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by nationcrafting 11y ago
Or 18+, for when you can't get no satisfaction.
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by nationcrafting 11y ago
Hello das2, sorry for the late reply. Yes, it was down to Fujimori. It's true that Fujimori is in jail right now, but not for corruption. He's in jail for his overzealous approach to the antiterrorist campaigns that took place i
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by nationcrafting 11y ago
I live in Peru, next door (give or take a few thousand miles), and completely agree with you w.r.t. Chile being very start-up and generally business-friendly, which does indeed involve government staying out of wealth creators' way, an
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by nationcrafting 11y ago
Just wondering, since you're argentinian... Since there are so many complications for argentinians wanting to buy dollars, and since the purpose is to store wealth, why don't we hear much about argentinians buy silver or gold coi
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by nationcrafting 12y ago
Errors in determining the price of money do have fatal consequences. When interest rates jump from, say, 2% to 4%, in terms of cashflow this means a doubling of expenditure on a regular basis. If your mortgage was X per month, it'll n
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by nationcrafting 12y ago
You make some good points. I think the solution has to be one that looks at the state as a service provider. Until the issues have been depoliticised, decisions will be made for political reasons rather than good business reasons. As a se
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by nationcrafting 12y ago
I understand your sentiment. Really. However, let's look at the bigger picture to see if we can spot any unintended consequences of the policy you hint at. Interest is the price of money. Quite literally, it is the price that a perso
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by nationcrafting 12y ago
>Is there a huge stock of abandonded shipping containers just sitting around? There is indeed. For quite a few years, imports into the US have been much less than exports from the US, so there are more containers coming to the US with s
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by nationcrafting 12y ago
To anyone who finds this as infuriating as I do: take consolation in the fact that the Streisand effect will probably ensure this restaurant's bad service will now be known by an even greater public.
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by nationcrafting 12y ago
<blockquote>Well, we’re three decades into an era of systemic deregulation and financialization. The result? Global recession, lingering structural unemployment, and an accumulation of capital at the top of the economic pyramid.<&#
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by nationcrafting 12y ago
Read up about it, if you can find the time: the Puerto Rico situation is different than all other foreign countries for US citizens.
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by nationcrafting 12y ago
Soylent and food are not mutually exclusive. Soylent replaces feed, not food. If anything, soylent makes those times when you eat out extra special, since you get to eat out for the sake of flavour rather than to fill up your belly, and yo
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by nationcrafting 12y ago
Very well put, Patrick. Funnily enough, I'm living in Peru right now (been coming here for the past 15 years) and make the same argument to anyone who challenges what free markets can do to lift a country out of poverty. Chile's
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by nationcrafting 13y ago
Exactly. I've had this discussion many times w.r.t. global warming, and am amazed so many people, including scientists, just don't get it. The level the seas would rise is not so much dependent on floating ice (north pole) since
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by nationcrafting 13y ago
-"We've put your picture on a mail stamp. Now people will see your face everytime they send mail". -"You mean my face will be pasted in their signature?"
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by nationcrafting 13y ago
No. You can usually buy physical at spot + 1 or 2% max. In the UK, coins like Sovereigns or Britannias are capital gains tax free, so you typically pay a bit more for them, like 4 or 5% above spot. But then you won't have the headac
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by nationcrafting 13y ago
Funny, I recently had the opportunity to organise a structured brainstorm to name a friend's baby daughter. I've done this quite a bit over the years for new brands, and figured I could apply similar methods to arrive at a name t
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by nationcrafting 13y ago
Why does everything have to be evaluated in terms of encouraging one gender to do X or encouraging one race to do Y? Why not just generally encourage humans to be open to learn things they may find interesting or useful?
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by nationcrafting 13y ago
Plenty of countries have had common currencies throughout history without having a common fiscal policy (I'll assume you made a mistake when you wrote "common monetary policy", since monetary policy is the very thing you give
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by nationcrafting 13y ago
No, he hasn't done all those things. That's kind of the point here: this is about going back to the moon i.e. doing things that have already been done. The point now is to do them in such a way that you can generate wealth while
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by nationcrafting 13y ago
That's great. But w.r.t. going to the moon, the ground work has clearly been laid now. They did go there, after all. So, the task is not "getting them to do it again" but "doing it ourselves, better and at lower cost&
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by nationcrafting 13y ago
>It's not just the money, but the entire ecosystem to support the industry. Exactly. You could think of a project on the moon as building a platform, much in the way that the formation of the US was building a platform: creating som
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by nationcrafting 13y ago
> Okay, so Apple and Microsoft and Google probably could bankroll a modern Apollo program. You're assuming the entire cost needs to be bankrolled by a single entity or company. No such assumption needs to be made. > There is no
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by nationcrafting 13y ago
Exactly. And since brands are strengthened by a good story behind them, he'll have this story to tell. Stories of the David vs Goliath variety are always popular with brands that are built on slightly rebellious values.
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by nationcrafting 13y ago
Seems a bit 20th century to ask Congress for money to do it, when people like Elon Musk have shown you can do pretty much anything NASA can do privately at a 10th of the cost.
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by nationcrafting 13y ago
Scary as current drones are, they are nothing compared to how crazy things are going to get very quickly. Think of completely power-autonomous drones, the size of a wasp, swarming by the millions in the sky. The swarming feature alone woul
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by nationcrafting 13y ago
Exactly. When the system allows you to create wealth, and keep enough of it to make it worth the effort, more people can afford to buy second homes in sunny places.
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by nationcrafting 13y ago
Non-fiction: Antifragile by Nassim Taleb was very good. Reminded me of Hayek's deep insight into chaotic, organic systems (e.g. human interaction systems). Also helped me to find out what direction I should take after my own book ( ht
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by nationcrafting 13y ago
France is one of the most frustrating countries a young entrepreneur could ever work in. As soon as you find some way to bypass the rigidity of the system to create something new, to make life easier for people and actually create wealth,
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by nationcrafting 13y ago
>and the company actually listens to them. So far, Telegram have been listening a lot to people pointing out errors, and fixed their errors promptly. >for free and point it out to them? Forget about it. It doesn't appear to be fo

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