monort

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Taking Children Seriously(fallibleideas.com)
235 points by monort 9y ago|229 comments
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by monort 9y ago
You said that jewelry and industrial use outweighs investment use, but gold reserves (investment) far outstrip yearly transaction amount, that is the difference with other commodities, where it is rare to have more than a year supply. It is
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by monort 9y ago
Actually, bitcoin velocity is comparable to M2 USD: http://charts.woobull.com/bitcoin-velocity/
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by monort 9y ago
If we compare only fluctuation down, then except for the first bitcoin bubble, they are actually the same magnitude difference: around 2x https://static4.businessinsider.com/image/5a09d3f635876e0101... Though fiat curr
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by monort 9y ago
You are looking at the wrong metric, it seems like they count only transactions, not holdings. Only Fort Knox holds over 4000 of metric tons of gold.
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by monort 9y ago
You are incorrect in the belief, that currencies of developed world do not fluctuate. Pound sterling: http://www.macrotrends.net/2549/pound-dollar-exchange-rate-h... Swiss franc: http://www.macrotrends.net&#
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by monort 9y ago
Usually hidden cameras are installed in hotels not by owners, but by staff.
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Zemel v. Rusk: no constitutional right to international travel(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by monort 9y ago|0 comments
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by monort 9y ago
Imagine you are living in the past, when gold had only industrial, probably jewelry use, and you invent the concept of money. Would you buy the gold then? Hint: industrial use accounts for maybe 1% of the price of gold. That is what is happ
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Fiat money(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by monort 9y ago|0 comments
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by monort 9y ago
Because it's too early, bitcoin is still small. Wait until some terrorists use it for funding.
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by monort 9y ago
USSR had more of the floor as well, it still had a large inequality. You could get much more resources (though not monies) if you chose to become a party bureaucrat.
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by monort 9y ago
It's acceptable and encouraged to follow unknown people on IG. I follow people with hobbies I like, some of them become friends due to interaction. Unfortunately this works only for hobbies that can be fit in a photo, I'd like to
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by monort 9y ago
Do you actually use Instagram yourself? From my anecdotal evidence - IG is the greatest source of new friends (do you know how hard to get a friend when you are an adult? It's easy with IG). Most communication happens in private messag
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by monort 9y ago
Would you apply the same logic to government? Government has to be broken down to pieces. I think it has reached a state where it cannot be allowed to continue as a single government being able to observe/monitor public and private com
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The puzzle of monogamous marriage(rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org)
4 points by monort 9y ago|1 comments
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by monort 9y ago
You should pay to five companies in different jurisdictions for a 3 of 5 multi-sig. As far as I know, nobody offers such service right now, but I think it will exist in the future.
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Is mandatory research ethics reviewing ethical?(jme.bmj.com)
2 points by monort 9y ago|0 comments
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The NIPS peer review experiment(hunch.net)
2 points by monort 9y ago|0 comments
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Herpes Vaccine: Not How You Speed the Process Up, Exactly(blogs.sciencemag.org)
3 points by monort 9y ago|0 comments
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Heirloom plant(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by monort 9y ago|0 comments
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by monort 9y ago
Are you talking hypotheticals? Because in reality private jitneys are mostly forbidden in US, not regulated.
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by monort 9y ago
This depends on a country, I've seen some where it's municipal bus, that is overcrowded, and mini-bus is a more "premium" service. But anyway, do you think you should force them to pay twice the price by removing the ove
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by monort 9y ago
There are dollar vans in NY, that supposedly regulated and still profitable. It's really weird how developed world mostly ignores third-world model of private mini-buses.
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Book Review: Legal Systems Very Different from Ours(slatestarcodex.com)
5 points by monort 9y ago|0 comments
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The Atomic Bomb Considered as Hungarian High School Science Fair Project(slatestarcodex.com)
1 points by monort 9y ago|0 comments
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Tituba: The Slave of Salem (2013)(historyofmassachusetts.org)
2 points by monort 9y ago|0 comments
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Tanenbaum–Torvalds debate(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by monort 9y ago|0 comments
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Epistemic learned helplessness (2013)(squid314.livejournal.com)
3 points by monort 9y ago|0 comments
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by monort 9y ago
If you are a fully automatic tea machine startup from the future and reading this - the problem is not engineering, the problem is marketing. Put your ingenuity and money into it.

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