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by innguest 12y ago
I didn't know that. I'd argue that those more local to him would be in a better position to help him than the collective, which needs to pool money from all its constituents, give it to bureaucrats who take their share of it, in o
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by innguest 12y ago
Because it overwhelms them (anyone that needs help) with pity and condescension. If they need help they'll either ask or find a way to telegraph it to those around them. If you're one of those people then it's OK to offer hel
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by innguest 12y ago
It really makes it patently obvious, when the subject is a mentally ill person that is doing well for themselves, that the agenda of the collectivist is really about controlling how other people live, and the fact that they are mentally ill
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by innguest 12y ago
> It's always seemed to me the fix is technically quite easy You're absolutely, 100% right in that sentence alone. The solution to heroin addiction is technically quite easy, and it's called Iboga.
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That's right, we're in agreement there. As an Austrian economist I consider economics to be purely an a priori deductive process. However, positivism pushes people to make a science out of everything. So most people, even here at
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by innguest 12y ago
That little trick also works for things we believe in: How to keep a State-Church Separation believer busy: * Tell them the government should abolish all regulation which interferes with "freedom of religion" * Then remind them th
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by innguest 12y ago
I like that you're debunking Psychology for what it is, but if you still think Economics is a science, you're not quite there yet. For something to be a science it needs to make falsifiable claims. Nothing in Keynesian economics i
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> The government isn't responsible for utilities tending towards monopoly - it's a natural outcome of any market with small unit costs and high barriers to entry. Murray Rothbard once said: "In general, I urge everybody t
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by innguest 12y ago
I'm hearing the following rebuttals: - Comcast/AT&T/Time Warner is not real/enough competition, more like a monopoly This problem could be solved with the antitrust laws already in place. Despite being a libertarian
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Yes, that is precisely the problem with Net Neutrality. We really don't want ISPs to be common carriers. Keep them private and competitive.
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> But our capitalism? The one we have? It's not that. It's not optimal. It's not efficient. It's not even fair. There's no "our capitalism". You either have it or you don't. You mean "our poli
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> With that complexity [featurism] came Balkanization. [...] Anarchy would ensue and photographers would complain and complain. As this Balkanization was beginning to happen [...] Can anyone remind me of how bad this actually was? One pa
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The main point of that article is: > They're missing the point. The virtue of forgiving parsers is that they vastly increase the pool of people able and willing to create web content. I find it very hard to believe more people are
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by innguest 12y ago
What is immoral is all the regulation around it that forbids new credit card companies from entering the playing field. That's why now, instead of the existing companies fixing the mechanisms that allow for fraud to take place, they ca
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by innguest 12y ago
It is important to know who is making the argument in order to evaluate possible incentives, biases or an agenda. The parent isn't politicizing anything, they are saying a true statement that they think can be important for discriminat
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by innguest 12y ago
Those oft-repeated "factors" can only be factors if you show that they are. Simply mentioning that there are differences between those two countries does not make any difference you care to list a "factor".
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by innguest 12y ago
I agree with your points. I was stretching my usage of 'entrepreneurs' to make a point as you noticed. > Further, I know of no regulation that prevents people from teaching for money. I do, because unfortunately the government
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> We are making entrepreneurs out of ordinary people, it's fking awesome. Or, people are naturally entrepreneurs stifled by regulation and AirBnB, Uber, Udemy and TeeSpring are simply allowing the people's natural entrepreneur
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by innguest 12y ago
Serious answer: I moved here to the US because this is supposed to be the Land of the Free. No other country has such an amazing legal foundation to allow for Liberty; the founding fathers came here exactly because they wanted to move t
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by innguest 12y ago
> All mainstream individual IQ tests have been scored this way for just about all of my lifetime. Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought the Cattell tests were obviously scored in the Cattell scale (24 s.d.) and the Stanford-Binet te
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by innguest 12y ago
Scroll up a bit and you will see this comment: > Ladies and Gentlemen, i present: Bullshit. I wish companies with no clue about encryption would stop making these insane claims. Which is rude and does not make a cogent argument, and yet
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> Income tax, when used smartly, can be one of the greatest things a nation has at its disposal. A nation is just its people. People are already in possession of this money before the income tax takes it from them. I agree that this mone
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by innguest 12y ago
My issue is, whoever wants to accomplish something that takes a lot of money to make happen, should do like ARKYD and make a kickstarter or any other peaceful alternative, that allows for every individual to choose whether they'd like
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by innguest 12y ago
How can you people be so dishonest with yourselves and everyone else? Look at the fallacious arguments you put forward: - Nations have a long history of funding exploratory ventures. (appeal to tradition - doing something for a long time
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by innguest 12y ago
Have you searched the other side of the argument? Perhaps then you'll understand why we're against this.
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by innguest 12y ago
Why is the criterion importance? How about, governments shouldn't require protection money from its citizens? The way it used to be before 1913.
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by innguest 12y ago
I'm being downvoted to mean this is not the place to discuss this or I'm straying too far. If you want to know, read up on the Zero Hedge blog (I'm not affiliated, I'm just a reader, etc etc). But basically what's w
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by innguest 12y ago
Also let's not forget HP said it's possible that memristors will also perform computation, which melds RAM, HDD and CPU into one and makes for a potentially wilder environment for viruses.
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by innguest 12y ago
They should be. Amazon makes no profits and operates in dollars. Those are two things you don't want to get caught doing right now.
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by innguest 12y ago
It must be related to their work on memristors which is why they should probably keep it a secret for a while.

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