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Which makes me think, whatever happened to the supposed commitment to non-violence/non-initiation of force, of both Libertarians and the new DPR? Yeah, guys, I'm sure the purpose of trying to rally a bunch of people together and find out the real life location of the thief has nothing to do with inflicting any physical harm on them.
Most people I know running servers don't use RH... they use debian or ubuntu.

My company (15k+ servers) uses ubuntu.
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It is somewhat disheartening to see that you are a long time member with truckloads of karma, and yet you feel free to post these brash, low quality comments. It is a shame I cannot down vote you.
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huh, I don't find myself mental mapping to js. unless you're referring to during debugging.
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Didn't you heard? There are drugs out there left un-fought.
And is 1950's logic different than logic?
The second link you posted made no reference to rent control.

The third made a lot of noise about rent control, but then cited another article which, again, made no reference to the practice.
That's certainly not the reality of the cocaine and heroin trade.
The idea is called polycentric law and the best resource would be David D. Friedman (Milton Friedmans anarchist son) and his classic book The Machinery of Freedom which describes how such a system would work.
We have neglected our blog. Thanks for reminding us. I need to make that more of a priority.
Happy to answer such questions! (I'll ask Bethany to chime in later as well.) I guess at our age (lots of future earning ahead of us, etc) $80k doesn't seem like a big deal. We could actually wipe that debt out immediately by an adjustment to our cap table. :)

I guess the danger is if you start to worry that the debt will never actually get repaid. But that doesn't seem like a worry right now. We'll come up with payments plans and whatnot if it ever does. We do use a 6% interest rate on that balance, which seems steep at current market rates, but not so much so that Bethany would want to transfer Beeminder equity to me to pay it off.
You would have much more control over a competitive market of groups. Your claim is like saying that you'd rather there only be a single restaurant available rather than a group of restaurants, because then you only have to worry about one restaurant poisoning you or otherwise providing bad service.
Something tells me that in those cases, the gang members don't usually call the cops to investigate it.
> Reform will take years, and in that time you are at risk. Reform is a great sentiment...

Not to sound overly pessimistic, but "reform" isn't usually how citizens extricate themselves from a police state. Totalitarian governance is inherently insular and well protected from peaceful reform, using the state monopoly on violence to maintain and cultivate its will.

The antithesis of peaceful reform also conveniently starts with "re," but I can't seem to remember what it is... Re... rev-o-something, I think. ;)
I guess we're grasping for distractions now, so what about hte half a million people the United States killed in Iraq, eh???? What about the millions of people who'll die as a result of US engineered climate change?

Of course, none of these diversions have anything to do with, you know, the topic at hand.
If he were the sort of person that were capable of making this argument without being an ass about it, then this entire thread of discussion would not have been started in the first place. Whether you are a libertarian bitcoin drug dealer, a communist bitcoin drug dealer, or a politically apathetic cold-hard-cash drug dealer, governments don't enter the "I got ripped off, what are my options?" equation. That's just the reality of the business.

Politics is a rather uninteresting tangent here, brought up really only to start a flamewar.

Seriously, who gives a shit about the political opinions of drug dealers? I don't know where my dealer stands on economics, taxation, or civil rights, and I don't have any reason to care.
All of this is some sort of thinly veiled attack on our public servants and what seems to be public government infrastructure in general.

Why would you think he's kidding? I don't see a veiled attack: I see desperation. He (and others in this thread) believe that you are putting yourself into greater risk by calling 911 than by solving the situation any other way you can.

I don't share their opinion, but I would think deeply before dismissing the sincerely expressed belief of those who feel the emergency response system in the US so broken that you are better of trying to make your own way to medical care rather than taking a chance on calling 911.
That was a good read. Thank you for sharing it.
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If you see someone injured, CALL 911!

Agreed. But then get away from the scene ASAP once anyone officious turns up.
If you have the funds and time to try, by all means try. Most people don't.
Just needed your memory jogged! :D
Welcome to the militarized police state, criminal.
If that's the case, I don't believe dumbing down the curriculum to the lowest common denominator of teachers is the solution to the problem.
A: I'm not mentally ill.

Since I've submitted to your analysis, a turn about is fair play. I think you are a cop. You'd like to think you are good, which is understandable, because most people would like to think that. You realize that you are judged, often unfairly, by various parties. You find yourself valuing the judgment of fellow officers most, but occasionally you are surprised and disappointed by the opinion of the general public. They just don't understand your situation, they don't appreciate your efforts, and besides they don't know how the system works. Still, it hurts.

At the same time, you are genuinely uncomfortable about some of the things you have done and seen being done. You don't blame the police; it's the fucked-up system and the dirtbags they have to deal with. So far you've toed the line, although you imagine there are some things that would cause you to break ranks. Every year, though, those things recede. Sometimes you wonder what you'll find yourself stomaching a decade from now. Maybe you'll switch to just working security. Got to get that pension first, though.

Forget it, you're probably a law student or something. Still, that was fun.
Ask HN: What is the one thing I can learn from you, that will make me rich?
Assuming: rich == happy
Despite your insincerity, for those who actually care the negative trait I was talking about is sophistry: The collapsing of complex situations with many players and perspectives into single-dimensional, black and white, clear-cut projections that everyone can circle around and beat with their strawman beating sticks, all while acting enlightened. This whole thread is absolutely crowded with such positions.

I love Reddit, but outside of certain subs it is not a productive place to discuss complex situations as the crowd naturally wants the story simplified. So you end up with a day 1 version where one actor is clearly the aggrieved party, the other pure villain, and everyone runs out to send nasty emails and to fill voiceboxes with nasty messages. On day 2 a new piece of information comes out that demonstrates that the story was't as stated, and some new situations completely upset who the good guy and the bad guy is. The pitchfork mob goes in the opposite direction. It is useless and destructive, and became such a problem that a number of anti pitchfork rules had to be imposed.

In this case the post I replied to outrageously declared that the only good cop is a dead cop, which is incredibly offensive if you actually have friends who are in law enforcement. And even if you don't, it should be offensive to virtually anyone in a lawful society who relies upon those people more than many of you care to admit.

Add that there is some hilarious irony in a board primarily dominated by the unfit and privileged supporting such notions. I can understand the sentiment in some poverty city inner-city neighbourhood (heck, I grew up in poverty and was surrounded by the "pig" attitude), even if it is often self-defeating, but it is to the point of parody on HN.

"I heard a story about some cop two thousand miles away who did {x}. See, they're all terrible!"
All due respect, you're missing the point.

The 'monopoly of laws' to which the parent refers are the ones like those against home distillers -- such that you're allowed to buy a distillation device, you're allowed to buy corn, you're allowed to buy sugar, yeast, etc., but you're not allowed to put them altogether to make whiskey, despite that you're allowed to buy whiskey.

Another example is the Lacey act, which, if construed narrowly enough, might make it illegal to eat a steak, or to fish, or to hike through the woods.

Even the most staunch of minarchists wouldn't generally repeal the 'base' laws, which are those laws that, if violated, infringe upon the rights of others. Libertarians do not, for example, suggest that murder should be legal -- everyone has the right to life.

Gun control is the nearest example I can think of, so pardon me if it doesn't fit the archetype 100%, but there are literally more than 20,000 laws on the books pertaining to guns, despite the fact that each of those are just derivatives of laws already on the books. Using a gun to steal is expressly against the law, and may carry a different penalty in many jurisdictions than just 'stealing'. Why? Stealing is already illegal, and the manner in which it's done carrying a different penalty likely is just a scheme to enforce mandatory minimums to fill the prisons.

Alternately, laws which are predicated upon arbitrary distinctions, such that a person with 9 ounces of pot gets away scot free, while a guy with 10 ounces of pot must serve an obligatory 5 year prison term.

You're of course welcome to hate libertarianism as much as you like, but if you're original post was sincere, you're woefully ill-informed on the subject.

Edit: Re-reading, I completely misinterpreted the OP's use of 'monopoly of force', and ended up making an altogether unrelated argument. That said, I consider my point both salient and well-researched, so I'll let it stand.
Oh I'm totally sympathetic and think it's great to have it in more languages.

I just didn't understand their logic. They seemed to say, the only thing holding back those 80% is the language barrier, and once we break it, the numbers will shoot up. Well maybe. But it reminds me of circa 1999 market math: "If get just 1% of the Chinese market..." says someone, followed by investors taking a haircut as a result of lame business plan.
check out https://github.com/aheinze/Rapido (based on http://getcockpit.com/ )
Mob justice is not law.

For an illustration of this, check out the very first scene of the TV series Deadwood. There's a lynch mob outside the sheriff's office, and they want to kill the person in the jail. The sheriff fends them off so he can legally hang him instead.

The creator originally wanted to do a series on ancient Rome, about the birthplace of civilization. The studio wanted a Western. He said, oh, perfect, that works, too.
Wrong answer. Never try sarcasm or irony with cops. Either they don't understand it - or they just don't want to. All it does is getting you into trouble.
Well, for the most part they're like lawyers: you only need them around for shitty situations, so that's what they're remembered for.

I'm not saying all cops are bad people (though almost all police forces are bad institutions), but why would you just hang out and have a good time with a cop, in his cop role? I'm sure they have friends, but they're not being cops when they're watching the game with their friends.

My comment was more about the fact that police don't walk the beat and help old ladies with their groceries anymore. When cops are around, shit's going down. So even if they are doing their job professionally, it isn't a pleasant experience. And if they're doing their job poorly, it's a nightmare.
No problem, thanks for providing an example of the naiveté that underscores way too many HN comments.

First off, I never said that there isn't a problem with the way the police treated OP. In fact, I'm encouraging him to sue both the police department and the officers personally for the way they treated him, which was clearly unacceptable behavior. Translation: I want to see him get justice.

But I also am able to see nuance in a situation, which clearly you're lacking. He might be a victim, but he's not blameless, insofar as:
• Refused to pipe down and leave the accident when ordered to by a police officer.
• Continued to instigate police officers who were securing the scene.
• Yelled like a crazy person while in a holding cell.

or, as I said in the parent comment: OP COMPLETELY FAILED TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF HIS RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT AND AVOID AN ENCOUNTER WITH THE POLICE.

His behavior was unacceptable, and holding him to account for that as someone who enjoys their constitutional rights and insists upon defending them in NO WAY MAKES ME A POLICE APOLOGIST. Police aren't the only one who can trample upon rights, those who fail to understand or abuse them are culpable as well. The fact you don't understand that makes me wonder if our free society held together by liberty and a respect for the rule of law has any chance any more, yet I'll remain an optimist.
There's definitely more activity outside the labs than inside, however there are still a few Bell Labs people who work on it. For example, the new MIPS kernel was entirely labs work.
> During the proceedings evidence came forward that the police had received the crop, and instead of filing paper work just disposed of it being lazy (the same cop that arrested my father).

I hate to break this to you, but I don't think the crop was 'disposed of' in the way you were thinking of, and it wasn't motivated by laziness.
It would be great if you would switch it to SASS in the future. Although for me personally its not the npm dependency but that i like SASS much better then LESS.
Interestingly, I assumed the author was female until well into the story. But speaking of privilege, I can't imagine even the most obnoxious cops treating middle-class white women that way.
Sure, have fun.

We'll speak again in one year to see your (and other forks) progress.
So, if one can't afford to purchase law enforcement then they'll have to do without? What could go wrong?
I like the idea of introducing everyday decisions to a market economy and the idea of beeminder.

Re:beeminder, I know that you address this on your FAQ, but my conscience would have little problem lying to your website to keep from paying you $10. Whereas I would be much less likely to be dishonest if 50%-80% of my penalty was going to a charity - even if the penalty levels were increased such that your cut was the same either way.
Respect != fear.

Watching your mouth because you fear the authorities with guns is quite the opposite of respect.
Out of curiosity where did they get you for running the red light specifically?
Then why do all the different airlines have different UI's?

While what you say is correct, you can easily redesign UI and follow the rules.
Yes. Likes can be almost meaningless. Some may say categorically meaningless, but I am referring to bots farms liking at semi-random.
My wife and I do something like this.

We both have a 'piggy bank' we can spend on anything without the others input.

Each week we get an allowance + bonuses for extra chores.
If there is a video of Officer Kaur stomping on his fingers, she might have to take some time off. In no case would I expect her to be fired.
Yukihiro Matsumoto. Do I win anything?

In any case, I'm not really sure what the aim of the challenge was. Most anybody could probably name at least one non-native-English-speaking developer— Bjarne Stroustrup and Guido van Rossum both come to mind, maybe because I've got language developers on the brain. The only reason I can think of to restrict it to Japanese/Chinese/Russian developers is to use only nations with non-Latin character sets— which is a weird reason, and isn't a very compelling argument in favor of Portuguese localization.
You think if they didn't do a reasonable job of hiding they wouldn't be caught by say, the government?
Ummm seriously why do these marketplaces hold your bitcoins???

Don't they know bitcoins support m-of-n transactions? There should be a marketplace without the ability to have bitcoins stolen! It's rather straighforward people.
Does he? Because I read it as the latter, and with the amount of internet bravado that surrounds any talk about the police, I'd be unsurprised if it was meant as the latter.
Because it's an image.
Joel Spolsky talked about building a free platform and living off the exhaust fumes here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6462430

That's really the RedHat model. They just happened to get in early in an area that scaled well.
Where's the source?! :)
Great feedback, thank you! We definitely hear that often and will probably eventually cave and add a charity option. In the meantime, here are our thoughts on combating cheating: http://blog.beeminder.com/cheating
I didn't say don't call the cops. I was speaking to a single line of your post, the one I quoted.
In NY it is a "violation" of the law for most traffic offenses. Technically you can be arrested for any traffic infraction but in practice they give you a ticket. Upon conviction you can be imprisoned for up to 15 days.

With violations the officer has 100% discretion about what to do. They can decide not to write a ticket/arrest someone for any reason. This officer was obviously a bad officer that is on a power trip but the OP has not much recourse for what was done. It is sad. I guess it could have been worse. The officer could have made up just about anything and made it worse (like saying you swung at them or threatened them)
I, personally, have a hard time imagining a successful marriage without a shared pool of income. Paying one another to do chores or evaluating each other's fiscal contribution to nearly every decision seems insane.

Who pays for college? Who pays for food? Maternity leave? Career switching. This list goes on.

Good luck.
My mistake - I misread the OP as implying that the three dates between the guys and girls were one-on-one -- so yeah basically the same idea as the OP.
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> You would have much more control over a competitive market of groups.

I'm sorry, a competitive market of private organizations trying to lynch me gives me control... how?
I argue for the existence of good police, therefore I'm a cop and a law student?

Unfortunately for yourself, your off-the-cuff analysis is quite far off the mark. I do appreciate your trying though, as I've never had the pleasure of having somebody so publicly try to profile me. It was fun!
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What could go wrong with tax-funded, monopoly law enforcement? Obviously, things can go wrong with either. We should concern ourselves with which scenario is better.
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I have had just about nothing but pleasant experiences with the cops. I was an EMT for three years, and the cops that I worked with on a daily basis were the ones that got me — and others, including druggies that ODed, domestic violence victims, and suicide-attempts home at night.

Of course, the natural extension is to say 'well, who has pleasant experiences with cops besides other cops and EMTs and firefighters'?

Even after I moved out here to SF and into Bayview, I still had good experiences with them, meeting them on walks home and pulling up next to them on my motorcycle.

Yes, there are bad cops, and we see articles like this, but that doesn't mean that all cops are bad, and saying 'all of them are fucking pigs' undermines the entire system, and only makes things worse. The bad cops should be ejected from the system, the good cops should be commended. The system itself isn't broken, and treating it like it is just makes it worse.
I'm surprised they had any kind of online wallet. You'd think you would do manual transactions with offline keys if running a blackmarket, or the very least multiple sigs for any hot wallet.
I had a similar initial situation -- I was in North Oakland, in the Rockridge area, when I observed a traffic accident. I safely parked, exited my vehicle and rendered aid to the two injured individuals involved in the accident.

Police and Fire were called. I hung around for more than an forty-five minutes. Oakland PD was nothing but kind and understanding. They did not ask me to leave. They took my story, and the story of other witnesses. They made sure everyone was okay. They helped direct traffic. They were fine officers.

Is Oakland PD better than San Francisco PD? I've considered moving from Oakland to SF -- but if the police department is so terrible that most people recommend never calling the police, then I might want to stay away for that reason alone.
This is why we need to find decentralised means of exchanging Bitcoins.

I built https://www.cointouch.com/ to find trading partners in my extended social network. I don't want to use a centralised third party.

There's little need for a centralised exchange given we have a rich social graph, and a programmable currency that is truly P2P.

Keep it all P2P.
Oh golly, gee whizz, I guess we should just close our doors and shut down then. Peter Levine thinks you can't make money as an Open Source company... well, that sums it all up.

Wait a minute.

Fuck that.

I know Peter Levine is smart and well-respected and all that, but this is so much bullshit. For starters, all he really said, for using all those words, is "it's hard to build a business to the size of Oracle or Amazon or Microsoft, around a core of Open Source".

No. Fucking. Shit.

Really?

It's hard to build a business like Microsoft, Amazon or Oracle??? You're kidding me, right? I mean, it's not like any of those companies are atypical outliers in any way, right?

So, if we just take all our source, close it, and move to a proprietary business model, then we should have no problem building "the next Microsoft" right?

Also, am I wrong in thinking that Amazon is hardly even in the same business as Red Hat? What are they even doing in this comparison?

I dunno, color me biased (I am) but isn't Peter really just arguing that an "open source" company isn't going to generate the returns necessary, in the required timeframe, to justify investment by Andreesen-Horowitz? Because honestly, that's all I'm hearing. Nobody says you have to become "the next Microsoft" to be successful... well, nobody except Peter Levine, I guess.

Meanwhile, SugarCRM, Alfresco, Red Hat, Cloudera, BonitaSoft, JasperSoft, Pentaho and a whole laundry list of companies are making money "selling open source". Are any of them going to IPO? I don't know, but from where I'm sitting, that isn't the point.

All of that said, where I wholeheartedly agree with Peter, is the bit about adding a SaaS element with the underlying technology as a platform. At Fogbeam, I expect we'll have a traditional "support subscription" (ala Red Hat) model going for a long-time to come, but we are definitely starting to move in the direction of building purpose-specific / vertical aligned solution on top of our base stack, and delivering those as SaaS offerings. Personally, I see those as complementary strategies, and not mutually exclusive.
If you are a police officer tasked with enforcing the law, and you see coworkers of yours breaking the law by kidnapping people like the one in the OP, why would you not arrest your coworkers?
Sharing on social media is functionality that should be built into browsers or implemented with browser plugins (it should be a single click on some browser toolbar). There's no point in replicating it on every web site in a performance-hampering and intrusive way.