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by po1nt 5y ago
Well tax cuts were implemented so lower income people would not lose jobs. For example private jets were made tax deductible so the industry would not burn to dust when thanks to tax increase people stopped buying them.
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The issue is that no private market can devaluate currency. Why would you lend money at 5% interest when inflation is expected to be 10%.
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by po1nt 5y ago
Fair enough, georgism is one of the more logically sound solutions.
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Laws dictate to those who are willing to obey them. Guess why nobody is trying to move into north korea.
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by po1nt 5y ago
But as we can see the money are flexible in only one direction. You can print more money when times go bad but will you burn it when times are good? This is like saying we dodged withdrawals by taking more of the drug.
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If money is tight, interest rates rise. There is always a cost that will persuade someone to risk their money. These are not minor flaws. We are creating money from nothing which means pereptual inflation which means your savings are no lon
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by po1nt 5y ago
Yeah people would find another way to invent it. Like MLM pyramid schemes. The issue is the bank doesn't borrow money I have. Banks borrow money I have and money I don't have. Yet who is taking the risk? If something fails governm
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That means no more landing fairy tale money and pushing interests even to a negative numbers just to keep people borrowing in hope their spending will recover the economy. We are beating a dead horse. If we could just let market decide the
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by po1nt 5y ago
What about just abolishing fractional banking and letting the credit balance itself. Heavy taxation always hurt low income families the most. If you are wealthy enough, you can just leave or find a way to bypass taxes. In the end Laffer cur
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Article author just accidentaly rediscovered austrian economy.
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Also IPv6 was officially ratified 2 years after all IPv4s were exhausted. IPv6 was designed in 1998 when total number of internet connected devices is estimated to be equal roughly our daily increase of internet connected devices.
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by po1nt 5y ago
> I'm confused why people are willing to develop hacks on top of hacks just to avoid using IPv6. It is really elegantly designed As you can see, It's because not many people understand IPv6. Also there are many devices that wou
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by po1nt 5y ago
I wanted to change Matrix for XMPP, now I have one less reason to do so.
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Everything is cool, except for the naming. At first I thought this was about implementation of Intel's new architecture.
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How did you bring up groping and racism into CSS fingerprinting topic?
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The thing that increases in value the most is the land underneath the house. It doesn't make a lot of sense for house to increase value as it gets older. But even the house is a subject to inflation and the effect of "back in my d
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by po1nt 5y ago
I don't think you understand how the value of these assets is supposed to rise. When you buy a flat in the center of town, it's supposed to increase it's value for being in the center while town is expanding. That means that
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by po1nt 5y ago
I'm not pharmacist or some medical expert but I feel like there is a new drug that promises Covid19 treatment every week.
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It's a downclocked Raspi 3 cpu so it might.
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Little bit of shame it doesn't support 5GHz Wifi and BLE 5 when even Espressif will soon support both. But still nice package.
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by po1nt 5y ago
This is nice article but every engineer would say this is oversimplification for simple usecases like status LEDs on router. LEDs are tricky to make behave predictably as they are non-linear components, sensitive to temperature and no two L
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by po1nt 5y ago
I don't believe total decentralization is possible. Yet still this ratio is a little unsettling. This issue is not limited to bitcoin but all the cryptocurrencies. But I believe it's still better than to have single party control
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by po1nt 5y ago
It's just a personal reason. I make my living on linux and my personal computer is windows os. I like to turn off my work computer as a symbolic gesture and do my hobbies on personal computer. Just to divide work and personal headspace
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by po1nt 5y ago
And smartphones didn't improve much after Jobs died. 120hz display and wireless charging is all of the innovation in last 2 years. Smartphone is now just a fashion statement and not really a technology.
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by po1nt 5y ago
Yes but they didn't yet release dual-core RISC-V based or did I miss it? I use it's dual-core capabilities extensively as I heavily utilize WiFi and still have to maintain low-latency processing of IO input. Didn't look much
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by po1nt 5y ago
Don't blame the player, blame the game. Democracy will always converge into extremism the more power government has over people's lives. If you become reliant on government acting violently against the power minority and let gover
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The issue is whether the new majority power gives itself monopoly of violence.
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Machine learning, cryptography and decentralized communications. That's about it. Nothing else really improved that much in the last 10 years, we can just make some 2010's technology cheaper.
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by po1nt 5y ago
I think many people are trying to make Rust real deal and some of them make really good job. There was a guy who develops Linux ABI compatible kernel in rust, Tor is being rewritten in to Rust and some of the projects are just amazing. I be
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I was looking forward to trying Rust on my ESP32 projects but always had a hard time. All the tooling is too complicated. There is flasher coded in python, IDF coded in C, you need to run MinWin on Windows which makes it even harder. You ca

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