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by tlholaday 6y ago
> Will they apply the logic here to all categories of goods for sale? Consider that the copyright owner, the Dr Seuss Foundation, has made the decision to cease publishing these six works. That is not the case for the other materials you
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by tlholaday 6y ago
Free, anonymous, and ephemeral.
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by tlholaday 6y ago
chris poole offered a strategic answer to this question in 2010: https://www.ted.com/talks/christopher_moot_poole_the_case_fo... terse: anonymity + ephemerality.
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by tlholaday 6y ago
> Who was responsible for the decision to not offer help with vaccinations under Trump? Trump was responsible for that decision, that’s who.
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by tlholaday 6y ago
Thanks for the crystal-clear example.
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by tlholaday 6y ago
Do you have an example of a broker halting purchases, but not sales, for customers who have the cash?
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by tlholaday 6y ago
> ... before ... Note that “before” and “after” are arguably illusions, stemming from your sublight velocity. From the perspective of a photon, no time has passed “since” the Big Bang.
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by tlholaday 6y ago
> Maybe by the time a civilization achieves the tech needed to really expand, they no longer want to. Is that your candidate for the Great Filter?
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No, the lesson of Parler is not that you need to have > ... a rock-solid strategy for moderating ... The lesson is you need to have a rock-solid `policy` that content which advocates violence is impermissible.
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> ... why you would buy these ... Feature-terms: For the microphones. Benefit-terms: For comfortable all-day telephony, up to 20 hours between charges.
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by tlholaday 6y ago
> Is the purpose of my toaster to sit there broken, because it's broken right now? This is proof by demonstration that for you, the highest value the toaster can provide, net of costs, is to be a room ornament. I hope you are keepin
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by tlholaday 6y ago
The loss of accrued value is a disincentive to sell, and sell-disincentives are a feature, not a big.
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by tlholaday 6y ago
> ... eyes on the back of animals ... Q: Cubs! If you attack a horned prey animal from the front, what will happen to you? A: You will be gored. Q: Cubs! How do we know which end of the animal is the back? A: The back end has no eyes. Q
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This merely changes the target.
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> 3 years of updates ... Now we're talkin'.
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Has he changed his mind about marriage equality in the twenty years since he published this? https://products.kitsapsun.com/archive/2000/04-01/0001_thoma... Edit: maybe in the two decades that followed he lea
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by tlholaday 6y ago
> The value of these assets is only determined by what other people are willing to pay for them. According to William Stanley Jevons, Léon Walras, and Carl Menger, the value of every asset is only determined by what other people are wi
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by tlholaday 6y ago
In this instance, “ye” is the plural form of “thou.”
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by tlholaday 6y ago
> What does the government want with all that land? You are correct that the government does not want land. What the government wants is a share of the economic value that control of the land makes possible. Consider "vacant storefr
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by tlholaday 6y ago
> What doesn't remotely make sense to me is the suggestion that LVT should be the primary or even only tax When you were new to arithmetic, did it remotely make sense to you that the number of integers and the number of even integer
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by tlholaday 6y ago
What is the benefit of increasing the rate? If you like 100 years of ownership, set the rate at 1% per year, calculated on the copyright/patent holder's self-assessed price. Every century, the polity collects 100% of the value. Wh
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by tlholaday 6y ago
Yes, trades are willing; and when you turn down a bona-fide offer to buy your house for $X, that is very strong evidence that you value your house at more than $X.
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by tlholaday 6y ago
Rothbard's error: under land nationalization, state actors decide who uses the land; under single tax, who uses the land is determined by auction.
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by tlholaday 7y ago
> Is there proof of any "physics"? Arguably there is `disproof`.
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by tlholaday 7y ago
> I think the bigger question is what is the difference between a Minsky moment and an inverse-short squeeze (a long squeeze?)? Casually speaking, it’s the difference between a forced sale of an asset in order to repay debt after a long
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by tlholaday 7y ago
> What is the difference between a Minsky moment and a top? Casually speaking, it’s the difference between a forced sale and profit taking.
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by tlholaday 7y ago
> Leading to a [...] severe demand for cash. Callooh! Callay! Something to sponge up the Global Savings Glut!
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by tlholaday 7y ago
Would a 25-minute latency be a good way to incorporate this tactic and Francesco Cirillo's Pomodoro Technique?
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by tlholaday 7y ago
Is it your opinion that understanding the meaning of "two primes" is simpler than understanding the meaning of even, odd, tripling, halving, and adding on3?
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Was he asked about James Bond movies?

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