alexasmyths

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by alexasmyths 9y ago
There could very well be some functional aspects of the company's products. It's not a consumer brand. So ... if something 'works' and can be proven to work via regulatory approval, or validation from a big chain - there
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
Sure - you can technically store wealth in currency. Just saying it's generally not ideal over the long haul, and that that is 'ok'.
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
"Disgusting -- they should feel ashamed." This is VICE's standard operating procedure. 'Voice of a Generation'
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
" The vast majority of millennials that did go to college got a degree in a traditionally "useful" field. " ? What ? No. Most college degrees are minted in non-professional or degrees for which one will have very little
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
"They saw their future prospects destroyed by a deregulated financial market, and now they're seeing the economic restoration that follows skipping them entirely and consolidating global wealth in the hands of a few while they str
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
"If you can convince an entire community to rearrange their finances" If we all behaved conscientiously and responsibly, almost all of the world's problems would disappear.
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
This micro-UBI thing is a bad experiment with good intentions. UBI only works if it's fairly 'U'. If you give UBI to 'one village' - that village will have tremendous leverage over the surrounding villages. Any rati
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
"for me at least it is an opportunity to keep my own wealth. " This is a really poor reason to use BTC. A) BTC is supposed to be a currency - generally, a currency is not where you should be storing wealth. Currencies are not de
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
No, it's a fact, and a very simple one. The economy is very intertwined, with the banks at the centre. If they start to go down - everything starts to do down. It's as factual as saying if you choke and engine of oxygen, that it w
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
"practically giving one group of people money, under the guise of stimulating AN economy." It wasn't under the guise of anything but saving the US economy from a wicked meltdown of epic proportions. The dominos were set to al
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
"Government does not need this ability," Extremely debatable, given the fact that every nation on planet earth basically uses monetary policy. A rational policy whereby currency is exchanged for other assets at a rate using benchm
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
"Bitcoin doesn't lend itself to any of those Keynesian tricks." A) Monetary policy is not 'Keynesian' - and it's a handy thing, which is why everyone does it, and nobody has a perfectly hard currency. B) BTC is
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
"It’s an absolute threat to national sovereignty" It's not a threat to anything but speculators bank accounts. Nobody is using BTC as a currency.
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
The EU is a national federation of 500M people from vastly different cultures - all of which already have their own governments. Switzerland is barely bigger than Toronto - so they hard hardly comparable. Switzerland is almost a 'city
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
" you're frankly talking out of your ass to put it politely " Well I'm from Canada, and we rank HIGHER than Switzerland with 'full time politicians' - as do 100% of the nations that rank higher than Switzerland
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
"Remember it is a public service. It demands sacrifices of personal and professional time." That isn't the issue - the issue is one of the practical amount of time and energy required to actually be a politician. Full time or
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
"Even members of federal parliament only meet four times a year, and go back to their normal jobs in-between" Ok, so then it's worse but in the opposite direction. How on earth does anything get down when the Federal Elected
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
That's quite a lot of 'politicians' for a country of 8 million people. Some cantons have 200K people with 150 'politicians' ??? Bureaucrats - yes - many more, surely. But Canada has ~350 at the Fed, and maybe ~300 p
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
"and we should be learning from what those cultures are doing that's different than us" If people are being oppressed/suppressed, then surely we have some things to learn. But cultures are often 'just different&#x27
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
Yes but those are different things. Germans have very strong sense of behavioural norms that are communicated more subtly. You don't get such a cohesive culture without fairly strict norms. In America - you are probably referring to th
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
By the same graph, drug deaths are even lower in Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary than in Portugal. And among the worst offenders are the liberal states of Sweden, Norway, Denmark etc.. So - having extreme anti-drug laws combined with nation
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
It's perfectly reasonable for nation states to challenge the EU institutions, because the 'legitimacy' of EU institutions is not arbitrary - it depends on the support of member states! If an EU institution is challenged by mo
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
"I'm still not really sure what would lead you to believe that "they would even consider ceasing their advertising schemes if they had this additional income. " For the same reason Mozilla exists today as 'kind of a
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
"Pushing the envelope for their own gains at the cost of delegitimizing EU institutions" Why does the EU exist, if not 'for the gain of the member states'? Do you see the psychological paradox of Federalization? A better
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
"I got one am very pleased to see the EU doing good work against tax havens. It's no wonder the British press hate the EU so much." Oh please! Jean-Claude Junker - the #1 man in the EU - was the architect of Luxembourg&#x27
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
I don't agree. This is entirely the choice of the team. The idea that 'you are being sold' is not fair either. You choose what to use, for how much, and the resulting product. So if you want to pay $ a month AND have ads. Wel
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
"I am deeply disappointed in so much software lately, especially by the folks who once championed software freedom, privacy, and quality." PAY. FOR. IT. What can you expect from a group of people working for you for free, trying t
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
A lot of demands for someone who wants a few thousand people to work for us, for free. I think if everyone who used MZ paid $2 a year, these issues might be resolved ...
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
I was disagreeing with the use of the term 'predatory', I didn't suggest that what he did wasn't wrong. Folks: someone touched someone on the thigh at a conference (inappropriately), and it's making international ne
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
" it's predatory behavior " Most people call it flirting (I mean the touching of a thigh). Let's not make guys stupid romantic attempts out to be like rape. If in a professional context, it's definitely inappropriat

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