PKop

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by PKop 4y ago
It's current year, no one is allowed to question anyone's sexual preferences.
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by PKop 4y ago
Who is going to litigate that lie? How could one prove it to be false?
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by PKop 4y ago
Reminds me of Richard Feynman's explanation of a computer as an extremely large and fast filing system https://youtu.be/EKWGGDXe5MA
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by PKop 4y ago
Made a comment about this on another thread [0]: "True friendship comes mostly from shared struggle. Think sports teams, military, small teams at work, even childhood friends and the experience growing up. It is hard to establish anyth
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Brian Eno's Windows 95 startup sound slowed 4000%(twitter.com)
8 points by PKop 4y ago|1 comments
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by PKop 4y ago
Agree. And this is similar to policy US itself took (and many other rising economic powers) in the early 1800's [0] "The American System was an economic plan that played an important role in American policy during the first half o
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by PKop 4y ago
Globalization and free-trade were beneficial when US was unipolar hegemon (though arguably not being protectionist against China enabled China's rise)... but in earlier periods of America's primary growth, "bans" of fore
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by PKop 4y ago
You seem to be implying being hypocritical isn't the optimal geopolitical strategy. Akin to saying, "it's bad when you do things that make you powerful, but good when we do them" which is unquestionably true from the per
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by PKop 4y ago
You didn't watch the video of the current prime minister of Israel describing his nation's intelligence op to promote pro-Israel propaganda on the internet, did you? Also, anyone can look at the ADL's explicit mission stateme
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by PKop 4y ago
With the cathedral of the powerful that bestows prestige within our political culture.
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by PKop 4y ago
It's not secret it's explicit. And sure it's not constrained only to foreign policy, but any criticism of Israel in general. Any powerful nation essentially acts this way, so it's not unique to Israel. It's not abou
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by PKop 4y ago
The ADL are "the Jews"? More to the point, did you read the article, or connect the dots? The ADL itself promotes their own efforts to go after critics of Zionist foreign policy.[0] They also promote their partnership with PayPal
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by PKop 4y ago
Yes, and with the amount of debt the US has (over 120% dept to GDP), the economy cannot function without low rates, without negative real rates (for long enough until debt to GDP declines). Without new money pumped into the system it collap
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by PKop 4y ago
>reading/watching Andromeda Strain to see how well But this is a fictional story, why would one use this to inform their perspective on anything?
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by PKop 4y ago
https://twitter.com/flydotio/status/1529117954931101700
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by PKop 4y ago
>The narrative for crypto was that interest rates were never going to go up Who made this claim? They went up in 2018 and BTC crashed. Then they went back down, Fed expanded their balance sheet, and BTC boomed. The Fed has no choice but
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by PKop 4y ago
>regularly doubled and halved This is why it's not even close to dead and will continue to get flows of liquidity during boom cycles, because many others also see this regularity you've identified.
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by PKop 4y ago
>Fed holdings went from $4T to $9T over the last ten years. >By contrast, the cumulative crypto complex grew from essentially $0 to $2T before its recent crash. Where did this money come from? It was essentially a money multiplier eff
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The Cashless Society(rossbarkan.substack.com)
2 points by PKop 4y ago|0 comments
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PayPal's IndyMedia Wipeout(taibbi.substack.com)
7 points by PKop 4y ago|10 comments
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by PKop 4y ago
Read the article.
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by PKop 4y ago
It's surprising how many times the question you are answering gets asked and people still don't get it.
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by PKop 4y ago
It would be flagged instantly. >I'm not sure that that is obvious. No, it is. You just missed it.
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by PKop 4y ago
Treasuries pay negative real yields, so I'm not sure there's any opportunity there. More of a guaranteed loss.
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by PKop 4y ago
Interest on lending, and trading fees from liquidity pools. During a bear market in crypto certainly these yields will decline. The 2 sources I mentioned above are essentially flows that accrue during the bull markets. It's not magic,
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by PKop 4y ago
If you just sit in Tether sure, but the ecosystem of stablecoins gives you access to DeFi yield opportunities with much better "passive" interest than bank deposits or treasuries, so the bet is a little more sophisticated than dol
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by PKop 4y ago
>ask somebody else to go through the process of building that theoretical site What are you talking about? The poster claimed these types of sites exist, I only asked them to show me the evidence of it, and I implied the reaction woul
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by PKop 4y ago
There are no "Whites in tech blogs". Only certain races are allowed to do this. Point me to one? Post it on Hacker News and observe the reaction afterwards.
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They editorialized the title, which they aren't supposed to do, because the real title made them uncomfortable. But forget about all that. The title on the real site is what it is.
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by PKop 4y ago
When a blog is titled "Black Woman Engineer Turns Plastic Into Bricks That Are Reportedly Stronger Than Concrete" on a blog called People of Color in Tech, it's going to get commented on, don't be naive. Maybe if these q

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