jwallaceparker

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by jwallaceparker 6y ago
> Live and let live means, in practice, let die. I don't follow your logic. The non-aggression principle is what's at the core of libertarianism. It's to never initiate violence against peaceful people. Helping others volu
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by jwallaceparker 8y ago
Then I guess you won a lot of money betting that these would be the two locations. If not you missed out. Let me know who is going to win the Super Bowl!
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by jwallaceparker 9y ago
> Not true. Jcrew Factory does $5 flat rate Sure, cool, but that helps my original point.
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by jwallaceparker 9y ago
$50 minimum for free shipping from almost all major clothing retailers. and no returns after you've worn it.
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Smart TV hack embeds attack code into broadcast signal–no access required(arstechnica.com)
2 points by jwallaceparker 9y ago|0 comments
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by jwallaceparker 10y ago
What's an example of the former?
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by jwallaceparker 10y ago
> Sowell's "Economics in One Lesson" "Economics in One Lesson" was written by Henry Hazlitt.
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State: Benghazi emails involving Clinton recovered by FBI(bigstory.ap.org)
15 points by jwallaceparker 10y ago|0 comments
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by jwallaceparker 10y ago
Yes, you would. But with your remaining time you'd build shelter or firewood, just not as much. The same principle applies. You still both improved your standard of living. The extent of the improvement depends on the productivity incr
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by jwallaceparker 10y ago
So you would really destroy the fishing rod in my original example?
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by jwallaceparker 10y ago
lol you're trolling me, right?
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by jwallaceparker 10y ago
The specific value of the subsidy is completely irrelevant to the analogy.
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by jwallaceparker 10y ago
> Umm, I'm not sure you understood my point. I understand your point. I'm asking if you apply the same logic to all innovation. You are focusing solely on the displacement of taxi drivers and using that as justification to oppo
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by jwallaceparker 10y ago
> Not sure it takes fewer drivers to satisfy the demands of customers. I mean this in the sense that any one taxi driver can satisfy more customers with the use of a ride-hailing app than without. You're right that ride-hailing apps
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by jwallaceparker 10y ago
The analogy most certainly does not fail at closer inspection. Do you disavow all innovation? Does innovation render people who don't have degrees useless? Certainly not. Quite the contrary, innovation makes them more productive and in
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by jwallaceparker 10y ago
You and a friend are stranded on an island. You both spend all your working hours catching fish by hand in order to eat. You use some leisure time to build a fishing rod, which enables just one of you to catch enough fish to feed you both.
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Americans Are Too Compassionate for a Universal Basic Income(forbes.com)
2 points by jwallaceparker 10y ago|0 comments
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Shirt Uses Recognizable Icons to Help Break Language Barriers When Traveling(mymodernmet.com)
3 points by jwallaceparker 10y ago|0 comments
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by jwallaceparker 11y ago
Exactly! That's what I meant by NIRP (Negative Interest Rate Policy).
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by jwallaceparker 11y ago
You may wish for that bulky wallet back after living in a world where cash is banned and NIRP is ubiquitous.
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by jwallaceparker 11y ago
I think you're both right. Commodity money and fiat money are both forms of money. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money#Types But it's fairly simple to see which money holds its value better over time. Gold&#x
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by jwallaceparker 11y ago
> Money represents an obligation for society to provide you with something of value. What does that mean? > many things would work exactly the same if people agreed to pretend that gold was moved from one vault to another instead of a
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by jwallaceparker 11y ago
> Nor was gold arrived at by the will of market forces. It was imposed through bank charter Haven't gold and silver been used as money for thousands of years? Carl Menger's Origins of Money makes the argument that gold/sil
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Amazon Register(register.amazon.com)
6 points by jwallaceparker 11y ago|1 comments
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Is Uber a threat to democracy?(brookings.edu)
2 points by jwallaceparker 11y ago|0 comments
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Uber Cofounder's 'Uber for Healthcare' Startup Raises $14M(forbes.com)
2 points by jwallaceparker 11y ago|0 comments
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The writers of Humans are ready for the singularity(theverge.com)
2 points by jwallaceparker 11y ago|0 comments
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by jwallaceparker 12y ago
Watch the promo video again and pretend it's the first few minutes of a horror movie. A package arrives on the front porch. The family brings it in and opens it. It's Alexa. It's "for everyone," says Father. The nex
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Introducing Amazon Echo(amazon.com)
15 points by jwallaceparker 12y ago|3 comments
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Ridley Scott to produce sequel series to '2001: A Space Odyssey'(theverge.com)
7 points by jwallaceparker 12y ago|1 comments

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