klaudius

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by klaudius 4y ago
In countries where people die from famine there are not a lot of rich people. High concentration of rich people is found in societies where people are not starving. So you are right in saying that in a world of starvation rich people should
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by klaudius 5y ago
EU used to produce its own energy, but environmentalists funded by Russia managed to reduce EU production and increase dependence on Russia. Hopefully those regulations can be reversed and EU can block Russia completely.
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by klaudius 5y ago
Same here. DDG is also superior if you are searching for controversial information which Google bans.
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by klaudius 5y ago
What is the name of that board?
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by klaudius 5y ago
"human resources"
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by klaudius 5y ago
I suggest you read the book "Virus Mania" for a more skeptical look on epidemics, masks and vaccines.
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by klaudius 5y ago
It's also ignoring other species.
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by klaudius 5y ago
There are cases where governments implemented protectionism and support for industry, but it failed. You have the case of computer industry in Brazil. It's not as simple as saying that government support is the key since there are many
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by klaudius 5y ago
Buffett famously stated, "I'll tell you why I like the cigarette business. It costs a penny to make. Sell it for a dollar. It's addictive. And there's fantastic brand loyalty." source: https://www.investo
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by klaudius 5y ago
Big Tech should be locating large employment centers in strategic locations around the country. And by strategic I don’t mean where the talent, resources, or customers are located but rather where influential Congresspeople, Senators
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by klaudius 5y ago
Now that they have market power and monopoly position in certain areas they lobby for regulation to make it difficult for startups to disrupt them. They used no sales tax and lower wages when they were starting up, but now want to prevent t
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by klaudius 5y ago
They are paying Australia's GST. The tax you are referring to is income tax. They are exporting a product to another country and paying income tax in the country where they are producing the product. Companies have to pay value added t
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by klaudius 5y ago
- https://greyenlightenment.com - https://www.joelonsoftware.com - https://meltingasphalt.com - https://lukesmith.xyz/blog
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by klaudius 5y ago
I was at one of their scam seminars. There was some sociopath lying for an hour straight and trying to get people to purchase some package for mining Onecoin. It was ridiculous. I was invited by a (former) friend who tried to recruit me and
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by klaudius 5y ago
There are already studies on effects of UBI: https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/2016/11/30/long-term-effects-of-short-term-free-cash-guaranteed-minimum-income-experiments/
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by klaudius 5y ago
Use Monero
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by klaudius 5y ago
Paul Graham addressed this in his previous essay "How People Get Rich Now": The best way to envision what happened is to imagine a pond with a crust of ice on top. Initially the only way from the bottom to the surface is aro
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by klaudius 5y ago
Robin Hanson has also compares sex and income distribution: https://www.overcomingbias.com/2018/06/comparing-income-sex-...
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by klaudius 5y ago
You are overestimating the role of social skills in attraction and not talking about looks. People who are good looking experience halo effect where others put a positive spin on everything they are doing. If a guy is good looking, but shy,
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by klaudius 5y ago
It's not culture. It's poverty + weak states. If you don't live in an advanced organized country and you are poor you have to rely on your local group. How else are you going to survive? If you educate those people, put them
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by klaudius 5y ago
They use 1% because number 1 is an integer and it can represent a whole person. This is useful for scapegoating and hatred. "The 99% vs. the 1% is the modern articulation of this classic scapegoating mechanism. It is all minus one
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by klaudius 5y ago
They say there are multiple ways to do IP spoofing. Does anyone know some other ways to do it?
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by klaudius 6y ago
How does someone get into that position? Are public schools so bad that people come out with no marketable unique skills that would give them natural job security?
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by klaudius 6y ago
https://isthesqueezesquoze.com/
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by klaudius 6y ago
There's a case [1] of an old guy who fell into coal fire and regrew his hair. He basically regenerated his skin and his hair. Microneedling [2] has been used successfully to regrow hair. Methods like minoxidil and finasteride work well
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by klaudius 6y ago
Payment networks are where the network effects and scale are. Visa and Mastercard have been known to ban people for political reasons. Payment providers are just a front end for their networks, so it's easy to switch providers like Str
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by klaudius 6y ago
You could look at countries as being part of a market. If one country decides to ban your speech, you just move to another one, right? But that's not how it works because switching countries is very difficult. We demand free speech fro
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by klaudius 6y ago
I don't understand unions. If they don't like certain behaviors that are legal like selling to government or paying high salaries, why are they working there in the first place? Just quit. Different people like different things, s
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by klaudius 6y ago
It has been shown that finasteride, which is a systemic drug actually helps [1] with heart health. It's not that fixing hair would improve heart health, but that on a systemic level improving heart health could prevent balding. [1]
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by klaudius 6y ago
Yes. You can look up scientific papers linking balding with health issues. We know premenopausal women have much lower incidence of heart problems than men. Some ethnicities of men like east asians also have better heart health and incident

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