LatteLazy

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by LatteLazy 1y ago
The UK has only very limited restrictions on illegally gathered evidence. Poison Tree doctorine is not a thing here. So yes.
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by LatteLazy 1y ago
Isn't the point of the previous examples that every organisation ultimately works for its own survival/growth? The cia was basically pointless when the ussr fell (I'm not sure I agree but that's the logic). It needed a r
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by LatteLazy 1y ago
The press release seems to conflat cyber attacks (of which there were none) with election influence (I think interference would be another phrase for the same thing?). But those are different no? "Russia tried to get people to vote for
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by LatteLazy 1y ago
Some games I play for an hour but never return to. Some games I have 1000s of hours on. Whether a given game will be the former or the latter is hard to tell. Given these facts it makes sense to buy a lot of games knowing I will only play a
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by LatteLazy 1y ago
The problem is there is no evidence of this. Just claims based on other people who don't know but claim it and so on all the way down...
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by LatteLazy 1y ago
I feel like anyone serious about doing actual journalism needs to start with a decent Cyber Security 101 course. Does anyone know of one?
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by LatteLazy 1y ago
What does a democracy do when people willingly and knowingly vote for fascism? “Vote for me and you’ll never have to vote again” won…
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by LatteLazy 1y ago
Isn’t destroying the dollars reserve currency status key to his stated goals? I thought that as long as dollars are the reserve currency, people will want them, and trade goods and services for them just for the privilege of holding them. S
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by LatteLazy 1y ago
I feel like this article makes a very poor argument for what should be an easy win. I think the uk needs much more freedom of speech, both at a legal level and culturally (I am a Brit) But the articles arguments are weak: Someone calling fo
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by LatteLazy 1y ago
This reminds me of the way Scottish banks used to issue their own notes independently (they still issue them now but are required to have Bank of England notes of equivalent value in storage) They were not legally currency (or legal tender)
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by LatteLazy 1y ago
I don’t think that’s true in this case. I would assume the bank issuing the coin has to know the identity of the people they sell it to. But once those people sell it on, it’s not their problem any more. Sure they could get an order to seiz
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by LatteLazy 1y ago
Well… it’s operated by a company called Thames Clipper Uber just bought the naming rights https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_Clippers
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by LatteLazy 1y ago
A lot of films are produced in the uk, so this should mean no trade deal. It won’t of course but there you are…
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by LatteLazy 1y ago
Yeah, but that doesn’t matter here: we already counted the 10 when they bought them. So when we subtract the 10 because they’re imports that doesn’t mean importing a lot will lead to a net negative. If a company 10x their imports to get ahe
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by LatteLazy 1y ago
One way of counting gdp is to count everything sold and then subtract imports. This is because imports are inherently included in everything sold (if I buy a widget for 10usd from abroad and use it to make an 11usd product, that’s 1usd of g
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by LatteLazy 1y ago
Society used to be run for everyone. Now it’s run for the old at the expense of the young. That’s true of politics, economics, media, basically everything.
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by LatteLazy 1y ago
Isn’t this how risk works: you assess 1000 people to be at medium risk, 1 dies. Because medium risk means 1/1000? Kind of like lottery tickets all being a low chance of winning the jackpot, yet someone one usually does… I don’t mean to
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by LatteLazy 1y ago
I prefer the alternative explain: this is just trump bringing in a national sales tax without having to go through the senate or eat the unpopularity. There seems to be no actual plan to actually bring back manufacturing (this would require
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by LatteLazy 2y ago
I also could not work this out. I think there are a bewildering number of games on the Texas lottery [1] but none seem to give the odds listed. But even more confusingly the Texas lottery itself lists the chance of a jackpot as 1 in 25.8mil
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by LatteLazy 2y ago
Generally they are just goods. It’s much easier to measure physical goods crossing customs. It’s very difficult to measure whether that guy in your restaurant was a tourist or not. And that’s the simple case believe it or not… This is one o
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by LatteLazy 2y ago
> certain injustices are load-bearing This is an excellent way of explaining why some injustices are ignored and others decried. Thank you
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by LatteLazy 2y ago
* Bribe regulators and lawmakers to make it difficult for small players to enter the market or even exist
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by LatteLazy 2y ago
The problem is they’re all maxed out. So if one closes unexpectedly the others can’t just pick up the slack because they have no room…
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by LatteLazy 2y ago
I had no idea they went that far back? Good knowledge!
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by LatteLazy 2y ago
Goldman and others got in trouble for selling access to the supposedly secret orders in their dark pools back in the day. They were fined 800k I think? I believe dark pools started growing post flashboys when people realising what hft meant
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by LatteLazy 2y ago
People keep falling for the myth that this can be solved at a personal level or even national level. People keep falling for the myth that we are making progress (we’re not). Hydrogen powered busses are just a specific case of a much much l
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by LatteLazy 2y ago
A lot of people don’t know that guilt is an emotion and like all emotions needs to be managed. They feel it, assume it’s appropriate and then seek a cause that fits. Sorry if this sounds dismissive, it’s not meant to be. But I think it is t
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by LatteLazy 2y ago
Stoicism has 2 main advantages over other philosophies: * it’s practical. It involves doing things that work and will improve you life, make it clearer what you want and make it easier to do things and generally not waste your time or money
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by LatteLazy 2y ago
Stoicism does not claim that at all. Not sure what the author means…
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by LatteLazy 2y ago
Be careful taking people seriously when they claim to have voted a given way for a given reason; especially a specific reason. They’re usually false claims.

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