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by ayngg 5y ago
I think the issue lies more with how regular people interact with the political process now, which is mostly political activism as a hobby rather than meme activism. Meme activism is just a consequence of that type of activism in contempora
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by ayngg 5y ago
I think the biggest challenge is framing the issue of climate change. "Urgent action" regarding climate change is a political/ economic issue. Innovation will have to happen for sure, but replacing current infrastructure will
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by ayngg 5y ago
Their new, but not really new anymore, redesign is so adversarial that the site is frustrating to use unless you use the old version or a different mobile app. Comments section cut off by a news feed, nested comments require loading a new p
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by ayngg 5y ago
You are right, that was probably the most significant path not taken, though at the time it probably wasn't attended to with 1997 in mind which is why it was left on the back burner. By the time sovereignty negotiations began in the 80
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by ayngg 5y ago
The writing was on the wall well before it was even handed over. England was in no position to defend the island after the lease on the New Territories ended, nor are they capable of doing anything to prevent the CCP from slowly eroding ins
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by ayngg 5y ago
The big thing that people get caught up on is the fact that the space is essentially permissionless and because of that there is no regulation meaning everyone is entirely responsible for themselves, a level of responsibility that is foreig
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by ayngg 5y ago
I think it starts early and the little things compound throughout most domains in childhood development which leads to these men feeling completely lost and unable to navigate the current society that doesn't really care about them unl
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by ayngg 5y ago
I think it is a case of popular politics but poor policy. It appears like Canada has decided that they do not want to be in resource extraction for environmental purposes, but in their bid to be socially responsible, they are for the most p
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by ayngg 5y ago
Data feels like the next resource (like hydrocarbons or other resource extraction) where it can be exploited for massive profit while its costs externalized for the rest of society to bear. Like how it took decades for society to come aroun
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by ayngg 5y ago
By random backwater I meant some random place that wasn't involved with the major colonial powers during that period. The reason most of the offshore tax havens are what they are is because they were remnants of colonial empire that co
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by ayngg 5y ago
I believe it is more the case that the banking sector in the City of London is the institution, and the secrecy jurisdictions are tools that it developed and uses. Historically money ended up in England because of the Eurodollar system, and
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by ayngg 5y ago
iirc money mostly enters Britain because they use it as the way point for the tax havens "controlled" by Britain; their overseas territories and crown dependencies. Then it disappears into the land of political and financial voodo
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by ayngg 5y ago
As a casual outside observer, it feels like a lot of people are throwing the blame in one direction or another, but while crime may be bad in SF, the level of crime in general is bad in most metro areas in the United States when compared to
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by ayngg 5y ago
Maybe, but machines also don't really pay taxes or into social security as well, at least not yet.
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It will probably hit them (as well as other Asian countries like South Korea) harder because they have not had the same levels of immigration to buffer the demographic change like in the west. Overall things have just gotten increasingly un
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by ayngg 5y ago
I pretty much think this is the case too, most of these things are soaking up excess liquidity that is leaking from the financial system. It feels more like every canary in the coal mine is going off, but people are focusing too much on the
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by ayngg 6y ago
If you haven't checked recently (within the last year) it might be worth it to check again, I started playing at around the same time as you so I have noticed that some cards, even from sets that were "overprinted" like Ice A
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by ayngg 6y ago
To me it seems like Bitcoin (and other pow cryptocurrencies) are almost like the climate change scapegoat for a number of social and economic issues that have seemingly come to a head recently to facilitate their rise. People mine because i
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by ayngg 6y ago
My take on it is basically nobody knows what it is about. Like you said, even people with deep understandings of the technology probably aren't capable of fully understanding its implications, anyone that tries to tell you definitively
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by ayngg 6y ago
I think the majority of the value in art nfts will be derived from being part of the provenance, or being part of the history of the beginning of 'owning' digital art, much like owning a famous painting. By extension it could be a
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by ayngg 6y ago
Do you have a source? I have been keeping an eye out for stats regarding this but everything is mostly just derived from the Cambridge data.
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For most things that are traded they are liquid enough that individual short positions aren't meant to effect the price. They are basically bets based on research that indicates the thing being shorted is overvalued and will fall by it
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by ayngg 9y ago
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