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by sbenitoj 8y ago
Nice to see a handful of people have seen through the Keynesian idiocy they inculcate everyone with in public education!
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Ah gotcha, misunderstood your comment — good point!
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I misunderstood you at first. That’s an interesting speculation, but it remains to be seen what will happen when inflation is near zero. If people value transacting on the network, then they will pay the necessary fees to keep it running. I
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by sbenitoj 8y ago
Prove it, show me the world where we had a stable monetary supply that resulted in people having no incentive to invest in anything — where’s the experiment? Again, you HAVE to spend money to live (otherwise you die). It’s impossible to liv
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by sbenitoj 8y ago
Don’t know why you’re getting downvoted, your comment is spot on. Governments can’t be trusted with money, the incentive to cheat is too great.
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That’s not a bug, it’s a feature — if it were easy to extract (like aluminum), it would have been much more inflationary and thus not a “good” choice for money.
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by sbenitoj 8y ago
“You need inflation for proper incentives. It's like a tax on the entire network to keep it supported. Without proper incentives, the game theory collapses.” What, specifically, do you think the consequences of a stable money supply ar
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by sbenitoj 8y ago
Why do governments have to simultaneously be in the business of (1) securing people’s property and (2) creating money and regulating the monetary supply?
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by sbenitoj 8y ago
Exactly, any supply of money will do, no need to permanently increase the amount in circulation — this is why the market settled on gold (which has an inherently low inflation rate due to the difficulties of mining) and impossible to pass o
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by sbenitoj 8y ago
I 100% disagree, the central planning of money is (1) what causes inflation, and (2) greatly exacerbates (and in many cases creates) financial crises. Any supply of money will do, the idea that money should increase in supply along with pop
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by sbenitoj 8y ago
Absolutely — I would gladly trade all my gains for a world where governments have no control over the creation and regulation of money.
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by sbenitoj 8y ago
When it costs miners (who lack the economies of scale and access to cheap electricity that major miners have) more to produce Bitcoin than the block rewards and transactions fees they receive from doing so, they simply shut off their miners
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by sbenitoj 8y ago
I’ve written about this on here numerous times, it’s changed my life. Here’s one of the threads where I mentioned it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18573069
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by sbenitoj 8y ago
Yeah, I hear what you’re saying, the book goes more in depth, and again the question becomes — so you’ve internalized feeling worthless, what is the solution? I believe the book provides a key to understanding how to resolve those feelings
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by sbenitoj 8y ago
I honestly read the book just because I consider myself an autodidact and student of human nature and it sounded interesting. While reading I realized that the traditional psychotherapy I’d done since my mother’s suicide was mostly just a w
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by sbenitoj 8y ago
I can’t recommend The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk enough, I wish this book had been out 10 years ago before my mom took her life. Nonetheless, it’s been instrumental in helping me alleviate my anxiety and depression. I read
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by sbenitoj 8y ago
Much if addiction, depression, anxiety, etc is rooted in trauma (typically from childhood), and regular psychotherapy is insufficient to fully heal people. He recommends a number of different modalities to heal trauma (many to be done as ad
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by sbenitoj 8y ago
I agree with most everything you’re saying, but it doesn’t change the fact that the healthcare industry is giving specifically harmful advice to people rather than drawing a hard line and saying it’s urgent and imperative that you make beha
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by sbenitoj 8y ago
I love that you’re completely ignoring that I’m making a broad, philosophical recommendation that people need to fundamentally focus on improving their diets and engaging in a specific type of exercise proven to improve glucose disposal and
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by sbenitoj 8y ago
Check out The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk, I cant recommend it enough!
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by sbenitoj 8y ago
I’m not trying to make it a black and white issue, and there is definitely tons of variance in terms of what people respond to, my only claim is that when you have an absolutely massive portion of the population with diabetes, there is some
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by sbenitoj 8y ago
Read this article and then tell me whether you think there is anything fundamentally wrong with the ADA’s and the CDA’s approach https://medium.com/@drjasonfung/unf-yourself-type-2-diabetes... It seems to be that these
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by sbenitoj 8y ago
Read this article and then tell me whether you think there is anything fundamentally wrong with the ADA’s and the CDA’s approach https://medium.com/@drjasonfung/unf-yourself-type-2-diabetes... It seems to be that these
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by sbenitoj 8y ago
Where did I say anything about type 1? And even though most type 2 diabetics aren’t (yet) on insulin, the advice they get does nothing but ensure they’ll be on insulin soon enough.
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by sbenitoj 8y ago
Exactly!
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How about we stop masking the problem of insulin resistance by pumping type 2 diabetics with insulin? Why don’t we start telling diabetics the truth — your diet is broken and needs to be fixed; avoid most carbs, do strength training. We don
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by sbenitoj 8y ago
CBD — the non-psychoactive cannibinoid sourced from hemp but legal almost everywhere. CBD does an awesome job of decreasing my anxiety and making me laser focused (at small doses, 5-10mg) and help me get a great night sleep (at higher doses
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by sbenitoj 8y ago
Anyone want to take bets on this resulting in another James Damore style firing, but at FB instead of Google this time?
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by sbenitoj 8y ago
Thanks! I’ve been doing yoga, EMDR, and Somatic Experience and have found all helpful in different ways.
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by sbenitoj 8y ago
Any modalities in particular you found beneficial from The Body Keeps the Score?

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