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People will contradict me on this because it's counterintuitive, but crypto flows are big enough these days that they can move the US stock market. This is quite noticable on days with big crypto-only news. Meaning that crypto is very
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Satoshi was absolutely aware that this was going to happen, even if Satoshi might not have liked it. It's impossible to have a currency without speculation and financial markets on top of it.
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Isn't Alameda a bigger trader?
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It's interesting to note that it wasn't Tether which imploded, that everybody here say it's such an obvious scam that it will blow AnyMomentNow for 4 years, but Luna, Celsius and Three Arrows Capital, names that were not ment
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China Wuhan station with 50 bullet trains tracks picture: https://i.imgur.com/sWxR4DU.jpeg
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> Because the messenger is not the message. Jacobinmag it's not your average website. It's full on communism over there. So they should guard better against critiques like "some animals (our righteous website) are more equ
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There is more to programming than iterating over number arrays, which is pretty much the only scenario where Numba shows impressive speedups.
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If disruption does happen, it's better to be the one disrupting your own product than let others do it. Some people, a few for now, are migrating from VS proper to VS Code, including for languages like C++/C#. I am one of them.
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You only need general location data. The missile can do the final approach itself. It's hard to hide a strike group. Even civilians are tracking them these days with commercial sattelites: https://www.forbes.com/sites&#
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Tanks also rely on silicon chips. Many more than in an anti-tank weapon.
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A carrier costs $10 billion. Without considering the crew and stuff in it. You can fire 50 $100 mil missiles simultaneously at it would still make a lot of sense, especially considering the morale aspect.
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Most who will try this will probably drop it after 2-3 paintings. So it's wasteful to start with the high quality stuff.
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Bottled water typically doesn't have chlorine, through I'm not sure what that does to water-coloring.
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And if you keep your money in a bank and not under your mattress it's not your money.
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One possible example: their usual transactions to fill up the hot wallet are not going through because too low fees, or timelocks/multi sig issues, and now unexpectedly they need to go to the cold wallet and this takes time. I bet they
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Yes. UK 2018 TSB bank IT meltdown shutdowns all accounts for weeks: > With clients locked out of their bank accounts, mortgage accounts vanishing, small businesses reporting that they could not pay their staff and reports of debit cards
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Your logic applies to all US retail exchanges then, because they are no more audited than Gemini is here. No one traces every single dollar going into/outof the ETrade/Charles Schwab/... segregated accounts. So according to y
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Which is why the word SEGREGATED is important. Segregated means that the company can not touch that money except to return it to clients. That's law. So it can't be "someone else's money" by law. And the bank holdin
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by 323 4y ago
As stated in the report, the "Management Assertion" was examined and "found to be fairly stated in all material respects". The "Management Assertion" is described in Section II, containing among other things &q
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As stated in the document, the audit firm is required by law "to obtain evidence about Management Assertion". Is not just a rubber stamp. So far you have not provided any evidence about Gemini lying, just whataboutism about Tether
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GeminiUSD is approved by US regulators: > Gemini and the GUSD benefit from the direct supervision and regulatory oversight of the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS). Gemini began issuing Gemini Dollars on September
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The point of the 1997 article was to show that even before Smart TVs and advertising revenue existed monitors were still more expensive than TVs, so nothing changed. Your parent post implied that if advertising revenue wouldn't exist,
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> because they aren't subsidized by the ads That's a myth, even if subsidies do exist. Monitors were always more expensive than similar size TVs because they have better specs, more features, and longer warranty. Linus Tech T
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> During the last decade, several types of software and malware used the DNS protocol for data exchange. https://resources.infosecinstitute.com/topic/bypassing-secur...
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Why would you need to take over the army? The simplest way to kill 80% of US population is just to shut down the electrical grid for two months or so. Also, the army is commanded by the President. What if AI manipulates and puts his man int
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> physical stuff you can just throw out of the window This is like the chimps saying "don't worry about these evolving humans, we'll just keep them away from the bananas, look how weak they are".
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A point Taleb keeps on making is that risk analysis is separate from the domain and shouldn't be done by domain experts. Global pandemic response plans for example shouldn't be done by virologists, because they are experts in viru
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Even the scariest climate warnings predict some 10% of people dying over 100 years. Hardly world extinction event. In fact, today we have the opposite current, where climate people start talking about how the future is not that scary after
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I bet Poland and the Baltics are thinking about a nuclear program. Imagine this nightmare scenario that we just dodged: Trump in US, Corbyn in UK and Le Pen in France. And just like that, the nuclear shield against Russia is gone.
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What other users? Pretty much all today's systems, either personal or server, are single user.

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