feedmeseymour

Thanks.

From my experience, a majority of the members here believe in collectivism / socialism and not in individual rights, and are big city dwellers that thing small towns and their constituents are a disease.

There aren’t 30+ freight trains each day, and they don’t run over an average of 1 pedestrian per month as far as I know.

But hey, as long as we can provide an affordable way for transients to get to and from the needle exchange safely.

Yeah, and look what a failure crypto currency has become…

Combined crypto currency market capitalization is currently nearing 1% of the market capitalization of the entire planet.

IOW, great thesis.

> The US was mostly a libertarian's paradise from [insert date range of the most prosperous human development in the US].

And, the great depression was a direct result of government and bank collusion. The Federal Reserve tightened the money supply exactly after the market crashed. Take the federal government, which sanctioned the federal reserve, out of the picture, and you have a much smaller crash that weeds out all the idiots who fell for the securities fraud perpetrated by the Shenandoah Corporation, which precipitated the crash in the first place.

In fact, get rid of the federal reserve banking system that was created by the federal government in 1913, and you don’t have any of the major crashes in the ensuing 95 years.

Go one step further and remove the federal government’s control over the money supply in general and you have a system of multiple currencies, all controlled by their constituent markets, many backed by silver and/or gold. and you don’t have a nationwide gold seizure by the federal government in 1933, whereupon our distributed sovereign wealth was gifted to internationalist bankers. You have instead a wealthy population of the descendants of the colonialists that conquered this country for us.

They don’t really teach this kind of stuff in stated-funded “school”, now do they?

I think what I’m hearing you say is that China’s government regulations are “light”... :)

China has 8 different agencies involved in food regulation.

A government that doesn’t allow its subjects to express freedom of speech to its citizens is not “light” in anything.

The dangerousness of items produced in China is a symbol of the corruptability of the monopolization of power by government, underscored by the fact that business in mainland China starts with payoffs to local government officials.

Meanwhile, in Florida, where people are free to package up food items for sale with no license of any kind and no commercial kitchen (up to a certain volume), I don’t hear about many cases of people receiving brain damage from lead poisoning after eating cookies from their local coffee shop.

People that don’t have a foot on their neck are typically not evil by default, because they don’t have to be in order to just survive. That’s why things just work here in the US.

People accustomed to oppressive control just don’t understand these things.

I absolutely agree.

When you remove government actors from industry, except where absolutely needed (e.g., preventing monopoly) this becomes the default modus operandi.

Something that works really well but is pretty uncommon:

My 2016 Honda Accord coupe has a wide-angle camera on right mirror whose feed displays in a center display on when I turn the right blinker on (or manually turn the camera on).

Rather than actively do anything (like stear for me) or abstract anything (like warn me when there is a vehicle in my blindspot), it just gives me a plain view of the road to the right of me extending back hundreds of feet, with only the small augmentation of 2 added virtual lines on the road, one at a single car length back and the other at two car lengths back, to help me guage distance.

Simple features like this, which increases situational awareness without abstracting important dicisions away from the driver, are terrific and, despite only having anecdotal evidence of their effectiveness, I would bet my last dollar that improvements like this reduce accidents drastically. I don’t cut anybody off anymore ever, not that I ever did it intentionally in the past, but I am always extremely confident now in knowing whether or not I’m going to be pulling into a lane that has a speeding car approaching from behind or whether a car is in my blind spot, or somebody is about to change into the lane next to me from two lanes over, etc.

Unfortunately, the market seems to be rewarding features that attempt to replace, rather than augment, situational awareness.

Perl is “just as portable” in the same way that a motorcycle can just as easily drive under a steamroller... it’s not gonna be pretty and there’s no easy way out if you do it.

The movie Idiocracy is an example.

Firstly, that was one of the most well written comments I’ve read here.

Secondly, I have seen part of this scenario play out exactly as you stated (hire contractor, fail to deliver, delute investment, repeat); it’s as as if there’s a program to be optionally run by stumbling founders.

Yes… See my original comment.

They could’ve perform such an experiment without playing games. Then, they wouldn’t have wasted citizens’ $90,000.