TheRobin

well if the lack of "perfect" (whatever that means) information of all the people that are involved in attempting to pursue their self-interest in the best possible way is the problem, then how the hell is that solved by giving a much much smaller amount of people, who will have even less information of what every individuals at every point in time prefers, the power to overrule personla dicisions and force them to pursue whatever the rulers think is best for them?I have no idea what the other two mean tbh. never heard of "second best" and I can't even imagine what he means with "market failure". Imo the trick (even in practical economical debates), just find out where the logical problem is by comparing what the person perceives as "the problem" to how it is "solved", 9 out of 10, it's obvious how the "solution" must lead to an even worse scenario than free markets. (the other 1 out of ten is usually an arbitrary example, that seems to work, because of the exact time-frame it analyses, so there it's usually a good start to simply ask what came before, that lead to that "necessity")idk, I never quite feel like having to study all the history, if people bring forth arguments its them that need to make sure they're logically consistent and often a few moments of thought will reveal that they are not, even if one has absolutely no clue about the history or facts.Hope that helps, even if it doesn't directly answer your request

Psychological issues are usually not that simple. In my experience, every attempt to oversimplify such a complex thing as the human psyche will only stop you from gaining actual self-knowledge, since all this basically does is labelling a behaviour with an arbitrary cause, for which there is no actual evidence.

From personal experience: I often start biting my nails when I'm anxious or when I'm stressed AND not honestly acknowledge that and try to avoid the feeling rather than experience it and find out what its about and why it arises in a given situation.After spending a lot of time in persuing self-knowledge I notice though, that I almost completely stopped biting nails, so I'd assume it's not just a "bad habit", but has served psychological/emotional purpose. I don't think one could say though, what kind of anxiety or emotional disturbances this is ocvering up.

I'd suggest trying this program then (http://atube-catcher.en.softonic.com/). I just tried it, downloading 2 of stefs videos (an old one and a very new one), worked perfectly with both of them. Also even the download of a 2 hour sunday show didn't take me longer than about 5 Minutes. You can also set the fileformat and resolution of your download to your liking. Hope that helps.

As one who is myself relatively new to these ideas I've always kind of wondered what the logic behind this scenario is. I heard people tossing it out as if it were fact, but I never quite understood how (logically or economically) this scenario could unfold. Could you maybe (baby-)step my through it? cause I don't see how this would even be remotely possible Well, the NAP is not about determining that everyone benefits, but simply asking, do peopel initiate violence against others or not. So taxing imports is clearly the use of deadly force (or the thread thereof) to steal part of the profit ot the importers or producers, isn't it? Also if you have a monopoly on justice (or dispute resolution), then people can't chose to go to another court or (dispute resolution organisation), which is also an initiation of deadly force or the thread thereof, right? I'm not sure what you mean with "the Molyneux disciplines", what we do here (or try as hard as we can ) is using reason and evidence in order to arrive at true conclusions. Also if you want some more details about the first question regading the re-formation of a violent tyranny, there's a whole chapter in the free ebook "pracitcal anarchy" dedicated to that.

is this really a fallacy though?If I bought a ticket (probably weeks in advance) there will be a lot of positive anticipation built up and not going would cause dissapointment. If I never had a ticket though, then there was no anticipation (and following dissapointment). So to me this sounds more of an example of evading negative (emotional) "costs" so to speak, then commiting an actual fallacy.hmm, I might miss a thing here though, how are both scnearios considered the same from a logical point considering in one there is a monetary investemnt made already and in the other one there isn't?

1) It's a really fun problem 2) I've seen people flat out refuse to accept the truth about. I know two people who've actually written a script to simulate the process, thinking they were going to disprove it. Even when their program came back to confirm a 1/3 to 2/3 split, they started checking for errors in their program 3) I'm new here and want to see what the conversations are like. haha, nice. I remember a friend of mine once said (after hours of debating) that he agrees that it is theoretically correct it would practically still be 50-50. Well, I hope you enjoy the conversations then

Scientists reaching new levels of coolness again. Sweet

haha, I remember it taking me hours of explanation on my brother's side until I finally understood why it's 1/3 to 2/3 after the reveal. And just as long when I tried to explain that to some friends of mine. Ah, good times, when talking about goats and doors all night could make for an enjoyable evening What prompted you to bring the problem up, if I may ask?

Hey Keith, for what it's worth, here are some thoughts on what I get from your post, looking from the outside in so to speakFrom what you write it makes perfect sense to me, that fdr brings out a lot of anger in you. You describe "the community" as one big perfect happy thing, which you need to adapt to and which you feel unable to meet its standards. The first thought that comes to my mind hearing that description is being a kid and having to adopt to the parents standards and being rejected for simply being yourself. It's very healthy and natural that this makes you angry, so I'm not surprised that fdr brings out "the worst" in you, though I wouldn't call it bad, it's a very healthy and accurate reaction to being in such a situation and since no one can express that anger when he is a kid the anger accumulates over time and now, when a similar scenario presents itself, will try to (finally) express itself.You also say you feel rejected, but end with saying you don't want to be you. And you say that your anger is "the worst in you", which is itself a form of rejection towards yourself. So regardless of what you're gonna do or where you're going from here, it's probably a good idea, to not reject your anger and be honest and curious about its origins, letting it express itself and be acknowledged. Since not being acknowledged (being rejected) let to the surpression in the first place, continuing to reject it can't and won't help.Also, there's nothing wrong with violent torture or murder fantasies in that regard, should they come up. I personally found those both helpful and very healthy, when I finally allowed myself to let my own anger towards my parents express itself.It's also literally impossible to want someone who doesn't want himself. Since not wanting yourself means you self-erase to some degree, so that directly erases the person who could be wanted in the first place (hope that makes sense). What I mean to say is, that as long as you reject yourself, it's simply impossible for anyone else to connect to you, so no one outside of you can do anything to break that cycle for you.I'm truly sorry for what you've gone through in your life. I can't even imagine what kind of horrors you experienced in your childhood that you ended up with borderline, anxiety disorder, ocd and depression. So I hope these thoughts can help you somewhat and I wish you the best of succes in finding a way to heal these wounds.