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by praxeologist 12y ago
Doubt it, but I would love for it to happen. I see this as criminal theft by the USMS.
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by praxeologist 12y ago
This can happen that some particular difference between species makes inferring risk of a molecule inaccurate. The real LD50 of nicotine is probably a good bit higher than thought now, but we can't just go poisoning people to really fi
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Thomas Piketty's Improbable Data(mises.org)
1 points by praxeologist 12y ago|0 comments
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by praxeologist 12y ago
>I think that is fringe view and I don't find it compelling. That's a vacuous non-argument and appeal to popular opinion. Not compelling as well.
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by praxeologist 12y ago
See this article, especially toward the end on his understanding of capital: https://mises.org/daily/6736/Thomas-Piketty-on-Inequality-an...
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by praxeologist 12y ago
>Is the 2007 blog post titled "The Rule of Law without the State" from a well known libertarian organization your only source for these statistics? The article is using the following sources as mentioned therein: "statisti
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by praxeologist 12y ago
edit: You added an edit for everything beyond "Can you provide any of these statistics?" My response to the rest is below ---- See Spencer Heath MacCallum's The Rule of Law without the State here: http://mises.or
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by praxeologist 12y ago
>The problem is a failed economy and no rule of law. You obviously have no clue about the real happenings of Somalia. The standards of living, core metrics like life expectancy, all of them really except school enrollment, have increased
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by praxeologist 12y ago
Hasnas is good. Also consider Benson's Customary Law with Private Means of Resolving Disputes and Dispensing Justice: A Description of a Modern System of Law and Order without State Coercion : http://mises.org/journals
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by praxeologist 12y ago
"That" is a totally imagined mischaracterization of how Xeer law works. See here for how it actually works: http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Course_Pages/legal_sy...
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by praxeologist 12y ago
Xeer is one example of the success of private, customary and polycentric law. The Lex Mercatoria as the other poster noted is one more example. See also Zomia: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/14/t
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by praxeologist 12y ago
>Just like the mafia system has it's downsides, so does the Somali system as evidenced by going on several decades of bloodshed now. This is an incredibly ignorant statement. The source of bloodshed in Somalia is foreign governments
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by praxeologist 13y ago
I don't see why Square can start the ball rolling the next day but you need anything near 7 days delay. I figured it was just a way to make more money.
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by praxeologist 13y ago
That is what I think. Probably at least half of my posts are advocating libertarian anarchy, revisionist history and non-mainstream economics, so I feel like I am going to be censored. Just as a user, if I had 1000 karma I feel like I would
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by praxeologist 13y ago
Government is worse and it enables a lot of the ills of banking, not a popular opinion on largely state-apologist HN though.
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by praxeologist 13y ago
>as soon as somebody somewhere makes a loan using bitcoin, then bitcoin becomes a fractional reserve currency. No, there is the other option called full reserve banking.
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by praxeologist 13y ago
How does YC make any money on non-profits they invest in then?
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by praxeologist 13y ago
The analogy with a river doesn't work at all. Rivers don't act or engage in exchange. I see what you are saying on the most optimal path for water to flow, but that is then equivocating on "monopoly".
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by praxeologist 13y ago
Nonsense. Leftists conflate "state capitalism", cronyism or corporatism with real, free-market capitalism. Internet monopolies like Comcast or TWC enjoy are state-granted monopolies, not "natural monopolies" (which have
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by praxeologist 13y ago
>Are you lumping people into either "supertaster" or "nontaster" category? Apparently this clown did. Real chocolate is bitter, so it is no surprise he might like the inferior Hershey's version.
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by praxeologist 13y ago
He is talking solely about how the governments treat internet users, so your comment makes as little sense as me mentioning that the British empire killed far more innocent people than NK ever did.
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by praxeologist 13y ago
You might be able to use a Chrome plugin called Stealthy to make it appear like you are browsing from Italy so it matches your card to test your idea.
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by praxeologist 13y ago
I couldn't find your merchant agreement easily. Can I sell electronic cigarettes with your service? Some others like WePay and Balanced allowed it for a while and ended up changing their ToS but grandfathering vendors in. So, I have be
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by praxeologist 13y ago
Possibly http://www.mangopay.com/ although I haven't used them.
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by praxeologist 13y ago
I guess I am a PDL but I fail to see how any government-enforced monopoly could be a good thing ever. I genuinely see people who believe such things as backwards, primitive fucks. Anyhow, among hardcore libertarian circles there is actually
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by praxeologist 13y ago
I know history bud, want to get into some detail? For every one big name movement like you are talking about I can name 10 (probably 100+ if I had to) examples of the US government beginning to encroach on new areas to interfere with. The f
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by praxeologist 13y ago
I don't want to play a role in an ongoing crime... but I think that is naive to believe you even have a say in your government. You have a greater chance of dying in a car wreck on the way to the polling station than your single vote s
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by praxeologist 13y ago
Bitcoin is inherently libertarian: http://rudd-o.com/archives/bitcoin-without-the-politics If all the libertarians who are into bitcoin suddenly cut down the rhetoric, you think that this will "make bitcoin legiti
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by praxeologist 13y ago
On that note, I want to point people to Protoshares and the concept of DACs (Decentralized Autonomous Corporations): http://protoshares.com/ http://letstalkbitcoin.com/bitcoin-and-the-three-laws-of-rob...
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by praxeologist 13y ago
I stocked up on oxygen in the first place because I had an end—sustaining my own life—and the means for this was, in part, supplying myself with oxygen. Oxygen only ever was considered valuable because of my purposeful human action. It was

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