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by gjulianm 7y ago
> clearly shows a link Clearly? The actual article (here's a full text: http://www.fraw.org.uk/data/esmog/lerchl_2015.pdf ) doesn't seem to show that clear link. First, there's no dose-response ef
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by gjulianm 7y ago
So I started checking the articles in the link, seeing the ones that reported positive effects: - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29725476 The article only measures exposition, no conclusion on effects other than a
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by gjulianm 7y ago
Nothing indicates that Facebook would have a better track record in controlling monetary policy (which is admittedly pretty hard), and at least central banks are under clear regulations and guidelines. Furthermore, Libra would have incentiv
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by gjulianm 7y ago
It has control as Germany is part of the Eurozone, the ECB is subjected to the EU treaty, operating under its guidelines, and is accountable to the European Parliament, in which the people of Germany have a say. Maybe it is not as accountab
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by gjulianm 7y ago
Libra Foundation is a foundation established by Facebook with members like Mastercard, PayPal, Stripe, Visa, Booking, Vodafone or Uber, among others. Calling it a non-profit is a technicality. It is a currency controlled by for-profit organ
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by gjulianm 7y ago
Facebook can also rig the economy, even more probable because it is a for-profit business. And if current state monetary powers are quite unaccountable already, imagine when the monetary power is a foreign company.
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by gjulianm 7y ago
> No one is forcing anyone to use Libra its your choice. Don't be naive. - In order to make a choice, you need to be properly informed. Now, most people won't have the time or interest to see what Libra is and what the conseque
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by gjulianm 7y ago
> Libra is a token that's backed 1 to 1 on some basket of currencies and mostly government bonds And that architecture is decided by the Libra foundation, therefore they control currency.
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by gjulianm 7y ago
Let's be honest, if Libra takes hold as Facebook wants it to, given the power Facebook already has over communications, ads and social networks, it very well could affect the capability of states to exert their own monetary policy. Not
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by gjulianm 7y ago
Of course FB has ways to use most of what they announced with Libra and most of that would be fine. The problem with Libra is its core, the fact that it's an alternative currency backed by a company that can reach almost everybody. Oth
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by gjulianm 7y ago
> without also impacting a lot of other companies and people doing similar things because the law should apply equally to all. Other blockchains have not been blocked outright because they don't pose a threat and are developing slow
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by gjulianm 7y ago
Unless a full economy develops under Libra, people will want to convert their Libra to Euros. So you ban the exchanges from operating in your country and force banks to reject any transfers from them. Make using Libra hard enough that most
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by gjulianm 7y ago
At least in Spain there are some bank-sponsored apps (e.g. Bizum) that can be used to send money to people using their phone number as ID (if they have also an account in the system), and it's instantaneous. I think other European coun
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by gjulianm 7y ago
Our current capitalist system does not work without inflation.
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by gjulianm 7y ago
Using Libra is morally questionable as you're giving away currency and economy control to a bunch of private entities motivated by profit and accountable to no one. >Best thing you can do is to make a law that forces banks to preven
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by gjulianm 7y ago
I know that's not how the free market works now, precisely I'm arguing for changing that. > In an efficient market your theoretical business would be driven into bankruptcy or bought out by the competition that is properly allo
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by gjulianm 7y ago
I agree that quantifying value brought by someone is extremely hard. I think market rate (when the demand of employees is high enough) works as the consensus of how much does a worker generate. > it's really just the simplest workin
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by gjulianm 7y ago
Not necessarily. The drive through employee is essential, but the cook is also essential, and the restaurant manager is also essential probably... The value is shared among them. Also, Labor Economics tells us what happens, and I do not arg
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by gjulianm 7y ago
I am not that naive, thanks. One can understand that you generate X value in part due to your own skill and time, in part due to the company environment. You get a percentage of that value as a salary, the other part goes to the company as
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by gjulianm 7y ago
Profits and caring about employees are not exclusive.
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by gjulianm 7y ago
"Expecting" is not the same as hoping that things would change. > You are worth exactly the minimum that you're willing to accept in payment based on your individual circumstances This is what I would like to change. Ther
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by gjulianm 7y ago
That's a whole different question and I don't think nobody has a definitive answer. Market rate seems to be a "consensus" of how much does a developer add to a company. But paying less to a developer just because they li
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by gjulianm 7y ago
Salaries based on cost of living are always a mistery to me. If the company wants to have an honest relationship with the worker, the salary should be based on the value the employee is bringing, and that does not depend on where they live.
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by gjulianm 7y ago
Thanks but no thanks. I read some posts and the guides they have. Superficially there's some good advice, but under all of that there is still the push to take relationships as a zero-sum game that you have to win against the other per
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by gjulianm 7y ago
Please watch out about red-pill forums. Standing up for yourself is good, being able to communicate and be assertive is good, but the underlying ideas of the red-pill community is to build relationships on games and dishonesty, with a nice
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by gjulianm 7y ago
> That means we won’t create a Facebook Dating profile for your account unless you specifically choose to create one. Does not specify if they will be data mining my profile for dating-related analytics. > Your Dating activity, such a
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by gjulianm 7y ago
> Any JavaScript or C# programmer will understand the ifs, elses and fors, I think that's what the parent comment meant with "reading (normal) C". The language itself is simple, because it only has the ifs, elses, and fors
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by gjulianm 7y ago
> web development, mobile and enterprise That's why I included Java, C# or Javascript. If you can read those languages you can read C. And it's not the language what they need to understand. C in itself is a fairly simple langu
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by gjulianm 7y ago
But in 10 years they will have touched JavaScript, C++, C# or Java, and they will surely understand how memory works, so they should be able to read C.
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by gjulianm 7y ago
It's not the same. A deposit guarantee is given by a third party, so that if Libra goes under or mismanages things I still cannot lose my money (up to a certain limit).

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