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Great Northern Railway was built with no government intervention.
Which means that market somehow just made it. How come? A transcontinental road, just a bit later. What coordinated those companies? What helped them to solve all the described problems, eh?
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If #coronavirus is way less dangerous than the flu, gotta wonder why entire fucking cities are being quarantined.
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Hubei reports 1,291 new coronavirus cases, 24 new deaths bringing total to 106 deaths
http://wjw.hubei.gov.cn/fbjd/dtyw/202001/t20200128_2015611.shtml …
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This public shaming is the most effective use of the minority rule: ethics is highly asymmetric! https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dictatorship-of-the-small-minority-3f1f83ce4e15 …
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Thought related to this really thought provoking interview, which I have listened to numerous times from
@[email protected]
PoW vs PoS
An example of a system where no direct ownership (private property) makes a stronger system
https://github.com/libbitcoin/libbitcoin-system/wiki/Proof-of-Stake-Fallacy
I tend to think IP is fucked. May benefit form PoW model more than PoS model.
It is corned beef season! 😋
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Galileo wanted a purely quantitative science of the physical world, and he therefore proposed that these qualities were not really in the physical world but in consciousness, which he stipulated was outside of the domain of science.
https://www.livescience.com/amp/what-is-consciousness-mystery.html
"Accept the rationality of time, never its fairness or morality."
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Bed of Procrustes
H/t @[email protected]
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As the insightful @saifedean proposes, the salvation for Palestinians is localism/libertarianism. Follow him not the pseudo-left who destroyed their cause.
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Here I explain how the Palestinians have been ruined by top-down instead of local interactions. https://medium.com/incerto/peace-neither-ink-nor-blood-4657956c82ac …
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7-Yr-Old Boy Whose Mother Tried To Transition Him To A Girl, Decided To Attend Kindergarten As A Boy, Dressed As A Boy
This is a ridiculously good piece about censorship. Yeah, all monopolies (and quasi monopolies) are bad.
H/T @[email protected]
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This blog post is a slightly longer version of a piece I published on @FDRLST a few days ago, so if you don't [email protected]@twitter.comn read the shorter version over there. https://thefederalist.com/2019/11/01/why-private-big-tech-bias-is-just-as-bad-as-government-censorshi…
https://twitter.com/phl43/status/1191487020205510656
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