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This is a horrible idea. The Panglossianism that will result from this is indicative of the bubble hype which will destroy Silicon Valley, Y-Combinator and Hacker News. In fact, th…

This reminds me of Javed Iqbal, an American satellite dish repairman who was thrown in jail for allowing Americans access (Hezbollah and supposedly Iran backed) Al-Manar television…

> Mitnick is a criminal and all the pro-hacking sympathies have been wasted on a very, very undeserving person. Wow, he hacked into some corporation's computers, that's just so awf…

I know nothing of your family, deduce nothing about them and have nothing to say about them. However younger people often have little or no idea what happened before them. Perhaps …

> If you're itching to start something new, why chase the nth iteration of a company already serving the young, privileged, liberal jetsetter? Because those are the projects which …

Unemployment is one of the pillars that capitalism is built on, it is a structural necessity for profits to exist, so any efforts to relieve it via reform are doomed to failure. St…

The article has a tweet from someone who says: > what about the fact that 170 people died in Homs on July 19th? any mention about those "Atrocious Actions"? no. antisemite. One rea…

Someone telling me I need the strength to love God is not someone who is making a rational argument to counter. I can't even conceive of how to address the "argument" that I'm weak…

The author is the president of the American Enterprise Insititute. AEI's board are the CEO's of ExxonMobil, Dow Chemical etc. Including the CEO of Enron until he was ousted. They a…

You quote exactly what I am talking about from Wealth of Nations. How is the "support of domestic to that of foreign industry" free trade in modern parlance? That is protectionism.…

This article goes over much of what happens, but seems to have missed the point of things. It talks about how the mango went to some backwoods provinces of China - probably not ele…

Dogma has penetrated very deep. If you read Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations", the invisible hand is something that intervenes in markets to prevent free trade among merchants from …

> Through the years that he has been at the California Institute of Technology (REDACTED) he has in my opinion made a definite point of knowing well and cultivating such persons as…

I am confusing nothing. Israel claims the West Bank is part of Israel, and with IDF troops marching through the West Bank and settlements popping up everywhere, it is de facto Isra…

> While Islamic democracies elsewhere (such as Indonesia) are doing fine, in the Arab world the very fabric of the state is weak. The Western countries and Israel have been doing e…

Some of the figures Altman gives are important. There are some more: http://monthlyreview.org/2008/12/01/financial-implosion-and-... If you read that article and consult the (mostl…

What promising idea is that, making a business on the basis of ignoring the laws of the municipalities your business is in, or having the drivers, who were in business before Uber …

> In a country with little or no place to gather for the free expression of ideas and no place to talk politics without fear of repression Edward Snowden revealed that the USA was …

* Argentinian workers begin organizing, get better pay, get Argentinian resources into hands of Argentinian people * CIA and US military help organize a coup, help kill off opposit…

I take this with a grain of salt. You have a security business trying to drum up business, anonymous NSA sources etc. I take the indictment of the five with a grain of salt as well…

Well the existence of the UK is what erected a border between the 6 north counties of Ireland and the 26 south counties of Ireland. So what might remove some borders is a weakening…

First world problems. Decades from now, under a portrait of Lenin, this article will be one of the readings of the lesson in a social studies class.

I wonder if the bags manufactured in US prisons ever have notes slipped into them. You don't have to go to Saks, you can buy them online - http://www.iaprisonind.com/store/c/31-Pla…

One thing people tend to forget is China lucked out in some ways by 9/11. On April 1st, 2001, less than three months after Bush became president, he sent a US plane to the Chinese …

Here are some of those peaceful people you were talking about in Beijing - a soldier bloodied by the peaceful crowds beating, a soldier beaten to death by the peaceful crowd, a tan…