aionaiodfgnio

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by aionaiodfgnio 3y ago
Thanks, Dr. Freud. Wait, I don't believe that at all, for the following reasons: 1. The opposite hasn't been true. We have seen two dramatic tax cuts in recent history which absolutely did not lead to reduced spending. 2. The majo
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by aionaiodfgnio 3y ago
We know how to reduce the deficit: raise taxes on the rich. It's not rocket appliances. It's just a complete non-starter given the current GOP. The people screaming the loudest about the deficit are the same people preventing any
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by aionaiodfgnio 3y ago
Sure. The U.S. could run a surplus like it did under Clinton. Surplus & time -> debt paid off. But the only way we know to get back to those days involves raising taxes on the rich. The people ranting and raving about the debt would
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by aionaiodfgnio 3y ago
The last few times this particular form of terrorism has been tried, it has achieved little. If the people threatening us had won major victories then maybe the strategy would make a sick kind of sense. Instead they won token policy concess
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by aionaiodfgnio 3y ago
We don't need to speculate. >Ratings Downgrade: The rating downgrade of the United States reflects the expected fiscal deterioration over the next three years, a high and growing general government debt burden, and the erosion of go
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by aionaiodfgnio 3y ago
Maybe Coinbase won't just waltz off with their depositor's money, but their business model appears to be illegal from top to bottom. The SEC alleges that basically everything they are doing is illegal. Even if the SEC is wrong,
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by aionaiodfgnio 3y ago
Sounds like you need a KVM.
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by aionaiodfgnio 3y ago
In the U.S., most rights are not explicitly enumerated. People are assumed to have all conceivable rights, and the restrictions must be explicitly enumerated. There is no law against lying in general. There is, however, an explicitly enumer
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by aionaiodfgnio 3y ago
You are well outside mainstream economics. The existence of market failures is only disputed by a tiny minority of economists. You can disagree with the consensus of experts, of course, but it's ridiculous to claim they don't have
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by aionaiodfgnio 3y ago
In American law, the right to speak is assumed. It is the lack of a right to speech that is the exception. There are only a handful of categories of unprotected speech, which can be easily enumerated, and lies aren't one of them. Fra
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by aionaiodfgnio 3y ago
Would you really trust a company that doesn't pay its rent to run your infrastructure?
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by aionaiodfgnio 3y ago
Of course it will be centralized! There is no cryptocurrency that isn't. Cryptocurrencies can't scale without centralization, and there's no way to interface with the real world without some sort of trust.
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by aionaiodfgnio 3y ago
This is a grift I don't understand. Obviously there is no legitimate reason for it to exist, but what is the il legitimate reason? How do the people behind this scheme expect to benefit? Is it a good old fashioned pump and dump? Do th
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by aionaiodfgnio 3y ago
Prison for the board, too.
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by aionaiodfgnio 3y ago
I got at least one inaccuracy in thirty seconds of play. I'm pretty sure Slashdot wasn't around in the '70s, yet the "Slashdot Effect" is claimed as a '70s neologism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by aionaiodfgnio 3y ago
By "poor", I actually meant "not stupendously wealthy". This includes the merely rich. A doctor or plumber or engineer or cashier knows how to translate their time into quality of life. A wealthy person cannot possibly d
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by aionaiodfgnio 3y ago
Most people know exactly the value of their time and the opportunity cost is in things like food and shelter. Wealthy people don't work for a living so their time isn't obviously valuable at all, have their wealth tied up in stock
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by aionaiodfgnio 3y ago
Amazon identified that people hate paying for shipping, so they deceived their customers about the price of shipping and compelled any vendor using Amazon to double-charge for shipping everywhere else. This may be clever, especially since t