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by erispoe 5y ago
Fiat currency is a state monopoly. That's how it's designed to work.
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by erispoe 5y ago
As a random citizen you cannot make that cost benefit analysis. For anything else than a serious crime, you're better off not talking to the police. If you need to talk to the police, only do so after consultation with, and accompanied
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by erispoe 5y ago
I have filed police reports for stolen bikes for instance, that's fine. Especially if you can do it electronically. But never agree to talk to them without an attorney supervision, under any circumstances. If you are a victim of a seve
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by erispoe 5y ago
The point is you never know what police is looking for. What looks like a simple traffic stop to you can be police looking for a suspect, and by being cooperative, you risk incriminating yourself. It's not worth it, never. Even if the
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by erispoe 5y ago
This is indeed the best advice: do not talk to the police. It can never help and you are likely to incriminate yourself even if you are innocent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE
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by erispoe 5y ago
The paragraph you quoted references (but does not cite) studies about the effect of excessive iron consumption, not evidence for a causal link from blood donation to reduced cardiovascular risks. It seems that there is some correlation betw
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by erispoe 5y ago
> Men get advised to donate blood to lower their risk of heart disease. I had never heard of that and did not find any article supporting that from a quick search. I found observational studies concluding that men who donate blood are le
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by erispoe 5y ago
Open Systems | Site Reliability Engineer | Full-time (80% possible) | Redwood City, CA or Remote US / Canada We are looking for Site Reliability Engineers (SRE) at different seniority levels to help us scale our cybersecurity and secur
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by erispoe 5y ago
The argument in your link boils down to: it will bring the economy down to a deflationary halt, so it's friendly to the environment. Great.
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by erispoe 6y ago
The planet might be ok after us, but still might not be able to birth another potentially space faring civilization, dooming earth life to extinction. Look at how: - no other earth based space faring civilization has evolved before us. - ot
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by erispoe 6y ago
Are you bringing the PinDuoDuo experience to the US?
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by erispoe 6y ago
The danger (both to the consumer and to others) of magic mushrooms is extremely low, much much lower than alcohol.
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Secretary of State rescinds national interest exceptions to the visa ban(travel.state.gov)
2 points by erispoe 6y ago|0 comments
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by erispoe 6y ago
We only have one earth but there are trillions of planets. Both are true at the same time.
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by erispoe 6y ago
> It is just a number in the bank's database. Yes, this is how money works and is created today through fractional reserve lending. This has the tremendous advantage of being able to finance economic growth on credit, with a corresp
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by erispoe 6y ago
| Government gets its money comes from taxes. No this is the reverse: the money you use to pay your taxes comes from the state (the currency issuer). Taxes are useful to achieve policy goals or control the money supply to avoid too much inf
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by erispoe 6y ago
ÖBB (Austrian Federal Railways), who are slowly taking over night train service all over Europe, have single or double Deluxe cabins [1]. You can have your privacy and your own bathroom with shower. It can be pretty private and comfortable.
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by erispoe 6y ago
Highway infrastructure in the US is largely publicly funded. It's no surprise that a mode of transport which doesn't pay for its infrastructure and externalities (long-distance road transport) is more competitive than a mode that
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by erispoe 6y ago
Animals that do not have a language they can describe the world in still have knowledge about the world.
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by erispoe 6y ago
Your explanation makes sense but is predicated on the VC being able to reliably rank these companies along expected returns. The perfect VC with perfect foresight might be able to pick just 1 investment and get the best returns from that. I
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by erispoe 6y ago
It's redistributed to people who spend it, fueling consumption. Switzerland has a higher GDP per capita than the US. The country has a wealth tax, but no tax on capital gains though.
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by erispoe 6y ago
The more stages, the less favorable your ratio fuel+propellant / dry mass. When you add stages, you add engines, tanks, systems... that you then have to haul up to the next stage, making your lower stages heavier. Rocket equation again
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by erispoe 6y ago
It take 2 to 3 days to reach the ISS from the ground. Getting to orbit is only 8min of that. The rest is a slow approach of the station. If you want to deliver cargo or people to a specific orbit and a specific place, say the ISS, you'
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by erispoe 6y ago
No these are fundamentally different. SSTOs make things expensive because the rocket equation is unforgiving: every kilogram you haul into orbit needs fuel and propellant, which in turn makes the rocket bigger and heavier, which in turns r
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by erispoe 6y ago
SSTOs trade-off is very unfavorable, which is why no one is seriously considering one anymore, for Earth's gravity well. In order to avoid solving the relative simple task of efficient stage mating and assembly, an engineering challeng
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by erispoe 6y ago
Uber is not in the S&P500. And no fund manager is consistently doing better than the market. "Stupid index fund money" looks pretty smart in that regard.
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by erispoe 6y ago
As long as productivity grows faster than population, there's effectively no end to how much population can grow. You might argue that productivity gains will stop at some point, but then you need to provide arguments for that, not tak
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Trump May Attempt to Force Long-Time H-1B Visa Holders Out of U.S.(forbes.com)
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by erispoe 6y ago
This is not how psychedelics for treatment resistant depression is tested. The most common treatment protocol is a single psychedelics session assisted by 2 therapists (preceded by a few therapy sessions and some follow-ups). Overwhelmingly
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by erispoe 6y ago
Because Juul gets teens addicted to nicotine, and this outweights the public health benefits or providing an alternative to cigarettes for adult cigarette addicts.

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