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This new American Samoan bank is explicitly modeled after the Bank of North Dakota, and the OP goes quite a bit into its benefits.

Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams ( https://www.amazon.com/Peopleware-Productive-Projects-Teams-... ) It talks about what makes a good team, how powerful they can be, and a…

> Forcing your enemy to invest heavily in such key sectors is pretty stupid. Eventually, one way or another, Chinese will master the state-of-the-art. A few good examples here - LC…

> China today is about Gilded Age-type capitalism with a strain of collectivism running through it. From what I gather, this is unfortunately true. > The Chinese Communist Party fu…

>> Maybe communism vs freedom? > That’s a false dichotomy. China is ostensibly commmunist but free market is alive and well (with heavy doses of state directed influence, but so as…

> China isn't some totalitarian dictatorship that some of the west seem to think they are. You do realize that they're closer to being a dictatorship now than they've been for deca…

> I'm still wondering why there should be an economic, political or commercial conflict between China and the rest of the world esp. US. Such conflicts are wasteful with when we al…

> Still, if Oxford disagrees with me about the dictionary then it is probably me who is abusing language. ;) I'd say so. Esoteric personal definitions for established terms, even i…

> Theology is not present in universities, religious studies is. Theology is taught in special schools, because it fundamentally does not work the same way as other studies Your co…

> Her position was that eyes on the street was the key to safety in urban areas. I'm sure that's true. However, the unbelievable part was the influence you ascribe to yourself. I d…

> In the years I have lived without a car, my example of walking everywhere has tended to popularize walking wherever I lived. (Yes, even when I was homeless.) After seeing an upti…

> private military companies...are very effective, for profit, and much less costly than the regular army. [citation needed] My understanding is that they are more expensive than u…

> R&D doesn't happen in non-profit government corporations either (atleast not largely). Most R&D comes from the manufacturers where the state (or relevant institution) buys the dr…

> The difference is that shareholders lose something (the value of their shares) when they drain a company of its assets. Not if they sell before the shit hits the fan.

> In general, I don't think I want the government to be in the business of stamping out the best deal that individuals have available. That's interesting framing. What if the "best…

That's not a bad thing IMHO. I think the world could do with fewer underpaid jobs with no advancement opportunities. Edit: Looks like some founders looking to create underpaid jobs…

Except this CEO has an engineering/development background, and I'd expect him to be deeply familiar with the criticisms on his company.

Or maybe just spend more time with aides trying to grasp the technical issues? I'm going to send some letters to my Senators and Representative asking them to work closely with the…

> Frankly I think the community will hate it but because it’s really hard to move millions of individual communities, Reddit likely won’t lose too many users. Is that really true? …

> But I'm finding it more and more the case where mods feel the need to heavily regulate conversations/posting preemptively based on arbitrary personal worldview on what is 'good' …

I agree. The momentum seems to be focused on Facebook mainly because they played it too fast and loose for too long. But many of the issues that apply to Facebook apply to Google a…

> I'm trying to think of what it is, exactly, that Facebook has a monopoly on. The nearest I can come up with is: Facebook has a monopoly on Facebook users. Perhaps Facebook could …

> Facebook will be irrelevant in a generation or less. Even if Facebook manages to leverage the network effect of its alternative subsidiaries, there will always be the treadmill o…

Looks like this post was buried... currently top on http://hckrnews.com/ but completely missing from the front page ( https://news.ycombinator.com/ ).

> Sen. Lindsey Graham (R–S.C.) asked whether Facebook had any major competitors. Zuckerberg tried to explain that the company competes across different categories related to Facebo…