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by enaaem 3y ago
I'm also dutch. Housing is indeed expensive here. There are many factors, but it's not because of walkable neighbourhoods, biking infrastructure and public transport (the things that are promoted). I'd argue that without thes
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by enaaem 4y ago
India will never agree.
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by enaaem 4y ago
Home owners are a big voting block.
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by enaaem 4y ago
I just came back from Vietnam and I noticed that many Western countries lack low intensity socialising. There are tea carts everywhere. People sit, sip tea or some other light beverage and just do nothing. They’re close to others who are al
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by enaaem 4y ago
No funding or central planning needed. Remove regulation that prevents mixed used zoning.
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by enaaem 4y ago
That was pretty much the world before mass social media. Most forums were human moderated and you can be banned for just being a jerk. Moderators are most of the time pretty good at interpreting nuance, tone and intention.
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by enaaem 4y ago
It’s easy to blame on the EU, but nitrogen pollution is not an abstract global issue but a real local issue. It would have to be managed by local governments regardless of the EU.
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by enaaem 4y ago
The issue with that is that there’s often no adequate compensation for damages done. Individuals can get extraordinary rewards for high risk behaviour and positive tail outcomes but there is a limit how much you can take from them in case o
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by enaaem 4y ago
Compared to other banks they also have relatively few customers with very high deposit each.
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And yet we don't see capital flight from western countries to Russia and China. People with skin in the game are sending their money and kids to NATO countries.
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by enaaem 4y ago
Adverse selection. The people who voluntarily go have the most options en are generally the most skilled.
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by enaaem 4y ago
The US influence in the world it's not just militarily. It's economic, cultural, technologic, and idealogical influence is unprecedented. The USSR had a exportable ideology, but current Russian ethno-nationalism is rather a negati
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by enaaem 4y ago
Interestingly, the USSR also held a referendum in the Baltics, but similar to Ukraine, it was after they invaded them and installed a puppet regime. The more you study history, the more you notice the same old tricks.
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by enaaem 4y ago
https://youtu.be/7Nw6qyyrTeI
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by enaaem 4y ago
First thing to fix is the broken financial model. Exclusive suburbs pay disproportional less taxes for low density, low efficient, infrastructure. They are being subsidised by high density areas. That's not fair.
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by enaaem 4y ago
Pandemics are not a private issue. It's similar to a war. It can kill a significant percent of the population and it requires collective action to stop it.
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11 aircraft carriers.
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by enaaem 4y ago
Let’s say you have a trade caravan. Why should you be allowed to make money on my territory that belongs to my ancestors/I conquered fair and square? Secondly, I have a hard time understanding abstract notions of property rights. I do
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by enaaem 4y ago
He correctly predicted the Russia-Ukraine war 8 years ago. The idea is that Russia will lose around 20% of its young male demographic (20-35y) between 2020 and 2030, so it’s the only time window they can start a major war. The outlook of Ru
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by enaaem 4y ago
There’s free speech from a legal perspective and free speech from PR perspective. I’d argue that free speech from a legal perspective is actually pretty free in most western countries. From a libertarian perspective private platforms should
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by enaaem 4y ago
And not just one government. Every country you want to operate in.
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by enaaem 4y ago
People take risk buying undeveloped land. It’s a chicken and egg problem. You want to build transit where people live and people want to live where there’s transit. The party that makes the first plunge will potentially make a lot of money.
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by enaaem 4y ago
Crypto bros thrive in an extremely abnormal environment where violence is controlled and outsourced to a powerful central authority. Good thread on this: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1579124072390463488.html
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by enaaem 4y ago
In the “jungle” you only own what you can protect. Even your life. Violence is natural. Non-violence, property rights and free trade is extremely unnatural, and requires a strong central authority to write the rules and impose them.
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by enaaem 4y ago
Btc is only valuable if you can exchange it to fiat, since your liabilities are still in fiat. You need fiat to buy groceries, pay mortgage, buy energy for mining etc…
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by enaaem 4y ago
Turned out that BTC is not an inflation hedge.
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My favourite type of photography is snapshot photography. Pictures that feel like dreams and memories. Recording interesting and spontaneous visuals in everyday life. I use a compact film camera on auto that I always carry in my jacket. It’
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by enaaem 4y ago
It also needs to be near a natural source of water, near population centres and is preferably not a pretty national park.
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by enaaem 4y ago
They don’t get accurate information. If Xi or Putin tells the military and economic planners to prepare for war in the next 5 years, who’s going to tell them if they’re not ready?
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by enaaem 4y ago
I find that victim hood and superiority complex tend to go hand in hand.

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