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http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/fw12/lipoprotein.html To clarify this: The idea that eating meat is a huge contributor to heart disease is sort of being overshadowed by the massive effect Lp(a) seems to have on causing heart disease, and that consumption of Vitamin C and Lysine do much more to help prevent heart disease than concerns about meat consumption ("Unfortunately, neither diet nor exercise has been found to lower Lp(a) levels"). There is also an issue that there is quite some debate over the notion that all high cholesterol leads to heart disease: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/03/the-problem-isnt-cholesterol-its-the-wrong-kind-and-oxidation-of-cholesterol.html

Have you read this before? http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/fw12/lipoprotein.html

I went and walked by a lake through the morning. Screw the sacred rituals of our sect of the religion of statism, I went out and enjoyed feeling a little free for a while.

The author is quite prominent in the voluntaryist community on facebook, he considers UPB a destroyed theory. On a related note, have Danny Shahar and Stef ever had a debate/discussion?

I would say there are preferences, and there is objectivity, and you can prefer NOT to follow objectivity if you like. I can prefer to think gravity does not exist when I walk off a cliff, that doesn't invalidate the law.

http://speaklibertynow.com/2013/06/01/subjective_nap/ Lately I have been debating with many people who consider property rights to be the result of simple utilitarian reasoning. I really don't know where the truth is on this topic anymore.

I am still amazed how bitcoin is truly getting widespread usage. I don't think the government will be able to stop it, just like they have been unable to stop a lot of other internet trends. But yes, expect as bitcoin gets more popular the government will take more and more aggressive actions, for as they say, the government HATES competition.

DON'T BE A COWARD FRANCE, GO ALL IN OR GO HOME. FULL WAR COMMUNISM FOR THE WIN!!!

Yes your punishment for providing people something they want (and now simply buying something you want) is possibly a year in prison. Where is the morality in this?

Inconsistency after inconsistency. I want to see ONE person who voted for Obama explain what Obama's guiding philosophy is. I want one person to not just list things he does, but to describe what process he uses to decide which decisions to make.

I think it primarily aids the state in that it teaches blind obedience (love your parents and celebrate them even if they aren't good parents or good people). Some people make the choice not to go along with that concept, but the idea of "choice" is never mentioned in the mainstream when it comes to mothers day and fathers day.

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When I was in middle school I bought myself a D-Carabiner from Amazon, and instead of waiting to go to the hardware store to pick up some nylon rope I impatiently grabbed some jute rope I had, climbed up to the top of the tallest tree, tied the rope down, and repelled down it using the Munter hitch I learned online. Did this twice, unbelievably fun, but the third time, finally, the rope broke, and in my efforts to break my fall I snapped my ankle in two places (and it was like, on opposite sides too because it bent one way on the way down the tree and bent another way on impact with the roots on the ground). Was definitely an interesting experience altogether. Just thought I'd share a tale of woe lol.

Its such an absurd claim I'm not sure if its worth a video

I think this is a good thing to keep in mind when issues like this come up. If implied contracts were something that was causing a lot of problems with customers not paying, resteraunts wouldn't just ban 75% of potential customers from entering their resteraunt, they would just change their payment and contract system. There would be a point (in terms of numbers of people who walk out without paying) where a more direct contract system (signature or otherwise) would lead to greater profits relative to competing resteraunts, even though it would mean slightly more hassle for the customer.

I would say it is deterministic though. Lightning seemed like something random and not determined until science explained how it formed. Now with meteorology, even without every single variable, humans can make pretty decent predictions about when there will be lightning. With all the variables it could be predicted 100 percent of the time. I have little faith in the idea of true randomness. Edit: Ok so I have been googling this stuff a little now and apparently in this post I am taking the position of support for the hidden variable theory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_variable_theory). It appears there is a lot of evidence going against this theory. That is bothering me so much. How can true randomness be physically possible? I can't fathom it......

Dear god its like a walking talking political cartoon

I'm sorry you don't find my words meaningful, I suppose its subjective. Stefan even brought it up in his videos on philosophy, when philosophers start creating capitalized proper nouns its always slightly worrysome.

I always get a little concerned when people start capitalizing words like this

Its funny, I was reading something along those lines from this batshit crazy anti-Semite: http://www.totalfascism.com/andrew-anglin-calling-for-adam-kokesh-to-be-tried-and-executed-for-sedition/

Among many other "nothing really changes" suprises I got after high school, it amazed me that even in college the food is pretty much the same.

After a long discussion with some people about property rights, we ended up having quite an interesting discussion about the foundations of property rights, and, while a decent theory of property rights doesn't necessarily require a 100 percent fleshed out understanding of these things, I think it makes fun food for thought, and I'd love to see what your responses are to this. Before I made this post I rewatched Stef's videos on property rights to be reminded of the axioms he puts forth. 1. Why does exhibiting use mean ownership? Why does "use" of my body = "ownership" of my body? This is the one that I am most confused about. If I say to you "there is no such thing as self-ownership," I am using this body to say that, but that doesn't mean I am exhibiting ownership, only use. I don't understand how one could equate these.2. Why does self-ownership imply ownership of the results of one’s labor?3. If we assume you do own the results of your labor, do you not own at least part of a child, considering it was created by you, and contains half of your chromosomes? Do you lose ownership once it becomes conscious (the body comes under his control)? In that case, does somebody else's control of a thing switch the ownership of it to him?4. If you own the results of your labor, how does homesteading really work? Like, do you only own the exact soil, rocks, and trees that you modified? How deep down into the ground do you own the land if you, say, farm it?5. Does the land have to be "improved" for you to own it? If you "homestead" by running a bulldozer through the soil, tearing everything up, and continue to do this once every while, do you own this?6. (This one I have heard before, but it is an interesting question). If I homestead a relatively small island, building a fence around it but doing nothing to the interior, do own all the land (my opinion is that you only own the land where the fence was built, so you own kind of a "band" around the island)7. If I build a house on the island in question 6, but do nothing to the land between the house and the fence, can somebody build another house right next to mine, since I have done nothing with that land?Also, if you have any good book suggestions which provide insights into this topic please suggest them, I can add them to my reading list []

The problem with this argument is that you have to get into arguments about homesteading and land rights and all that. They will usually be able to talk themselves out of that.

I have a very general question relating to determinism, because the free will-determinism debate has not been something I have been hugely interested in. Personally I think it is true that with enough variables, with enough measured data, you could predict anything that occurs in the universe with certainty. So if you could take in and interpret all of the brain signals of a single human in a 1 second time frame, you could accurately predict what decisions/emotions/etc. he would feel in the next moment. If you stood next to a tree and, as a leaf fell, in a split second, you measured air density, wind direction and speed (in a large several mile region around the leaf), the mass and surface area and geometric shape of the leaf, and hundreds (possibly thousands) of other variables, you could say EXACTLY where that leaf would land, what side it would land on, what direction it would be pointing, you could know everything that would happen next. Does this make me a determinist?