fiatmoney

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by fiatmoney 10y ago
Given the resources the FBI puts into each one of these cases, it's clear they're targeting people whose main crime is "being suggestible". There is effectively an unbounded supply of those in a country of 400 million.
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
Most things counted as "mass shootings" in the US are gang-related attacks on other gangs.
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
I don't get it. As mentioned in the article, chickens are incredibly easy to bootstrap (ie, it's not like they require a huge capital outlay to get started, and they literally pay dividends in further chickens), and have been pre
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
Pension funds in many cases operate similarly; their finances improve if beneficiaries die early, and in some cases they are required to pay out surplus returns above a certain level. The difference seems to be that pensions operate contin
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
I was kind of hoping this would be about calculating loss ratios on protection rackets and coding rigged numbers games.
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
Usually markets like ebay have reputation systems for both sides, and it is easier to enforce disclaimers and arbitration agreements.
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
The point is to keep trolls like the one in the article from being easily able to serve & sue you. Realistically, they're unlikely to go through elaborate chains of subpoenas; they'll find an easier target.
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
There's no good reason not to be relatively anonymous when buying or selling on craigslist.
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
The most horrifying story I know of is canine transmissible venereal cancer. It used to be a dog, but was more evolutionarily successful evolving into a tumor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canine_transmissible_venerea
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
The notion of internal competition is really tricky, since you're also competing externally. If you believe in the classic explanations of the theory of the firm, "companies" exist so they can be effectively communist on the
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
"Brown went on to complete a combat tour." Traditionally the reason for not allowing enemies to escape is that they will regroup and fight you again (accepting surrender, or allowing parachutists to land & become POWs, is a di
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
Right, but you can't pay out specifically to overseas investors.
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
Yeah, they have a parallel strategy (for now) with their Xeon Phi hardware, but there's still a performance penalty vs Nvidia. A big problem is that all the software is written for CUDA and optimized for particular Nvidia cards - henc
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
It is typically not legal to pay out (via dividends or share buybacks) to different investors of the same class in differing amounts. I'm not enough of a tax lawyer to say if you can do a miniature version of that by buying back stock
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
The strategic case for it is that it lets them optimize the software for their hardware and vice versa - same reason they have C and Fortran compilers with a reputation for generally good number-crunching performance.
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
You buy a media outlet because you want media power - ie, political power. Direct profitability is a side effect at best, the point is to advocate for policies and coverage that allow you to make money by other means. Look at NYT's ev
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
"Food insecurity" is not remotely the same thing as starvation. I would wager a fair amount that no one in the US has starved to death due to lack of money (ignoring neglect of children, catatonia, etc) in quite a while.
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
Yes. The effects on procreation alone are one of the most important aspects, and effectively un-studyable without some sort of closed system.
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
Every nation is built on a hill of skulls. "Has done in the past" is not the same as "is currently doing".
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
The state department & intelligence community loves hiring the right kind of liberal arts people as analysts.
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
No one seems to still have a grudge against Dow.
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
It's really difficult to reason about rigorously without the expense side of the calculation as well to calculate the potential for self-insurance.
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
Yes; take the premiums you would've paid for 6 months (effectively without coverage during that time regardless), save them, and reduce your living expenses to allow you to build up the cash cushion from there. If you're in that
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
In your first few years of work, you should be structuring your life so that major expenses like car & housing are minimized (you're not used to better, and you likely don't have a family to drive around & frolic in green
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
It's really odd that their examples are people in the 100K+ range, for whom the benefits are absolutely minimal after you account for the 6 month initial required period & the benefit cap. This is the demographic likely to have bo
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
Yeah, that "significant difference" is what I'm interested in. There seems to be some underlying principle that we'll ask you to put your property & other tenants' lives at risk in the service of Ending Discrim
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
That's legislation, not a principle. If I ask "why is mortgage interest deductible", the principle is "because it encourages homeownership" - not the 1986 Tax Reform Act.
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
I mean, I can construct a hypothesis for the implicit decision rule (something like "rape is the only crime we care even minimally about trading off with our desire to End Discrimination") but I'm curious to see what a more
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
Why should anyone care who a third party rents his vacation cabin to?
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
Yes, those are different words. Could you explain the legal principle, if there is one, that allows discrimination under one circumstance but not the other?

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