moccachino

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by moccachino 7y ago
Sure, but the shift is also within the U.S. over time. To support a strong public education system and hold a sensible position on gun control used to be something Republicans did as far as I can tell. There has been a definite shift to the
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by moccachino 7y ago
I don't want to get into politics much here but I have to respond to this. I'm not American but from where I stand I see that Trump is trying his best to turn his presidency into a dictatorship. He also admires and enjoys the comp
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by moccachino 7y ago
Pot calling the kettle black!
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by moccachino 7y ago
Iceland could claim government copyright on all their landscape, and charge for every Instagram post.
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by moccachino 7y ago
That's a valid point, but the removal of the physical step only serves to make the whole process even more absurd. With gold bars at the very least you have in your hands a concentrated lump of actual material that will survive a pow
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by moccachino 7y ago
I guess you are right that it's useful for black-market commerce and I suspect that's probably the only reason it has value. Regarding this: >Actually most of the energy comes from renewable sources, which would be wasted other
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by moccachino 7y ago
One is stuck in an 'information bubble' or an 'echo-chamber' when one gets most or all of ones news from a relatively small, homogeneous group that's rather fixated on specific issues. Anything that can be called ma
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by moccachino 7y ago
Of all the bizarre phenomenons in the world, I think the Bitcoin-as-an-investment takes the cake. People spend a ton of energy (that could otherwise to actual useful things) on shifting around bits that they then claim are very valuable. Yo
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by moccachino 7y ago
Michael Cohen was sentenced for exactly this [1] just a few months ago. [1] https://www.economist.com/united-states/2018/12/13/michael-c...
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by moccachino 7y ago
Oops, you are right!
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by moccachino 7y ago
To put that number into perspective, the 2015 US Military budget was --4 trillion-- 600 billion dollars [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_...
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by moccachino 7y ago
I used site:news.ycombinator.com on both engines
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by moccachino 7y ago
There was a discussion about exactly that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19604135 Ironically I could not find this link via DDG, but it was the first hit on Google.
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by moccachino 7y ago
That's not really feasible. You might know for which persons you are the emergency contact but you can't possibly know from which phone you would be contacted in case of an actual emergency.
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by moccachino 7y ago
As long as the internet remains free and not completely controlled by a few big players.
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by moccachino 7y ago
Sure, a benevolent, supremely intelligent and incorruptible dictator would be the best leader for any country. But governments should be about stability, resilience and steady progress, and not optimizing for superb efficiency at the cost o
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by moccachino 7y ago
Our whole lives consist of rationalizing after-the-fact what we observe ourselves to be doing.
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by moccachino 8y ago
From around here that's everyone's experience of tradespeople in every non-emergency task. "Sure I can do this in 3 weeks." Then shows up once every two weeks and finishes around the four month mark.
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by moccachino 8y ago
>You'd think that after the stupid Russian collusion story was dismantled by the recent Mueller report Not true at all. No one except the DoJ and probably white house have seen the Mueller report. They do all they can to prevent peo
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by moccachino 8y ago
... Great. Well, I guess consideration for anything except mission results is too much to ask of an organization like a military...
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by moccachino 8y ago
It seems to me that on a budget of 600-700 billion, it would not be too difficult to spend a few billion on bullets. Also not every bullet has to be the same (ignoring logistics and interoperability for the moment), but if there are already
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by moccachino 8y ago
Impressive!
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by moccachino 8y ago
Yes, if you don't have the radio on, if other people aren't talking, if your car isn't loud and rattling, if you don't mind sharing the data with google and of course if the voice recognition and app interfacing works at
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by moccachino 8y ago
But it could be done without looking. Driving home, reach for phone in the other seat, unlock, go to your contact (you remember the phonebook position of your frequent contacts), choose send sms, type the message fairly quickly, send. This
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by moccachino 8y ago
The law won't touch rich people where they care, their money. Why are there still tax havens? Why do corporations still make special tax exemption deals? Why are tax loopholes not as aggressively fought as drug smuggling? And even the
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by moccachino 8y ago
Sure, I've actually got nothing against rich people or even the idea of super rich people. But the whole system is set up in such a way that if you're wealthy you own the world and have to actively screw up to not get wealthier.
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by moccachino 8y ago
I don't mean this specifically as a solution to expensive housing, just a general solution to super disparate wealth inequality. The point is not to get more money for the state (income tax could be abolished to offset) but to put a na
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by moccachino 8y ago
There is no need to put a hard limit, just an effective limit by having a general wealth tax. Money flows to where money already is, that's inevitable in a capitalist market economy. There's no need to change that, but progressive
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by moccachino 8y ago
Keep your friends close...
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by moccachino 8y ago
some gyms have showers? some don't?

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