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If government were not as influential as you claim, there is absolutely no reason the wealthy would use the resources they buy power with to provide goods and services, especially to the poor and needy who cannot afford them as is. In fact, you completely ignore the robber barons and a time when less regulation DID exist, and society was even less free and equal.

There is NO such thing as a truly free market. Free markets are an ideal simplification, like calculations done in a frictionless vacuum. The role of government in the economy is to regulate in such a way that a sort of free market is created. That competition exists and everyone benefits.

Unfortunately that power is not always used correctly. Regulation is difficult, oftentimes it doesn't work as expected. But that does not mean the problem is regulation itself. The problem is specifically the regulations that exist today. That makes sense, when you realize that half the government is trying to prove that the government is terrible. I really wouldn't trust them with regulating anything.

The greatest time in recent American history was created by socialistic, big government programs and regulations. Period. The massive amounts of wealth generated during that time went to every American, not just the few, because of those policies. Removing government is not the answer, we need to fix it.
Because it's based on the idea of exponential growth. Exponential growth is not sustainable without exponential growing access to resources.
It's not so black and white. People can believe they are doing good. You are helping take down terrorists after all. The majority of the population is ok with this stuff, you don't think the people who work there are?
> therefore these people would have to develop their innovations in foreign countries that still have common sense like Malaysia and Japan and China and Russia

I don't understand why a terrorist group would want this as a goal.

Also, whether those countries have "common sense" or not is widely disputed. (For what it's worth, I'm a Russian living in America; it would take a severe change in circumstances to convince me that living in Russia is a better bargain than living in America.)
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That was tried with Northern Ireland and Israel. Didn't go well. The settling of the America's and Australia went really well ... for the non-indigenous people. I don't think moving people around the world to solve problems is a good idea.
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That is the consumer surplus for his customers. The criminal vendor and his customers are always individually better off, or else no transaction would take place.

Society suffers from the externalities of a criminal business.
> It is the frustration and ambiguity that one has to deal with when solving technical problems.

Basically, you're saying people today can't handle frustration. I have a hunch that this is true, and someone should research into this.
The case study of this party is kind of a Proof of Concept, if you will, showing that -

1. Elections can be fought with clean money, ( and the kind of donations that they received (in terms of quanta of individual contribution), where the mode should be well below 20$s per cap. makes it kind of a crowd funded campaign )

2. The part that social media can play in mobilizing people and getting point across when traditional news media blacks you out.

3. Targeted manifestos, like targeted advertisements engage people more as compared to conventional 1-state-1-manifesto approach..

4. That there is a space for clean politics.

I am curious about how things will turn out for Delhi now, and for India in the coming LS elections.
Jonas Boner is perhaps the most awesome name I've ever heard. If I ever change my name, that'll be it.
> The question - and only question - should be what David Simon asks: are we all in this together or are we not?

I don't understand: Do you mean that to be a rhetorical question, or do you actually want to debate whether we're "all in this together?"
The libertarian and anti-government sentiments aren't saying that we shouldn't be all in this together, but that we shouldn't be forced to be all in this together. That difference is what the entire argument is about.

Few people are saying saying "let's not do this" for some value of "this", they're saying "let's not force everyone to do this".

That's a very profound difference, it's why having the government make anything its business anywhere in the world is always controversial.
The somewhat difficult thing about a lot of this stuff is that its future is really in the hands of the browser vendors, not the IETF, W3C, or anyone else. What they choose to do or not do is all that matters, so there's not much more that any of us can do other than make suggestions and see what happens.

My experience thus far is that most browser vendors only have one or two people working in this area of their code base, and those people are so overwhelmed that they spend most of their time just treading water. SSL cipher suite problems seem to be absorbing most of their time lately.

Google has a larger set of really good engineers working in this area, so for the most part they seem to take the lead. Right now, my impression is that they're pretty all-in on Certificate Transparency. The major roadblock with CT is that it requires all CAs to willingly participate. If that's even possible, my sense is that it's a long road, so I would love to see Chrome incorporate TACK in the mean time (and Trevor has even written the patch) while they try to drive CA adoption.

But ultimately, how they decide to spend their time is up to them.
Yet, what do kids nowadays think cool? Having access to alcohol and drugs is cool. Bullying people who take studying seriously is cool. Sports jockeys who think nothing is important other than their games with another high school are cool. When hearing people enthusiastically talk about technology, making a face as if he just ate s&^t is cool (just like the stupid and weak Jesse did in the finale of Breaking Bad when Walt explained what "exothermal" meant). Whining about STEM are being too "hard", too "boring", too "irrelevant", too "nerdy" is cool... And tell me the parents didn't have very bad influence to the kids.*

Please don't act like this is some isolated problem with today's generation. Drugs, vices, jocks and willful ignorance have always been the rage. You're having delusions of grandeur that your generation was somehow one of superior calibre, and you're regressing into idealized memories of the past as part of a reactionary mental process to the perceived decadence of today.

But it has always been decadent. In fact, if the Flynn effect and other factors are anything to show, you were probably worse.

I see you don't live in the USA, though. I come from a European country myself, and I have no idea what school you went to, but the way you describe it is rather... unrealistic? Names of famous scientists are household names? In a school environment? They always have been, honestly. Biographies of famous scientists as popular reading? They're part of the curriculum.

The way you treat your school as some sort of a society in its own right leads me to believe you went to a boarding school or something similar. Perhaps just a higher class private school, because really, yours isn't the norm.
In India. We are calling the Aam Aadmi Party (transalated to Common Man's Party) as the startup of the decade. They were formed just 9 months ago, with a single goal - to have corruption free politics. The founder Arvind Kejriwal did some hustling that we would be proud of in the startup world. There were lot of dirty campaigns that were conducted against them. They introduced total transparency in their funding raising all their funds from common people.

The result: They secured 28/70 seats in the their very first election, while the current ruling party (Congress) secured just 8/70 seats.

That, my friends, is David beating Goliath.
I can see a fairly intuitive argument for calling the practice of law zero-sum ("gain for one side is nothing but an equal loss to the other"). It isn't right, but I can see how people would come up with it. You might have something else in mind; do you think that the lawyers working for the ACLU are engaged in a zero-sum activity?

I don't understand applying the term "zero-sum" to management at all.
Or if new construction is impossible, they could also encourage companies and residents to relocate somewhere else, thus reducing the congestion burdens on those who remain.

But what city with taxing authority would ever do this? As long as cities can take revenue from everyone regardless of their satisfaction with the city, there is a perverse incentive to oversubscribe city services. Since they are a monopoly over their whole territory, it is the same pressure as upon telecoms to add more customers without building out infrastructure.
Sorry My Mistake Have edited above answer.

But how can AAP be present in list. Election result got declared today and still they do not have even 1 assembly member (Signature are yet to be made. There is situation of reelection).

AAP was in the list since so many days...
Maybe tangential to the point of the article, but I find that one of the most frustrating things about working with recent college grads is that they don't understand the ambiguity. It's not thier fault - they have spent the last 16+ years being told[1] there is a right answer. It is ingrained in them, and a lot of effort must be put forth to teach them that most of the work worth doing in our field is by definition not "solved". If there was a right answer or known best solution, we'd just be using that library and focusing on the ambiguous bits instead.

Yes there is a lot of boilerplate and plugging existing components together, but that stuff isn't the work that really brings in the bucks - it's the part where you are solving something previously unsolved, and making headway against ambiguous problem spaces that really differentiates companies/products/teams etc.

[1] It's more than being taught, it is being rewarded and punished on the notion of "one right answer" that happens in huge amounts of education. It gets mixed up with the limbic system and becomes a default assumption for everything. It has to be un-taught in a lot of contexts. Sure, there is a best or right answer for many things, and we need to show that too, but more education on how to deal with the ambiguous stuff is much needed.
Maybe reading Little Brother[1] will help think a little deeper.

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

- Thomas Jefferson

[1] http://craphound.com/littlebrother/download/
If the government does not have power, someone else will. The governments power is meant to balance out the power of individuals, so that a few do not control society.

I would argue that with that amount of power, government necessarily has the ability to cause harm to the economy/society. Otherwise it fails as a government.

Stripping the government of power will do nothing. We must fix it.
Subleasing is legally protected in New York.
Operating an illegal hotel is not.
The ten pound note currently in my wallet is a liability that the Bank of England owes to me when demanded

It is? How can you make that demand, and what will they give you in return?
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I love math and science.

Nature is the most beautiful thing around and they help me appreciate that beauty more deeply.
Right, it's easy to look back at the good 'ol days and talk about how great they were, but really overall quality of life on aggregate is empirically improving.
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The FREEEDOM!!! argument only works for landlords who own the whole building and are running a hotel without following the hotel laws.

People who are subletting in violation of thier lease terms or co-op/condo agreement are not only breaking the law but also willfully breaching contracts they have freely agreed to. I thought that libertarians considered negotiated contracts a key mechanism of ordering a society?
If you're going to break the law, why go to the trouble of forming a Delaware LLC? Won't that draw more attention to the operation and result in double taxation? Doesn't it also mean breaking Delaware law by forming a corporation for illegal purposes? Title 8, Chapter 1 says "A corporation may be incorporated or organized under this chapter to conduct or promote any lawful business or purposes..."

Furthermore, he takes all these steps to avoid 15% hotel tax, but pays 30% on the LLC profits and then pays income tax when he takes earnings from the LLC?

Am I missing something here?
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I think there are some easy gains to be made by removing most Euclidean geometry (including trigonometry) and adding probability and statistics.

While historically there is a close connection between Euclidean geometry and calculus, I think people can grok ideas like a tangent line without having done any Euclidean geometry before.

And probability and statistics are essential so people can properly participate the civic process. E.g. I used to see the following statistic a lot: "Women who are murdered are ~100 times as likely to have been murdered by their spouse, as Men who are murdered". I think a rudimentary knowledge of probability would allow people to realize this is a meaningless statistic (the meaningful version is "Women are 1.5 times as likely to be murdered by their spouse as Men".
Which is the core of entrepreneurship: Deliver something at a price that is more than what you paid for that thing.
It's easy to view this event in isolation but the years since 2001 have brought forth several unsettling revelations.

1) Abu Ghraib
2) Gitmo
3) Torture and certain shell games (renditions, black sites) to keep culpability at arm's length
4) Drones turning Earth into a free-fire zone
5) The joys of flying post-911 (TSA, no-fly lists)
6) NSA hoovering the Internet for fun and profit

Shall I go on? Do you need links for evidence?

We are in a state of nature, sir.
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I just made a very long post that tried to say exactly that. Kudos for your more elegant and succinct answer that captures in four sentences what I'm not sure I did in eight paragraphs.
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There are more premier tourist destinations in the world than I'll ever have time to visit in my lifespan.
Apple and Toyota have 10 groups pursue their ideas. YC does this with groups as well, except they aren't directly salaried.
It reminds me a lot of Starglider 2. That was a great game from the 80s, which let you fly between several different planets to complete a set of missions. The graphics and gameplay were pretty amazing at the time on the Atari ST and the Amiga. One minute you'd be navigating around a set of tunnels deep inside a planet, and the next you'd be chasing whales in the outer envelope of a gas giant. It was some stunning game design and coding. I've not seen anything quite like it since.
I disagree with you wholeheartedly on the political front, but I'm right with you on what we're actually debating.

Hearing fellow liberals claim that conservatives want the poor and disadvantaged to suffer is like hearing conservatives say that liberals just want to take money from the rich and give it to people who don't deserve it. Both arguments are shitty, and both either imply that the speaker isn't listening or doesn't want the audience to listen.

If you don't even try to figure out your opponent's assumptions, you should probably shut up and start listening.
The tragedy of the successful capitalistic societies like the USA is the lack of first hand experience with socialism (and communism) will eventually result in the masses wanting to try it out.

Believe me, it's the worst thing what can happen with your country. It happened around here, and it takes generations to recover. Don't try it, even if it looks morally right.
> The problem in the US isn't capitalism, it's that the government interferes extensively in the economy.

Government controlled by a bunch of capitalists...
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> Are we all in this together or are we all not?

Who is "we all"? I'm sure he's thinking of "all Americans", but if the idea is to help people you don't know who are less fortunate than you, what is the moral basis on which we restrict that generosity to just Americans? Nations and citizenship are arbitrary divisions.

If someone is in need, help them, regardless of what their passport says. That's not socialism, it's charity. And charity is capitalism's solution to suffering: aid, given freely.

Edit: though when it comes to the environment, capitalism has no answer, as the environment is fundamentally socialised.
In Sweden private for profit schools and schools run by the municipalities compete with each other. All of them are funded by the tax payers and they get a certain amount of money for every student.

The system is a disaster, with a lot of for profit schools slashing costs to maximize profits regardless of what the consequences are for the students. And that's just one of the many failures of the system.

Basically, the problem is that markets don't necessarily generate the best solutions from a social perspective, markets generate the solutions that create the largest profits. You have to some how get the markets to stop chasing profits, which is easier said than done.
What is the recourse when no one (except a few powerless individual) in either the legislative or judicial branches will hold any government agency or participants accountable for such blatant violations of law?

Snowden was not the first NSA whistle blower. Others, like William Binney understood that this was not just a violation of unlawful search & seizure, but a complete usurpation of representative government itself.

Snowden's extreme actions finally resulted in bringing semi-known NSA abuses to the American people as fact without debate. Enough so that the co-author of the PATRIOT Act once the NSA's director imprisoned (that is either public theatrics or meaningful progress.)

Do all government whistle blowers deserve to spend the rest of their lives in prison? Snowden, presumably, believed that what was being done was so appalling amoral, he put everything he had on the line. Then he did what little he could do to secure some very basic level of personal autonomy for whatever remains of his life. I would only accept criticism from others in the same position.
On the plus side, making trivial changes now only takes a week!

"It took three months just to change the color appearing across the website, he said. “After we moved to Node.js, it took us literally a week.”"
- http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2013/12/04/paypa...
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I'd like to think a lot of NSA workers are regular Americans who are also concerned with the revelations. I mean, most aren't decision makers, and wouldn't have a full picture of the entire system.
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Metropolis light transport with manifold exploration should be able to handle that case.
At $500 a night, your comment appears to be false. Additionally, the people that live there will have a harder time competing with people who can afford to live there part time at accelerated rates - which means, on average, the place next door is threatening to drive up rent everywhere around it.
> Current laws, for example, include a tax that goes directly to the Javits Convention Center — a place scant numbers of New Yorkers have ever visited.

> “Why are they entitled to a cut?” he asks.

The hotels may pay the tax, but I believe the idea behind this sort of arrangement is that they would take this into account when pricing rooms. So effectively, out of towners pay the tax when they get a hotel room. Even if you ignore the other benefits the city and its businesses get from out of towners passing through, the question being asked here is: why does money paid by out of towners go into something that benefits out of towners?

Of course I agree with others that this story is at least embellished, too much of this guy's history seems like goofy fantasy. (Paying homeless people to purchase iPad 2 for export, really?) So this question being asked probably reflects the author more than it does the interview subject.
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I'd like to add that it's true that now that Howard is on Sirius he can be more graphic in his questions, but even when he was on terrestrial radio he asked questions nobody else did.

It's also quite clear to anyone who's a fan of the show that Robin was not hired so that Howard could get away with racism or sexism. Robin wasn't even hired by Howard when they first met.
It's really a shame that more people don't actually read 'Capital,' or at least the first three chapters of Capital I. While I ultimately disagree with Marx, I think he does a much, much better job of analyzing the problems we have than most people. Hence Simon's distinction between 'diagnostician' and 'clinician.' It was Lenin and Mao that really tried to be the clinicians, anyway.

It's a Sunday, if you've got some time today, check out "Value, Price, and Profit," which is sort of the beginning of Capital I but in a little bit easier language, and much shorter. It's only about 40 pages. http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1865/value-price-...
This isn't a bug, really, more of an implementation side effect.
"[T]hat's unfortunate because for every innocent person that's put away, the person who really committed the crime is still on the streets."

... and it's unfortunate because we put away an innocent person! I'd rather be stolen from a few times than interrogated, tried, and jailed.
Here's the video of his speech and following Q&A: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNttT7hDKsk
Perhaps because sensible people don't consider debt, in and of itself, a serious problem.
If you stop chasing profits then there is no incentive to produce a quality product. The US public schools are a great example of that.
He belongs to state X(Haryana) and lives in state Y(U.P) and challenges 3 term chief minister of the Z(New Delhi) and wins . Political hack it is , sounds like proxies and socks in use.
Cartels hate competition. I love AirBnB because they level the playing field.
That argument is tiresome.

Many libertarians want to enforce a very particular and ahistorical version of property rights, one dictated from above and with a studied blindness for the reason we've invented the group of rights we think of as property. They want to subject everyone to a society where state violence is used for and only on behalf of people who in the past were granted monopoly access to some material good.

Force seeps through everything we do in a society, because it's a good like any other. Many libertarians demand everyone be forced into a machine of their own invention. And that's not any more damning of them than of anyone else, but they should own it. They're not hoping for a world where people aren't forced into things, but a world where people are forced into their own narrow vision of what's moral and righteous.
Beware: you can only do that if you want to open source your entire site. It used to be the AGPL, now it's the CPAL, which has the same effect.
When I was a kid, my parents got me a couple sci-fi encyclopedias, which were big books of beautiful sci fi illustrations with some made-up history explaining each painting encyclopedia-style. I loved them. This video reminds me of those illustrations very much, which I mean to be high praise.

I just looked through my books and called my mom to see if she had them, but no dice. They were large hardcover books with a blue cover. Anyone else remember them? I'd love to track them down for my own kids.
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