In this thread, the alt right echo chamber that is P&S tries to figure out the democrats base voters.

Clinton 2.0 (Biden) would be the worst thing the dems can do for 2020!

Bidens best day was the day he announced.

I do still make monthly snapshots of my investments, so no data is lost while this thread isn't being updated. However, I currently do not have that raw data prepared and presentable in any form.

The main reason I stopped doing updates here is because I really didn't like the way I was presenting the returns.
My plan is to transition to an interactive chart that allows all readers to gain more information and value from it than the previous screenshots of a chart and table do.
I've occasionally worked on preparing that and on carrying over the data from the old format to the new one, but that's low priority for me and I've been kept busy by other things.
If I have some surplus free time, maybe once summer vacations come along, I'd be more than happy to finish that up and add the months currently missing.
Updates should also be easier for me to make, once everything is set in the new place.

If there's a huge demand for the data meanwhile, I could also make some limited updates to this thread until the new format is ready, eg only do updates on BTC and ETH.
Let me know what you think about both, and how many people would be interested in it, if anyone.

I don't think she has any legal authority to force Facebook to stop developing Libra. She probably does have the authority to subpoena Facebook executives to testify before her committee.

I also don't think there is a basis for being concerned that Facebook has a lot of data on its users, when discussing Libra. Most of what Facebook has access to is irrelevant to Libra, and banks have access to much more relevant information about their customers, especially their long standing customers, and they have access to information contained in third party databases such as credit reporting agencies.

The concept of a stablecoin is also not new, and stablecoins have had mainstream acceptance in the crypto space for years now.

There are a lot of reasons to be concerned about Facebook, but IMO libra is not one of them.   
 

Iran shot a SPY DRONE of the US which was there to?

To do what?

SPY on them.

What the fuck were they supposed to do? Let the drone run as if it didn't exist?

The community is focused on other channels, primarily Telegram groups. This board is cluttered with many threads. It isn't a long time after the ICO, IEO was a month ago.

I second this experience. I find Yelp useful for restaurant and business reviews (provided there are numerous reviews) but as a business I would not do business with them.

This study is kind of like the inverse of the premise of the OP. The op examines the idea that people are all for these programs, but only if you totally disregard the negative effects of the cost, once that is part of the discussion, not so much. Your source is basically saying money can be saved, if you totally ignore the cost in the form of shit treatment, shortages, and the fact the government gets to dictate to you how you get your healthcare at every stage.

I consider the current democrats and republicans to serve the same interests.  They are backing big corporations and billionaires, they both want big military and capitalism to rule all.  I consider myself neither of these.  I do like a lot of libertarian principles like no punishments for victimless crimes such as drug use.  However, I do not agree with their economic views because they want a system that exploits workers and rewards owners of capital that do little to no work.

Anita Hill? You mean the one that lied about Clarence Thomas; who was part of the modern-day lynching? That one.  There was no proof that Clarence Thomas did was he was accused of doing.  There was a ton of evidence that this accused behavior was different than what seen experienced by numerous other women.

And, the fact that she took another position with him years after this incident was alleged to have occurred makes it suspect. 

Biden's problem is that he is an old-school corporatist Dem trying to make his way in a party where intersectional social theory has taken root.  He will do well with the labor Dems, the pro-life and the old coalition of the Dems. If the Dems purge the pro-lifer's from their ranks they are going to tank badly.

Joe Biden is the Hillary Clinton of 2020

Americans want outsiders, reformers, and fresh faces, not politicians with decades of baggage.

Talking about cost is a great strategy for muddying the waters because its a mirage in that people hear the cost and don't realize it isn't extra cost but it is reduced costs from what they are already paying.  College and healthcare are too expensive right now and would be much cheaper if they were "free".  Muddying the waters on cost is literally the only way to reduce support for these policies since everyone does indeed support them.  Its a smart strategy but only works until people understand the whole story.

Healthcare for example is already too expensive in terms of both cost and outcome




The value of a degree would be reduced for people who didn't have the competitive academic merit to earn that spot in school and that degree because now, people with more academic merit, who previously priced out and could not afford college, will have that spot and will eventually be their competitor in the workplace.  This is the essence of the overall fear of free stuff.  People who have success simply by being born into money will start to become outcompeted by the meritocracy these programs could produced.  Some people who could afford the tuition won't even be able to get in at all if we let in smarter, poorer students.   Its a scary possibility for them.

Or, as Blahous told us via email, achieving a 40 percent reduction in reimbursement rates is an “unlikely outcome” and “actual costs are likely to be substantially greater.”

“To argue that we can get to that level of savings by getting rid of the health insurance middleman is inconsistent with my study,” Blahous said. “To lend credibility to the $2 trillion savings number specifically, one would have to argue that we can make those 40 percent cuts to providers at the same time as increasing demand by about 11 percent, without triggering disruptions of access to care that lawmakers and the public find unacceptable.”

In his report, Blahous provided an alternative-scenario estimate, one that assumed instead that payments to health care providers would “remain equal on average to the current-law blend of higher private and lower public reimbursement rates.” Under that scenario, there would be a net increase in health care spending.

This is one reason why progressives don't like Biden.  Bidens biggest challenge will be his LONG history, Anita Hill, Crime Bill, Hyde Amendment, he loves Chenney ETC ETC ETC.

Biden has had his problems with the national dem base before, he failed in 88 and 08 to win the presidential nomination (got rekt pretty hard in both).  

Feb is still so far away and Biden will continue to flip flop on lots of his old policies/stances.  Lie to everyone and say whatever you think people want to hear on any given day, IOW be a good corporate politician.

The ideals are appealing and true that they cost a lot!

But if we apply other progressive ideas like opposing war, the cost can be covered up! The billions of dollars on defense and war can be applied for free education and health care

Raising the minimum wage would seem fatal for small businesses but like even the businesses themselves will sell more as their customers will earn more hence buy more which will lead to more production and balance in employment.

Kinda true that the value of degree in the competition world of getting job would reduce since if everyone gets free education. But for the greater good and human resources, that would be good. But I'm unsure on this