snappyTertle

It's only a problem when the tax man wants to claim a piece of the income...

The problem is that we have a government body that can be bought and influenced by the private sector. If government powers were limited in scope, there would be no incentives for lobbying.

It's perverted that companies reach a point where it's more profitable to lobby or find ways around laws rather than continuing to spend on production or other business costs.

I don't get why people think paying more taxes is "moral". There are a lot of things the government spends on that I don't agree with...and I'm sure I'm not alone on this.

Why did you choose Pony over something like Erlang or Elixir?

Robots making food will lower the cost of food, giving more people access to better nutrition. This will also free up labor and capital to do other things.

Machines helped make farming more productive so humans no longer have to live on farms, and dedicate their lives to the next meal on their table. If we were worried about jobs back then, we would've outlawed tractors and other machines. If we really want to create jobs, we would go back to manual labor to make produce our food.

People should take responsibility for their own actions. A lot of ICOs are fluff and high risk. People should be aware of that before they invest. If they don't do their research, they shouldn't blame lack of regulation for their laziness. How would regulation fix this?

Who would enforce regulations? You would necessarily have to centralize things and hand over power to an authority. This would defeat the purpose of a dencentralized blockchain.

This actually happened to Ethereum. They ended up forking the blockchain to Ethereum and Ethereum Classic.

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It's funny to me that you trust fiat money that can be devalued at the whim of governments and central banks.

Short BTC because there's a bubble in ICOs from tokens built on top of ETH?

I remember reading somewhere that the source of problem is gifs. They are kept in memory and always running, even if off screen. If this is true, the solution should be pretty easy?

Agreed. There's more important things to spend public money on at the moment (like servicing the $20T in debt). Let private companies, like SpaceX, voluntarily spend R&D on it.

How does fault tolerance compare to Erlang? This was what made Erlang so great IMO

React will continue to dominate thanks to react native. Neither Angular or Vue.js has a solution for mobile as nice as react native, at least as far as I know.

Exactly...sounds eerily similar to the way housing was inflated by government. People then blame greedy capitalists and ask for even more government intervention :(

That's so sad. Why should politicians decide health care access. The system is so messed up. Government regulation has caused price for health care to sky rocket. And now we have to beg them to be a 3rd party payer just so we can "afford" it.

Is there an effort to bring elm on native mobile to compete/work with react-native?

Sure, Uber may have broken the law (or evaded it); however, just because a law exists, doesn't make it correct. We should also question if the law should be there in the first place.

Next story: Caterpillars die from plastic poisoning :(

Does anyone actually like social security?

>> No, but (at least from my perspective) the razor appears to be leaning heavily in one direction.

Why do you say that?

Welp, first step shouldn't be to accuse of something we have no evidence of?

I don't understand the hatred of Russia. Wouldn't we want to be allies with the second most powerful country?

Also, got any evidence of the hacking?

Which laws were important?

What about municipal corporations?

The balance of power allows government officials to control those outside of government.

How would they enforce these evil TOS? They don't have the power to do so.

Uber was justifiably shady. They had to get around outdated laws that protects an outdated medium of transportation.

The state is an entity designed to benefit all at the cost of the few, but thanks to the corruption of uneven power, the state ends up benefitting those in power at the cost of those not in power.

Why should a majority be able to decide who and who doesn't get to participate in the market?