IanDrake

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by IanDrake 7y ago
Money is a commodity, but you don't want it to behave like one. That's where fiat currency comes in. Inflation, or at least the threat of it, prevents hoarding. It has a realistic and useful effect on value in that it makes money
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And who would pay you to create something new that they could not profit from? That's why.
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That's funny, whenever I hear far out claims made by journalists mentioned to scientists, they always dimiss them. But you're saying there are scientists claiming GW causes these naturally occurring phenomenon. The problem with GW
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And what are you dedicating your life to research and development for no pay now, or ever?
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Climate change is responsible for earth quakes, land sinking, and erosion...if you believe journalists.
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"Misconfigurations are unfortunately a common error across the industry. We have solutions to help prevent this kind of mistake, but unfortunately, they were not enabled for this database." They need a solution to watch their solu
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Keeping in mind, part of the gains are from shorts being squeezed.
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Be careful giving tax advice here, because you're partly wrong and missing key details. For instance, I'm married and I can make $120k (with no other income) of long term capital gains and pay $2.5k in federal taxes on it. The cap
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by IanDrake 7y ago
>I wouldn't buy food from Amazon Again, YOU wouldn't. You're projecting. The argument is that a poor person (in the US) can't buy unprocessed food because they don't have a grocery store nearby.
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I've cooked a week's worth of rice in about 30 minutes and you can cook a potato in the microwave in 5 minutes. Again, we're right back to where we started with elitist mentality. You think poor people care about brown rice V
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by IanDrake 7y ago
>Meanwhile fast food is cheap That's just not true. It's cheap to you. It's actually terribly expensive compared to a bag of rice and potatoes, which you can buy in bulk and cook easily with a hot plate and a pot. This i
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Impossibly vague statement. What was her salary before? What is it now? How long did the shift take place? Where is she in her career? You get the idea. Far too many variables to just say the 3x increase was just because she dropped dot
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We must have read different articles. This article has no climate scientist mentioned. These are business people who are talking more about legislative risk and consumer trends than loss from GW related events.
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by IanDrake 7y ago
I parrot the parent post's question and nobody likes it. If you think GW is a man made disaster, then you need no qualifications. If you don't, there aren't enough qualifications on earth for your opinion to matter.
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What are your personal qualifications on the subject?
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PC comedy isn't funny. Who knew?
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Measuring these disasters with money is about as meaningful as measuring IQ with potatoes.
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Haha, Plymouth (the big city) is an hour and a half away. I live way out in Eastham...
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Hey Jose! This is hilarious. I think of the Cape as pretty tech starved, but I see why we all ended up in the comment section of this post!
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Being from Cape Cod, I was expecting something else from the title.
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I think you mean freedom of the press? Libel is still illegal. Frankly, the problem with the press in the US is that it's lost all credibility and is mostly filled with activist instead of journalists.
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I was thinking the same. It looks like one of those bad lip reading episodes on youtube, with the additional element of bad CGI.
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We are way better off. Just live somewhere else. You can rent a nice house in Ohio for less than half that much [1]. Progress doesn't subvert the laws of supply and demand. [1] https://cincinnati.craigslist.org/apa&#x
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by IanDrake 7y ago
I think you're talking about the ability of the federal reserve to print money and buy US treasures, thus increasing the money supply. The thing is, US currency is global commodity and as such is subject to supply and demand forces. Th
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by IanDrake 7y ago
To add on "who should decide who gets money" ... Let's not forget the equity capital markets and private lending institutions. Banks don't have a strangle hold on providing capital.
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I don't see the relation to basic income. You could just say income and be correct. I'm not sure how free money makes consumers a better judge of value, when the did nothing of value to get the free money. In fact, behavioral fin
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Hence the entire field of behavioral finance.
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This guy needs a psychologist. He's willing to die over data models that have been predicting dire consequences in ten years, but they've been doing that for the last 30 years. It's sad to think what that kind of commitment c
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It's not a problem. A problem is when too many people are poor, not when too many people are rich.
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Towing has more to do with braking than anything else.

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