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Don't worry, the IRS is hiring 80,000 new agents to help the middle class count their taxes.

Global warming is so 2010... It's climate change

He did a peer-reviewed, double-blind study with 1000 test subjects over the course of 10 years.

Oh, I absolutely think we see things the same way. It's not greedy, they just need to pay the bills and well... Truth might suffer in that environment

You're absolutely right. I'd argue that to make science what it used to be, one would even have to cut funding. Scientists used to be aristocrats interested in truth. These days th…

The problem is when a civilization stops providing ways for its inhabitants to keep winning inside of it, the civilization collapses. In Western civilization, if there is no growth…

One of those ecological puritans. Saving the world for who knows whose children

Not quite, owners DID the work and labeled it their own.

And to add, and where do you get the materials to build the wind turbines and solar plants?

I apologize for the uncalled snark. My point is that at the end of the day everything valuable at some point came from the land. The Intel factory is just wealth that was extracted…

That's the gist of it. If land is so worthless even rich people don't want anything to do with it, why would it make someone poor better off to have it?

The username checks out; where do you think wealth comes from if not land? Paper money in the end is just a representation of claims for assets generated from land. Food, minerals,…

Nice, can't wait for the day instagram and tiktok cannot afford to power their services.

Magnesium in the short term, fix lifestyle long term

Why do you care? Don't assume and ask a lawyer. Ban the user for not following TOS and should be good

The author of trilema.com at some point boasted of having bought a /16 and then renting it out. Something I don't quite understand is why IPV6 is assumed to be better, if anything …

This deflation is bad meme comes straight from the big international bankers of the early 20th century (JPM et al.). They cared mostly about liquidity and stable exchange rates. Un…

Quanta magazine is not a journal and is meant for general public divulgation; it is written in a very accessible style, starting from the title.

The inflation has been tampered with quite a bit over the years. It's how you explain how the avg American is much poorer than his parents. I.e. in real terms, as in being able to …

Oh lookie, someone has been calculating the numbers using the old methodology. We are much poorer than we thought. http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/inflation-charts

Yeah and horses trampled over kids all the time. Justification enough is that the kids should've known better

Bitcoin will happen. This injection of money can be seen as a cashout of the current system, selling as much USD as the market can take while it is still possible.