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by innguest 12y ago
So you're saying we might have a fighting chance against environmental depredation if instead of using government bullying, we used the private sector to buy those lands, so long as we could guarantee the money wouldn't go to bure
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by innguest 12y ago
That reminds me, I really miss +1 Funny from Slashdot. :)
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by innguest 12y ago
Disregarding the UAP thing you mentioned, I believe you might be dismissing the complaints of "magic" in Ruby too quickly if you think all it is meant by it is what you said. In the contexts I usually see, the complaints of magic
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by innguest 12y ago
No, I'm arguing the current system is immoral because it is based on theft. You seem to be OK with theft, so it's OK with you. But I have morals and it's not OK with me. Hence it needs to be changed. Amazingly you think tips
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by innguest 12y ago
Have you ever worked as a waiter in a restaurant? Some restaurants let waiters keep all their tip, while others force waiters to share their tips equally in a collective pool. Those that let waiters keep all their tip argue that the server
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by innguest 12y ago
> Under Bretton Woods, it roughly tripled. If inflation does not exist on the gold standard [...] how does this happen? Bretton Woods != Gold Standard. We were off the gold standard in 1933 with the Gold Reserve Act. You said that yourse
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by innguest 12y ago
What sources and material would you recommend for a layman interested in understanding the state of psychometric research?
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by innguest 12y ago
From the site you linked: "Rates of inflation are calculated using the current Consumer Price Index" The CPI presents several problems when used to measure inflation: http://goo.gl/Ywh3T9 Members of the Bretton Wo
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by innguest 12y ago
What ethics do you have that makes you insist on trying to regulate the behavior of others? What is the philosophy behind it, and how do you deduce that we can achieve peace and prosperity by forcing others to do the will of a small group i
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by innguest 12y ago
In economy, changes take a long time to shows symptoms in the system. How long each change takes is anyone's guess. The gradual unpegging of gold had both immediate and long term consequences. In 1971 the US ended the Bretton Woods sys
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by innguest 12y ago
You've got it backwards. Once everyone considers these principles I'm putting forward, then blue collar workers will make $30/h again. Taxes are what is lowering paychecks. Taxing comes in several shapes, including inflatio
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by innguest 12y ago
Instead of defending my case I'll ask you this: why not stop taxing profits and instead start taxing consumption? Seems much easier, no? And the incentives would be in the right place.
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by innguest 12y ago
There are 3 things you can do with money: - Spend it - Hoard it - Invest it It's better to spend inflationary money than to hoard it, you've got that right. That sentence only works with the "inflationary" word there,
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by innguest 12y ago
And how do they increase their profits? By providing goods and services that customers want. Increasing profits and having your product/service valued and wanted by your consumer base is the same thing. Why do you say "profits&quo
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by innguest 12y ago
> Amazon and Google say they pay all the taxes they should. Analysts say competitive pressures force companies to seek to minimise all costs, including tax. Amazon and Google do not have competition. They seek to minimize all costs becau
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by innguest 12y ago
> So... are you an anarchist, or just a big fan of small governments? :) I'm looking to minimize the amount of force used in the world. Increasingly smaller governments are in the right direction, and without central governments I b
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by innguest 12y ago
This resonates a lot with me, and I hadn't seen it from this perspective before. I do get anxiety from feeling I'm not learning or producing enough in my spare time but your message helps me see that maybe I'm yearning for th
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by innguest 12y ago
Thank you for the thoughtful response. I agree with your points, including your elucidation of dragonwriter's reply. I'll try to clarify my point: before Uber/Lyft, we had taxis. Just taxis. Then, the argument went: "Wel
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by innguest 12y ago
Thanks for the reply. The philosophical connection between the hacker culture/ethics and anarchism was much clearer to me and many others maybe a decade ago, but now I see this losing ground. There's a fear in people when someone
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by innguest 12y ago
Why am I being modded down?
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by innguest 12y ago
Those two things are both "reverse engineering some chemical substance". Are you making the case that old substances are much easier to reverse engineer than new ones? If so, I'd like clarification on how the market age of a
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by innguest 12y ago
What's happening right now to Uber and Lyft is a metaphor for how the free market works. You've touched on a few interesting points yourself: "provided entirely by one worker" : this is like admitting that the problem co
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by innguest 12y ago
Statists, take notice of how improvements in work conditions come from competition and not from regulation. They're better off now than through the monopoly of taxi medallions.
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by innguest 12y ago
And because of trade secrets I can buy "generic" Coke for cheaper. Do you see now how things would be different for prescription drugs without government intervention?
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by innguest 12y ago
They go out of their way by lobbying, which is to say they go out of the free market scope in order to avoid competition. So you are wrong in blaming the free market for this. And when you say 'They won't develop drugs if there is
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by innguest 12y ago
I tend to be skeptical when instead of counter-arguments I'm told "it's so elementary I won't even tell you". Some quick research shows experts are still debating whether the 51% attack is a real threat. I also don&
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by innguest 12y ago
Most old people have the power to change the system, many young people cannot. Unfortunately the old lack the young's courage (as they're risk averse) and so are less likely to go against tradition. Money need not be inflationary,
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by innguest 12y ago
That's not the "problem of capitalism", that's the problem with bad people that are power hungry and uninformed people that see absolution in centralized power. I'm very hopeful that we will be able to reverse this
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by innguest 12y ago
> BTC could allow an anonymous party to control a currency, How, exactly? They can't control the minting so I'm not sure what you mean by "control". The Fed is already an anonymous (because no one is personally respon
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by innguest 12y ago
Then help me make sense of why Paypal is partnering with Coinbase (straight question).

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