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by Nursie 2y ago
Even that article says the assets there are not enough to come close to liabilities. FTX was insolvent at that time.
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FTX didn’t have their BTC though. That’s part of the problem.
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> Yeah, SBF was not lying about FTX having the money. Yes, he was. The reason people are being made whole now is that a couple of years down the line, some of his investments and acquisitions are now worth considerably more than they wer
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From what I’ve read there wasn’t really that much bitcoin left by the time they were shuttered, and their own tokens were worthless. That’s part of the whole issue - SBF was just doing whatever he felt like with customer assets and balances
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Thankfully for the investor, the non-cryptocurrency assets generated enough return to make them whole and even give them a profit.
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So we have - Tata's decarbonisation plans - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c03jy91w87ko British steel talking about their plans for decarbonisation - https://britishsteel.co.uk/news/br
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Except that’s not why the current furnaces are being shut down. They’re being closed because of emissions. Nor have you got the right read on why Britain will be "left without a way of transforming iron ore into steel". For a star
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> This would have a lot to do with the price of energy. That's speculation. The old furnaces weren't using electricity, they used coal and the primary reason for shutting them down and moving away from that is climate change ta
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> Tata Steel is the most topical one, production moving to India. Easy to find sources for that, it's all over the news. But that's not particularly down to the price of energy is it? "Electric arc furnaces do not require
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Ah, an ode to the sausage... I'm a big fan, the problem is a lot of them are highly processed, very fatty and massively salty. During the last few years I was in the UK there was more choice of 'good' sausages though, 97-100%
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> Uber is a tech company that basically writes an app and maintains servers. This is an illusion they have been keen to promote in many places, but one which has been shattered in various courts. Drivers are considered workers or even em
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There isn't a dockless variant, that's sorta what I'm saying. I suppose you could design a new dock with fewer ports, and it would be even less functional... ? You'd still need at least one gamecube controller to contr
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It's amazing as a technical achievement to get the board so small and still functioning... Literally cutting the mainboard, rewiring some of the features on flex-dughterboards etc to come up with something so small, shows a deep unders
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I will defer to you as you are Hungarian and obviously a lot more informed than I am, but I will say a lot of the things you bring up seem to be a matter of degree. From what I can see out there on the internet, it's more than just the
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> In that case then the definition of privacy needs to change because to me privacy is a binary state. Either I have it or I don't. That seems a little, well, binary. I don't have (nor want) a lot of privacy from my partner. I
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> So to me, the question is how can we take EU countries seriously when they talk about privacy when so many of them are ready to create a system of blanket surveillance on all their citizens? Well I guess they draw a distinction between
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> Based on election results That's a bad place to start when looking at autocracies which distort the democratic system to provide an illusion of legitimacy. But you knew that.
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Hungary is widely acknowledged to be in a state of nascent dictatorship anyway. I don’t think it really works to call out a potential slippery slope when the country is already overtly on that pathway. Those in power there can already opera
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Sometimes I used to stop the tape just so I could play invade-a-load :)
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> I'm not really mad at companies for doing this I am, regardless of the effect on individuals, it skews the market away from smaller entrants and allows those that have reached enough of a size to be able to afford to play these ga
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Oh wow. I can see the appeal when you're a kid, but that guy should probably have known better! I'm a recent import so I guess I'm giving my impression of why I wouldn't swim in the river, and I haven't seen anyone
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Locals mostly don't swim in the swan/canning estuary because it's full of jellyfish[1]. The water quality is fine but ... ewww. They're not particularly harmful ones but you don't want to get any part of them in you
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Just to echo what the other poster said - Costco seem to have very good prices and will give you a free hearing test with an audiologist (in Australia anyway) Their range is fairly limited, but not necessarily in a bad way. Compared to what
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I guess the big question there is, which market segment will the airpods be comparable to - OTC or prescription? Because the 'good' hearing aids cost thousands of dollars, and a lot of their added value is in various forms of soun
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I’m very positive about this development. I don’t personally need hearing aids (yet) but I know people that do, and dear god are they expensive pieces of equipment. Even if the AirPods aren’t perfect for everyone (not everyone wants in-ear
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Same with tech worker “shortages” in places like the UK and Australia. No, what you have is a shortage of people willing to fill your vacancy at those prices. Particularly in Perth there is a whole shadow economy of people working remotely
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> there’s no individual moral accountability or responsibility Of course there is. If I am deciding whether to dedicate resources, money and time to running a service which - a) Helps dissidents in authoritarian regimes communicate freel
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What's to be confused about? Treaties bind nations to behave in certain ways all the time, it's basically what they are for. EU membership is in effect a set of treaties that a member-nation signs up to, which create these supra-n
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Good. Not because I particularly dilike Apple or big US tech firms (I have a whole bunch of Apple stuff right here), but because Ireland has been able to undermine the tax regime of the whole EU, by giving these sweetheart tax deals to big
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Artifical vanillin is not the whole package though, as there are other compounds in natural vanilla that make up the flavour, so it doesn't reflect the full product. "Natural" vanilla extract may also never have seen a vanill

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