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by bduerst 5y ago
Player of Games is the second book, and the one I recommend people start The Culture series with. The first book Consider Phlebas isn't bad, but it isn't as well developed as the rest of the series IMO.
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What's the timeline to being fully operational?
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Yeah despite being abolished in 1987, the lack of fairness doctrine took about a decade or two for the market to adjust (as conglomerates like Sinclair grew). We're only recently getting back to early 20th century sensationalism level
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Which behavior? First Click Free was ditched years ago, but websites will still allow x number of free articles. Some don't, and still get indexed.
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Many news websites won't paywall the first article from a Google Search (WSJ is one though). I'd be willing to bet in these instances you're using a traffic blocker or privacy extension that's clearing HTTP referer or so
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That's just monthly newspaper subscriptions with extra steps. Better to do the music subscription route, where the user sub revenue is automatically divided amongst all the newspapers the user accesses for the month. IIRC Google tried
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I don't think the local newspaper in their community would have broken the Epstein news story either. The Miami Herald is one of the largest in Florida, and where many of Epstein's crimes took place.
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Also Yellow Press , which was the big fake news of the late 1800/early 1900s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism For a while during the last half of the 20th century, this type of sensationalism was
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by bduerst 5y ago
Amazon inflates prices to include shipping costs on prime goods, despite the subscription giving free two day shipping. It's most obvious on smaller items that typically only cost only a dollar so, but with Prime free shipping they in
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ICU survival rate is highly dependent on the cause, diagnosis, and/or disease that the patient is admitted for. It can range from 70-10%.
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That's saying long covid is bad but we don't know just how bad until more time passes.
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People were allowed in parks. The hyperbole comes here in that the parks closed during certain seasonal events that tend to draw huge crowds.
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True, but it doesn't make sense to throw out the baby with the bathwater. From what I've seen being argued about proponents of defi (or smart contracts) is they operate on the premise that the centralized authority is the bad acto
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Galileo's book was censored by the church because it insulted the pope. I'm not certain if that exists much today. Similar censorship would be curtailing mockery of public authority figures.
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Misinformation and lies can directly cause harm - i.e. scaring/deluding people into not getting a vaccine for COVID-19. Any blatantly incorrect speech where the expression alone can kill others should be evaluated for censorship. Eve
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>A lot of money laundering involves wash trading. Citation needed, because wash trading and money laundering are not mutually inclusive. There are not controls in place for money laundering that detect wash trading, because crypto is no
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by bduerst 5y ago
I don't see how that is relevant here. Wash trading is market, price, and reputation manipulation, not money laundering or tax evasion. I'm not sure Coinbase's need to report money laundering applies.
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Anti-spoofing tech for regulated securities. There's no rules for crypto to suggest that Coinbase needs to (or would) flag a group of individuals doing this.
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How does Coinbase self-regulate wash trading?
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Wouldn't you be better of having microwave relay satellites than laying wire? Test satellites for space-based solar power (SBSP) are already going into orbit as soon as next year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spac
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Amazon, Ebay, Shopify pages, etc. It doesn't really matter because google shopping is (or was?) just search ads with pictures. Every item shown was set up and paid for in Ads IIRC.
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You'd never get megaprojects built then, because no-one would reasonably commit to them given the risk that they undergo scope creep and the steepness of that punishment.
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I don't think anyone expects a 100% build rate on these commitments, but like all funnels, a certain percentage of these projects that are having awareness raised now will eventually be built. Any progress here is better than nothing.
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That's the point though - in lieu of some outstanding success and track record that makes you an extreme outlier, a degree is pretty much required.
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Are these holdings? Mining companies? Production?
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No matter what cellular service you use, you run a risk of being flagged as a false positive for fraud locks (irrespective of SIM swaps). If a SIM swap scam is happening and your account is locked, it is incredibly unlikely they'll be
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by bduerst 5y ago
There are services that have safeguards in place against sim swapping, coincidentally one of them is Fi: https://support.google.com/fi/answer/9834243?hl=en
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Whenever I see items like that, all I can think is embezzlement or tax evasion - but then again you'd think they would do that on less unique items (like $1200 for playstations).
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It matters because you're not using crypto to pay, you're paying US dollars (over ACH). Same with VISA, Apple Pay, and personal checks.
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Same, though Google doesn't enable it for users in different countries. It's weird to be able to automatically share photos with a partner with face recognition, but then they can't reciprocate for some reason.

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