the_ancient

lol, So as long as I post Pro-Goverment, Pro-Socialism message/comments that is "on topic" for hacker news

Is this the offical position now of Hacker News? Libertarian Topics are not allowed? As I do not see you "detaching" any of the Pro-Government Comments

I was not aware making true statements were now "Flameware-style"

I guess Orwell was right In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

I image you do not speak to many libertarians then, because it is talked about alot, with a wide range of solutions.

It is ironic you feel government is the only solution to the problem, when many people both in and out of the US die waiting on government care.

While I am sure the load is high, everytime you look up a .com you are not connecting to Verisign Server.

DNS does not work that way, Major DNS companies like RackSpace and AWS's Route 53 I suspect have higher load DNS than the Root Registries, and they offer the service for free...

Some people own domains/websites for reasons other than Money....

Well that is a complex issue with wide ranging solutions. My overall point though, even if you believe society is best serviced with High Taxation and large government social systems at least be honest and identify that taxation is infact theft, I am willing to debate the multiude of solution for social problem and wealth inequality but I am not willing to debate if taxation is theft.

It is, there is no debate.

To address the social systems and welfare, I personally believe these systems are largely need because of government. Government creates the problem it then uses taxes to "solve"

A stateless or libertarian society does not benefit the rich, in fact strong central planning and control (aka government) ensure the rich stay rich.

Smash the State, Eat the Rich: https://c4ss.org/content/30085

Libertarianism Is So Dangerous: https://youtu.be/NbNFJK1ZpVg

and I see taxation as Violence.

I believe we can Accomplish a lot with out Taxation.

I think we can even have a Universal Basic Income with out taxation. Geo-Libertarians have long proposed such a plan creating Universal Basic Income Derived from Commons Rent

I do not believe to have a civilization you must hold a gun to someones head and take a part of their labor or insert yourself in every financial transaction unethically taking a cut of that transaction like the mafia's protection racket...

>>as long as it can be fairly collected

I am sure your definition of "fair" is vastly different than mine, but I do wonder how you define "fair"

So you believe in order for there to be "civilization" there has to be massive institutional wide scale theft under constant threat of violence?

You do not think very much of humanity do you?

On the Sales tax issue, the business does not have advertise the price including the tax because the business is not being charged the tax which if my understanding it correct differs from how the EU operate. The individual buying the coffee is being charged the tax by the government, the Business is acting as a pseudo government collection agent, forced to do so by law. In most states te business is infact paid a nominal fee to collect this tax on behalf of the government in most location it is very very minor but it is there

As to the not including Tip in the price, well that is because you the consumer set how much you tip, there is not possible way to include it. Outside of "large parties" I will not partake in business that charge a mandatory tip. I am likely one of the few people that actually tip based on the service I get, and I have walked away with out leaving a tip.

>There is no way that $195k ($180k + $15k) is the top 1bps of wage earners at 26. That's pretty comparable to, if not less than, what you could expect in tech at that age.

First you can not say a person works "in tech" any more like you can with Legal. The Information Technology industry has sooo many different Job Classification today that you can not longer loop everyone that "works in tech" together. Not even all programmers or administrators can be looped together anymore IMO. However there is 3 Basic area's of information technology that you might be able to Group together. Support, Administration, Development...

That said like the legal Field, Technology has also be decimated, H1B, "The Cloud", the rise of MSP model @ the expense of Internal IT and other issues are massively lowering the wages

So while a person @26 working for a Top Silicon Valley Company (apple, Amazon, Google, etc) as a High level Programmer, might get 195K, I do not believe you can say a person at 26 should "expect" to get 195K far far far far far from it.

If they are in Operations/Administration, you are looking at 40-70K nation wide, if you are in programming a little more, if you are In Repair or "HelpDesk" a little to much less..

Specialty Area's like DBA or Senior Linux Admin can command those high pay levels in select regions as well.

Yes but Cuba, Iran, Iraq, and Russia are not willing to supply US Companies with near indentured servants to make our stuff,then use the worthless paper they get for the stuff, to buy a different type of worthless paper that allows the US Government to build more war machines, and other things.

Yes but it is not written in nodejs/rust/<insert lang of the moment> so clearly it is crap /s

I have long been an open borders supporter, anyone that wants to come to the US (or any other nation) and make a life for themselves should be free to do so.

I am also 100% opposed to even the existence of the H1B visa program, this program is a modernized version of Indentured servitude that allows companies to take advantage of those employees by conditioning their immigration to their employment. These people are often coming from circumstances they do not want to return to, poverty, oppression, persecution, etc. So the threat of being fired and deported is a coercive force that employers use to exploit these workers.

I am fine with immigration, I am even fine if immigrant are willing to work for lower wages, provided that agreement is free from the threat of deportation...

>In California

Good thing this home is in Idaho...

Most states also have a Roommate exemption in their laws

These roommate exceptions are definitely needed for a verity of reason. Living with someone is deeply personal as such you should be able to discriminate more that a simple commercial lease arrangement, however from the story I doubt they would apply as the author states "crissie" is in California and not on the property, or at least it is not her primary residence, might be a vacation home, or it might be pure rental income.

I agree and if the government was attempting to pass a law mandating this I would support you

But if AirBNB want to have a racism free site where only non-racists homeowners are allowed to post listing then it is perfectly with in the right to do so and I support AirBNB in banning any racist persons they find trying to use their site.

No one has a right to a AirBNB listing, and just as the homeowers can refuse service to anyone, so can airbnb

>>And CMU isn't in the business of venture capital. They're in the business of doing the research

I thought they were in the business of unethical hacking for the FBI

So how much is the FBI paying them to hack the brain

People are really focusing on the wrong thing...

The issue is not the government wants to exempt themselves from FOIA, or Privacy Laws

The issue is that the government is allowed to compile these databases in the first place.

If I am not under active investigation, then the FBI has no business keeping records on me in the first place. If I am not suspected of a crime, they should not have my face, my prints, or anything else about me in their databases.

I dont even agree with giving them the authority to keep records of people convicted of any crime in the past forever. There should be auto expunge say after 10 years with out any further criminal conviction especially for crimes that do not involve injury to another party (aka drug crimes, serious traffic offenses and other "victimless crimes" )

>>. I'd rather have my prints on file and be automatically cleared of suspicion

Ohh how naive are you....

>Chinese intelligence giving your competition your I.P. who then operate in your market with cheaper labor.

Well first and foremost I do not accept the concept of IP in the first place, Information is not property and should not be protected.

Nor or they "my competition" they might be cisco, but I do not support nationalism, or protectionism.

Let me Guess, your a Trump Supporter?

>>Cisco and mobile manufacturers vs Huwei to see how big of a market share that can lead to.

Implying the Huawei is the "cheap knock off" and Cisco/Apple/Samsung/etc are the noble high quality product fighting the good fight....

My Hauwei Nexus 6P has been the best phone I have ever owned, far exceeding the quality and usability of every Motorola, Samsung, and other phones I have owned.

As to Cisco, after their fasco with the NSA I would not trust them at all for security.

>Well what is the worst case scenario here?

Your car is spotted near a location that at one time in the past sold something to a drug dealer/grower/manufacture, Then you get your home raided (and possibly your dog killed, and children get to have flash bangs detonated in their beds/faces) all because your car was spotted some place the police took an interest in...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2015/12/28/...

Depends on your Definition of "innocent" and crime

Since I do not get my ethics or morality from the government or law I do not view simply breaking one of the millions of laws as criminal, a crime to me has to have a complaining victim, no victim no crime.

Thus the state enforcing the thousands of victim-less crimes, or even crimes "against the state" are immoral, and unethical.

Further I find the governments use of ALPR data to build massive on going databases that are used for government and private uses to be offensive.

It is sad you do not

I see you have a much greater trust and respect for government than I

I am a libertarian, I view 99% of government as immoral and unethical

> Government is accountable

that is funny right there....

>With private services, you're more or less out of luck,

In a way, but last I checked google nor facebook are legally empowered to Arrest, Put me in a Cage, Raid my Home at 3am, Shoot my dog, Detonate Explosives in my children face or even Kill Me.

So yes google violates your privacy, to sell you shit, the government violates your privacy to put you in a cage or kill you. I am more concerned with the latter...

The problem is the First Circuit gets ALL patent cases nationwide, so with this precedent in place anyone wanting to claim copyright infringement on a API will toss in a Patent claim as well to ensure it goes only to the First Circuit

With the high court refusing to address the issue, we will never see another court get one of these cases.