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byEngineer··on Go to Prison for File Sharing? That's What Hollywood Wants in the TPP Deal
Well, this is just how much they care about democracy. They are anti-freedom and anti-democratic, that's the only conclusion I can think of when seeing their secret agenda.
byEngineer··on An Investor Wanted to Give Me $50,000. Here’s Why I Said No
And then you said about business not cosnumer. So to get your semantics confusion straight: you say that if you know that 70% of your cars are effectively bought on the consumer market because women like them -- it has no impact on your business purchasing decisions? Really? The same with housing.

And how is it? Complain that you don't make enough money when you already spent 70% of it? On the consumer market. Because in your world where 70% of money is spent on the consumer market has no impact what-so-ever on how the businesses spent their money or how they invest.

Don't pretend to be too dumb, some may believe it.

byEngineer··on An Investor Wanted to Give Me $50,000. Here’s Why I Said No
yes, really. Are you for equality or special treatment. I mean it. If you are for equality then demand that kids go to fathers in 50% divorce cases. Ask for 50% women military. Ask for obligatory paternity test when a child is born.

You don't like your double-standard hypocrisy when I turn the tables, do you?

EDIT: "demand" instead of "have"

byEngineer··on An Investor Wanted to Give Me $50,000. Here’s Why I Said No
No, this includes everything. Houses and cars specifically. These aren't retail. The data is true no matter how you slice it and as I said it is about all the money spent in the economy including big ticket items like houses and cars, not just retail as you falsely suggest.

If you are interested in data also check how many percent car purchases are done because wife wanted them. Cars salesmen in their training are specifically told that a guy showing up without wife isn't serious about the purchase. They will always tell you to come back with wife. Because she is the one telling the guy to pull the trigger. You just pull the trigger. But you won't do it without her approval. The same with house.

byEngineer··on Quantitative Economics with Julia [pdf]
Only Nobel price winning economists think that inflation works. Krugman and now this dude. Not to mention stuff like giving away nobel prices for "encouragement".

I feel really sorry for physics, chemistry and other researchers who must be really worth something to get this prize just to have a moron believing that printing money solves economic issues sitting next to him.

byEngineer··on Research into psychedelics, shut down for decades, is yielding results
And then there is huge difference between Western so called Budhhist living in Southern California and buddhist peasant from a Chinese village.
byEngineer··on A Heroin Dealer Tells the Silk Road Jury What It Was Like to Sell Drugs Online
of course, you just want to make sure that Al Capone still has his stream of income. And how exactly does it make it better for society at large?
byEngineer··on A Heroin Dealer Tells the Silk Road Jury What It Was Like to Sell Drugs Online
Give me some real science here instead of BS propaganda of people interested in keeping it illegal, like law enforcement and their budget, like mafia and their income.

I heard exactly the same form school teacher about marijuana. I heard the same about alcohol and native American Indians. This is all BS. Give me science, solid proofs, not scary stories for 6 year olds.

And then again. Even if it is true. How is that your business? Somebody hurting themselves and you decide it is illegal for them at the same time buying a gun that can hurt others and you. This all complete nonsense, not based on our freedoms , Constitution, tradition, but some middle ages hysteria witch a bunch of ladies screaming delegalize alcohol because it is destroying my family.

We had it, this is BS, this doesnt work and first of all is none of your business what chemicals other people take in their time using their money. Unless you have a vested interest in keeping it illegal, like you are in a gang, you are a dealer or law enforcement. There is no logical reason to support drugs delegalization except for these two: dealing it or catching dealers. Because dealing and catching would be extinct without proginition the same way you don't buy Corona on a corner of a street from armed gangster.

byEngineer··on A Heroin Dealer Tells the Silk Road Jury What It Was Like to Sell Drugs Online
there is no logical arguments behind keeping it illegal. Just emotional stuff. That's the problem i dislike hard liners on drugs legality so much. They are like cult members and can't talk to their reason.

How is it your business if someone's injecting heroin? Is this your business? By the Constituion? By comparison to alcohol or weed? None of your business. The same way like guns. I can buy gun to hurt you, and that's fine, but can't get some chemicals to hurt myself? Where is logic here brother?

There is none. Just emotional BS. Get over it. As crash in 1929 legalized alcohol and we don't have beer dealers shooting each other (we used to have them!!!). As crash in 2008 legalized weed in large parts of the country, the same way next crash will legalize rest of it.

In this economy I don't have so much money to spend on somebody's else life. Sorry. And now start your emotional cry.

byEngineer··on A Heroin Dealer Tells the Silk Road Jury What It Was Like to Sell Drugs Online
Police orders it on the Silk Road, then asks USPS where it was shipped from. Then the cameras at the USPS do the rest.
byEngineer··on A Heroin Dealer Tells the Silk Road Jury What It Was Like to Sell Drugs Online
why not to legalize something that hurts just the one who takes it? The same logic would require us to delegalize alcohol. Remember, we had booze dealers with machine guns terrorizing whole cities, like Chicago, before we came back to our senses and legalized it.

Can you see Corona dealers fighting with Coors dealers for a territory to sell beer? Why not? This is the EXACT reality of 1920s in this country.

I don't care if some idiots are going to kill themselves. As if we didn't have enough economic issues and ways to spend money, to spend so much on prisons, police force and all this other BS to deal with somebody's addiction.

I will tell you what will happen. As 1929 crash forced us to legalize alcohol, the same way 2008 forced us to legalize weed. Hopefully next crash will force us to legalize rest of it and start making money on it to find education vs. taking money from education to keep juvenile institutions staffed with guards.

byEngineer··on Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results
Samsung have been loosing money on their smartphones divisions, haven't they?

I went iPhone -> Android -> iPhone

For the same reasons I can't imagine myself using Windows again, I can't see myself using android in the near future.

byEngineer··on Ross Ulbricht’s private journal shows Silk Road’s birth
Nope, just sincerely curious.

They need to show the warrant to enter suspects house but don't need to do it when seizing suspects property in public space. That's what confused me.

byEngineer··on Ross Ulbricht’s private journal shows Silk Road’s birth
So they don't have to show the warrant to the offender?
byEngineer··on Ross Ulbricht’s private journal shows Silk Road’s birth
how is it legal for the feds to steal private property?
byEngineer··on Kim Dotcom launches end-to-end encrypted audio and video chat service
Don't say that! The Government will protect us from the scum Kim or whatever his name. Be a bit more appreciative!

And in all seriousness I hate this world where the Government can do whatever it wants to you including spying you on all you do online, but you's rather get pissed off because of a guy pirating software. Get some perspective!

byEngineer··on Kim Dotcom launches end-to-end encrypted audio and video chat service
Good thing we have the Government to protect us. At least someone we can trust with all we do online.
byEngineer··on Perl Already Won
yes and key car ignition instead of a button is much more explicit too. But again calling it dumb because of that?
byEngineer··on Perl Already Won
No. I get it. I do understand. Maybe I should have said needlessly complex. Ie you can have keyless entry to a car and start the engine with a press of a button. Or -- instead -- you can search for a key in your pockets (put the bag in your hand on the ground first) insert it into the lock, turn the key and then pick up the bag, take the key and put it into the ignition, turn it and start the car.

So you tell me the first solution is dumb and the other one is smart? I would say that exactly opposite is true.

byEngineer··on Perl Already Won
Couldn't make it more complicated, huh?
byEngineer··on Defense in Silk Road Trial Says Mt. Gox CEO Was the Real Dread Pirate Roberts
Again: cryptocurrencies have built in anti-inflation mechanism: you can have just these many bitcoins. You can't inflate out your debt using printing press. Very good feature for a creditor nation, like China. Very bad for debtor nation like the US. Ie The USD monetary base at least doubled since 2008. To deal with the debt. Impossible to do with bitcoins. Or gold for that matter.
byEngineer··on Defense in Silk Road Trial Says Mt. Gox CEO Was the Real Dread Pirate Roberts
I said "porentialy". As an example: China, Russia, other countries like Iran could start demanding bitcoins for their oil and gas in the future. There is limited number of bitcoins. Limited by an algorithm. The numer of usds is potentially unlimited. I could come up with other examples that could be unrealistic today but possible in 5 or 10 years. So kill the cryptocurrencies while it is still easy. I dont own and have never owned any cryptocurrencies.
byEngineer··on Defense in Silk Road Trial Says Mt. Gox CEO Was the Real Dread Pirate Roberts
Call me a conspiracy theorist all you want but you can't just go there and build a system that is a potential threat to the USD world reserve currency and to the power of the FED.
byEngineer··on YC Demographics
yes! It is the same rule that says that we must be sad that 50% of all applicants aren't women.
byEngineer··on Adrian Carton de Wiart: The unkillable soldier
Yes. Letting others to kill you
byEngineer··on Cyberspace and the Sacralization of Information
If I'm a member of this religion, would I stand a chance in court claiming that copyright laws discriminate me on the freedom of religion basis?
byEngineer··on Fasting triggers stem cell regeneration of damaged, old immune system (2014)
Sometimes we are labeled. You may label yourself Harvard graduate as much as you want but if Harvard says you aren't then you aren't. You may call yourself a Catholic but if thevCatholic Church says you aren't, you simply aren't.
byEngineer··on India Orders 32 Websites Blocked, Including GitHub, Archive.Org, Pastebin
bs. India has always been backwards, so nothing different or new. Again, who cares?
byEngineer··on Increase in Denmark’s autism diagnoses caused by reporting changes
Pregnant mother obesity and giving birth well over 30 contribute not only to autism but also plethora of other issues. On average 20 year old pregnant woman has one hundred times lower chances of delivery complications than 30 year old. 300 pound 35 year old behemoth on the McDonald's diet is the reason for crazy autism statistics in the West.
byEngineer··on Let the Other 95% of Great Programmers In
Well, they are so constrained of talent but then they treat you like shit. What gives?
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