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by javert 5y ago
I haven't taken the time to look for a source. Maybe it really is just a rumor.
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Wikipedia says the Saudis have the 9th largest defense budget in the world. They also have a decent sized army, navy and air force. TIL. I was under the impression that the Saudis literally didn't have a military, because the ruling fa
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by javert 5y ago
This article is interesting and helpful. So, thanks. That said, I'm not 100% convinced. If we stop trading oil in dollars, doesn't that reduce the need for countries to keep dollars in reserve? It could be the beginning of a slipp
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by javert 5y ago
> How long will that last? Miami and El Salvador are already proving you wrong. No, they don't prove him wrong. You need to argue against the best possible version of your opponent's position. Otherwise it's just, as they
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by javert 5y ago
Besides the Iraq thing someone mentioned, Gaddafi in Libya got taken out right after he spoke about wanting to sell oil in euros. But most importantly, there's Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia has no military except the US military, and Saud
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Because there are people at Southwest whose job is to do surveys, and they want it to look like they are contributing.
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by javert 5y ago
BTC is very different from NFTs and Dogecoin.
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by javert 5y ago
Demands for equality between the sexes are justified because people of both sexes want more equality in order to improve their own personal lives. The justification never was "fitness of the species." I believe that would be a
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by javert 5y ago
Washington, DC was made a federal district so that the seat of national government would not be dependent on any particular US state for its security, but would be able to provide its own security force. This was because the Congress had be
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by javert 5y ago
Thanks, much appreciated!
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by javert 5y ago
When did you hear that? I might try to get a few people together to do it. Super long shot, but no harm in asking.
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by javert 5y ago
They can continue to price things in US dollars without letting American elites steal from them through the Cantillon effect. If you didn't know, they were using US dollars before. Just my two cents. The real reason is probably so the
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by javert 5y ago
Nah, the 401(k) system is a mechanism of wealth extraction for white collar government-adjacent workers. It's a form of repression. I'd rather be building something than dealing with tax, but I'm very much incentivized to do
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by javert 5y ago
I've never heard that before. Is there any way for me to verify that.
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by javert 5y ago
The current USA healthcare hellscape came as a result of an attempt to implement universal healthcare that was derailed via regulatory capture. It's hard to see how you could implement universal healthcare successfully in country like
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by javert 5y ago
It would be helpful if you would edit your original comment, because you're literally saying it was Amazon. The "they" is unspecified, so presumably it refers to the subject of the article you're commenting on, i.e. Amaz
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by javert 5y ago
Better Zuckerberg than using the money to send our young men to their deaths in Afghanistan, or pay people to have kids and not work, or to have it siphoned off through fraud by government workers, or wasted by their negligence, or...
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by javert 5y ago
That's way too cynical. That's out of touch with reality. Lots of really rich people give to charity and don't talk about it.
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by javert 5y ago
Cryptocurrency was originally designed to be currency, not a transactional mechanism only. If you think it through, it can't work as only a transactional mechanism, because the price won't be stable. It has to first become a big
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by javert 5y ago
Do you even know what you're talking about? In the US, a billionaire has more money at the end of the day if they just pay taxes on it than if they give it to charity and take the deduction. The only other way a charity helps a billion
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by javert 5y ago
They can profit simply by holding bitcoin, which they're increasing demand for. Bitcoin has always been the kind of thing that rewards insiders. Companies and government officials can profit just by holding bitcoin and then incentivizi
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by javert 5y ago
America forces people to renounce citizenship to avoid high taxes (unlike every other country in the world where you can just leave the country), so the people who flee Warren's wealth tax will not ever be coming back.
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by javert 5y ago
> And he implied I was too stupid to understand it, which is... not cool I'm sorry. I don't think you're too stupid. It's just that at this point, "Bitcoin is a waste of electricity" comes across as trollish
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by javert 5y ago
Is there a paper? I'm mostly interested in ghOSt itself. I already found the github projects [1] [2]. [1] https://giters.com/google/ghost-userspace [2] https://github.com/google/ghost-kernel
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by javert 5y ago
Are you really incapable of understanding that bitcoin might not be a waste? An unfathomable transfer of wealth from normal people to the rich is happening because of the Fed. How? The rich can borrow money from the Fed at near zero rates.
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by javert 5y ago
Wouldn't work in the Americas, which have a far lower average level of human capital. You can't redistribute what has not been produced. There are lots of examples of this in history. By the way, the US health system crisis is cau
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by javert 5y ago
> Yeah, they are... This is such a cheap thing for you to say. Of course I could find citations for my position, and you could find citations for yours. Grow up!
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That only bothers people who want to make life "fair" at the expense of what is practical. There is a reason we let people keep the wealth they build. It's not because it's "fair." It's because taking it a
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by javert 5y ago
You can't find a real criticism of anything I said? You don't have a real argument? Mockery in a place where an intellectual response goes says a lot. Learn how to have an adult conversation. Why are you even on this site? P.S. I&
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> Hey remember that there World War? Wars like Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan could not be financed or prosecuted under a hard money regime. The wars you name as examples were "real" wars, i.e. they required real sacrifices of t

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