RobertoG

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by RobertoG 7y ago
That's nonsense. Zimbabwe (like the famous Weimar republic, by the way) had a extreme fall in the real productive capacity of the economy (1). Inflation was going to happen nevertheless the monetary policy they adopted. (1) - http:&#x
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by RobertoG 7y ago
I think you are right. It seems to me that the strength of representative democracy doesn't come from be able to choose who will be the leader, but from the possibility of removing that leader from power in a peaceful way. Looking to h
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by RobertoG 7y ago
I can think of, at least, another possible explanation. Before birth control was available, there is not need for evolutionary effects in the willingness to have children directly, only for the willingness to have sex. You probably agree wi
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by RobertoG 7y ago
The article tell us: "You had the same thing with the Industrial Revolution that concentrated more and more wealth into the hands of capital. " So, your identification of causation with the end of the gold standard it's not a
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by RobertoG 7y ago
This is really a pity. Maybe, instead of noise, other options are available that nobody is exploring. Maybe projecting a laser in the road ahead or something like that.
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by RobertoG 7y ago
Just to be sure that I understand your position: your opinion is that the motivation behind all this is "to see their potential released"?
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by RobertoG 7y ago
Your post confused me. I though you were saying that this report was to be suspicious because is coming from an organization that maybe have ties to China. But it seems this report have nothing to do with that organization, but with some Eu
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by RobertoG 7y ago
Ah, but Iran already chose freedom. Unfortunately, they decided to use their freedom to take control of the oil in their country. From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta... "The 1953 Ir
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by RobertoG 7y ago
Have your friend checked with a lawyer? Because I have serious doubts that is legal in the EU.
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by RobertoG 7y ago
I see, so, this game with Iran, is motivated because "the West wants to see their potential released". When is the turn of the Saudis? Is Iraq potential totally released already? And the grandparent is the one missing the point..
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by RobertoG 7y ago
>>"Fixed supply doesn't mean it will always appreciate." It seems to me that you believe that when the economy stay the same and the supply of money grows, money loss value. Then, the other side of the coin ;-) is that
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by RobertoG 7y ago
>>"Why? Well assuming all things being equal (convenience as medium of exchange etc.), an individual is always going to prefer holding currency that isn’t subject to inflation." And why should they spend a so wonderful asset
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by RobertoG 7y ago
>>"Gold coins can be minted at multiple places, or admitted foreign, because their value is gold by weight." If the value of the coin come from the gold in it, why mint them instead of using the gold directly?
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by RobertoG 7y ago
In order to fix a price with your competitor, the only thing you need is an information channel with them. The price in itself carries information, so, I would not be surprised if in many cases not conversations are happened between the par
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by RobertoG 7y ago
I don't think so.. I think that's the estimated current age of the universe.
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by RobertoG 7y ago
"You're not the customer; you're the product." That, by the way, and surprisingly for me, it seems it's a quote from 1973: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/07/16/product/
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by RobertoG 7y ago
>>"Does anyone have any insight into whether artificial housing restrictions could benefit a municipality in the long term?" I think you can't answer that question without defining what is the intended outcome: what it&
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by RobertoG 7y ago
>>" Since atherosclerosis results from necrotic cells (primarily macrophages) which have invaded the vasculature" I would be interested in reading more about this. Do you have any recommendation for a layman?
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by RobertoG 7y ago
Is this related to the subject of the article somehow?
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Sorry if my answer sounded too harsh. I think there is a kind of dichotomy between pushing and motivation and, very frequently, we forget to search the reason why there is not motivation and we only push.
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>>"The message should be first and foremost that they can do it if they try hard" There is a difference between the message "you can do better if you try harder" and the message "you can do everything if you t
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Only if productivity have not increased.
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by RobertoG 7y ago
>"And if they do it and we do not we would be as children compared to them. " It seems to me that if that happen the big division (us and them) will not be along national lines, but generational. So, we would be like children,
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by RobertoG 7y ago
>" VLC is just too full of incidental complication." That surprise me, how is VLC complicated? I use it all the time and it just works. My only problems: -For some reason sometimes it hangs in Fedora and I have to kill the proc
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by RobertoG 7y ago
The grandparent don't say anywhere that the US is not democratic, it says that " It has toppled democratically elected governments and installed dictators" that it's empirically truth. The idea that, in the international
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by RobertoG 7y ago
It surprise me that people take those allegations seriously. I mean, some spying is to be expected but not to justify the banning of all the company. I thought it was obvious that this have nothing to do with spying. Some elements in the US
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by RobertoG 7y ago
They could solve the problem easily legalizing the traffic of drugs. What the big USA brother would say? Would it be allowed?
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by RobertoG 7y ago
Somehow related to this: I think that the linear way of teaching, first week you teach a, second week b.. it's inferior to showing everything to the student, in a very shallow way, the sooner the better, and then keep adding deepness.
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by RobertoG 7y ago
">they just act based on evolutionary impulses that in the past made their ancestors not die." That's exactly what we do also. "> A prey creature has zero cognition of its own death. " Well, they look scared t
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by RobertoG 7y ago
And they probably wish that they would have your technology and manpower, but it's called asymmetric warfare. I suppose, we could count the deaths to see who has the better part of the asymmetry.

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