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Tom Woods
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Tom Woods's personal blog at tomwoods.com covers politics and economics. Since 2011, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (14) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Libertarian podcast host and author. HN readers link his podcast episodes, his book on nullification history, and his critiques of economists such as Piketty and Krugman.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 14 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Last week I heard an interesting interview [1] of Antony Sammeroff, author of a free e-book titled Procrastination Annihilation. [2] I hesitate to recommend to you yet another anti-procrastination technique. Most of them are probably gimmicks that wear off quickly, as you have testified. But this book sounds like good stuff to me. I know this guy a little, and I think he's really smart. [1] https://tomwoods.com/1090…
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on “Ask HN: Is it 'normal' to struggle so hard with work?”Submitted An Open Letter to the Person Who Gave Me the Virus – Tom Woods as a story · 4 points
HN discussionFor PC, Norm need to be changed often, it's like changing passwords often. http://tomwoods.com/podcast/ep-726-how-and-why-progressives-...
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on “In defence of Douglas Crockford”Submitted What Should Libertarians Think about Standing Rock? – Give This a Listen! as a story · 2 points
HN discussionTypical mainstream propaganda. Nullification was used initially to resist federal laws about returning captured slaves. See Tom Wood's book http://tomwoods.com/books/nullification/ for the complete, surprising history of nullification.
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on “Turn It Off: NSA's Achilles' Heel”Submitted Jordan Peterson and Dave Rubin: We Are Leaving Patreon as a story · 1 points
HN discussionOkay, we disagree. (*edit: we disagree about taxes being theft). But that is what I enjoy about communicating with other intelligent people, we can discuss ideas and not have to agree. I have been studying this in my free time for the last decade or so, and do not have a ready list of sources handy, but here are a few I gathered in the last 30 minutes, should you be curious as to why I think this way: https://mises.…
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on “Why we should all have a basic income”Submitted Private sector preventing crimes as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThe Tom Woods Show [1] - A 30-minute show each weekday. Tom is Harvard/Columbia trained historian, amateur economist and libertarian philosopher. 1,250 episodes. The usual format is interview with a prominent thinker and/or doer. Contra Krugman [2] - A weekly show where Tom Woods and economist Bob Murphy teach economics by analyzing an generally refuting Paul Krugman's New York Times column. Part of the Problem [3]…
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on “Ask HN: What podcasts do you listen to regularly?”Submitted Learn Austrian Economics as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> Alex Tabarrok discusses the case of India’s private city, and the challenges — and promise — of a private model of urbanization. http://tomwoods.com/podcast/ep-371-private-cities/
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on “The Japanese Urban Zoning System”I disagree. I've seen firsthand the huge investment it takes to wire a neighborhood with underground fiber. A small company cannot do it. Okay, so what? Google is offering free internet forever for a one time $300 construction fee which you can pay off over the course of a year. I'm buying gigabit plus premium TV package, 2TB 8-tuner DVR, etc, and my costs will be halved for a massively better product. If this is ol…
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on “Stephen Hawking Says We Should Really Be Scared of Capitalism, Not Robots”Tom Woods has a series of good critiques of Piketty. Here’s one: https://tomwoods.com/ep-318-piketty-taken-down-for-good/
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on “Why Are Economists Giving Piketty the Cold Shoulder? (2017)”Pvnick your opinion doesn't fall in line with evangelical progressivism, so downvoting rather than engaging you directly is in order. Don't you know that politicians always and everywhere make things better, and that billions of individual actors competing and testing various ideas simultaneously is doomed to fail. Also, make sure to ignore competing voices. Science isn't about skepticism, it's who has more people o…
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on “Trump 'poised to quit Paris climate deal'”Yes, of course. Don't you see buildings in flames and people dying everywhere? You just don't have anything to compare. The fire department is just there and it is the nature of things. Since I'm not a fire specialist, let's look at the police department: you will agree with me that the police is corrupt and incapable of arresting anyone, they're just a bunch of lazy guys! Hear this podcast: http://tomwoods.com/podc…
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on “Why “Uber for X” companies are struggling even as Uber thrives”In this podcast the host records a call with one of these IRS scams. http://tomwoods.com/ep-729-the-real-story-of-the-epipen-fias... Starts at 11:58. It's quite entertaining.
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on “India’s Call-Center Talents Put to a Criminal Use: Swindling Americans”Given Krugman's little rant on Sweden http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/16/sweden-sweden-as... which spawned responses like http://www.tomwoods.com/blog/sweden-no-longer-the-free-marke... and his attitude towards Estonia and the US stimuli, I think there is some doubt as to his work.
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on “Why the young should welcome austerity”I've seen atheists who were logical and open-minded. Then there were others who completely mis-interpreted the concept of God as a bearded dictator. In atheism, you get all kinds of people. Just like in religion, business, politics, etc. I would say, a much bigger factor is economics. In the 1980s, the Soviet Union government could not make a TV better than the tiny island of Japan. (Akio Morita observed it in his a…
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on “Ask HN: How many entrepreneurs are also atheists?”Tom Woods: Historian, Economist. http://tomwoods.com/podcasts/
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on “Ask HN: Which podcasts are you listening to these days?”
