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by praxeologist 11y ago
The real problem here is government and not "private" (corporatist) prisons who would only exist as they are because gov't enabling. Were we to abolish gov't and it's geographic monopolies on law and policing, then
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by praxeologist 11y ago
>Even Ayn Rand said that government should only be in the military and judicial business, how did we end up to the right of her? You didn't overall. The idea of left and right politics is a false dichotomy and false mechanistic anal
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by praxeologist 11y ago
Could you please elaborate with the language?
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by praxeologist 11y ago
I bought one early in the bitcoin era when 1BTC was ~$1, probably spent over $3,000 at least in today's BTC or something.
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by praxeologist 11y ago
>The US government is abolished, but the legal system is preserved? Not how it works. I said this was a thought experiment to sort of isolate this one issue. It's how we (praxeologists of law) might give suggestions to the polycentr
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by praxeologist 11y ago
>Are you seriously suggesting that we could duplicate or triplicate all the roads in the country to allow competition between private road companies? If you want to seriously consider alternatives to the status quo or at least be able to
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by praxeologist 11y ago
I said private law, not purely anarchic examples. I could give more anarchic ones if you liked but it's revisionist history so you'd have to do a good bit of reading to really discuss it. Iceland is an example of polycentric law f
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by praxeologist 11y ago
While states dominate history, private law has proven successful. You could see the Law Merchant throughout Europe as one example or medieval Iceland, where civil order was maintained for longer than the US has existed so far, as another.
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by praxeologist 11y ago
No, and I am not sure why you would say that. Totally irrelevant to what was said.
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by praxeologist 11y ago
You get or give funny looks when some one says they are a libertarian? Your post doesn't make sense to me at all. What is this about levels of being an anarchist? I'm an anarcho-capitalist, basically, which is quite different than
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by praxeologist 11y ago
Logically consistent libertarianism requires anarchy. More here if you like to know why: http://www.walterblock.com/wp-content/uploads/publications/b...
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by praxeologist 11y ago
>The Age of the Sturlungs is what Commonwealth devolved into in a relatively short period. The Commonwealth lasted ~290 years. That's all that's relevant is that a polycentric legal order, one paradigmatically different than th
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by praxeologist 11y ago
Failed state? More like failed UN insurgency and failed propping up government the people don't want going on 20+ years. Anarchy reigns outside of the warzone. Past Galkayo there is quite a lot of peace relative to Mogadishu. Even befo
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by praxeologist 11y ago
Haha. The Age of the Sturlungs, the "bloody" era is after the early Commonwealth I am talking about. Way to not even read my links or have a remote clue about the topic. Look 2 up on the right list on your link for what I am talki
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by praxeologist 11y ago
Qualify "bloody". You can say it all you want, but once the polycentric system fell to the cultural perks and a new monopoly given to the church and chaos ensued, the people begged the king of Denmark for a relative stability. We&
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by praxeologist 11y ago
Your summary of medieval Iceland displays your ignorance. Go read the article I linked and see Byock from UCLA if you will only crack open mainstream history. Byock supports the history just fails to recognize the polycentric and anarchist
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by praxeologist 11y ago
Just a few hundred more million murders of our own citizens and we'll be more open, honest, transparent and efficient, we promise. http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/MURDER.HTM
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by praxeologist 11y ago
>Only _some_ aspects and activities of government are criminal. States do some "good" things like feeding hungry schoolchildren, but never without first committing some "bad". Typically this is extortion (taxation&#x2
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by praxeologist 11y ago
>Even though some of the people operating the government are criminals, the function of government is necessary History disproves that a government (geographic monopoly on arbitration and security) is necessary for maintaining civil orde
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by praxeologist 11y ago
"an open, transparent, and efficient government" is a blind alley. While the tasks you will be doing are not criminal, you are working for criminals. You might reject my radical statements out of hand but if you are open to why I
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by praxeologist 12y ago
>This is exactly what the patent system was made for; so the little guy could have an incentive to invent I think this is completely false despite it being "common wisdom". I've challenged people who say this to provide so
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by praxeologist 12y ago
>My post boils down to a dirt simple but still basically correct: For banking regulated good, unregulated bad, very bad. For something this important, something dirt simple but still correct has some advantages. I don't think your a
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by praxeologist 12y ago
I'll second this even though I only checked out the site once a bit back. I'm still quite the newb at this stuff but it got a great response on the EDM production subreddit.
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by praxeologist 12y ago
That's crazy. How did they get the people to go there? Did they trick them somehow?
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by praxeologist 12y ago
Many of the things I buy on Amazon I buy because I can't find them at all in local stores. Sometimes they are just cheaper too, but that really is why I would use a local Amazon store. I wonder if this will also make some things like p
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by praxeologist 12y ago
He isn't missing anything. Your point is invalid until Uber actually uses the state to enforce a monopoly a la Comcast.
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by praxeologist 12y ago
I think you are in a blind alley. Yes, there is a singular epistemological error underlying every flavor of mathematical, scientistic economics. There is no actual "equilibrium point" where some say and there's no "coeff
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by praxeologist 12y ago
I don't trust that passing new laws will do anything when existing law is being broken. Show me people being thrown in jail and I will believe they are serious.
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by praxeologist 12y ago
How might the performance of the $5 DO or either of the $10 from Linode/DO compare to what I get from my ~$10 shared hosting? I'm probably going to try a VPS at some point, but was just curious about if I could get rid of the shar
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by praxeologist 12y ago
Wasn't the bulk of this money from drug dealers/buyers and not DPR? "Hello, US Marshals I would like the bitcoins I got from moving tons of drugs." Downvote all you want but you don't seem that sharp.

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