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by kaonashi 11y ago
> Many of those power imbalances were created (directly or indirectly) by the government. Therefore using government to correct them is somehow immoral? Not sure how that follows (or if not that, what you are attempting to say here).
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by kaonashi 11y ago
I think we should recognize that power imbalances exist and that some private contracts are very exploitative, and are thus not entirely voluntary.
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by kaonashi 11y ago
What functional difference does it make?
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by kaonashi 11y ago
So the perfect business model is one that hides as much pricing information from the consumer as possible.
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by kaonashi 11y ago
> The last thing you want is a government monkeying around with your currency. Currencies are legal instruments of Governments, seem rather inextricable to me.
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by kaonashi 11y ago
>Try having an absurd (approach infinity) number of dollars and, even if circulation speed is near zero, dollars will have near zero value. That only matters if those dollars are being spent and remain in the flow of funds. Say the Trea
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by kaonashi 11y ago
> The quantity of money governs the price level in the long run The quantity of money is both nebulously defined, and also has absolutely nothing to do w/ price level; it's all spending relative to output capacity.
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by kaonashi 11y ago
You forgot 'total lack of political authority'.
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by kaonashi 11y ago
According to Wikipedia, his parents put up the initial money.
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by kaonashi 11y ago
Punching up vs. punching down.
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by kaonashi 12y ago
That would make sense to say if we were talking about the entire university; but we're not.
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by kaonashi 12y ago
> When specifically did you gain the right to not be offended That's an unbelievably dismissive view. What makes you think these areas are merely about exclusion from offense?
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by kaonashi 12y ago
A 45 minute full HIIT workout should burn about ~1000 calories; not exactly trivial.
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by kaonashi 12y ago
> Why would we want more laws restricting business? Presumably because those laws would serve the public purpose.
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by kaonashi 12y ago
React doesn't try to do 'Reactive' programming structures; it does a view layer that's composable. How that data gets into the components is your responsibility; you can easily use something like Baconjs/RxJS to do
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by kaonashi 12y ago
QE wasn't/isn't inflationary (and I believe the empirics bear this out), it was a dollar for dollar swap of treasuries for reserves. If anything it is/was the opposite, removing interest income from the private sector an
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by kaonashi 12y ago
Yea, a truly great economics troll would reach for something like the money multiplier, law of diminishing marginal returns, or loanable funds to make such an argument.
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by kaonashi 12y ago
Thanks for illustrating the attitudes that make these kinds of situations possible.
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by kaonashi 12y ago
A solution in search of a problem.
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by kaonashi 12y ago
This was predicted at the onset of the EMU in this piece: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v14/n19/wynne-godley/maastricht-and-all...
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by kaonashi 12y ago
> Societies need to allow the free flow of ideas. Then when does "That makes me feel like shit when you say things like that" become taboo?
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by kaonashi 12y ago
> A robust society can take the jokes. Let me rephrase that: > A robust society requires everyone in the minority to shut the fuck up when anyone in the majority makes them feel invisible > An irony is that many of the people calli
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by kaonashi 12y ago
I have one of these TV's; they have a feature where you can push a microphone button to issue voice commands. I'm assuming this is to do with what's picked up while the voice command prompt is active, which is when you push
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by kaonashi 12y ago
Of course not. Germany has a policy of producing a trade surplus. In order for that to happen other countries must run a trade deficit. This isn't some moral failing, it's simple fucking arithmetic.
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by kaonashi 12y ago
With destructuring and tco, the only thing its really missing is pattern matching on multiple function bodies.
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by kaonashi 12y ago
Please realize that mathematically, any grouping of countries sharing a single currency will have some members that export more and some that import more. Is it fair to force the countries importing more into idleness and destitution for no
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by kaonashi 12y ago
Seems something like ruby's method_missing.
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by kaonashi 12y ago
I suppose if you find there to be no value to the Twitter service itself, that might be a fair proposition.
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by kaonashi 12y ago
How does this differ from say Erlang and OTP? (conceptually)
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by kaonashi 12y ago
> Unemployment is because when it reaches a certain level it puts pressure on prices through upwards wage pressure Unfortunately, the policy response seem to not be to wait for inflation to appear, but to change policy to increase unempl

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