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by praxeologist 13y ago
That sounds nice but holds no water. I mean, what sort of monster could not value human life? Please, pay strict attention to what I am saying about what really having "intrinsic value" means.
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by praxeologist 13y ago
>I think what you are actually saying is that "intrinsic value" is actually meaningless. No, I mean exactly what I said. Nothing has intrinsic value, ever. >Therefore I propose a definition of "intrinsic value": so
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by praxeologist 13y ago
Nothing has intrinsic value. I think what the presenters you are talking about are trying to say is that gold has some utility while bitcoin has none. Bitcoin has utility in that it is an incorruptible ledger of transactions, that transacti
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by praxeologist 13y ago
>Value is not intrinsic, it is not in things. It is within us; it is the way in which man reacts to the conditions of his environment. Neither is value in words and doctrines, it is reflected in human conduct. It is not what a man or gro
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by praxeologist 13y ago
Dollar bills have some [quite limited IMO] utility like the paper being burned as kindling or, "Oh, aren't these neat scraps of paper". Utility != intrinsic value. Nothing has intrinsic value.
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by praxeologist 13y ago
Libertarian legal scholar, design nerd and native English speaker here. There's a few basic errors I notice right away like: >Give your customers a peace of mind. There should be no 'a' and just be 'give your customer
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by praxeologist 13y ago
Nothing has intrinsic value.
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by praxeologist 13y ago
Give it a little time. After being an early adopter, bitcoin has pretty much bored me to death recently but this new idea of DACs, protoshares etc. has me interested again like bitcoin originally did. DAC stands for distributed autonomous c
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by praxeologist 13y ago
A possible alternative is Miniscule: http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/256tm/minuscule/ http://ge.tt/7v8w1R61/v/0
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by praxeologist 13y ago
What would it even mean to not be 100% self interested? Are people in India never charitable or selfless? No, of course that is not true. When someone acts charitably it is still self interested insofar as the charitable act is taken up in
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by praxeologist 13y ago
The ability to actually enforce laws and protect girls against fraud (and rape or whatever else) is what I see as the main problem here.
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by praxeologist 13y ago
I did not make an appeal to authority. That would be if I said Cowen is wrong merely because Block and Barnett said so. I am saying that Cowen is a joke for the reasons spelled out in Block and Barnett's paper. Those reasons are not me
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by praxeologist 13y ago
The paper is a resounding refutation of Cowen's other work. Given how terrible he has proven himself in the past, I am happy to reject this new work out of hand. From what little I read, I again suggest people to read Mises' Anti-
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by praxeologist 13y ago
Non-argument; you just said absolutely nothing. The "best" economists in the world at the Fed are incapable of predicting and preventing things like the '08 collapse, yet they have credibility to you? Mainstream economists ha
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by praxeologist 13y ago
Well, we could talk about something substantive and then see... I think that anyone who is buying into Cowen's new piece should also read The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality by Mises especially regarding automation.
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by praxeologist 13y ago
Cowen has no credibility on economics: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1880544
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by praxeologist 13y ago
1 is false and even if it weren't the transition to 2 is fallacious.
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by praxeologist 13y ago
Fiat money has been around not even 200 years while various commodities used in coins worked fine for much longer. Oh but to you it isn't convenient somehow and this is "unarguably correct", lol whatever, spoken like a true s
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by praxeologist 13y ago
The gov't has outlawed gold and silver as currency in favor of its fiatbux. If my friend and I like eating Skittles then some bully come slaps us around if we eat them, that isn't failure of us liking Skittles.
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by praxeologist 13y ago
No, a state is a territorial monopoly. There might be some local/state/federal hierarchy, but whatever place you live in everyone has the same "stack". There's studies that show police in monopoly systems wait and
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by praxeologist 13y ago
I don't think price fixing qualifies as enabling competition. You mention a choice of providers, versus I guess previously only having the choice of BT's monopoly? So, government already creates this telecom monopoly then breaks i
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by praxeologist 13y ago
How about no states? I just subscribe to the protection agency I like, no need to move, nobody claiming arbitrary sovereignty over a whole geographic area. This is a less common type of legal system than whatever flavor of statism but socie
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by praxeologist 13y ago
I am an anarchist libertarian. So is [Hans] Herman Hoppe mentioned in the article. He has a book called Democracy the God That Failed where he makes some comparisons between monarchy and democracy, but he is not a monarchist.
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by praxeologist 13y ago
I'm sorry you feel insulted when someone points out that you believe something which is patently false. >Most economic "laws" apply in competitive markets with limited barriers to entry. It is hard to see how they apply ev
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by praxeologist 13y ago
http://progressivemaryland.org/public/documents/2010/utility... >In the state of Maryland, Verizon currently offers FiOS service in Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Charles, Harford, Howard, Montgomery and Prince
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by praxeologist 13y ago
You don't know what you are talking about. Just so you get the point I am going to repeat myself, you don't have a clue of the situation if you think that the story is anything other than the Baltimore City Council erecting regula
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by praxeologist 13y ago
You are off your rocker if you think this is a market problem. Where I live now and where I lived previously (downtown Baltimore) there is some sort of regulation that keeps Verizon/FIOS from being able to provide service so the ONLY o
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by praxeologist 13y ago
There's nowhere to go but the middle of the ocean if I don't want to live in a place that is either authoritarian or democracy-worshiping though. >refuse to accept the existence of any laws restricting their actions. I was tryi
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by praxeologist 13y ago
There's a large US audience here, many of whom still worship the nation as a "functioning democracy". I see you are talking about liquid democracy and I think that approach might not be perfect but would certainly be an impro
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by praxeologist 13y ago
Yes exactly. I mentioned that true democracy includes the ability to secede down to the level of the individual. What happens at our local knitting club? We take a vote on whatever and if I don't like it I can leave. I don't have

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