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by sifar 7y ago
oh boy ... rome total war and civ4 - you don't realize when the night's over and the day breaks :).
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Eliezer Yudkowsky talks about this in Inadequate Equiibria [1] when he analyzes academic research. short answer - here you need researchers and grant makers to simultaneously decide to do what is not in the best interest for them. [1] ht
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Even before Rome, these regions were not unknown. The Greeks even fought them, settled there. One of my personal long term topics[1] to research is how these two hitherto separate schools of thought have influenced each other. The western a
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Thank you. Just curious, during your research did you face any issues due to the auto-update feature at the app/device level which would set you back. If so, how did you work around it other than disabling it ?
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Antifragile thinking is not really mainstream economics, is it ?
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Salaries are increasing in India, partly due to inflation, but >> with equivalent quality of life I seriously doubt that.Visiting is different, it is not as rosy when you have to go through it everyday. Regular travel to India is expe
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Children shouldn't use twitter.
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I feel the same too. What on earth would prompt a parent to expose their kids to doing this at this age and everything that comes with it. I find this phenomenon of pushing these kids to the forefront of climate change protests really alarm
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Agreed, still it needs some base reserve to not run afoul of regulation - the initial capitalization based on which it could lend out that first loan. Even for a central bank, the government has to capitalize it first with some amount to ki
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Genuine question, I have avoided chromium like a plague, why should I choose this over Firefox with equivalent plugins ?
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Your first statement makes sense. I don't agree with the rest though. >> Yes, climate change will cause issues. Then again, the last glacial maximum was fairly recent, only ~20k years ago. Climate change has happened and will hap
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Under fractional banking, almost all money is created via debt. Government issues debt which is bought up buy banks which allows the government to issue new money including cash. It is purely created from thin air. The asset I put in bank a
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Sorry to bring this up again but this is more as a note for posterity. Often we don't measure what we have lost, except may be weight or net worth.
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Yes, my thoughts are partly shaped by how I perceive things, see them, read about them. However when you have spent time exploring the concepts, go to their origins, subject them to your analysis, to what people before you have thought abou
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That the government's financial policies were disastrous and high handed. Attention from these was diverted by PR blitzkrieg events and invoking nationalism.
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Yes, that you pay to the city.
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You didn't do anything in the past. People from the past are not here now. You found yourself here as an accident of birth and are now aware of where you are and maybe how it came to be. Now decide where you want to go from here, just
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>> We cannot exactly determine in advance if a project is going to be a waste. Really ? Please stop the doublespeak. Purchasing weapons, social schemes (read subsidies/guaranteed income), mega infrastructure projects are all wast
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I did not mean that about you, but in general. Sorry if it came across like that.
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Basically when you buy any property in India, you have to get your name as the owner in the historical record of the owners with the Land Registrar. This is the registration which is around 3-4% of the property value. The respective states
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Long term real estate returns are roughly equivalent to bank fixed deposits. The higher returns are during periods of speculation in certain regions. While it is true that a lot of real estate transactions used to happen in cash, one of the
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I know most of the revenue goes into interest payments. The solution to that is not to borrow more at lower interest and waste on profligate projects which won't generate revenue.
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In theory yes. Except you don't have control over the interest rate nor the exchange rate. When the double whammy hits you, you have no cover. If a government has internal debt, i.e in it's own currency, it can print the debt away
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Central banking is a technology. Capitalism is a technology. Democracy is a technology. At least that's what the tech tree in Civilization says :). Seriously, in the modern world, almost everything is a technic[1]. [1] https:/&#x
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You forget the part where there are now calls to implement it across other states also. This has become predictable. You use historical context to set a precedent and then extend it to everybody.
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Yes India is a very diverse country and that is why policies which treat it as a single homogeneous entity won't work. They might work in tiny countries with similar populace but not when you scale it up to something like India. People
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This was due. It was disguised due the euphoria of the election year. I think the current government is going to find out the hard way that one cannot tame the economic beast. There are things like delays, feedback, international events, th
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The opposition being dumb/timid doesn't make you right. >> It is just that the government now seems unable to round out the rather substantial problems that have come to light. This is the key. In the hype/fervour thes
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I think the OP may be talking about MSME industries which employ and subcontract to people who rely on cash. The other point is you may have traceable capital, the other party may deal in cash out of necessity. Think maids, laborers, compan
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Yes we cannot re-simulate the world or do A/B testing with different versions of it. It is what it is. I find Progress to be a nebulous/relative term. Defining it depends whether on you can measure things. Things that cannot be me

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