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by dpatru 16y ago
I regularly brush without toothpaste. It works fine. The toothbrush tends to squeak a little when the teeth are clean. It might help that I'm vegetarian and have a pretty simple diet.
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by dpatru 16y ago
http://ftp.newartisans.com/pub/git.from.bottom.up.pdf
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The Way of Testivus - Unit Testing Wisdom From An Ancient Software Start-up(artima.com)
1 points by dpatru 16y ago|0 comments
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by dpatru 16y ago
The Constitution sets limits on the scope of federal powers. It also originally banned income taxes. The only money mentioned in the Constitution is gold or silver. All of these restrict the size of the government and its budget.
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by dpatru 16y ago
In a free market, productivity tends to rise and prices tend to fall. Market leaders, in order to maintain their leadership, must constantly work to stay ahead of their competition. This is a good rule of thumb to determine whether a market
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by dpatru 16y ago
> Now, if the officials themselves could be personally sued... I would really like to see immunity removed from government officials. The ostensible rationale for immunity is that you don't want government officials afraid that they'll
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by dpatru 16y ago
My take-away: 1. Fractional reserve banking always leads to mal-investments which must either be liquidated or papered over with money (inflation). If the malinvestments are large, inflating the currency can cause the currency to collapse i
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Why credit deflation is more likely than mass inflation(libertarianpapers.org)
6 points by dpatru 16y ago|3 comments
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by dpatru 16y ago
Why should a group of banks in collusion with the government have the right to get very wealthy by creating money and forcing me to accept it and use it? To get an idea of the wealth involved, consider that most homes are purchased with bor
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by dpatru 16y ago
Government's promise to pay back its debt is a promise to tax its citizens to pay it back. So at least to the extent that the Fed finances the US government, the Fed "lends" money it creates but expects to be paid back in tax money (money t
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by dpatru 16y ago
This is an extremely long video. So it probably won't be watched much. But it presents very clearly and enjoyably a strong case against the Federal Reserve. Griffin draws on history to explain how the Fed was created and why it should be ab
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The Creature From Jekyll Island (by G. Edward Griffin)(youtube.com)
1 points by dpatru 16y ago|1 comments
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by dpatru 16y ago
>Near zero rates? Baloney. 0.25% interest is the normal market rate for such banks - but of course he doesn't actually say 0.25 he says "near zero". Note that it costs the Fed nothing to make these loans. The Fed simply creates the mone
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by dpatru 16y ago
Hilliarycare (President Clinton's healthcare proposal) failed in part because it would have given the government too much control over healthcare decisions. As described at http://covertrationingblog.com/restraining-individual-prerog... :
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by dpatru 16y ago
It's somewhat true that insurance coverage can determine what treatment someone will get. But, one always has the (perhaps theoretical) option of switching insurance companies or paying for treatment out of one's own pocket. When the govern
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Why I love math(reddit.com)
231 points by dpatru 16y ago|42 comments
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by dpatru 16y ago
The author calls this statement by Rothbard "shocking and typically blind": "In a developing free-market economy unhampered by government-induced increases in the money supply, prices will generally fall as the supply of goods and services
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by dpatru 16y ago
As long as wealth is earned without coercion by providing goods and services to others, why should you care if someone is using their wealth to "feel superior"? What moral justification is there to take away (through taxes or otherwise) the
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by dpatru 16y ago
I don't see why the police, military, and highways need to be funded through government. To the extent that these services provide a benefit, there's no reason to think they couldn't be supplied in a free market.
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by dpatru 16y ago
> isn't the Euro basically a straightjacket preventing each individual country from setting its own monetary policy? It's generally a Good Thing for the people in the Eurozone that their governments can't impoverish them by printing mon
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by dpatru 16y ago
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." — Brian W. Kernighan. I think good programmers value sim
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by dpatru 16y ago
Technology that can be used for defense is progressing rapidly. The US military already uses unmanned flying sniper planes and Google already has surveillance helicopter robots. I expect that it won't be too much longer before it will be af
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by dpatru 16y ago
There is no reason why payment for community nurturing and common services needs to extracted by force and administered by a monopoly.
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by dpatru 16y ago
I think Google could make a FB killer by releasing an open source app engine app that allowed users to exchange notifications with their friends. Users could use Google's version or host their own modified version. Communication would take
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by dpatru 16y ago
Of course, the chance of there being a true positive is nill. Government equipment never malfunctions. So it's better to ban dosimeters and eliminate the possibility of a media problem.
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by dpatru 16y ago
Both the fifth amendment and the fourteenth mention "due process" as in: no person may be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law. The fifth fifth applies to the federal government, and the fourteenth to the state
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by dpatru 16y ago
There are three "levels of scrutiny" used to determine if a law is valid. The lowest level, the level which every law must meet is rational basis. Government may not enforce a law which makes absolutely no sense. See http://en.wikipedia.or
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by dpatru 16y ago
The TSA must be able to justify the actions of all its agents at any time in court. The only way to do this is to issue detailed policies and insist that all TSA agents follow the policy. The agents are not free to do as they want.
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by dpatru 16y ago
>I very much got the impression that the author was refusing to be scanned or searched just to make trouble. That's like saying, you are just making trouble when you resist a pick-pocket or robber. You are never "just making trouble" wh
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by dpatru 16y ago
The Fourth Amendment to the Constitution restricts government's ability to seizure people. A person is seized when a reasonable person in that situation would feel that they are not free to leave. Normally, seizure requires a warrant, but t

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