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by anonisko 6y ago
I'd much rather see a super majority of Congress choose a prime minister at this point.
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by anonisko 6y ago
It's not really news if you've been paying attention the last few years or decades. Not enough people have been paying attention.
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by anonisko 6y ago
Tape reels would probably be best for cold storage, not paper or live, network connected disks.
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by anonisko 6y ago
*more desperate every year
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by anonisko 6y ago
It could be a moving or cyclical target. Once the collective subconscious comes to consensus that a particular design is what looks 'cool', then it opens up a niche for someone to come in and do something 'ugly' as a dem
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by anonisko 6y ago
I'd see it as more about PR. If poor desperate people regularly see these kinds of badass weapons that a foreign power has, it's just going to be that much harder to recruit for organizations that violently resist oppression, beca
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by anonisko 6y ago
It's not complete bullshit. Against other sophisticated actors, yeah, it's bullshit. But posturing and intimidation is important to keep less sophisticated actors in check.
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by anonisko 6y ago
I'd be shocked if the military doesn't include aesthetics when considering which new equipment to use. You'd want to look badass and cool to the people you serve and hellish and terrifying to those you attack. The psychologic
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by anonisko 6y ago
I'm not sure the occasional bank run by people who get over zealous with their greed and desire for MORE is necessarily a bad thing. The problem in my mind is when banks are doing fractional reserve without the explicit understanding a
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by anonisko 6y ago
Could you have written the same thing 6-8 years ago about AMZN? What you identify as irrational markets might actually be you simply being wrong.
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by anonisko 6y ago
This is an underappreciated possibility of bitcoin. All that insane amount of gold that's collecting dust in vaults being used as a store of value? Suddenly free to be used productively if bitcoin replaces it. Same with real estate tha
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by anonisko 6y ago
Isn't the fundamental difference here that we can't print more bitcoin to bail out bad investments? Yeah, you can lend out bitcoin and even do fractional reserves, but ultimately, the bill must come due and over leveraged bad bets