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by kaonashi 10y ago
Then we should probably prefer levels of organization that have a track record of pulling off these types of feats, instead of private sector wanking.
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by kaonashi 10y ago
Should probably be "down to 50 meters" then.
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by kaonashi 10y ago
Old man yells at cloud.
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by kaonashi 10y ago
Selling treasury bonds doesn't mean the government is 'borrowing' anything; they're a hand-out to savers. It's the difference between interest bearing and non-interest bearing U.S. liabilities (checking vs savings
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by kaonashi 10y ago
It seems like it's doing exactly what it was engineered to do, extract the maximum amount of dollars from the fed for defense contractors.
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by kaonashi 10y ago
Dancing doesn't exacerbate droughts.
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by kaonashi 10y ago
Peter Thiel, literal vampire.
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by kaonashi 10y ago
> just like getting people to commit less crimes might hurt for profit prisons Naw, they just lobby for new reasons to lock people up.
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by kaonashi 10y ago
Of course not, this is a political purge. Think Chile '73.
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by kaonashi 10y ago
Private organizations cooperating across borders is what's driving this.
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by kaonashi 10y ago
Nope, it's all money. The latter has a promise of convertibility by the issuer, but this promise can fail. The only promise that can't fail is the promise to redeem for an alternate form of the same currency (fiat-backed bonds fr
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by kaonashi 10y ago
It isn't 'fake money' at all. It's every bit as 'money' as Euros, the only difference is the size & scope of the respective issuers.
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by kaonashi 10y ago
The 'free market' aspect is often purely ideological and used as an excuse for privatization and cutting spending/austerity, which leads to the rent-seeking and stagnation.
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by kaonashi 10y ago
"Flexible labor markets" is just a euphemism for worker insecurity. Real class war stuff here. You can't have an underclass without oppression.
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by kaonashi 10y ago
Because you're making this comment in the context of a story about actual lynching and mob violence.
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by kaonashi 10y ago
Just stop it, nobody is being beaten or lynched for not being 'PC' enough. Having grown up in the evangelical church, what you describe applies equally to those on the right when it comes to issues like opposing taxation or aborti
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by kaonashi 10y ago
I wonder how much of that really has to do with ideology and how much has to do with excuses for doing less with smaller budgets.
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by kaonashi 10y ago
QE removes government bonds from circulation, replacing them with reserves which pay less interest. This forces those seeking a return on idle cash to seek alternate mattresses, of which real estate is a handy one. This leads to more real
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by kaonashi 10y ago
This kind of engineered inefficiency for market segmentation purposes irritates me to no end.
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by kaonashi 10y ago
Why do bubbles collapse at all? When valuation changes cause widespread insolvency, imo. That was possible in 2008 because household debt levels combined with the subprime scams create underwater households that could no longer keep up with
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by kaonashi 10y ago
> I have been thinking about adopting a black kid myself, to give him/her the best education possible and the culture I believe in, I may do that sometime. I think I just threw up in my mouth a little.
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by kaonashi 10y ago
Possible that the difference in the official form conflicted with his own PTSD-affected memory, thus the 5 instead of the 'official' 6. You'd have to know the timeline of claims for that, though.
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by kaonashi 10y ago
Not an either/or proposition. The limiting factors aren't financial assets (or are only limiting in a social manner).
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by kaonashi 10y ago
I hit reload and it loaded
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by kaonashi 10y ago
That and the coup.
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by kaonashi 10y ago
Isn't this essentially the same thing as hoodwink.d?
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by kaonashi 10y ago
"Bubble" is a bit of a loaded word. It implies both overvaluation and general instability; but these things aren't necessarily linked.
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by kaonashi 10y ago
The most prevalent seem to be pyramid schemes and gambling apps.
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by kaonashi 10y ago
Sometimes identity has a way of finding you, even if you try your hardest to keep it out. People define you, and depending on who or where you are, those definitions can have profound impact on your life. This piece reads like a person who
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by kaonashi 10y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyNeOKi2sO8

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