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by thulecitizen 7y ago
Thanks!
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by thulecitizen 7y ago
Same experience here. It can be a nightmare.
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by thulecitizen 7y ago
> Well Swiss have this enshrined even in laws, ie you can't ever buy a gun if you are from: Albania, Algeria, Sri Lanka, Kosovo, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Turkey. Literally this list of countries is in the laws.
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by thulecitizen 7y ago
'Yeah, who cares about the health of those backward Eastern Europeans!' - the collective unconscious of Europe A bulgarian friend told me many in Eastern europe say they feel like second class European citizens. That they are &#x2
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by thulecitizen 7y ago
Thank you for shining a light on something that you found beautiful. I bid you a safe journey also, my dear friend.
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by thulecitizen 7y ago
How would you outline how you sell your services? What are your complementary strategies to charging more?
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by thulecitizen 7y ago
Have fun feeding your loved ones with gold! Can you share some gold recipes? Is it tasty in smoothies?
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by thulecitizen 7y ago
I don’t believe objective journalism exists, unless you are somehow able to represent all 7 billion human perspectives. If you think you are not neutral, or if you have to think about to check if are harming anyone, then there is a high cha
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by thulecitizen 7y ago
> The end goal of that is just total collapse. So then you agree that capitalism with it's overly parasitic rentier/usury mechanisms is a ponzi scheme, waiting to collapse? After collapse, hopefully we have a transition to a p2
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by thulecitizen 7y ago
What a great story to justify robbing other people. Keep telling that to yourself if it helps you sleep at night. In my experience, this sounds like grandiosity talking.
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by thulecitizen 7y ago
There will be money, there will always be more money. That's the nature of national fiat money. Is it trust you are talking about, integrity?
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by thulecitizen 7y ago
It's funny how the most capitalist people I know can't see the hypocrisy when I use their neo-liberal arguments of 'meritocracy' and 'pull your boots up by your bootstraps' to show the contradiction in their ar
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by thulecitizen 7y ago
Well then we would at least finally get a massive inheritance in the form of the formerly corporate-owned patents!
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by thulecitizen 7y ago
> the Primary Dealer Credit Facility (PDCF) [...] the cash-for-trash facility, where Wall Street’s toxic waste from a decade of irresponsible trading and lending, will be purged from the balance sheets of the Wall Street firms and handed
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by thulecitizen 7y ago
Looking at it now, my comment is slightly ambiguous. I mean that I would also love for the designs to get leaked, and I thought Johnny555's comment was great
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by thulecitizen 7y ago
Oh those scary hackers!
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by thulecitizen 7y ago
> Academic papers can take hours, if not weeks to discover if it's complete BS Did you see this recent thread? It is a paper on how to read papers and it was very useful and insightful for me. https://news.ycombinator.com
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by thulecitizen 7y ago
Check out the work of the MetaCurrency Project http://MetaCurrency.org
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by thulecitizen 7y ago
Yay more centralization! What could possible go wrong with critical components being hosted by one big corporation?
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by thulecitizen 7y ago
The architect of the Euro, Bernard Lietaer, wrote a book called The Future of Money that I’m reading now.
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by thulecitizen 7y ago
The patent king is stepping down from his empire
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by thulecitizen 7y ago
> re-ranking based on his intellect re-ranking based on his interests
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by thulecitizen 7y ago
Yeah I think it works like that too. Yet at the same time I think dang has the ability to move any post up or down/re-prioritizing or re-ranking based on his intellect, instead of a natural, organic ranking. It becomes a forced therapy
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by thulecitizen 7y ago
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/323590.Facing_Love_Addic...
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by thulecitizen 7y ago
Dear Dang, what does your admin toolset look like? Have you written about that anywhere? I'm curious, is this post of yours at the top because it has the most upvotes, or because you are pinning it here?
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by thulecitizen 7y ago
Often I have had a similar struggle to the one you described because I have not found my own personal reason for being grateful. I know now that it's because I was often living inside the narrative of people who were close to me, that
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by thulecitizen 7y ago
Agreed. Have you read any Guy Standing? “ …today, a tiny minority of people and corporate interests across the world are accumulating vast wealth and power from rental income, not only from housing and land but from a range of other assets,
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by thulecitizen 7y ago
To me what you write are great arguments for tuition free universities, like the ones in Sweden. It makes society much more equitable and egalitarian. This whole artificial scarcity thing is such a lose-lose for everyone in society.
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by thulecitizen 7y ago
This kicking students out of dorms by MIT is insane! They are a being a terrible landlord. How is having thousands of students packing up their stuff better than them just staying put? Won't this make passing on the virus easier? Those
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by thulecitizen 7y ago
I would argue that there are many incentives to use platforms/apps for both the client and the provider/host, instead of contracting off-platform/off-app. For the provider, the app gives them 1) a steady stream of new leads a

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