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by dpatru 14y ago
> We need to stop trusting people - period. This is why, at least in the US, we have 3 branches of government, so that each one will check the other out of self-interest and balance possible abuse/corruption (not perfect - but pretty d
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Sal Khan on the future of education(youtube.com)
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The second amendment is explicitly written to secure a right of the people against infringement by their government: the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. Protection against foreign armies is already provid
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"Posner's most significant contribution has been in law and economics, the influential legal movement he practically created. (...) Looking at the world through a strictly economic lens, he writes with a refreshing, parsimonious intensity.
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What do you mean when you say that "what Megaupload was doing was illegal"? In a civilized world, before there can be punishment for a crime, the crime must be proven. A hunch of illegal activity is not enough. That's the difference betwe
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The problem isn't with the jury system, it's with the fact that juries aren't allowed more freedom to function as they should. The purpose of a jury is to act as a buffer between government and defendants. Before the government, or a plaint
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The productivity of some workers may be rising, but not all. For example, with all the investment in government we've had, government should be very efficient. Government services such as roads, transportation, education, care for the poor,
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Everybody's aim in an economy is not to have to work, or at least to work less, and to produce more. No one wants to work more and produce less. So what we want is negative jobs (people working less) with positive GDP (people enjoying more
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by dpatru 14y ago
An essential premise of his argument is that real GDP can't decline if jobs are being added. So if jobs are being added, and they seem to be, then real GDP growth must be positive. Real GDP growth is nominal GDP growth (4%) minus inflation,
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by dpatru 15y ago
I think we are witnessing the end of the traditional educational business model in real time. Every week it seems new courses are coming out. Yesterday for example MIT released a basic electronics course, https://6002x.mitx.mit.edu/ , comp
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The tech for online learning is still being developed.so the courses offered are those close to the developers'interests and competencies, much like how the internet was first used for and by scientists. But the tech will spread.
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If I have free speech rights, and if you have free speech rights, why should we not have free speech rights if we form a corporation and speak with one (amplified) voice?
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I wonder if the theft rate is differs between donuts and bagels. Are people who choose healthier food more honest?
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Free 3-day database course Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2012 taught by Philip Greenspun (philip.greenspun.com)
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China's leaders are engineers. It just helps them be more repressive. Rather than engineers, we need leaders who value liberty and want to reduce the size and scope of government. The problem we have isn't that people in government aren't b
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Fast book outliner form(davidseah.com)
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> If the SEC doesn't think they can win a case against Citigroup and they were settling to impose whatever punishment they could then this judge isn't a hero at all. If the SEC can't prove their case, then they shouldn't be imposing any
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by dpatru 15y ago
Summary: Details how Citigroup almost got away with paying a $125M fine for defrauding its customers $700M. "The amazing thing about the wave of corruption that has overtaken the financial services industry is that most of it couldn’t happe
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> But we're not talking about search. You're right and this is the key to the whole problem. The Supreme Court has ruled that the Fourth Amendment does not protect a person against a search unless the search violates a person's "reasona
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> Help me understand why a transponder violated the sanctity of your car, but the valid state license plate, issued by the state and required on every vehicle, so as to allow the police to identify your car from a distance despite any i
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by dpatru 15y ago
One of the best ways to protect yourself from patents is to have the idea first and publish it. It's hard for a patent applicant to argue the he is the first inventor and that the idea was non-obvious if it was published in a blog.
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Huge site devoted to teaching persuasion(changingminds.org)
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How to be better at almost anything(headrush.typepad.com)
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How Google's Self-Driving Car Works(youtube.com)
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> In reality, it is government which creates markets. This seems like a obviously false statement. The norm is for people to trade. Just watch children play: it's extremely common to see them trade toys with each other. The "black marke
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I think that the words price, wage, rate, cost, expense, income, sales, purchases, etc may all denote the same thing from different perspectives. Price is used when are interested mainly in the amount especially with respect to other things
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Wow! You're very smart. You know multivariate calculus (which is much more complicated than solving quadratic equations) and the Lucas critique. You went to Chicago. You're much smarter than the average reader of Hazlitt, who is dumb and id
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Economics in One Lesson taught me "see" economics the way an painter sees a landscape or a programmer sees a program. The painter and programmer see their subjects with more understanding than the layman. Intuitively, it seems obvious that
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Of course we should all read critically. We already know that. Is there anything in particular that you think Hazlitt got wrong?
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> Sub-minimum-wage living becomes legally unviable precisely because low-end prices rise to match the absence of legal sub-minimum-wage incomes - at which point the government becomes obligated to confiscate and redistribute wealth to r

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