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by wrong_variable 7y ago
Products don't grow on trees. If the fed buys every USD bond in existence ( aka monetize the debt ) - it would lead to a good amount of inflation.
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by wrong_variable 7y ago
Even brazilian breath oxygen. What "suffering" has the rest of the world done to brazil ?
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by wrong_variable 7y ago
Organized labor was extremely problematic for capital since WW2. The new dealers ( FDR, Truman ) gave organized labor tremendous power because without it the USA would probably have had a big communist party. They also knew the deflationar
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by wrong_variable 7y ago
Most websites and their owners on the internet are broke. Github is flush with cash ( relatively speaking ). Makes sense why they would go after them ( Microsoft ) , not that it will stick.
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by wrong_variable 7y ago
You are talking as if these engineers grow on trees outside US borders. The US is the largest source for this type of engineering, other countries are simply not doing any of it. The cost of buying a Ferrari is prolly lower than getting a P
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by wrong_variable 7y ago
> The US is also, essentially, entirely energy self-sufficient, with Canada's help. Something China is nowhere near being. The US could shut off China's access to foreign oil and a lot of coal supply very easily and it would gr
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by wrong_variable 7y ago
It has a lot to do with the Asian diet, this includes India and Pakistan too. Most people in those countries do not consume large amount of meat, massively reducing their need for large amount of agricultural land. Soil fertility is just pa
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by wrong_variable 7y ago
What prevents Coinbase to go offshore then ?
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by wrong_variable 7y ago
So all the money spent on mosquite coil, net , aerosol, skin cream ( while harming your own body ) was worth for nothing ? Nature had a better solution all along. If we lived in forests mosquitoes won't be a problem, well at least all
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by wrong_variable 7y ago
Being able to "price" something requires existence of a functional market. Markets can only exist when contracts can be enforced. Being able to enforce a contract requires monitoring and ability to issue fines, you also needs appr
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by wrong_variable 7y ago
When it comes to your wallet - it doesn't matter if you are a progressive or conservative. You are going to protect your financial interests. It's a principal as old as Life itself.
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by wrong_variable 7y ago
Not only that, by expanding the industry - tech has been able to "eat" other industry, due to its inclusiveness. 20 years ago the internet was less than 0.01% of global GDP. Tech will continue eating industries that are structured
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by wrong_variable 7y ago
Why cant everybody just learn Linux ? Why cant microsoft just invest the same amount of money it does for Excel for Linux ?
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by wrong_variable 7y ago
Are you over or under 30 ? Normally vision stabilizes at 20-30 of age. computer work normally does not lead to blindness, I have spoken to a large number of different eye doctors and specialists about it. Computer work may lead to eye strai
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by wrong_variable 7y ago
Putting supply chain in a single location reduces cost. Most of it had little to do with China but decisions made by the US corporate sector. Essentially the US Govt. cannibalized it's middle class to feed the electronic, military and
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by wrong_variable 7y ago
You need to be more specific about "automation". My kids still need a lot of manual human labor to be educated ( services ). You still need a lot of manual labor to create roads, bridges and apartments. People were talking about f
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by wrong_variable 7y ago
I do not have eye strain. I have astigmatism - something that is heredity. I use tabs. My spherical power is normal. Are you saying anyone without perfect vision should quit coding ?
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by wrong_variable 7y ago
> There's massive cultural, ethnic, and economic diversity. The continent spans countries which are middle income to the lowest in the world. Unity and cohesiveness are difficult regionally, less across the entire continent. You cou
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by wrong_variable 7y ago
Why is it outrageous ?
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by wrong_variable 7y ago
What solution do you propose then ? Money is always decoupled from value ( Warren Buffet paraphrased ). Sometimes people who add negative value like the oil men in the Permian basin get paid 100x then your pip developer. Screw that, large a
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by wrong_variable 7y ago
Which country was your exit IP ? was it the US ? What happens if you route it through servers in Qatar, Thailand or Singapore ?
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by wrong_variable 7y ago
I am not sure why this is not talked about often enough. Prior to the 1980s, Japan's economy functioned as a sort of War economy. Companies would spend and invest to gain market share at the cost of margins. share prices were rarely so
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by wrong_variable 7y ago
> No because I said they were different, if a 20 something emigrates, the country they grew up in has spent years educating that child, keeping it healthy, supporting the parents while they bring up the child, then just as the payback sh
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by wrong_variable 7y ago
> Exporting humans is generally a bad thing for the exporting country (brain drain), exporting goods is generally a good thing. Goods can have tariffs applied, how would that work for humans. Immigration is much more politicized than fre
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by wrong_variable 7y ago
> Last year, there were 484 official heat waves across India, up from 21 in 2010. Does it mean India is unlivable ? What if we changed the headline to USA being unlivable ? how often has CNN published USA being unlivable ? CNN is respons
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by wrong_variable 7y ago
> "Plus free trade is about trade. Freedom of movement is about people. You can be in favour of free trade, and against freedom of movement" Why ? Humans are a form of "good" so is capital and natural resources. You c
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by wrong_variable 7y ago
If you have to ask, then the answer is no. Ideally avoid news about India from CNN,BBC,... Most of these journalists have never set foot outside of their hotels in Delhi or Mumbai. Travel 5km outside of urban core and India remains the same
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by wrong_variable 7y ago
I am not sure if you a Brit, you sure do sound like one. You are ignoring 400 years of trade history here. Britain was known for imposing unfair trade treaty on the rest of the world, ( so called 'unequal treaty' in the case of th
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by wrong_variable 7y ago
> "This is not such a big deal because there are other horrifying things that are an even bigger deal" If India was Syria, then it would be a bit more horrifying, as even simple rain harvesting wont solve the problem in Syria.
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by wrong_variable 7y ago
This article makes me question all the other alarmist articles that comes up on HN. India is not facing a "Water Apocalypse". Salt water infiltration into groundwater and soil is a harder problem to solve. Urban/rural India h

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