jswinghammer

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by jswinghammer 13y ago
It's one based on examining the history of governments.
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by jswinghammer 13y ago
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by jswinghammer 13y ago
30-40k of debt seems a lot less than many people I have known are in with degrees that will never be meaningful to employers. Parents need to adjust for the world as it is and teach their kids that degrees can be profitable to them in the r
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by jswinghammer 14y ago
I love using Google Reader but I don't see what the big deal is. It seems like an RSS reader is something anyone can build in a month maybe. There are alternatives that seem to be less than optimal but I assume they'll get their act in gear
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by jswinghammer 14y ago
I don't get the lawsuit route at all. If your car is good then eventually people will come around to agreeing with that assessment even if the media likes gasoline cars today. If your car isn't good then you should fix it and move on with y
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by jswinghammer 14y ago
If normal people were in fact getting bailouts they would be getting their mortgages paid off whereas the Fed is just making the paper value of the assets based of those mortgages higher than their probable market value.
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by jswinghammer 14y ago
The US was far richer than India is now when the space program began.
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by jswinghammer 14y ago
North Korea is the nation most like Oceania in 1984 than any other on Earth. People are hungry and brainwashed from birth to love their leader and the state. That's basically why no one is trying to overthrow their government. US military i
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by jswinghammer 14y ago
Correct. The problem being the use of the word inherent to describe value. There is no such thing as inherent value unless you are describing a use and not the price someone would be willing to pay for something. For example, wood can be us
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by jswinghammer 14y ago
Well for those people holding bitcoins might be worthwhile to them. The bitcoins never go anywhere in the same way that physical money never goes anywhere unless you bury it.
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by jswinghammer 14y ago
Well Bitcoin is not a fiat currency since it being defined as money is not dictated by fiat. It isn't attached to a physical good which is interesting. I'm guessing that its' value is being helped by the increasing amount of inflation in fi
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by jswinghammer 14y ago
I doubt that. I don't think they made Win32 for Mac OS. It probably isn't much different than their Mac OS port.
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by jswinghammer 14y ago
Rents are high due to high demand in an area where there isn't much of an increase in supply that would normally help reduce prices if that were possible.
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by jswinghammer 14y ago
I think he's suggesting we give it to oxfam which would at least end this guy's problems.
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by jswinghammer 14y ago
The larger issue is that programs to end poverty haven't done what they have advertised to do. Poverty in Africa is getting worse in many areas as the level of aid has increased. I hesitate to start taking people's money who I don't know an
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by jswinghammer 14y ago
You are looking at what you see and don't consider what you don't see. You are seeing how government intervention did these things but you are not considering that without this intervention society would have made other uses of the resource
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by jswinghammer 14y ago
Sigh. Regulations are being added at a very rapid rate. Regulations are very much taxes just in a different form. I didn't vote for Romney.
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by jswinghammer 14y ago
I think if you just discount all modern innovations then it's easy to say nothing has changed of note. My TV looks better than ever. Should I just discount that as progress because it's still a picture displayed in my living room? If you s
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by jswinghammer 14y ago
That doesn't really start for a long, long time. If you just keep good toys around they'll take to them. If they really just don't like building then you find something else but in my experience just exposure to toys is a great starting pla
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by jswinghammer 14y ago
I wouldn't be so down on Lego Friends. My oldest daughter is a huge fan of Lego and has different sets that are Friends and some that are Star Wars. She combines them and plays with them together. Han Solo has a dog and a cat. One of the gi
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by jswinghammer 14y ago
From experience if you want your kid to develop an interest in something you'll want to expose them to it and not just keep it to yourself. My daughters love Legos and Duplos. They play with them constantly. My 5 year old is getting the Jab
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by jswinghammer 14y ago
It seems like he was responding to various points in the post by restating them. The post he was replying to was just listing a bunch of things he doesn't like, not defending his reasons for not liking them. I'm impressed anyone took the ti
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by jswinghammer 14y ago
Couldn't you just lower the setting?
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by jswinghammer 14y ago
Ok well it seems like you are confusing the concept of society and government. They aren't the same thing. By serious threat I really mean someone is attacking you actively. No sure how you would ever seriously think Iraq could injure the U
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by jswinghammer 14y ago
Right but we haven't really learned anything by saying that. It's like saying that Germany didn't invade Poland in 1939 but rather a collection of humans carrying guns and some driving tanks wandered into what was called in some parts "Pola
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by jswinghammer 14y ago
Putting aside the libertarian party I think FA Hayek is as libertarian as anyone in history and he supported right to work laws. Such laws make some contracts invalid and that's the extent to how they really operate.
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by jswinghammer 14y ago
That's seriously splitting hairs. By extension you are saying "I don't know anyone in government who started a war they simply signed a piece of paper giving authority to other humans to start killing another group of humans and the money t
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by jswinghammer 14y ago
So people like Bastiat, Menger, Mises, and Rothbard all have the same sociopathic bias that made them write encouraging peace, trade, and cooperation for mutual benefit?
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by jswinghammer 14y ago
Well this is written from the perspective of economists who lack imagination. If consumers don't spend money on cars then they will just spend it on other things. It means car companies will get smaller, less influential, and probably go ou
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by jswinghammer 14y ago
Are you talking about the icon sets? They seem nice to me. There isn't anything cartoony about them and they are very clear and easy to understand. Honestly it's better than many icon sets I've seen in web applications. The site looks fine

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