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by mughinn 4y ago
I'd argue it's the opposite, government intervention and existence explicitly favors the biggest players and nudges the market into oligopolies and monopolies
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by mughinn 4y ago
Because the page seems to be down: https://web.archive.org/web/20230307140530/https://dragon-la... It doesn't look like it has something that differentiate it from other languages and the main page
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by mughinn 4y ago
Any penalty that "makes an example out of someone" is by definition not fair and not justice
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by mughinn 4y ago
Reporting is always shit, you can't really trust the journalist or the editor that put the title to give you an accurate picture Both are true, too Inflation cooled, because Year over year in January is 6.4%, while in December it was 6
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by mughinn 4y ago
The solution to this would actually be to end the existence of Intellectual Property and allowing people to do what they want with the things they own. It would also solve most of the issues with copyright in memes, YouTube and the like
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by mughinn 4y ago
>And now assume that the cash in Argentina isn't coming out of mattresses but from criminal activities Yeah, criminal activities like wanting to work for a company that isn't in Argentina a without 80% tax on your salary Money
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by mughinn 4y ago
The same thing that happens when hospitals are unable to give care today in any country
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by mughinn 4y ago
You can contribute voluntarily to charities to help people pay medical debt, to charities that provide free medical assistance or there could be free/less expensive medical treatment given by universities as training to medical student
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by mughinn 4y ago
I don't know if this is legal now in the US, but insurance should be allowed to charge more for people with higher risk-taking, either because of past offenses, or other behaviors
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by mughinn 4y ago
Yes, we should allow people to ride without helmets. No, I'm not saying we should just leave them there to die.
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by mughinn 4y ago
Seat belts laws also shouldn't exist You also shouldn't be paying for everyone elses' healthcare
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by mughinn 4y ago
It's not the market, the customers don't care. They won't stop buying the product because of security issues, it's because of THAT that the price recovers, not because "the market" doesn't understand secur
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by mughinn 4y ago
Saying the cause is "the pandemic" is to avoid pointing fingers >voluntary lockdowns Who's saying voluntary? >The report – which covered Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka – also found that ab
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by mughinn 4y ago
Closing the schools is a lockdown measure, the pandemic didn't close the schools
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by mughinn 4y ago
Increase in suicides https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanwpc/article/PIIS2666-6... Increase in police brutality https://www.theparliamentmagazine.eu/news/article/covid19-lo... Del
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by mughinn 4y ago
It could also be that extended lockdowns caused a ton of deaths
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by mughinn 4y ago
That doesn't contradict the first comment, which says they either invest a lot more OR "are very bad at flying under the radar"
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by mughinn 4y ago
This probably isn't that impactful on the grand scale, but I want to mention 2 things On a problem meeting to get better at detecting some SMS fraud, we realized some manual labor the fraud team had to do with Excel. I made a program t
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by mughinn 4y ago
As an Argentine, it's really hard to not know about the World Cup and I would wager most (male, at least) friend groups will see each other more often during the games, since last World Cup In that context, I have resolved to not watch
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by mughinn 4y ago
You technically can trade your USDT for 1 dollar to the issuer (I don't know how, but it is probably harder than just going to market and selling) But this is people buying and selling their USDT, in a market, they can try to sell for
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by mughinn 4y ago
I guess he mostly means as a way to get around currency controls. Obviously if the government comes with the police you can be confiscated But for example, Argentina has incredibly harsh currency controls, any freelancer or company that tri
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by mughinn 4y ago
As far as I understood from the video, the Mikkelsen Twins did get rich from that money making scheme, until Audible basically found out and started trying to stop them (most of the books they "published" are not in the page anymo
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by mughinn 4y ago
I love Nicky Case's work. I particularly like their explanation of how voting could be better and a little bit of theory on it https://ncase.me/ballot/
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by mughinn 4y ago
The argument of the article seems to be (AFAIK) to make a printf function but in a more "lispy" fashion, not to outright ban the concept
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by mughinn 4y ago
0.296 is the chance of one player winning, there are 3 players. 0.296*3 is 0.888, which leaves 11.2% of chance where no player wins/they all tie
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by mughinn 4y ago
Nice to see it finally has an option to propagate Mark-of-the-Web (is it on by default?), it has been like 10 years since it was reported as a bug and was a possible hole in security for any organization that used it
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by mughinn 5y ago
It was a good program that felt like it was made for one part of the country without thinking of the rest. I've heard stories of people in Jujuy receiving a computer that didn't have electricity at their house