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29 Oct

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The final installment in a four-part documentary series "Cypherpunks Write Code." Part 1: https://youtu.be/YWh6Yzr12iQPart 2: https://youtu.be/n4qonsvSgAgPart 3: https://youtu.be/lv8OFSWZkGs------------------Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/ReasonTV?sub_confirmation=1Like us on Facebook: https://ift.tt/1OFng0MFollow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/reasonReason is the planet's leading source of news, politics, and culture from a libertarian perspective....

29 Oct

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I was watching the tide today and thought of climate change.  Yes, they are different phenomena; the tide is predictable, well-known, and reverses itself like clockwork roughly every six hours, whereas climate change is unpredictable, uncertain, and (still) irreversible. Nevertheless, it serves as a relevant illustration...

29 Oct

Posted at 03:17h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by

[From the 2020 Supporters Summit, presented at the historic Jekyll Island Club Resort on Jekyll Island, Georgia, on October 9, 2020. Read and see the full lecture.]  This is the intellectual level of the conversation [around covid-19]: You just want people do die. How do you talk to...

26 Oct

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By John P. Mackey and Walter E. Block   In his September 18, 2020 New York Times column, Binyamin Appelbaum appeared to be highly critical of Milton Friedman. The former started out by calling the latter “a free-market ideologue,” and he did not mean this as a compliment....

26 Oct

Posted at 19:42h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by

On February 28, the idea of locking down and smashing economies and human rights the world over was unthinkable to most of us but lustily imagined by intellectuals hoping to conduct a new social/political experiment. On that day, New York Times reporter Donald McNeil released...