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Yes you do. I elected my European member of parliament, and I elected my EU councillor. The elected EU councillors select the commissioner, a bureaucrat, and the elected parliament…

> Shitty country How rude. They were economically shattered by being occupied by the USSR for decades. Lay off.

That’s still on the GP and the general public health policy of Australia. If I go to my GP with a cold here in the Netherlands, there is a snowball’s chance in hell that I get pres…

It’s from his butt. Which makes it just as valid as how everyone else does estimates.

I for one have built enough Linux kernels from scratch, and patched enough Linux drivers into working — thanks, so no one can call me an average Joe when it comes to tech. However,…

Exactly

> Maybe, but the latest Fed action violates a 40-year downtrend in interest rates, so it was exceptionally improbable from a historical perspective. imo this is very flawed thinkin…

> 4. The old treasuries decline 30-40% in present value. Oops, they're not so safe after all if you need your money back before maturity, which is often decades away. This is becau…

Okay, name one?

Being back 1:1 is different from being redeemable.

> As little as a birth certificate? I get what you’re getting at, but in Canada birth certificates from the 80s had a wallet sized version that had no more information than a drive…

Exactly this. As late as the 2001 I could cross into the US from Canada with as little as my birth certificate, which I often did. That was just a cotton blended paper with tattere…

Come on, I 100% realize that jetpacks will probably always be impractical/unsafe. Although, I think there’s a lot of allure in the same way that there is for motorcycles. I imagine…

Funny you say that, I just opened Safari, no ads.

Can you give evidence of a developed country where that’s the case? Because I grew up right on the Canadian/US border, I have family and friends on both sides. It’s really easy for…

> “macro-optimism but micro-pessimism” This is an interesting idea, I have I feeling I know the what they’re getting at, but if you have any examples of how they put that into prac…

They call them y’all qaeda for a reason.

IIRC the book ‘Common Sense on Mutual Funds’ has data going that far back with charts. I believe the period from the start of the 20th century until the 70s had similar inflation a…

> A soldered SSD is especially bad because broken laptop = lost data. I never broke a laptop but I think that was just my luck. When it will happen, I want to be able to recover da…

To be honest, I live a two minutes walk from my grocery store and I’ve used these services a few times. Sometimes with discount codes they’re been cheaper than my grocery store, bu…

If I recall correctly, the stock market _only_ lost 90% of its value during the crash that proceeded the Great Depression.

Hi, I’m curious, can you tell me about the most promising storage technology being rolled out now?