voisine

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by voisine 12y ago
Very cool Steve, congratulations. I think this is the first 2 party escrow market to come out. Exciting stuff.
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by voisine 14y ago
I see so many "why don't they just do X, it would make more sense" arguments about all kinds of government programs. The reason that don't in every case is because from the government's perspective the program is working great! The existing
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by voisine 17y ago
You can disallow all you like. Prohibition didn't work then and won't work now. You're just going to ruin more people's lives, and in this case, make the life of nearly every person in the country a little more miserable when they get sick.
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by voisine 17y ago
Not directly, but they are absolutely causing the situation, just as they were at fault for the rise of the American mob during prohibition. Using violence against adults engaged in voluntary exchange is evil and has evil consequences.
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by voisine 17y ago
Most of the article is about how dangerous the manufacture of the stuff is... who's fault is that, dumbass? There are plenty of things that are dangerous to manufacture that we manage to produce safely in massive quantities every day. Stop
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by voisine 17y ago
Nothing went wrong with economics. The austrian school of economics predicted the great depression, the economic failure of communism, the '01 nasdaq crash, and the recent housing bubble. If you keep looking to the keynsians after the stagf
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by voisine 17y ago
wow... he must have made a killing... again. He's following libertarian/austrian school economic predictions, so I suppose now he's betting on the collapse of the dollar.
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by voisine 17y ago
I don't buy it. The example of ISO9000 for instance. Customers value it because it's cheaper and easier than researching a companie's business practices to see if they're stable and predictably repeatable. When it sucks innovation out of a
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by voisine 17y ago
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