December 2008
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O remédio é pior do que a doença? →
No Wall Street Journal, uma crítica contundente e completa às ações do Banco Central americano para “solucionar” a crise. Via Mises Blog: “injetando mercúrio em um paciente com gripe”.
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“— I know what you’re going to say. You’re going to say, as so many of our...”
– Ayn Rand
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“Os libertários estão certos sobre economia e política. Os filósofos gregos estão...”
– Roderick T. Long
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“Socrates understood (what modern political reformers and revolutionaries seem...”
– Eric Voegelin
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“There's No Such Thing As a Free Patent” →
The conventional defense of the patent system is that it is essential in order to stimulate creativity. But the benefits that flow from the patent system are only half the story, since the system also comes with costs.
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“Today, anyone in a public situation who disagrees with Al Gore on man-caused...”
– Bill Anderson
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Religião e ética sexual →
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WatchStanley Kubrick’s Boxes — documentário sobre o trabalho de pesquisa obsessivo de Kubrick. Caixas e mais caixas, por todos os lados.
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Diálogo entre Sócrates e Antifonte →
“Socrates, I supposed that philosophy must add to one’s store of happiness. But the fruits you have reaped from philosophy are apparently very different. For example, you are living a life that would drive even a slave to desert his master. Your meat and drink are of the poorest: the cloak you wear is not only a poor thing, but is never changed summer or winter; and you never wear shoes or...
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“Dollar is ravaged as Fed goes to zero interest... →
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O que está por trás dos impérios conspiratórios da... →
Comunidades dedicadas a teorias conspiratórias aumentam e psiquiatras procuram respostas. Duckworth argued that most mentally ill people create conspiracy theories that are self-centric, such as, “the mailman is after me,” not inclusive such as, “the postal workers are all out to get us by 2015.”
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Lifehacker: os downloads gratuitos para Windows... →
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Seleções da Wikipedia
Mais leituras e achados recentes: Dancing Plague of 1518, Beau Brummell, People known as the father or mother of something, The Turk, Sprezzatura, Zombies in popular culture, Karl Popper, The Second Coming, List of fallacies, Tulip mania.
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Ganhador do Nobel, John Nash clama pelo retorno ao... →
John Forbes Nash Jr., Ph.D., winner of the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, discusses the need for gold standard or other standard capable of fighting inflation & blames Keynesian economic theories which have sold the public on the notion that inflation is acceptable, leading to bad mortgage loans which led to the economic meltdown.
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New York Times: “Year in Ideas 2008” →
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Mario Vargas Llosa: “O poder e o delírio de... →
Aqueles que consideram o comandante Hugo Chávez um ser primitivo e superficial, a julgar pelas suas aparições na TV, quando ele esbanja truculência, demagogia, vulgaridade, ataques e termos de gíria, vão se surpreender ao ler o livro que o historiador e ensaísta mexicano Enrique Krause dedicou ao presidente venezuelano.
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What does Mises say about trying to stimulate the... →
Basically Mises has laid out very concisely the fact that the business cycle is due to the extension and over-extension of credit. Trying to continue to expand credit eventually ends in a hyper-inflationary scenario as it did in Weimar Germany in 1923. As a result, most countries are forced to stop. (…)
Essentially, over-extension of credit is the problem. It is not the solution. One...
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“As the physical and material world gives way to this infosphere, these things...”
– Alan Moore
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“gluttony is a bliss” →
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Fugitivo de campo de prisioneiros da Coréia do... →
A história contada por Shin não pode ser comprovada por que ninguém nunca teve sucesso em escapar. O coreano de 26 anos têm marcas de queimaduras nas costas e no braço esquerdo. Ele conta que foi torturado com fogo após uma tentativa de fuga da sua mãe, que ele assistiu ser enforcada.
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“Foundationalism and Hermeneutics” →
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Foreign Policy: The Top 10 Stories You Missed in... →
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“For Marx, nature is to be subjugated in order to obey history; for Nietzsche,...”
– Camus
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The Complete Calvin & Hobbes →
(via nevver)
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“Defenders of the free market are often accused of... →
In the nineteenth century, it was far more common than it is today for libertarians to see themselves as opponents of big business. The long 20th-century alliance of libertarians with conservatives against the common enemy of state-socialism probably had much to do with reorienting libertarian thought toward the right; and the brief rapprochement between libertarians and the left during the 1960s...
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Roger Ebert: “Hail the CelebCult!” →
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Roger Ebert: os melhores filmes de 2008 →
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Sobre Naomi Klein, sua tese do “capitalismo de... →
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Humanos podem ter surgido 80.000 anos antes do que... →
Ferramentas sofisticadas de pedra encontradas na Somália foram datadas em no mínimo 276 mil anos, mais antigas do que se imaginava o Homo sapiens.
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Habermas: “a vida depois da bancarrota” →
Entrevista interessante com Jürgen Habermas, e uma visão diferente dos links de economia que tenho colocado aqui. The age of privatisation is over. Politics not the market is responsible for promoting the common good. Philosopher Jürgen Habermas talks to Thomas Assheuer about the necessity of an international world order.
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Vídeo interessante de esquimós construindo um... →
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Explosão de supernova em 1572 é vislumbrada... →
A supernova explosion first seen from Earth 436 years ago has come back to life for astronomers in a time-travel-like astronomical twist.
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