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by trappist 7y ago
Why is it that when we see the unintended yet predictable and easily understood consequences of a policy, in this case monetary policy, all the blame goes to those whose decisions were influenced by that ill-advised policy in that predictab
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by trappist 7y ago
It's not though. Establishing Brand X as a cause doesn't tell you what ingredient, or what missing nutrient, or what other feature of that brand's food is causing the problem. What value is there in that? You can switch brand
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by trappist 7y ago
I don't support monarchies. Neither does Hoppe, or this book. He proposes only that monarchies are better than democracies, which he also doesn't endorse. I myself don't have a strong opinion on the question. I was referencin
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by trappist 7y ago
Flamin' Hot Cheetos are junk food that millions of people love. In America rags to riches stories tend to involve someone who found a way to make the lives of others - many others - just a little better than they would otherwise have b
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by trappist 7y ago
This is the sort of thing predicted by Hans Hermann Hoppe's "Democracy: The God that Failed", the basic premise of which is that short term leaders as found in democracies will try to get as much as they can in the short time
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by trappist 8y ago
This is one of those interesting questions where almost all laymen agree it should be altruistic, and almost all economists, from every school of thought including Marxism, agree there should be a market. Iran is currently the only country
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by trappist 8y ago
The model assigns opportunities every 6 months for 40 years and decides whether the talents of the potential beneficiary are adequate to exploit the opportunity. It doesn't work this way. People waiting for opportunities don't enc
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by trappist 8y ago
Haven't found the ICO contract, but the ERC20 contract says there are 1,912 token holders while OP says there were 32,000 investors. https://etherscan.io/token/0xC8a8D2A81cc86b95beb04E5a320D7E5...
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by trappist 9y ago
I had a mobile game I spent nearly this much on before my wife persuaded me, with some help from my experience with addiction, that it was exactly this. A year or so later I still get a little adrenaline rush if I happen to look at the cloc
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by trappist 9y ago
> ... austerity measures, measured as the combination of tax increases and spending cuts... Wikipedia defines the term as either or both of these things. Investopedia defines it as only the latter, and modern political discourse seems to
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by trappist 9y ago
See this is the sort of comment that makes me feel like people get upset about economic inequality, rather than poverty, because poverty truly is not what they see as the problem.
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by trappist 9y ago
> ISP's kill competition by making legal arrangements with local governments... Seems like this should read "local governments monopolize ISPs." ISPs have no other access to this arrangement.
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by trappist 9y ago
It might be easier to convince me ISPs were a natural monopoly if they weren't also a legally protected monopoly where they are, and generally have plenty of competition where they aren't.
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by trappist 9y ago
Copyright 2006, "...the new Linux 2.4.x kernels", dead SSL cert
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by trappist 10y ago
He said, unafraid.
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by trappist 16y ago
I've used Redmine extensively both as a freelancer and in small and medium sized shops. It satisfies (1), has the capacity for (2), especially with certain plugins, takes care of (3) better than any other app I've used... You have (3) twic