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by ayngg 4y ago
This entire thing has been some kind of bizarre politics induced self flagellation. Regardless of whether or not you think it is right or wrong, it has been no secret for decades that this conflict would be an outcome of Ukraine alignment w
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by ayngg 4y ago
It looks like they have the choice of saving the dollar or saving the economy, and it seems like in their attempt for both fixing inflation while having a "soft landing," they may get neither.
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by ayngg 4y ago
Under the context of industry impact, yes. If you wish to be pedantic, maybe I should have been clearer in saying that I consider everything past vanilla WoW to not be of the same caliber of the games that preceded it. Regardless, the point
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by ayngg 4y ago
The game I was thinking about was Hearthstone, which basically legitimized digital card games as a mass market genre. Perhaps I am too harsh on Overwatch, but it is a lot like Diablo 3, which made huge releases with huge hype initially (bas
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by ayngg 4y ago
Compared to the kind of games that made Blizzard iconic like SCBW, TFT, D2, and early WoW which were basically pillars in the gaming world, the game, while polished, was a fairly mediocre Team Fortress variant in comparison. It also had lof
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by ayngg 4y ago
Blizzard is close to being a zombie company, the last game with true Blizzard pedigree was probably around 15 years ago, their last decent game was almost 10 years ago, they are milking the last few drops from the geriatric cash cow that is
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by ayngg 4y ago
This stuff is so insidious. I remember the outrage when Bethesda came out with the golden horse dlc, and now we are at a stage where people willingly accept paying money just for the small chance of getting a golden horse. Games are a big b
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by ayngg 4y ago
I think a lot of people knew it was coming soon, and that triggered the death spiral. Everyone knows 20%apy staking rewards can't last forever, and people on Reddit of all places (if Reddit knows then it is far from a secret) saw that
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by ayngg 4y ago
A huge part that is rarely discussed is the shift based on consumer demographics at the turn of the century. Academic/ salon paintings were extremely grand, time consuming and expensive, so they were out of reach for most people that w
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by ayngg 4y ago
I think social media is like our generations tobacco, everyone uses it and it is considered fashionable and cool but eventually it will start to come to light how unhealthy and insidious all the data harvesting, time sinks and gamifying soc
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by ayngg 4y ago
I think it is actually kind of crazy how so many people here, a proverbial VC techbro hub, just love to get on their soapbox to preach sanctimoniously about the great cryptocurrency evil that is destroying the world with so much glee, witho
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by ayngg 4y ago
Like half of NASDAQ has lost ~50%, a quarter have lost ~75% and 5% have lost ~90% of their value from their highs. Coinbase is not an outlier, basically everything growth and risk on is getting dragged out behind the shed right now.
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by ayngg 4y ago
There was a study on online dating habits that said that even someone who was 5'8 would need to earn ~138k more than the same 6'0 person to be considered equivalent, controlling for everything else [1]. Of course it is just one st
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by ayngg 4y ago
I am not really specifically making an argument on their salaries, I guess I am saying that Nurses are in the position where they have the least leverage in the system so they end up bearing a lot of the responsibilities that should be held
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by ayngg 4y ago
Thanks for the link, I'll check it out.
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by ayngg 4y ago
I actually think that this is just one example of many across a ton of disciplines where people like Nurses basically are forced to deal with costs and responsibilities offloaded onto them from above the responsibility chain. Resources are
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by ayngg 4y ago
In my experience salmon is fairly consistently delicious, it is difficult to have a bad tasting piece, while tuna can vary from kind of gross fishy taste to amazing, with flavor more complex than any salmon sashimi I have ever had.
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by ayngg 4y ago
The concept of the Masterworks thing that they are talking about was tried previously with other collectables, notably Mythic Markets with Magic: the Gathering cards. You can do a quick google search to see how that turned out and the contr
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by ayngg 4y ago
I think Dalio is choosing to focus on what the individual can do to navigate change one cannot control, which is a lot easier for individuals to do compared to what systemic change could be done to make changes for the better, which often r
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by ayngg 4y ago
The video itself is a super condensed version of his book primarily aimed at the Youtube audience demographic, the book it is based on probably goes much further into depth.
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by ayngg 5y ago
It is like some people actually want him to commit self righteous suicide for no benefit to anyone besides some tweet saying nothing more than "Russia sucks lol" to satiate the selfish desires of outspoken protestors. I wonder how
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by ayngg 5y ago
It depends on what your goals are. If you want to de-platform individuals it can be effective (but it isn't guaranteed since people like Trump have remained very popular in spite of it), but these individuals are just grifters who expl
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by ayngg 5y ago
I had no issue with that link on Firefox with uBlock origin.
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by ayngg 5y ago
The main one is regarding how the community determines what is misinformation and what should be censored.
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by ayngg 5y ago
I don't even thing it is about right or wrong opinions either, since a lot of popular beliefs held on that site are inconsistent with each other. There is just some sort of orthodoxy that you have to follow or else you are downvoted or
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by ayngg 5y ago
It is across the country at this point. IIRC Gascón, the former DA in SF is now the DA in LA and pursuing similar policies, while there are similar policies implemented or being implemented in other cities like Chicago and New York. People
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by ayngg 5y ago
I am not saying the reason London in popular is only because of laundering, it is self evident that it is one of the major cosmopolitan metro areas in the world, but I am saying for launderers, London is a top destination. They have been th
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by ayngg 5y ago
It is a little bit of both influencing each other, but the system in London is definitely the killer app. My understanding of the history is that there are systems that have been entrenched in the London financial industry going back centur
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by ayngg 5y ago
I don't think this is limited to Russian oligarchs, I thought that because of its trust and crown dependencies system, London is a popular place for people to hide this kind of stuff. Russian oligarchs and other unsavory individuals li
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by ayngg 5y ago
I think it is the fate of companies that got big on innovation, but lost their edge because they got too far ahead and priorities shifted. They lose their ability to be innovative as others catch up so they have to find other ways to give s

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