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Am I wrong? Is there not strife in the US between ethnic groups? Does Japan not have the one of the lowest crime rates in the world?

It's easy to say that we should take every opportunity we can to fight Nazis.

That seems to be the meme of the decade. Do you think all republicans are Nazis too? You're living in a bubble. Think for yourself.

The subtitle is misleading.

How a tiny country with high government spending bred a large number of vibrant young businesses

The article then goes on to attribute almost all of Sweden's success to deregulation and anti-monopoly laws---i.e., less government intervention ∝ more startup success.

The problem isn't taxation. The problem is Orwellian control over yet another major part of everyday life.

large amount of regulations that are involved with gambling, due to how addictive and potentially harmful it is.

Regulation in the gambling industry is not there to protect you. It's there to enforce monopoly.

I'm glad we're not a tech savvy state.

A huge portion of the people I've met in tech are class-A douche bags. They are obsessed with salary, or the fact that they work for X instead of Y. They are extremely elitist.

All of my friends who went to high school in the Bay Area have classmates who killed themselves over (lack of) prestige.

You won't see any of that in Iowa. It is a much more honest place. People work hard but aren't obsessed with where you want to college or how much money you make.

I would be genuinely sad if Apple or Google opened a SWE location in Iowa. The culture is basically the antithesis of the old Midwest.

There is obviously a gradient of how impactful laws are on businesses.

Federally insuring speculative businesses directly affects who wins and who loses in an industry.

On the other hand, laws against fraud and bribery cannot negatively affect industries which provide value.

Regulation is fine, but only to the extent that it cannot pick winners and losers.

lobbying(bribery), capital concentration, anti-union legislation, anti-small business legislation

We've learned through the decades---and especially through the bailouts in the late 2000s---that slapping big business on the wrist is not enough to stop cronyism and government-enabled monopoly. The only way to eliminate that is to cut the snake off at its head; if there is no power to dole out, lobbying wouldn't exist.

If the government can't choose who succeeds and who fails, then only those who provide value can succeed. The only way to grow a business without a monopoly is to employ people (whether directly, or indirectly by investing capital).

From Wikipedia on the Expedia CEO:

Ten years later, in 2015, Expedia awarded him $90 million worth of stock options as part of a long-term employment agreement, stating he would stay until 2020.

I'm probably too harsh, but I can't think of a single developer who would welcome such a large PR with open arms.

I'm not saying that your implementation of Git is bad. I didn't look at your code at all; it could be perfect, for all I know.

What I'm saying is you are not using git effectively. It is much easier to read and understand merge requests the smaller they are. Someone who didn't write the code should be able to go through your merge request in one sitting and understand all of its implications.

You may have written a good "implementation of Git," but you have also demonstrated that you don't know how to use it effectively.

I'm unconvinced.

Means no more downtime, no possibilities of censorship, be it from states or from companies.

Wrong.

historically, patch-based systems have been very simple to learn and use, but slow, whereas snapshot-based systems can be extremely fast, but are usually hard to use for more than simple operations. As an example, cherry-picking is not intuitive in git/mercurial

How is cherry-picking not intuitive?

Category theory has certainly been an inspiration for Pijul, but categories are neither algorithms nor data structures in themselves. In order to get the semantics we wanted, especially the handling of multiple files, rollbacks and unrecords, designing and implementing new algorithms and data structures was at least as useful as learning theoretical stuff.

Yet another thing with relatively little practically use, but hey, it uses category theory! It must be good! Oh look, it's also functional!

All of that said, props to Pierre-Étienne for putting in the time and effort to make this. He probably learned a lot.

This is a +19k -8k line pull request. That is dumbest thing I have ever seen. For having written something that interfaces with git, this person obviously doesn't know how to use it effectively.

I'm a US citizen. Banks are very nice when you know everyone who works there.

Open a bank account in your home country? Or is it destroyed by corruption and government greed?

Why don't you want to stay in India?

You are wrong. I am in the process of opening a business account remotely.

Yes? You can open a bank account on almost any bank's website.

Even my local bank in town will let me open a business bank account remotely.

and it keeps the people of Africa as slaves to the first word countries.

There are absolutely people who are out to exploit the poor and uneducated, but you make it sound as if someone wants to enslave for the purpose of enslaving.

Those companies shouldn't be monitoring ideologies and morality.

If they want to do that, it's their right. But I will purposefully avoid companies that ban any hate speech. I've already cut ties with Google and it feels great.

the supposed infiltration of Marxism into culture and ideas like White Privilege and Cultural Appropriation

You can't argue that "white privilege" hasn't infiltrated culture. An alarming amount of people have openly disparaged white people when talking to me, even though I am white myself.

If you're not white, it's almost socially acceptable to say "fuck white people" in cities like SF, NYC, and Chicago. I think it's horrible and I think Peterson is right.

Do what?

Is spending four years to get an Associates of Arts degree not a bad idea? Does it not reinforce poverty?

Typical HN. Moral superiority; avoiding direct answers; unable to cope reality.

Yes.

Yeah, didn't read it. Came straight to the comments to see all the righteous, selfless technocrats on HN tonight.

A very large portion of the population is poor without intractable personal problems.

If you're suggesting that ~30% of people in the US have such problems, and if you're right, then you got me; the world is screwed.

Obviously, I don't see people with genetic disorders and think "man, what an idiot".

You can't just assume that every person you see is poor due to their life decisions. But if you do, you're right about 99% of the time. The vast majority of poor people I know make bad decision after bad decision.

Being rich is risking losing your job in order to negotiate a better contract with your boss

If you have a 9-to-5, you're probably not rich.

He could face up to seven years in prison, as well as fines from $40,000 to $400,000

That's bullsh*t. He's taken off well more than seven years of people's lives and he's made well more than $400k in performance bonuses.

Honestly, I don't understand why everyone trashes Coinbase.

I work very closely with numerous crypto exchanges for a living (I write code which interfaces with them). Outside of work, I've personally chosen to open a Coinbase account and trade on GDAX.

Coinbase is, in my opinion, the most reputable exchange out there by far.

Not saying all firms do this, but I immediately thought of malicious tactics like spoofing.