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- Hey, the ship is on fire! - It's been smooth sailing for me. Maybe you should move to a part that's *not* on fire, instead of complaining about the part that is!

Those juicy dozen-million-dollar gigs are given to whomever bribed the gatekeepers the best. If the govt were genuinely interested in providing quality services, then garbage softw…

Right, and we can just take their word for it because.. Don't Be Evil?

> This could affect the business model of Uber dramatically by increasing their costs and liabilities. All those costs are precisely why Uber wanted contractors instead of employee…

I guess they don't use IDEA then.

Giving stuff away for free is not how business works :P

"Terrorists!" has worked for quite a while now..

I'm sure he's glad you're here to protect him from himself!

A "terrorist" is anyone who does something that could potentially harm the rulers' interests.

Of course it's way too harsh. They're making an example out of him. The message here is: "don't even dream of circumventing the monetary system we control ". This is just a part of…

Oh great, even more of Internet of Surveillance Things! I can't wait to help governments monitor me in every way possible! I'll wear surveillance clothes, use only Smart surveillan…

I'm opposed to the idea of UBI for two main reasons: 1) It's not economically viable/sustainable. 2) Taxation is extortion anyway. And yeah, people should earn what they receive to…

If you want to be taken seriously, you need to be able to differentiate between subjective and objective things ("there is no right or wrong") for starters. Then it would be great …

You're not being intellectually honest here, but I suspect you knew that already.

Nice to see someone who can be reasoned with. I looked at some of your comments and saw you mention how your friends despise philosophy. I believe that's because "academic philosop…

Appeal to authority. Not convincing.

None. It's a burgeoning police state. Stay out of harm's way.

> The most ironic thing in all this is that your comment is still full of Herd mentality, except that it goes the other way. No it's not. There. Did I win? > Angular is a framework…

> Eventually we get to employ robots to do hard labor better than any human can for longer periods of time until we're paying fractions of a penny per hour in 'wages', initial cost…

> I wouldn't think it healthy to ignore or disregard certain view points out of hand just because they are different to mine. But that's exactly what you've done with my viewpoint.…

> There is no right or wrong. So I guess 2 + 2 makes whatever the hell you want it to? > he articulates them well and can back them up by showing his thought patterns What if his t…

> That's not how it actually works; price is only bounded by the value is brings, not proportional to it Price can be whatever the hell someone feels like asking for something, whi…

It's interesting how you can recognize an Anarcho-Capitalist viewpoint when you see one, but can't recognize that being an AnCap basically just boils down to being moral, sane, rat…

The overarching problem here is herd mentality. Using Angular is a bad idea, but lots of companies are using it anyway because The Herd stampeded towards the new shiny thing, mostl…

Here's a relevant reply I posted to someone else: ----- I'm guessing his point was that we're so accustomed to relatively comfortable living (especially here on HN), that we take v…