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The point is that they implicitly expect private entities/individuals to be able to own and deploy "go toe to toe with the the state equivilent" quality units (though I don't think…

>they'd just take a bit longer to have identified the members of the insurrection They'd have had to enjoin more parties, probably to include state agencies. Any party can push bac…

It was mostly a joke, since these sorts of groups have always, like going back 40+yr, been magnets for law enforcement who always seem to push them to do illegal things. Second, th…

> I’m not sure the expense has been worth simply delaying the inevitable. Now that I'm jaded I ask myself how many government and private sector jobs were "created" (in sarcasm quo…

Literally every industry is like this. Academia is basically a reputation laundering industry. If the cigarette people said smokes good or the oil people you'd never believe them. …

> where are the well regulated militias? They keep getting arrested because some fed informants show up and convince them to kidnap a governor of whatever before they can become "W…

>What I find confusing about this comment is that to me, authoritarian and libertarian are opposites, but have only to do with individual freedoms, not the political system. "Do wh…

A landlord insulates the tenant from price volatility. A tenant will never have to just eat a $20k roof one month. Ain't no different than leasing bajillion dollar process equipmen…

>I don't see any difference between individuals and monopolies on violence ("states") doing this, as long as they both have sufficient levels of certainty. This peasant is faulty. …

You need "a little bit" of politician/judge/enforcer lynching to keep the government in line the same way they make a big show of "a little bit" of kicking in people's doors at 4am…

>hey needed just ten minutes to inflate the balloon and an additional three minutes to heat the air. That's faster than most professionals by a substantial margin. I guess when it …

Once again this is a take predicated on bad assumptions. If you're just doing something and intend to meet or exceed the rules then dealing with government enforcement apparatus is…

People who conflate "not actively regulated and inspected with government permission being given before stuff even happens" with "sub par" as if that's not reductive at best is exa…

In "communism works because the cows are spherical, friction is 0 and gravity is 10" example land sure. In reality building code is how a huge amount of back handed regulation is d…

>Individual regulations, each reasonable in isolation... Every single one of these rules that amounts to death by a thousand cuts preventing these sorts of businesses (as well as m…

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>I owned a machine shop, and I'm the founder of a mid sized CNC gear factory. I think I know my way around bearings, lubrication, press fits and other such bits & pieces. Then you …

>I wonder on what basis Boeing thought that damage to a load-bearing part could be safely ignored? Usually this is because the design constraints are complex and in satisfying one …

You can't in good conscience advertise a complex assembly as fit for some purpose without knowing how close the component widgets are to their various modes of failure.

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That's 20+yr later and an entirely different generation of politicians though, a far cry from the "we'll just slip this in here so we can harass the red man" that the person above …

Framing this as "literally anyone who works" vs "everyone above that" is a dishonest slight of hand to distract from the fact that the top slice of that category spent decades pedd…

>I would bet that's true just on a statistical level - but my point is that plenty of people still feel that way, or at least have felt that way recently enough about the underlyin…

>The point of the second amendment was, in no small part, so that the central government wouldn't deny the states the means to commit genocide against the indigenous population on …