RobertoG

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by RobertoG 8y ago
I find the theory compelling but I also think the way is expressed strange. Maybe I'm missing something. More than a "violence and virtue" history, it seems to me that the main point is cooperation brings a positive feedback
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by RobertoG 8y ago
"[..]$100K in tax abatements per job seems excessive, but others say it was pretty standard,[..]" It's possible to be both at the same time.
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by RobertoG 8y ago
It seems to me that people want to live in a place because it's a good place for living. In your opinion what is the end game of not zone restrictions?
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by RobertoG 8y ago
We are just reading the text. Maybe the answers are in the attached Power Point.
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by RobertoG 8y ago
Well, then, surely, most of the innovation is coming from the poorest people.
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by RobertoG 8y ago
>>"if the US wasn't trapped behind political barriers like the 17th parallel." The NVA would have been crushed if the USA crossed that barrier and nobody else get involved in the conflict. The low probability of that ha
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by RobertoG 8y ago
I'm not sure we can call the Vietnam war an exercise in contention: From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Freedom_Deal#Cambodi... : "U.S. bombing of Cambodia extended over the entire eastern one-half of
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by RobertoG 8y ago
By "win" I mean to kill the opponent in that specific battle. >>"[..] I'm not sure that it's fair to say that the US has "won" either of the two major asymmetric wars it's been engaged" In
729.
by RobertoG 8y ago
>>"[..] typical of modern war the politics of the fight constrain the weapons choice much more than the tactical situation. " That's a luxury that you only can afford when the asymmetry of force is huge and you are goin
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by RobertoG 8y ago
It would be interesting to know why they choose nickel.
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by RobertoG 8y ago
That sounds like a fantastic system, where is being implemented? I would like to move there.
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by RobertoG 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Monetary_Theory
733.
by RobertoG 8y ago
If a government spending is in surplus taxes means retiring money from the economy.
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by RobertoG 8y ago
>>"Debt is a claim on future productivity of the nation, and if a necessary share of the national income is not being claimed through taxes to service the debt, capital will exit to brighter climes. " What debt? The grandpar
735.
by RobertoG 8y ago
>>"Jorge Salcedo that took down Cali cartel got million$ for his cooperation." Do you have any source for that? because I read recently an interview [1] with the guy and I didn't get the impression he was so well financ
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by RobertoG 8y ago
>>"Little kid logic is so foreign to me now it makes me a little sad." Well, you have to admit that your nephew logic was flawless. As him, you wouldn't go into your room if you though there is a one meter frog waiting
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by RobertoG 8y ago
Tell your daughter that the exploding banana caught me. Next time I will not trust the monkeys.
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by RobertoG 8y ago
>>"He basically describes a middle-ages, barter free market economy." That never existed in reality.
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by RobertoG 8y ago
Part of that deal was also that Ukraine would not be part of the OTAN, but a firewall between the OTAN and Russia.
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by RobertoG 8y ago
"[..] come to a counter at the mint and deliver their metal[..], and they would be paid back, within a few weeks, in newly minted coins of the same metal they brought in. They always received back less fine metal than they brought in.&
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by RobertoG 8y ago
Banks don't lend savings (1). They create the money that lend. 1 - http://archive.economonitor.com/lrwray/2013/08/15/banks-dont...
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by RobertoG 8y ago
I totally agree. In a country with a balanced trade deficit (exports are the same that imports), in order to keep the economy working at the same pace, if the public debt is reduced, the private debt have to grow. As you said, it's an
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by RobertoG 8y ago
Not only that, but: "An electric vehicle held the vehicular land speed record until around 1900." (from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_electric_vehicl... )
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by RobertoG 8y ago
I'm confused. From the article: "This is explained by the Hubble-Lemaître Law, the observation that more distant galaxies are moving away at a faster rate." If we observe an accelerating universe how can be that galaxies in t
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by RobertoG 8y ago
In Python 3 there is the ayncio module that is concurrent (logical execution is not sequential) but not parallel (only one thread). I found the distinction very useful when I started to look into it.
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by RobertoG 8y ago
When you say that Japan's debt is mostly bought by Japanese it sounds like it's a particularity of the Japanese people. That's not the case. Who is buying that debt is really the Central Bank of Japan, so, it's really a
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by RobertoG 8y ago
How selling bonds soaks dollars from investors? If you go to a bank and ask for a credit for starting a business, if the bank approve of your project, they will credit your bank account with new money. That money is new created money. How i
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by RobertoG 8y ago
"[..] The balance sheet of the BOJ as recently passed its annual GDP." Yes, and where are the promised terrible consequences? The true is the markets have to dance whatever the Central Bank sings [1]. [1] - http://bilbo
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by RobertoG 8y ago
The elephant in the room in this kind of reasoning is Japan. Japan shows that the narrative of "good country" vs. "bad country" and interest rates beyond the control of the Central Bank have little to do with reality.
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by RobertoG 8y ago
How your theory explain Japan? Are they extraordinarily good with money? The interest rate is chosen by the central bank, not by "the market" [1]. A different issue is who try to influence that decision [2]. [1] - http:/&#x2

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