RobertoG

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by RobertoG 9y ago
>>"There is plenty of rightist propaganda in the USA that claims otherwise" There is, also, a more subtle game at play here. At the end of the day, if the public system is good or not is a political decision. There is a stra
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by RobertoG 9y ago
A government system doesn't imply only one option, it implies that everybody is covered. Private health exist in countries with public health.
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by RobertoG 9y ago
>>"The modern "paleo" diet loaded with animal fat and protein is a modern invention that serves mostly to help people rationalize their taste preferences." It's difficult to know what the diet in the Paleolith
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by RobertoG 9y ago
>>"it seems that performing an observation fundamentally adds information to that which has been observed." disclaimer: I have not idea what I'm talking about. Is it not that the "adds information" that you me
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by RobertoG 9y ago
>>" the information about which marble is in the bag simply isn't part of reality until you've checked" It seems to me that the universe uses lazy evaluation (1). (1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by RobertoG 9y ago
I understand what you are trying to say here and I mostly agree, but.. two comments: 1. Size is important: A mischievous kid can be cute, but a mischievous general can be terrifying. 2. Incentives: A small start-up has space to grow, in man
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by RobertoG 9y ago
There is such thing as trying too hard. For instance, you could break.
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by RobertoG 9y ago
>> "we're going to have AI toasters by the end of the year." I hope not. It seems they can be a real pain in the ass: Red Dwarf toaster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRq_SAuQDec
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by RobertoG 9y ago
Self-assembly here doesn't imply reproduction. They compose a two dimensional structure (or more) that, given the proper conditions, build itself in the desired three dimensional shape (1). (1)- https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by RobertoG 9y ago
"Getting in the game is a choice you make." If you are lucky enough to make that choice ;-)
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by RobertoG 9y ago
It seems to me, that what happens (and not only in Chile) is this: A few political parties alternate in government without big changes. More or less, they have the same program, with minor differences. They, both, are part of the Establishm
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by RobertoG 9y ago
Allende was choose in democratic election in a sovereign country. If you believe in democratic freedom, you believe in the right of the people of a country to choose whatever they want even if, in your opinion, it's a mistake or too ra
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by RobertoG 9y ago
I don't think the problem is that you see an advertisement for a KitKat and then you want one. It's more subtle than that, and something more than the familiarity the article talk about. What advertisement does is to change the as
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by RobertoG 9y ago
A few months ago I had a similar conversation with a Norwegian guy complaining about the number of immigrants in Norway. The funny thing is that the guy was living in my country. Of course, in his eyes he was not an immigrant, but an expatr
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by RobertoG 9y ago
It seems to me that wealth come from two sources: capital accumulation (I'm not talking about money here) and knowledge accumulation. How do you expect to lose those? If something, I would expect they increase and that allowing people
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by RobertoG 9y ago
You say that the main problem with Denmark is that people is complacent, but you don't explain why being complacent is a problem. Is it so bad that people have "complacent" lives when there is enough resources? Maybe, people
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by RobertoG 9y ago
You can't develop an industry from nothing without protection. This is how happened in the USA, protecting nascent industries from others (the UK mainly). It seems that the Chinese are very aware of this historic truth. The corollary b
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by RobertoG 9y ago
Hopefully they will respect the spirit of the thing, instead of what happened to altered carbon.
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by RobertoG 9y ago
>"Things like cancer, where a small group of cells decides to go off the script, are trivially eliminated." And viruses and parasites, probably a very hard problem to crack otherwise. Reboot from a fresh image.
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by RobertoG 9y ago
I'm not sure what is the message of the author here. Entropy always increase in closed systems, but we are not talking about a closed system here. My understanding is that, from the point of view of physics, there is not a reason for n
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by RobertoG 9y ago
Do you mean animal biomass? Even so, I thought that the winners there are insects.
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by RobertoG 9y ago
No need you bother to take it with you, I'm sure there is going to be plenty.
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by RobertoG 9y ago
There is a long tradition, specially by the CIA, of creating their next enemy while fighting the current one. I'm thinking, for instance, in the freedom fighters against the Russian invasion in Afghanistan, Noriega, weaponization of Ir
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by RobertoG 9y ago
Well, following your theory, a dollar in the desert have infinite value ;-) If your only export is farm-originated goods (as it's basically the case of Zimbabwe), that means that you have to import everything else. That means that you
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by RobertoG 9y ago
So, in your world view, if tomorrow a catastrophe destroyed half of the productive capacity of the USA, the US Dollar would double its value?
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by RobertoG 9y ago
But not the drop in oil production: https://tradingeconomics.com/venezuela/crude-oil-production https://tradingeconomics.com/venezuela/inflation-cpi Please, for a better comparative, view it with
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by RobertoG 9y ago
Unfortunately I can't discuss Brazil because I have not information, but thanks for pointing it, I will try to look into it. Venezuela seems to me a similar case to Zimbabwe. Their only asset (oil, agriculture in the case of Zimbabwe)
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by RobertoG 9y ago
I understand how taxing reduce money in the economy but I don't understand your reference to the overnight rate. My understanding is that the overnight rate gives the fed the power of making more expensive for banks to give credits, bu
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by RobertoG 9y ago
>"Hyperinflation can't happen without a government problem" I suppose that what you mean is that hyperinflation will stop at some point, not that it "can't happen". If you destroy the 80% of the economy what
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by RobertoG 9y ago
Normally, the cronies are rich people. Even if inflation could be advantageous, sometimes, for some people, hyperinflation don't benefit anyone, but it benefit rich people the less. If you have liquid or even financial assets, you don&

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