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by lowkey 3y ago
He is currently polling at 20% amongst democrats and has a higher favorability rating than either Biden or Trump in some polls. All this while facing an unrelenting smear campaign by powerful media interests. Despite his voice issues, his m
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by lowkey 3y ago
After hearing the man in his own words, instead of listening to what the media tells us to think, I am convinced that Robert F. Kennedy Jr is the most authentic candidate to run in recent history. His strong stance against the endless inter
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by lowkey 3y ago
The original Bitcoin Whitepaper laid out multiple use cases: * digital cash * peer to peer transactions * digital gold * censorship resistant transactions * hard money with fixed monetery policy and capped supply * highly-decentralized with
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by lowkey 3y ago
> Canada has like 40 banks and strong regulation has kept them out of crises like in 2008 Canada secretly bailed out their banks to the tune of $114 billion CAD in 2008. If you compare Canada's secret bank bailout to the US equivale
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by lowkey 3y ago
I feel it is important to call out the one’s credit score is not a measure of creditworthiness. It is a measure of an individual’s potential profitability to a creditor. These two are not the same thing.
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by lowkey 3y ago
Most Bitcoin energy contracts in Texas are structured as long-term pre-purchase agreements. They incentivize the build out of green energy projects such as wind and solar. Projects that in many cases would never have happened without subsid
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by lowkey 3y ago
One of the notable features of the Apple Card is that it is the only credit card available in America that promises not to sell your private information or transaction history. I would trust my data to Apple more than any other financial in
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by lowkey 3y ago
As a point of order, chatgpt is not a citable source. It relies on underlying sources and you can ask chatgpt to identify it’s sources for a specific response in a follow up question.
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by lowkey 3y ago
> Inflation is irrelevant. I've studied economics ... it's hogwash. I call the above statement hogwash. Let’s take your proposal to the logical extreme. If inflation is hogwash, then why do we have to tax the citizens? Why not
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by lowkey 3y ago
I completely agree. As soon as the option appears in my app I will be signing up. Also, external deposits are allowed from a linked bank account.
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by lowkey 3y ago
I think this is important to emphasize. The Apple Card is the only credit card available in the US that comes with an explicit commitment not to sell you PII or transaction data. Privacy guarantees are an undervalued benefit.
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by lowkey 3y ago
The price of every single good would go up, including all food - not just soda, diapers, toilet paper, toothpaste - everything. Everything we consume is shipped and if the price of everything goes up the standard of living of everyone goes
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by lowkey 3y ago
Housing in Austin metro has gone up in recent years but it is still 1/3 the price of a home in the Bay Area or San Diego. Property taxes are proportionately higher than in California but lower on an absolute basis for a similar propert
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by lowkey 3y ago
In America personal vehicles are a necessity unless you live in the core of a city with adequate public transit of which there are only a handful. They are a necessity if you live in a small town, the suburbs, a rural area, an area with ext
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by lowkey 3y ago
Per this source [0] it appears you are correct. Trucks contribute 99% of wear and tear on the roads but pay only 35% of the cost. My take is that cars/pickups/suvs are overpaying by a lot and commercial trucks are underpaying by a
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by lowkey 3y ago
I’ve heard this before and if it is true I would be in favor of adjusting gas taxes on commercial vehicles to cover the cost of road maintenance. However, $0.10/mile sounds excessive and punitive and inflationary for all consumers. I w
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by lowkey 3y ago
Should we also add a new tax to all electric vehicles who use the roads without paying gas tax? I could see an argument both ways but taxing electric vehicles would tend to negate the incentive to switch from polluting cars. Would you rathe
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by lowkey 3y ago
I find it curious to talk about basic economics when referring to the cost and supply of money. Money is subject to centralized control and manipulation by a quasi-private entity (the Federal Resserve) which holds a monopoly on the cost and
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by lowkey 3y ago
Would you also want to charge commercial delivery vehicles $0.10/mile? They are also private businesses and they already pay gas tax. Do you realized the cost will simply be passed on to the consumer in the end either way leading to hi
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by lowkey 3y ago
Notably the price of a similar wrapped sandwich at the ATX airport is $16
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by lowkey 4y ago
They are playing fast and loose with their accounting by ignoring the large contribution that comes from local affiliate stations, local affiliate stations that receive a large part of their funding from the corporation for public broadcast
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by lowkey 4y ago
Correction: Twitter lists NPR as government-funded media, not state affiliated media [0] [0] https://mobile.twitter.com/NPR
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by lowkey 4y ago
NPR is listed as government-funded media, not state-affiliated media [0] A large part of their funding comes from congress -> corporation for public broadcasting -> local NPR affiliates -> NPR. It is indirect funding, yes, but they
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by lowkey 4y ago
I always thought it was interesting that the English word for a home loan is mortgage (meaning death pledge) but the French use another word, hypotheque. I wonder why the French don't use the same word. Maybe the transparency hits too
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by lowkey 4y ago
https://archive.is/mKdAN
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by lowkey 4y ago
6102 reversed is also 2016 which is the number of Bitcoin blocks mined before a difficulty adjustment, interesting coincidence!
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by lowkey 4y ago
Quote from NPR’s own website[0]: “Public Radio and Federal Funding Federal funding is essential to public radio's service to the American public and its continuation is critical for both stations and program producers, including NPR. P
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by lowkey 4y ago
The US dollar has lost 99% of its purchasing power since the creation of the Federal Reserve. The minimum wage in the US in 1964 was $1.25/hour. Notably those five quarters were 90% silver worth about $20 US today. The British Pound St
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by lowkey 4y ago
Sure, that would have been ideal in hindsight but based on the scenario I described above, I would argue that the depositor is simply being prudent to withdraw their funds from a bank if they are concerned about it’s stability. There is zer
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by lowkey 4y ago
Not according to this statement from the Fed itself. It applies to all depository institutions. https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/reservereq.htm

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