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by jeofken 6y ago
On HN one is in minority, but not alone, when seeing centrally planned economies as a moral evil and an invitation for inefficiency. Americans in ‘71 stopped pinning $35=1oz AU ( https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/ ). For this rea
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I’m familiar with it as being ethically relativist (no universal eternal ethics) and arguing that man needs to be ruled to live in peace. Would you recommend spending a couple of weeks on it? If so, are there translations to modern English,
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NYT in the end though, is just one big blog, owned by a group with their own interests. Only when their interests line up with those of Google and Facebooks owners would they work in tandem. The solution for those wanting unfettered culture
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By that reason my nation the Swedes should be as rich as the Swiss, or more, since we have minerals and export a lot of wood. Sweden too has been neutral for hundreds of years. The demographics (of native Swedes) are similar in intelligence
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Singapore also does not have a capital gains tax and much more than other countries respects the natural right to ownership. If you with force go against the natural right to life, liberty, and property, you are punished with inefficiency.
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I compare CH to Norway - 0.19% wealth tax in Zürich vs 1.8% in Norway, 0% capital gains tax in CH vs 20% in NO, 8% VAT in Zürich vs 25% in NO, zero natural resources in CH, massive amounts of oil in NO. After that, there is a manyfold great
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by jeofken 6y ago
First, I never mentioned the EU. If I didn’t include the intelligence caveat, one could point out lower tax countries with less opportunity, such as how Somalia is the anarcho capitalists dream. Even if the US and Switzerland are more econo
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You’d be surprised how rich a society can be with a high IQ demographics, low taxes (I.e. barriers), and free enterprise. In Europe, landlocked no-oil Switzerland is a good example of this.
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Can you use ISK when living outside of Sweden, and still enjoy the low tax and no capital gains tax?
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The same argument applies to a slave being fed and housed by their master. I think it’s very healthy to avoid some government funded “services”, such as having children far away from government schools. If you are not paying, you are the pr
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by jeofken 6y ago
No one has a moral responsibility to not live their lives, if ethics are universal. And no one has the ethical right to hinder others from living and letting live. End these government lockdowns
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Good! The relationship between you and the Bundesrepublik is a non-voluntary one, where you never signed a contract with them to follow their laws. It’s a state created by the victors of the last great war. There is no moral responsibility
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This is the logical conclusion of central planning in the currency market - where supply can be infinite and is controlled by monopoly, as opposed to currency bound to a real asset, or otherwise can’t be created from nothing such as bitcoin
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by jeofken 6y ago
A life hack for anyone here trying to quit is using lent which has just begun, to both set a time limit and to externalise quitting. “I’m giving X up for lent” isn’t so daunting, and something you can tell people. Changing your environment
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Not for us string players :)
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Of course there is a violent threat behind copyright law as well - enforcing the right to ownership or the right to copy. Why else do you think anyone complies with laws, or cares what government decides? Government is about violent force
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Any law in the end requires a violent threat. This suggestion implies that someone who does not publish their source code should, after som ignored formal letters, get armed men sent to their office to kidnap whoever is responsible. All nic
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The 5th too is very simple. It is 1.5x the root. So the the 8th of 440Hz is 880Hz, and the 5th is 660Hz. Western musical theory is amazingly fractional
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NixOS sparks joy for me, especially when reverting do different systems like you would git checkout a commit
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Do you have links to further readings about this?
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Is there anything like temporal tables (select as of) in SQLite? The one thing keeping me with MariaDB
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Mouse requires coordination between hand and eye to do action, but what is the third organ, that a keyboard does not require?
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> Utter bullshit. HN is such a rare place on the internet. I am writing in good faith - let’s not fall so low as to speak like this. The power over currency and the power over arms go hand in hand. The “officially sanctioned” exploitatio
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by jeofken 6y ago
I lived in Guldheden which is a pretty nice area, but my friend was living on Hisingen where Swedes are minority, at least from my ocular estimation on the street
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In Germany, Sweden, and Norway it certainly exists as well. These countries even have laws enforcing such taboos. Good call @dang
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Dagens Nyheter absolutely aims to be the NYT of Sweden.
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It may be that number of crimes is not increasing, but it’s a different kind than in previous decades. Shootouts in public, violent and humiliation-robberies, and gang rapes.
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The dissonance between the article about us, and what I clearly see all around me, made me realise that the reporting is not aligned with the truth I know. My point is that if this is the case for topics I know, it’s likely also true for re
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Legitimate ownership of property can be gained in the following ways: • Purchase/trade with a legitimate owner • Receiving as gift from a legitimate owner • Creation of discovery where there is no legitimate owner Otherwise, we call
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I remember clearly when I a few years ago read NYT article about how rumours of increasing violent crime in my country (SWE) was a myth. If they were this wrong about something I knew personally, as this was the same summer gangs had a shoo

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