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by jart 1y ago
If by one day, you mean one day and night, since elected officials make all the important decisions at 3 a.m. When you give someone the job of managing billions of dollars of resources and pay them less money per year than their mortgage co
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In California, I know elected officials who get paid 4 figure salaries to manage 9 figure budgets. If you think they're not skimming off the top, then you don't know what they are.
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Yes that's a big part of it. Goldman said last month (when gold was at $3500): > “We estimate that if 1% of the privately owned US Treasury market were to flow into gold, the gold price would rise to nearly $5,000 an ounce, assuming
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The way you hedge against collapse is with guns, mountain house, and medical supplies. Then you provide protection, nourishment, and medicine to all the people in your community who have costco gold and jewelry.
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The fed doesn't even publish M3 anymore (which is what tells us how much fiat there is in circulation). So we really don't know. We do know that as of 2020 America no longer uses fractional reserve banking. The collateral requirem
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Whenever the ruling class is threatened, the first thing they do is force their own people to give up their gold. - In 217 BC, to survive the Second Punic War after Cannae, Rome passed the Lex Oppia requiring citizens to surrender gold and
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If I'm right, then your entire framework for understanding wealth and value is compromised. You'll remember that of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: Justine was right again.
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It's disturbing that the dollar has lost 51% of its value in the past 12 months. The smart thing to do if you want to hedge is divide the amount of money you have by 100*4000 and buy that many gold futures. So if you have $400k in your
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The most sophisticated countries and companies are smart enough to use the least sophisticated backup methods. SK needs to backup their data to cassette tapes and tape libraries cost a bit more than that, but not much. Even if they boat the
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Ticketmaster actually kicks money back to the venue? I thought their business model was to bankrupt venues and then buy them at auction.
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What's stopping you from doing that? They tried to come for my passport but missed. Our heroes in the civil service saw to that. Just got a new one in the mail today and I'm so happy.
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What do you want tech to do? Use agents to deploy an apparatchik to every man woman and child? Wouldn't that leave people like you out of a job? What would you do all day? Tech platforms should take no part in the social disagreements
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The first amendment protects free speech. The people must have their say.
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Good riddance. That was always a power grab if I ever saw it. They should take it out of browsers too.
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That's a good thing since it means we have the opportunity to be remembered for eternity. Information is permanent. Also don't think that just because the system doesn't reveal who you are to other users today that your ident
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Already happened with USG. You know who doesn't discriminate against my group? Big tech companies. If they can step up and take on more responsibility for identity verification in our society, then my social group will be less oppresse
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No one ever explains why it's so important that everyone always conceal their identity on the web, as though it were some global red light district. The most successful tech platforms all succeeded by getting people to be trusting enou
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No it sounds like they just need to add a pthread_cleanup_push() call somewhere in the getaddrinfo() implementation. C libraries are not black magic. Nor are they holy code. We needn't fear them. It's the simplest part of the soft
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Why can't they help fix the C library in question? Cancelation is really tricky to implement for the C library author. It's one of those concepts that, like fork, has implications that pervade everything. Please give your C librar
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The best thing about Costa Rica is the Sloth Sanctuary. You and your wife should send me photos of yourselves with the sloths when you get there.
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I got my job because I had a life threatening illness at the time. My employer saved me when no one else would. After spending all that money saving my life, it'd be a shame if they got rid of me before I had the chance to fully repay
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My employer is a lot more dependable than the US government. If you trust the overlord you didn't choose more than the one you did, then you might want to rethink your career.
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In my home country (New York) the taxi mafia was harsh and cruel, but they always did a good job.
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Imgur was created because ImageShack was what everyone used and they'd gotten increasingly terrible. In the beginning, ImageShack was good. But images were expensive to host in the 2000's. So they moved very quickly into the explo
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The point of a company is to provide a valuable necessary service to society. Money and power is simply a consequence of being more qualified to serve society in that niche better than anyone else. Cloudflare isn't qualified enough yet
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You'd have to have the slowest site on Earth to not be able to serve legitimate crawlers. Have you ever truly been DDOS'd? I have. I actually had to start self-hosting my website because back when I used Cloudflare, the people who
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Cloudflare protected people from DDOS. They stopped abusive individuals from removing websites and their content from the Internet. Now Cloudflare is inventing new ways to prevent us from accessing information. They've become the peopl
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Why would you offer impromptu psychoanalysis to a stranger on the Internet?
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Why would they pull you out of the sim if you're not dead? For all we know you need to sleep up on the spaceship too.
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You don't trust doctors but you took the covid jab three times? I accept that I will never understand some people. If anything the covid jab is the reason we're not going to get longevity anytime soon. The medical establishment de

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