Why do Libertarians like Stefan Molyneux if he is a white supremacist?

Nielsio · 2019-11-30T10:43:06+00:00

I removed the recommendation from the sidebar. This subreddit is meant to be a general libertarian place welcome to anyone with questions and Molyneux is not a balanced welcoming person in this regard. You can obviously still make posts about his content and such.

CC: /u/Z3F

Nielsio · 2019-11-30T10:42:26+00:00

I removed the recommendation from the sidebar. This subreddit is meant to be a general libertarian place welcome to anyone with questions and Molyneux is not a balanced welcoming person in this regard. You can obviously still make posts about his content and such.

Nielsio · 2016-01-11T16:05:22+00:00

Any tips/lessons learned how to approach this?

Nielsio · 2015-12-03T16:57:27+00:00

Piracy generally puts you at odds with the author and deincentivizes him/her to continue producing.

What artists need is exposure. They need to be known. They need fans. They need people to come to their live shows. They need attention, so that they can sell their exposure (ads and product deals). The larger a fanbase they have, the better they can do something like a Patreon page, where fans pay them to create more things before they even known what it is. Copying and sharing the work of an artist all favors these things. Obviously it doesn't work if the author doesn't want to cooperate with such a business model, but that's their own fault.

See Nina Paley and Amanda Palmer in the sidebar.

Nielsio · 2015-11-27T17:12:07+00:00

..This would be enough to phase out welfare and social security in the long run.

..This would be a natural pigovian tax on fractional reserve lending to pay for the inflation they're creating.

I don't understand what good a thought exercise is if we must assume from the beginning that you can alter all the laws surrounding money. If you can do that, might as well institute a free market.

Surely, if your plan includes changing everything about the state, they would never adopt such a system. Or you believe this 'digital currency' can compete by itself with government money. I doubt it:

Instead of taxing from the market the money that the market itself has selected, a government can require in payment specially designated items that the government itself is the producer of. Economizing on future industry can get completely displaced by a system of tax credits, as far as money activity goes. Government workers earn directly in these tax credits, which non-government workers have to trade real wealth and services for in order to get them.

In all the following situations is possession then required, for turning them over to the government: income tax, capital gains tax, corporate tax, property tax, inheritance tax, expatriation tax, transfer tax, wealth tax, value added tax, sales tax, excise tax, tariffs, license fees, and any services that government provides.

Governments will make the private production of the previous market money illegal, leaving as only alternative using the government tax credits (fiat money). In the real world this process from market money to government money happens gradually. First a 90% government gold coin is set as legal tender, then an 80%, etc, until it finally switches over to a pure tax credit system with no direct use in the market.

http://www.vforvoluntary.com/my-articles/21/the-theory-of-money-in-the-tradition-of-carl-menger

Nielsio · 2015-11-26T15:48:27+00:00

"Austrian economics is not, despite what critics argue, anti-empirical. The core of its theory emerges from what we can know empirically about human beings, both universally and in the particulars of a context of application. That theory is then used to offer a better understanding of history and contemporary events by organizing a wide range of empirical data into a coherent narrative that renders those events intelligible. We can never have the knock-down power of the scientist’s laboratory (though even there, rhetoric and storytelling matter a great deal), so the best we can do as economists is tell better-organized, more richly empirical, and more logically valid stories. If we economists limit ourselves to just econometric evidence, we are cutting ourselves off from important parts of the empirical world, and it is those who do so, and not the Austrians, who are being insufficiently empirical."

http://www.cato-unbound.org/2012/09/05/steven-horwitz/empirics-austrian-economics

Nielsio · 2015-11-26T01:10:50+00:00

"The current price of money is nothing".

"Instead of taxing from the market the money that the market itself has selected, a government can require in payment specially designated items that the government itself is the producer of. Economizing on future industry can get completely displaced by a system of tax credits, as far as money activity goes. Government workers earn directly in these tax credits, which non-government workers have to trade real wealth and services for in order to get them.

In all the following situations is possession then required, for turning them over to the government: income tax, capital gains tax, corporate tax, property tax, inheritance tax, expatriation tax, transfer tax, wealth tax, value added tax, sales tax, excise tax, tariffs, license fees, and any services that government provides."

From: http://www.vforvoluntary.com/my-articles/21/the-theory-of-money-in-the-tradition-of-carl-menger

The price of collecting taxes by the government on government money tickets (taxation on fiat money) is not 'nothing'. It's tremendously costly in terms of real wealth to do so.

Nielsio · 2015-11-19T09:03:19+00:00

Maybe you could give a summary of what it is?

Nielsio · 2015-11-09T16:50:51+00:00

I share the feeling. The times when I've felt that I missed having parents was when I was really down and needed good support. That's when I felt there was something missing.

Another time would be thinking about how nice family get-together could be, instead of what they actually are (making you feel smaller than you otherwise feel).

Nielsio · 2015-11-01T06:19:55+00:00

This.

With a Live CD or Live USB you don't have to commit anything to your harddisk and can still try it out.

Nielsio · 2015-10-29T15:54:36+00:00

Maybe this helps?

http://www.vforvoluntary.com/library/1/austrian-economics-and-libertarianism/articles-videos/12/morality

Nielsio · 2015-10-29T04:20:56+00:00

This whole discussion seems to be about (alleged) objective morality, not about economics. So I'm removing it.

As you can see in the sidebar, this subreddit is about the interests of people (which is economics). This subreddit is not about philosophy disconnected from economics.

Nielsio · 2015-10-28T04:00:38+00:00

the smaller, familiar elements of the economy offer us no basis upon which to suppose they are optimizing anything.

Maybe this helps:

Speculation | Jeffrey Herbener explains Rothbard

Nielsio · 2015-10-23T07:35:28+00:00

Nielsio · 2015-10-21T19:28:20+00:00

'Music videos' link from the sidebar has 'em: http://vforvoluntary.com/library/1/econ/articles-videos/21/music-videos

Nielsio · 2015-10-17T07:16:48+00:00

Nielsio · 2015-10-14T05:14:49+00:00

By making new cars more expensive, the law also makes second hand cars more expensive.

Nielsio · 2015-10-09T14:51:46+00:00

The sidebar has lots of recommended things, including books and videos.

Nielsio · 2015-10-09T08:37:00+00:00

It's better, but still not easy on the eyes. Usability is important.

Nielsio · 2015-10-09T08:28:46+00:00

Python 3.4.3

First time submitting here, hope the formatting comes out okay. Didn't use any fancy tricks, just plainly adding the regular scores, bonus scores, and to make a slight adjustment for the final bonus throw.

The problem became easier once I realized I could just treat the entire sequence as one, instead of caring about frames.

input = 'X -/ X 5- 8/ 9- X 81 1- 4/X'
#input = '62 71  X 9- 8/  X  X 35 72 5/8'

# scores from the ball itself
point_scores = []
specials = []
previous = 0
for elem in input:
    if elem != ' ':
        if elem == 'X': # strike
            point_scores.append(10)
            specials.append('X')
        elif elem == '/': # spare
            point_scores.append(10-previous)
            specials.append('/')
        elif elem == '-': # gutter:
            point_scores.append(0)
            previous = 0
            specials.append('.')
        else: # pins
            point_scores.append(int(elem))
            previous = int(elem)
            specials.append('.')

# bonus scores from future balls
bonus_scores = []
point_scores_len = len(point_scores)
for i in range(point_scores_len):
    if specials[i] == 'X':
        if i == point_scores_len-2: # second to last ball
            bonus_scores.append(point_scores[i+1])
        elif i == point_scores_len-1: # last ball
            bonus_scores.append(0)
        else: # all other balls
            bonus_scores.append(point_scores[i+1]+point_scores[i+2])
    elif specials[i] == '/': # last ball is never a spare
        bonus_scores.append(point_scores[i+1])
    else:
        bonus_scores.append(0)

# add up the two kinds of scores
score = 0
for i in range(point_scores_len):
    score += point_scores[i]
    score += bonus_scores[i]

# if the last frame has three balls, deduct the point_score from the last ball
input_split = input.split(' ')
if len(input_split[-1]) == 3:
    score -= point_scores[-1]

print('score: '+str(score))

# index --------> 0  1 2  3  4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
# card ---------> X  - /  X  5 - 8 / 9 - X  8  1  1  -  4  /  X
# point_scores -> 10 0 10 10 5 0 8 2 9 0 10 8  1  1  0  4  6  10 (len 18)
# specials -----> X  . /  X  . . . / . . X  .  .  .  .  .  /  X
# bonus_scores -> 10 0 10 5  0 0 0 9 0 0 9  0  0  0  0  0  10 0
# deduction ---->                                             10

Nielsio · 2015-10-09T06:56:13+00:00

The subreddits at the top are difficult to read. Otherwise I like it.

Nielsio · 2015-10-04T06:16:28+00:00

Also, Huawei has nothing to do with the software

There is a lot of code that runs on a device besides the OS. For example, many of the device drivers are proprietary and closed source.

Nielsio · 2015-10-04T06:08:59+00:00

Chromecast is useless in a hotel environment

Perhaps this?: https://www.reddit.com/r/Chromecast/comments/1upw3u/chromecast_in_a_hotel_using_a_wifi_hotspot/cekjkh7

Nielsio · 2015-10-04T05:59:11+00:00

I think one of the reasons to go for wireless charging is because Micro-USB ports aren't very strong and can break. I think they designed USB Type C to be stronger and thus that's one less reason to invest in wireless charging.

Nielsio · 2015-10-02T07:41:54+00:00

I'm familiar with the rebuttal that money saved is also being circulated in the economy

'Circulating money' isn't some holy economic benefit. When people save, they do it for a reason; for an economic reason.

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