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The word yuan has been around. RMB is a very new thing.

Yes. Monero is fairly distributed, not 20% for insiders to dump.

Dash was a premine scam too.

It kind of irks me that they basically assume 3+1- space-time.

^ This is called proof by construction.

A Catholic one would.

Kuznetsov,A. - The Complete Guide to Capital Markets for the Quantitative Professional (2006)

Eventually a p2p agency platform will get the technology, the timing, and the ux right, and it will be massive, a Facebook killer and more. Until then, these things are like Balkan states.

Does not compute. Reality has no take-backs, yet we layer redress on top of reality.

Accurate enough to kill people, according to James Clapper.

Google makes the laws now. Governments are mostly irrelevant.

More likely the multinationals will breakup the governments this time around.

Hog farmers treat their products better.

Wake me up when they support financial privacy. Monero or nothing.

You can get a Visa card backed with Monero from bitwa.la or use Monero anywhere BTC is accepted via xmr.to

Monero is #2 in volume, right behind bitcoin, turning over about 1/4 to 1/3 the volume of bitcoin on exchanges in the past 24 hours. Coming up fast!

> Is there any actual evidence this is true? A memo, or even a documented conversation?

http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/john-ehrlichman-richa...

> Tell me again how this supports the argument Western countries forced drug prohibition on China when the reality was exactly the opposite?

I made no such claim, nor do I consider it historically supported.

> "At midyear 2013, 90% of inmates had a current or prior violent or serious felony conviction, and 16% were registered sex offenders."

Now you are narrowing the discussion to prisoners. Yes, felons with a record of violence tend to be incarcerated at higher rates than those without. However, making someone an unemployable felon is a kind of low-budget open-air life-long prison, or better, torture, which destroys the productive capacity of the victim.

The notion of "competing" with AI seems fundamentally broken.

They are not slums when the people are not living in poverty.

I think you have not understood the meaning of "basic income". It means everyone is issued fiat currency sufficient to supply necessities, i.e. super-poverty housing, food, clothing, medical care. End of story. The money is just printed tokens anyhow, so it is inhumane to deny people in need if you can just print it. The down-sides are inflationary effects (but in the new normal, deflation is a problem, so that is actually good), and fear of damaging work-ethic (a moral hazard). I consider that if the work-ethic is obsolete, it is maladaptive, and needs to be put out of its misery.

The difference is that the industrial revolution amplified labor, while AI actually replaces it in many cases. AI + human is less productive than AI sans human. It's not just a difference in magnitude, but one of sign.

Cheaper labor elsewhere does not obsolete labor itself, it merely implies repricing or arbitrage.

It doesn't really matter how hard the labor market is hit, once it is already dead.

Means tested welfare fosters dependency, crime and generational poverty, and implies support of a vast administration and enforcement apparatus. It is used as a coercive stick to compel behaviors, and often those behaviors are harmful to the individual recipient - e.g. families that go fatherless, to protect AFDC.

Burglary is an actual harm. Responsible drug use harms no one.

Many users of illegal drugs are self-medicating. They would generally prefer legal drugs, were they available and effective. The draconian legal regime prevents them from conducting responsible self-care. Law-breaking is preferable to death, or even severe disability, if you have dependents who require your support.

Well they do manage to destroy the lives of innocent drug users and their families, children. That's change.

True, but PMs are gatekeepers and tend to set the agenda.

More specifically, the Nixon administration wanted to put down the Yippies and the Black Panthers. It worked.

If your reason was controlling, then only addictive drugs would be illegal.

The U.S. influence over the U.N., and aid and trade leverage, along with China's historic political issues with opium, allowed them to induce ignorant governments around the world to wage war on their own people and create a vast criminal network. It was subsequently used to fund black ops by unaccountable intelligence agencies, and build the prison-industrial complex which has destroyed a generation of Black Americans.

You can live like a king on 40k in Omaha. You can have a yard, a garage, drive a car, eat at restaraunts, shop at Walmart. In Manhattan some of that is inaccessible even to the very rich. There are no walmarts. Parking your car may cost 40k.

It's just true. You live like a galley slave at that rate. It takes about 300k to approximate the lifestyle that 40k can get you in Omaha.

There's a good San Francisco FRB white paper on it. Should be an easy Google whack. Boomers sell the world during their retirement burn.

Invert the multiplier silly.