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by wdewind 9y ago
I'm sorry but you're making a massive stretch by implying the either Einstein or Feynman were known as toxic assholes by basically anyone (except maybe Einstein's wives). And while one can of course say that someone is a geni
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Everyone is commenting on the mismanagement angle here, which is very real, but I think it's also important to point out that the author is simply wrong about "Rick" being a genius if the descriptions of his behavior and work
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by wdewind 9y ago
Wouldn't they have scheduled these trades months in advance like most employees of public companies with insider trading policies?
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Because they weren't necessary because the legal system worked just fine in this case?
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by wdewind 9y ago
Controlling for calories and assuming you're not diabetic why does it matter what your source of carbohydrate is?
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It's not. The same amount of glycemic load consumed all at once or over time throughout the day will not have a significant effect on insulin resistance. Not being able to eat as much because you are constrained to an 8 hour window w
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by wdewind 9y ago
Overall the body is pretty good at nutrient partitioning and maintaining a caloric balance. There may be small statistically different outcomes for practicing stuff like IF, but there aren't clinically different outcomes outside of u
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by wdewind 9y ago
But you can just choose to stop accepting ErikCoin at any time right?
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by wdewind 9y ago
How is that different from virtual currency in video games?
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by wdewind 9y ago
Saying that bitcoin allows users to act as their own banks is like saying a mattress with your cash under it is your own bank. It's not meaningful in anyway. Debt is the meaningful differentiator.
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by wdewind 9y ago
> They literally allow an individual to be their own bank. The main function of banks is issuing debt, not holding cash.
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by wdewind 9y ago
> If you're talking about Marxism, you're misunderstanding the division between bourgeoisie and proletarians; stocks, pensions, 401k, whatever, does not count as means of production; the division is between the proletarians, wh
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by wdewind 9y ago
We're getting lost in the weeds. What exactly are you proposing?
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> The government creates money all the time. The vast majority of new money is not created by the government, and that fact seems to be missing from your argument. If we no longer had credit we would be shrinking the available money sup
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by wdewind 9y ago
I mostly agree with all of this and felt like it was covered by: > Economic growth, although not by itself, helps alleviate a lot of these issues. There are other factors that also impact this, and I'd argue a lot of the economic is
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by wdewind 9y ago
I'm not really sure what you're arguing here. As I've mentioned in other posts, there's obviously a balance, but suggesting that the credit markets could go away entirely and be supplanted by "friends and family&qu
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by wdewind 9y ago
I agree with that. Economic growth can help these issues, but it's not the only, or even the biggest, factor. As I mentioned...
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by wdewind 9y ago
> You're assuming the alternative to lending at interest is nothing rather than something. No, I'm arguing with what you proposed, which is this: > > People would still lend money to their friends and family. Stores would
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by wdewind 9y ago
That's like arguing that restaurants are extending credit because they charge you at the end of the meal. The "keep it open and then you forget to pay" type tabs are very different than having a long running tab at a bar, wh
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by wdewind 9y ago
Murabaha is largely a semantic hand wave that really doesn't fundamentally differ from the credit/mortgage model we have. The lender makes profit, frequently there are late fees, the government gets involved if the loan is not re
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by wdewind 9y ago
I think its confined to places outside of major metropolitan areas, where the vast majority of money moves around. If you have a credit card you don't need a bar tab.
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by wdewind 9y ago
> And why would "more economic growth" be a good thing? Because billions of people still live in poverty worldwide. > I don't want endlessly slaving to make the pie bigger (while ignoring second order effects, from qual
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by wdewind 9y ago
No, because it means much less economic growth. There is obviously a balance: too much lending and the economy collapses the other way. But too little lending is really bad for everyone too, and there are pretty fair reasons to think it m
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by wdewind 9y ago
So first off, I want to question the premises that this is a widespread thing, and that it is an effective business practice. The whole point of credit cards is it allows the bar to be out of this business, and most of them gladly accept c
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by wdewind 9y ago
> Stores would extend credit to customers because they want to make sales. Not GP but: much less credit would be extended because many stores wouldn't be able to do much with bookings. One reason credit cards are so ubiquitous is b
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by wdewind 9y ago
Which would mean that much much less of it would get done, which is not a clear win.
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by wdewind 9y ago
> But ... few people complain about how books corrupt our memory. Socrates absolutely did. > for this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners’ souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to t
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by wdewind 9y ago
> The main reason systems aren't secure is lack of simplicity. I don't think it's that simple. There are two ways you can look at simplicity: 1. The lack of needless complexity, which is just another way of saying somethin
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by wdewind 9y ago
> Starting Strength fails in teaches the idea of deloading by dropping weight then taking a run at it without changing any of the training methodology No, starting strength tells you to take exactly two runs up until your failure weight
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by wdewind 9y ago
> Meditation/music can only help when you are not at the edge point. I don't think music will be particularly helpful, but meditation, specifically mindfulness meditation, will be most effective when you are at the edge. Try p

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