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Comment Re: should eliminate the nickel as well (Score 1) 239

It's far easier to explain it this way. You buy your house in 1990 dollars. You sell your house in inflated 2030 dollars.
That goes for anything, even your car, it will depreciate far faster than the rate of inflation, but when you buy it in 2020 dollars and sell it for inflated 2025 dollars, some of the depreciation was countered by the inflation.

That's all it takes to shield money from inflation, find anything that doesn't depreciate and trade your money for that until you need it. For rich weirdos maybe that's buying artwork. For normal people with any money left over at the end of the week find any zero commission stock broker and buy broad market ETF. Or bonds, or real estate, or whatever floats your boat. You don't need to be a zillionaire to buy real estate, you can buy REIT ETFs, one share at a time.

If the burger I buy in 2030 is in 2030 dollars, but the guy cooking it is being paid less than 2030 dollars, and the restaurant doesn't have the money to pay better than that because everything else is in 2030 dollars, where did the difference go. Burger restaurant isn't doing any better in 2030 than now, probably worse. Where'd the money go? The government? They're in debt, they spend every dime they get almost entirely on us, which should be buying more burgers you'd think. That doesn't add up. So the GDP grew between now and 2030, where's the money from lost wage growth. It's going somewhere that isn't buying burgers so much. My point is, I think I understand you, but I don't blame inflation or the government. If inflation was zero, my theory is wages would have gone down regardless. They're facing downward pressure no matter what. Like the car example, when a car depreciates faster than inflation we just call it depreciation and ignore the inflation. But when wages depreciate slower than inflation, we blame inflation. I don't think that's accurate, but we both agree we're being squeezed by the same people.

Comment Re: I get it! (Score 2) 80

Calling tourists and intellectuals interested in historical signifigance "dumbfucks" is more of a reflection on you. Regimes come and go along with their bs policies.

Uh.. DO THEY?

I mean fair point, I've got nothing against Russia or Russians and the country has a lot of valuable history, but the regime that got them into this mess has been in power an awful long time. Will Russian tourism will be viable before beach resorts on Mars, could you make that happen?

Comment Re:How about a simple setting instead? (Score 1) 161

Preferred language. Simple dropdown. Job done. Let the user decide.

Typical, simple technical solution to a complex social issue. Everything can be solved with a UI tweak if you're naive enough.
America is pretty fucking uncultured and even we watch dubbed and subtitled films.

So you have a country with two official languages and your answer is make a drop down menu. /facepalm

Comment Re:Obligatory (Score 2) 121

My best and worst experiences learning English were with an Oxford trained professor, and a high school English Teacher. From the professor, I learned:

1. Make the book easy to read.
2. Chose terminology carefully. Particularly for new concepts, short clear terms make things much easier for the reader.
3. Choose a system of punctuation, and stick to it throughout the book.

On the other hand, my high school English teacher insisted I get a special style guide / book on how to use the semicolon. From this I learned:

4. "Proper" punctuation in English is all about the style guide that the person is following.
5. Different teachers can't consistently teach a consistent "Proper" punctuation, because style guides differ.
6. Many people don't follow any particular style, or even know what is in their preferred style guide.

If you read your list from 6 to 1 the way you suggest you learned them, both teachers did their jobs. Everything is like this; you can't jump directly to step three, a professional makes up their own system that works best for them. Not without first going through steps, um, use this system a bunch of other people use, and this one, and this other one, and see how they all suck... well, that's not officially part of the lesson, but until you've gone through a bunch you won't understand the nuance of what made them what they are and why yours should be different. I see this with computer programming and I'm sure it's true of any creative discipline.

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