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by refurb 6mo ago
No, actually those countries do call them dictators - I’m not aware of any similar to what you’ve described. A very few select oligarchs got rich during the European currency crisis - and anybody oligarchs got hammered. How do the oligarchs
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by refurb 6mo ago
That seems like a great way to open your company up to a discrimination lawsuit (whether warranted or not). Not to mention the costs of hiring a new employee you only fire a month later - why bother? Sounds like HR mythology.
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by refurb 6mo ago
> It seems we are treating Peptides like drugs here That’s exactly what some biological drugs are too - peptides! And peptides are just short chains of amino acids. Almost all the other biological drugs are just longer chains of amino a
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by refurb 6mo ago
> the reason why demand has gone up is because people want an alternative to U.S bonds That makes no sense since the amount held in US bonds is not that different. The only change is that the gold that people held has gone up in value. I
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by refurb 6mo ago
SP500 is linked to profits. Gold is purely speculative.
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by refurb 6mo ago
Well we know the US doesn't have a dictator, so that's not a good example. This all sounds incredibly hand wavey "oh, they just do things that benefit themselves but tank the US economy". From what I've seen all the
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by refurb 6mo ago
Why? Because gold bugs caused a gold bubble?
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by refurb 6mo ago
How does sacrificing America's lead make American oligarchs richer? That doesn't even make sense.
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by refurb 6mo ago
Not really. It has more to do with gold is now worth almost 3x what it was 2 years ago. And before you get too excited, this "news" from the World Gold Council. A consortium of gold mining corporations. Clearly it's a pump
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by refurb 6mo ago
Indeed it’s an odd argument. The regime is immensely unpopular. If it weren’t for the murderous crackdown they would have been overthrown long ago.
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by refurb 6mo ago
> Just because a particular market is free doesn't mean it's useful to society Of course not. > If it's not useful to society, society has no moral reason to tolerate it Then it’s not a free market.
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by refurb 6mo ago
It’ll be fun getting the rest of the story. And regardless, why would a country let a foreigner in order to go to a protest? Canada has banned people who came to Canada to speak because they didn’t like what they had to say.
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by refurb 6mo ago
Nobody ran a control? It’s the most concept of experimentation. How could you possibly know your analytical technique was valid if you don’t run a blank to see?
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by refurb 6mo ago
Stopping progress because you put people out of work is a great way to stall all development. By that same logic we’d stop doctors from using antibiotics because now barbers will lose their job of bloodletting.
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by refurb 6mo ago
A free market is individuals and companies can willing enter whatever transaction they want. If someone is willing to pay for a reservation and a restaurant willing to take payment, then it’s a free market. It’s not inefficient at all. You
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by refurb 6mo ago
This blog post confuses “rent seeking” with “economic transactions I don’t like”. Creating a closed source model and charging for it is not “rent seeking”.
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by refurb 7mo ago
Yes, the “experts” like the head of the HHS that was a lawyer and former DA in California.
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by refurb 7mo ago
It has to do with presidential corruption.
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by refurb 7mo ago
What I find funny is there is zero proof of any connection to the President yet we have 350+ comments of people 100% sure they know what’s going on. Honestly? It’s all pretty boring.
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by refurb 7mo ago
They already tried for 4 years starting in 2016. It was all a bust even when they played loose with facts.
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by refurb 7mo ago
That’s AI. I thought people knew not to believe anything they read online?
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by refurb 7mo ago
Why is it better? It’s not like your government couldn’t use the money to do something unethical. Same with a bank.
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by refurb 7mo ago
Exactly. What the EU fails to realize is that rights have always been dennied due to the "great good". Nazi Germany did it. The USSR did it. China does it today. So by claiming "there are good reasons" creates no dist
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by refurb 7mo ago
Urge but sometime national concerns override individual wishes.
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by refurb 7mo ago
The federal government hasn't passed a budget because the Democrats are blocking it. They feel it's worth the political gamble to cause Americans pain and that it'll turn on Trump. There you go - mystery solved.
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by refurb 7mo ago
That’s a good thing! Anywhere else you put money as an investment will barely match inflation.
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by refurb 7mo ago
During the Cold War would have imported cars from the USSR if they were better Do we want to strength economically an authoritarian country who is opposed to Western aims across the world? Of course not. That would be shooting ourselves in
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by refurb 7mo ago
Why? Because their parents already bought and paid the taxes.
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by refurb 7mo ago
My point is that it’s certainly not risk-free which was the claim of the comment I replied to.
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by refurb 7mo ago
Does it matter? They could blindly buy an SP500 index and benefit greatly (as most Americans do).

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