dualogy

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by dualogy 13y ago
> In the UK [..] putting someone's card address in Google Street View and seeing how big their house is often turns out to be a good way of deciding whether to 'ship' or not. Having lived in the UK for 3 years, I'm no
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by dualogy 13y ago
MasterCard SecureCode / "3D Secure" or whatever they call it, has been active on my card for many years and I never had any problems whatsoever. Always worked like a charm.. And the upside, nowadays I don't worry anymore
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by dualogy 13y ago
> Thanks to drones and "big dogs" What are "big dogs" in this context? (Bit of a challenge for the Goog!)
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by dualogy 13y ago
It's not about chores, kids, wives. I purposely avoided all those in order to "stay in my 20s even well into my 30s, ideally forever". Sad to report that simply doesn't work, even with zero money or chore worries whatso
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by dualogy 13y ago
Ever heard of that thing called inertia ?
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by dualogy 13y ago
This was taking place in the 80s/90s. They flew Koryo to China, then somewhere eastern Europe where they apparently even had private jets stashed back then.
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by dualogy 13y ago
OK, arms . As non-native speaker wasn't aware "nukes" always refers to nuclear weapons.. TIL!
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by dualogy 13y ago
> A quirk of Chilean law makes land, mining and water rights independent of each other. Mr Johnson made sure to acquire all three, particularly the water rights. "In the future, wars will be fought over water," he says. Sounds
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by dualogy 13y ago
Is there some migration back to where all the celebrities and bankers came from?
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by dualogy 13y ago
Heya are you in Phnom Penh or in the provinces? Am doing the same (many folks like us increasingly in Phnom Penh, all of us contributing somewhat to ever-rising prices though I'm sure ;) -- should hang for coffee!
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by dualogy 13y ago
> I agree that the physical use of gold does not explain its price by itself. Gold was around production costs ($250) before the "general commodity bull-run 2001-2011" and is now back at around production costs (nowadays roughl
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by dualogy 13y ago
> introduces itself on the Wiki with the concept of money-as-IOU That's what money is. You don't eat a coin or bill, it's an "IOU some future tangible good or service". Think about it, you either have barter -- n
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by dualogy 13y ago
> A growing economy increases standards of living. The fact that a t-shirt costs $10 now that used to cost $20 10 years ago So what you're saying is that inflation leads to deflation -- did I get that right?
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by dualogy 13y ago
I keep hearing this but I never see any angle to this statement where it could possibly be true.
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by dualogy 13y ago
Well it WAS kinda "educational" for him, wasn't it? ;)
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by dualogy 13y ago
Absolutely, in most parts of the world, these days. Essentially, it comes down to two things -- what are taxes paid in (they don't want a 10th of your apples or cattle these days) and what final settlement is enforced by law in contrac
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by dualogy 13y ago
> Suppose we all switch immediately to a gold standard. When the value of the currency rises too high, more people will go and mine it. An interesting twist on the basic problem with fixed-price gold standards but you might be right for
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by dualogy 13y ago
> While implying that the US is a totalitaian state will get you lots of up votes from insecure europeans Not only that, also a lot from secure europeans! Perhaps it is indeed more so the "insecure" Europeans that still eagerly
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by dualogy 13y ago
> Financial instruments such as derivatives and hedge funds do very little to put money back into the real economy. If they did, then you would .. see run-away inflation on store shelves before year's end ;) Sounds flip but think a
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by dualogy 13y ago
Dunno, there's lots of potholes and worse issues in poor corrupt countries the world over. I can foresee a huge wave of next-gen Western "voluntourists" (on Basic Income or mum's allowance or whatever other scheme) comi
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by dualogy 13y ago
Once we finally fully lost our ability to form bonds with others naturally and with ease, "services" might turn into what's going on in Japan already, stuff like "rent-an-uncle for $10/hr -- he gives life advice and
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by dualogy 13y ago
> So what's the difference between 'money' and 'currency'? Uh-oh don't get us started on that one , that's a can of worms! Used to be, way back in the past, "money" was "coin or bullion
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by dualogy 13y ago
As a programmer... damn I'm doomed in the long run ;)
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by dualogy 13y ago
So is that sector then facing an acute shortage of millions of workers?
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by dualogy 13y ago
> Christ, is everyone on this board an economist too? Well everyone on the Internet "is-an-economist-too" -- so by implication: of course!
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by dualogy 13y ago
From the sounds of it, he apparently simply hates the 3rd Dimension..
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by dualogy 13y ago
Glad to see we're reading the same mag ;) http://www.thepaepae.com/wp-uploads/2013/12/Your-wrong-magaz...
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by dualogy 13y ago
> It's an observed phenomenon in Africa . Here I was expecting.. "in the western world" ;D
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by dualogy 13y ago
... or way ahead of us ....... (ominous gloomy face)
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by dualogy 13y ago
Wow, pics 57-61 showcase thousands of humans syncing together as... display pixels!

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