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   by ende 12y ago

   Ah, I see the ambiguity in my wording. I meant that distributed currencies as a general concept (invoking bitcoin as an example of a single digital currency) removes centralization. You're right that any one such currency may retain
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   by ende 12y ago

   Are you serious? Because if so, 1) that's hilarious, and 2) I'll gladly respond to your revised reply as absent the term 'buttcoin' you raise some legitimate points I'd be happy to converse over.
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   by ende 12y ago

   Glad you read the first 7 words of my reply to satisfy your cleverly devised bait. I encourage you to read the rest.
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   by ende 12y ago

   I empathize with your concerns for civic engagement, and I encourage you to read some of the other comments responding to your original point as I believe you will find an idea there very much in tune with your democratic ideals: namely tha
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   by ende 12y ago

   Why do their detractors never read anything that they actually said, and instead resort to immature ranting?
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   by ende 12y ago

   You assume there is any real democratic control of Congress, and that the whole game hasn't been rigged by a duopolist oligarchy.
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   by ende 12y ago

   Isn't it 51%? Im not really sure. But I don't really see changes occurring through that route, but rather by forking off derivative currencies with modifications. Democratic selection decides which currencies gain value. To me
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   by ende 12y ago

   Do you think the central banking based currencies offer any democratic control? You'd be kidding yourself if you thought so. Central banking centralizes control of a currency under the influence and in the interests of the economic e
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   by ende 12y ago

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    by ende 12y ago

    If you're fortunate to have a ton of renewables and petros, the renewables typically don't travel well so you use those domestically and sell the petros on the global market.
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    by ende 12y ago

    I think the headline is a misnomer. It's not a strong welfare state that promotes entrepreneurism but rather simply a saftey net. There's a huge difference. A highly centralized cradle-to-grave welfare state seems to actually fa
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    by ende 12y ago

    Or extreme left parties, as we disasterously see in Greece.
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    by ende 12y ago

    Just because there's never really a good time to break out this link: http://baconipsum.com
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    by ende 12y ago

    Agreed, solid product.
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    by ende 12y ago

    Ok I see what you're saying now.
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    by ende 12y ago

    What does democracy have to do with it?
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    by ende 12y ago

    So its a USB glory hole?
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    by ende 12y ago

    Ive seen this suggested before and it seems counterintuitive at first, but get rid of helmets. Get the game back to something resembling rugby. Hard helmets give a false sense of security.
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    by ende 12y ago

    You have a point but there are alternatives short of outright political disassociation. Namely devolution. American Federalism needs to find its Goldilocks moment. The first era of federalism was too decentralized, then the second era beg
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    by ende 12y ago

    Hey that's not a bad idea. What if admissions were simply taken out of the hands of universities and conducted as a lottery by some independent third party. Then the purpose of universities is to simply educate those who come through
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    by ende 12y ago

    Can we call this early bird privilege?
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    by ende 12y ago

    And when the same blue print produces the same horrorific implementation every time? At some point it has to be recognized when the flaw is with the architect.
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    by ende 12y ago

    Take a look at https://www.votetocracy.com It's sort of a Web2.0 take on 'write your Congressional representative' on bills currently up for vote. It will also tell you a lot about how your reps (and others) vote
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    by ende 12y ago

    Good post. It's important to recognize that libertarianism is itself a diverse collection of philosophies, many of which resemble georgist, anarchist and even some strains of socialist thinking at their foundation. These variants all
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    by ende 12y ago

    For all the rad people there man.
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    by ende 12y ago

    This assumes that a UBI would be funded by redistributive income taxation. Many formulations of a UBI actually fund it through a land value tax. Connecting the two concepts basically amounts to land owners paying rent to society. Your ove
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    by ende 12y ago

    All the life sciences, much of economics, anthropology, soiology, cognitive sciences, and a fair amount of chem and even physics. Im not surprised that engineering fields use a lot of calc and diffq. Afterall, they are engineering, not sci
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    by ende 12y ago

    Im curious, how would the German system in your experience handle students with poor memory, severe social anxiety, dyslexia, ADHD, etc?
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    by ende 12y ago

    Probably the vast majority of science never touches diffyq or calculus. At least not directly enough to require anything more than a cursory familiarity with them. Statistics is probably far more important to most scientific disciplines, a
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    by ende 12y ago

    I think you would be surprised if you took the time to learn about the differences between these systems. Some of them are closer to the US than they are to each other.