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by fladrif 5y ago
My problem here, and correct me if I'm interpreting this incorrectly, is that web3 calls only for decentralization around current authorities and proposes recentralization around new authorities. The web as it is already has the techno
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by fladrif 5y ago
This sounds like the people you work with have boundary issues, this may warrant being addressed first.
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by fladrif 5y ago
I just got a word 'FE*ME' that I wasn't able to solve. Thoughts?
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by fladrif 5y ago
Hey, I'm looking through it now, but the instructions aren't super clear to me. I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. > The selected pieces must not contain both a and of the same color. The following example
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by fladrif 5y ago
I posit that this depends entirely on the social hierarchy of the country in question. The more egalitarian the society the more the eradication of poverty is possible. Unfortunately for the majority of countries this is highly unlikely, an
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by fladrif 5y ago
Oh but interestingly isn't that a kind of conviction itself? They've been fed some kind of idea of 'freedom' that they now strongly adhere to until death (I assume a lot of anti-mask are also anti-vaccine and are now the
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by fladrif 5y ago
In addition to the pop culture issue here, I think the other side of the issue is bike-shedding. In general I don't think people are all that knowledgeable in a very broad sense, so whenever they're approached by a topic they know
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by fladrif 5y ago
to follow the example closer, you need to put in work every day, however small (continuous river flow), and that will carve the channels in your life (eh?) to enable the torrent of work that might come when conditions allow.
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by fladrif 5y ago
Personally I've ordered a new thinkpad but it's slated to come in 3 months, with the delivery date extended once already. I went to Target and bought some lowend (slightly higher than chromebook) laptop and ubuntu is running fine
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by fladrif 5y ago
To your third point, investments in an inflationary environment are necessary because otherwise people would _lose_ money by doing nothing with it. It's better to risk for some return, than lose it by doing nothing. That's what se
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by fladrif 5y ago
On its face that would appear to be a bald assertion. Investments inherently contain risk which would dissuade potential investors if they have a stable source of growth. Investments would have to have very high upside to be worth a stable
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by fladrif 5y ago
So the only way bitcoin isn't deflationary is if demand for it continually goes down over time until it's irrelevant. If demand either goes up or stays the same, it will behave deflationary (wallets getting lost). This doesn'
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by fladrif 5y ago
A couple things. Your first statement appears to be circular, it doesn't answer the question of why an entity would want to invest their money on an uncertain venture when it would just be worth more doing nothing with it. Secondly, I&
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by fladrif 5y ago
I'm not familiar with Hayek, so you may need to fill in gaps where I may have them, but the argument in the article (as I understand) specifically establishes the context where savings are presumed invested into capital. How I understa
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by fladrif 5y ago
The linked article doesn't address the effects of deflationary currency at all, it describes the notion of including capital in the description of economies.
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by fladrif 5y ago
What are you referring to here? Assuming s&p500, I've calculated an average of 10% increase over any 10 year interval (of course not ending in a crash).
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by fladrif 5y ago
I'm unsure of what you're trying to say here. Are you implying that you're not able to buy the same # of shares of an index fund as you were last year? WRT the market doubling, there has been a lot of different reasons for it
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by fladrif 6y ago
Sure, like all systems, there are overhead costs involved. But with something like a typed system, the overhead costs are minimal compared to the benefits you reap from them. One of the projects I worked on during my transition to typescrip
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by fladrif 6y ago
I don't think that's the only result of that line of reasoning. We don't have to poke fun of other cultures in order to appreciate the differences. Sure, the lowest common denominator of these types of mass-produced articles
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by fladrif 6y ago
To stray away from "blanket statements" and "general impressions", can we find the sale of microwave meals differences between the US and Europe? I would imagine that would be the most telling statistic.
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by fladrif 6y ago
I'm not sure why it doesn't seem to be more well known, but CreditKarma has allowed free filing of taxes (incl. capital gains), and was recently acquired by Intuit. Last I read they were under investigation by the Department of Ju
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by fladrif 6y ago
Is that accurate? I can't believe that decomposition releases _all_ of the carbon into the atmosphere. Certainly a good amount of it is sequestered into the ground (e.g. coal). Thus a standing forest is never completely carbon neutral.
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by fladrif 6y ago
Perhaps part of a new breed of middle class. Instead of a distance or management friction, this is a scaling friction. In order to scale, programmers are required. Maybe this correlates with doctors and lawyers, albeit a different friction,
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by fladrif 6y ago
Where did you get that quote from (2nd paragraph)? I can't find it in the three articles on horse nomads. WRT your last point, I didn't read the conclusion to say that GRRM maliciously cause harm, but through his incomplete knowle
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by fladrif 6y ago
I would say the author provided all the evidence for you to draw such a conclusion, but never insinuated as such. The most concrete thing he ever said was that GRRM lied when he said that the 'Dothraki were an amalgam of ...'. If
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by fladrif 6y ago
Well to take the argument at it's base, GRRM claims that the Dothraki are an amalgam of steppe / plains nomads. The blog then goes through great lengths to disprove that statement in as many different facets as possible. If throug
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by fladrif 6y ago
But, as the author of this article noted before, we don't live in a world shaped by ancient star battling empires. We currently live in a world shaped by our history, and continue to shape our world based on how we understand ourselves
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by fladrif 6y ago
I've come across this in the past that worked really well til the integration with spotify broke and I didn't try and fix it. https://getconcertmaster.com/
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by fladrif 6y ago
If we are to take the predicate at face value, evil people prospering is a temporary movement that will globally trend towards good, good being the divine purpose.
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by fladrif 6y ago
I would counter to say your supposition would depend on how those lawyers are employed. If they were corporate lawyers I would struggle to see how a glut of those would tend towards the aspects of society you've listed. I wonder what t

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