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- Saladin commented on California city aims to be all solar 1 month ago
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- Saladin voted up California city aims to be all solar 1 month ago
Two years ago, the mayor, a Republican, decided to leverage the incessant Antelope Valley sun so that Lancaster could become the solar capital “of the world,” he said. Then he... more
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- Saladin commented on Bitcoin: a vaild alternate currency? 1 month ago
Why? Very few places accept them, and when they do, they usually accept dollars too. You could make the argument that it's an investment and that they'll be worth a boatload soon... more
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- Saladin commented on Bill Maher Trashes Libertarians: Movement Went ‘Nuts,’ ‘Intellectually Stuck In Their Teen Years’ 1 month ago
No, my argument is that Libertarianism, as it was invented by the Objectivists and the Chicago school and the Austrians and all those other selfish shitheads, is not a particularly marketable... more
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- Saladin commented on Bill Maher Trashes Libertarians: Movement Went ‘Nuts,’ ‘Intellectually Stuck In Their Teen Years’ 1 month ago
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- Saladin commented on Bitcoin: a vaild alternate currency? 1 month ago
The software concept behind bitcoins are solid, the economics and application are what's shit. New currencies are volatile as hell, and a currency is, over the long run, only worth the real... more
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- Saladin commented on Bill Maher Trashes Libertarians: Movement Went ‘Nuts,’ ‘Intellectually Stuck In Their Teen Years’ 1 month ago
I don't think Maher really realizes that he was never really one of them. At its core, Libertarianism is an extremist utopian ideology, inverted to, but ultimately resembling, Marxism... more









