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by seibelj 4y ago
Just my opinion: Central banking is pretty bad regardless of what your politics are. The ridiculous amount of inflation and corruption in central banking, and other bad things like telling society to stop using energy to "sAvE tHe PlaN
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It’s a bit of a leap to go from “sure we steal your money and everyone is poor” to “hey we are going back 20 years and stopping all communication”. I think it’s a bridge too far outside of North Korea. Even China has a die hard and widespre
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I am a libertarian and I fundamentally believe the current central banking model is not only hopelessly corrupt but morally evil. Politicians have been able to steal from common people via inflation for a century while the rich are easily p
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A lot of poor countries with socialist / corrupt governments like Argentina rely extensively on informal money transmitter networks as well as money remittances. Exporters earn hard currency which is stolen by the central bank and conv
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They will use crypto because it’s far more difficult to censor. The governments have been able to prevent individuals from storing and saving wealth, but this is becoming a lot harder and will continue to be ever harder.
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I’ve been in this space for a long time, know a lot of people. Lebanon is another country that is heavily using crypto. You will see a lot of countries with corrupt governments and central banks become bottom-up crypto centric, but this won
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This is absolutely true - binance plus stablecoins is how the economy works there.
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Sure but it’s healthier to try and accept things you can’t control. I think a lot of people who obsess over losing their hair see it as a reason their life isn’t going the way they want. You would do yourself a favor by accepting reality an
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I really don’t think they are worried considering coal usage is at an all-time high and the US president is going to dictators begging for oil, hat in hand.
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Isn’t the amount of mining waste extremely energy intensive to produce a single EV battery?
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I keep being told EVs being cost effective are right around the corner, yet the prices for clean energy on my electric bill are 35% higher and government subsidies for the industry are never ending.
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I don't know as much about Sweden but I've heard their government is more efficient and less contradictory than France.
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Very difficult to fire a FTE. Imagine you take a risk on someone and they don't work out. It's extremely expensive and time consuming to exit that poor performer. This isn't even mentioning the huge bureaucratic state that is
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France is the last country in the West I would hire in. A decent place to conduct business but the worst place to hire labor.
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We are democratic. I’m advocating for letting capital invest in politicians and advertise their positions freely. $20 donations from a widespread group of people can also make their opinions heard effectively. If you seized all of Bill Gate
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Investors and founders hate down rounds. You want a pricing to be as beneficial as possible to all involved. Startups are extremely risky and getting a deal done at any price is an accomplishment. Now you want to give a lot of small shareho
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I prefer those with more resources to have more say over the running of our country. On average in a free market those with more resources are better organized and know what’s best for the country. Furthermore the structure of society shoul
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I'm a huge fan of so-called "price gouging". Without the ability to increase prices the shelves would be bare. This is what happens in all countries with price controls. You say price gouging, I say protecting society from it
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All fiat currencies are backed by the USD. All commodities that matter are priced in USD. Countries must acquire USD to buy oil. Therefore we increase interest rates, makes USD-denominated debt harder to manage, increases demand for dollars
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It's almost like you are encouraging supply side economics... aka... trickle down We need to massively cut corporate taxes, investment taxes, regulations, and all manner of things to increase supply. The government has been attacking b
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Yes let's make every function call its own service with monitoring, a database, the network stack, management, and so on and then enjoy wonderful performance and easy management
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> If you're doing more than taking a request, reading+writting into a database.. you're doing too much And this is why micro-services are poor architecture. If you need an entire service for every DB activity you are in for a
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I’ve been a night owl since I was a small child. My dad is also one. No caffeine after 2pm.
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I’m a night owl… sleeping can be hard. If I’m lying in bed with my eyes closed and start wondering about what happens when you sleep, what dreams are, what happens if you die in your sleep… makes you not able to sleep
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My favorite Indian outsource story was when I was consulting for a local firm and they paid me to design and plan how to kick off a project. I recommended hiring 5 skilled US software engineers and it could be done within a year. CEO wound
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The sign of someone who doesn’t know anything about software dev is when they suggest outsourcing as an easy way to cut costs, regardless of country. “We can get 10 people there for every person here!” Alarm bells should start ringing. It c
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I am a perpetual optimist and I disagree that everything has been done. We have 500 kinds of deodorant because the market needs it - each one is a little different and resonates with a different consumer for some reason. Believing "we
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It is a philosophical thing for me personally. I did a stretch at a meaningless company with good pay and perks and I was so unbelievably bored. If you have mentally accepted your productive output is without personal meaning and you are on
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No, I’m saying to work successfully remotely, you usually need those attributes. That’s not to say you can’t have those attributes and prefer working in an office. I’m speaking about characteristics of people at successful fully-remote orgs
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Honestly I don’t think anyone at Google or Facebook really cares that much. They are old companies, the big money has been made, and it’s pretty much impossible to launch a new successful product. Everything big has been acquisitions for a

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