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by swfsql 8y ago
I'm another brazilian here. The crime rate is not as bad as of Venezuela, and >50% of all (ALL) brazilians desires to leave the country. The problem is simple. 1- It's quite impossible to leave poverty due to state regulations.
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by swfsql 8y ago
no, it's a successful state (people are those who failed).
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by swfsql 8y ago
(related - and I enjoyed the vibe he put into it): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrU9YDoXE88 - Vsauce's "How to Count Past Infinity"
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by swfsql 8y ago
IP shouldn't exist, and it hampers capitalism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAvbWeivv8o This is one of China's advantages btw, the US should abolish IP to get more competitive.
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It's sustainable because they keep the money printing press running, which implies they force citizens to sustain (pay for) it. Even in the US, "lowering the printing speed, which is high", is considered a ""tighten
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Internal or external, I don't see the difference. From the taxpayer perspective, they are the same.
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The bigger debt wins, don't you know?
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The Philosophy of Bioshock(youtube.com)
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by swfsql 8y ago
> And yet it is necessarily conditioned {..} I partially agree. I agree that we don't exist from any kind of "null initial state", there is always context. But we are able to reason about how are the initial state between
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by swfsql 8y ago
> My question was more oriented around the idea of how people are convinced to perform an action that they have no interest in doing. {...} This is a voluntary exchange and an action. All actions, as Von Mises put it, aims to achieve a &
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by swfsql 8y ago
Without min wage laws, the most disadvantaged person (low skill etc) has more OPTIONS to choose from. Wanna "take a break"? Sure, she can try choosing that. Wanna work below min wage? Sure, its their choice. You are saying its &qu
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by swfsql 8y ago
> Does society serve the market, or does the market serve society? None. The society is the market, and the market is society.
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by swfsql 8y ago
> what makes one person work for another higher income [of goods and services] due to specialization, division of labor and goods/services liquidity. see: "The Story of Money and Trade" [10min] https://www.yout
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>by and large, this is a good thing - it means that workers are exploited less then just fire them already, huh? zero exploitation!
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by swfsql 8y ago
>How do these people come up with such absurd laws? This is an interesting question. How they come up with, get agreement on it and get support on it by the population? The problem is certainly democracy, where people think that interven
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by swfsql 8y ago
It will work for sure since bureaucrats always know better how to make everyone happy. Maybe workers will get less net income (and on a per hour as well) since employers will have to robotize or spend time training newcomers, but we can att
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by swfsql 8y ago
Yes, you are correct. New miners should not appear until difficulty recalculation. But given this fact, depending on the intensity of the block mining rate change and how far the next recalculation is, the network could easily notice such c
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by swfsql 8y ago
While the attacker A is racing to build a heavier chain than honest miners H, A is not profiting, on the contrary. He must hold the costs until he finishes the race for the next B blocks. If A was honest beforehand, everyone will notice the
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by swfsql 8y ago
>Venezuela is irrelevant (..) so are your thoughts about Bitcoin from their (those whose lives were saved because of cryptos) point of view, obviously. >Besides they are using USD A few may. But in such violent place, saving cryptos i
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by swfsql 8y ago
Venezuela citizens didn't lose any money? are you serious? So you must be happy, since most Venezuelans may be millionaires now! (but let's just forget about the fact that 1M+ from their currency is valued as less than a dollar; a
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by swfsql 8y ago
>Bitcoin is a tool for tax evasion and money exchange on criminal assets You just made it more appealing and useful, since taxation is theft. Some "criminal" assets are incorrectly classified as criminal, so that's another
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by swfsql 8y ago
Fiat money is a century-old cult. Democracy is a cult. Lefty progressiveness is a cult. Bitcoining is a far less dangerous of a cult, because it's completely optional, it doesn't interacts with whom doesn't want it. Finally
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by swfsql 8y ago
I had the impression that people got uncomfortable by how fast and dry it says "k--thx", as if it were annoying to talk to the person. In all cases they kind of changed their flow on the hanging up part. I don't know, some se
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by swfsql 9y ago
The last tokio re-ergo really helped me and my classmate.. now we are getting stuff done, and we are enjoying it a lot, since we are combining our connections as instances of async state-machines (which, by the way, a given state may be a s
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by swfsql 9y ago
This is correct. I mistakenly assumed that if they wanted to know about it, then they wanted to change something according to it, which may not be the case. They have talks, documentation is awesome, examples may even run online, ide stuff
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by swfsql 9y ago
I completely agree, and I'd like to add that if one is "not excluding", asking for color skin should be forbidden. Because knowing color skin cannot possibly help one to "not exclude". In other words, "not ex
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What if it happens that you can only hire one person, and one "externally looks" homogeneous to the rest of the hired workers, but the other one "externally looks" like a minority member, but you think that the first one
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by swfsql 9y ago
then this brings a discussion on what "just" is. Does just implies impartiality? if so, different treatment by color would not be just, from what I can understand. Secondly, one can't be sure that others won't feel alien
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I see, but this is still a political issue. Maybe a lot of minorities people just voted "no" in that survey question. Because.. why excluding people based on their skin color is discriminatory, but including people based on their
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by swfsql 9y ago
I'm an average programmer, but I honestly don't get the goal of inclusiveness [edit: from the Rust 2017 Survey Results] > Diversity and inclusiveness continue to be vital goals for the Rust project at all levels. I mean.. lifet

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