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by 033803throwaway 7y ago
I don't downvote. It is a cowardly habit. There is nothing wrong with investing in a productive enterprise and expecting to share in the profits of that enterprise. If a man is starving (or, worse, has convinced himself he needs a new
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by 033803throwaway 7y ago
The Kenyans are right. What they need is money, not loans, and, in particular, not loans against consumption rather than production, which is what broadly available credit inevitably devolves into. (Look at college loans, which started off
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by 033803throwaway 7y ago
> What Patch offers instead is to take a piece of your home equity (currently limited to $250k maximum) and sell the upside on it to a investment fund. Sometimes I can't help but feel that we deserve what's coming.
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by 033803throwaway 7y ago
Or someone, anyone, make a functional clone of it. I don't care much which OS I have to run, they are all the same now. I just want a smart phone that fits in a single hand. I tried the palm and it is a bit too small, and the battery
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by 033803throwaway 7y ago
Social trust has been declining for half a century: https://archive.is/u9Jex It's one of the most pressing issues in sociology and is rarely discussed at all, and typically discussed dishonestly when it is.
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by 033803throwaway 7y ago
This is great advice in general, but FU money gets tricky when you have negative interest rates on deck. We are one stock market pull back away from catastrophe even for wealthy boomers. Interesting times.
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by 033803throwaway 7y ago
Progress & Poverty (1879) by Henry George Orthodoxy (1908) by G.K. Chesterton The Brothers Karamazov (1880) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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by 033803throwaway 7y ago
Interesting that psychedelics are being pushed by elites via popular media like Joe Rogan, etc.
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by 033803throwaway 7y ago
Amen. And congratulations. But you are not a useless worm and this is not a piece of dust.
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by 033803throwaway 7y ago
Marriage is a wonderful institution and the children that come from it are the greatest gift you can be given. Our culture tells us the opposite. But our culture is insane and wants you to be an isolated, rootless, consumer wage slave.
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by 033803throwaway 7y ago
If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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by 033803throwaway 7y ago
"Eventually we will run out of things to rip off from Douglas Engelbart" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos
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by 033803throwaway 7y ago
If trump is re-elected it may be the last time a republican wins a presidential election in the current system, due to demographic changes in key states (FL, TX, NC, etc.) If the electoral college is abolished, it could actually end up gett
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by 033803throwaway 7y ago
I wouldn't. Which is why I view the situation as hopeless, but not serious.
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by 033803throwaway 7y ago
Always keep in mind: the US spends more per capita on public healthcare than any other country in the world, except Norway[1] We pay for a single payer system, we just don't get it. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by 033803throwaway 7y ago
the florentine pattern repeats again: start a manufacturer, end a usurer nihil sub sole novum
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by 033803throwaway 7y ago
Gloria Steinem worked for the CIA as well. It becomes very difficult to understand what happened during the 50s and 60s, the more you look into it.
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by 033803throwaway 7y ago
There are many ways to do it, but one method would be to limit loans to some multiple (say 3x) of someones trailing income (say 3 years). This could be scaled into over time to smooth out price adjustments.
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by 033803throwaway 7y ago
I admire the man and his concerns about debt. But he is playing a young, healthy single man's game. Family formation without debt slavery doesn't have the same appeal to our media class, but it's far more important in the lo
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by 033803throwaway 7y ago
This is why housing affordability should be tied to income, rather than willingness to go into debt. As with education, once the banks can get a guarantee that they will be bailed out in case of trouble (explicit with education, implicit w
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by 033803throwaway 7y ago
I don't know if most SPA frameworks offer this sort of functionality, but with intercooler.js you can send response headers to trigger client-side events (or, if you are feeling hacky, to evaluate raw javascript.) This can be used to t