shmulkey18

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by shmulkey18 15y ago
In other words, you're OK with the state forbidding forms of political speech it finds undesirable. Nice. Banning "freedom to say certain stuff about the religion Islam" is censorship, pure and simple. Read "Brave New World" and see if an
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by shmulkey18 15y ago
"Is an individual's freedom to do something more important than another individual's freedom from something?" Generally, yes, it is.
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by shmulkey18 15y ago
Clean streets vs. freedom of speech. Sounds like a no-brainer to me.
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by shmulkey18 15y ago
"Different kinds of freedom". Whenever anyone says this, I get very nervous. It's pretty clear that these "different kinds" are not real freedom at all, and so don't include things like freedom of speech, the ability to truly determine wh
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by shmulkey18 15y ago
Are you enjoying living in a police state? Seriously.
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by shmulkey18 15y ago
Perhaps this should cause some reflection on the following question: why do scientists seem to be disproportionately inclined to serve authoritarian regimes? My guess is that scientists believe that people like themselves -- people whose a
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by shmulkey18 16y ago
We're from the government and we're here to help! No results in Chrome at all for my area, which is served by Comcast. I wonder how much taxpayer money was dumped down this particular rat hole.
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by shmulkey18 16y ago
“The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.” -- F. A. Hayek The best thing that the US government could do to help start-ups (and other American businesses, fo
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by shmulkey18 16y ago
You say that you are "less a fan of lies ... or false conclusions... ". Thus, I will be charitable and conclude that, rather than willfully mischaracterizing what I wrote and ignoring the evidence for it, you simply didn't read it very care
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by shmulkey18 16y ago
Is it the responsibility of intellectuals to cheer-lead for Hezbollah? To label a Holocaust denier and anti-semite "a relatively apolitical liberal of some sort"? To minimise the Cambodian genocide? [Refs: http://oliverkamm.typepad.com/b
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by shmulkey18 16y ago
I wasn't aware that Hacker News has become "Politics News". If it has, then perhaps people will be interested to know that this is the same John Pilger who said of the London transit terror attacks of 7/7/2005 by Islamic fanatics: "The bomb
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by shmulkey18 16y ago
More here: http://reason.org/news/show/public-sector-private-sector-sal...
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by shmulkey18 16y ago
But remember kids, business is icky, the rich are evil, investors are greedy, and "public service" is preferable to working in the private sector.
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by shmulkey18 16y ago
Reality check: "The Big-Spending, High-Taxing, Lousy-Services Paradigm: California taxpayers don’t get much bang for their bucks." http://www.city-journal.org/2009/19_4_california.html Excerpt: California is the only Sunbelt state that h
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by shmulkey18 16y ago
Light liberal? Zinn is hard left, and writes history accordingly.
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by shmulkey18 16y ago
Econtalk is wonderful! Don't be put off by the title and your unpleasant memories of the micro and macro courses you took in college. Econtalk covers a lot of ground, including emergent behavior, behavioral economics, Prohibition, and the
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by shmulkey18 16y ago
The Aeropress is fantastic: it's cheap, easy to use and clean, and portable. It makes fantastic coffee. I'm not an espresso expert, but I think you would have to spend hundreds more to get an espresso machine which can make as good Americ