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Reminiscent of that quote from the Gulag Archipelago. "Your punishment for having a knife when they searched you would be very different from the thief’s. For him to have a knife w…

I reckon the burden of proof lies with those making the accusations! How can the claims be disputed when their evidence isn't even put forward in the first place?

Brilliant article. It's concerning seeing the attack on free speech happening under the guise of combatting hate/misinformation. As if we can trust the citizenry with the power of …

People who commit crimes are not entitled to the same rights as everybody else nor ought they to be

Relevant context. Singer has a lot of clout because people read some of his stuff in a first year philosophy class. For those who didn't get the memo that the man is a crazy misant…

1. SpaceX and Tesla do not publish news 2. If by "easy loans" you mean competing for contracts with the likes of BlueOrigin, Raytheon and Boeing, you ought to drop the word 'easy' …

Twitter, SpaceX and Tesla are not newspapers/publishers. The reason for labelling news organisations' government affiliations is for the viewer/reader to understand that there may …

A flawed ideal maybe, but you can't say it's a scam.

Mobile phones an essential service?

The petrodollar might be valuable to the US, it certainly isn't doing the world any favours.

100% this. I wonder if people consider the carbon footprint of maintaining petrodollar hegemony. But they will lose that hegemony. It happened to the denarii, it will happen to the…

It's not even that. There are different drivers of inflation, it could be spurred by supply shocks, increased demand, greater supply of money, uncompetitive markets arising from go…

Sounds less like capitalism breaking down and more like a regulatory issue.. could fractional reserve banking exist in a competitive banking sector w/o a central bank?

You are referring to the US dollar correct?

Anybody is more than welcome to build their own garden, but if you own the garden you also get to decide if it has walls around it or not.

If your country has a central bank, I promise you the crash is going to be inflationary.

Similarly, I've begun tactical combat and firearms training. The most essential part of a society is it's stability, and the government's ability to exert power in the name of this…

Mate they'll go after your gold before they go after your land.

It's not their propaganda operation, it's ours.

> If you plan to hold crypto long term No, if crypto becomes the dominant medium of exchange. In this way it would be determined by factors of supply and demand same as money has a…

It's not like that at all. Aluminium is a commodity good - it holds value regardless of other people's valuations and expectations. Cryptocurrency is entirely dependent on other pe…

The more of your own wealth tied up in a crypto asset, the more you have an interest in ensuring no manipulation occurs. An exact inverse to the speaker's thesis. Crypto is underra…

...can you completely discount that rising energy prices may be due to inflationary monetary policy? A higher money supply means more competition for less resources, and if the ult…

So construct a government where individuals are not secured or compromised their liberty depending on the outcome of an election. You speak of the popular will being corrupted by a…

Well when you take into account GST, income tax their employees pay, corporate tax, payroll tax, import&export duties (and every business up and down the supply chain has the exact…