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by surement 4y ago
El Salvador has a trade deficit and can't print USDs; part of the point of adopting BTC was to allow Salvadorans abroad to send money into the country without paying wire fees.
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by surement 4y ago
didn't realize everyone thought it was a slur; I should've used the term anti-politics instead
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by surement 4y ago
> Populism is just a slur to apply to people you want to imply are too stupid to know what's good for them. If you say so. It can also mean anti-politics. The example you give is for left populism. There is also right populism, e.g.
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by surement 4y ago
How much Brazilian beef do we eat in the US? I don't think any deforestation is done to raise beef in this country.
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by surement 4y ago
In terms of correlation at least, yes. Between the fall and the USSR and when social media presence became the norm, people were largely apolitical. Now it's all about owning the libs/cons.
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by surement 4y ago
> Like it or not, political polarization is political engagement by the people We went from political apathy to populism. This "engagement" is largely by people who don't know anything about politics and have their emotion
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by surement 4y ago
> We should eat less meat and probably far less beef Why beef specifically?
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Do you have evidence that asymptomatic people are even contagious? At the start of the pandemic there was a Pew survey that showed that 10% of people who know they have covid would still go to work. I think stuff like that explains the sp
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by surement 4y ago
No, they extract and sell oil and they happen to do it at a profit. This is not the same as being compensated or billed for things that resulted from the use of that oil.
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> Send BP and Shell the bill for the infrastructure upgrade Should they also get credits for all the progress oil has allowed us to make?
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by surement 4y ago
This is interesting but a more accurate title would be "New Zealand law allows corporations to sue Glassdoor for user data." As the article notes: > statements of “pure opinion” are protected by the First Amendment in America.
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by surement 4y ago
that's what you get when there's rent control; luxury housing doesn't count so there's more of an incentive to build that instead
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by surement 4y ago
I was being sarcastic. Dems have tons of single-issue voters over this and they know it.
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> But most places I have worked, these best practices were not overused, but underused For what it's worth, 90% of the code bases I've worked on overused DRY. Two pieces of code that do the same thing but that shouldn't be
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by surement 4y ago
Lol, and the Democrats did everything in their power to codify Roe v Wade.
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by surement 4y ago
> If that's more than rhetorical, I suggest you do some reading. just some generic advice to read a book? yeah me not so learnded me go read keynes so me agree with you > If it is rhetorical, I'll just assume you think every
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by surement 4y ago
The only presidency that ended with less regulation in recent times was Reagan's. In general republican administrations are the ones who get less done (and "undo" less of what the opposition party has done).
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by surement 4y ago
> I have a very busy mind and I need something to slow my brain down I'm taking this a bit out of context but this is the biggest benefit for me. While sativa can make my mind rush with ideas, it also helps slow things down, especia
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by surement 4y ago
I've seen billboards in other states advertising $5 eighths; probably not the same quality but it's not necessarily as expensive as you make it out to be.
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> I say any system that requires the existence of a class of people who cannot afford these things in order to function is morally untenable As they say in game of thrones: "what kind of god would do that? - the one we've got&q
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by surement 4y ago
> both outcomes are unacceptable What is the alternative? You can't pay someone more than they earn in revenue and minimum wage laws create an artificial price floor that causes everyone who would otherwise earn between above zero a
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by surement 4y ago
So what, an employer is gonna go on losing money and will never look into why? If they go out of business then the employee will also lose their job.
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by surement 4y ago
Not sure how being unemployed is better than making a low wage in terms of being hungry or homeless. Are you just trying to advocate for communism?
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by surement 4y ago
An employee that earns an employer $8 in revenue but gets paid $9 is a net loss of $1 to the employer. If x is -1 then $x is not better than $0. If the employer could raise prices and still be in business, then they would already be doing i
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by surement 4y ago
I don't know about you but I think there's something wrong with programs that incentivize not working and gaining experience.
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by surement 4y ago
What about teenagers and young adults with no work experience? They are the age groups with the highest levels of unemployment. https://www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cpseea10.htm In fact, very few people earn minimum wag
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by surement 4y ago
> with your own time, you can find ways to feed yourself, provide yourself with shelter, etc. You still have the option to quit your job if you're employed and don't find it worth your while. > strategically & systemical
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by surement 4y ago
While the comment you're replying to is wrong, these empirical studies are ridiculous. Every price has some elasticity, but the fact is that if a worker earns an employer $8 an hour in revenue, they're not going to pay that worker
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The owner of the thing decides to keep it or trade it. If there are no owners, then anyone can take it and it's not coercion.
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by surement 4y ago
No, there doesn't. You can own and trade something you built. That's what remunerated work is.

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