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by bnralt 5y ago
> the worst one being that there's no human you can talk to when something goes wrong. The worst part is that for a DeFi loan, you need something like 200% to 300% collateral (look it up, it varies but is usually around that amount)
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by bnralt 5y ago
> Because moderation here works quite well I think that probably stems mostly from Hacker News avoiding controversial subjects in general. When they do slip through, the moderation can be pretty bad, particularly when it comes to new acc
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> At this point it's safe to assume that this is always the unstated part of the plan. Keeping individual areas destabilized If you read the article, it's all about how the instability is harming U.S. strategy in the region be
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by bnralt 5y ago
You seem to be misunderstanding what Brzezinski said to and portray it as having the opposite meaning. The point of the "Arc of Crisis" speech was that the U.S. needed to help _stabilize_ the area, because a destabilized region co
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by bnralt 5y ago
> Still, we are the apex predator of this planet, thanks to our sole distinguishing feature, which is our intelligence and ability to cooperate. Indeed, people seem to overlook the fact that superhuman intelligence already exists as hum
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by bnralt 5y ago
I recently came across what Colin Powell wrote about her in his memoirs[1]: > In his memoir My American Journey, Colin Powell recounts a discussion he had when he was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff with Secretary of State Madelein
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It's also important to note that higher education is responsible both for education, and for handing out credentials. Tying these two together real screws over the student. Imagine if driving schools were the only ones who administered
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I've seen a lot of sentiments like this article, where the author is talking about what methods they can use to make others behave the way they'd like. But I rarely see the opposite - an author talking about being receptive to oth
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It reminds me of 7 years ago when Amazon was claiming that FAA regulations were holding back its drone deliveries[1]. [1] https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/faa-drone-regulations-blow...
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Indeed, it's worth pointing out that the Soviet Union offered to defend Czechoslovakia from Germany in 1938, but other countries opposed this. In general, I get the impression that European powers in the 1930's couldn't make
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I've tried doing deep dives into drug criminalization a few times before, and I've never been able to find a simplistic explanation for it. Keep in mind, this is something that every country in the world went forward with around t
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by bnralt 5y ago
That article was strange. The journalists say that they were in an area controlled by the Ukrainian government, full of tense checkpoints, and at the time thought that they were being fire upon by Ukrainian soldiers at a checkpoint. But the
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If you look at the numbers, it seems like English is the most spoken language in Africa. It's also the official language of the most populous African nation (Nigeria).
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> I can't think of a guerrilla war since WWII that hasn't been successful. Modern Western countries haven't had much of a history of successful insurgencies. Hungary and Czechoslovakia were both invaded by the USSR (along
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by bnralt 5y ago
Indeed. We're on the third day of the invasion now. I'm confused by the amount of people, including many in the media, saying that things are going poorly for Russia because they didn't capture the capital city in the first t
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It's like a stock market for companies that don't exist.
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> The article leads with drawing a distinction between pop news and more traditional journalism: Sure, but I don't think it goes on to justify why that distinction is there. Particularly points 2 to 5 seem to work just as well as c
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It seems like that still runs into the issues that are outlined in the blog post, however (not accomplishing anything, shallow conversations about current events, better ways to stay informed, and feeling like you're doing something wh
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> Working backwards, at some point they are going to be on their own, and if up until that point they are entirely leaning on the fences set up by the parents, and/or don't understand the 'why' behind those fences, th
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by bnralt 5y ago
> From the parents' perspective, their child is being completely unreasonable and upset over inconsequential things, but the parent is assigning their own assessment of consequence to the video games, and not accepting their child&#
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by bnralt 5y ago
Personally, I've found that I've had to avoid hate and misinformation just about anywhere I go on the internet. I think there's a tendency for people to get used to the hate and misinformation that's acceptable for their
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by bnralt 5y ago
Well, they were shut down in 2017. But they seemed to be about the same quality at the end as they were earlier on. The boards I frequent that haven't closed are still going strong with light moderation, however. Actually, I'd arg
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by bnralt 5y ago
Can't say this has been my experience. Many of the places I've found with the best discussions have had little to no moderation. The old IMDB boards, for example, were almost entirely devoid of moderation, but had some of the best
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by bnralt 5y ago
An important thing to realize, too, is that this is a problem that keeps getting worse. The article talks about product reviews and recipes, but it's been spreading a lot further than that. Recently I was trying to look up a technical
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by bnralt 5y ago
Long form casual social e-mail have just about disappeared for me. The kind where someone writes you several paragraphs about their life or their thoughts for no particular purpose than to chat with you. I used to have a lot of people I kep
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I agree, but I also think it's also an issue (particularly with the popularity of social media) that people are often trying to keep in contact with many more people but also interacting a lot more than in the past. For instance, I kno
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How does that make it fake? An NFT doesn't convey ownership. I can make a website that simply has a link to Google and sell it to people. That's not a fake website, even though it links to something I don't own. Likewise, I d
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by bnralt 5y ago
We have premium subscriptions that show that people value no advertising. I haven't ever seen any premium subscription that shows anyone values advertising. Have you ever seen any subscription that says the user will get more advertise
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It's not just online. For instance, Hulu's ad-free subscription cost is almost twice that of it's regular cost. This isn't a new phenomenon either; here's a song advertising a paid TV service from the 1960's th
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One big source of evidence is that people go out of their way to avoid ads. Companies know this, and often give users an option to pay extra for ad-free versions of their products. I can think of many premium products that where being ad fr

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