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I guess the people who wrote the article didn't do much investigative journalism or they would probably figure out that regulatory burden is a major reason why. I also tend to thin…

You just pretty much defined Ponzi with what you said--you wish you had got in early and it doesn't matter as long as you get off the ride in time. Thus, Bitcoin is not investing, …

The one who run/ran Theranos is arguably worse. And Meg Whitman? The one who did the same to HP. There's a lot of over-rated male CEOs out there, too. In fact, I think most all CEO…

That's insane. I know that taxes are used to create disincentives, but that's why Americans think Europeans are insane--you let them rule you like that? Insane. Sorry.

I agree except for the full retail price part. How well can that work when margins are so thin? It's one thing if you bought goods in 1885 and moved them west yourself, but it's qu…

Copyright enforcement has made the Internet a lot less usable because of all the "muh movies" by the big, monied interests. In their defense, they saw what happened to the music in…

Interesting side note: Coleco had a version of Slither for their gaming console which shipped with a "Roller Controller" which was pretty innovative at the time. ColecoVision crash…

I fight the left because of Venezuela, Cuba, and every place else where Marxist ideas have infected the minds of the masses to give assent to dictatorship. To me, the left will nev…

This article is genius is the way it depends on layers upon layers of propaganda. It's freaking brilliant--the underlying assumption that only leftist ideals are "correct" and "goo…

Big yup! Journalism as a profession is dying/dead and with it, we have lost a major check against oppression. My city get vanishingly little news coverage and so residents are not …

I think you sell libertarianism short by quite a bit. After all, it is the closest description of the mechanism by which humanity operated quite successfully up until oligarchs and…

"Eliminate childhood poverty" is a lefty type of goal. It is unattainable. Instead, we should empower individuals economically and maybe more would succeed! Social programs only tr…

Oh man! I read through what is an otherwise thoughtful article and get to the end where the author attempts to tie Brexit, and the utterly failed campaign by Hillary Clinton to his…

No, the problem with red light cameras is that there is not way to face your accuser in court when your accuser is a robot operated by a for-profit, private corporation. Full stop.…

The same parents who complain about the 35mph limit on their street think nothing of speeding through someone else'se neighborhood.

This sentence should be challenged on the grounds that it is far worse than the sentences of many people prosecuted for violent, repeat offenses.

I don't think you understand that politically, climate change is just an issue for demagogues to demagogue with. I'm sure communists would happily take over and pass a ton of laws …

They should all be shot, hung from their toes, and left to rot in the sun so that nobody else get any ideas, just like they used to do to buccaneers.

No, unions are basically filled with assholes. Growing up, my dad was in the Boilermakers. I know firsthand what a bunch of drunken, miserable, violent, and wholly ignorant people …

That happened in Argentina--PhDs driving taxi-cabs in order to survive.

When an immigrant shows up in the US, they most often immediately sign up for welfare--free food, free clothing, free, free, free. They get section 8 housing subsidies, they put th…

That's not possible for everyone. Plus, I just landed my new job going through a recruiter. There are actually some good recruiters out there not just the typical used car salesman…

People in the 60s were protesting the draft and the Vietnam war, mainly. The hippies and the peaceniks were experimenting with all kinds of collectivist living arrangements, none o…

I read this whole article and am quite puzzled by it. No place I have worked in at least the past 10 years has been responsibly staffed. While there were indolent people working at…

You should have tried Python. At one job, we used Groovy for that--we had AIX boxes, some Linux, and Windows and all our scripts ran fine everywhere albeit there were JVMs that had…