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by gnaritas 10y ago
So you'd rather ride the sinking ship and lose all your money as the company goes bankrupt? Are you saying you'd never exit any of your positions no matter how much money you lost?
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Not remotely true, many buy and hold investors have stops to limit their losses and/or exit their positions at certain levels. Flash crashes hurt them greatly.
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I don't think redefining full time to be so few hours would work in this country, nor actually solve the problem, it'd just make most people broke and forced to seek out multiple jobs to survive. Yes, money distribution can affec
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BI can't just come from inflating the money supply, it wouldn't function if it were implemented that way. BI has to be funded by taxes, and money-holders can't refuse to pay, taxes don't work that way.
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> It's like a game of Monopoly where everyone gets more money, No it isn't, not even remotely.
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> If everybody can spend twice as much on rent t False presumption, BI will not enable everyone to spend twice as much on rent. > BI will cause price inflation. Unfounded. > The sustainable answer is higher interest rates, so that
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They were better than Smalltalk, not in terms of the language, but in terms of availability to developers. C++ and Java were free, Smalltalk during the time it could have risen, had no free implementations and cost a fortune to use. It&#x2
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> basic income is actually just a continuation of the same inflationary alchemy It's no such thing; not remotely. BI isn't new money, it's simply a redistribution of money from those with more to those with less. It won&#x
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BI won't increase average income, it'll simply redistribute income from the top down to the bottom so the average will stay the same. BI will reduce income for those at the top as their taxes will go up much more than they'l
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Libertarians are fine with voluntary collectives, many libertarians are collectivists, aka left libertarians like Noam Chomsky. Being libertarian doesn't mean being fiscally conservative and socially liberal, it can also mean being fis
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Not true at all, they'd be totally fine with it as long as it was voluntary. Libertarians aren't anti-government, they're anti-authoritarian.
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Exactly, libertarians can be either left or right, they're simply anti-authoritarian.
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> and gun rights are literally part of the foundation of the U.S. There's no reason to fight it. This is a horrible way of thinking. Times change, just because something made sense in the 1700's doesn't mean it makes sense
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We did let the first bank fail, it nearly broke the global economy and it was one of the smaller ones. That's why the other banks were bailed out.
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One of the great findings of science is that you think you know is usually wrong. Intuition is a terrible means of understanding reality.
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Only if you can time when they're going to fail. It's not enough to be right, you have to be right at the right time.
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Yes there is value, comments like those let me know which developers need more training to learn how to code cleaner. I know what you said, and I disagreed; responding back by repeating your disagreement doesn't add any value to the co
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Child neglect has nothing to do with your body. You are free to give up your child for adoption if you don't want to take care of them. Abusing a child and being punished for it isn't remotely similar to anything being discussed h
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If your comments just say what the code does, they're redundant and unnecessary. Good comments explain things the code can't, like why you chose a particular algo, or why some piece of code needs to exist. Most code when written
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> Not donating bone marrow requires doing nothing. Having an abortion require an active procedure. True, but simply not relevant to any point I made. No metaphor is perfect, but the point here is that your control over your own body trum
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That's really not relevant, it can be stipulated that life begins at conception and it simply doesn't matter, no persons right to life trumps another persons right to bodily autonomy. It's not murder to let someone die if yo
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> Doctors aren't the ones making these decisions - hospital administrators generally are choosing what to invest in. Most doctors don't work in hospitals, they work in family practices and most definitely are making the decisio
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> And I would question: why would someone use an alternative pronoun, knowing that the person would prefer an alternative? The answer is quite simple, we don't always keep track of other people's preferences even when we'v
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Polls take time to move, some moved, some weren't re-polled before the election, and no polls aren't just polls; poll are a statistical sampling of the electorate and do allow you to draw a trend line and notice things like hey, t
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That's overly simplistic, usage would naturally initially rise due to legalization so naturally so have busts, and prosecution has been more targeted to those who aren't following the state laws and took legalization to mean no ru
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So what? You can't expect people to know that, this whole preferred pronoun issue is nonsense; you do not have a right to tell other people which words they should use.
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It doesn't matter what she identifies as, they is appropriate in all cases male or female.
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It is not other people's responsibility to know what your preferred pronoun is; you don't have a right to a preferred pronoun; you don't get to tell other people how they should speak. They is perfectly appropriate in all sit
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The numbers didn't have time to move, that was the point of the late release, and why the polls were off, they didn't have time to adjust to the new information. > Nobody gets to rerun the election in a Comey-less alternate uni
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> If we hit a point where nearly all people were on Medicare, we'd be bankrupt anyway. No we wouldn't, we'd be in a much better position and we'd be paying much less for healthcare. Medicare has far less overhead tha

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