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by marcell 5y ago
Pawnshops are collateralized loans for the poor. If the goal is to tax the rich, just be more direct and tax the rich. A wealth tax would work, no need for elaborate schemes.
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by marcell 5y ago
If you tax loans that means every credit card purchase or mortgage would trigger a tax. If you receive a $400k loan for a mortgage, that would mean something like $100k in taxes for an upper middle earner.
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by marcell 5y ago
What do you make of the claim in this article [1], which says that intermediate host species were found within 4 months of SARS1 outbreak, and within 9 months of MERS outbreak? Admittedly I can't find the underlying source for his clai
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by marcell 5y ago
How do we square this with recent nation wide experience that increased unemployment benefits are causing people to sit out the labor market? eg.: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27086861
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by marcell 5y ago
I'm 35 and I don't feel any of the ravages of age that some people describe. I do exercise and eat reasonably well, but I don't think it's anything out of the ordinary. I have a desk job (programming). Am I unusually luc
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by marcell 5y ago
Isn't this problem "easily" solved by desalination?
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by marcell 6y ago
> I just came across a digital currency system called Taler that solves the double spending problem by having a central authority This misses the entire point. Anyone can solve the double spend problem with MySQL, the innovation of bitco
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by marcell 6y ago
Can you point me to some sites where I can use NFT's to get loans?
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by marcell 6y ago
The laws I mentioned (14th amendment and California Prop 209) only apply to the Federal government and California. There are other laws that prohibit discrimination based on race, like the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and those may be applied
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by marcell 6y ago
Worth noting this policy is contrary to the 14th amendment’s equal protection clause, and also a California law prohibiting discrimination based on race that was recently upheld by a large majority vote.
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by marcell 6y ago
Isn't the whole issue with drugs the fact that they have a huge upfront cost in terms of research, and then they are basically free to produce? If you just do cost plus, then the research can't get (retroactively) funded. This is
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by marcell 6y ago
While Tether may indeed be a fractional reserve, that doesn't seem like an existential threat to bitcoin. At any given time, a small scale bitcoin holder (<1000BTC) can liquidate their entire position on Coinbase and withdraw USD to
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by marcell 6y ago
Right, but in crypto world most people regard coins held in custody as different from coins held in a private wallet. The Mt Gox experience was a good lesson on this topic, if it’s not your keys, it’s not your bitcoin. In comparison, very f
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by marcell 6y ago
There is a subtle distinction though. When a bank lends out US dollars, they are effectively creating new money that is treated as “real” money. They don’t technically lend out the deposits. In contrast, crypto lenders can’t create new bitc
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by marcell 6y ago
I don’t think extending life to infinity is a good idea. Why would anyone want to live forever? What’s the point?
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by marcell 6y ago
If this happens you can usually reach out to Google to see if they will refund the charge. They don’t really benefit from making $72k of a solo developer’s buggy code. I’ve done it once and their team was very helpful and reversed the charg
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by marcell 6y ago
Alternate perspective is that their excess mortality has been average since the middle of summer, and is not spiking as of right now. This site https://www.euromomo.eu/ lets you compare all this data by country.
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by marcell 6y ago
As a SV engineer I’m having the opposite experience hearing those numbers. It sounds way below market rates.
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by marcell 6y ago
It's not really important to withdraw USDT directly into my bank account. I can simply move USDT to Binance, convert it to USDC, and then withdraw USDC using my Coinbase account. USDC and USDT trade at basically 1:1, as you can see her
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by marcell 6y ago
Curious if you looked at the underlying data. Aside from 2018, this year does not even look like much of an outlier: https://mobile.twitter.com/TLennhamn/status/1295269505984344... . 2012 seems to have been deadli
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by marcell 6y ago
I think looking at the last 20 years is pretty reasonable. All the years are within my lifetime. I agree we should not zoom out for the last 200 years. If the data only looks bad when you look at 5 year window, and not 20 year window, that
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by marcell 6y ago
The data is linearly adjusted to fill out the 2020 data. You are right though, that we don't have the full year's data.
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by marcell 6y ago
This really depends on how far back you look. I was looking at the data for Sweden the other day. If you look at the last 20 years in terms of overall mortality, 2020 is right around the middle: https://mobile.twitter.com/TL
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by marcell 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_flu
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by marcell 6y ago
It's not the same argument that's being made today. They arguing against delegation of your vote to another person. Quoting: > Is it then become necessary, that a free people should first resign their right of suffrage into oth
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by marcell 6y ago
This is a good example of gish gallop: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop
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by marcell 6y ago
...? So it’s just an ad hominem?
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by marcell 6y ago
Can you summarize the objections? I skimmed the BuzzFeed article and it is very long, filled with vague innuendo. I couldn’t find any argument on the merits. Similarly your post is an ad hominem, but you didn’t make any arguments based on m
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Square, Inc. Invests $50M in Bitcoin(finance.yahoo.com)
3 points by marcell 6y ago|1 comments
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by marcell 6y ago
Note that limiting hyper targeting is very different from banning all political ads, as GP was suggesting, and as Twitter has done ( https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/30/technology/twitter-politi... ). Even

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