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Do we need more languages? I certainly enjoy being able to travel to most countries and be able to speak English as a relative standard across all.

That's an organization or club, not a company.

I'm saying calling something Austrian or Keynesian is inherently political. We should come up with economic models, whether they're Austrian, Keynesian, alien, or dumb, test them a…

The other important thing is to reduce uncertainty as much as possible. You don't want your inflation rates to bounce around like crazy from day to day. Instead, you'd like to be a…

Just edited my comment for clarity.

Austrian school not holding much weight with academics is like wondering why creationism doesn't hold much weight with academics. Lots of things can be explained with creationism, …

Well there was that famous CIA statue that nobody could figure out for a while. Turns out the NSA solved it pretty fast, but they just didn't tell anybody. And being the codemaster…

I agree encouraging rape is not acceptable. Neither is racism. Or disrespecting other people. But we have decided that it is better to have freedom of speech than no freedom of spe…

Chalk?

I responded to the people justifying piracy using this article here: http://nightra.in/random/ethics-of-piracy/ In short, I think Vlad is trying to explain that piracy was only a l…

This doesn't even belong on the main page.

For tech geeks, maybe. For the majority of the population? I doubt it. There are still people who aren't sure what version of Windows or OS X they're running on their laptops. Now …