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by snikeris 8y ago
https://www.reviso.com/accountingsoftware/accounting-words/l... > Losses can result from a number of activities such as; sale of an asset for less than its carrying amount, the write-down of assets, or a loss f
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Did they then sell the Bitcoin Cash after its price declined? I wouldn't say they lost anything until they sell their asset at a loss.
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This is similar to what is presented in Minsky's Society of Mind. What you're calling archetypes, he calls agents. Question for you...I agree with your observer idea. But why have an observer? What purpose does it serve? Couldn&#x
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> It's an elementary fact of anthropology that human societies for most of history have lived on a communal basis without property. Interesting. I've assumed that primitive communities were run from the top down with the alpha
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> Technology at its core is anti-life. It is anti-biological. It is what results when the mind dreams up what it thinks are more efficient ways to build but inevitably ends up as more efficient ways to destroy. It starts as hammers and e
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I disagree. When you're struggling to survive, you don't care what your trash fire is doing to the environment. Caring about the environment is a wealthy person's problem. Technology creates wealth.
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On a long enough timeline, only human high-tech civilization will save the species of our planet.
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Don't feel bad about struggling with the question. It's only with the recent advent of birth control that it's become a decision we have to make. Children used to just happen.
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TIPS is like buying fire insurance from an arsonist.
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> Is there a way you think the strategy and when it's appropriate could be made more clear? I think it's a useful strategy as part of a diversivied portfolio. As the GP mentioned: > Prudent portfolios include equities as wel
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From the article: > Bond prices fall as interest rates rise. You can avoid this by buying individual bonds and holding them until they mature (pay out their full value). You can avoid selling the bond at a loss; however, you are still ho
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Well, the problem with making it free is that you're making it compulsory for others to pay for it.
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> I will gladly pay a higher portion of my salary if it means the general populous can think for themselves, has a means to climb if they wish to, and the base level of education of the people in my country increases. No one is stopping
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> Just make college free. Trying to make all of these complicated rules to make sure that a few people aren't "getting one over us" is just making more cracks for people to fall into. Presumably you mean, increase taxes so
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If your goal is to make secure communication possible for as many people as possible, you need to create an Android and iPhone app.
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> I take the view that it is not simply “there” as a first come first serve basis, but rather something we have an equal right to, the basis from which private property must be derived. Locke started here. I think I'm with you there
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> I could equally argue that your contribution to raising the CO2 concentration of our shared resource, the atmosphere, is not sanctioned by me. Then I suppose you should do us all a favor and stop breathing because your breathing is not
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"Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world." edited to say: It's interesting that on a long enough time-line, all life on earth is destined for extinction, e.g. the sun expands and vaporizes the earth. So, in the
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My argument doesn't hinge on the opinion of children. It was just a thought experiment. My point was that children have an inborn sense of fairness and are less likely to have ideologies lodged in their head. So perhaps they would be a
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How so? Sure, it benefits those who otherwise wouldn't have these things. Also, sounds like a slippery slope to me. I suppose everyone having a cellphone benefits all of society as well?
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The earth is not a superorganism or entity that prefers one state to another.
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Good questions. You also have to consider the variables that have changed since the Industrial Revolution. There are more people on earth to feed and provide a modern standard of living. We should work to reduce the costs on the planet for
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Yes, the comment you replied to seems to imply that the earth is an organism that seeks to maintain a particular balance. There may be homeostatic processes, but they're not part of a grand plan to preserve life on earth.
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More downvotes. /shrug so much for discussing dissenting opinions. My point is that it is unfair to the productive to take by force the product of their labor and give it to those who are unproductive. If you doubt this and you have ch
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I believe the OP was talking about welfare services (taking from the productive and giving to the unproductive): > food stamps or health insurance or whatever. The services you listed benefit all members of society: > the 911 services
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Curious that I'm downvoted for coming out as one of the "many people hung up on how "unfair" it is". If you disagree with me you could at least answer my questions or try to change my mind.
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I don't have any problems with paying money for other people's benefit, but I do have a problem when I'm forced to do so. Would it be fair if I took money from you and gave it to someone else who needed it more? Why is it fai
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Medicaid?
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Also, the Google SRE book makes the point that they couldn't have achieved their scale w/out approaching ops from an engineering perspective. Linearly hiring ops people as services scale would have been too expensive.
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This was discussed in a Joe Rogan podcast w/ a sleep expert: http://podcasts.joerogan.net/podcasts/matthew-walker I learned a lot, and it changed my sleep behaviors.

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