swixi

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by swixi 6y ago
> I "slimmed" down my collection from 1TB+ to 200GB by deleting all the more "common" stuff I could easily find on Spotify only to realise that the versions I had (the original, pure, untouched music) was only availab
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by swixi 6y ago
On re-reading the parent comment above yours, I see they were referring to criticizing things done by private companies that are technically lawful, so that's my bad for not seeing the full context. Legality and morality often get conf
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by swixi 6y ago
...Yes? It seems like the head of a private company should be able to decide how to spend money based on whatever reasoning they want, within the limits of the law. Are you suggesting there should be a law that would have prohibited this be
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by swixi 6y ago
That's a good point about transactions. But are stock purchases included in the velocity calculation? From what I can find [1,2], money velocity is a ratio of nominal GDP to (either M1 or M2) money supply, and neither of these includes
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by swixi 6y ago
> Money in band account that is not used is just a number. As Fed puts more money into the economy, the velocity of money decreases as the money is used less. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2V A couple question
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by swixi 6y ago
> Mainstream actually educated economists are right, not people hyperventilating about money printing. This statement is so vague, I don't know what it means. Are you implying that all "mainstream actually educated economists&q
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by swixi 6y ago
> So how do you explain everything that happened on the wealth inequality front from the 1970s up to the financial crisis of 2009? Of course there's never a single thing that explains a complex issue, but the root of the current Fed
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by swixi 6y ago
Thanks for the response. I won't respond to every point because (1) that would be long and (2) I don't disagree with everything. > Human evolution and mutation is slow. By looking at what our primary diet was up until recently,
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by swixi 6y ago
>Many of today's health epidemics are linked to a lack of fat and an excess of carbohydrates. I'm genuinely curious as to what you're getting at. When you say "excess of carbohydrates", are you referring specific
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by swixi 6y ago
Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but don't options contracts introduce risk? I've never run a business -- what risk are you incurring by having the cash sitting in a bank? If the play is instead to take a (perhaps small) ris
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by swixi 6y ago
This just seems like a complicated way to go about budgeting correctly. Save money when you have excess from increased revenues, and use that to cover yourself when revenues decrease. I don't understand what is gained by bringing puts
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by swixi 6y ago
I don't think it's that simple. Of course the Gamestop situation is a unique one, but speculation is the entire point of the stock market. You can justify (and lower) the risk you take by examining fundamentals, or by investing in
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by swixi 6y ago
> Yep, it's really great that markets can create speculation that are not tied at all to the fundamentals of a security. That doesn't create bubbles, volatility, or open the door for endless shenanigans at all. Speculation is a
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by swixi 6y ago
How was the volume of GME enough to cause this problem? Today was around 60 million. Aren't they usually executing billions of trades across the market every day?
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by swixi 6y ago
Can you describe what it would look like to "own" land in your view? Are you suggesting people should be able to buy land in a community and then sit on it forever without contributing anything back to said community?
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by swixi 6y ago
It's the latter. From the article: "Other states are high or low for various reasons: the outliers Maryland and Virginia, for example, both have dramatically higher Federal spending per capita than the average state, as they are n
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by swixi 6y ago
Can you define what a "platform" is? And do you think there is a legal distinction between the two? If this is regarding section 230, around which this dichotomy always seems to surface, then are you aware that the word "plat
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by swixi 6y ago
Can you elaborate on how a "monopoly corporation" is like a branch of government? I don't understand your analogy, or what is special about a monopoly versus any other corporation with significant power, cultural or otherwise
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by swixi 6y ago
What does limited liability have to do with a corporation being owned by one person? I assume this poster is questioning the "giant corporation" part. Maybe you meant to say "any corporation"?
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by swixi 6y ago
By what objective metric(s) do you determine that a particular website has become an internet "public square"?