landemva

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by landemva 3y ago
How is 9/11 on the other side of harassing MLK? FBI had been told before 9/11 about non-citizens paying with cash at flights schools for heavy aircraft simulator time. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fbi-was-warn
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by landemva 3y ago
There were reward halvings in 2012, 2016, and 2020. I thought the 2012 halving was the most uncertain, as it was the first and the market had little liquidity. https://www.fidelity.com/learning-center/trading-investing&
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by landemva 3y ago
Sounds like digital assets are not for you. Gold and silver coin in your pocket are a time-tested approach.
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by landemva 3y ago
The big guys/gals/peoples at Fidelity and BlackRock also want a piece of the crypto action. https://decrypt.co/97795/blackrock-handle-circle-usdc-cash-r... 'BlackRock will become "a primary asset ma
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by landemva 3y ago
Like gold ETFs, they can do BTC synthetically via futures or have a custodian take custody. The interesting ETF will be for Ethereum because a custodian can possibly stake it and earn yield. ETH can earn within the basic protocol.
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by landemva 3y ago
It is not the code of the USDC stablecoin paying 5%, so that reward is something else. Maybe the exchange wants to get many people sending coin to them so their asset base looks big for ... some purpose?
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by landemva 3y ago
Hmmm, somewhat different than an election voting. With proof of stake, a staker eventually gets an opportunity to follow the validation rules and put some transactions in a block. If they don't properly follow the rules, they will get
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by landemva 3y ago
Stablecoins are supposed to be stable, and not rise or fall. There is no expectation of profit for a stablecoin like USDC. And USDC doesn't pay interest. People use it for stability and for payments.
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by landemva 3y ago
> I feel pretty good about considering stable coins securities. Take that further to airline points and Chipotle points. If the stablecoin does not provide returns to the holder, how is it an investment contract?
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by landemva 3y ago
> you could just require a physical ID It's actually not necessary to have an ID to get through TSA, so please don't encourage it.
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by landemva 3y ago
The full body scans are also voluntary. I opt out of all of that nonsense with three words "no thank you".
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by landemva 3y ago
> you would be disregarding their very real concerns, especially when they would have been right about them. Which TSA concerns were they right about and what dates? Matching pictures doesn't indicate a person smuggling items onboar
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by landemva 3y ago
The difference is US dollar notes have a liability which is paid to banks 'federal reserve' and coins do not have liabilities so coins don't cost USA when issued. Coins are just issued. Notes (paper dollars and electronic) ar
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by landemva 3y ago
> The coins are bought with newly created money which creates the necessary liability side of money creation. Not in USA. US coins are fiat without a liability. This leads to people every few years thinking they discovered that coins are
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by landemva 3y ago
US coins are not debt. Coins are minted and issued as fiat then sold at face value to 'federal reserve'. Modern US notes are debt, which is why the paper has the word 'note'. Compare that with earlier paper dollars which
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by landemva 3y ago
At the time, the law authorizing private bank contractor 'federal reserve' didn't authorize those European actions.
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by landemva 3y ago
Like a credit card, national debt pulls foward spending at the price of paying interest to bankers. Breaking glass windows also increases growth (or GDP) because it forces spending to replace the broken windows. Similar GDP increase when US
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by landemva 3y ago
> the Fed only cares about the US I presume by Fed you mean the not-government 'federal reserve' which is a contractor to Congress which tinkers with monetary policy and sets the price of money. Federal Reserve quietly provided
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by landemva 3y ago
The good thing for Americans about coins is they are minted and issued without incurring debt. Notes are printed, sold to 'federal reserve' for pennies per sheet, then loaned into circulation which increases the debt which America
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by landemva 3y ago
Unfair competition due to fewer environmental regulations and fewer labor standards can be remedied by USA creating wage and environmental parity import duties/tariffs. This should apply to everything including iPods and rollerblades.
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by landemva 3y ago
Well, Mexico was a thought experiment. Cuba hosting nukes for USSR happened as retaliation for USA pressing in to USSR via Turkey, and few are taught that history. It is reasonable for people and countries to want a buffer zone of security.
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by landemva 3y ago
Ukraine agreed in 2014 to Minsk agreement to allow Donbas to vote on self-sovereignty. Angela Merkel recently said that agreement was just scamming Russia to allow time for west to arm Ukraine. Now even Ukraine cancelled their elections, so
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by landemva 3y ago
It did happen. We could learn a lot to apply to future peace by studying history. https://www.npr.org/2022/10/16/1124680429/cuban-missile-cris... And USSR wanted USA out of neighboring Turkey. "
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by landemva 3y ago
I wonder how USA would react to Mexico joining a China military alliance and hosting Chinese troops and weapons? Or maybe Cuba hosting USSR weapons and troops?
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by landemva 3y ago
Like BlueTemplar wrote, it becomes confusing. That is why 'vehicle' caught my attention, and it may be worthwhile to not use 'ebike' and 'vehicle' as the same. Driving an actual vehicle on a rec path will likel
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by landemva 3y ago
> electric bikes and mopeds are electric vehicles. At USA federal level, which applies to federal lands and federal funding like 'rec paths' on municipal lands, ebikes are bicycles. They are not vehicles and not motorcycles. h
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by landemva 3y ago
Neither Russia nor Ukraine are NATO members, so NATO has nothing to do with it. US politicians and media distort this.
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by landemva 3y ago
First Class flight within USA is significantly different than a international long haul first class flight. But nobody takes an over water long haul train, so these are different markets.
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by landemva 3y ago
A big CA electricity provider was bankrupted a few years ago, so low rates may not be sustainable. https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/industries-and-topics/pge/pge-bankru...
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by landemva 3y ago
I think it is outrageous the government owns any land, outside of military bases and the Legislature and Governor buildings. Ownership of resources by government encourages these wasteful political battles. A poor government has little to s

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