jganetsk

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Reform Government Surveillance(reformgovernmentsurveillance.com)
1 points by jganetsk 13y ago|1 comments
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by jganetsk 13y ago
But there are many other factors other than people's propensity to consume that you need to account for. And I'm not sure if this degree of raise in income practically changes marginal propensity to consume that much.
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by jganetsk 13y ago
But poor people live in rent regulated apartments.
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by jganetsk 13y ago
Has anyone analyzed the impact on monetary policy and macroeconomics? The Fed has a dual mandate of low inflation and maximal employment, and as a result, is currently printing money indefinitely. The ECB only has a mandate of low inflation
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by jganetsk 13y ago
We can't make these conclusions until we precisely know how people will spend the money. It could go into paying off debt and savings. It could go into luxury items (which the poor love to buy). Also, proposals for basic income often i
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by jganetsk 13y ago
Your assertion that a basic income would drive up costs is wrong. What evidence do you have of that? If it's done without printing money, it will not cause inflation. There will be more demand for housing, but how much more? The homele
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by jganetsk 13y ago
I lived abroad for 365 days. Each day I wrote a "recap", and posted it to Facebook. Many recaps were over 1,000 words long. I received tons of feedback, often in real life. It was a brilliant experience. I agree with many of the p
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by jganetsk 13y ago
It is easy to do that. You just need a trusted third party, and you can set up a BTC contract.
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by jganetsk 13y ago
My guess: Bitcoin is just facilitating the transaction. Restaurants are likely settled in Euros. I wonder how they hedge the volatility. There needs to be a BTC hedging market.
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by jganetsk 13y ago
Utterly incorrect. They did not transfer a single dollar. For them to turn those Bitcoins into dollars, they will have to pay more than $0.00. Possibly A LOT more. They may not even be able to turn those bitcoins into dollars for a while, a
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by jganetsk 13y ago
Contrary to popular belief, psychiatry is popular in France, with above average usage of antidepressants and anti-anxiety medication. Hypothesis: French kids have ADHD, it's just managed by the structure provided by their parents. Thos
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by jganetsk 13y ago
Did I say anything about opposing NSA spycraft? Did I say anything about racism, for that matter? I'm talking about hating Americans. It's irrational, unconstructive, and not a novel thing to do. It's certainly not going to a
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by jganetsk 13y ago
I completely agree with your sentiment that no one is justified in thinking they are superior to anyone else. Furthermore, I have never said anything even remotely to the contrary.
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by jganetsk 13y ago
There are no differences, both in practice and in theory, to the privacy rights of citizens and non-citizens. Everyone is spied on, and it is legal. The NSA is tasked with spying on foreign nationals. The FBI is tasked with spying on US nat
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by jganetsk 13y ago
I'm not sure what we are talking about here. The US government is oppressing everyone... both Americans and non-Americans. In theory, the American people are the only ones with the power to solve this problem. This responsibility is a
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by jganetsk 13y ago
But, by denying movement, you are suggesting to treat US citizens as second class humans. To what purpose? in order to punish them? To educate them about your importance?
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by jganetsk 13y ago
People are not going to start hating Americans. They have already been hating Americans for hundreds of years. It started with the "degeneracy thesis" in the 18th century, where it had been suggested by European intellectuals that
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by jganetsk 13y ago
Half-way to 30 is 15.
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by jganetsk 13y ago
Brazilians cheering 9/11, if true, is completely disgusting. It sounds like they are also fed some propaganda.
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by jganetsk 13y ago
Double glazing is huge in the UK. I never actually heard about it in the US.
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by jganetsk 13y ago
In America, one can get many kinds of beer. One can get shitty American beer, beer that is crazy hopped up (as posted below), good American beer... and also the same exact beer you drink in Europe. We import too, you know.
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by jganetsk 13y ago
Toronto is great, but I don't see it as more diverse than other big cities in the US, such as Boston, Chicago, or Washington.
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by jganetsk 13y ago
America was settled by people who got kicked out of their countries for being too religious.
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by jganetsk 14y ago
This is exactly the same with Google Drive.
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by jganetsk 14y ago
Things unique to Chrome that don't come from the OS: V8 Javascript engine, process isolation model, networking including new protocols like SPDY and possibly QUIC [1], auto-update (for browser and all apps and extensions) Chrome sync (for b
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by jganetsk 14y ago
I worry that I'm not writing enough. One day, my life is going to become jarringly mundane again. I'm going to have nothing from my trip but my memories, photos, and my travel diary. And my memories will fade quickly. A travel buddy of mine
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by jganetsk 14y ago
Recently I have gone from posting nearly nothing on Facebook, to posting daily. I have been spending 1 year abroad, and have gotten into a gimmicky habit: I'm keeping a friends-only travel diary on my Facebook wall. Everyday, at around the
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by jganetsk 14y ago
The idea of the "Caucasian race" comes from a German philosopher in the 18th century. It has to do with him considering the Georgian people (from the Caucasus) to be the most glorious looking white people. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauc
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by jganetsk 14y ago
There's also more than meaning for "literally" these days.
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by jganetsk 14y ago
I agree, and he's slyly discouraging serious debate of his points since Facebook is so "cool". Software actually does need to be discussed. Leadership is critical in any structure of any size. The thought that every brogrammer is making dec

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