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Panopticon  ·  3603 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Poll - What religion are you Hubski?

This doesn't seem to be a good method for polling people!

Panopticon  ·  3603 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Rate of environmental degradation puts life on Earth at risk, say scientists

Privatise the oceans and skies. The markets will correct for any overproduced products, such as poor people.

Panopticon  ·  3603 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A Career in Science Will Cost You Your Firstborn

A socially planned economy would restore prestige to academia and expand its opportunities, I'm sure.

Panopticon  ·  3632 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 5% of New York cops turn in 40% of "resisting arrest" cases

According to the FBI website, New York has 35,000 officers and 15,000 civilian employees. Office workers are already discounted from the article's statistics. You're wrong.

Out of control.

Panopticon  ·  3743 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Police let their dog urinate on Michael Brown memorial, then drove over it

They are barbarians, by which I mean a warlike, tribal society.

Panopticon  ·  3764 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: NLPD: Non-Libertarian Police Department

One could say that stealing half of someone's money is the moderate position (in comparison to stealing their whole wallet) but I was led to believe libertarianism is based on a fundamental moral belief. Inconsistent is a nice, polite word for this, I guess.

Panopticon  ·  3768 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: NLPD: Non-Libertarian Police Department

About the statement from the opening paragraph: "as if libertarians object to the state enforcing property rights" - why do libertarians accept state monopoly over the property rights industry, but disapprove of other state industries? If the basis of libertarianism is a moral one (such as the oft-cited non-aggression principle), isn't this an outright moral failing on the part of libertarians? Shouldn't they disapprove of all infringements upon property rights (taxation)?

Panopticon  ·  3818 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: "FOR SALE 29,656.51306529 bitcoins"

The coins being sold off like this will probably contribute to confidence in Bitcoin.

Panopticon  ·  3877 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Trouble in Freetown: Twelve Predictable Disasters in the Libertarian Paradise

Sounds like a real good argument for socialism whichever way you look at it.

Panopticon  ·  3894 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Justice Scalia's Past Comes Back To Haunt Him On Birth Control

Well that's different, those weren't white people.

Panopticon  ·  3908 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Doctors Use 3-D Printing To Help A Baby Breathe : Shots - Health News : NPR

I think a lot of the 3d printing stuff is hype but this is really admirable!

Panopticon  ·  3917 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Opportunity Costs: The True Price of Internships

It wasn't "ranting". The housewives analogy was quite striking, and if most interns are female it's empirically justified to look at through a feminist lens.

Panopticon  ·  3917 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: SOS Venezuela

Given what we know about American involvement in the 2002 coup against Chavez and the current instability in the Ukraine it seems likely the CIA etc are involved in this Venezuelan instability too. The latest Snowden files show the NSA is heavily involved in propaganda over the Interent. I'd guess Maduro is telling the truth (just as many government employees and pro-government civilians have been killed as anti-government protesters so I'd guess most of the violence is by agents provocateurs on American payroll).

Panopticon  ·  3919 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Just Right Inequality

Well they would tend to be organised over Facebook and the like, and we've seen that the American state has its finger in every pie in that regard.

Panopticon  ·  3919 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Inverse of Oversight: CIA Spies On Congress

So the West is now in an even worse state than the former Communist Bloc as far as civil liberties go.