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by timtas 5y ago
This guy will be in Texas within a year.
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by timtas 5y ago
This is pretty anemic self reflection. He never even mentions how the scientific establishment was corralled into compliance with the favored narrative by the Lancet letter organized by Daszak, who was a key player funding gain of function
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by timtas 6y ago
Puritanism needs sinners to crusade against.
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by timtas 6y ago
One say you might say something controversial which was mainstream the day before. Fast times we're living in.
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by timtas 6y ago
Very well done movie. I would rather say it shows how The New York Times and its star reporter Walter Duranty produced tons of lies to cover the Holodomor. The Pulitzer Prize Board still won't revoke his prize he was awarded for this p
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by timtas 6y ago
Back in 2013 I created http://slotted.co . It's a general purpose signup sheet app. Common use cases: - college professor office hours - open enrollment consultations - comedy open mics - auditions & interviews - startup
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by timtas 6y ago
My dentist recommended SonicCare several years ago. It's a total game changer. No cavities since.
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by timtas 6y ago
Microsoft Teams. Thoroughly shabby. Free to my company, and worth every penny.
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by timtas 7y ago
Fine until you eat up all your other pasta. Then where are you? Well, I guess at that point you have bigger problems. :)
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by timtas 7y ago
Sorry but no, the sides cannot work together to dispassionately purge only clear falsehoods. Consider this case, hot off the presses. Yesterday Aaron Sorken wrote an open letter to Mark Zuckerberg in the New York Times in which he stated th
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by timtas 7y ago
I wrote a simulation that proves it pretty convincingly. http://rubyfiddle.com/riddles/7066f/4
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by timtas 7y ago
Do you know how to tell whether a transaction is beneficial to both parties? It’s mutually voluntary. Some third party thinking it’s bullshit is just meaningless noise.
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by timtas 7y ago
In my three decades of professional work I’ve had three excellent mangers. They all share one trait. They place a high degree of trust in their workers, and (and this part is crucial) they have a good system to obtain workers who merit a hi
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by timtas 7y ago
> I get you and others are calling to the sentiment of “how can we be free if we aren’t free to x” but the value of that sentiment isn’t independent of what X is. Do you propose an objective criteria by which a state can legitimately dic
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by timtas 7y ago
Missing is the most comprehensive treatise on economics in the 20th century, perhaps ever: “Man, Economy & State” by Murray N. Rothbard. https://mises.org/library/man-economy-and-state-power-and-ma... Another is R
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by timtas 7y ago
It’s a very good intro to economics. However, I generally recommend instead reading the work that it’s based on: That Which is Seen, and That Which is Not Seen by Frédéric Bastiat. [1] Bastiat’s work is timeless, whereas Hazlitt’s, written
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by timtas 7y ago
The author heard Cook’s comments as advocating for privacy, but that’s wrong. He’s advocating for privacy legislation. The utility of privacy legislation for a company like Apple is to protect itself from completion by firms too small to af
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by timtas 8y ago
There is no fixed definition of hate speech. It's based on du jure norms, which are in a constant state of flux. No person can define or even accurately predict what will constitute hate speech in the future. Therefore, once you accept
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by timtas 8y ago
Probably the biggest reason the Austrian School is "fringe" (a fairer descriptor is "heterodox") is that there's no money in it. Economics is a value free science, at least how Austrians practice it, but happens to
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by timtas 8y ago
Interesting fact: Economics in One Lesson is an extended meditation on Frédéric Bastiat's classic essay "That Which is Seen, and That Which is Not Seen." Part of Hazlitt's goal was to make Bastiat's ideas more moder
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by timtas 8y ago
Do you have an opinion as to what you think is wrong with it, or just bandwagon fallacy? What for example, do you think of Subjective Theory of Value or the Theory of Marginal Utility, which were developed by the father of the Austrian Scho
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by timtas 8y ago
The Law - Frédéric Bastiat, 1850 [1] Bastiat was a great French Economist and liberal political philosopher. He been considered as more of a popularizer than an original thinker, but that's unwarranted. The Law is the greatest work of
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by timtas 8y ago
The Tom Woods Show [1] - A 30-minute show each weekday. Tom is Harvard/Columbia trained historian, amateur economist and libertarian philosopher. 1,250 episodes. The usual format is interview with a prominent thinker and/or doer.
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by timtas 8y ago
The Law by Frédéric Bastiat [1] Weighing in at 75 pages, you can read this 176 year old classic in a weekend. For some reason Locke's Second Treatise on Government made it into the canon as the be-and-end-all of the classical liberal p
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by timtas 8y ago
This is a very impactful book, but challenging for those new to the topic. I would recommend reading his "The Ethics of Liberty" first.
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by timtas 8y ago
> The social-media behemoth’s stock lost roughly one-fifth of its value. That's one way to describe it. Another way is, Facebook's stock fell to where it was two months ago, which is 70% over what it was at the start of 2017. I
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by timtas 8y ago
"Their resentment may even cause them to push for keeping the icon after it has proven not to be the right thing for your product." Either Kara is more than one person, or this is a grammatical error. It may be an intentional gram
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by timtas 8y ago
The single strongest indicator of the inflection point where a giant company begins to implode is when the CEO is hauled into Congress and people start talking seriously about anti-trust and breakup. Standard Oil, A&P, General Motors, I
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by timtas 9y ago
> company destroying fines They are not company destroying for large companies though. By raising fixed cost (and risk) of doing business, regulations of this kind are an absolute godsend for large companies.
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by timtas 9y ago
> But would it be so crazy for these regulators to hire someone...to help provide a little bit of actionable technical advice? Didn't you know? They do. Large corporations are always happy to help regulators write laws in such a way

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