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Everything posted by DavidV
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Thinking of taking my barefoot style to the next level with homemade huaraches sandals to replace my FiveFingers.
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When a totalitarian government says that some major undertaking was built by "volunteers" what they really mean is "slave labor."
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"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Gover...
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Two essays I'd like to see written: radicalism as an epistemological heuristic and the ultimate causes of political vs private corruption.
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"Government is a broker in pillage, and every election is a sort of advance auction in stolen goods." - H. L. Mencken
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99% of treatises about how politics corrupts science (or anything else) advocate more politics to fix the problem.
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"Laura turned her head away again to take in more of the view below."It really works, doesn't it," she said thoughtfully after a while. "What does?" "Science. It works." ... "It's just that . . . well, everything I've seen since we came here . . . it's all too incredible to be real, but it is. Whatever people had to learn to build something like this, they had to get it right. Know what I mean, there's no room to fool yourself when you take on this kind of thing. There are so many other 'olog...
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Another State Science Institute debacle. Government and science don't mix! http://ksj.mit.edu/tracker/2012/10/did-texas-cancer-research-institute-medd
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"No one saves us but ourselves, no one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path but Buddhas [enlightened ones] clearly show the way." - Gautama Buddha, from the Dhammapada
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Elections are basically a debate about whether the State ought to rape and pillage group A or pillage and rape group B. It doesn't matter who you vote for because politicians will just rape and pillage whomever they want. But they desperately need your vote because it gives sanction to the State's mass violence. The ceremony of elections breeds a sense of distance from moral responsibility for the State's theft and murder and a sense of duty to be enslaved or destroyed in turn when it is...
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“Milk doesn’t really “do a body good.” Objections include lactose, casein, hormones, pesticides, antibiotics, and high-temperature processing methods, while the calcium benefits are overstated.” - Mark Sisson I haven't had milk in 2-3 years and don't miss it at all. I do eat minimally-processed fermented milk - cheese and yogurt - every day.
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Ugh, election season. That annoying time when everyone thinks that they have a right to impose their opinions on others at gunpoint, that the mass use of violence will make everyone better off if enough people agree on the choice of victim, that there is any difference between their pet candidates, and that their vote makes any difference. If only I could filter the idiocy from my news feeds.
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I need several assistants to help me record audio and video for the Shanghai Austrian Economics Summit this weekend. If you are interested, contact me.
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In China, reasonably-priced nice shoes are harder to come by. After I started using shoe glue (a kit of three compounds), cleaners, waxes, and waterproofers, I've managed to keep my old pairs going way longer than I thought possible.
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Trying to design a heatsink for my NEX5 digital camera to extend video recording time using RAM heatsink and thermal tape.