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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
Prohibition 101: 1. The act being prohibited is nonviolent; injecting heroin, for example, involves zero violence. 2. The prohibition itself creates the violent black market organizations; if heroin were legal, the black market organization
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How War Can Bring Peace(youtube.com)
1 points by alexeisadeski3 12y ago|0 comments
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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
I'm staying one step ahead of the conversation. We're all talking about parents taking care of their kids: If moms have the option not to have to take care of their kids - as they currently do - then fathers should have that optio
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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
If the mother doesn't have enough money to raise the child, she was clearly being irresponsible and should be relieved of her ward. Of course, I assume that women are volitional human beings and thus should be held responsible for thei
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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
The article is written under the assumption - an assumption enshrined in American family law - that women are helpless and must be provided for by a man. Women lack agency and thus it is unreasonable to expect them to behave responsibly. Th
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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
Removing a child from the custody of a parent who was not financially prepared to raise the child is not punishment.
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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
Garbage in garbage out.
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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
Child support needs to be abolished wholesale. If a woman wants a mans support, then she either needs to be married to him or convince him to do so of his own free will. This simple change would inject much needed sanity into this entire pr
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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
>>hell, I don't do anything illegal How exhaustive is your knowledge of the US tax code?
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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
Exactly the same way that you enforce all property rights when they've been violated: You sue them.
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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
1. Air rights needn't be tied to land. A proportional share could be automatically inherited by each citizen upon birth. 2. Existing water rights in the US have as much to do with free markets as they did in the USSR.
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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
Pollution: Expand private property rights (air, ocean, etc).
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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
>>meanwhile some poor adjunkt professor is eating cat food! The median income in Mexico is around $10k (PPP adjusted). I wonder how much cat food they eat?
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Why You Are Wrong(thehumorcolumnist.com)
2 points by alexeisadeski3 12y ago|0 comments
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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
No; Yes; Not much.
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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
This is a bit ridiculous.
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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
I believe these are already in late testing stages.
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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
The crux of the issue seems to be electronic warfare / jamming though, correct? UAVs are great against opponents with limited electronic warfare capabilities, but wouldn't they lack credibility against China or Russia? They'd
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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
144hz or bust. No way I'm going back to 60hz. Quad link DVI is the future.
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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
Retina means one thing when using a display 12" from you face and another thing entirely when using a display 24" from your face.
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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
I bet they prefer keeping it broad and ambiguous. It's a great US law enforcement tradition.
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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
>>Ironically, Wall Street might oppose this as it might make it harder to attract suckers to the game (if I may mix metaphors). No way. The brokerages would brag about their access to inside information, and lure the suckers in with p
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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
>>I don't think much will change until investors finally throw in the towel on the capital gains lottery and start demanding dividends at the point of pitchforks. No public company should pay dividends in the current US tax regim
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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
Who would pick the directors?
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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
To be tradable is only has to be right >50% of the time.
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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
Which type of fight has greater implications for the evolution of human facial bone structure?
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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
The fact that Europe doesn't have these regulations yet the sky hasn't fallen is in fact relevant to the discussion, is it not? Just like when one looks at the much maligned US gun laws: Washington State has a similar murder rate
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More Matt Rognlie on Piketty – the most important point(marginalrevolution.com)
1 points by alexeisadeski3 12y ago|0 comments
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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
>>Wrestling is a more accurate sports approximation for how humans "naturally" fight (assuming 1-on-1). Disagree: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endemic_warfare
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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
Yes, fisticuffs were common for impromptu human fights. But the stuff with evolutionary implications usually resulted from ambushes: People hiding in the bushes with sticks and stones, waiting for one and his buddies to walk by. Or just hit

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