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by cam_l 9y ago
I have known dairy farmers to name each one of their 4-500 head personally. Never seen that with beef cattle farmers though..
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by cam_l 9y ago
tamiflu was proved to be almost entirely ineffective, and in the case of Australia at least, an expensive scam. https://ama.com.au/ausmed/govt-stands-tamiflu-despite-damnin...
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by cam_l 9y ago
Well in the UK for instance they have housing coops which exist solely for the purpose of their tenants. Also tenants have greater protections like right of abode, which encourage a longer term view for both tenants and landlords. Basically
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by cam_l 9y ago
>Do you negotiate a lower salary? Arguably, no. With a salary you are negotiating the value of your productivity against the profit margin of the business. The stake of the business owner is closer to that of the landlord, who is involve
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by cam_l 9y ago
I think this is not even the case. I think these people are arseholes IRL. I think they are just as abusive and prone to road rage type reactions. I don't think people are reasonable and respectable and suddenly road rage when they jum
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by cam_l 9y ago
so 1 month -> 2 years but 4 weeks -> only 8 months
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by cam_l 9y ago
oh sure, agree government is not perfectly reliable, as you point out. you are probably right about mispricing.. of course government bond is less likely to disappear altogether than any one corporation. and the bonds are just used to lever
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by cam_l 9y ago
yeah sure, i wonder though if interest is a necessary feature of credit. the interest is charged to cover the demand, the risk, and inflation. with government, the risk is low. inflation is by and large the government's alternative to
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by cam_l 9y ago
another word for debt is credit. credit is literally trust. so, the question could reasonably be reframed as whether perpetual trust is a good thing..
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by cam_l 9y ago
yes..and the economy is much more complex than that. even if I just take the eight bucks and burn it, the exchange value of the rest of the money in society increases. ..because both wealth and money only really exist in relation to the peo
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by cam_l 9y ago
what I find kind of amusing about this is that the thing that creates the value of other wall st properties is the supply and the demand, not the usefulness or otherwise. in that the usefulness of the properties is just one of the element
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by cam_l 9y ago
this could also be understood as the inherent shortcomings of photography as a medium to capture your recollection of the experience of an event. or in another way, photography exposes the difficulty of translating your recollection to a th
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by cam_l 9y ago
So, in response to my assertion that perhaps you missed my point, you simply restate your own point. You clearly did not care to understand the argument, or but just pushed your own pet theory. Yes, you are being hostile and patronising, an
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by cam_l 9y ago
in your haste to be hostile and patronising I think you entirely missed the point. the dollar amount of money is irrelevant. talk to someone from Zimbabwe.. money is a rhetorical device which describes power. if the spread of wealth or inco
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by cam_l 9y ago
if the bottom third has a median income of 500k, the average rent would be 475k.. and they would still be in poverty. so yes, money is fundamentally a rhetorical trick.
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by cam_l 9y ago
It was once believed that no Australian Aboriginal languages had numbers above 5. Certainly I was taught this in school, though it seems to be not entirely true. Interestingly, for groups that which we don't have a record of specific w
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by cam_l 9y ago
> factories, companies and real estate One of those things is not like the others. Inflating the value of real estate is one of the ways "people with lots of money" use to 1. tax wealth creation, and 2. devalue the wealth of &q
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by cam_l 9y ago
This is such a common and contorted view of things, I feel it needs comment. 1. Imposing your 'view' on someone can mean to ask them to see your point of view or to force them to act in a certain way. These things are not equivale
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by cam_l 9y ago
When / did he stop?
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by cam_l 9y ago
I take the second option, this is a man who tried to claim metadata is not data. And it took them just a few weeks to breach the 'safe guards' in place for the warrantless data retention scheme. Http://www.smh.com.au&#x2
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by cam_l 9y ago
Maybe he didn't self censor, maybe it was just the printer.
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by cam_l 9y ago
I really like your reductive toward clarity, simplicity and brevity. But it feels like it might be one of those venn diagrams (cost, quality, time - pick two). Getting two of those is difficult, but all three is.. rare.
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by cam_l 9y ago
Yeah, I have come to understand the whole population scale argument is just an example of American (or in this case Brazilian) exceptionalism. Basically just a right wing taking point that denied the reasons in favour of a blanket 'thi
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by cam_l 9y ago
I like this comment. I always do a mental check on solutions to see not how they succeed but how they fail.
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by cam_l 9y ago
Not just spying either, but if you are in oz at least, keeping all that metadata in a big, juicy, government mandated, and poorly secured bundle for 2 years!
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by cam_l 10y ago
Good artists copy, great artists steal.. Maybe Di Modica should be more sour that the fallibility of the market, and the cultural realisation of gender bias, has changed the meaning of his work. Or Instagram and the many people polishing it
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by cam_l 10y ago
I think it fair to judge objectivism by the actions of its most infamous followers, say the koch Bros. Same as I judge communism by the actions of lenin or mao, or capitalism by, oh I don't know, Madoff. But yeah, garden variety object
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by cam_l 10y ago
It is pretty crazy that John McCain has found himself on the left fringe of his party. Warmongering SOB that he is. But I am not so sure Chomsky is categorically 'wrong'.. wrong phrasing or wrong to say it maybe. Besides I took &#
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by cam_l 10y ago
"Everything that is wrong with politics right now is rooted in a breakdown of trust" You have got this backwards.. everything that is wrong with politics is rooted in breakdown of trustworthiness . Drawing attention to this lack
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by cam_l 10y ago
Laugh at their crappy joke and start talking about what you delivered at your last job. Ask if cashmoney is tight, so what can they offer you besides salary. The point is you are now firmly in negotiation mode, you just said so! But you hav

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