aminok

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by aminok 10y ago
How sad that you have to be a libertarian to oppose throwing nonviolent people in prison. This should just be common sense, not libertarianism.
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That's so bizarre.
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Throwing people in prison for not funding something, even if it is critical, is wrong..
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What part of it resembles satire? There's nothing funny about throwing someone in prison.
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by aminok 10y ago
You tell people they shouldn't complain about their government forcing them to wear a burka, because they can move to a different country? Really? Of course you can't prove that lower tax rates have "massive downsides",
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by aminok 10y ago
"You can move to another country" So is that what you tell people who are forced by their government to wear a burka? Again how is it reasonable to threaten people with prison for refusing to hand over 35% of the currency they rec
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by aminok 10y ago
The income tax is a grotesque violation of Human Rights and should be abolished. Threatening to throw someone in prison for refusing to disclose their income or hand over a share of the currency they receive in private trade is antithetical
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by aminok 10y ago
On the face of it seems highly unlikely to me that two groups had a level of contact that was enough for farming knowledge to be spread between them but not enough for genetic flow between them. Farming is not a simple technology. It's
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by aminok 10y ago
There's a way to slow down: http://www.lunarsail.com/LightSail/rit-1.pdf >The lightsail is built in two sections, an outer doughtnut- shaped ring, and an inner circular section 30 km in diameter. This 30 km pa
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by aminok 10y ago
>It's not as simple as that. Do a Google image search for 'Tuareg' and you'll find a number of faces that meet modern British (and American) conceptions of 'black'. I didn't put it in overly simplistic
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It should be noted that North African is generally not black and in fact genetic testing of remains of some individuals living in the region of Carthage at the height of its power show them to possess a European haplolyte that has since mos
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by aminok 10y ago
Violating an entire population's right to their property, and to engage in economic activity with other consenting adults, is evil on a nightmarish scale.
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I guess you don't consider economically inhibiting regulatory prohibitions, in place in countries all over the world, that funnel economic activity through politically connected gatekeepers - at massive economic cost to the politically
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>The idea that digitally tampering with bank accounts would not be noticed or reacted to, but softer measures like inflation rate meddling, or stealth measures like doing a currency re-issuance and controlling how hard it is for people t
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The destruction of privacy also means that the minority has zero protection against the majority. If the majority imposes an oppressive law, like prohibiting financial transactions with people of a certain nationality, or requiring people t
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by aminok 10y ago
"There's huge interest in cryptocurrencies and what perhaps they can create in the market place. Now we at MasterCard are not completely comfortable with the idea of cryptocurrencies largely because they go against the whole princ
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Threats posed by government are much more profound than those posed by any other type of organisation, because governments have much less effective checks on their power.
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by aminok 10y ago
>Enough crypto is used to keep out ordinary criminals and snoops, but not enough is used to keep out determined governments with jurisdiction. So not enough crypto to prevent absolute centralization of power by the institution with a mon
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by aminok 10y ago
We now impose many injustices, like imprisoning any person who refuses to hand over a third of the currency they receive in private trade, that we did not in the 19th century, and have adopted an ideology (social democracy) that glorifies t
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by aminok 10y ago
>just not expect people to take them at face value, Of course not. But no one asked you to take the views of the Mises Institute at face value. It appeared to me that you were implying they were biased, meaning not credible, based on the
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by aminok 10y ago
So promoting any economic view discredits someone? Or just those you personally disagree with?
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by aminok 10y ago
So if one concluded, based on an impartial examination of economic facts, that free market economics is indeed the best way to foster economic development and standard of living gains, how should one promote such views without become an adv
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by aminok 10y ago
A slowdown is a remark on a change in trajectory, not a change in absolute position.
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And Sweden's economic growth rate stagnated after it adopted large social welfare programs in the 1970s, and only somewhat recovered when it instituted market reforms in the late 90s and 2000s, including reductions in social benefits a
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by aminok 10y ago
Even resource conservation is done better in a free market, because it responds to anticipated future shortages by raising the current price of the commodity, leading to more responsible consumption.
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The data fluctuates month to month. The data for both months was accurate. They may get political in how they present the data, but the way the collect and generate the data appears sound.
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They explain their methodology: http://council.vancouver.ca/20160308/documents/rr1presentati... Does not look easily gameable, and the authors don't strike me as being disingenuous.
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I put the possibility of them massaging the data in some way at very remote. This study had a lot of eyeballs on it so risk of getting caught would be too high for them to entertain. Moreoever, the CoV grunts who do the actual work, like do
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The city of Vancouver did a very rigorous study, and found unoccupancy in the West Side, where much of the foreign investment has been going, at only 3 percent: http://vancouver.ca/news-calendar/city-releases-comprehens
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by aminok 10y ago
Billionaires buying houses does not increase housing costs. You do not need to purchase a Single Family House in Vancouver to have housing. You can buy a condo, the prices of which are totally uncoupled from SFHs, or rent. If foreign invest

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