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by gills 18y ago
Adding friction to an otherwise efficient market is the opposite of a solution.
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by gills 18y ago
They're going to try to ram it through again on Thursday, so if you agree with this economist call your reps. (Sorry for the politics, but I've been on the phone all week about this. I probably deserve some mods down, so pile on!)
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by gills 18y ago
Does this article seem like a troll (haven't we seen it here before?). Meaningful conclusions might be drawn from the data if the actual distributions of income and educational level were mapped against religious tendency, rather than per-c
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by gills 18y ago
Part of freedom is being free to fail. Most of the people I have observed fighting this thing are doing so with eyes wide open, knowing full well the economic consequences of defeating it.
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by gills 18y ago
Because currency is only a quanta for trade and it's physical manifestation doesn't need to exist in equal amount to all assets and obligations. As for fractional reserve banking (the regulated version, anyway...), the bank needs only to ho
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by gills 18y ago
it's here as well: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h2008-674
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by gills 18y ago
A little off topic, but interesting practice for 0. What are the mathematical ramifications of 0% capital reserves? This is a good chance to remind the readers that the bailout bill contains a clause to accelerate a 2006 law to 10/01/2008,
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by gills 18y ago
Timely subject matter, too...
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by gills 18y ago
Careful now! If you feed it, it will come back.
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by gills 18y ago
Energy development (fusion and solar). Compact self-contained hydroponic gardens (think shipping container).
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by gills 18y ago
What will you do with the rest? If they pass this bill, apparently it costs less than $700B to buy them out...
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by gills 18y ago
Allowing fraud to continue is not an alternative.
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by gills 18y ago
Congratulations! I lurk on the STS list and didn't see an announcement there yet. And I agree with dustineichler, I haven't used RescueTime long, but it is already helping.
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by gills 18y ago
Thank you. I have found myself in an odd spot, enjoying the economic and political discussion but trying not to lower the S/N by fueling the fire with submissions.
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by gills 18y ago
I admire your practicality about taking action. But... Haven't we seen enough of this style of decision-making and 'action' from this administration? Take a look at the record, at all the high-pressure-sales-to-the-citizens executive acti
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by gills 18y ago
No, this is why you should hate it: "Sec. 8. Review. Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative a
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by gills 18y ago
And the money to pay back the bonds comes from only one source - taxes. So yeah, we can borrow it now and make the grandkids pay it off.
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by gills 18y ago
I hope so too. And I think that's hilarious. Almost poetic.
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by gills 18y ago
In the short term the lack of credit availability could dent manufacturers, but those businesses that make real things that people want should be ok if they can survive until credit is again available to their customers.
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by gills 18y ago
I don't know the answers to our questions. What I do know is that developing effective treatments that are initially affordable only to a few is better for our species than accepting mediocrity across the board. I would rather die form can
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by gills 18y ago
they get it FROM YOU.
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by gills 18y ago
Right. The Seattle Times had an article a while back ( http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/favorfactory/ ), which has a database of earmarks and contributions from companies and executives/owners/etc. of companies. Often you will s
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by gills 18y ago
Interesting, but only part of the problem. Regulators need to actually do their jobs and enforce transparency of Wall St. balance sheets. Oh, and Congress? No more campaign contributions from corporations. You work for the voters, and
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by gills 18y ago
Your business as a voluntary, optional rating system is great. But if credibility ratings were mandatory, how would dissenting voices be heard?
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by gills 18y ago
You hit it on the head. Players leave rigged markets once they get burned once or twice, and pretty soon the market freezes up altogether. Withdrawing from iPhone app development is the rational choice. There are other things developers l
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by gills 18y ago
Allowing government to dictate an enterprise's pricing structure or profit margin is a dangerous road to walk. Government should really only bust fraud and handle arbitration, to keep markets competitive. Anyway, there's no source of money
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by gills 18y ago
That's a nice app.
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by gills 18y ago
Congratulations. I'm on week 2 of freedom and it's an excellent thing.
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by gills 18y ago
Welcome to a whole new breed of digital pirate?
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by gills 18y ago
Central Planning fails. Sorry to break the bad news.

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