honeybooboo123

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by honeybooboo123 12y ago
I doubt he can really believe that dropping 10M on a project will somehow prevent Skynet from happening. AI will just get nasty, or it won't. No one knows.
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by honeybooboo123 12y ago
Well, I just responded to your other post, where you were economically confused :) Velocity of money? Concomitant effects, huh? .. I suspect you might be some sort of government shill though. Very few actual Libertarians don't see Aust
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by honeybooboo123 12y ago
I'm suggesting you just listen to what they're saying and swiftly conclude that everything they say makes sense (because you're not an idiot).
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by honeybooboo123 12y ago
Yes, salaries are a variable, but even if salaries do rise in sync with inflation, that doesn't make inflation good. It's still bad. Nope, we can't expect our salaries to rise along with inflation - not in today's insane
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by honeybooboo123 12y ago
Nope, I'm suggesting that we should be able to choose which currency to use. But now we can't. If we could, we'd choose a sound currency, and then our purchasing power would keep increasing steadily (because of productivity
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by honeybooboo123 12y ago
>> I'm willing to concede decreasing purchasing power in exchange for some other advantage That may be, but that's something everyone should get to choose for themselves. In today's world, we don't, and that&#x27
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by honeybooboo123 12y ago
Just because you say so, I guess?
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by honeybooboo123 12y ago
Spoken like a true sophist. So anything that's not mainstream is just as crazy as thinking that the earth is flat, huh? For example, it's decidedly mainstream to believe that ~2% inflation is a good thing, mostly because governm
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by honeybooboo123 12y ago
You've got it backwards. The Austrian school of economic thought is the only one that actually corresponds to reality . You're not going to take my word it, but feel free to see for yourself. Watch their lectures on YouTube (&quo
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by honeybooboo123 12y ago
>> Aside from its very public history of being an absolutely abysmal store of value You're talking about something different now. Namely the effects of all the speculation, and for example governments figuring out if Bitcoin pose
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by honeybooboo123 12y ago
I don't own any bitcoins, but felt like pointing a couple of things out. Whatever shreds of interest your bank gives you will be way, way less than the inflation you're experiencing. In other words, your money's purchasing po
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by honeybooboo123 12y ago
I was about to post something like "PuppySwap - By psychopaths, for psychopaths" .. but alright, you got me. Congratulations. But let's see.. The target audience of this website is people who abandon animals. But they'
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by honeybooboo123 12y ago
Oh come on. Whenever the public actually demands something, the government's response is always batons, tear-gas and rubber bullets (and some torture thrown in for good measure, of course). You call that customer service? Imagine McDon
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by honeybooboo123 12y ago
See www.corbettreport.com for more information (and the way out of the Matrix). I think I'm shadowbanned already, but maybe you'll see this anyway.
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by honeybooboo123 12y ago
There's been such a massive propaganda campaign over Ukraine that it's difficult to verify anything. But what we do know is that it's all a geopolitical power struggle. The US wants Kiev under its control, but that control ha
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by honeybooboo123 12y ago
By getting more stuff for our money, as I said? Even if wages do fall, as long as your purchasing power increases more than your wage drops, you're just fine. People take on massive loans exactly because prices have been inflated. That
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by honeybooboo123 12y ago
> They'd been widely criticized for their new homophobic laws well before the Ukraine crisis. I'm not so sure about that. > Also, the US torturing people doesn't make other atrocities okay. I keep hearing countries and
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by honeybooboo123 12y ago
It's not. Price-inflation means our purchasing power decreases . We're all better off if we get moar stuff for our money instead of less, but governments would like us to believe the opposite. We ordinary people clearly don&#x2
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by honeybooboo123 12y ago
Dude, what Western people are completely missing, is that we're being bombarded with propaganda too! The Ukraine crisis starts and suddenly Russians turn out to be massive homophobes, huh? Putin is evil and Obama is good, right? Neve
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by honeybooboo123 12y ago
Crimeans voted to join Russia though. And the fact that all of this is so controversial is proof of massive reality-distortions by the media.
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by honeybooboo123 12y ago
> It's sad how western media have completely failed to ask for any proof and have just been blowing NATO's political horn. NATO / "The West" uses its own mainstream media to further its own agenda. Russia uses th
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by honeybooboo123 12y ago
Here are the ideas this propaganda piece is meant to sink into Swedes' heads: - Russians are scary and bad. We're on the good guys' side. (The good guys are NATO and the West in general, of course) - We need t
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by honeybooboo123 12y ago
> People take care of the things they own. Agreed. As for most of the rest, I don't want to fish for meaning in a pond of analogies. I found something that's actually addressable though: > It seems perfectly obvious that sta
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by honeybooboo123 12y ago
> If only they understood that! That would not be the worst case( http://unqualifiedreservations.wordpress.com/2007/05/20/the-... ) Please make a specific claim. I don't know how to address the nonsens
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by honeybooboo123 12y ago
> it is nice to see them try hard to become a nicer player in the software eco-system They're just trying some desperate measures to stay relevant. You already know MS is institutionally evil.
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by honeybooboo123 12y ago
> There is no fix for anything by that reasoning; we'll always have illness, accidents, crime Well, the fix for corruption is for no one to have political power. Would you say the fix for illness is to be dead?
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by honeybooboo123 12y ago
> But not the whole truth, as the West is far less corrupt than, say, Bangladesh. The current degree and overtness of corruption in a particular area is completely irrelevant. The point is the very nature of political power: Its only
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by honeybooboo123 12y ago
> It seems the surveillance state is more often used against us than for us for a variety of reasons, mostly due to corruption, which we still don't have a fix for There is no fix for "corruption". Imagine there's a
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by honeybooboo123 12y ago
The real problem is political power. Laws are irrelevant once political power reaches outright tyranny, as it's done countless times over the course of history. The US and England are leading the charge to show the Western world that h
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by honeybooboo123 12y ago
Sure, it was a bit of a weird digression. But I figured it would be useful to you. > And while I agree with you in theory that "laws don't "actually grant any rights", that's a matter of ideology. For all practic

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