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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Does anyone else find it strange that the headline focuses entirely on the damage to dams and not, say, the people or homes or communities destroyed?
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
There are, but I think they typically serve as clearinghouses that acquire land and then hand it to the federal government. I think it's less common to find individuals buying up plots to conserve them.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Mineral rights might be sold independently from land rights, meaning someone could come mine the land you are fostering. You can get cheap seedlings from the state, and depending on the land you might be able to get financial assistance wit
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Thanks, great resources!
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
This is incredibly useful. It's just east of Steven's Pass.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Right, Marx is saying "why would someone do those exchanges unless you broadly believed you'd get a positive return."
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
No problem! Again, I'm just some internet person who happened to listen to some lectures and did some reading, so my take might be a bit off. But I find this stuff fascinating. Doubly so for something like Marx who everyone has an opin
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Marx tended to focus on roles more than persons or transactions. Buyers and sellers, capitalists and workers, etc. Any individual might play any particular role at any given time. (For instance, I personally fill the role of worker with my
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
It's a lot more than that. Yes, a combine or tractor has the things you mention, but they also have complex power steering, computerized control mechanisms for delivering seeds or fertilizer on a per nozzle basis based on yield pattern
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
> You don't have to be wealthy to have access to growth in assets You have to be wealthy to see an appreciable growth in assets. Both the absolute and percentage amounts matter. Yes, anyone can get a 3% return on their investments o
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Marx presented this idea back in the 1860s. He phrased it a little differently and built the idea up from the idea of exchanging commodities. In Marx's text, he discusses the history of commodity exchange, how people usually exchanged
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
My example is not contrived, it represents an understanding of the market over the long term. Are there bubbles? Yes. Are there dips? Yes. You are making the inverse mistake of someone who looks at a large jackpot win in Vegas and thinks it
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
I'm halfway through reading Piketty right now, amusingly.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
The law might be the same, but the environment can change around the law. From tax rates and economic conditions to the power of labor can all shift how we respond to that natural law. Wealth can continue to generate wealth, which we can th
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
This is almost a natural law of wealth. When you have significant capital, you can do things like loan it out with interest, leverage it into getting loans to build more capital, etc. If one assumes that the wealthy are using their money to
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Wealth is obviously not a zero sum game. And of course the comforts of even the poorest have increased over the past half century. But don't discount out of hand the concern that the relative distribution is a problem. Money, and espec
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Everyone is in a bubble. There's no human alive who is not in a bubble. The breadth of human social connections are too broad to not be in a bubble. The idea that we somehow will be able to encounter a diverse range of opinions we disa
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Especially since it appears to diffuse the light, which is actually desirable in some cases.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
There are plenty of folks who would fail a marijuana drug test who I'd have no problem in childcare. Your concern is like, "We should test to ensure that someone has had zero alcohol. You don't want your day care provider sho
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
This seems so inefficient: you're transferring power from the sun into carboniferous life forms, then relying on the compression of the earth to squeeze that carbon into a dense form. Then you have to mine, ship, store, and burn that c
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
> stuff gets to your house in 2 days even during worldwide pandemic with widespread supply chain disruption. On the backs of warehouse and distribution workers who put themselves at serious risk for Covid (or just backbreaking work envir
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
He stepped down as ceo, so folks are out lionizing him.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
I was going to add that he was relentless with his employees as well. I had a kid and was expected to be on call with a newborn, after spending all my vacation because there was no parental leave. Getting paged at 2am with a tiny baby is te
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Payment for order flow can certainly be controversial among people who understand the market. Also, there are plenty of people who understand the market who find the concept of the market controversial. Your circles might all be comfortable
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Sounds like a great way to create incentives that undermine githubs mission while simultaneously taking a huge amount of developer resources for a product that will have niche interest at best. Building app stores is hard. Moderating app st
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
You'd think so, but in practice my electric car is less efficient going over the mountains than driving a flat stretch. So yes, they will be able to recover some energy on the way down and reduce wear on brakes, but they'll have t
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
In some circles, for sure. I've also just seen it used as a goof or an insult. I think it's one of those things that started being used one way but has spiraled off into many different meanings in many different communities.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
"stonks" is a common internet meme standin for "stocks". In the same way "pwned" is a standin for "owned", etc.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
> This is a dairy farm, so it should not be expected to abide by the ethics of vegan people. No one said it should. What the parent poster said were that there were significant things not said by the article. For the folks who care abo
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
The implication of your post is that Open Source projects are dead projects, which seems obviously false.

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