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by meanduck 10y ago
> I think 'physical assault' is a very simplistic view of the NAP Its simple by design. Its easiest to get universel consent. > I fall on the other end of the scale where indirect damage through social/economic/
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by meanduck 10y ago
There is no such thing as "free market economists". That was halfly my point. They are statists in disguise. > Why are we more concerned that we stick to an ideology - it's treated as a fundamentalist religion, treated as
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by meanduck 10y ago
> in a free society, you have the freedom to do whatever you want so long as it does not infringe on the rights of anybody else. Thats not NAP if rights is anything but right to be not physically assulted. NAP is basically: do no (ph
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by meanduck 10y ago
> I think empirically history shows that lack of regulation can be as bad as too much regulation. You cannot stop every bad things in the world. Otherwise you will end up creating more unstability and, as a result, worse things. Libert
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by meanduck 10y ago
Free Speech != Unbiased Speech. If state can forbid you speaking something, you dont have free speech. Money does not come into equation when we talk about free speech.
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by meanduck 10y ago
If free-market cannot solve this nothing will. No actor (including Govt) has mental capicity to understand everything in this world. Free-market solves everthing best with most stability.
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by meanduck 10y ago
Do you think market will forget this ? Govts seem to forget that despite being big, they are market actors themselves. And it wont be the Comcasts but many SMBs. In todays volatile world, noones existence is certain. And govts need to reali
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by meanduck 10y ago
HN is toast. Its being overrun by statists/socialists.
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by meanduck 10y ago
> A free market is defined as an exchange where both sides have access to the same information. Its free as in freedom; to do anything. You are free to ask anyone about anything anytime. You can do anything except be physical aggresive
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by meanduck 10y ago
TLDR: 25k Govts is better than 25 Govts. And I absolutely agree. Its obvious that noone is going to happy with their Mega Govt all the time. We should work on mechanism that allows creating new, smaller Govts out of a Mega Govt as easy as p
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by meanduck 10y ago
No one will give the amount of invasive data needed to verify a model. So we will never know which model works.
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by meanduck 10y ago
And thats for a country in Top 10 Ease of doing business [1]. In others politicians/bureaucrats are truly someone to be afraid of. Case in point: The Current Income Tax Raid Raj in India [2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by meanduck 10y ago
You missed the point. The 1% is not about wealth its about power over 99%. Even your random low level bureaucrat has more power than the 5% (wealth-wise).
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by meanduck 10y ago
The GP is good comment lets not init a flame war here.
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by meanduck 10y ago
Your math is little wrong. 1%: The Politicians, Bureaucrats & Friends. 19%: The Rich paying with money. 80%: The Poor paying with freedom. Guess who takes shelter in tax havens like rich but at the same time pretend to
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by meanduck 10y ago
> Maybe it's because the king enables those above the peasants to retain that position? Surely its nothing compared to Govts with multi-trillion dollars in (extorted) revenue because thats what have been my observation.
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by meanduck 10y ago
And Oracle would be near bottom in such list. Oracle hire Indians because its cheaper not because of some altruism. At least until Indian Govt makes it artifically expensive.
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by meanduck 10y ago
I am sure this has been mentioned to death. But I always find this contradictory. Companies cannot be soley profit driven if at same time they artifically reducing supply of eligable candidates. That makes no business sense. So if companies
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by meanduck 10y ago
Its always amusing to watch bureaucrats & friends to rationalize their extortion/authoritarianism. Bitcoin/Mass-Talent_Wealth-Migration cant come quick enough.
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by meanduck 10y ago
Usually people support taxes/megastates/state-as-a-solution-for-everything in bundle. My bad if thats not the case here.
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by meanduck 10y ago
We disagree on size of state. The flexibility/unhappiness of the social contract increases with size of state. The consent/absense-of-it is easier to indicate as size decreases.
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by meanduck 10y ago
As I said, I am dependent on others. But the others != citizens of a nation. Its a very small subset. And for the service I am happy to pay as humans have been paying since invention of society.
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by meanduck 10y ago
Yes I am. Police/Courts works because people are non-aggressive. And when you do get in trouble, Police/Courts should be last in your list of things that will help.
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by meanduck 10y ago
I have no contract with everyone. I cant recruit someone from other side of the country to prevent you from taking it. I have to use my social/economic power. And yes I am happy to "pay taxes" to them . Because I need them b
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by meanduck 10y ago
Its their desire to impede the eventual massive reduction in tax revenue due to "evasion". Without enough tax revenue, they wont have free money anymore. Harsh yes but sometime you just have to call it the way you see it.
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by meanduck 10y ago
You wont be able to enforce every arbitrary agreement. The constitutional courts will only rule on limited matters such as physical aggressions. And (for example) for Oracle to enforce non-compete, It will have to come in agreement with big
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by meanduck 10y ago
> So it would be difficult to have members of said hypothetical community agree to contribute to a (for example) road maintenance fund. One reason why I want to give up part of my land and pay for road to be developed is that it will i
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by meanduck 10y ago
> Antitrust comes about when a company has a high enough market share AND uses this market share to bludgeon any competitions. I feel like only a non-elected, inner circle within Govt gets to decide what these condition will return t
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by meanduck 10y ago
AFAIU antitrust lawsuit triggers when you break an implicit agreement with customers i.e. breaking trust. But thats not what happened here. App Store is sole distributor of apps. Customers knows this. Customers may even rely on it. So what
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by meanduck 10y ago
I have better solution: Break up Mega Govts. They are truely too big to fail. USG can exploit as much as it wants because it knows citizens have nowhere to go.

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