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I unfortunately do not believe that is sufficient value in arguing about something that is so personal to people.

A president's first concern should be to the sovereignty of a Nation (economy, education, infrastructure, trade, military), and somehow, whether or not a woman wants to kill her unborn child is of little concern to me on a national level. That is something that should be decided by her religious beliefs or where she chooses to live and raise her family. I meat so many female vegetarians that don't want to kill a cow to eat it, that I can not imagine a woman aborting a baby because its FUN.

Women typically have a reason, and if we want to stop abortions there are so many pieces to the puzzle that making abortions illegal will not stop them.

If the reasons are economic, then we need to give single mothers more help.

If the reason is emotional in the case of rape and inceast, we need to be understanding to let them choose.

If the reason is medical, and life threatening, the moral lines are gray at best anyways.

If it was done as the result of a carefree sexual behavior, stopping abortions are not going to stop pre-martial sex. Heck I bet many of us on this forum are 1st borns and very well might be the result of a opps between two unmarried lovers.

It really pains me that we can become so easily divided on a topic that is so personal and so hard to be black and white on.

I really wish there were more political options than YES or NO.
http://etsy.com has a category for clothing. I'm not sure of your definition of "indie fashion designers", but since you mentioned difficulty in finding them, that might be a good place to look for new users/contributors.
If you stop paying taxes, will you also stop using public roads, public transport, FDA-tested food and drugs, airplanes flown by ex-airforce pilots, internet protocols developed by DARPA, etc, etc? Or do you want to just leech off the things other people's taxes pay?
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Seems fine to me. Fairly clear.

As far as monetization goes:

1. Charge for it?

2. Offer 3rd party services (like copywriting/editing services) and use affiliate links

3. Split advertising with publishers ?
Yes please just show up and fill in a bubble for either of the candidates likely to win. You too can help legitimize both the appointment of a president who only has support from 35% of the population, and the process of using machines which will change your vote when it actually matters!
I agree with you HexStream.
"...would absorb 96.21 percent of sunlight no matter the position of the sun in the sky..."

I'm pretty sure that's impossible, and a violation of physics. Maybe it's better than other coatings, but I'm pretty sure it's not the same 96.21 from every angle.
If I ran a newspaper, I'd have both articles already written, so I could hit the press as soon as the result was confirmed...
@scudco, you are trying to explain freedom to a domesticated person that has never experienced freedom.

i feel like i am explaining the same arguments over and over to people that believe the must be mastered or complete chaos will ensue. i think all libertarians feel this way talking to people.

for me, freedom is a dream worth dieing for. I just have not figured out what will lead to freedom.
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It keeps popping up in my feed, rather annoying
To keep things in perspective: the vast majority of Americans don't own small businesses or start-up companies.
any lock that fits a "house key" like those pictured can be opened with a bump key in a matter of seconds by anyone. taking a picture of someones keys and grinding a match is not necessary. those locks and keys need to stop being manufactured. they are no longer secure.
Hehe, my hometown is Vancouver and I'm currently studying in KW. Who'd have thought?
I thought this was going to be a plea about how to keep crappy stories off the front page.
That's been in Rails since... the beginning.
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And in Massachusetts, a question is up to repeal state taxes... what do you guys think about that?
Um...you might want to get your information from places other than talk radio.

Oh and I thought pg specifically said that politics would be kept out except for the 1 discussion/winner thread
+ Obama specifically exempts startups from those "huge" increases the McCainiacs scare people with
Exactly. Where my 13" laptop can't go, I have my iPhone. Nothing in-between really cuts it...
Forget wooly mammoths, its velociraptor time
Ha you can def offer premium newspaper themes for which you can charge.
"The second biggest danger with going solo is the loss of motivation."

I agree with this... however, there are ways to get motivation other than adding a co-founder.

For example, I find that living in my parents' basement and having them ask me every few weeks when I'm going to start making money is very good motivation. :-)
You're right. I do see myself as separate from others who vote. If I vote, am I working together with a voter who just wants to restrict gay rights? What about a racist who won't vote for Obama because he's black? These are extreme examples, but I just don't see the election as a task that we're all collaborating on.

Second, are we discussing my decision to vote, or my public announcement of that decision? Am I damaging the democratic system by publicly questioning whether to vote?
Not everything should be looked at from a dumb economist's point of view.

Unless you view the candidates as equal, or have perfect information about the number and direction of all other votes in your electorate, you vote to increase the probability of an outcome you prefer. Votes are only unnecessary after the fact.

The freakonomics guys are proud of their non-technical background but I find this lack of understanding of a game theory in such an important topic absolutely unforgivably stupid.
My mother once wrote to them "I think compulsory democracy is a contradiction in terms" Clever, but they still fined her.
Over/under on how long until this thread is deaded is...?
Your last paragraph seems to imply that you believe that somebody, somewhere is claiming this result is "real". In fact, nobody claims the theorem has any applicability to "reality", because the real world is quantized. You can't cut an electron in half. (So far as we know.)

Everybody knows the theorem isn't real. Now, I'm not just being pedantic here, because the fundamental and obvious failure of the theorem to have any connection to the real world is at the heart of one of the philosophical questions about the nature of math it engenders, along with its good friend the Axiom of Choice. While there's nothing wrong with either thing mathematically, does it really matter when anything that invokes the Axiom of Choice basically just opted out of concrete reality entirely?

Basically, I'm saying that the contents of your post are true, but trivial; there's no interesting argument about correspondence to reality to be made. The fun lies at the next level. I have no easy answers for you there.

(Personally, I have no problem breaking math into "Things that Might Be Practically Useful" and "Things to Entertain Mathematicians", especially since the latter tends to migrate to the former at quite surprising times, but many people seem to have trouble with giving such a rich meaning to the single word "math".)
How is that even remotely a valid response to that? Explain to me how you justify the attitude that not voting somehow means any of the rest of us should give a flying fuck about any problems you may have with the government?
I think you're lost. It sounds like you're looking for www.reddit.com
Those are top tax rates right? There's little evidence that reasonable increases in top tax rates have any effect on new businesses. Ridiculous taxes (like the 70% we had under Carter) clearly do, but there's almost no difference in terms of businesses started in any rate under 40%.
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By remaining in your country and paying taxes you've bought into the "system" that most of us accept as a pretty good one. You're free to emigrate somewhere else if you don't like it. I don't see anything "coercive" about that.
while i do agree that his economic policies aren't perfect, neither are mccain's, and neither are any past/present presidential candidates'.

i have a group of prominent economists and businessmen that i enjoy/follow/etc., and they unanimously point towards obama's economic policies as what is currently best for the country given the current economic climate.

i am very much willing to sacrifice a personal ideal or two if the country will get itself back on the right track. i tend to take a long view on things. short-term pain for long-term prosperity and goals is what i would prefer. don't want to see the country in a 10+ year malaise like japan after their housing market burst.

just my $0.02, though.
+ top tax rates are nowhere near the entire story. He's giving big cuts to earlier stage companies.
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Something I've noticed: I'm pretty good at telling other people where their product sucks, how they've completely missed the point, and how to do their job better. And yet I haven't yet been able to parlay that into a kickass product of my own.

If I reverse that finding and assume that I'm not particularly smart or special (usually a pretty good assumption), it follows that other people can do a pretty good job telling you where you're screwing up, how you've completely missed the point, and how you ought to do your job. And you're actually in a position to do something about it. And it's unlikely that they're in a position to do something about it. Hell, if they have more ego than self-interest (as most people do), you might even get this advice for free.
Interesting. Can I assume that since you're targeting a small niche, you're planning on charging a decent price for it? You seem to be offering people their chance to run their own Huffington Post or something.
Ad-based versus direct monetization: Which one is better for you?
It should. The commercial application (www.speedalert.com.au) that I was working on in C# back then was real-time system..and location based(GPS). The only differences I can find compare to C++ system was, the start-up time and the footprint of the app. Anyway, good luck! :)
...better still, they should give you a deadline upon which they will throw you out (in a nice way, of course) or charge rent :-)

For most people (atleast that I have observed), becoming independent really focused them and helped raise thier game and productivity^.

Nothing is as motivating as neccessity?

^n.b. not applicable to Putnam winners ;-)
I thought that the taxes were raised on profits from 250.000 upwards? As in, you pay 34% on your first 250.000, and if you earn 300.000, you pay 40% on the remaining 50.000.
Definitely. It's painful thinking back on the first times I was pitching our stuff and how irrelevant the stuff I was saying was. Even now, 9 months in I struggle to make myself focus. Constantly pitching and having people rip what I'm saying apart is the only reason I'm not completely retarded about it.
I thought the point of a web startup is to figure out ways to increase your hosting bills... :)
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What if I chose to remain and not pay taxes. Am I then free to live peacefully and not be a part of the state? Essentially, what happens when I peacefully non-comply?
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The way he defined for most of that essay, it is more proper to speak of the "Kolmogorov complexity of the multiverse". The infinite possible starting conditions of your brand of physics merely adds the K-complexity of the TM necessary to describe the possible initial states, likely quite small. (Eliezer believes that many-worlds is the only possibility for the universe we live in, I believe.)

The K-complexity of this specific universe is much higher, because it would necessarily require a description of the multiverse and some sort of identifier of how to pick out the universe of interest.
> I did find the interface a bit convoluted though ...

Hmmm... I'll have think about this and see if there's any way I can improve on it.

> A drag-and-drop feature for the front page layout would be sweet as well

I agree, but I'll defer it for now as there are probably more essential features yelling out to be included (and mindshare to be gained).

> I could really use something like this for a project I'm working on right now

Please, go ahead and use it :)
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Indeed... I've had a few arguments about whether it should be compulsory or not... If this is some kind of infringement on personal liberties and such.

Whichever side I've argued on (and I've tried either) - generally everyone agrees that having the vast majority of the population vote is a good idea, and "works" on whatever level you want to define that.
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you missed a few other points:

Startups: no capital gains taxes.

Sole proprietorships: tax benefits to offset the double taxation in the policy change.

Small Business Incubators: public/private incubator network developed to help promote small business growth and innovation.

re: the herbert hoover thing -- invalid comparison. back in the day, we actually had a balanced budget, and the increase hoover imposed more than doubled the top tax bracket rates. in addition, hoover tried to pass tax cuts first, but almost every politician said it would be a sign of weakness in the face of economic turmoil.
> you're planning on charging a decent price for it?

Yes and no. I can't really charge for the software, but I can try and charge for something else. The software is GPL, so charging for it won't be very effective.

> You seem to be offering people their chance to run their own Huffington Post or something.

Yes, but without them having to employ a developer to customise WP for them. (I believe Huffington is a heavily customised WP, yes?)
My contract with Polar Rose was just ended because the company is running out of money and time. They let go of five people to buy a little more time.

For me this was a clear signal: it is time to do my own thing. "Don’t be afraid. This is the time to choose your dreams." is exactly how I feel at the moment.
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Let me guess: didn't use enough Free Software.
http://www.forbes.com/2008/10/09/mitra-economy-mess-tech-ent...

Time for us to buckle down and admit that Obama's going to win and that angel investment is going to suffer a bit, and sole proprietorships with taxes rising from 35%->50% are going to have to bite the bullet.
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Being a Putnam winner doesn't automatically mean you're productive, just that you're damn smart ;-)
Do I have a choice? Aren't all(if not most) of the things you've mentioned government-controlled monopolies?

More to the point, though, I want these services, but I think it is wrong to take money from people to finance these services. If you and I both agree that roads, food and drug testing, transportation, etc. are worth paying for then let us get together and pay for them ourselves. However, we ought not take money from people who don't want these services simply because we do. Voting specifically obscures this moral dilemma because it is rule of a majority over the minority. Democracy _seems_ good, but it can only serve to justify theft, as it does today. If 51% of people agree that stealing from Tom and Dick to benefit Harry is okay then magically it is okay? Take care of the means and the end will take care of itself. Don't steal or aggress against your neighbor either individually or en masse. Be peaceful.
http://www.forbes.com/enterprisetech/2008/09/04/barak-obama-...
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Blu Ray players cost ~$200-250. Standard def DVD players cost more when they hit the mainstream. There are strong arguments against BD+, but this isn't one of them.
I think I'm as libertarian as anybody, but I fail to see a connection between not paying taxes and being murdered by the government. Obviously there are consequences to not paying taxes, but those would be fines/jail time, not certain death. Could you explain a little more?
As they should have. ;-)

Democracy is not the right to do as one pleases, it's a way of running society. As such it's perfectly reasonable for a democratic society to decide that the privilege of citizenship comes with responsibilities, one of which being the requirement to vote. It's no different from deciding that stealing is illegal, if the populace disagrees they can make it an election issue and push the "non-compulsory voting" issue.
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I'm with you here. Besides it being a matter of the majority tyrannizing a tiny minority (same with same-sex marriage), while I can see how people can feel strongly about it, I'm surprised they really feel it is so important that it should trump issues affecting their own daily lives like economy, health care and the environment.
Oh, I didnt realize it wasn't a web service. You could go for the gold by selling it as that I guess. You'd need the ability to use custom domain names.
I'm not sure where these numbers are coming from. Sole proprietors file Schedule C on their personal returns, and S Corporation taxes are passed through to individual owners' returns, as well. That implies they should be paying the same rate; there is no separate S Corporation tax rate. If Obama (with Congress) cuts taxes on 95% of Americans, i.e. people making less than $200K per year, then they'll also be cutting taxes on the vast majority of subchapter-S corporations and sole proprietors.

Also of potential interest on this topic, the effect of changes in the Marginal Tax Rate on small business formation in the United States:

http://www.aarongreenspan.com/filing/mtr.pdf
I don't understand this. If the multiverse is a system of a certain (appearantly low) complexity, it should not be allowed to have sub-systems like the "universe of interest" which have a higher complexity. Also, I don't see why the information which identifies a certain subsystem/universe should only be available from the point of view of that subsystem, increasing its complexity, but not the complexity of the system it's a part of.
I thought it was crystal clear in the fewest number of words. I guess not...

You don't have to "give a flying fuck" at all. But I don't think that, by not voting, someone's complaints are rendered void.
I'm still unclear on the startup capital gains thing. Startups generally don't pay them until they exit. So presumably the only people saving money are ones who have small exits? I'm sure he's still going to tax founders of the next Google handsomely.
Off-topic but is using a "." instead of a "," in number digit groups standard in some countries? I swear I see that quite often.
I have exactly the same thoughts but also think stealth-mode is bullshit.

Having just started on my first tech startup about a month ago, I am trying to go for the "be open and honest about everything" meets "release early, release often" approach on the basis that if the idea is crap, I would rather hear about it earlier and fail quickly (so I can change direction or reset and move on with the next idea).

I am also going with a hardware-based product and am still building the site (what you will see was put together yesterday afternoon as a quick draft as we work through the "presenting the idea" stage of things and refine and streamline the concept), which is very likely to change over the next month which is also a reason I haven't done a "Ask HN: Is my startup crap?" post.

"we're building this http://www.httbox.com, get ready for the storm^"

^hopefully.
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It's one of the best documentaries I've ever seen.
Gotta call b.s. here. That article is very partisan (hence the use of the word 'socialist'), and at odds with what most economists think. See both http://www.economist.com/world/unitedstates/displaystory.cfm... and http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/16/dilbert.economy/index...
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That link makes no sense to me. Not that I'm saying this particular system we are talking about is perfect, far from it, but what's the alternative? How would you like society to make decisions? After all, any society must necessarily make decisions affecting those who do not have a say, like infants and people yet to be born. Surely it's better if as many as possible of those affected have a say? (Personally, I'd like the entire world to have a vote in the US election because of its far-reaching effects, but I don't think that delegitimizes the system... entirely. ;-)

If you feel oppressed by the US democratic system, you could always apply for asylum in a country that you think better runs according to your values...
Yeah. Ron Paul went viral, but not because of anything he did. Obama beat the two greatest political machines of our age and he did it almost entirely grassroots.
Where startups = the type of company usually funded by YCombinator, at the stage of development when they're usually in Boston?

Probably neutral. At this stage, they have little or no income to be taxed. Maybe slightly negative, because it'll make the T even more unreliable (if that's even possible) and frugal startups along the Red Line tend to use the Red Line for transportation.

It could be a positive for the type of startups founded by grizzled 50 year old industry veterans, as they have a much higher income. But it's definitely a negative for aspiring teenage entrepreneurs, because Question 1 will essentially eviscerate interlibrary loan. I learned basically all my TCP/IP, C++, economics, and business strategy through that, so there's basically no way I would've ever discovered entrepreneurship if Question 1 had been in effect when I was a kid.
The good news is that in America it is not the tyranny of the majority over the minority. When you look at the population distribution vs the electoral college vote distribution the minority of Americans in this country, it quickly becomes apparent that the rural minority has more power than the (sub)urban majority. This largely correlates to conservatives winning 7 out of the last 10 Presidential elections, so truly, it is the minority telling the majority what to do. The founding fathers greatly understood the problem you are pointing to - and put many safe guards in place. Many of those have been eroded, but not all.

And to characterize taxes as stealing is utterly ridiculous. If you don't pay taxes should the police not protect your house? Are you saying that taxes should be volunteering? Maybe you should brush up on economics, but it is clear that there are somethings government has to do. Why would I volunteer to pay for the roads or the schools or the military if I don't have to and someone else will? And no person could really avoid using the services of the government.