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by kaonashi 11y ago
No details as to why you're making this causal link, just post hoc propter hoc, eh?
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by kaonashi 11y ago
They keep hiking income tax rates before inflation ever materializes, that's a good way to keep deflation going indefinitely. Cut taxes, especially in the lower brackets, you will find your inflation eventually. Japan just doesn'
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by kaonashi 11y ago
How is this supposed to create more creditworthy borrowers?
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by kaonashi 11y ago
Sure you can: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99s19HBs-6A
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by kaonashi 11y ago
That's not a Ponzi scheme; that really doesn't have anything to do with Ponzi schemes, I wonder why you even bring it up?
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by kaonashi 11y ago
There's a board game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-H4q6OXSc4
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by kaonashi 11y ago
> This is a country with well over a 1000 executions each year You don't say... http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/nov/16/the-counted-k...
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by kaonashi 11y ago
> without combining logic with markup. To me that's a feature
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by kaonashi 11y ago
Not by any private actor, governments are just better at this kind of thing.
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by kaonashi 11y ago
I can't
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by kaonashi 11y ago
Glad people got his permission to do what they wanted to do anyways.
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by kaonashi 11y ago
Jail is the constitutional exception to slavery, so American law enforcement has had a built-in incentive since reconstruction to incarcerate as many people as possible to make up the work gangs that had previously been filled with slaves.
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by kaonashi 11y ago
I'm comfortable that my employer can terminate my employment should I alienate the people I work with to the point I can no longer carry out my job.
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by kaonashi 11y ago
That would depend on how what that person said affects their relationships with co-workers (e.g. someone went on a racist Twitter tirade that all their co-workers read, some of whom belong to groups they were disparaging)
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by kaonashi 11y ago
> ostracized, fired, prevented from earning a living …and if you force people to be in your company regardless of what you say does to those people, you've taken away their freedom of assembly.
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by kaonashi 11y ago
Because without public funding, socialism can't happen; and public funding has been systematically undermined in favor of private funding.
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by kaonashi 11y ago
Are you trying to make the case that ruby is type-safe?
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by kaonashi 11y ago
The distinction here seems to be whether to group all your async code into actions, or let FRP producers pepper your code?
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by kaonashi 11y ago
> Also why conflate fasting and ketogenics? He made the distinction between ketosis, a ketosis-inducing diet and fasting as far as I could tell: > I’m suspicious that there are big differences between nutritional ketosis (induced by
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by kaonashi 11y ago
The worst thing about rails these days is ruby itself. If I'm going to use a non type-safe language, I may as well use the one that's on the client side as well (and has first class functions).
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by kaonashi 11y ago
There are tons of alt-coins. Am I missing something?
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by kaonashi 11y ago
Then it's no longer BTC, it's something else (completely separate networks).
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by kaonashi 11y ago
Money itself is a legal phenomenon, the laws can be changed to amend how money functions.
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by kaonashi 11y ago
They did this so that the lottery overall was less of a regressive tax on the poor. It's not a rip-off at all, it's actually much fairer. We desperately need something similar with our tax code as a whole.
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by kaonashi 11y ago
> Back before 2008, I used to teach my students that during a disturbance in the business cycle, we'd be 40 percent of the way back to normal in a year. The long-run trend of economic growth, I would say, was barely affected by shor
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by kaonashi 11y ago
A Solow-humper sees the error of his ways. It's the feel good hit of the new year.
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by kaonashi 11y ago
Ugh
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by kaonashi 11y ago
That's when you want to start focusing on supply side, once demand has driven inflation, it may be that the local housing market has the capacity to absorb the extra spending.
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by kaonashi 11y ago
If you want to create a market for housing refugees, give the refugees themselves housing credits and let companies compete to provide the services. Supply-side-only solutions rarely work.
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by kaonashi 11y ago
I doubt Teh Government sees anything with a single point of view.

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