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by simula67 7y ago
Lying requires intent. For example, if I did not follow the US elections, thought that the President was still Barrack Obama and someone asked me who the President was and I said 'Barrack Obama', I would be wrong, but most people
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Although I have not tried it, there is also an office suite from KDE called Calligra : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calligra
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I am also not a resident of these countries but I also don't think you are that far off. Noam Chomsky talked about this[1] a long time ago. Lies of omission etc are more common in "free" societies. My own view of this is that
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Zippy Catholic has a FAQ on this : https://zippycatholic.wordpress.com/2014/11/10/usury-faq-or-... His claim seems to be that usury is when interest is charged on loans where the lender has full recourse to t
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I think you are subscribing to a view called scientism[1]. If that is so, I would encourage you to read books like "Alchemy of Finance" by George Soros [2] which contains serious arguments against that position. You could also lis
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It is possible to think critically even if you are Catholic. For example, here is a book that goes through some logical arguments for God's existence: https://www.amazon.com/Five-Proofs-Existence-Edward-Feser/dp...
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The difference with Japan is that while they have a large amount of debt, they also have large amounts of assets. Japan is the world's largest creditor nation : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_international_inves
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"Selling debt" is a euphemism for "selling bonds".
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Thank you. This is such an important topic and I wish more Americans understood and discussed this.
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> [all consumers' discretionary income they'd be willing to spend] is likely a small fraction of the size of [all commercial companies' marketing budgets] Assuming you meant all spending, this cannot be true, because all m
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The problem with fiat currencies is that there is just a little too much temptation to print a truckload when there are "emergencies". This often causes hyperinflation or massive inequality leading to the rise of populism and demo
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Does it have replaceable parts? I am willing to pay good money for a computer just like Mac, but which can be upgraded piece by piece.
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Why doesn't cp have a progress bar like wget?(unix.stackexchange.com)
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> Personally, I'd counter it was the inequality compression caused by WWII that lead to the prosperity of the 50s and 60s. I think it was the entire productive capacity of the remaining world being bombed to destruction was the reas
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One Obscure Reason for August’s Big Bond Rally: Negative Convexity(wsj.com)
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To be fair, sometimes small looking differences can have a huge impact over long periods of time.
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And he lost
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In my opinion, the biggest problem facing Python is still concurrency. The mitigation efforts still look to me like Perl's 'bolted on' implementation of object orientation. Python should have gotten rid of the GIL during the
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China burned through almost $1 trillion in US treasuries defending the peg when the Yuan depreciated last time[1]. They were "manipulating" the currency to make it stronger. This time they did nothing, and they are being accused o
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Again, if you subscribe to the principle of free speech, it would be wrong for the police to remove people trying to advance new or even repugnant seeming ideas. Direct threats to violence though will likely not be protected as it would sti
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If you believe in the principle of free speech you might be better positioned by saying that everyone is welcome to come to the town square, but if you make poor speech then you will be refuted.
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I am saying that public forums like the Internet is a kind of shared resource. It is the new town square.
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Even private property rights have limits: a factory owner cannot pollute a water supply for personal profit. If you believe in free speech it can be argued that it should not be OK for a company like Cloudflare to pollute public discourse b
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I am arguing that if you believe in free speech, it must be admitted that that it is deeply immoral for them to get involved. It is up to their users to define what does and does not cross the line and respond with counter-arguments.
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If a message and its opposing message has equal access to the platform for rebroadcast, the platform is not supporting any particular message.
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Neutrality is not support
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Free speech is a cultural value. It sometimes manifests itself in the form of codified laws like the first amendment to the US Constitution. However, free speech is not limited to the USA. The idea behind free speech is that people are allo
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A simpler solution might be to just increase the transaction tax
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Barber Surgeon(en.wikipedia.org)
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Does Robinhood sell data on various order types like limit, stop-loss, etc to High-Frequency Traders? That would allow the HFTs to extract profits out of Robinhood's users since this information does not appear to be non-public and hen

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