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What a fucking kangaroo court. You sure jumped on that "opportunity".

> Suppose industry in your country has higher costs, because people care about say, waterways, and thus there has to be filtering and proper waste disposal. Well then people can bu…

> I mean that you're pretending your ideology can avoid all coercion, while ignoring the coercion involved in enforcing property rights. No I'm not. But as we've established in ano…

You know laws are something written by rulers, and you know morals are not. Punishing people for not adhering to a particular law is not necessarily morally legitimate. Smoking wee…

> On aggregate, I think we're past the point of "just about right" That's a ridiculous idea in the reality we live in. > IMO we need to trim regulations here and there Who's "we"?

> Sure, US democracy is badly implemented, but that doesn't mean the idea is inherently flawed. If you believe the act of dropping a piece of paper into a box actually affects what…

I'm sure you can distinguish between contracts and rights, so what exactly are you on about?

> We don't need to; we already know how it looks like. So you think we're now experiencing too little draconian legislation then?

> externalities are not handled well by entities that, by definition, have no incentive to care about them Entities like rulers, perhaps? You know "campaign contributions" are an e…

> And we have a name for contractual agreements with everyone in a society. We call them "laws". Except that no one asked us if we agreed. Without mutual agreement, there is no con…

> as far as I know, in the US police are never given orders to hurt protesters. In theory, they can even get in trouble for doing so. In the other countries you listed, this was of…

When you get downvoted on HN for arguing against freedom, you just know you've screwed up pretty bad.. :p

> Forces are always present that create instability, so we need to continually make corrections by pushing back in the right direction. Tipping to far towards any ideology can caus…

With whatever parties happen to be involved. No one knows, because those circumstances don't currently exist anywhere on the planet.

> When Tesla becomes a affordable car seller then ok they will no longer be a company that specializes in selling very expensive cars to a wealthy niche. Another take is that Tesla…

> As for libertarianism - it has some good ideas, but the more extreme forms burst into flames at the first mention of the word "externality". Now correct me if I'm wrong, but it s…

> By "worth the price", if you are someone that considers a 60k to 120k car "worth the price" then yes. But personally I would rather not fool myself and admit I have the money and…

> If TPP was a legit trade treaty I would expect it to have anti-protectionism provisions Indeed. An actual free-trade agreement would be really simple to implement. Just stop inte…

> Tesla is an extremely expensive car. Especially if you consider its value-to-price I'm not sure what you mean with "value-to-price", but aren't pretty much all Tesla owners in lo…

Hasn't Musk said his long-term goal is to make electric cars even ordinary people can afford? Weren't the first Macs really expensive too?

What a silly article. >> A lead author of the U.S. Patriot Act has some advice for European officials as they wrestle with the balance between personal liberties and security in th…

> It's just their policy not to use that data when using machine learning and whatnot to get a result out of it. So Google is like a child that wants to eat candy, has candy , but …

It doesn't matter what and how they calculated, because your preferences and valuations are not externally determinable. For example, there's no way to calculate how much you'll be…

> One Nobel winning economic theory leads to an optimal capital structure of 100% debt Too bad the theory is complete nonsense. >> The basic theorem states that under a certain mar…

Making encryption illegal would certainly count as "interference".