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by andrenth 10y ago
Maybe for her and the rest of the parasites in her party. Luckily for Brazilians this was just a nonsense invalid call by the buffoon that currently leads the house.
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by andrenth 11y ago
This is funny. The latin american left always complains that "USA imperialism" is what prevents their countries from being fully developed nations. Cuba is free of that imperialism and then people complain the embargo is the probl
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by andrenth 11y ago
Yes, because there's so much free market in sub-Saharan Africa.
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by andrenth 11y ago
> How many members of the EPA & FDA are former employees of Arcadia and Bioceres, and how much lobbyist money have they put into those pockets? So the problem isn't "hardcore capitalism", it's a state so big that
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by andrenth 11y ago
Not so much when you realize part of that reduction comes from redefining what poverty means.
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by andrenth 11y ago
This only works if you ignore reality. Scarcity will always exist. Even if you ignore human nature and assume that somehow the whole world will collaborate on natural resource allocation, scarcity will still exist. Let's consider housi
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by andrenth 11y ago
> I was replying to a comment about how to know how much to produce. Not really. My post, which you replied to, made no mention of "knowing how much to produce". It's not as simple as that. The problem is knowing what to p
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by andrenth 11y ago
Well but you did! You quoted it yourself: "to manage the economy with", but then you started talking about sales, which you didn't mention when you first replied to me. Anyway, that's besidbeside the point now. > Why
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by andrenth 11y ago
> I didn't say it was You said "One item taken = one sale, so you have the same level of information to manage the economy with." so I think you did. > what I did say is that you lose no 'sales' information fr
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by andrenth 11y ago
Monitoring stock levels is hardly all you need to manage an economy. You need to consider innovation, the creation of the very same information agents in an economy use to decide the actions they take. This is the entrepreneurial function.
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by andrenth 11y ago
Because no central planner can have all the information about every aspect of the market in order to plan correctly. This is impossible not only because of the volume of information, but because the information in question is highly subject
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by andrenth 12y ago
In a poll mentioned today in the news, people of lower income were interviewed. None of the interviewees were present in the protests; however, all said they felt represented by them. So there's what the "left hand" media say
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by andrenth 12y ago
You are assuming that nothing that has happened or is related to the president's second term has or will be uncovered by the investigation, which I believe is a very strong assumption. For example, there's the use of illegal money
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by andrenth 12y ago
The impeachment has legal basis on administrative improbity. This is what the law says: "Acts of the President against the Constitution, and, especially, against the guard and legal use of public money". The definition of "ag
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by andrenth 12y ago
There were more than 2 million people in the streets country-wise, not to mention the nd pan-banging protests in apartment windows every time a government representative appears on TV. John Oliver has put it very well: https://ww
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by andrenth 12y ago
Official numbers (calculated by the police) say more than 2 million country-wide. I don't see anyone claiming "1 million people in São Paulo" to be false, except government-sponsored media.
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by andrenth 12y ago
People are not happy here. The current president has taken unorthodox economic measures whose results we are now seeing. Electricity is up around 60% since last december due to the failure of the president's populist policies of contro
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by andrenth 12y ago
I fail to see why any of this is relevant. The vice-president's party has been involved in corruption, so we should ignore the president and her party's own involvement in the biggest corruption scandals in the history of the coun
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by andrenth 15y ago
What are the best practices for maintaining Puppet code in version control? Do people usually keep separate branches for different kinds of machines (e.g. webservers, SMTP servers, etc)? Is there a discussion about this documented somewhere