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by seibelj 5y ago
But steel is way up https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/steel As is oil, and most other commodities. Shortages are also caused by less people working because lots of money has been printed and handed out. So prices
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> “You can’t be short it in scale,” agrees the short seller. Like some of the others who fundamentally dislike it, he even has a small position in bitcoin. “If it goes up, I’ll make a little bit of money. If it goes to zero, I’ll be so
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My All-Time Horror Movie List(medium.com)
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No one possibly thinks women and men are physically equal, right? This is why we have separate women and men sports.
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Before the internet you needed a fully stocked library with excellent organization and archive retrieval, top quality professors who could (because of technology) teach at-most an auditorium full of people, and the ability to meet in person
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Hopefully this will finally show that Paul Krugman is a hack. At this point do the exact opposite of everything he says. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/10/opinion/transitory-inflat... https:/&#x2F
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Right but a bunch of nobodies on HN actively disparage the entire sector for whatever reason, which requires a pretty deep knowledge that the average REST slinger doesn’t possess, so the market is tight for competent devs let alone top-tier
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Decentralization is a spectrum. A truly decentralized network, one pure from every angle of analysis, does not exist. Ethereum itself is more decentralized than all traditional value-transfer networks of the old centralized financial world,
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The USA is unique in that the standard mortgage is 30 years with a fixed rate. We also have a huge refinance industry, as everyone who gets locked in at a higher rate wants to refinance when rates drop. Also the rates are artificially low a
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If a buyer has $100k income and ~75k post tax, then they will be able to afford (at most) $45k per year out of pocket, or ~$2k per month. Based on the interest rate, you can work backwards to see the house they can afford, and the people bu
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The price of the average house in the USA is based primarily on the government-guaranteed 30 year fixed rate mortgage. For a given interest rate and income, the house will cost exactly the maximum amount of loan the borrower can get. Banks
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by seibelj 5y ago
In Boston, there is an area called Mass and Cass which is full of drugs users. Crime is endemic as well as rape and overdoses. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/10/06/opinion/everyone-want... This exists
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Boston has one of the highest per-pupil funding in the US. Yet excluding the exam schools, the majority of the schools are awful. Here is the school my kids would have to go to if I wasn’t rich enough to go private: https://www.p
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There is silver, and platinum, and tungsten, etc. etc. It’s the same thing just in a physical format.
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Judging by the attitude on HN, cryptocurrency should be worth $0 and written off years ago. Instead it's bigger than ever and the most important people on earth are focusing on it. Somehow it's simultaneously an incredible, useles
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CEO in the weeds interviewing engineers and trying to solve bugs as as part of an interview process for 10 combined hours? CEO needs to reevaluate his job and priorities.
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The US already received a more politically palatable form of UBI when the automatic child tax credit hit. Couples making up to 400k get money direct deposited every month per child. 0% chance this will ever be rescinded. I would say Yang in
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by seibelj 5y ago
Bitcoin transactions are far more traceable and easy to scan than it is to track payments in the offshore world, which involves many jurisdictions, subpoenas, judges, delays, getting stonewalled, etc. Night and day difference in ability to
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by seibelj 5y ago
This is a terrible article written by someone who doesn't know anything. Plenty of proof of stake coins are currently active, such as Binance Chain, Ripple, Avalanche, Cosmos, Polkadot, and on and on. Ethereum will get there but they a
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The Pandora Papers recently released had terabytes of data and 13 million documents of how the richest people and politicians on earth avoid taxes. Bitcoin was used exactly zero times.
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Rather than playing the same failed whack-a-mole that has been attempted since the beginning of civilization, maybe we should try and keep taxes low, services more efficient, and have alternatives to government-provided services for feature
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And now you are comparing tax evasion to murder! I would say there’s a difference. Otherwise we need to give the IRS execution abilities(?)
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Given how terrible bureaucracies are the world over, and how many people are jailed innocently, it will be quite sad when people are literally murdered by the state for not paying their tax bill. And most likely the most popular and famous
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Since the beginning of written history there have been taxes and there has been corruption. And people respond very strongly to financial incentives - notice how people drive out of their way to save a few pennies on gas. Now imagine you ha
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Since the beginning of written history there have been taxes and there has been corruption. And people respond very strongly to financial incentives - notice how people drive out of their way to save a few pennies on gas. Now imagine you ha
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I am forced to pay the government money every time I earn income, buy anything, wish to start a business, hire someone, or just exist as annually I have to file a tax return. Failure to do any of these things results in violence - the seizu
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I haven’t used Facebook in over 3 years, yet I’m forced to interact with the government daily. They are nothing like the same thing.
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It's actually up 7.5%
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If an application (videogame, social network, website, etc.) gives the holder of the NFT special rights, then that is the utility of the NFT. It does not matter about legal ownership of a graphic.
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Why do people want Picassos? Show them off, appear sophisticated, an investment, etc. Crypto Punks are something a wealthy segment of society likes and because they are graphical and fit neatly into an avatar, they become like an expensive

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