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by splat 17y ago
I was under the impression that there has been a variety of opinions concerning fractional-reserve banking in the Austrian School. While Rothbard was fervently opposed to it and Mises was hostile to it, I know that Hayek, at least, believe
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Element 112 is Named Copernicium (Cn)(iupac.org)
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by splat 17y ago
Unfortunately that solution doesn't work so well in practice. The United States is one of the few countries in the world to tax income earned by US citizens in other countries. (The only other ones of which I am aware are North Korea and,
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Trial by Ordeal(reason.com)
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The Forfeiture Racket(reason.com)
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Deriving the Properties of the Universe(technologyreview.com)
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by splat 17y ago
True, but if it's impossible to measure the initial conditions to the necessary degree of accuracy, then it is quite legitimate to describe the system's behavior as "unpredictable."
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by splat 17y ago
I'm not entirely sure how this can claim to be more "eco-friendly" than a normal umbrella given the energy costs required to power it (not to mention manufacture a battery and the entire device itself). When you're making a normal umbrella
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Supreme Court justices, law professor play with words(washingtonpost.com)
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by splat 17y ago
That's not quite the way I'd want to be remembered, but then, it takes all sorts to make a world.
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Two Gentlemen of Lebowski(runleiarun.com)
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Unexpected Problems for Quantum Money (arXiv blog)(technologyreview.com)
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The Mpemba Effect(en.wikipedia.org)
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The MIT Red Balloon Challenge Pyramid Scheme(balloon.media.mit.edu)
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ArXiv Blog: The Curious Threshold for Creativity(technologyreview.com)
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Quantum algorithm for solving linear systems of equations(arxiv.org)
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by splat 17y ago
Also check out Caltech's Ph 101, Order of Magnitude Physics: http://www.its.caltech.edu/~oom/index.html The course notes aren't nearly as good, but the homework sets have some really fun problems.
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by splat 17y ago
Another weird phenomenon is the Unhruh effect, one interpretation of which states that an accelerated observer will disagree with an unaccelerated observer as to the number of particles in a system. You get some weird stuff when you combin
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by splat 17y ago
His anecdote at the end reminds me of the fire alarms at my college dorm. My freshman year the dorms had been renovated and the new fire alarms had been set to be far too sensitive. For the first three weeks after we moved in the fire ala
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Composer John Adams on Hocking a Hooey at the Concert(earbox.com)
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Cosmic latte(en.wikipedia.org)
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by splat 17y ago
I've always been a fan of the works of Joan Miro and El Greco. I also have a painting by J. Stancin that I like a lot. He's not a very well-known artist, though, so I haven't seen too many of his other paintings.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald and living on $500,000 a year(theamericanscholar.org)
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Learning to Love Insider Trading(online.wsj.com)
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by splat 17y ago
I agree with you that the state of California is, all things considered, not doing too badly, and it looks as though it will be doing better in the near future. I think that the original commenter was referring to the government of the s
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by splat 17y ago
As I understand it, Austrian economists tend to define property with respect to scarce goods; because intellectual property is not a scarce good, they (and, in particular, those at the Mises Institute) argue that an individual cannot legiti
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Police stop more than 1 million people on street(apnews.myway.com)
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New research into "shaken baby syndrome" puts convictions in peril(reason.com)
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by splat 17y ago
I'm surprised that the article doesn't mention the effect that the AMA has had on the medical community. The article points out that in France and the UK one aspiring doctors go to medical school for free immemdiately after high school, wh
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Understanding Dictatorships: The question of legitimacy(reason.com)
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