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by mises 8y ago
Yes, and I judge this to be a good thing.
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by mises 8y ago
The latter what? What does the militia clause have to do with it, outside of providing healthcare to the military? The necessary and proper execution of which federal power? The federal government no longer calls up a militia, so you can
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by mises 8y ago
Thank you for pointing this out. We decided years ago that people shouldn't be involuntarily exposed to smoke, which is carcinogenic and psychoactive. People were fine with it for tobacco, because smoking isn't really "cool
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by mises 8y ago
> F U, I got mine I don't have mine, but I hope to some day. Under socialism, that won't happen. Here's a great objection: I want to be rich some day. Very rich. I suspect this is the case with many of us. Under socia
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by mises 8y ago
The constitution has been enforced via tax, yes, but I would argue that income tax is (or was and ought to be) unconstitutional (and wrong) and amendment XVI was an overt power grab. Sales tax, excise tax, sin tax, road toll, pick some oth
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by mises 8y ago
Your first point is a baseless assertion; I will ignore it, as you can't really argue against a "yuh-huh". I used the word war because that's typically how socialist and communist governments have gotten into place.
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by mises 8y ago
Care to clarify? I was never alive at either of those times, nor were my predecessors (all immigrated legally after that). I and my family have fairly earned what we have. I agree there were past issues, but socialism/communism is w
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by mises 8y ago
Ever heard of dilution? This does happen at times. It was banned for public companies over a hundred years ago, if I recall correctly, because people got clever and abused it.
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by mises 8y ago
Ever heard of dilution? This does happen at times. It was banned over a hundred years ago, if I recall correctly, because people got clever and abused it.
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by mises 8y ago
The Soviet Union stole its original resources, but more importantly continued to steal all resources produced. See Dekulakization: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dekulakization
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by mises 8y ago
There was a thread yesterday about a jury selection glitch that made young people less likely to be selected, and someone suggested making them 10x more likely as recompense. I said that wasn't fair to the new jurors or the new defend
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by mises 8y ago
No, we're talking about workers pushing for increased control of the means of production. That's definitionally a discussion of Marxism, even if it's people pushing for it gradually.
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by mises 8y ago
> owners and especially managers nowadays controlling priorities and work rules So? I do think some people have bad practices. Non-competes, for instance, are often abused. But you can still leave... > existing corporate management
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by mises 8y ago
> If you allow someone to have rights to another person's product or service Who said this should ever be the case? You're assuming I support a right to healthcare. I don't support that, nor do I support most positive ri
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by mises 8y ago
There's a difference between unionization and trying to get board representation. Also, in many states, you're stuck dealing with a union in many jobs. You now have to negotiate with the union as one atomic person... The thing I
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by mises 8y ago
I agree that WSJ isn't perfect, I just think it's good about breaking news and original reporting. The rest, I get from other sources (including far-left and far-right ones). It's part of a balanced news diet, so to speak.
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by mises 8y ago
The headline of the article is that Silicon Valley has a "budding socialist movement". Even if it's not a full-scale war, it's still a move toward it (and quickly). Don't believe me? Take a look at this recent ar
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by mises 8y ago
I think the best example of this is Uber. Uber connects riders and drivers, and theoretically doesn't really do "labor". However, without the middleman, neither would likely be connected. I'd say most companies are sim
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by mises 8y ago
Sorry, overall my above comment had two sub-points: First, the point that employees are not always shareholders. They get payed to do a job at a wage accepted by both the company and employee. Second, the idea of socialism over all. As Ma
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by mises 8y ago
This trend bothers me. Employees are not shareholders, or if they are, they ought to do this in their capacity as shareholders. If they want to govern the company, they ought to buy in or move to management. Or, they can always move compa
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by mises 8y ago
I would rather not support the New York Times. I find their coverage to be overtly biased, and don't think that's worth giving money to. I think the Wall Street Journal is closest to center: reporting leans left; editorials lean
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by mises 8y ago
Don't kid yourself, most finance guys still use Excel. Maybe a few younger ones in the valley use tools like R, Python, etc. but not in most places.
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by mises 8y ago
This has been part of my concern with such things. I don't know that the alarmism about "violent videogames create young terrorist-wannabes" is correct, but it's hard (especially as games become increasingly photorealis
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by mises 8y ago
How very true. I know almost every person who uses Excel on a regular basis would kill you if you tried to take it away (I heard one proposed change to openoffice for price reasons; no more). And I have found keeping a todo.txt file on my
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by mises 8y ago
I wish spreadsheets didn't get as much unnecessary hate as they do. They are a pretty great tool, and can do almost anything. They are to finance/accounting guys as shells are to many of us.
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by mises 8y ago
That sounds smart, though I can't imagine a huge copper bar came cheap. You can get something for as little as $17 off Amazon, and maybe cheaper if you look harder: https://www.amazon.com/Skywalker-Signature-Ground-Rod
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Chevron to Buy Anadarko(wsj.com)
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by mises 8y ago
A jury that is 10x more likely to have youth? Not necessarily any more just. That's not right either. Couldn't we just strive for a just jury?
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by mises 8y ago
Ok, thanks. Also, awesome work; this looks very useful.
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by mises 8y ago
Good for him. I haven't known how to program very much for very long, and am a student, but so what? Am I not allowed to mention someone breaking rules? If you look above, I gave credit where credit was due, and only mentioned this

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