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If someone downvote, can you point out what is incorrect? It feels like saying anything negative about Tesla/EVs on HN is just downvoted without regard for merit.

If this was China or Russia, our media would point and scold, calling them names and declaring them immoral, and the enemy. However, since it's the US, I doubt this will get much c…

Good lord that is a long-winded post. Not just in scope, but the writing style rambles and opines endlessly. For the record, I'm excited for the Model 3, and would buy a Model S if…

The public value of the anti-authoritarian sentiment as an externality of psychedelic use could be quite high, depending on what it could prevent in our future.

Germany has been criticized by many for their questionable free speech. Snowden is one famous person to do this. The right to offend is also considered by many to be an important p…

It was not too long ago that in Germany a political artist was prosecuted for a poem insulting a politician. In other words, governments have already repeatedly proven they should …

Just a different perspective to answer this (and I am open to being wrong): competition b/w societies is decreasing. We live in an increasingly bureaucratic, interconnected, global…

By that criteria, everything from schoolyard insults to poems insulting Trump could be made illegal. I know you don't want to be insulted, or let other people be insulted, but it's…

The point was that both are unintended consequences of things which generally help people. If we could have free speech, or roads, with no bad side effects we'd have them. Once you…

The test to outlaw something should not be because it hurts someone. Just because you know some people will drive, or drive drunk, and this will kill people, does not mean you shou…

>where you think free speech was too limited in Europe and where this limitation led to a poor outcome for society? The test for what values we uphold should not always be what has…

It's politics that benefits the 1%'ers in NZ. Same reason why street crime is a real problem in NZ when it shouldn't be because it goes relatively unenforced, while they run arguab…

>"We have not, to date, accepted that freedom of expression requires the facilitation of the unlawful sale of goods." That precise argument may be well-intentioned, but it threaten…

I don't think he is nitpicking at all. The US has too many conflicts, incl wars. 26,000 bombs dropped last year. Extremist fighters funded by the US Gov't (Syria, Iran Contra, and …

Ah. Yea I agree.

This is exactly right. Just to address the above poster: vanilla banking could still be guaranteed. By contrast, in essence the Fed is guaranteeing the banks' risky investments.

Schwartz said verbatim the Fed should be eliminated. Sanders has said much negative on the Fed, specifically that it's 'socialism for the rich, and rugged individualism for everyon…

I agree that those are problems as well. However while you may not agree the Fed is a problem, unfortunately the Fed and central banking has an aura of group think around it that i…

The former and latter comments of yours in this post don't appear to agree with each other. Am I missing something?

>Does it seem to anyone else that the finance industry is increasingly distracted from actually matching up capital to fundamentally productive companies, especially new companies?…

The above comment did refer to population studies. Most drugs are studied using clinical trials, which contain control groups. Not perfect experiment, but close to it. There are pl…

Perhaps someone would explain why they downvoted?

I think what he means is the word Drug that is used in the War on Drugs. I.E. street speed (amphetamine) is a Drug while adderall (amphetamine) is medication. A lot of people in th…

You're correcr, but it's worth mentioning that studies != experiments. I'm not an anti-vaccer for the record. The studies vs experiments problem is larger in social sciences than m…