brucefancher

They didn't lose the records -- Cohagen stole them!

Yes. As the economist Assar Lindbeck once said, "next to bombing, rent control seems in many cases to be the most efficient technique so far known for destroying cities".

Sadly, he's correct that there really aren't that many classical liberals (the correct term for what he calls "libertarians") in Silicon Valley. Despite the fact that economic freedom in general and the technology industry in particular have brought an unbelievable level of comfort and prosperity to people at all income levels in countries fortunate enough to have relatively free markets, too many people who work in the industry fail to make the connection. Instead of taking note of such triumphs of economic redistribution as Detroit, they bite their nails with worry and yammer on about "income inequality", as if Mark Zuckerberg's or Sergei Brin's billions somehow came at the expense of other people.

Oh, and the reason rents are high in San Francisco is because there's too much regulation, not because there's too much money there.

No. Next question.

You monster.

Ban all PACs? So, in other words, repeal the First Ammendment. No thanks.

Clojure.

My creeping concern is that Naomi Wolf is one missed dose of her medication from becoming a bag lady.

Why should I bother to read some moronic crap written by a marketing chick?

Rank hypocrisy from the man who got a half-billion dollar loan from the U.S. goverment (that he's paid it back is irrelevant) and continues to receive hundreds of millions a year in subsidies via carbon credits, tax credits, etc.

You know, it's like French with Chinese syntax.

Yeah, but malaria mostly only kills (tens of millions of) children in poor countries in Africa and Asia so it's of no concern to right-thinking environmentalists in rich Western countries.

The Bloomberg story on the Koch Brothers is a complete smear job: http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2011/09/bloomberg-legi...

Statists don't like the Koch's because they hate anyone who believes that people should be free to make their own decisions without being ordered about by small-minded busybodies whose self-image depends on the delusion that they know what's best for everyone else. And rather than engage in debate, they find it much easier to just demonize their opponents with dishonest ad hominim attacks.

Don't forget about when they legalized gay marriage.

The so-called "hoarding problem" was debunked decades ago:

http://mises.org/money/2s9.asp

It's still orthodoxy among academic economists, but there isn't any historical evidence that it's actually true.

More recently, this article in Forbes explains the issue more succinctly:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/timothylee/2013/04/11/bitcoin-do...