IfOnlyYouKnew

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by IfOnlyYouKnew 4y ago
It's a reference to the "Keating Five".
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Dril Speaks on Musk and Twitter(washingtonpost.com)
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by IfOnlyYouKnew 4y ago
Yes, a decade after Wikileaks was, briefly, relevant, it’s time for „states“ to move against them. For some reason.
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by IfOnlyYouKnew 4y ago
Oh, look how smart you are!
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by IfOnlyYouKnew 4y ago
Decisions involve trade-offs. Pretending that they weren’t considered without any attempt to inform oneself on the question is just useless cynicism.
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by IfOnlyYouKnew 4y ago
[…] the political establishment’s hostility towards the idea of Twitter being purchased and run by new free speech–friendly management. It wasn’t (just) the „political establishment“ that considered it a bad idea. Even the buyer t
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by IfOnlyYouKnew 4y ago
The NYT is reporting something that is happening. The main point of the article seems to be that this a change in policy at the last minute, something that tends to be criticized in most cultures.
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by IfOnlyYouKnew 4y ago
And this is why they don't let tech people write laws...
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by IfOnlyYouKnew 4y ago
From Q3 2017 to Q1 2022, Twitter only lost money in two quarters and was obviously profitable overall: https://www.statista.com/statistics/299119/twitter-net-incom... Your breathless narration of that data is cert
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by IfOnlyYouKnew 4y ago
There are answers to all your questions and they come down to; Twitter was making a profit. Maybe it could have been more. But a profitable business is, almost by definition, sustainable. There was no need for rash action.
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by IfOnlyYouKnew 4y ago
Nuclear power is well-known to be bad at reacting to fluctuations in demand, making it the worst option to offset wind and solar power. An to answer your question, let me quote the first sentence of the article: Germany can shift its
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by IfOnlyYouKnew 4y ago
Real statistics may be helpful for this discussion: https://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/energiemonitor-deutschland-ga... Edit, more data & pretty graphs here: https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets&#
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by IfOnlyYouKnew 4y ago
Going bankrupt is not a crime in itself (ask any former president, one has experience and the other is a lawyer)). Yes, there is a lot that looks kinda criminal, but it will take a bit more than a week to put together a criminal prosecution
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by IfOnlyYouKnew 4y ago
It’s noteworthy that this is not a coincidence (coin-incidence?) but the result of, first among others, the SEC holding steady in the face of a lot of pressure in limiting the financial system‘s exposure.
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by IfOnlyYouKnew 4y ago
The redemption of tether (and other) can happen a long time before any payments to creditors happen.
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by IfOnlyYouKnew 4y ago
I do agree that I cannot understand what happened to Musk? He had three hits to his name, so it is unlikely that he just got lucky. And contrary to a common criticism, he didn't have much money to start with, as far as I know, since he
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by IfOnlyYouKnew 4y ago
There are about 300 edits. Many things were likely removed and added, often multiple times. If you mind, change it. Don't be quite as passive-aggressive and conspiratorial as you are in posting it here, and there's a good chance t
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by IfOnlyYouKnew 4y ago
Lehman collapsed. Gee, we need to rethink banking and finance and invent algorithmic money.
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by IfOnlyYouKnew 4y ago
What? How did any government fail in FTX, except in the sense that they don’t regulate exchanges like banks, which nobody in cry-to wants?
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by IfOnlyYouKnew 4y ago
…and math is among the “liberal arts”.
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by IfOnlyYouKnew 4y ago
It’s a pension fund with a lot of VC deals, and a rather profitable one at that. It can easily eat $95 million in losses.
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by IfOnlyYouKnew 4y ago
No. You can’t just make up the book value of your assets. You need some sort of justification, and these are, for public companies, strictly regulated.
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by IfOnlyYouKnew 4y ago
Yeah, that's the basic idea of the liberal arts curriculum and the institutions teaching it. In recent years, there has been a lot of opposition against the idea. "Learn to code!" or anything "STEM" are the two most
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by IfOnlyYouKnew 4y ago
Donate the money to an organization fighting climate change. It's the closest you will get to an equitable distribution. Or, if you want to distribute it as regressive as possible: burn all your money. This will lower inflation and peo
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by IfOnlyYouKnew 4y ago
You do you, but it has little to do with her? Specifically, Greta Thunberg had nothing to do with invading Ukraine or, if we want to ignore the most obvious cause, the decision to phase out nuclear power.
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by IfOnlyYouKnew 4y ago
Germany has been exporting electricity to France all summer, because they had to shut down more than half their nuclear power plants for maintenance and due to heat.
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by IfOnlyYouKnew 4y ago
The whole cryptocurrency ideology is founded on stories of central banks and large companies and the UN and whatever supposedly scheming in various ways against they public interest, and therefore the need for some means of payment (sorry:
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by IfOnlyYouKnew 4y ago
Protonmail and Brave do indeed seem like a good fit. Two somewhat sketchy, very commercial outfits that market themselves as more private than the competition and that will gladly break existing standards and practices to so. They also seem
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by IfOnlyYouKnew 4y ago
Well... Protonmail happens to be the only e-mail provider that cannot fully be used as intended using just NMAP, because the core feature is its proprietary encryption and related features. So I would guess it's probably a singular out
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by IfOnlyYouKnew 4y ago
You are just describing a tradeoff between two competing goals. It's not hypocritical to have those. In fact it's entirely unavoidable to juggle such situations all day, every day, your whole life: go to bed now or work a bit long

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