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by lend000 9y ago
Not to mention malicious circuit attacks that fry your computer. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/10/usb-k...
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by lend000 9y ago
High density zoning is only a short term solution, and it seems with current policy enactment speed, technology (and especially building regulations), demand will always outpace supply for the foreseeable future.
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by lend000 9y ago
Eh.. I saw it more as a symptom of humans breeding. Human population has always been bound by some constraint, and now it seems that shelter is more of a limiting factor than food supply, in western countries at least. That, and a cultural
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by lend000 9y ago
These comments underscore the fact that real estate is increasing everywhere, not just city centers. However, it is magnified in city centers, and here are the (apparently not) obvious primary causes: - A higher proportion of people want to
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by lend000 9y ago
Foreign investment is not the root cause of a growing population being drawn to city centers with limited land.
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by lend000 9y ago
Georgism is a very interesting idea -- however, in its purest form, what is the incentive to invest in land? E.g. to build tall buildings, factories, invest in better farming practices/technology, etc. Would it not be better to have fu
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by lend000 9y ago
It only seems weird because it isn't the norm -- like one of the other commenters mentioned, we tend to know the approximate net worth / salaries of family/friends and yet society, on average, continues to run. And in large c
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by lend000 9y ago
There are multiple, including GrantCoin.
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by lend000 9y ago
> Well no... You're suggesting we twist it in a different way and totally ignoring all the reasons those laws you don't like came to exist in the first place. Desperately disingenuous -- I made it quite clear on each point that
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by lend000 9y ago
> But your system isn't more free. Universal healthcare is obviously the most free system. Lol. It is more free, as in freedom of the individual market agents to self organize and direct resources without a centralized authority. Th
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by lend000 9y ago
> We have the capability to remove wealth from the equation of health entirely so why not? Do we? I think the world needs at least one private healthcare market powerhouse to drive the advancement of medicine -- right now, it's most
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by lend000 9y ago
In theory, it means that if minerA has 100 coins, and minerB has 1 coin, minerB will need 100x the hash power to mine the same amount of blocks as minerA on average. Not sure how the implementation is done in Ethereum, but I imagine it invo
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by lend000 9y ago
Seems like it would be difficult to scale down our brain and retain intelligence.
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by lend000 9y ago
I love that this comment was down-voted because it so ironically conveys how accurate sentiment analysis is -- i.e. the masses reject it.
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by lend000 9y ago
A ticket quota is the same principle, and those are apparently the norm.
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by lend000 9y ago
Looking forward to when there is more information than just a press release (the press release for Intel's 3D X-Point memory was over two years ago, and we still aren't seeing those in production). Regardless, very exciting work,
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by lend000 9y ago
It comes down to the philosophical question -- are you better defined by the pattern of matter and energy that represents you, or are you the matter and energy that represents you? I personally believe it's the former. I.e. if I ha
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by lend000 9y ago
I do not know why you think "panic and crash" is specific to a run on the bank / forced bank restructuring. By the way, the original comment was about business cycles in general (that nerdponx replied to): > Are business
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by lend000 9y ago
The major gap in your understanding: Bank insolvency != business cycle. Canada does indeed experience business cycles like every other significant economy. There are some examples in this article, if you don't believe me: http:/&
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by lend000 9y ago
Seems like it's completely unavoidable for there to be cycles; central banks and regulations intended to smooth the economy just seem to expand the cycles (longer booms and longer busts) and concentrate malinvestment in different areas
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by lend000 9y ago
(Your link is only for e-filing.) Millions of returns are still processed via mail.
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by lend000 9y ago
> Tax PIN number and Last year's tax refund -- Pay taxes and do tax refunds For individuals, your TIN (Taxpayer Identification Number) defaults to your SSN, and you do not need the previous year's return to file taxes. Not su
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by lend000 9y ago
So the private sector picked the default Taxpayer Identification Number the IRS uses? I find that dubious at best.
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by lend000 9y ago
If the government already chose a 9-digit 'secret' number that can be used to pay taxes and get tax refunds and do pretty much any other sensitive communication, is it the onus of private industry to supersede it? Experian failed,
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by lend000 9y ago
They would probably pick something more secure than the government did, considering they have a vested interest in not succumbing to fraud.
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by lend000 9y ago
> This same thing happened under a more liberal capitalist government before. That's literally how Chavez got into power. That's not true at all. The previous government was socializing the economy, starting with nationalizing
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by lend000 9y ago
More like the lack of competition. See the recent lawsuit by Gary Johnson that was dismissed against the CPD, which is essentially a monopoly on voter information. Even with the Internet making alternative views increasingly accessible to y
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by lend000 9y ago
They aren't making the market less efficient, because index funds create value for many people for the reasons you described. The market inefficiency is easily corrected by day traders and market makers. I'm just saying that index
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by lend000 9y ago
> I'm not surprised everybody is missing the biggest advantage of index investing This isn't about whether index investing is a good strategy for many people, especially those with low-moderate risk appetites and no time/e
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by lend000 9y ago
> ~99%. Critically, prices change as a result of any imbalance in supply and demand for stocks. > If company A is worth 1 billion and company B is worth 2 billion yet they have equal investments in both, then they sell some of A to bu

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