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by lsiq 2mo ago
"Theres only a handful of real theorems with proofs" Philosophy is not mathematics. Philosophy asks you the question of what is a theorem in the context of philosophical thought, why should the fractal of reality be reduced to a r
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by lsiq 5mo ago
The book Capital Returns: Investing Through the Capital Cycle details this phenomenon, including historical cases. If anything, it shows it's possible for you to arbitrage this and in doing so help "smooth out the cycle."
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by lsiq 8mo ago
I would love to use Adafruit boards in my production, but I have to resort to custom Chinese PCB stuff to be competitive. I don't want anything, but taxes and CoL is basic business logic. SparkFun is in Colorado, which isn't a low
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by lsiq 8mo ago
Adafruit is basically the best but their whole reside-in-NYC philosophy makes zero sense. The contention that they can hire better people in NYC holds no water because over 50% of what they pay their employees goes to 3 layers of government
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by lsiq 8mo ago
Agreed. I will say that Renesas does have one thing going for them, being Japanese it has the lowest supply chain/geopolitical risk right now of anybody other than TI. And the Microchip/Atmel low end stuff is so overpriced/o
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by lsiq 8mo ago
The Teensy is so 2020 anyways. You want to skate where the puck is going. You will want boards of the Kendryte K230 or SpacemitK3 (best value RISC-V chips) or Puya PY32 (best cheapest MCU, takes 5V!), and a STM32P1 linux board for good meas
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by lsiq 2y ago
"the control the US is able to exert over their companies" You have that relationship inverted. The US gov't is a mere shell at this point, having outsourced all its core functions to private companies. There is no "medi
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by lsiq 3y ago
Buffett knows the S&P always wins because seignorage ends up in the S&P....
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by lsiq 3y ago
Every monopoly that exists (and has ever existed) does so because of some combination of government granted monopoly rights. Mineral rights, patents, intellectual property, and all other regulatory barriers to entry. There is no "natur
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by lsiq 3y ago
This isn't it, he was never part of the class in the first place and he does not share its insular self-serving worldview. He didn't go to Harvard, he went to Illinois. He built his own tech firm when taking that path wasn't
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by lsiq 4y ago
Didn't you see Marc Andreesen's tweet that " 'Conspiracy theory" is code for "will be obvious in a year.' " You only need a few first principles to see absolutely everything, like seeing the matrix co
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by lsiq 4y ago
So you're telling me that a few stuffy bureaucrats earning a salary of few hundred thousand a year are the ones who decide what happens to the money of billions? Think again. I'll give you a big hint, both the first and second pre
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by lsiq 4y ago
What's unconvincing is the vagueness of that statement. Lets' get more specific then. Explain, for example, how both the Fed and ECB implemented Basel III. Why do these two "independent" organizations adhere so closely t
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by lsiq 4y ago
Don't you find it strange that nearly every country in the world is pursuing the same currency objective at the same time. You know the one, I just don't want to spell it out to trigger the filter. How can every supposedly indepen
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by lsiq 4y ago
"They" are in a dilemma, they either go total global control or they lose control. And it's clear they are going with the former. This is just one more law that makes no practical sense even if the intentions were noble. The
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by lsiq 4y ago
Read this it will change your life for the better: https://professorwerner.org/shifting-from-central-planning-t...
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by lsiq 4y ago
Productivity is indeed a second order thing in the way the banking system works now. But you still have not understood my point. As long as IT IS LEGAL for banks to create credit for non-productive existing-asset purchases, there is a limit
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by lsiq 4y ago
"When someone buys a building to lease out flats, is that not productive?" That is simply Joe's $10M building leasing out flats has now become Sally's $12M building leasing out flats. Unless Sally makes productive invest
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by lsiq 4y ago
Banks create the money supply (~97% of it). A bank "loan" is not a legally a loan at all but a new security that is created and purchased by the bank. Furthermore, the money for that purchase does not come from any other account o
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by lsiq 4y ago
Everything is going as planned. One store credit to rule them all and in the darkness bind them.
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by lsiq 4y ago
Thank you, was hoping for someone to point this out. Banks don't take deposits and they don't lend money. Banks create money. When they "lend," what they are legally doing is purchasing a newly issued security for your h
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by lsiq 4y ago
Foucault implied the same. Or at least, suggested that as the scientific definitions are created so too does the phenomena emerge. Ian Hacking expanded upon this and named this concept, dynamic nominalism. That's why we had "madme
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by lsiq 5y ago
Yeah when Alan Dershowitz says on TV that he was introduced to Epstein by Lynn R*thschild we shouldn't read too much into it right? Or when Cindy McCain says that everyone knew what Epstein was doing but no legal entity would go after
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by lsiq 5y ago
That may increase the velocity of money, but it also will drive up prices of liquid assets like index funds as those assets replace the store of value function money. Although my post was more about cleaning up corruption via transparent an
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by lsiq 5y ago
I will take the risk and give an explanation. The are two first principles that few fully understand: The first is that we are creatures of commerce - that is how we sustain ourselves. The economy is the total FLOW of all concurrent commerc
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by lsiq 5y ago
That's funny you say that, because Visa founder Dee Hock is now retired and on twitter and thoughtfully warning about the massive centralization of power that is unfolding behind the scenes.
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by lsiq 5y ago
People need to wake up and see that CBDCs are literal serfdom. It is the imposition of micro-level, algorithmic economic sanctions on YOU. Once they are fully implemented and a network effect has taken hold, we will truly own nothing.
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by lsiq 5y ago
When I read posts like this I just think, life teaches only some learn.
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by lsiq 5y ago
Let's not forget Zuckerberg called his users "dumb f*cks." But, we're supposed to believe his contempt is gone and he cares now. If anything his arrogance is probably far higher nowadays than it was before because he has
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by lsiq 5y ago
I was surprised to see the author's name, because I actually took History of Philosophy: Ancient Philosophy with her at uChicago a decade ago. Her personality really shows through the article - it's highly amusing. She's an e

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