monero-xmr

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by monero-xmr 10mo ago
I wish, so so deeply in my bones, that after the 2008 financial crisis we just let everything fail. Fail fail fail, pain, turmoil. But after the pain would have been a much better, fairer system, where large banks and other "systemical
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by monero-xmr 10mo ago
Socialism is the way for the majority to constrict the individual. You may want that but I do not
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by monero-xmr 10mo ago
We live in a free society. No one votes on companies building things and expanding their enterprises. That would be socialism
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by monero-xmr 10mo ago
Apple and visa are not monopolies. This is why we need to agree on a monopoly because there is such disagreement about what actually is one
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by monero-xmr 10mo ago
First name an example of a private monopoly so we can debate one that truly exists and isolate the discussion to that one thing
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by monero-xmr 10mo ago
Well of course. As rent control continues the failure is more obvious every year, so they try to socialism harder and mandate more things. As an owner you either convert to condo (if you can) and sell it, find some loophole, or just hold on
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by monero-xmr 10mo ago
Bought them out
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by monero-xmr 10mo ago
If a democracy votes to not allow foreigners in, and to lower their standard of living year after year, and die out as the birth rate declines - I think it is the will of the citizens
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by monero-xmr 10mo ago
The prime minister said she wants lower immigration in order to preserve Japanese culture: https://x.com/ianmiles/status/1980957928791437360?s=46 The result will be lower GDP. But the culture will remain strictly
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by monero-xmr 10mo ago
I’m a big fan of staying private. I own a company that took VC many years ago but we strategically stayed private for a decade now and made peace with the VC. You just keep being honest, stacking customers, playing the long game. I see the
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by monero-xmr 10mo ago
Anecdotally I’ve seen among my non-tech friends more questions about VPNs. Several of my friends own Steam Decks which is pretty wild to me given they are just normie gamers. It’s literally the ads and bloatware. Windows is horrible unless
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Threat of California Billionaire Tax Draws Criticism from Ultrawealthy(wsj.com)
4 points by monero-xmr 10mo ago|1 comments
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by monero-xmr 10mo ago
French taxpayers need to revolt, and soon. Their situation is extremely bad
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by monero-xmr 10mo ago
It’s moronic to have the government pick winners. Only private investors with actual skin in the game will pick those with true potential. This error happens again and again and again
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by monero-xmr 10mo ago
It will turn out we just need to sit in a box for 15 minutes a day to pound us with magnets, sound waves, and hardcore vibrations to live to 125
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by monero-xmr 10mo ago
I have found charging to be a huge issue, and so has the majority of Americans (clearly). But why let facts interrupt an HN circle jerk?
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by monero-xmr 10mo ago
It’s also Americans realized how inconvenient electric cars are. I take a fair amount of road trips. I don’t have the time to wait 30 minutes minimum to charge. And if there’s a line it’s even worse. And in the winter the heater reduces the
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by monero-xmr 10mo ago
In New England, where the offshore wind is being shut down, there is very little sun right now. How will solar + battery help in New England?
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by monero-xmr 10mo ago
The problem is you build all of these offshore wind turbines and none of them are lowering our bills. As a politician I would try and lower my constituents' bills
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by monero-xmr 10mo ago
It would be cheapest, and 100% in our control, to construct coal plants. Coal is abundant. China builds insane amounts of coal plants to this day. That would provide bountiful cheap energy. But we don't do this. So all else being equal
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by monero-xmr 10mo ago
The UK has tons of wind power but prices there are exceptionally high. Offshore wind isn't as cost effective as solar, it's the poster boy for high-cost, low-value renewable energy
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by monero-xmr 10mo ago
Most people agree that we need utilities to be monopolies. PG&E, for all intents and purposes, is an arm of the state. Perhaps it’s private in some sense but we all know it’s the government. It has to abide by all manner of government m
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by monero-xmr 10mo ago
Hard for me to understand how the consumer was protected by preventing Amazon from acquiring them. Only for Chinese firm to get for cheap in bankruptcy. But maybe I’m not educated enough in socialism to understand the nuances
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by monero-xmr 10mo ago
I would just be careful to discount the capitalist West. You’d have to be blind to ignore the massive overbuilding of property in China, which they are now demolishing. All of that wasted capital. Authoritarian regimes with controlled media
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by monero-xmr 10mo ago
Stand By Me as well
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Rob Reiner and wife found dead(nytimes.com)
2 points by monero-xmr 10mo ago|2 comments
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by monero-xmr 11mo ago
The same WSJ oped said: > Someone’s got to pay as papa becomes grand-père, but the forecast is bleak. Today there are 39 seniors for every 100 working-age people in France. But by 2070 working-age French will account for only 50% of the
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by monero-xmr 11mo ago
https://www.unedic.org/publications/qui-sont-les-allocataire... translated: > Of the 6.2 million people registered with France Travail in the 3rd quarter of 2024, 6 out of 10 are beneficiaries supported by the Unem
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by monero-xmr 11mo ago
“Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway” In the AI analogy, never underestimate the productivity of a human when dealing with a giant pile of groceries. You can throw all the AI and robo
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by monero-xmr 11mo ago
It’s extremely hard to truly understand the past, how they thought, what they believed, what they saw as acceptable vs. what today seems crazy. For example the founding legend of Rome is called the Rape of the Sabines, which is how the brav

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