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Indent with Tabs, Align with Spaces(dmitryfrank.com)
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Bastiat's famous Candlestick makers' Petition(bastiat.org)
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The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster (1909)(visbox.com)
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Herbert Dow and Predatory Pricing(fee.org)
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The Invention of the Chilean Sea Bass(priceonomics.com)
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Zero One Infinity Rule(en.wikipedia.org)
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How Private Property Saved the Pilgrims(hoover.org)
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by wooby 6y ago
It's not a crazy thought at all. Many Americans see government in this light. Others do not: "No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to
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by wooby 6y ago
Moving fast and breaking people is, horrifically, the status quo. Special interests in healthcare, enabled by heavy regulation, go great lengths to insulate doctors from the consequences of providing poor care and the rewards of providing e
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by wooby 6y ago
Arguably, regulatory forces created the environment in which money could be used to so effectively manipulate doctors at the cost of patient outcomes. If doctors stood to lose business when they lost patients -- instead of fearing only fo
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by wooby 6y ago
If you have good Yelp reviews or if I could speak with happy patients I would consider taking you up on it. Seriously. I've received enough terrible medical and dental care from various "trained" and "registered" pr
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The Origin of the Name Posix(stallman.org)
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Common Lisp Iteration(tailrecursion.com)
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Government Cheese(en.wikipedia.org)
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Computer Science Explains Why Communism Can't Work(mindmatters.ai)
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History of Gherkin, a Lisp Interpreter in Bash(tailrecursion.com)
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FairDivision(tailrecursion.com)
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by wooby 6y ago
See also: https://github.com/micha/json-table
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GTK+ with Broadway(developer.gnome.org)
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Last Diminisher(en.wikipedia.org)
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by wooby 6y ago
Your concept of a de-fanged FDA reminds me of the NTSB and is interesting to think about.
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by wooby 6y ago
I don't see how you can contest that they're both products and that they can both kill people if they're defective. To me these two similarities are plainly true, and it is only these two similarities that are material to my
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by wooby 6y ago
You're right, that last paragraph is a flawed argument. I retract it, and your findings compel me to assert that I think there was probably never a good reason for the FDA. But it's the second, and weaker, of the two arguments I m
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by wooby 6y ago
What upsets you about other people using their own money to buy placebos, other than the fact that you can't understand why? At this very moment, millions of people across the globe are buying things for themselves you would never buy
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by wooby 6y ago
It is my understanding that malnutrition, clean water, and access to education/information are foremost among the problems of the developing world, and it's not at all clear to me that regulating medication in those countries woul
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by wooby 6y ago
I mean only to say that they are both products, and that they may both result in injury or death if they are produced irresponsibly. Would you not agree with those two points of comparison?
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by wooby 6y ago
I can think of a few systems in place that mitigate cases like the one you mention. First, I can think of very few things that could happen to someone's car that would disadvantage you without disadvantaging them. In the case you menti
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by wooby 6y ago
If you have any choice in how you are treated, you will make your best judgement based on information available to you, such as by the recommendation of a friend, or a Yelp review. This is the same process you use to make any important purc
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by wooby 6y ago
Like the FDA, and as monopolies, NHTSA and DOT have much less stake in the safety of a consumer than do either car producers and drivers. Personally, I trust myself not to buy a car that I've heard explodes. You may not, and I respect
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by wooby 6y ago
Pharmaceutical companies have every incentive to make their drugs safe, because if their drugs hurt people, the drugs will not sell. Many drugs have passed FDA approval but later killed people. If the FDA were a private company, it might ha

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