SpaceRaccoon

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by SpaceRaccoon 6y ago
How do we know there aren't long term side effects?
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by SpaceRaccoon 6y ago
If you don't want to see ads, why don't you pay for youtube premium? How else do you expect Youtube to a sustain itself if you wont' block the ads or pay for the premium ad-free subscription?
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by SpaceRaccoon 6y ago
Two economists walk down a road and they see a twenty dollar bill lying on the side-walk. One of them asks “is that a twenty dollar bill?” Then the other one answers “It can’t be, because someone would have picked it up already,” and they k
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by SpaceRaccoon 6y ago
Suppose you have a village of 4 people. What are the odds that one guy employs one other guy in some capacity? That's 50% of the workforce. Thus 50% is not a shockingly high number. Right?
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by SpaceRaccoon 6y ago
Any non-paywalled links?
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by SpaceRaccoon 6y ago
And why do you think that's a meaningful distinction? No, I didn't publish a picture of your credit card, just the numbers on it.
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by SpaceRaccoon 6y ago
Should Twitter have blocked all the accounts sharing the Panama Papers?
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by SpaceRaccoon 6y ago
But massless particles still have relativistic mass due to their velocity. That's why photons still have momentum and can exert pressure.
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by SpaceRaccoon 6y ago
> Do you think the lives of black people matter? Then you're part of Black Lives Matter. Do you think it's okay to be white? Then you are a white nationalist, too [0]. Basically you are insisting that we should interpret the mo
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by SpaceRaccoon 6y ago
One issue I see is that derivate instruments tend to be used for short-term speculation, meaning that capital is tied up in short-term speculation, instead of financing businesses and projects for long term growth.
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by SpaceRaccoon 6y ago
> To compensate this issue a new optic surveillance system “Negus” with 300-400 meter range that was capable of detecting, when objects entered the house, what he did in the stairway and some of the main areas of his apartment. Seems lik
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by SpaceRaccoon 6y ago
> On the other hand, it is entirely possible that Russia will hold off vaccinating its general population until it has received favourable results from the phase 3 trial. In which case, the announcement of the approval of Sputnik V might
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by SpaceRaccoon 6y ago
Reverse IPO. Meaning they merged with an existing "blank-check" public company.
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by SpaceRaccoon 6y ago
> Interesting- why are those good things? Or are they bad (sounds like you're saying I don't/shouldn't like them?)? Although I keep all my savings in fiat at the moment, I can still understand the value of crypto, and
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by SpaceRaccoon 6y ago
> Behdad Esfahbod Funny you mention him. He showed up on the linked thread, posting the final comment before it was locked: > Just merge it.
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by SpaceRaccoon 6y ago
And yet why did they let him be flown to Germany for treatment?
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by SpaceRaccoon 6y ago
> I'm not a Navalany "supporter." That's too bad. > I'm an admirer of his bravery in the face of overwhelming odds. Interesting. Are you consistent about that?
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by SpaceRaccoon 6y ago
It's an important distinction. > one of his henchmen There are various clans of power in Russia, and not all of them are loyal, or report, to Putin. Navalny had a lot of enemies. > complacent It's likely. The alternative cou
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by SpaceRaccoon 6y ago
Would you support Navalany if you were aware he is a nationalist?
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by SpaceRaccoon 6y ago
Yes. In the '90s Soviet nuclear submarines were being sold on the black market. Putin's grip isn't as tight as you think. I'm not denying that Navalny was poisoned with Novichok. The question is who ordered it. I'm
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by SpaceRaccoon 6y ago
I believe Hezbollah's use of ammonium nitrate for explosives is well documented.
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by SpaceRaccoon 6y ago
Theory: it can be a hash of measurements of the face, rounded to a certain precision.
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by SpaceRaccoon 6y ago
While I, for one, am sick of regulations that hurt everyone except the budgets of incompetent bureaucrats or incumbent monopolies.
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by SpaceRaccoon 6y ago
Does Google hold the copyright on its search results? Why can't I scrape Google?
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by SpaceRaccoon 6y ago
You should be banned for spreading misinformation.
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by SpaceRaccoon 6y ago
Heard of Timber Sycamore?
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by SpaceRaccoon 6y ago
Why would it be more difficult than to extract from ore? You can smelt them, that will burn away the plastic, and then you can separate the metals.
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by SpaceRaccoon 6y ago
They would dominate indeed, but potentially at the detriment of Neutrino research detector sensitivity world-wide.
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by SpaceRaccoon 6y ago
To play devil's advocate: for capitalists to remain capitalists, they must successfully allocate capital, which requires a knowledge of the "needs, desired, and problems" of the consumer class. And the stock market is a mecha
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by SpaceRaccoon 6y ago
Which institutions? Some institutions are forced to keep a certain amount of money in bonds, not their fault the yields are negative.

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