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r/Anarcho_Capitalism•

Seattle/Tacoma area update!

Hello Fellow Ancaps,

Things have been going very well in the Seattle/Tacoma area for organization! In Seattle there's a meetup tomorrow at Roy Street Coffee at 6:30 PM (parking included). It's a fun place to hang out and we have hours of great discussions each meeting. If you're in the area I'd love to see you there!

Recently the Tacoma meetup group grew to seven people present (our year-end goal is 20). Our next meeting is October 18 on 3 PM at Engine House No. 9. Here's the even page:

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r/Anarcho_Capitalism•

Lies my teacher told me

No, not the lies that my high school history teacher told me. By then most student's worldviews are already cemented into place. I'm talking about the early years when children's moral views are developing.

Now, I don't take issue with kindergarten social studies. Learning "hitting's wrong," "respect other people's feelings," and "always ask permission before you take something" are very good social studies lessons. That's why they say "everything I really needed to know, I learned in kindergarten."

Unfortunately, the subject's quality takes a nosedive over the rest of grade school. In first grade you learn about the community, fair enough, but you're also taught that community needs

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r/Anarcho_Capitalism•

Seattle Ancaps Meetup Tomorrow

Hello everyone. If you're interested there's going to be a Seattle ancap meetup at 6:30 at Roy Street Coffee tomorrow. That's in Capitol Hill at Broadway and Roy. Parking is free, garage entrance is on the east side of the building, I think.

Post here if you're interested!

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r/LibertarianAtheism•

The Question Atheists Just Can't Answer

A companion to Michael Lind's question that libertarians just can't answer.

Why is there no abiogenesis in peanut butter jars? If evolutionists are correct in claiming that they understand how life came to be, how is it that not a single peanut butter jar in the world in the early twenty-first century has produced life?

It’s not as though there were a shortage of jars to experiment with evolution. There are 193,000,000 jars produced annually—195,000,000 if you count fig spreads, and they're too tasty to ever be omitted. If evolution were a good idea, wouldn’t life have appeared in at least one jar? Wouldn’t ther

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r/whowillbuildtheroads•

Mauritius: The Anarchist's Nightmare

I will say this, any theory on the origin of society on earth, or any other planet for that matter, is a fairy tale.

A fairy tale: pure and simple. Society from chaos, apart from the state's direct intervention is a fairy tale. But despite that obvious truth, libertarianists continue to build their supposedly economic case on a foundation that virtually rules out everything that follows after it. Libertarianism teaches that voluntary interactions, plus a populace can, occasionally, create a society.

Yet, our entire geopolitical landscape rests on the fact that this can never happen. If we examine a plot of land, it holds people, and is exposed to natural resources and energy. But we n

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r/Bitcoin•

Amateur economic analysis of long-term aggregate hash power

Assume:

  • Electricity costs the same everywhere. Miner considerations now homogeneous.
  • The market for mining is perfectly competitive. This means no barriers to entry or exit.
  • Aggregate hash rate is at equilibrium.

Definitions:

  • r = bitcoin exchange rate ($/฿)
  • eff = Hashing efficiency (hash/J)
  • c = electricity cost, quantifiable because of assumption 1 ($/J)
  • H = aggregate hash rate (hash/block)
  • p = prize per success (bitcoin unlocks + transaction fees) (฿/block)
  • AR = aggregate revenue ($/block)
  • AE = aggregate expenses ($/block)

Inferences:

  • AR = r * p
  • AE = c * H / eff
  • AE = AR (assumption 2)
  • AR = r * p = c * H / eff = AE
  • H = r * p * eff / c

That is, in the far

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