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Comment Re:The Wild West (Score 1) 256

The biggest problem with deflation is hoarding. If you know your currency will just keep increasing in value, you have no interest of spending that currency - you want to sit on it and let it become even more valuable.

This is why most central banks go to great pains to ensure small, stable inflation of their currency. It creates a powerful incentive to put the monetary resources into circulation instead of hoarding, leading to efficient use of resources.

Comment Re:The Wild West (Score 1) 256

The original argument was that bitcoin is deflating currency by design. While you are correct that the actual size of bitcoin and its ability to be used in very small amounts will allow for fix to problem of "currency vanishing", it doesn't solve the problem of the fact that it is a deflating currency by design.

Comment Re:the Swiss don't need you (Score 2, Informative) 109

As far as I remember they had similar pattern of domestic violence that Kosovo has. I.e. instead of knives, or small arms most wounds were high energy ballistic (caused by high power assault rifles), which are far more serious in nature.

It's not that they had a lot of it. It's that the pattern of this particular form of crime, which usually takes form of "most accessible weapon" was significantly more fatal than that in neighboring countries. By removing easy access to ammo, domestic violence cases went to more traditional "knives, flying pans and small arms" that gives victims a much higher chance of survival.

Comment Re:the Swiss don't need you (Score 1) 109

This "Oclahoma pig fucker" actually comes from the only other nation in Europe with universal conscription - Finland.

As far as I know, you have rules for ammunition that are fairly similar to ours. Have a permit or you're breaking the law. The only difference is that you choose to keep your reservist guns at homes, while we keep them buried in the ground or stored in army storage all over the country..

Comment Re:the Swiss don't need you (Score 4, Informative) 109

Buy ammunition, get arrested, go to jail.

Many people don't know that beyond the weird NRA-based claims of "armed nation", swiss men have assault rifles at home disassembled and with no ammunition. Assembling the rifle and taking it out of your home without special permission is a crime. Having ammunition for it without special permission is also a crime. They brought down their mainly assault rifle based gun crime down hard with that policy.

That said, their army has excellent plans on how to distribute ammo in event of threat of war.

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