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by jpadkins 5y ago
It doesn't work like that. The people in power find people with an agenda that suits their agenda (woke identity politics that divide any populist movement). Then they elevate those people to places of more power or reach or status.
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by jpadkins 5y ago
> that they'd stand a chance if the police and military decided they were gonna run shit? See Afghanistan. Full might of US military couldn't permanently suppress the will of the people. And afghans were significantly less wea
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by jpadkins 5y ago
> made it easier to own them. citation? The penalty for gun ownership in occupied france was death penalty. Most scholarly work shows that Nazi government used gun registration to disarm the populations they wanted to oppress.
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by jpadkins 5y ago
here is a way to rationalize it (not sure if this helps you) doctors provide very valuable services to dozens - hundreds of people (treating disease). youtube/sports celebrities provide a small amount of value to 100k - millions of peo
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by jpadkins 5y ago
you aren't going to get a very large sample size of death row inmates...
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by jpadkins 5y ago
vitamins are pretty much unregulated for decades, but doesn't have this lead or toxic chemical problem. Why do you feel so strongly this would happen in medicine? Do you really think companies (who spend a lot of capital building a b
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by jpadkins 5y ago
if you use wealth, we are a back at why americans spend more on per captia than any other countries: because they can (because they are wealthier). Healthcare, especially in older population, starts to behave like a luxury good at upper en
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by jpadkins 5y ago
> As for hard evidence, we could use non-work screen time as a proxy, To play devil's advocate, screen play time (i.e. video games) has inspired a whole generation of computer engineers to follow this career. I would argue that scr
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by jpadkins 5y ago
one could argue that your conversions are not defined well enough. Define conversion as a qualified lead. Or define conversion as a job application that results in a callback. Then you can go back to obsessing over conversions :-) Not en
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by jpadkins 5y ago
> (often with a gross ignorance of the issues involved in hair care, beauty treatments, and hygiene). wait.. you seriously going to defend hairdresser regulations? Care to enlightenment me on why they are a net good for society? I alway
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by jpadkins 5y ago
> all market stock index fund should never return more than 4% above inflation why? what is special about 4%?
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by jpadkins 5y ago
Did you really need snopes to know that was a fable? Was it not obvious from the story itself?
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by jpadkins 5y ago
Did you read the link on money supply? Base money is not used in all transactions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_multiplier is used to facilitate commercial transactions Your example of GDP is a flow. Gold in
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by jpadkins 5y ago
it's true for other things where we have historical records and the production method hasn't changed significantly (productivity). for example, a hand tailored italian shoes + suit is 1 oz of gold, going back to roman times. The
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by jpadkins 5y ago
https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/ interesting theory. I've always thought it was end of bretton woods arrangement (pure fiat monetary system)
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by jpadkins 5y ago
> However, today, we have more economic activity than we have gold. Don't want to engage in the broader debate, but you do realize that gold is fungible and able to broken down into very small pieces? Are you familiar with the term
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by jpadkins 5y ago
The argument is a tax on revenue is very unfair to low margin business like retail or farming, so corp. tax is usually on profits. Which creates the loophole of where are the profits recognized.
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by jpadkins 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_correctness It's an old term, and has been used in it's current form since the 1970's. I remember it's usage in media in the 80s, before the commercial inter
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by jpadkins 5y ago
before, not after the announcement.
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by jpadkins 5y ago
lead in your hamburger is illegal in both libertarian legal frameworks and non-libertarian legal frameworks. liberty: intentionally or intentionally harming people is illegal. If you or your company poison someone, you are held responsible
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by jpadkins 5y ago
> Why should we assume that poverty would be the normal condition of man today? Because if it wasn't for a complex network of trading & specialization, we would be in poverty. That network uses trade & profits to organize i
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by jpadkins 6y ago
The key to any good currency (and product) is how to get adoption. I don't think the paper addresses this point, it just assumes merchants will accept greshm like it accepts dollars. I don't think that will be true. If they are
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by jpadkins 6y ago
https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity Look for activity related to Voltaren (it has a search function) https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated?hl=en
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by jpadkins 6y ago
social media was prior decade.
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by jpadkins 6y ago
> nearly as many crazy surges in value. This is hard to explain, like explaining air to animals or water to fish. Deflationary currencies aren't surging in value. Fiat currencies are dropping in value. Your frame of reference is a
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by jpadkins 6y ago
As a bad engineer who switched to PM 20 years ago, here are some thoughts: - do you have a high tolerance for bullshit and stress? you will get more BS and stress in a PM role - are you good at persuasion or want to develop that? As a PM or
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by jpadkins 6y ago
> also lets people conspire in secret to overthrow governments The USA was founded on this principle, and the framers felt it important enough to enshrine in the 1st and 4th amendment. Some could argue the possibility of citizen overth
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by jpadkins 6y ago
Article was pretty good until... > Protecting myself from bad actors is not my job. It is the government’s job. I stopped reading at this point. Also there were many misunderstandings (intentional or otherwise) that detracted a lot. Li
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by jpadkins 6y ago
(not OP) % of companies that reach $1/10/50M ARR?
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by jpadkins 6y ago
but isn't aquafarming vastly superior to vertical farming for that problem statement?

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