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David Graeber on basic income - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEb4Bda_06c David Graeber: "DEBT: The First 5,000 Years" | Talks at Google - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZIINXhGDcs
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Tribes: How Race, Religion and Identity Determine Success in the New Global Economy -- https://www.amazon.com/Tribes-Religion-Identity-Determine-Su...
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Money in the form of coin, currency or emoney is a medium of exchange and store of value. Debt, although denominated in amounts of currency units, is a contractual obligation to pay money at a future date. It's a legal contract enforce
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Money is not a system of control. Debt is a system of control. When you take out a loan, you are now obligated to pay the money back with interest at some time in the future. Some part of your future efforts are no longer yours to do with a
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>"Wetherell says that the shortest explanation for his treason is that he "married the wrong person."" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedict_Arnold#Plotting_to_ch... The wiki article is much mor
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Not mentioned is the use of plastic by health care. In a hospital, each patient generates a large stream of plastic for disposal.
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Men have acquaintances. Women have friends, with all the emotional baggage that entails.
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The coordinates of the blast are given as 47°S 40°E, while Prince Edward is at about 38°E. Google maps shows the distance as about 100 miles. Tan(2degrees) x 100 x 5280 gives about 18,400 feet below the horizon at Prince Edward for the elev
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A two to three kiloton nuclear explosion approximately 100 miles east of the island would not be noticeable. The prevailing winds blow east, but the nearest islands are another 400 miles away.
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Major built up areas in Florida were swamps before they were raised by landfill from dredging. Add more landfill.
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9 low GINI states, Utah through Minnesota all have two senators from the same party. There are 6 Ds and 12 Rs. 18 high GINI states, New York down to Arkansas (Alabama excepted) also all have two senators from the same party. There are 16 Ds
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>"As such, the Democratic Party is now anchored in the nation’s booming, but highly unequal, metro areas, while the GOP relies on aging and economically stagnant manufacturing-reliant rural and exurban communities." The analysi
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>However, the most commonly used type of NSL can be issued directly by the FBI Director, an Assistant Director, and also by all FBI Special Agents in Charge, who are commanding officers stationed across the country at FBI field offices.
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>"In most instances, a subpoena can be issued and signed by an attorney on behalf of a court in which the attorney is authorized to practice law. If the subpoena is for a high-level government official (such as the Governor, or agen
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Longer ago, if you didn't adapt well to combat, you probably died. A fair percentage of green troops won't shoot to kill, and they suffer fairly high casualty rates. Anecdotally, it seems to me that my acquaintances who were actua
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Most people would be rapidly desensitized. Recall that not too many decades ago, people routinely butchered their own animals, and many still do in much of the world.
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Subpoenas have been used frequently for decades to request "records kept in the ordinary course of business". The only thing different in this case seems to be that there is a perpetual gag order. But if the local prosecutor subpo
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>"Western traders, including those from the United States, had long sought a variety of Chinese products (including furniture, silk and tea), but found there were few products that China wanted from the West. American trade with Chi
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>GOTHENBURG (Reuters) - Swedish engineering company SKF aims to use a demand slowdown to its advantage, its chief executive said, stepping up an automation program that has already sent capital expenditure soaring. ... >The automation
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Sweden's SKF to shift automation into higher gear as markets flag(reuters.com)
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I think that part of the problem is that macroeconomists think of the economy as a single system. Therefore, if you change a financial parameter, such as short interest rates, it will change supply and demand in the business economy. It see
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As populations increase and resource shortages of various types become severe, migration and even travel will be shut down. The IT infrastructure and AI will allow trade to continue without travel.
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I think that the first wheeled suitcases used indoor roller skate wheels. So the parts were readily available for a long time before wheeled suitcases. But early airports didn't have miles of corridors and a hundred gates, so maybe the
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The Weapon that Disabled Iraq’s Power Grid https://cyberarms.wordpress.com/2010/04/28/the-weapon-that-d...
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The standard approach, as was used in Iraq, is to dispense foil streamers or other conductive chaff over the substations. The US used airplanes, but these days drones could do the job. Or you could use a drone to tow a copper wire across on
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About 3 miles x 4 miles at 24.425359, 32.719888 . It is an insignificant percentage of the Egyptian desert about 30 miles north and a little west of the Aswan Dam. It's probably a good location to feed into the power grid that distribu
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Healthcare is about 18% of GDP or about a $3470 billion a year. It should be shrunk down to about 12%, but that would require terminating millions of employees who work in healthcare and are the major cost component. The industry also needs
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>"Have plans on top of plans. What if your genre collapses? What if your agent quits? What if your next advance is way too low to survive upon? What if the economy shits the bed? Have a plan for next year, for five years, for ten. E
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Ego strokes is just one form of non-monetary compensation. OSS is not alone in being the product of voluntary work. Lots of worthwhile civic, charitable, communal and religious endeavors rely on volunteer labor which is compensated through
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Americans think progress can fix inequality because we live in a thinly populated country with lots of resources. In particular, since 1800, mostly European immigrants converted the economy from hunting/gathering and neolithic agricult

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