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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 righ…

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 reve…

Same here. DDG is also superior if you are searching for controversial information which Google bans.

What is the name of that board?

"human resources"

I suggest you read the book "Virus Mania" for a more skeptical look on epidemics, masks and vaccines.

It's also ignoring other species.

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 …

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." sou…

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 …

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…

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 pro…

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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 …

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/

Use Monero

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 on…

Robin Hanson has also compares sex and income distribution: https://www.overcomingbias.com/2018/06/comparing-income-sex-...

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 e…

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 su…

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 c…

They say there are multiple ways to do IP spoofing. Does anyone know some other ways to do it?

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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