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It's a false premise that taxation does not produce a good or service. E.g. USPS, defense contracts, farm subsidies, etc. It's not clear that you're going to end up with lower econ…

What do those bureaucrats do with the money that is paid with taxes? Spend it on economic activity.

The U-4 (unemployed + discouraged workers) for March was 5.3% as opposed to the U-3 (unemployed) of 5% [1]. 1. http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm

How is Common Core, a set of standards that can voluntarily be adopted by states, equivalent to regulation?

At what rate do taxes cross the threshold of being obscenely high?

How is this true since ETFs were around several years before electronic exchanges came into existence?

So much cynicism in these comments. As a 27-year-old, I found myself nodding at almost everything stated by the author. Perhaps I don't fall into the same category as most other HN…

As a native Texan (I've lived in the Houston area for about 26 years), I agree with most of what you say. RE: the clinics, instead of closing, could those clinics continue to offer…

I don't think it's a weird thing to do if someone loves what they do or is very grateful for the opportunity they have. However, I'm biased as I have written a thank you note to my…

Evolution is simply the change in allele frequency in populations of organisms over time. This is most certainly observable.

Similar to sukuriant, I googled the name half of your email in your profile, clicked on your Trello profile, copy&pasted the text from your first entry (I did not recognize the lan…

My Google-fu leads me to say...Poland.

I was simply commenting on the semantics of the article. The wording in the title and body claims this bill is the cause of the temporary tax cut expiring. That would be disingenuo…

The article makes it sound like the bill explicitly raises taxes on 77% of households. This would be false. The bill simply does not extend the temporary tax holiday that was signe…

Netflix's blog post mentions they used two algorithms from one of the Progress Prize ($50,000) winners. The article goes on to say "...you might be wondering what happened with the…

You lack imagination.