Rury

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by Rury 4y ago
Perhaps some people have that mindset, but a lot of people do it for health. And I know some people may find that BS, but if you have ever lost significant amounts of weight before, you know how much better you feel and function.
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That's not quite a tautology. A tautology would be: the reason people are rich, is because they are wealthy. What he's essentially saying is: people are fat, because they eat too much. "Eating too much" does not necessar
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by Rury 4y ago
> If the currency was debased, inflation would have occurred fairly evenly across the economy Nothing makes this necessarily true. As an example, if the government printed everyone in the world 100 trillion dollars, and everyone used it
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It can be misleading looking at the budget this way. As to your last statement, they could cut the budget by a trillion, and still have 17% go to pensions, 23% to healthcare, etc. In any case, doing a comparison in percentage terms to other
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by Rury 4y ago
The problem with that, is how can you ever be certain that, there isn't always such a reason? Just because no reason is found (yet), is not proof that there does not exist any such a reason. To me, accepting that everything logically
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It irks me, because I find the title reads similar to: "Our possibilities may be a sum of all possible possibilities". Or shorter "What's possible is the sum of all that's possible". It's like, well no duh
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First, you have to really understand what liquidity is. Liquidity isn't cash, or value per say, but rather a measure of how easy something is to trade. Cash just happens to be the most liquid thing because it is the most actively trade
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I'm not entirely sure, but I think that depends. It's like the Fed is making up the difference in income, by handing out promises which will be paid in the future when the Fed has a positive net income again, so to speak. If the F
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The interest income the Fed earns now, is from assets which were created in the past at lower interest rates, where what it's paying out to banks is in current higher interest rates. While this may seem like it could essentially result
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The Robinson-Pactsman act makes this type of activity illegal today, but has largely gone unenforced with passing time due to the complexities of the act. There's talk that government agencies are thinking of returning their enforcemen
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by Rury 4y ago
My mistake, hopefully I addressed your question though.
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IDK you tell me? All I can say is your OP, said "I think part of it is a subconscious fear ... I understand what I'm saying is dramatic". Why do you think it is a fear (you explained your thoughts so no need to re-explain), a
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I still don't see your point behind your first 4 paragraphs. How you decide to treat your fellow humans is up to you. Just as you can decide to view your fellow humans however you want. It's entirely possible to treat them like &q
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How is this significant? I mean you can view a moving car as stationary, and reality is the thing that moves around it, or you can view reality as stationary, but the car moves through it. Or you can make analogies between electricity and w
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In which case, you're unhappy, and seek change to what you think would bring you happiness (eg removing the enemy). Whether achieving this bring you happiness or not, is a separate matter, as happiness is about wanting what you get, no
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by Rury 4y ago
It depends. Happiness is about wanting what you get, and oppression is about denying someone their wants. Obviously people often have different wants, otherwise there would be no such thing as politics. So rights and autonomy can make some
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Seems like an interesting problem to deal with, and one which will only get tougher as our skies get more populated with things.
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I have been doing similar for about 3 years now, with similar results, but one thing that has been problematic with for me... is my bowel movements just don't seem to function well when I'm doing keto. The only thing that seems to
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Google maps doesn't, but satellites (where google maps gets some of its image data) can already capture live video, so this point is irrelevant.
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A balloon 60k+ feet above my house? Yes no big deal. Not like they will see anything better than they could from the public road, or what's on google maps.
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by Rury 4y ago
>We know that the universe's expansion is accelerating Correction. We don't know this for fact. It's the prevailing theory fitting the phenomena we observe.
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by Rury 4y ago
>The point of the article is that dark matter is the result of doing 1, not 2. The article may claim or argue this, but supports this claim rather poorly. Look the fact that dark matter is even a topic, is because our models are wrong so
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by Rury 4y ago
Idk, but the drop in revenue is due to companies (eg coca-cola), no longer wanting to pay alphabet to have their ads displayed on alphabet's platforms, not so much as a drop in the amount of people clicking ads. (I say no longer wantin
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by Rury 4y ago
That's my point, and by extension, to say that life could take forms that we don't even understand, is flawed, because what life means is whatever definition we want to give it. Do we not understand our own definitions?
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This statement has nothing to do with what I am saying.
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The thing is, people don't realize this argument fully. If you are to accept that life could take countless forms, most which we could never recognize or begin to understand, then it's quite possible rocks are lifeforms, as we don
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Even that's not always true. Circumstance could be someone knocks you into a coma, and you subsequently take a turn for the worse, all in which you didn't choose it to happen nor able to choose a reaction to the circumstance.
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>Strict determinism is physically impossible. By physically, I mean you cannot reconcile it with quantum physics. This is complete BS, given that there are many aspects of quantum physics that still elude our comprehension. Just because
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This. Why do people suspect it's a spy balloon? No reasons are given in the article. Even if it did come from China, it could be nothing more than a mere scientific weather balloon. This smells like propaganda.
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I don't follow this reasoning. Your lot can get better with perfect equality, the benefit/effort ratio is just different than a system with inequality. The real problem is it's just easier to benefit at the cost of your neigh

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