frankbreetz

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by frankbreetz 4y ago
Weird, The guy who wants to buy Twitter to enable free speech wants to also ban a slogan on a T-shirt.
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by frankbreetz 4y ago
maybe the four day work week as a way to entice people back into the workforce, but there is no way UBI is going to be helped by the great resignation. You know all those people who just quit with no plan, they need money now, let's do
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by frankbreetz 4y ago
Because those things don't impose the will of the minority. There are somethings that a better decided by people familiar with the local circumstances. I would argue a person in Wyoming's vote being worth 65x that of person's
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by frankbreetz 4y ago
Doesn't the existence of the Senate make people having equal representation a near impossibility?
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by frankbreetz 4y ago
What is the difference between "The will of the people" and the "Tyranny of the Majority"?
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by frankbreetz 4y ago
Why not just take it a step further and get rid of the Senate? The Senate is a far worse democratic representation.
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by frankbreetz 4y ago
That fact the senior devs can make 500k a year.
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by frankbreetz 4y ago
Wrong! >>MicroStrategy’s cost basis was roughly $30,700 per bitcoin[0] Bitcoin is currently around 23k. They are about a billion dollars underwater, since they have around 129,000 BTC [0] https://www.cnbc.com/2022/
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by frankbreetz 4y ago
First line of the article >>Democrats in the House of Representatives will propose a ban on lawmakers, their spouses and senior staff from trading stocks,
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by frankbreetz 4y ago
Revolts over wealth inequality have happened many times throughout history. Wealth inequality is currently quite high.
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by frankbreetz 4y ago
When people take out a mortgage, they normally only care about total monthly cost. If the property tax increases they can afford to spend less on a house for the same monthly payment.
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by frankbreetz 4y ago
The question is implying if they use it on government funded roads, then the government should get a say on what is allowed.
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by frankbreetz 4y ago
While certainly demonstrative of an issue with our current society, I think it is important to remember that the video creator, while misguided, didn't do that much wrong. He is just trying to make something of himself, in fairly harml
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by frankbreetz 4y ago
This seems like a good thing, right? At least better then Amazon requiring these people to keep working. This sounds more like minor inquiries that are being tended to appropriately.
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by frankbreetz 4y ago
Flipping houses is not that different then building houses. If you buy a house that is not inhabitable make, make it habitable and sell it for a profit, that is value added to the economy and is a good career path. There are some people tha
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by frankbreetz 4y ago
>>Americans built up a huge amount of savings during the pandemic, thanks to several federal rescue packages. Perhaps Americans built up a huge amount of savings because the weren't allowed to leave their house to spend money on
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by frankbreetz 4y ago
No, 6 year old would not be allowed to vote >>perhaps there's some other meaningful metric that could be used in combination with a minimum age
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by frankbreetz 4y ago
>>Grocery prices surged 14.3% in May versus last year, study finds You should update to the real title
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by frankbreetz 4y ago
Teachers don't make a lot of money. Especially compared to Quants and software engineers.
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by frankbreetz 4y ago
Like around 3500 which is the rumored liquidation price? 1600 is if there was perfect liquidity and MicroStrategy could get current asking price for each coin.
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by frankbreetz 4y ago
They made a 205 million margin call with Bitcoin as collateral [0]. Their other debt has some other collateral presumably not backed by Bitcoin. [0] https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/bitcoin-...
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by frankbreetz 4y ago
Micheal Saylor and MicroStrategy have 129,000 bitcoin. They take a margin load of 205,000,000. If they put all of the bitcoin up for collateral they would have until around a bitcoin price of $1,600. It doesn't seem hard to believe at
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by frankbreetz 4y ago
I don't like this. This seems like a lack of transparency and an attitude like "I won't teach anyone anything because then they will take my job" This is not a fun person to work with
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by frankbreetz 4y ago
>>the company’s holdings were worth just over $3 billion. Its market cap, on the other hand, is roughly $1.77 billion. Why doesn't someone aquire the company and sell all of the Bitcoin? Seems like an easy way to make a lot of mo
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Jamaica Becomes First Country to Make a CBDC Legal Tender(beincrypto.com)
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by frankbreetz 4y ago
Aren't Amazon Truck Drivers hourly employees? What risk and liability do they have? I am not sure how this an MLM like your other examples
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by frankbreetz 4y ago
There is undoubtedly significant percentage of homeless people that would greatly benefit by being put in a home. Stating otherwise is delusional and morally reprehensible.
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by frankbreetz 4y ago
There are over 16 million vacant homes in the US[0]. There is also only over 500k homeless people in the US[1] meaning we could house each homeless person around 32 times over. I think it could make quite a large dent [0] https://
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by frankbreetz 4y ago
The comment was about tax ebing raised by the state, illusion or not it affects taxes the same
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by frankbreetz 4y ago
Property values are usually not affect by recessions, 2008 being the exception, and thus income from property taxes is not affected as much. Income is more affected by recession. If prop13 is repealed California could raise larger percent

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