teodesian

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by teodesian 15y ago
You must remember, however that money != wealth. The money supply of a nation in no way represents the wealth generation going on in an economy. Printing an extra dollar does not mean the users of dollars became wealthier, it simply redist
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by teodesian 15y ago
Hoarding is relative. Whatever commodity has the highest velocity (most trades per day) is generally not considered hoarded. Relative to dollars, nearly all commodities are hoarded, but that's because the entire money supply changes hands
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by teodesian 15y ago
1). "I haven't heard anything good" is not exactly a high bar either. 2). I don't care what people's agenda is if they do not advocate focribly making others conform to it. Thiel does not, ergo his views are not concerning. If you want t
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by teodesian 15y ago
Everything? You make it sound like he's a child rapist or something. Has he ever tried to violently force his worldview on anyone? No. Is he a criminal? No. Is he trying to advance his own agenda, like anybody else? Yes. This is the same
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by teodesian 15y ago
The primary beef this seemed to have with Thiel was that he was "withdrawing consent" from democracy, believing it to be incompatible with liberty. Not good for the writer of the article that Thiel is technically correct. Divine right of t
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by teodesian 16y ago
This guy does know he has a valid tort against this person, right? If he wants to discourage them from driving, he should sue her for damages. She was negligent, he was damaged while he had a reasonable expectation of safety (crossing walk
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by teodesian 16y ago
I find all of this fuss quite humorous; the federal government has had basically the same law as Arizona on the books for nearly thirty years now. However, being the feds, they arbitrarily enforce laws as it suits them (mainly because they
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by teodesian 17y ago
They are indeed metabolized differently, for the most part. The sugars in fruits will have higher concentrations of simple glucose (though they still have plenty of fructose) than a soda does. Fructose and Sucrose (depending on what is st
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by teodesian 17y ago
I found Weatherford's "History of Money" to be a much better history of the subject.