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Re: Swedish Police Abandon Citizens In City Of Helsingborg After Muslim Grenade Attacks

crasch — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 13:57:58 -0000

Thanks for presenting an alternate perspective.

Re: A new way of blogging about Lua

crasch — Sun, 26 Nov 2017 14:34:14 -0000

Check out the beaker browser, which has very sympathetic aims:

https://beakerbrowser.com/

Re: ShapeShift and Tokens as Securities

crasch — Sun, 26 Nov 2017 12:44:11 -0000

One can be against the laws, while still being subject to them.

Time to switch to decentralized exchanges, whose owners aren't subject to nightstick attacks at the hands of the SEC:

https://tokeneconomy.co/tok...

Re: Clojure Web Frameworks And Comparisons

crasch — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 16:47:12 -0000

Hey, thanks! This was very helpful.

Re: I’m Not Seaing It

crasch — Tue, 06 Jun 2017 19:41:50 -0000

Many of the most onerous taxes and regulations happen at the Federal level. Since those still apply if you move to New Hampshire, there's as much incentive to move there as there would be to a seastead.

Re: Should Twitter and Facebook be Regulated as... | Scott Adams' Blog

crasch — Fri, 27 Jan 2017 03:36:24 -0000

Twitter and Facebook are private companies. They don't owe you anything. Maybe they are limiting your reach because they don't like what you say. So what? Their toys, their rules. How outraged would you be if they called for the government to force you to host content for say, Al Franken or Michael Moore?

If you don't like how they manage their platforms, choose another more open platform like dreamwidth or hubzilla or twister. You have a lot of clout, and if you switched to a more open platform a lot of people would follow you.

Re: Monero, the Drug Dealer’s Cryptocurrency of Choice, Is on Fire

crasch — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 05:52:11 -0000

I certainly want to increase everyone's wealth at all levels. I also want to see everyone have as much say over their lives as possible.

Speaking for myself, I think the government at all levels has become incredibly wasteful, parasitic, and authoritarian. IMHO, if the money currently wasted by bureaucrats were left in private hands, it would generate a lot more wealth. I also think a lot of things that are stifled by excessive government regulation (new housing, new medicines, new technologies) would arrive a lot more rapidly if the government were scaled back.

So, my preference would be to scale back the government to a much smaller fraction of its current size. And if that were done, I expect it's financial needs would be covered by modest consumption taxes, affordable to all.

Re: Monero, the Drug Dealer’s Cryptocurrency of Choice, Is on Fire

crasch — Wed, 25 Jan 2017 23:53:44 -0000

Taxes would shift from income and investment to consumption goods, especially those that can't be easily hidden (land, houses, cars, etc).

Re: Polystyrene Concrete: A Versatile Construction Alternative

crasch — Wed, 18 May 2016 05:52:00 -0000

The polystyrene is embedded in a matrix of cement. So while polystyrene itself is quite flammable, epscrete is not .

Re: Why I’m Supporting John McAfee As His Vice Presidential Running Mate

crasch — Wed, 06 Apr 2016 01:23:45 -0000

Congratulations, Judd! Your vision for the campaign is both sensible and inspiring. I look forward to seeing how you and John shake things up in the political establishment.

Re: This Moving, Amphibian Bed Let's You Nap on the River

crasch — Wed, 23 Mar 2016 17:28:16 -0000

Neat! Thanks for posting. Seems like the perfect vessel for Ephemerisle:

http://www.ephemerisle.org

Re: Tech-Employed Male Creates Elaborate Stats Model For SF Dating And Women's Attractiveness

crasch — Fri, 20 Nov 2015 05:02:31 -0000

That doesn't mean you can't measure it. And men agree pretty closely amongst themselves regarding who they find physically
attractive:

http://www.livescience.com/...

Re: Bay Area Writer Laments His Fading California Dream

crasch — Wed, 28 Oct 2015 13:31:46 -0000

Nonsense. Paris has three times the population density as San Francisco. Onerous building regulations and NIMBYism kept new housing construction from keeping up with demand.

Re: Now That Taxis Have A Small Advantage On Market Street, Uber Wants To Be Treated Like Them

crasch — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 22:04:08 -0000

10,000 new cabs that wouldn't exist otherwise? Sounds like tremendous pent up demand that went unsatisfied by the taxi monopoly. If taxis were providing such great service, why did Uber and Lyft explode in use when they figured out how to work around your monopoly privileges?

Re: Now That Taxis Have A Small Advantage On Market Street, Uber Wants To Be Treated Like Them

crasch — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 21:52:11 -0000

Uber doesn't want special privileges, they just want the same privileges that are afforded to the government-favored taxi cartel.

Re: Now That Taxis Have A Small Advantage On Market Street, Uber Wants To Be Treated Like Them

crasch — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 21:45:59 -0000

Taxis have used the medallion system for decades to prevent competition. As a result, they've provided shitty, expensive service for decades. Taxis (and other government transport services) deserve our support when they provide good service, not because they're an old and powerful cartel.

Re: Now That Taxis Have A Small Advantage On Market Street, Uber Wants To Be Treated Like Them

crasch — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 21:44:01 -0000

And is there any evidence that the taxi medallion system results in greater public safety on net? Or that it justifies giving taxis special privileges?

Re: Now That Taxis Have A Small Advantage On Market Street, Uber Wants To Be Treated Like Them

crasch — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 21:39:42 -0000

Because taxi companies are old school cartels, that use government licensing and special privileges to either hobble or block altogether would-be competitors.

Re: Pot reform: Is Snoop Dogg hip-hop's answer to the Koch Bros.?

crasch — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 19:23:57 -0000

FYI, the Koch brothers are pro-legalization, and have donated millions to pro-legalization organizations, such as the Cato institute.

Re: Startup City Redux : The Freeman : Foundation for Economic Education

crasch — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 00:54:31 -0000

Will these ZED's be allowed to set their own criminal law? For example, could they legalize drugs? Brothels?

Re: Virgin Galactic Started Selling Tickets to Space Before Getting Permission to Take People There

crasch — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 07:52:21 -0000

Oh no! No permissions from our valiant bureaucrats at the FAA yet!?? Thank goodness we have the ever vigilant eyes of the FAA to protect us. If only the FAA had existed at the time of Orville and Wilbur Wright. Who knows how much safer commercial aviation would be now?

Re: Bitcoin Boon

crasch — Sat, 23 Nov 2013 09:29:20 -0000

The value of Bitcoin is increasing, so the price of goods denominated in Bitcoin is falling. For example, a book that would've cost 1 BTC a couple years ago, now only costs 0.01 BTC. This is [price] deflation. By contrast, a book priced in dollars that cost $20.00 a year ago, might now cost $21.00. This is [price] inflation.

Re: Girls Chase

crasch — Mon, 04 Nov 2013 12:04:47 -0000

Other than being a paying customer, I have no affiliation with girlschase, and I think it's a great site. Lot's of practical information, presented well. Clear-eyed, but affable toned--not a lot of the scorn I've seen on other PUA sites.

Re: Special Features – Return of the Five Most Disappointing Films of All Time

crasch — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 16:45:23 -0000

Aliens 3 better than Aliens? Now you're just messing with us. While not the abomination that Aliens 4 was, Fincher forgot that you actually have to care about the characters. After ruining the ending of Aliens in the first five minutes, Aliens 3 kills off the one remaining sympathetic character in the first 20. Who are we supposed to care about after that? Angry, suicidally depressed Ripley? Largely faceless rapist and murderer monks?

Re: Install X11 on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger without the install DVD

crasch — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 21:51:10 -0000

Thanks for keeping this up! Helps me make use of old hardware.