baconandeggs

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by baconandeggs 6y ago
Those are not all the issues. For example, you can't get a usb-c hub to get more usb-c ports, they don't exist.
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by baconandeggs 6y ago
USB-C charging is truly revolutionary. USB-C data is a clusterf *k, and worse of all, is not UNIVERSAL anymore.
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by baconandeggs 6y ago
You get to accept it, or not. That is 100% on you.
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by baconandeggs 6y ago
And people didn't want to do that so they bought an iPhone.
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by baconandeggs 6y ago
> Smartphone/tablet OSs are logical successors to the laptop/desktop OSs we have not game consoles. They are general purpose computing platforms. Yes, let's ignore the actual predecessors of smartPHONES, you know, cellPHON
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by baconandeggs 6y ago
Just look at the chart on page 20 of this Fed paper (the Fed was created on 1913, the fiat dollar became the global reserve currency in the 70s after years of debasement to pay for the cold war, vietnam, etc.) https://www.dallasf
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by baconandeggs 6y ago
The Fed creates the money, but the taxpayers give it value.
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by baconandeggs 6y ago
OR ...you could let nature run its curse and have those debts refinanced at real interest rates that reflected the actual production in the economy, or defaulted and have those assets and resources liberated, thus correcting the distortion
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by baconandeggs 6y ago
Because the US is the biggest debtor in the history of humanity and is supporting (in a symbiotic relationship) all those countries you listed who are also at risk of collapsing.
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by baconandeggs 6y ago
They will dump them because they will need the liquidity.
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by baconandeggs 6y ago
Are we gonna start arguing about Planet Fitness having their classes on Peloton bikes next?
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by baconandeggs 6y ago
Nintendo does it, or at least tries to. The switch is their play at the mobile market. You are not entitled to reach on any other market. It is completely unfair for epic to demand what Hershey had to build on their own, or Tesla, or H&
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by baconandeggs 6y ago
Why wait? it's always been possible and legal , just like Kcups and Juicero do, or did.
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by baconandeggs 6y ago
Of course! You can choose to charge anything you want, not only for your product but for your salary too! There is no law, man-made or otherwise preventing you to do so. Actually there is a law preventing you to charge too little for your o
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by baconandeggs 6y ago
> there is hunger in the world, but not because of shortage but for multiple other reasons. That there's always been hunger in the world, even when we didn't produce more food than needed tells you production of food is not the
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by baconandeggs 6y ago
> So you are saying there is no way to act with foresight? No, I didn't say any of that. All I said is what is bad for society is also bad for the individual.
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by baconandeggs 6y ago
Your example is wrong. All situations should be evaluated and re-evaluated at every instance, at every moment in time to account for new information and not only once at the beginning thinking it'll be the same forever. Fishing as an i
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by baconandeggs 6y ago
> Capitalism is fundamentally built on competition, it pits all participants against one another. Life is built on competition, life pits all participants against one another. Resources are not infinite.
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by baconandeggs 6y ago
We are not arguing about the cost of education because students can't pay the tuition; they pay the tuition every year with no problem even though it keeps rising. The argument is because after they graduate they have a mountain of stu
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by baconandeggs 6y ago
> What also works against the idea of subsidies being the culprit is that it's not just universities that have seen this cost inflation. The entire economy is subsidize. We have a credit-based system, hence universal access to cheap
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by baconandeggs 6y ago
> the price has gone up because students are responsible for more of the cost. That is not how prices work, the prices can't go up if the only buyers have no money. The price went up because they got access to credit. To government
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by baconandeggs 6y ago
I didn't say they weren't good businesses, they are solid, profitable and seemingly well run companies and it's why they are being used for shelter. But let's not confuse profits, or market cap, with innovation or value.
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by baconandeggs 6y ago
Sure, but "hard cash" is funny money; that's why people investing in FAANG don't want it and prefer stocks.
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by baconandeggs 6y ago
The "growth" in tech has been entirely driven by monetary policy. Google or Facebook or Apple or Netflix or Amazon have done nothing special than what they've been doing for the last 5 years. I wish we were getting insane tec
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by baconandeggs 6y ago
U.S. tech stocks are now priced higher than the entire European stock market.
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by baconandeggs 6y ago
Literally free money only to those with access to cheap credit, increasing the wealth gap even more.
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by baconandeggs 6y ago
Nominally you can do whatever you want, that it solves anything is another question. And in fact, they've been printing money for over a decade and things have only gotten worse. The Enron balance sheet could handle a lot too.
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by baconandeggs 6y ago
> We’re going to print, not repay, our way out of this. Try to, we're going to try to print our way out of it.
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by baconandeggs 6y ago
At this point Tesla sells more stock than cars.
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by baconandeggs 6y ago
> Real fairness under that definition can't exist as long as there are inheritances. You are redefining fair to mean equal. I don't want equal at the expense of fair. Inheritance is a made up rule, and as such can be unmade wit

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