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by baursak 9y ago
I think that understanding Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) and viewing bitcoin through that lens helps a lot. Here's a good article from the MMT perspective: http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2013/12/fair-price-
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by baursak 9y ago
https://jacobinmag.com/2017/10/inheritance-wealthy-one-perce...
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Sam Walton is dead, I'm not talking about him. I'm talking about his children, they're in top 20 richest people or something like that. Each one.
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I wasn't the original commenter, but I don't think when they said "owner class" they meant passive minority shareholders with $200K portfolios or people with some money in their 401Ks. While some of the richest are certa
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by baursak 9y ago
What if I invested in Blockbuster instead of Boeing? How much would my $1000 be worth today?
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This implies that janitor is an inherently inferior job that deserves lower pay. It might be true, but in my opinion an average janitor is more beneficial to society than an average programmer. More to the point though, what happens when a
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by baursak 9y ago
The only people who care about efficient allocation of resources for the society are socialists and academics. Certainly CEOs with multi-million dollar annual compensations don't think they're contributing to allocation inefficien
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by baursak 9y ago
> Then what are they supposed to do, stop growing? I never understood growth for the sake of growth mentality. Isn't that what's killing the planet, broadly speaking?
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by baursak 9y ago
It's not just funding. It's supplying with weapons and bombs and intelligence.
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by baursak 9y ago
I thought it was common knowledge that support for Nazis in America was widespread all the way leading to American involvement in WW2. Here's another sample: http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-ross-naz
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by baursak 9y ago
Half of Chinese economy are state-owned enterprises, and it's been even more so earlier. Mainstream assumption is that liberalization of the rest of their economy was the main factor in phenomenal Chinese growth over the past decades,
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by baursak 9y ago
Read the thread: https://twitter.com/StephanieKelton/status/90661446671188377...
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by baursak 9y ago
Reminded me of this art: http://keebs.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Night-in-Shinjuk...
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Media coverage has been ... interesting as well. If this was somewhere in Russia or China, I'm pretty sure I would see a lot stronger reactions from the NYT and WaPo crowd.
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Thanks, you're right. Apparently there are several US Persons definitions!
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by baursak 9y ago
"Please step into that room for a secondary inspection".
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by baursak 9y ago
Not when you say "I don't have a Facebook account" and promptly escorted into secondary inspection area at the border for more scrutiny.
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by baursak 9y ago
"US Persons" includes everyone living in the US regardless of immigration status.
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needs a fetch command tho
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by baursak 9y ago
I also used to think that anti-Zionism = anti-Semitism, until I learned more about it. There are plenty of anti-Zionist Jews, both inside and outside Israel. This short clip explains the difference pretty well: https://www.youtub
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by baursak 9y ago
Crimes of Britain is pretty informative Twitter account on this topic. Here's a sample of a lot more recent British history: https://twitter.com/crimesofbrits/status/905035282046742528
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by baursak 9y ago
Somewhere I saw "theories" that Russia can simply aim several of those at Yellowstone and then let nature take care of the rest. Or just off East Coast and let tsunamis do the rest. Not sure how credible those are.
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by baursak 9y ago
More sense than Iraq, but less sense than Saudi Arabia.
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by baursak 9y ago
Not only that, Atlanta is notorious for half-assed sidewalks that just suddenly end and then re-emerge a mile down the road.
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Paper by Chinese Economists on Big Data and Planned Economy [pdf](sci-hub.cc)
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by baursak 9y ago
All three news stories describe the same event -- Dec 2016 stadium attack by TAK, which is not PKK. TAK broke out of PKK as a new separate group because of PKK's willingness to compromise with Turkey. So again, can you substantiate you
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by baursak 9y ago
Do you mind posting links from reputable sources (i.e. not blatant Turkish government propaganda)?
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by baursak 9y ago
I feel like we're talking past each other at this point, so I'll drop off this conversation.
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by baursak 9y ago
Should have gone with Raytheon, up ~35% since the election. Why HAL anyway, it's more of an oil company than a MIC company?
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Majority of Syrian Sunnis support the government. Majority of Syrian army is Sunni.

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