Thimothy

I like this one better.

This must be satire or sarcasm, but the parent got me at the beginning.

I still haven't had the time to debug it, but I wonder how many people are out there with their OS silently refusing to update.

You should have limited that list to the US, in Europe many other capitals and big cities have extensive public transportation networks that are used as primary means of transport in the city by a wide range of the population, in a wide range of journeys.

I have still to see a reason in this thread that justifies the higher prices. If connections between different companies in a country work without significant cost, why is different between (european) countries? Damn, most of the time are the same company! It's price gouging and a racket.

I find GoGs policy a nice middle ground to Steam, on one side, and ruining their business as you suggest, on the other.

When everybody in this thread are advocating for socialism, are using the word in the European sense, socialism as in social-democracy [1], as have many leading European parties in their names [2][3]. Its tenets are as many as there are people using the word, but usually involve a strong safety net with a publicly owned healthcare system, strong redistribution by taxing the rich and companies, and generally having corporations on short leash. For a successful implementation, see the Nordic countries.

In the US, the word socialism is used as a synonym for communism, that is the word that would be used in Europe for the kind of government that ran all those countries you mentioned, is responsible of all those awful things and shares nothing with socialism but a far historical background, lost in the mists of the late XIX century.

In real life (in Europe), it would be hard to find anybody that goes by socialist or votes a socialist party that would advocate for anything remotely similar to a full fledged Communism.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_democracy [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Democratic_Party_of_Ger... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Party_(France)

In wireshark, for example, its meat is in the networking code, and the important skills of the developers are there, on inkscape, on the other side, the non-trivial contributions probably happen very near to the graphic frontend. If GTK goes to the gutter, retraining the developers to get to the same level in Qt will set Inkscape back years.

I have a Japanese friend that has been road-tripping Europe for some time in his vacations and has been unable to convince any (Japanese) friend to go with him. In the last one, he was almost coming with a guy, but at the last moment, that guys mother convinced him to cancel the trip, and this was before the Paris attacks.

>>As is often the case when the law arbitrarily privileges some parties over others, there is an overlooked harm here, suffered by would-be lobstermen that the rules say cannot be.

I fail to see how granting exclusive use to a single party would benefit "would-be lobstermen", if anything, its economies of scale would allow it to employ less people.

Not to talk about how the hypothetical single party might find another, more profitable, equilibrium point with less, and more expensive, lobsters in the market, employing less people. Or sending all of them to china and damaging the coastal tourism of Maine.

Also, I can't think of a modern instance of a monopoly that was given the control of a limited renovable resource and behaved nicely in an unregulated environment. All the instances I can think of were heavily regulated.

I dunno about the movie, but I have heard sometimes that Herbert was quite fond of helping the creative process by those means.

http://dailygrail.com/Shamanism/2014/7/Magic-Mushrooms-were-...

Come on!! Hasn't anybody actually read the article?? Unless the economist is showing different articles to different people the only phrase that mentions research implies that is an argument made by the industry and not clear at all. The "the US subsidizes drug research for the rest of the world" is a huge lie that cannot die soon enough.

Bought it anyway, even with customs (and in my country are surprisingly straightforward), it's cheaper than alternatives.

I don't think you ever tried immigrating to Canada. I don't mean this snarkily but the world would be a much better place if every citizen was forced at some point to go through his countries immigration process.

I have a friend who has been for the last years going through the Canadian immigration and his lengthy facebook posts describe an awful and demeaning experience. In all disclosure, his partner is from a third world country, and that's probably the biggest problem, but he's a clever, resourceful and valuable person that has been living all around the world, including SV, and it's absolutely incredible how have made everything in their hands short of blocking his entry in the country to stop his immigration.

But that's applicable to every substance in the universe!!! From serpent venom and uranium to oxygen and water. Seriously, you can die if you drink too much water and it's not pleasant.

Your argument proves too much, we can't ban everything that is harmful to humans in some doses. We can and do ban certain doses of certain substances, and that amount of aluminum is well bellow the damage threshold for humans.

Most of the time the system works as intended. The researchers do their research on public money, most of what they do becomes public knowledge through papers, if something noteworthy is found, it's patented and licensed and the university gets its cut. The system kind of fails sometimes at giving the researchers (in plural, not just the tenured rockstar) its due, but many times are the scientists the ones that open an enterprise to work it out.

In this case, it's not that system that has failed, it's that different universities are fighting over who has the right to license it. I have no horse in this race, but this it's probably going to become even more common, as improvements on existing technology become smaller and it's harder to tell who deserves the full credit.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13423629

Every European country has it's handful of companies that have consolidated and by their supply chain drive a huge part of the economy.

https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks

As software has taken over everything, we can safely extend this to all technologies.

I couldn't find them in a google search, that is not surprising as is quite a topic, but a quick search brings that there are 40 million people involved in prostitution, and 4.5 million have been victim of sex trafficking. That gives a rough estimate of 1/10 prostitution related transactions directly involved with human trafficking, so the use of "vast majority" is called into question.

I'm just realizing, though, that what really irks me is that the GP is using himself some kind of straw-manning himself. I've never found an prostitution abolitionist that pointed to sex-trafficking as the "big problem" in prostitution. The big problem is always women who are drawn into it involuntary, or more precisely, would very much rather do any other thing in the world. Sex-traffic is not an straw-man, but an global expression of the worst face of prostitution, and some people would say that an incidence of 10% is enough reason for pushing for the complete banning.

The reason I didn't address the second point, or the rest of the comment, is that I'm not really interested in discussing what other people discuss on such a flamewar-baity topic.