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by RobertoG 7y ago
>>"[..] as they make the product worse for no discernible reason." Well, they don't make the product worst on purpose, they make it cheaper to produce, in the hope that people keep buying it at the same price. The metr
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by RobertoG 7y ago
>> "[..] in other words, removes it from circulation." And that makes it useless as money and show that, the added value, was not necessary for a practical currency in the first place.
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by RobertoG 7y ago
I find more concerning this (from the article): 'A number of other sites — such as reopennc.com — seem to exist merely to sell t-shirts, decals and yard signs with such slogans as “Know Your Rights,” “Live Free or Die,” and “Facts not
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by RobertoG 7y ago
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ They are making an effort in keep things updated. Of course, they depend on the official figures of every country or state that are not very accurate at the moment. The source
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by RobertoG 7y ago
I think he is saying that they don't get the opportunities because they are gifted kids, but because they are upper-middle class.
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by RobertoG 7y ago
There are really a lot of those projects. I have been following this one: https://www.oxygen.protofy.xyz/ It's open source and there are two versions: industrial production and 3d printing. I also find the mechanical w
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by RobertoG 7y ago
>>"Sounds like another half-baked "gotta do something" project." Almost everything starts with a "gotta do something". I understand what you are saying, this will be probably useless for the current crisi
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by RobertoG 7y ago
I though that, from the Austrian perspective, the stock market would be one of the last things to see inflation. Are not suppose the prices of stocks reflect the aggregate infinite wisdom of the market?
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by RobertoG 7y ago
That sounds like a very ad hoc explanation, what about Japan then?
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by RobertoG 7y ago
>>"Some other countries [the exception not the rule] have been more prudent with their finances" I'm going to dispute that this have something to do with "prudence". If an economy grows (bigger GDP), that mean
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by RobertoG 7y ago
Most governments have been running deficits since forever, not since the last recession, after all, if there is economic grow, new money have to be created, and all money is originated in government spending. But that's just a reality
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by RobertoG 7y ago
What Keynesian response? A Keynesian response would be a fiscal response to a fall in aggregate demand by governments, not a monetary one by central banks.
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by RobertoG 7y ago
>>"This coupled with fractional reserve banking means that the banks can make a whole lot more loans, flooding the system with liquidity so that money can start moving again." That's not how it works. First, never mind
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by RobertoG 7y ago
Keynesian economics has been practiced for the last few decades? Where? They don't call it the neoliberal period for nothing. If you are talking about the QE programs, that's what Keynesian economics would call "pushing a str
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by RobertoG 7y ago
Maybe I'm don't understand it properly, but it seems to me that Austrian economics would predict hyperinflation and high interest rates in Japan the last twenty years when the opposite have happened. As you say Modern Monetary The
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by RobertoG 7y ago
We will never agree in what makes sense explaining economy because it's a political question. The first thing to do, in my opinion, is to accept that. For me, personally, after trying to make sense for a while using the mainstream narr
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by RobertoG 7y ago
"[..] being a recessive inherited disorder" Is it fair to call it a disorder? It seems like people that have it are fully functional. To me, it looks more like a difference in brain processing styles. I can't avoid to think w
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by RobertoG 7y ago
I just searched (1) "SEO ruined content" in duck duck go and this Hacker news page is the first entry. We are very lucky that, as far as we know, an accumulation of irony doesn't create black holes. https://duckduc
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by RobertoG 7y ago
It kind of ruined content too. Why it ruined content? You are not the only one that is searching for the answer to that question. Keep reading to know why SEO ruined content. Many people think that SEO ruined content, in this post, we are g
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by RobertoG 7y ago
If you want to get really scared and don't sleep tonight I suggest this presentation by John Sotos in 2019 Def Con: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIj0iJXTMug It's really good.
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by RobertoG 7y ago
This is another project, simple but in a an advanced state of development. An automated manual AMBU type ventilator that uses a windshield wiper motor: https://www.oxygen.protofy.xyz/ There are two versions: makers and mass
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by RobertoG 7y ago
Another one: https://www.oxygen.protofy.xyz/
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by RobertoG 7y ago
Maybe you would be interested in this: https://www.oxygen.protofy.xyz/
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by RobertoG 7y ago
Makes sense, it's difficult to calculate without knowing the number of tests that are being done in every country.
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by RobertoG 7y ago
Why you shouldn't excite by Castro revolution in 1959 exactly? From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba : "Batista [..] Facing certain electoral defeat, he led a military coup [..] Back in power, and receiving
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by RobertoG 7y ago
I don't understand, how super-determinism explain interference in, for instance, the double-slit experiment? It's not the result of that experiment a proof that the photons are interfering with something?
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by RobertoG 7y ago
You see how far to the right the pendulum have gone in the public discourse, when somebody like Sanders is a "near communist" or even "revolutionary".
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by RobertoG 7y ago
>>"The real answer is simply that the number of tests is not equal to the number of cases." I think you are right, but, assuming all the deaths are reported, the obvious implication is that the mortality rate is a lot lower
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by RobertoG 7y ago
Is it necessary to create a new app? Because it seems to me that the source code of the current app its already owned by the Germans and should be made available.
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by RobertoG 7y ago
>>"I wouldn't want to know how many were disappeared into body bags while they were still breathing just to keep reported numbers down." So, you don't want to know, but still you can't avoid tell us. Do you ha

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