That implies that
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by sukulaku 11y ago
> It's just their policy not to use that data when using machine learning and whatnot to get a result out of it. So Google is like a child that wants to eat candy, has candy , but doesn't eat it? Of course they're usi
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by sukulaku 11y ago
> One Nobel winning economic theory leads to an optimal capital structure of 100% debt Too bad the theory is complete nonsense. >> The basic theorem states that under a certain market price process (the classical random walk), in
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by sukulaku 11y ago
Making encryption illegal would certainly count as "interference".
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by sukulaku 11y ago
The point was that starting the Y-axis "suitably high" makes it look like the relative differences in the values are greater than they actually are. In this case, it was done to make "climate change" look like a vastly
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by sukulaku 11y ago
> well thought out taxes that cover the negative externalities of every part of pollution so that the market can efficiently allocate investments But it's not "the market" that decides how electricity is produced in a co
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by sukulaku 11y ago
Elon might want to investigate the issue he's talking about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQqPQ0i_fl0 >> Don't you hate when Fox News and the other MSM spin-meisters use simple tricks to skew and misrepr
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by sukulaku 11y ago
I'd like to suggest voluntary co-operation instead of exploitation by rulers. It's really not that complicated.
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by sukulaku 11y ago
We can rest assured there were plenty of beatings and tasings involved - that's a big part of why some "people" become police officers in the first place. But the point is that the same thing happens everywhere. Not that long
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by sukulaku 11y ago
> There is no democracy so there is probably no way to resolve this grievance Just for the record, look to the US for a good example of how well democracy works for "resolving grievances". Occupy Wall Street protesters aired
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by sukulaku 11y ago
Are you suggesting governments "have to" "enforce your human rights"? Wouldn't that imply not monitoring everyone?
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by sukulaku 11y ago
> 1) Make mass surveillance impossible. That's an extremely noble goal, and it seems you've made great progress towards it, but.. Will the US government really just let you do it? Have they not interfered yet? It seems highly u
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by sukulaku 11y ago
Right, but I wouldn't claim it is. I'd say something like "The JVM is fast" :)

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