liber8

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by liber8 14y ago
Also, on your "donate to help cover our overhead" page, you might consider giving suggested donation amounts. I have no idea what your overhead is, what amount would help you reach more patients, what your current funding is, etc. Providin
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by liber8 14y ago
Ah. Perhaps my point was too subtle then. More bluntly, I was trying to say that there is no ethical duty to pay employees solely based on the value they produce. If there were, markets could not function. There is no conspiracy to "div
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by liber8 14y ago
I'm not sure where your definition of Capitalism is coming from, but nothing about capitalism or free markets requires (or even predicts) that workers will be paid commensurate to the value they create. Workers are paid based on supply and
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by liber8 14y ago
I find it amusing that almost every OP in this thread has cited the same quote as proof of NDT's arrogance, and then every response debates whether NDT is arrogant or voters stupid. All of this misses the actual ignorance of NDT's letter.
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by liber8 14y ago
God forbid people be allowed to voluntarily exchange their money for essential supplies! Snark aside, whether it made economic sense or not was up to those people to decide. Clearly, it didn't make economic sense for people to drive 1000 m
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by liber8 14y ago
Maybe I'm misunderstanding your point, but your first sentence seems completely illogical. If there is a fixed supply of water, what better mechanism than price exists to efficiently determine the best use of that water? Not allowing peopl
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by liber8 14y ago
I haven't read the "additional sources" you speak of, but if true, your first, fourth and fifth amendment arguments don't hold up. Edit: jstalin, I stand corrected. Looks like immunity is often forced upon people.
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by liber8 14y ago
Sorry fellas, but I honestly don't follow your logic here. 1. OP says government regulation does not harm small business. Full stop. Blanket statement. 2. I point out that very recently enacted legislation has, in fact, killed off nearly ev
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by liber8 14y ago
If you claim X =/= 1,2,3,4, or 5 and I show that X can equal 3, I have discredited your claim.
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by liber8 14y ago
What a strange article. Clearly he's writing from the perspective of "small technology firms", so why extrapolate his perception of how regulation affects his industry with all industries? Please, Matt, speak to someone trying to run a
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by liber8 14y ago
Yes, NY and CA are still high, but the "star" locations (as OP calls them) were absolutely hammered during the recession. We've already seen them start to come back from their lows. Anyone who managed to scoop up property in one of these
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by liber8 14y ago
I'm also curious why you claim that "'star' locations have barely dipped (yet)." In southern California, many of the highest priced areas have seen property values literally fall by half. I know many other such areas around the country hav
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by liber8 14y ago
That's sort of the point. The ring itself is only really worth whatever the metal weighs because nobody wants a "used" ring. So if you sell the ring to a jeweler, he is almost certain to melt it down and recast it. Whatever you paid for
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by liber8 14y ago
Unfortunately, if you do ever want to sell, the setting is essentially worthless. Almost all of the cost of the setting is in the labor, and, as the article explains, those who buy "used" jewelry are almost certainly going to part it out a
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by liber8 14y ago
"Minimum wage hasn't kept up with inflation. Debt financed consumption." You're right that minimum wage hasn't kept up with inflation. You're also right that debt financed (a lot of) consumption. But it doesn't follow that those earning m
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by liber8 14y ago
Note that your “average price of a new car in 2010" is skewed wildly high for a number of reasons. (1) The variety of mid-high end luxury cars (i.e. $50k+), and the number of such cars sold, far exceeds the choices available in 1980. For e
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by liber8 14y ago
Sort of, but it's more than just a degree and/or verification of skills. As you suggest, there are a lot of ways to test whether someone has some of the skills needed to succeed. If you're looking to hire a java programmer, you could eith
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by liber8 14y ago
You're missing a category because you're focused on the benefits from the students' perspective. Look at it from an employer's perspective: You have a 100 job applications for one open position. Most of the kids went to mediocre to good c
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by liber8 14y ago
The blog post starts from the premise that Max Abrahm's 2008 paper is correct. The paper states: The strategic model—the dominant paradigm in terrorism studies—posits that terrorists are political utility maximizers. According to this vie
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by liber8 14y ago
Germany is a horrible country for solar. It's like putting solar panels in the middle of the Quebec province. ( http://www.solarpanelsindustry.com/2012/04/solar-radiation-m... )
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by liber8 14y ago
I like it. One "bug": I get a $50,000 reduction in the amount I can afford if I go from $0 debt to $500/month and $15,000 total outstanding debt. Okay, maybe that makes sense since I'd have 2.5 years of reduced income to make payments with
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by liber8 14y ago
If removing the safety net would fix things, why were they ever broken enough for the safety net to be put in place in the first place? You're assuming that's the reason it was put there in the first place. I don't think that's the case.
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by liber8 14y ago
The problem is definitely on both sides. Some of the most visible and hilarious examples come just in the last four years. Obama the constitutional scholar (rightly) lambasts the Bush administration for accumulating unauthorized and unche
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by liber8 14y ago
Our Elites have always stunk. Even during perhaps the most creative, innovative, and groundbreaking period in the history of political science (the time around the American revolution), our leaders ran smear campaigns, created laws to free
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by liber8 14y ago
I think part of the problem with realistically viewing one's life through this prism is the impossibility of determining what percentage of one's success is due to luck. In a sense, literally everyone who is alive today is lucky. They are
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by liber8 14y ago
General advice for legal questions: it's fine to ask these sorts of questions, but please, for the love of god, don't listen to anyone who isn't a lawyer or who hasn't gone through something very similar to what you're going through. And,
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by liber8 14y ago
I'm sure this theory will be proven to be not entirely correct someday. As a corollary, I expect that e=mc^2 will also be slightly modified.
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by liber8 14y ago
Huh? Pricing in the future growth in equities =!= no more growth...
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by liber8 14y ago
...and home prices will continue to go up for another 30 years (and the 30 years after that). Of course there will be recessions (and likely even depressions) during those times. What's your point? I think you're missing something here.
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by liber8 14y ago
Because historically, that's what you've been able to get. You can't look at a 5 year timeline (and, obviously, cherry-picking the 5 year time period where stocks dropped by half isn't exactly fair). You should be looking at a 30 or more

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