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by jl2718 5y ago
Please elaborate. Are you saying that the exchange rate effect of Bretton Woods is an advantage by attracting capital investment, or a disadvantage due to comparative misallocation?
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by jl2718 5y ago
> US government proposals to reform the global tax system by imposing a minimum 15% corporation tax rate Is this even remotely plausible and useful, or are we just fooling ourselves? It seems to me that the winner of the digital economy
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by jl2718 5y ago
Cryptocurrencies feed on a cycle of fear and greed and deceit. The technology exists because people are scared of inflation and authoritarianism. Then there are ‘investors’ who see this fear as a trend that can be exploited for profit. Then
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by jl2718 5y ago
I can’t understand why Doge is the brunt of all cryptocurrency criticism. It is fair to call it a joke, but it’s very different to call it a scam. First, there was no genesis allocation. Second, the creator didn’t even mine at all (well, I
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by jl2718 5y ago
Sure, but this is a trap. You’re just trading time for dollars, and you are not growing your personal value. One thing that distinguishes a professional is the focus of what they work on. If somebody tells you what to do, and it’s not in th
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by jl2718 5y ago
I suppose it depends on whether it is important to build long-lasting relationships in early life. A lot of people I knew ended up back together in their later life despite living hundreds of miles apart for over a decade. I’m not sure ther
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by jl2718 5y ago
The only people that would buy dirty crypto are people with dirty cash. Even then, it would be a profoundly stupid transaction from a cash flow or security perspective. Those cryptos have basically zero value, and you just made yourself tra
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by jl2718 5y ago
What is your proposal to ‘fix’ this ‘problem’? This is where the actual issue is I think. The usual solutions proposed are to increase taxes on the 10%, and increase spending much more than that, and inflate the money supply. A lot of peopl
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by jl2718 5y ago
I had a Marxist teacher in high school, and I wanted to learn more about it, so I read a lot of Marx and other foundational socialist literature. I was very confused every time he infused racialism into contemporary issues, which didn’t see
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by jl2718 5y ago
I just went through this. It’s 100x the cost at 1.2x the speed. I’m using the RAM for other ‘research’, but it turns out that trashing consumer SSDs is still the best value because the cost of long-term disk storage is again 10-100x the cos
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by jl2718 5y ago
I took an interview at the NYC MTA about 10 years ago to build a credit card system instead of the ridiculous ticket system. It was pretty cool. They had very simple and cheap solutions available, even some self-built prototypes, but ... po
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by jl2718 5y ago
> our research suggests that powerholders overgeneralize their greater sense of choice to others. This research is about power. The author may be taking great liberty in turning it into a flame-bait article about wealth inequality. And I
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by jl2718 5y ago
Genuine question: Who is the source of demand for this, and what do they want to use it for? Data, personal account, and strong empiricism only please. I’m not interested in your projections upon ‘others’.
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by jl2718 5y ago
You are definitely right about this. I was thinking more of who it was enforced upon and how things got messed up with respect to the difference between tabs and spaces. I remember opening things in a terminal and it was relatively clean, m
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by jl2718 5y ago
You can build a house anywhere if you don’t need a salary tied to an expensive area.
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by jl2718 5y ago
I don’t think so. Somebody once had to build the houses that they were collecting rent on. Time passes and what used to be value added becomes a simple matter of capital invested or inherited.
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by jl2718 5y ago
No that’s money. You need to read the article. He freely admits you can’t win that game.
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by jl2718 5y ago
This is near to his point. Salary is trading ‘wealth’ for ‘money’. You could literally build that house to achieve ‘wealth’ faster than you can earn it by saving money from salary. This essay helped me understand how I made this mistake ove
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by jl2718 5y ago
I think the negative aspect of rent-seeking is not so much passivity, but the lack of value added.
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by jl2718 5y ago
Or maybe you are the one that doesn’t understand their situation. These are government professionals that live and work there, and are intimately involved with all of the legal proceedings between county and state. You called them out as ig
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by jl2718 5y ago
Does this deserve to be flagged? It would certainly if it were aimed at any other group of people.
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by jl2718 5y ago
Funny how your criticism of ‘bad analysis’ is actually a clear admission of the plain fact that liberal metros are farming the surrounding counties for revenues and offer nothing in return. “No sir, your analysis is dead wrong; we’ve built
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by jl2718 5y ago
Everybody here seems to be an expert in what is best for these people, and why their votes are stupid and wrong, and shouldn’t matter.
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by jl2718 5y ago
> “BlockFi carries loss reserves as part of its accounting policies and this is a fraction of existing loss reserves – so no negative impact to equity or ongoing platform operations,” Prove it. And where exactly do these ‘loss reserves’
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by jl2718 5y ago
Afghanistan was probably the best time of my life. Some people just come alive in that environment. That was me. I would do that forever if I could.
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by jl2718 5y ago
I don’t follow these things at all, but it seems we may be in a bit of a bad romance with authority figures. These total strangers act in perfectly predictable ways given the positions we’ve handed them, and we call it betrayal.
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by jl2718 5y ago
You’re probably right. But it seems in everybody’s interest not to force that alliance. For instance, look at Monero booming today after the treasury news. That’s a sign of who ordinary people are most afraid of. It would be nice for modern
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by jl2718 5y ago
What I’m saying is that bone conduction, including tight seals of earbuds, or even use of earplugs in certain environments (roadies etc), might actually be far worse than the sound coming into the ear canal by air conduction. This seems to
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by jl2718 5y ago
Big brother can be a good thing, could be welcomed, if big brother was good for the user. The way they talk about this is a one-way transfer of value from the blockchain to the treasury - in a time of massive fiscal reserve from bond purcha
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by jl2718 5y ago
Firstly I'm not convinced that the photonic version would be more efficient than the all-electric version. The conversion is very expensive. Secondly, they don't need to be on the same chip. The Sha3 chip would be very dense, and

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