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by zpeti 5y ago
I can guarantee you one thing, if you don’t try and complain about how only privileged people can do it, you DEFINITELY won’t get rich or be successful or whatever your metric is. If you try, you might fail, and you might fail because of th
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by zpeti 5y ago
See my comment above, but there could have been equalization events. The governments had three financial crises, in 99, 2008, and 2020 where it could have chosen not to intervene and save the rich. Yes it would have been hard on everyone, b
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by zpeti 5y ago
I would love to see a parallel universe where in 2008 no one is bailed out and bankers are either on the hook for the risks they took or actually are sent to prison. Taking it further back, what if the tech bubble of the 90s is allowed to c
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by zpeti 5y ago
Are you calling Nassim depressed or his reviewers?
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by zpeti 5y ago
I was looking for this answer and found it at the bottom downvoted. I wonder how many people actually know what Peterson says as opposed to what the NYT says about him. To sum it up: do what is at the limit of your competence and what you f
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by zpeti 5y ago
My personal take: There might well be ponzi schemes on top of the bitcoin infrastructure, but the technology behind bitcoin is not a ponzi scheme. It might well be that a lot of people are crazed over it and want to buy bitcoin and push up
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by zpeti 5y ago
What percent has society gotten worse from the lost trust due to less communication information from masks? What percent have mental health issues increased due to less oxytocin from less hugs? What percent has society gotten worse from peo
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by zpeti 5y ago
Maybe you don’t see the social and communication value of seeing someone’s face, I do. Maybe you don’t live somewhere where the temperature is 30 degree Celsius plus often, at which point wearing a mask is a very different UX to colder weat
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by zpeti 5y ago
Studies from Israel so far have shown vaccinated people almost never infect others. So wearing a mask vaccinated is not about protecting others, at least not according to our current scientific studies
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by zpeti 5y ago
> How do you tell from the outside it's not for rational reasons? Look at the data. However, I agree with you, whoever wants to wear a mask can. Just don’t expect others to wear one too. Your own paranoia does not mean you get to te
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by zpeti 5y ago
I agree, but as an indirect consequence it’s allowed highly paranoid people to be able to blame and outrage vent at others. Which isn’t exactly healthy.
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by zpeti 5y ago
This is what you get when things like mask wearing start to become more of a social display than a rational decision. Most of the actual evidence shows outdoor infection to be close to zero, unless you’re close up at a concert or bus stop.
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by zpeti 5y ago
Yeah, I’m so glad there are platforms like Twitter that aren’t cesspools of hate.
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by zpeti 5y ago
I’m a bit triggered by your two examples. What is your opinion of Muslim countries who believe in their superiority and spreading Islam in the world?
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by zpeti 5y ago
Why not let the market take care of it? I think it will in the long run. We have CNN and Fox, because we want news and media through the lens of similar people politically? Why wouldn’t social media be the same in the long run?
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by zpeti 5y ago
It just depends on the extent of it and the scale. Piss enough people off enough, and they will want to move. I think we are close personally. It doesn’t take that much for a group of conservative people to move somewhere else if everyone i
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by zpeti 5y ago
Have you seen the Bloomberg agricultural price index recently?
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by zpeti 5y ago
Historical: Except in those cases most printed money went to banks, buying their bad loans. Which had already affected house prices by 2008, and only affected asset and commodity prices, which did rise in price since 2008. This time round y
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by zpeti 5y ago
How do you deal with TVs increasing in size or dropping in price for the last 40 years? How do you deal with computers dropping in price for the last 40 years? Have these industries had issues with deflation?
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by zpeti 5y ago
In other news, the Bloomberg Agriculture Index (price of food) is hockey-sticking: https://twitter.com/KarelMercx/status/1387108408139161600 At the least, bitcoin is a possible way to protect against this, if you
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by zpeti 5y ago
It depends how quickly the mistake was made. Totalitarian states are not famous for admitting mistakes, in fact they hide them with all their tools. So I don't think your media hype story is a good explanation.
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by zpeti 5y ago
How about a virus that's just allowed to evolve inside human tissue? Not "manually tweaked" just allowed to evolve faster.
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by zpeti 5y ago
Amazingly succinct post. However I think the CCP are overplaying their hand now. They are doing too much too fast too aggressively. Hong kong, NBA, now going after Australia. It's going to backfire IMO. Especially if you start to think
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by zpeti 5y ago
Not so long ago I stumbled on https://data.disqus.com , which basically outlines what they were fined for. They should probably take that site down soon...
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by zpeti 5y ago
1. You can seek out a lender who specialises in higher risk loans 2. If there isn't one, you can start a lender that does that, since there is probably a business opportunity if noone is doing it. 3. You can convince friends and family
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You do realise you basically just said "science should only be used when it suits my political views" Science is science. If you can't deal with the facts that's your problem. If the facts are difficult, we need to work
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by zpeti 5y ago
For that it would be great if we could differentiate between who in society is a wealth creator and who is a zero sum player. Grouping Jeff Bezos in with Jamie Dimon (JP Morgan CEO), as both evil because they are both rich, is an extremely
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by zpeti 5y ago
I'm highly suspicious that most of wolf of wall street was complete bullshit, that was fed as a true story. The guy made loads of money from lying. Why would we trust him about some sort of crazy rich man's lifestyle story that al
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by zpeti 6y ago
I think you'll find most grassroots conservatives agree with you on this. And so do most right wing commentators. It is only the government that is pushing this and it's crazy.
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by zpeti 6y ago
If people are multi dimensional, why are you grouping people by race and saying they have inherent characteristics based on race? Going by your second paragraph, a black person born from wealthy parents who send their kid to harvard, has mu

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