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by innguest 12y ago
Only while they're still hoarding gold. Once they start noticing they've bought most of the gold they can get in the open market without causing prices to soar then they will change gears.
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by innguest 12y ago
> Why the hell is a rate set in London allowed to influence the American dollar so greatly?! Because banks are not independent from each other, and they frequently borrow from each other if they lack a certain quantity of a certain curre
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by innguest 12y ago
I was agreeing with you and saying I also do that (make confident assertions to spur a conversation while being fully open to the possibility I'm wrong, because it seems to be a more efficient route than everyone doing infinite researc
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by innguest 12y ago
That's a lot to read, so I'll take my time, but I'm always suspicious of arguments that can't be presented succinctly, for I have my own biases. Would you care to at least elucidate on what you mean by "Morals are s
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by innguest 12y ago
You're being downvoted for being right (correct) and right (not a leftist) at the same time. Happens often here. Grab a chair.
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by innguest 12y ago
Proselytizing causes learning because it creates doubt in others (that will then build arguments to refute the assertions) and in the self (through doxastic aporia). But the current mainstream thinking of relativism, where values are invert
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by innguest 12y ago
Your seeing money as a measure of inefficiency is based on flawed premises, notwithstanding your pre-emptive "in a lot of ways" self-cut slack. Money is just another product, and in that sense it isn't special. People sell th
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by innguest 12y ago
Drugs aren't addictive. People are either more or less prone to forming habits around activities depending on their own brain structure and chemistry. No drug is addictive. Addiction is a weasel word to try and shift the blame of habit
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by innguest 12y ago
What would be the good or service sold in order to generate the wealth to be distributed to all humans as basic wage? And who would be the generous folks doing all the work to produce those goods and services, while being OK with sharing, w
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by innguest 12y ago
> Morals are subjective Can you source that? There's a field of study called Ethics that would disagree with you. If you can show some evidence for your claim, that would be an important finding in Ethics; nay, a breakthrough.
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by innguest 12y ago
Minimum wage is a ban on jobs. It means the government passes a law forbidding people from selling their labor for less than $X. Before you defend minimum wage, you should try and come up with a coherent explanation as to how is it that any
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by innguest 12y ago
Why do you expect parents to turn kids into experts in all these subjects, when public school is not reaching anywhere near that goal? And who said kids must know those exact topics and not others? Why do you think when you have the liberty
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by innguest 12y ago
I came to say exactly the same thing. A puzzle is a puzzlemaster saying "try to find the exit in this maze I devised!". But I'd rather build my own mazes that I'm more interested in, and then try to find the exits for my
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by innguest 12y ago
If you think that and other people you know think that, you should be free to voluntarily form your own community, protect yourselves, work hard and do the things you want. But I'm not OK with your opinions of what activities are bette
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by innguest 12y ago
I doubt what is keeping this from scaling is fear of unknown side-effects. I bet people would be lining up to be a guinea-pig to this if regulation allowed.
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by innguest 12y ago
The appeal to authority is "I'm older, therefore wiser regarding subject matter X". Being unsure is excellent. Relying on maxims such as "simple solutions are wrong" is not. Simple or complex, the only way to prove
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by innguest 12y ago
I love arguing and I honestly did not know Twitter was fertile grounds for that. So I appreciate your comment. Now excuse me while I create my first twitter account.
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by innguest 12y ago
> it takes a large and sustained effort to redirect a civil service as large as the US, kind of like trying to steer a 400m long container vessel. That's why Thomas Jefferson and others straight out of Enlightenment wanted for the F
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by innguest 12y ago
I'm confused. If someone lends me counterfeit money, I don't have to give it back. Banks don't lend real money, they act with the government to legally leverage their deposits and lend out leveraged money. This money is creat
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by innguest 12y ago
1. Not everyone takes Econ 101. 2. Econ 101 is usually taught from a Keynesian point of view (if you study Keynes' life you'll find out how much he really knew about economics) 3. I'm talking about the stuff that starts at 5:
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by innguest 12y ago
I don't know about your Norwegian example, and it might be because I'm ignorant of it; or you might be confusing it with Iceland 1200 years ago. If so, remember they had that system for 300 years (longer than the US has existed) a
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by innguest 12y ago
> Happily, I have now grown up. But you haven't grown up enough to avoid making appeals to authority in order to justify a moral high ground. I remember when I was 20 and I believed that those that were older than me knew more than
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by innguest 12y ago
> Here's the problem with that 'bedrock' you are standing on: the vast majority of us are not coerced at all. We've happily agreed to this system. Just like North Koreans are not coerced at all and they've happil
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by innguest 12y ago
You have to admit it was at least more fair, as Iceland punished those that are really to blame (bankers) instead of the innocent (citizens). Whether it was "better" or "worse" is a discussion I'll leave to the cons
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by innguest 12y ago
I'm well aware of that quote, having learned of it a few years ago, which filled me with joy. If you think a better language is one that holds on to its words unchangingly, and harshly judges and beats up new words, then you have free
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by innguest 12y ago
> For all its warts (horrible, horrible spelling) English is English is not my native language but I love its spelling and I think it's ideal. I'm not referring to saxon words, though, but the majority that comes from Latin, Gr
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by innguest 12y ago
Why doesn't HN have a policy whereby the downvoter must explain the reason for it, much like a Wikipedia edit is strongly encouraged to have a written reason? How can we teach people not to do something worthy of downvote if there is n
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by innguest 12y ago
If you are interested in how much people have valued a human life, in money units, throughout history, I can give you at least one recommendation. Medieval Iceland lived for 300 years without a government. Murder was punished by fine or exi
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by innguest 12y ago
Let's say it's John at the FDA coming up with this stuff. But John is really a victim of the system set up around him. He's following orders. He's just doing his job. He has already rationalized his guilt away from this
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by innguest 12y ago
That post speaks the truth. Kudos to Mr. Welsh for understanding and clearly communicating the core of the issue - I'll have to read more from him.

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