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I know it's anecdotal like your own post but I saw an Anthony Bourdain Singapore episode and he said it was one of the worst possible places for libertarians like himself. I know I hate it.

Fair point, I meant it in that prison officials don't issue the currency and in fact they actively discourage trade among prisoners. betterunix makes it seems like the state and money are essential for each others existence.

I'm interested in your third paragraph, particularly "Money demand comes from things like tax codes, debt/bankruptcy laws, torts, ...civil fines, etc."

In prison, packs of cigarettes are money and none of the things you mentioned exist. Yet in a prison I can trade a pack of smokes for a tattoo, drugs, cellphones, etc. It seems like money arises out of the need to have a reliable, constant value for exchanging good and services.

Do you differentiate between money and currency(medium of exchange)?

Why would a triple arsonist be walking around free?

If someone sets fire to 3 buildings I expect them to be in prison.

Yes they are. He said a researcher shared that information with police officers, not that they did anything but say "thanks a lot, this will help". I'm willing to bet no officer on the drug enforcement team even read the paper.

No law local enforcement agency will known how to even begin step 2, and none will waste the time and resources for step 3.

Yeah because the majority of college students are going to study medicine.

When people talk about the "end" of higher education they mean an end to the thousands of psychology, communications, liberal arts type degrees. We will still have universities and phd's but not kids taking on thousands in debt so universities can build massive new building and sports arenas.

Chicago's Connamara Systems does this with their HFT framework.

http://www.connamara.com/solutions-hftframework.html

All fair points.

I guess I was looking at it from a criminal perspective. These same Chicago gangs are able to import cocaine from Colombia, ecstasy from Amsterdam, heroin from Afghanistan, hell even knock off purses and electronics from China, I don't see why they wouldn't just expand and sell Romanian AK-47's or bootleg Chinese glocks.

Personally I wouldn't mind biometrics on my guns but would HATE any kind of registry.

I don't think gun safety is the major issue, gun violence is the big killer.

Biometric scanners and high tech safes may help save a few people but there are more murders during a Chicago summer than all school shootings in the last 10 years combined.

And only one black man.

You are absolutely right, I plan to move my parents in when I start having kids. I still remember going to one of grandparents house everyday after elementary and middle school.

I'm mexican so it's normal to have multi-generational homes but I always wondered why white people don't do this more.

I wish a global collapse would happen, I think it could do humanity some good in the long run.

Can you give me an example of how this would happen? If google spent millions solving a problem how would I copy the solution and integrate it into my product, considering I will never see google's codebase?

Genuinely asking, a real world situation would be cool. It seems like this would happen most when ex-employees try to compete with the large company.

He was being sarcastic, but you are right.

California has always been the place to "make it big". From tech to movies to the gold rush, the recent economic policies (last 30 years or so) have little to do with it.

If you are a regular “cash customer” of a restaurant, you get treated like a king.

Good inside move.

Sorry, my post came off as being a total dick. I didn't flag it lol.

Is the analyst/consultant career path a solid way to get an upper-middle class life? I don't know anything about that sector but I imagine the average GS/MS/JPM finance-type peson makes 300-700k? Or am I way off?

Would you be limited to living and working the East Coast or getting huge pay cut elsewhere?

You posted a thread asking for help on your startup after being a member for 15 days.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4240543

Seems like an unfair rant. Flagged.

Are there any big real world examples of this?

He seems like a like cool dude. I hope he's innocent.

I liked "He taught himself how to write code, and eventually mastered complex Internet software protocols."

Seems like a lot of the issues would of been solved by moving to AWS. At least they would of still been making money.

I handle a lot of guns and that is a great analogy. We know that all we have to do is look for a ".php". But how many average people notice that type of stuff?

You're right that there are imprints on all rounds but seeing and remembering that is like getting a database error and remembering if it was Microsoft or MYSQL...You have to have a lot of experience and a keen memory.

So pretty much impossible.

Unless he somehow saw the box or the imprint at the bottom, it's almost impossible.

There is a small difference in width but you can't really tell if you're further than a foot away.

http://www.google.com/imgres?um=1&hl=en&sa=N&tbo...

Was the united states really spending more on defense during the 50's and 60's than it is now?

I think we spent over a trillion dollars this year.

I love this and one day want to build my own fortified Doomstadt Castle but building it in LA seems like a bad idea.

If a massive natural disaster actually happened I feel like the first place all of the LA gang members (and there are millions) would loot are the rich areas on the coast. Once they see your perfectly standing, lit up house the natural elements would be the least of your worries.

Any further links or reading? I am very interested in this subject.

I don't know what any of those academic terms mean but what have you coded and are most proud of?

I don't know why comparing political donations to food puts these numbers in perspective. A better comparison is other nations fundraising.

Canadians spend less on campaigns than the "biggest spenders" on that chart combined, with 37 million citizens.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_political_financing_in_...

During the 2010 presidential election Brazilians spent $2 billion on campaigns and have ~200 million citizens.

http://articles.cnn.com/2012-01-24/world/world_global-campai...

F1 racing is not a game, it is a major global industry. The top driver makes something like $40 million a year. Many of the advances we see in regular cars are designed and tested in those high performance vehicles.

But more importantly htf funds do not stop anyone from participating in the markets, it just harder and riskier to do so. Accounting firms had massive staffs with hundreds of binders and files for each client. Accounting software eliminated most of that. Were accountants talking about the unfair advantage that Intuit had, and how normal accountants couldn't make a living anymore? Probably. Welcome to the future.

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