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"Libertarian ideas are revolutionary. I've been told that Trotsky once said "Every revolutionary should study chess."

The best book on chess that Libertarians should read is The Wrecking Crew by Thomas Frank, which left me certain after many years that I was absolutely no Libertarian, and more than that, embarrassed to have ever been one."

What a clown. Libertarians are not revolutionary. Second, that book has nothing to do with chess, and Trotsky's quote was literal.

This doesn't even warrant a rebuttal, but I'll continue.

"Republican Presidents and legislators use Libertarian arguments to advance policy decisions which benefit business, then conveniently forget those same arguments when it comes to issues of government debt or unnecessary military spending."

Republicans and Libertarians share certain conservative values. For what it's worth, one point of libertarianism is that the government's first job is national defense.

Ugh, this stuff is awful.

"If politics were chess, Libertarians would be trying to win by holding up the pawn, saying "my pawn has a machine gun!", and making little pew-pew noises. It just doesn't work that way."

Politics is not chess. The writer's introductory quote associates revolution with chess. The writer may want to use an outline next time.

Here's a summary: The government uses Libertarian arguments for purported corrupt scheming between itself and big business. Thus, Libertarianism as a political ideology is, according to the writer's ham-handed "arguments," flawed.

I want my three minutes back; I could've made toast.
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For impatient types like myself:

Proposed flaw #1:

That is basically the first flaw of libertarianism: If you shrink the government down to nothing and have corporations in control then you won’t have a rule of law.

Proposed flaw #2:

That leads me to the second flaw of libertarian economics: efficiency.
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economists use the term
“efficiency” differently than programmers.

You see, most libertarians think of efficiency as “Fast! FAST FAST FAST!” They think it means lean and trim companies all working to gain the maximum profit with the least effort necessary.

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Of course, at no point does Mr. Shaw prove that libertarians think this way, but that would put a stick in his spokes, I suppose, and boy, is he riding quickly down the hill of psuedo-political invective.

And as for flaw #1, libertarianism is not in any way, shape, or form, anarchy. Rather, libertarianism preaches that the government should be as small as practical.
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Ask HN: Do you criticize?
If you follow HN, Reddit and various programming-related sites, you may have noticed that much of their content is criticism of some software, people who developed it, the design decisions they made and so on.

Programmers are prone to criticizing and tactlessness. Torvalds and de Raadt are perhaps among the better known examples. I too often find flaws everywhere (not just software) and criticize.

Lately, I've been reading Dale Carnegie's classic, whose fundamental principle is "Thou shalt not criticize", and came to the realization that the criticism I dished out over the years, however deserved it may have been, has hurt my professional relations, and my career would have been much better off if I had reserved ALL the criticism of others' work.

I made it my New Year's resolution to stop criticizing, but the habit of doing this is so deep, it's like a drug.

Do you criticize, and if not, how do you manage not to? How do you deal with coworkers doing/saying stupid things, especially in programming and science?
There isn't a lot of information. I believe there are some white papers in progress. But the other poster is right: it is based on XSRF attacks and screen scraping.
> GTK/Cocoa/MVC

Did you mean MFC?
multiprocessing module supports multiple "concurrent" programming paradigms.

It greatly depends on the task but my usage of the module is in disagreement with the PEP i.e., I don't use its threading-like API preferring its "distributed" capabilities.

The main point is there are multiple "concurrent" approaches and Java-like "threading" approach is the worst for many tasks i.e., It would be nice if GIL had been gone but for many "concurrent" approaches It doesn't matter. http://wiki.python.org/moin/ParallelProcessing
First thing in your NY resolution would be then not to have a loginid 'critic' :-)
Is criticism a bad thing? If people are posting here just to get their ego stroked then there's no real point to it..

If I post something here it would be for it to get torn apart by people experienced in stuff like that. Design decisions are the main area that needs outside help and this is the best place to ask for it IMO.
I advise you to consider dissolving your partnership as soon as you can.

I had once experienced a similar situation: The business guy, who had experience in SAP area (he was an expereinced SAP-Consultant) had come up with the idea of founding a new freelance job search site, me being the developer.

Having developed a nice prototype using the latest technologies and after we were ready to form the new company there surfaced an issue: He, the business guy said that he receive the %60 and me the %40. The reason was that he has the initial idea and he thought of the business model
and the related intricacies and that he has employed all his vast (and past) experience on the target customers... and he wasn't far from truth at this respect...

However still, his wanting a marginal majority just didn't feel right, considering that both of us afforded the expenses without getting any income.

So my advice to you: When it just doesn't feel "right" then think seriously to drift apart. The numbers are just the indicators of the main purpose behind: They, the business guys want and will always want more than you as long as you are doing business "together"

And oh by the way, it doeesn't have to be running a startup , you could be doing business in other relationships, i.e. they or he might rent their office or home to you and in that case... you guessed it right: They would try to charge you as much as possible, so beware..
I get annoyed with the "start quickly, fail early" philosophy. I think it can work in certain contexts - particularly consumer web, where the engineering is often quirky and superficial - but it just does not apply for real innovation based upon medium to long term software engineering, which is ultimately what pushes economic growth in the sector. The other point about this blog post: a 16 year old business studies student would point out, why didn't you do any market research? It's uncool, often pedantic and can become irrelevant quite quickly, but it should always be done, particularly if your putting so much effort into scaling the technology.
Love the out-of-box thinking ... and the name 'PoGo'!
Indeed - and it should be illegal. The lack of transparency means that hedge funds will now think twice before investing in a company that's based in that jurisdiction.
Another reason why it hasn't caught on, is its bloated/complex build infrastructure.
Except that, in the US and UK, that's illegal. In Germany, though, where this happened, it's not. That's not a good thing for Germany.
Monetization will make or break Facebook. If they can pay investors back along with a healthy margin and continue to bring in revenue then they will stay.

Personally I don't think there is enough advertising money available regardless of economic conditions to keep this behemoth afloat. I'd love to know what alternatives those clever FB MBAs are cooking up.

How will FB Connect help pay the bills?
Anonymously criticizing things on the internet - perhaps not.

In real life, especially in the work environment or personal life, I'm convinced now that criticism is very bad for the one giving it.

Withholding criticism though is not something I've completely mastered yet.
Scam? Ivory tower intellectuals? Those are two very odd ideas to conflate. Who better to attack issues of global inequity than those who have studied and researched the causes?

Frankly, I would encourage you to not be so flip about calling such a well-intentioned and, dare I say successful program a scam. If you really think that it is, then fine. That's a tall order, though, and you'll have to do more than invoke some hackneyed stereotypes to convince others.
You're right. Zed is confused.

Libertarianism is NOT Anarcho-Capitalism. Libertarianism advocates that the government should be reduced to the minimum which is necessary to protect the citizens' rights. Anarcho-Capitalism advocates that corporations should replace government.
It's only illegal for companies though, right? If individuals do it they don't need to declare anything do they?
I mostly agree, but I must take slight issue with the point about imposing a significant cost being morally unquestionable. Microsoft, to follow the example, has gained an unfair monopoly, and has exploited such to prevent possibly superior products from reaching acceptance. Moreover, Microsoft has abused the patent system to shut out still more potential competitors, and enforce vendor lock-in (see, for example, patent disputes with OOXML). Thus, I submit that Microsoft imposes a disproportionally large cost to society for what benefits it gives, and therefore can be said to be acting in an immoral fashion. That is, Microsoft makes their profits directly at the cost of society's happiness, which is immoral by a utilitarian view.

Now, far be it for me to pick at MS in exclusivity-- they were simply a convenient example. Rather, I only mean to illustrate that the moral questions of a monopoly in technology (be it hardware or software) are not completely dissolved in an affluent society, but only reduced.
You will forfeit whatever you posted for collateral. For a retailer investor, that might mean a margin call causing you to liquidate what you held with your brokerage. There are safety requirements (imposed by the government and your brokerage) to make sure you cover the liability.

But when you're talking about billion dollar bets, you probably didn't fully secure it. Nope, you put your reputation up for collateral instead -- "You can trust us to say this billion dollar chunk of stock will be returned on time to the very minute because we have NEVER FAILED TO DO SO, EVER".

You really need that capital bit to be true because, if not, you'll never be permitted to do this again by your counterparties. If that happens, say goodbye to your hedge fund -- actually securing the size of bets you are making is murderously expensive.

Do you understand why this means you're willing to pay literally any price to satisfy the short according to schedule? If you don't, your firm is finished as a going concern.

This is the same reason why no fund family will allow their money market funds to break the buck. They'll invariably kick in their own money to keep it solvent because the alternative means ruin. (The Reserve, which broke the buck earlier in the financial crisis and was not able to kick in funds from other sources, is probably finished, even though the FDIC is now insuring money market funds.)
But that can quickly devolve into arguments as to what counts as a 'right': the most obvious examples being food, water, shelter, healthcare and education. That 'minimum' is an arbitrary line.
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Criticism, if kept in check, can be a valuable tool IMHO. Remember, to many eyes, all bugs are shallow. In a way, then, I think that criticism can provide a way of bug checking designs and modes of thought. Of course, criticism can turn nasty and destructive, but I don't think it has to. That's my 2¢, anyway.
The best solution I've heard proposed was Socially Responsible Libertarianism. Which means the public is held responsible (not the government).

So basically when pollution problems arise, for example, it is the obligation of the general public to boycott or pressure the corporation to change (instead of the government fining the corporation, which ultimately may pay for the people in office to carry out the litigation in the first place). Another downside is that the government can easily be inflated with lobbyists to carry out a corporation's dirty work.

Libertarianism by itself is flawed because many corporations will establish monopolies or duopolies, stop innovating, raise prices, and call it a day.
Ship it. Share it. Iterate.
s/Function/Functional/
laconi.ca is OSS and can't be killed. All it needs is volunteers and users, and a turn to the dark side by Twitter would supply them. As such it makes a nice "sword of Damocles".
s/her/hear/
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In all things have no preferences.

Even when it comes to lists of precepts?
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You made a very good point. I don't know what to answer. Defining what a "right" is and what it is not would lead to endless discussion.

In any case, I would say that instead of discussing in rather vague terms whether more government is better / worse than less government, it would be sensible to think of what kind of government.

By principle, I believe that goverment bureaucracy and interference should be kept to a minimum. However, I would rather live under a Scandinavian-like government (even though it's big government) than in a Somalia-like anarchy. We all agree on the goals: freedom, prosperity, etc. Sometimes we disagree on how to get there. I vote for pragmatism over ideology.
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I agree 100%.

Also, the concept that businessmen contributing to libertarian causes are in it so that they can capture regulatory agencies/contracts/etc misses that a lot of companies just want the government out of their way.
OK, I'll admit that color barcodes are cool, but there's several problems with this:

* There's no compelling usecase that cannot be accomplished with existing technologies like QR-code.

* Routing all Tag traffic though MS systems is just asking for abuse. For instance, with this setup, MS could retroactively yank a Tag that they didn't like.

* As others have pointed out, there's still a lot of black-and-white only printers out there, so without support for a fallback scheme, you'd need both a Tag and a QR-code app on your phone.

* Is the color barcode technology patented (forgive me if I missed that in the article)? If so, then that shuts out alternate implementations. What if MS decides to pull an MSIE for Mac kind of stunt and pull non-WinMo versions of Tag once it gets popular?

I don't mean to be an ass; MS Research came up with yet another great idea. No, my problems are with the productization of the color barcodes.
The classic answers are that a government should protect its citizens from attack (the military, the police) and should act as a neutral ajudicator in contractual disputes (the courts) and that's it.

What about "the poor"? The classic answer is "you will not be prevented from helping them".
This sort of thing always happens when people who know a bit about computers stray outside their area of expertise.
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I have a side project that I am working on away from my day job. I have decided that I want to incorporate for various reasons - liabilities etc.

My boss knows about this and is cool with it.

My one question is, do I need to incorporate before launching the side project?

If I don't incorporate beforehand what are the risks?
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I generally think its good idea to inc if you are really serious about it, irrespective of whether your boss knows it or not.
From tax perspective, you may end up paying less tax if you inc it - because initially you may not have a lot of revenue (as in most cases) and can show all that as loss to the company.
Ah, good question, and good answer! Thanks.
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I love this "startup happy news" :)
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Try using EXPLAIN on your queries. That will give you a lot of info on how many rows are examined by your SELECT statements.
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Maybe his point is that the amount of government required to protect rights is actually quite large. There's a general assumption in Libertarianism that it would be small, and he's disputing this.
"hat's because all of the deadlines and price points were wildly optimistic from the beginning"

Wild optimism goes some way to explaining it. But not to excusing it.
I have a theory.

I think microsoft deliberately adds delays/slowdowns/unoptimized code into windows.

Then each release they fix some of it - and voila it's faster than the one before it.

With vista they finally ran out of delays that they could remove, and that's why it's so slow. So they figured, if it's slow, let go all the way, and added in a new batch of slowdowns.

And right on schedule Windows 7 is faster than the one before it.
It's those 'classic answers' that are the important part of Libertarianism. If you get rid of them then Libertarianism just becomes 'The government should be the size required to do whatever it should do, and be neither bigger nor smaller', which would be completely vacuous.
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no aggregated RSS stream?

could have made this in Yahoo Pipes..
Well the parent mentioned extjs, which is javascript and only runs in the browser.

And you can run both (last I checked) in AIR as AIR contains WebKit.
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Criticism is extremely valuable. You can't improve without criticism.

People who feel like criticism is a personal affront are somewhat foolish. If someone is taking the time to explain you why they think you're wrong about something, you should take the time to consider their opinion. They themselves may be wrong in their criticism, but the intent/result of criticism is to help you improve.

I warmly encourage everyone to criticise me at all times.
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* the url box at the top ... I assumed that added websites to the boxes below (it takes you to the url)

* the text in said url box doesn't empty on focus

* the problem with putting focus on url box automagically means I can't "launch" into your websites #1 - #6 via my keyboard without changing focus away from url box. Catch 22.

* I made an account .. how do I add websites to the quick launch things?

* I'm not making a recommendation - I'm sending a recommendation. I thought "make" would generate a list of recommendations for /me/.

* Kudos on not requiring email verification :)
The regulatory loophole they exploited only exists with cash settled options [1] - IIRC the hole will be closed this spring with new legislation. Btw. another German Company (Schaeffler) used the same loophole last summer to secretely buy Continental (with much less success, it seems).

[1] Cash settlement - Cash-settled options do not
require the actual delivery of the underlier.
Instead, the corresponding cash value of the underlier
is netted against the strike amount and the difference
is paid to the owner of the option.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exercise_(options)
> ASIN and ISBN

You could headline the box with "URL for the product or wishlist you want to follow", and then, in a smaller and greyer font below put "(you can also just put the ISBN or ASIN in there)".
you might wanna put "review my web app" in the title of this submission btw, more eyes maybe
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