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by branchless 9y ago
The book "do no harm",by an nhs brain surgeon, is full of this stuff. Very good. Could not do his job. Ever.
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by branchless 9y ago
C-u deletes everything to the left of the cursor
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by branchless 9y ago
Risk is the best for arguments. When the writing is on the wall amass your forces and take another friend down with you.
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by branchless 9y ago
I know it's not the main thrust of the article but to note: monopoly is supposed to end with one winner by a landslide because it was created as a critique of capitalism without land value tax. The original game had two sets of rules,
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by branchless 9y ago
$700 for a suitcase. Good grief. Surely far more likely to draw the attention of an unscrupulous baggage person.
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by branchless 9y ago
Normal people are horrible! Back in my tech glass tower to write a tracker to target advertising for loans, away from this filth.
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by branchless 9y ago
Exactly. That's the real world.
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by branchless 9y ago
Yes, which is a specific thing that by the way doesn't occur in practice and has a word prefixed to it: "local". It's not a currency.
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by branchless 9y ago
> Currencies in this sense are defined by governments, and each type has limited boundaries of acceptance. First paragraph is all about the nation state. Currency is the state. Why would they give that up? https://en.m.wikip
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by branchless 9y ago
It's not a currency. It's not issued by the state.
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by branchless 9y ago
No it's because no jurisdiction requires tax to be paid in bitcoin therefore it lacks the fundamental that drives the need for fiat currency that gives value.
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by branchless 9y ago
Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry in the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth... The Remedy by Henry George. https://www.amazon.com/Progress-Poverty-Industrial-Depressio... Yet vani
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by branchless 9y ago
And today the kill god knows how many by helping rich people in poor countries avoid taxes, via The City. The British establishment are horrible.
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by branchless 9y ago
This usd has entered the economy via universities. The inflation is already out there. The issue comes when the loss is chrystalized. As in 2008 the state is filling in a hole not building a hill.
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by branchless 9y ago
The plough sidewalks in Quebec, it can be done.
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by branchless 9y ago
I just got in from shoveling a lot of snow and I sure as hell won't be doing a marathon, ever. Shovelling snow is far, far easier.
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by branchless 9y ago
Progress and Poverty more like.
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by branchless 9y ago
But then they can't be rich. They don't get to keep on bringing in millions and millions because they are creating value. They are appropriating value because that's how our system works. So sorry but they want to keep using
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by branchless 9y ago
Agreed but there is no shortcut around a culture fixated on personal gain for personal profit. This seems to be built into the framework of the USA instead of being an optional dependency! With outcomes like high inequality, huge divisions,
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by branchless 9y ago
Many Europeans regard Americans as insincere in social interactions. I suspect many of these "tips" would fall very flat outside the USA. Americans always want to be your best friend, then it becomes clear at the end of the conver
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by branchless 9y ago
Exactly. We should have said to the banks "oh you need our help, let's see - what do you guys do when that happens? That's right, we are going to take you for everything you have". We should own all the banks, all the
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by branchless 9y ago
Surely any country with citizens having this conversation is close to collapse, no?
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by branchless 9y ago
It was changed. Also fx is down for less than 30 minutes.
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by branchless 9y ago
Nope. Investment banks are the main OTC for forex and they are shut weekends, as are major ECNs. Something might be open that will change your money but there is no real liquidity on the weekend. edit: do tell us hacker news instead of the
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by branchless 9y ago
Tax land and smoke the boomers out their oversized houses. Voila.
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by branchless 9y ago
This is totally wrong. Stock markets invest in productive endeavor, not in creating a shortage then "servicing the need for accommodation". Secondly - and this shows you are living in a dream world - banks are not intermediaries o
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by branchless 9y ago
And if every millenial tries to exploit other millenials by appropriating wealth instead of creating it, what then? This is how we got to this total mess.
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by branchless 9y ago
He also owns several properties and derives rent from them. Are people in their 20s going to benefit from: 1. get a time machine 2. go back 20 years 3. exploit your peers He's full of it. I recall reading one time about him speaking ab
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by branchless 9y ago
the rich are not in cash, they are in assets. Workers lose out under inflation (and I mean real inflation not some bullshit figure the state concocts).
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by branchless 9y ago
No do not confuse land prices with rents. Rents are set by wages. Land prices are set by loose credit.

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