It's a bird, its a plane, no its...

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/24 ... -turntable

How does this concept fit in to the recent discussion about building materials?

https://passipedia.org/basics/what_is_a_passive_house

And this is why a government issued picture ID should be required to vote. I think Voter ID cards are a better way to go to avoid the hassle of different forms of ID's and expecting voluntary poll workers to be an expert at fraudulent ID detection. That's what you got up there in IL. So if Democrat...

They don't disclose the algorithm, but:



http://www.alfaquotes.com/

Steve Ballmer is pretty bummed out about the election. A self-proclaimed "numbers guy," Ballmer said the truth is getting lost in the political rhetoric, and he wants to arm citizens with data to defend against lies by the campaigns. "Nobody seems to care about the facts," he sa...

I never heard that gore would have won in a recount. So what, if any, was the failure here? Terrible voting mechanisms (punch card), premature certification of close vote, fraudulent vote counting? In their words, what should FL have done to ensure that their electoral college votes only went to th...

You can buy both individual Treasury bonds and TLT commission-free at Fidelity.

So bitcoin is not a _buy_ for MG then? :) No, as I already alluded, I feel other cryptocurrencies that fix Bitcoin's flaws or use blockchain technology (which do seem to be using the Bitcoin blockchain, even that Barclay's outfit I mentioned) have more upside potential at this point. The novelty is...

"kooky and unfounded ideas" Explain Hmm, he thinks there is some grand supercycle debt bubble or that sovereign debt is a problem per se. Watch his YouTube video on how the economic machine works and you'll see it referenced. Also he thinks the Fed can buy Treasuries directly or something...

That makes more sense. I thought in 2000 they were saying that mail-in ballots basically were never counted unless the race was close enough that it would make a difference. That was a bit upsetting to me at the time. Gore won 270+ electoral votes if the FL Supreme Court had decided to wait to coun...

I believe bitcoin investing is still in the beginning. The price is going up over the last several months. More bitcoin millionaires and billionaires are being created every day as a result. I believe we will see a $10,000 coin. Well, they're only being "created" every day because they bo...

Wait... what happened to the previous paragraph and all that "dime a dozen" "skeptical of alts"? I was referring to all of the me-too cryptocurrencies that don't offer anything that Bitcon doesn't (well other than a fancy name), i.e. Litecoin. This is still the beginning. Not fo...

We're not going to take it anymore. That's what around 200,000 physicians across the U.S. could be saying about Medicare. Two surveys confirm that many doctors are looking to either exit the federal healthcare program or quit taking new patients. Could this really happen, and if so, how could it im...

Bitcoin is working great as a currency hedge in China and Venzeuela. So while it may not replace gold, it has none of the negatives and scarcity is guaranteed. I grow increasingly skeptical any of the me-too alternative currencies will be major players judging by their xxx/USD value, but ZeroCash is...

The amount of global debt is irrelevant, what matters is net worth. What is the global net worth, i.e. global assets - global debt? And beyond that what matters is maximizing economic productivity for paying the interest on the debt (either voluntarily or via taxation). Public debt is never paid off...

2% target is on the PCE which excludes food and energy as if we all live without eating or electricity, etc..

I'll tell you one thing... when a steak goes up in price, I don't substitute hamburger for it. I want a bloody steak!

I was curious about it, and it seems that the Constitution Party is another of what they call a paleoconservative party: https://www.constitutionparty.com/our-principles/seven-principles/ It seems like a libertarian version of the American Solidarity Party. Given the continual failure of the "s...

What is missing to make it all work is a consumption tax, i.e. national sales tax. What worries me about earned vs unearned income is it may not be a common defintion, but what the IRS decides. I don't have a high level of confidence that the IRS understand the many nuances of tax policy as far as i...

P.S.: A Citizens' Dividend for "surplus revenue"? That could be different. And it's a fairy tale. But that's not what has been talked about here. I posted that article and it only affected the adults minorly, not their children. The adults may have saved more for retirement, worked less t...

What is your justification for outlawing murder? Well, that's the crutch isn't it? Gotta find that delineation line we all can agree upon where a bunch of inhuman cells no one really cares about (except True Believers) becomes a defendable human being. It would be far easier to just be an extremist...

When I start my homebuilding company, I definitely plan to build everything out of Durisol or some near equivalent (Faswall, Apex block, Liteblock), eventually transitioning into developing a new product that does the job even better and doesn't require any supplemental concrete. But I've realized ...

Wow, you'd think if you didn't look like a gangbanger, the fear factor would be gone. I'd also like to know what color the taxi drivers were themselves.

But since this is political, you have to question the motives behind what they claim to be saying, i.e. second order derivative. You can't just take what they say at face value as the functionally objective truth, especially when they will wield the coercive force in hand and weakness corrupts absol...

A strange mixture of both far left and right positions. I'm not too keen on the idea of "raising consciousness of the Christian worldview." , so I doubt they would ever get my vote. I'm a big fan of the "increasingly secularized" world that they are bemoaning, preferring to keep...