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by ayngg 5y ago
Ah ok, thanks for the clarification!
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by ayngg 5y ago
IIRC they have already stopped purchasing them as of a week ago I think, they were supposed to announce their plans on quantitative tightening (selling the things they bought) which is what that quote is referring to.
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It is hard for me to see a future where humanity lasts long enough for that to be a problem, while not possessing the technology required to address it. I would assume that at that point we would be creating universes to escape to or someth
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by ayngg 5y ago
I never really thought the sandwiches were anything special, the real gem was the fried chicken, the Famichiki or its equivalent that the other places had. You could grab a couple onigiri and a famichiki for the price of a sandwich and it w
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by ayngg 5y ago
They have different formats that people play with varying amounts of sets being legal, one of the most popular formats is a casual format where almost every card printed is legal. Sure a lot of it becomes chaff, but it is not unusual for ca
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A couple years ago I was in Tokyo and even just going up Takaosan I could see the pathway up was surrounded by what looked like these guys everywhere, you could look up and see a bunch just floating on their webs above the trail. Even on su
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I thought this was fairly well understood that these communities follow some sort of Pareto ratio where a minority of people churn out most of the content, or are responsible for sending content to the top of feeds. I recall reading about i
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The rates aren't that high, and for people that trade volatility, yes it can be insanely profitable.
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The point I was trying to make was that the argument that you can simply make your own social network is disingenuous and isn't the solution, the fact that Google has continuously failed to do that one thing is a testament to how diffi
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Based on what I have seen and what I have heard people say, the principle of freedom of speech is probably dead in the west. People will give their sanctimonious justifications like "it only means the government can't censor not u
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A lot of it is politicians chasing a golden age where everything lined up for American prosperity which we can't really return to. The postwar period had so many things going for America, everyone else was rebuilding or bankrupt, immig
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by ayngg 5y ago
I feel like these affirmative action policies are attacking the wrong aspect of scholastic achievement that doesn't need to be addressed as urgently as other problems in the system. These policies benefit students that are already havi
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If someone feels like they are losing either way (through words or conflict), making everyone lose through conflict instead of just them might not seems so bad. For the most part, people in western developed nations are sheltered from the f
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by ayngg 5y ago
I sort of view it this way too, news media is having a collective orgasm over the bonanza of fear porn they have been hyping up for over a month now. Social media has also taken and ran with it, the front page of reddit is plastered with an
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by ayngg 5y ago
If everyone involved oversaw the escalation to where it is now, they certainly have it in them to escalate it much further.
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by ayngg 5y ago
I don't think it is either or, NATO is just a symbol for western alignment which reaches the same ends you describe. Beyond whatever foundational context, the three conflicts related the Ukraine and Georgia were precipitated by this (s
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by ayngg 5y ago
This is happening because the west has no leverage and asymmetrical priorities. Russia -really- cares that Ukraine stays out of NATO, probably to the point where they would scorched earth the country before it joined, and the west only kind
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On the contrary, I feel like the pandemic has revealed the fragility and asymmetric distribution of costs in our society, and the governments unwillingness to even address it. I do not consider democracy in danger, but there are some pretty
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I consider the worst part to be that many Canadians (particularly the educated) seem to be fine this is happening, or even openly advocating for it. This more than anything else makes me very concerned about how Canada navigates the next li
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by ayngg 5y ago
I wonder if the chaotic noise dominates social awareness because people are simply unaware of the macro trends influencing them, or the more charitable explanation that they are aware they exist but accept they are helpless to change them.
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by ayngg 5y ago
Streaming has hollowed out the non-blockbuster market, so studios need to quite literally go big or go home. Going big means the movie needs to have spectacle that brings people to the theater, which generally means huge cgi budgets that tv
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by ayngg 5y ago
I think the difference is that in places where ivermectin had efficacy (India, Sub Saharan Africa, South America), parasitic infection was a significant comorbidity. In much of the developed world, the most significant comorbidities are thi
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by ayngg 5y ago
The article looks like some kind of ad for 21shares, which isn't even primarily an on chain analytics firm. I assume it is looking at on chain data for liquid btc to see what percentage of that is currently being held at a price lower
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by ayngg 5y ago
At the time of the shift away from traditional fine art, there was a big shift in how art was marketed and style itself probably did not have as much influence as people think. Academy art was very expensive because it took a long time to m
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by ayngg 5y ago
https://ethereum.org/en/community/online/ Did a google search and also searches on ethereum and ethdev subreddits listed as part of the community, the stack exchange and research board from the link above. Th
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Just from a cursory search, nobody has really talked about "code is law" on ethereum for many years now since the dao thing, the only people who are zealous about that are using ethereum classic. In my experience, its become a sor
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by ayngg 5y ago
Yeah I think people overstate the IP of Actiblizz. I get it though, their old games were absolutely amazing and I basically spent my childhood playing those games to death, but modern gaming is so much bigger that the people who look at tho
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by ayngg 5y ago
I don't think there ever was another solution. Climate change policy will always incur asymmetrical costs, and the people who it effects wouldn't willingly enact them, and others would rarely share that burden in a meaningful way.
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by ayngg 5y ago
The way it is done in Hong Kong (and other Asian cities like Tokyo to an extent) feels way closer to town centers that predate cars, where there is a lot of foot traffic and walkability which imo makes such a better experience. I just think
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by ayngg 5y ago
Interesting, what sort of studies should I look into if I wanted to look into this?

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