lucifirius | 5 years ago | on: Microsoft Statement in Support of Epic [pdf]
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lucifirius | 6 years ago | on: Labour pledges free broadband for all homes and firms in UK
A finite resource (not even a resource!) that people will wonder where they went after everything falls apart.
lucifirius | 6 years ago | on: The great American tax haven: why the super-rich love South Dakota
Fairness would involve treating everybody the same, rich or poor.
You don't like the poor, you just hate the rich.
lucifirius | 6 years ago | on: Labour pledges free broadband for all homes and firms in UK
"free"
okay but where does the money come from?
lucifirius | 6 years ago | on: One Google Staffer Fired, Two Others Put on Leave Amid Tensions
Tyranny of the majority
lucifirius | 6 years ago | on: One Google Staffer Fired, Two Others Put on Leave Amid Tensions
Linking a wikipedia article isn't an argument
lucifirius | 6 years ago | on: One Google Staffer Fired, Two Others Put on Leave Amid Tensions
>See TikTok's banning LGBT content
China owns TikTok
lucifirius | 6 years ago | on: One Google Staffer Fired, Two Others Put on Leave Amid Tensions
It's entirely possible to be a profitable competitive corporation and not do evil.
lucifirius | 6 years ago | on: Malicious attack on Wikipedia – what we know and what we’re doing
the chans are also actively moderated, and the chans remove CP and did remove other content after events happen
lucifirius | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: What is the ops architecture like for AAA multiplayer game servers?
Here's some EVE Online links. Really amazing stuff.
lucifirius | 6 years ago | on: America’s aging population is leading to a doctor shortage crisis
Single payer in the UK has already led to doctor shortages, so I'm not sure what point you're trying to make.
There's many ways to get to a shortage, cartels and single payer are but two.
lucifirius | 6 years ago | on: 'Waffle House Index' is a real thing during disasters
Capitalism is the private ownership of capital. That's the definition.
Capitalism is also 100% merit-based and unauthoritarian. Nobody is forcing people to use Amazon or McDonalds or Walmart. You might be confusing it with socialism, which is authoritarian as hell and has no regard for merit...
lucifirius | 6 years ago | on: Darpa wants help cracking the election security problem
Most countries require a form of voter ID.
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It's such a stupid trope in any case.