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Somali Pirate Economics(wired.com)
43 points by tc 17y ago|14 comments
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by tc 17y ago
I haven't used Etherpad, but isn't Google Wave going to capture the essential feature of Etherpad (N-way realtime collaboration) while being federated, backed by Google, and open source to boot? I know that there is still room to be a niche
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by tc 17y ago
I have the feeling this will be decried as a failure three months after launch and taken for granted as a part of our lives ten years from now.
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by tc 17y ago
Wave isn't about replacing email per-se. It's about a paradigm shift that obsoletes Exchange and perhaps threatens Facebook's position. As for contracts, Wave retains a versioned change history that can be replayed, and certainly has a bet
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by tc 17y ago
Socializing healthcare drives up costs for everyone, pushing higher quality alternatives out of range for more people. Providers no longer compete on price, and consumers no longer factor price when selecting providers or moderating their
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by tc 17y ago
I don't want to start a deep thread on this, but I do want to point out that one of the advantages of a free market is that you only have to make these choices for yourself , not for others. You can select an insurance policy with rationin
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by tc 17y ago
IE is stagnant because Microsoft's only strategic incentive to make IE better is so that it isn't too much worse than any other browser. It really wouldn't matter if they had the best team of developers in the world.
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Elance loses customer information to security breach(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by tc 17y ago|0 comments
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by tc 17y ago
No one objects to interest. I was referring to central bank interest rate targets as opposed to floating free market interest rates. As for Rothbard and the Chicago School -- yes, I'm aware of that.
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by tc 17y ago
His reasons for the Karate seem perfectly acceptable to me, as long as his kids enjoy the activity. At that age, the activities kids participate in are almost totally driven by parental influence. He's making choices that are guided by th
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by tc 17y ago
Personally, I agree. I myself take a more inner-zen approach to this sort of thing. I've developed a certain empathy though, as during my life I've been intimate with some people for whom the inner-peace approach just doesn't seem attaina
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by tc 17y ago
Some people get over things by eliminating those things from their lives. He probably spends the vast majority of the days of his life over that whole experience. His rant was prompted by elements of that old world trying to intrude on th
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by tc 17y ago
You're basically suggesting that people learn the current fashions. Which is fine, as far as it goes, just stay skeptical, because unlearning falsehoods is extremely difficult for most people. Empirically speaking, it seems almost (but no
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by tc 17y ago
Sure, I have an agenda. What's the point of writing if not to change minds? My emphasis was you should be conscious that everyone has an agenda, even those who claim to be 'standard' or 'objective,' particularly when it comes to the dism
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by tc 17y ago
No, it was from memory. But fortunately Wikipedia cites its sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_Mania
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by tc 17y ago
Sometimes you just assume that people have kept their eyes open -- or at least have Google at their disposal.
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by tc 17y ago
It is perhaps a semantic point, but I consider a && !a objectively false and a || !a objectively true -- but even there, you have to accept certain axioms of logic. And I consider initiating violence against a peaceful person objec
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by tc 17y ago
You missed my point completely. Let's see: you're wrong to suggest that objectivity of analysis isn't worth considering I abhor anything but objective analysis, which to me means something very close to " honest analysis." My suggestio
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by tc 17y ago
The most insidious form of conversion is when you don't even realize a viewpoint is being advanced on you, instead believing it to be 'objective.' Every model of the world has certain assumptions, certain axioms, built into it. To maintai
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by tc 17y ago
There is really no need to pick a fight between the Austrians and the Chicago School. Austrians are sympathetic to the Chicago School, particularly as they have adopted many Austrian insights. In fact, many of today's Austrians come from
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by tc 17y ago
... but it did prevent the speculative losses from being socialized while keeping gains private. Only people who bought tulips lost money. It's also widely thought today that the tulip mania was brought on in part by a parliamentary decree
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by tc 17y ago
He thinks this needed a perl script or defining the task by email for an assistant? Seriously? $ wget -i urls.txt I understand that this may have been a contrived example, but many of these foreign VA stories sound pretty contrived.
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by tc 17y ago
Consider though that this is still a (nominally) free country, and they created this novel scenario 1) long before they were subject to any speech restrictions and 2) by making only true and public statements. Then consider that they would
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by tc 17y ago
Systematic incompetence creates systematic failure. There's no conflict or conspiracy here.
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by tc 17y ago
AIG bet against a complete bust of the system. They were otherwise reasonably hedged. Governments have placed much larger and more harmful bets on continued economic growth in the form of spending commitments that outpace even rosy grow
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by tc 17y ago
Every year there seem to be new emergencies. So it seems fair to say that curating emergencies and applying expensive political band-aids is a higher policy priority than long-term projects that might actually improve the standard of livin
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by tc 17y ago
You've hit indirectly on why it's so important that people be able to keep their own money. The brutal reality of the world is that, outside of yourself and some close companions, no one really cares about you or your ability to survive a
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by tc 17y ago
The law takes the idea of forcing a person to speak much more seriously than the idea of forcing him to remain silent, particularly if you would be forcing him to make a knowingly false declaration. I can't think of an instance off-hand
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by tc 17y ago
The overflight followed by an explosion would even leave observers with the impression the US was dropping ordnance on civilian centers. All bad.
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by tc 17y ago
After the economy recovers and [Toyota] starts selling its [Prius] to Americans by the container ship again I would not so casually assume that this will happen. The current downturn is in many respects unprecedented, and all of the long

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