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And here we are again, almost another order of magnitude higher and zooming past $1000 per coin, about to break the all-time high yet again. [quote user="AJ"]How many more orders of magnitude will be needed to convince the skeptics?[/quote] Apparently several more will be required. Though by then it will pretty much be the ledger of civilization
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[quote user="Walden"]Children already know how to think. It's in the process of school socialization that they develop the reflexive authority based view of truth.[/quote] Great point. Children don't have all those adult bad habits. The same applies somewhat to certain people who don't identify as intellectuals. Since they don't
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Here's a thread on the scarcity of air: http://archive.freecapitalists.org/forums/t/31127.aspx
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Nice to revisit this now that Bitcoin is poised to zoom past $200, a whole order of magnitude higher than when I originally wrote this 9 months ago. How many more orders of magnitude will be needed to convince the skeptics? The beautiful thing is that those who understand what's going on sooner get to make the money. Lack of understanding of the
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[quote user=" NonAntiAnarchist "]Why does quantum mechanics supposedly yeild incredilby accurate predictions, yet lack scientific rigor in terms of establishing cause and effect, consistent definitions, etc. (as I've heard some on this board claim - I lack the expertise to judge the science in any way tbh).[/quote] Because they use tricks
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Feel free to ask more questions!
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[quote user="Bill"]Anarchists just want to be left alone and not governed by others.[/quote] You can have governance without government. You will always be subject to the preferences of others if you want to enjoy the benefits of society and the division of labor, but that doesn't mean there needs to be centralized control magnifying and
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It's called "designing around" and is a prime mover for innovation. Talk about making lemonade out of lemons. The posters above covered the errors well, but one last thing is that this lawyer guy is dismissing the utility of having competition for existing medicines. Who's to say that a given company should be innovating its own product
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First of all, I've heard there are drug dealers in every busy square in Shanghai. I don't know if the percentages are particularly high or low compared to how strict the enforcement is, but strict enforcement doesn't necessarily correlate to higher or lower drug use. It just makes an industry out of it by raising prices.
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Not that "conservativism" is even a consistent position nowadays, but certainly if they are for the war on drugs that is in direct contradiction to the libertarian view that people can do whatever they want as long as they harm no one else. So yes, they are in contradiction, but people have no problem holding contradictory viewpoints, due