Undisciplined

Reminder that it was just three years ago that Andrew Cuomo was killing thousands of people and ruining millions of lives.
Part of the Problem
Cuomo Doubles Down
https://fountain.fm/episode/t6VaAnFShumHQ6AtNxw8

2023-11-08 22:28:28 GMT

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We had close friends who lived there and now we’re considering moving to the Cleveland area.

2023-11-08 11:52:43 GMT

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The Midwest keeps getting better #nevent1q…78ws

2023-11-07 13:14:11 GMT

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Is your soap as good of a shower/bath read?

2023-11-05 13:43:52 GMT

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More like “In the hands of economists…” #nevent1q…pyl9

2023-11-05 13:38:10 GMT

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I have the same question. #nevent1q…tcya

2023-11-05 13:37:11 GMT

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I’d say so, since the post is trying to lure people from Minds to Twitter. If it were like a support group for Twitter users, then it’s potentially good.

2023-10-15 13:26:49 GMT

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Our Mecca to Medina? #nevent1q…aan7

2023-10-14 10:06:39 GMT

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Acknowledging that is not the same as advocating for the state to enforce inequality.

2023-10-14 00:27:58 GMT

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Testing

2023-10-12 12:52:44 GMT

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Only losers traffic in misinformation and disinformation.
Be a proud purveyor of malinformation.

2023-10-11 21:29:46 GMT

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Happy 14th 29th birthday!

2023-10-11 12:35:08 GMT

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Stacker News is for high level engagement. Don’t expect sats for shitposting or spamming.
However, if you like civil discourse, then Stacker News is for you. #nevent1q…26n5

2023-10-11 12:30:50 GMT

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This is an interesting question. I think that ceteris paribus there would be less lending, if only because demand for loans would be so much lower in a world where the remaining balance isn’t depreciating.
However, a lot of things will be different on a Bitcoin standard, including greater general prosperity and a more stable economy. Those are both factors that are generally thought to increase the size of credit markets.

2023-10-11 12:24:40 GMT

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I love that Bitcoin has gotten so many people to think about money for the first time, but other people have been thinking about money for a long time and already addressed these issues.
Before fiat, there was a savings and loans industry. It is inarguably possible to pay interest on a hard money system, because that’s what happened for thousands of years.

2023-10-10 12:09:17 GMT

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There might not be if they keep spending it on escalating conflict with nuclear powers.

2023-10-10 12:07:08 GMT

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2023-10-09 23:09:29 GMT

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There are two parts to this answer:
1) The money supply is expanding and some of the new money goes towards interest.
2) Dollars can be used more than once, so even with hard money there’s no mechanical issue with being able to pay interest.

2023-10-09 23:02:34 GMT

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With the added context, I accept your point about indirect slavery wrt the holders of fiat.

2023-10-09 13:28:33 GMT

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I’m not sure that’s true. Climate change has a good number of destroyed civilizations on its ledger.
Where I think you have a point is that climate change is less avoidable and easier to adapt to, which makes it potentially less deserving of attention.

2023-10-09 13:24:27 GMT

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“I’ll pay for your stuff. Just hit me back later.”
“How dare you try to enslave me!?!”

2023-10-08 23:19:12 GMT

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Victory in our time! If only my other bets had gone so well.

2023-10-08 19:37:15 GMT

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I’ve got a small Bitcoin wager on it. Hopefully, Pittsburg can pull it out.

2023-10-07 13:03:56 GMT

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The main issue isn’t even that it’s political suicide. That fundamentally misunderstands the purpose of the state.
The purpose of the state is to enrich the powerful by looting the peaceful. Cantillon Effects are the best tool for doing that.
The political circus is just a front to justify the deficit spending.

2023-10-05 10:47:33 GMT

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We’re pretty far down the psychological road to civil war. #nevent1q…q5w9

2023-10-04 11:40:58 GMT

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If people can’t win the games available to them, they’ll start playing new games that they can win.

2023-10-04 11:37:34 GMT

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The people I knew who had lived through WW II were pretty openly racist against the Japanese. I never understood why they got a pass for that when we held each other to a higher standard after 9/11 with respect to Muslims and Arabs.

2023-10-03 21:51:22 GMT

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I haven’t listened to the full 13 hour version, yet, but the two hour summary he did with Bob Murphy was amazing. #nevent1q…u0ln

2023-10-03 21:46:55 GMT

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True, but I hope he’s the next speaker anyway.

2023-10-03 21:41:40 GMT

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I think your original post was correct in contexts where it’s plausible to have done everything you expect the people you’re leading to do.

2023-10-03 12:33:11 GMT

Every October I stop following national news. Since it’s the last month before American elections, the news gets even more manipulative and unreliable than usual.
I’m glad so much of the content on nostr isn’t specifically national political news.

2023-10-03 12:29:59 GMT

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Hold on to your butts. #nevent1q…qz94

2023-10-03 12:27:46 GMT

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I only agree with the last point. There are many occasions where a group of specialists need to work together and there’s no way to find a project leader who can do what each of them can do.
The biggest thing about leadership is making sure the people you’re leading know that you’ve got their backs.

2023-09-29 21:36:30 GMT

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“Most demanded by the rest of humanity” seems like an ok definition of “important”.

2023-09-29 13:20:09 GMT

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I had a feeling today would be a good day.

2023-09-29 13:17:42 GMT

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One demon down. Who’s next? #nevent1q…alyn

2023-09-29 13:14:56 GMT

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To a first approximation, that means taking the highest paying job that isn’t propped up by the state. #nevent1q…lm9x

2023-09-27 18:07:55 GMT

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1. and 4. cover the others. No need to multiply assumptions #nevent1q…nuzv

2023-09-27 18:04:24 GMT

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The instructions for a dish I invented are to use as much garlic as you can imagine and then double it.
FWIW, the dish is mashed potato lasagna.

2023-09-26 20:47:08 GMT

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Ironically, libertarians would have liked to take the label “socialism”, but it had already been taken by the most antisocial system ever. I like “voluntarism”, personally. #nevent1q…v6sr

2023-09-21 22:15:36 GMT

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Engagement has been better lately, but I still think that should be the focus, because it’s something we can each be better about. #nevent1q…te6y

2023-09-21 13:16:09 GMT

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*On

2023-09-21 01:09:01 GMT

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There’s actually shockingly little evidence to support the claim that intellectual property rights increase innovation. Check the book Against Intellectual Monopolies if you want to be informed on the subject. Given the enormous, burdensome, and corruptible state apparatus required to enforce IP, it seems like the burden of proof should be on your side to support your claims.
Also, the incentive argument doesn’t really make sense. The IP framework is a type of all-pay auction, and those tend to generate losses for the participants.

2023-09-21 01:01:40 GMT

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Ownership, as a concept, applies to scarce (rivalrous) things. Ideas are not scarce (rivalrous).

2023-09-21 00:56:22 GMT

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Fight the good fight anti-IP brother.

2023-09-21 00:51:43 GMT

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Yeah, but he was talking about soccer, so it doesn’t really apply to us.

2023-09-21 00:45:08 GMT

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Oh the classical gold standard in Europe, it wasn’t even the state that started money printing. The bankers holding the gold couldn’t resist fractional reserve lending.

2023-09-20 21:06:19 GMT

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Maybe, but really the masses are conditioned to trust fiat. If a gold standard comes back, then an enormous amount of conditioning will have been overcome.

2023-09-20 10:20:51 GMT

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Right, but you don’t need a state to pretend to guarantee something. There could be a stateless gold standard. However, there would still have to be trusted guarantors of the physical gold.

2023-09-20 00:31:06 GMT

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I’d modify that to say “The first lesson of politics is to smear anyone who mentions the first lesson of economics.”

2023-09-20 00:28:01 GMT

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I’ve done something very similar, except with Gmail. I actually prefer keeping those spheres separated.

2023-09-20 00:23:35 GMT

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I don’t think that even ranks amongst the most-stupid ways to spend tax dollars.

2023-09-20 00:19:01 GMT

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If you fly one of those flags and you’re not a cop, then you have Stockholm Syndrome.
If you fly one and you are a cop, then you’re an enemy of the people. #nevent1q…tfs6

2023-09-20 00:07:04 GMT

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Government can’t guarantee anything, so that can’t be correct. The difference is that digital gold transactions cannot be trustless.

2023-09-20 00:03:58 GMT

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I’m sure it was just a few bad apples who killed those hundreds of millions of people. Let’s not throw the baby out with the bath water. #nevent1q…x0c9

2023-09-19 23:50:42 GMT

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I’ve only ever seen them in Indiana.

2023-09-19 22:21:00 GMT

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A little from column A, a little from column B #nevent1q…2ggn

2023-09-19 22:19:46 GMT

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That’s tough, kid. That’s double tough.

2023-09-18 12:59:08 GMT

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I’ve been thinking about what to increase my default amount to, because I’m trying to more or less zap as much as I get zapped.
Over on Stacker News, the default tips increased dramatically after someone asked this question and made us all think about what we wanted to accomplish with our zaps. Maybe you can be a similar catalyst for change on nostr.

2023-09-18 12:53:44 GMT

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I try to zap every post that I like, so I also use smaller defaults.

2023-09-16 13:26:37 GMT

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Reminds me of The Office where Kevin just adds in a made up number “Keleven” to balance the books whenever he screws up the accounting. #nevent1q…hfk7

2023-09-16 13:21:33 GMT

https://fountain.fm/episode/cfAmRiXRl0AfpL9MmfwQ
The Migrant Crisis Comes To Sanctuary Cities
Part of the Problem
w/Dave Smith and Robbie “the Fire” Bernstein

2023-09-15 23:33:41 GMT

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One of the best arguments for replacing current welfare with UBI is that it removes all the welfare cliffs and greatly reduces the effective marginal tax rates for low income workers. #nevent1q…n7ll

2023-09-15 21:39:23 GMT

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Fun fact: “largely defeated” means “not defeated”.

2023-09-15 21:37:41 GMT

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Not to mention millions more left voluntarily while he was president because Bush destroyed the economy.

2023-09-15 21:35:08 GMT

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Of all the economists who have understood money (a tiny minority), very few understood Bitcoin. Perhaps this will change in the future though.

2023-09-15 13:34:22 GMT

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2023-09-15 13:29:40 GMT

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Happened to me a few days ago and my day did improve. Happy Friday

2023-09-15 00:06:01 GMT

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Good thing there are other ways to provide value.

2023-09-15 00:02:52 GMT

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Thanks for the reminder

2023-09-14 23:05:07 GMT

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Seems like low hanging fruit

2023-09-13 13:12:30 GMT

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I was thinking about search and browsing, but check out Proton Mail if you want to be done with Google.

2023-09-13 12:46:27 GMT

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I can’t be the only one who was surprised how quickly the sanctuary cities admitted they were bluffing. #nevent1q…v95d

2023-09-13 12:42:31 GMT

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It is pretty dumb to claim they have a monopoly, when there are so many alternatives. I never use Google and I’m surprised whenever I see someone using it. #nevent1q…munw

2023-09-13 12:40:18 GMT

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Time to cut the cord, if you haven’t already. #nevent1q…960u

2023-09-13 12:37:42 GMT

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What a regime toady. There’s so much more evidence of impeachable offenses than we’ve ever seen before. #nevent1q…skzw

2023-09-13 12:34:26 GMT

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This is the way for every legacy institution that relies on network effects. #nevent1q…5v4d

2023-09-11 12:23:30 GMT

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I never see actual Andrew Tate fans, so I think he’s mostly a media creation, like Qanon.

2023-09-11 12:20:47 GMT

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Worryingly, the War on Terror started shortly after the last time those lines touched.

2023-09-11 12:17:41 GMT

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Cinnamon, turmeric, sea salt, and coconut milk for a tasty healthy cup of coffee.

2023-09-11 12:14:57 GMT

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Fair