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by boc 4y ago
If you’re looking for a comprehensive, accurate diagnosis you’ll want to find a good neuropsychologist. They aren’t cheap, but if you find a good one they can really help you uncover specific issues.
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by boc 4y ago
> Shiva Star was also used to develop an experimental weapon known as MARAUDER for the SDI effort between 1989 and 1995. The idea appears to have been to create compact toroids of high-density plasma that would be ejected from the device
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by boc 4y ago
Reading through this thread really exposes how little defense industry knowledge there is on this forum. Like are we really just speculating that the entirety of the US strategic missile defense apparatus forgot about hypersonic missiles? T
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by boc 4y ago
From today's front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33205813 > Georgia Power announced tonight that fuel load into the Vogtle Unit 3 reactor core has begun at Plant Vogtle near Waynesboro, Ga. The fuel loa
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by boc 4y ago
Holding targets at risk is fundamentally different from destroying targets. Hypersonic anti-ship weapons allow China to hold US carriers off the coast of Taiwan "at risk", but it doesn't mean they have to destroy them to be e
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by boc 4y ago
The US doesn’t differentiate between those two cases, and thus a “tactical” strike from the Russian pov would lead to a massive escalation. Putin should remember that US doctrine explicitly approves massive nuclear first strikes when a situ
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by boc 4y ago
This is awesome! Appreciate the recommendation.
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by boc 4y ago
I’d make the opposite argument. Losing ETH will allow US devs and companies to work on actual technologies which are useful for society broadly.
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by boc 4y ago
If the US government goes to war with crypto, it’s not going to be a long fight. The exodus of corporate capital from the ecosystem will be a fatal blow to crypto prices and projects. Rule number one is don’t fight the IRS.
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by boc 4y ago
Just like how gas stations got really greedy earlier this summer - thankfully Biden told them to knock it off and now prices are falling. Don’t let those economists tell you lies about how goods with inelastic demand will dramatically rise
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by boc 4y ago
Thank you for more eloquently writing the reply I wanted to write. Even the backlash against art that strays from mere visual sugar isn’t new in our history. This criticism is so stale that it already ran a cycle in the 30s and ended with d
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by boc 4y ago
I wouldn't say this is universally true. Lexus and Volvo tend to make amazing car seats. I say this after driving 2000 miles last week and not feeling a thing in my old Lexus GX.
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by boc 4y ago
Despite the general online sentiment, it's important to realize that the average American makes an absurd amount of money compared to their global peers. Even adjusting for PPP and other factors, average disposable household income for
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by boc 4y ago
That's a very misleading metric since it doesn't reflect the real-life experience of most Russians looking to exchange money. It's just a show metric the government is maintaining.
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by boc 4y ago
You're forgetting Princeton, which is almost always grouped together with Harvard and Yale to form "the Big Three"[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Three_(colleges)
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by boc 4y ago
How do we actually know that El Salvador is buying BTC when they say they are? Is there a government wallet that we can see to confirm the presence of the national BTC reserve? I have a suspicion that the announced purchases aren't ali
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by boc 4y ago
Usually a GP can do a scan for you and spot suspicious looking moles during your annual checkup.
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by boc 4y ago
The entire existence of the NRO was a secret until an unredacted congressional budget report accidentally was entered into the record in ~1990. The NRO donated two unlaunched, out-of-date satellites to NASA in 2011 and the sensors/mirr
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by boc 4y ago
I'm sorry but it's not accurate to call the PLAN larger than the US Navy unless you're just counting the number of ships. The USN has twice the displacement of the PLAN. The USN is by far and away the strongest blue water nav
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by boc 4y ago
The Nissan Leaf is US$27,800 Retail, and is eligible for all EV rebates which lowers the cost closer to US$20,000: https://www.nissanusa.com/vehicles/electric-cars/leaf.html And it's a way better, 4-door high
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by boc 4y ago
There's not really a word for it that I'm aware of, but Crypto IMO is best described as an "Initialarchy", or rule by the first people on the scene. Since almost every crypto project starts with dirt cheap prices, the fi
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by boc 4y ago
If the price spirals from multiple whales getting liquidated/margin-called (3AC included), the whole crypto project dies and Coinbase sees their volume drop 100X. The issue is that with past Crypto runs, not everyone knew about BTC&#x2
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by boc 4y ago
USDC. They see something really bad on their books that's separate from their core business. Just like how Lehman Brothers was a profitable bank that got shredded by one risky trading strategy. These stablecoins have been devoured one
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by boc 4y ago
Not to be flippant, but nobody who I've heard promote crypto has any real, deep training in economics. Computer science yes, totally, but not econ. There are obvious problems with the entire concept of decentralized money if you'v
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by boc 4y ago
Counter-point is that the accepted history of the Volker interest rate hike might be bad economics, and that it was actually the oil price reductions that happened simultaneously which caused disinflation. If the Fed's research behind
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by boc 4y ago
When people say that BTC is worth $30,000 on Binance right now, what they are really saying is that BTC is worth 30,000 Tether dollars (USDT) on Binance, because there's no mechanism on Binance to exchange BTC for US Dollars in a direc
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by boc 4y ago
Crypto is priced on the exchanges in terms of USDT, USDC, etc. If USDT dies then BTC goes to like $500 on Binance. The cascade effects will cause runs on other exchanges, and then you're betting that they have enough reserves to cover
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by boc 4y ago
Well they had the first $10B, but Lehman also probably had the first $10B when things moved south. It's the final $10B that really matters here. They may have burned their real currency reserves first to avoid really sparking a panic,
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by boc 4y ago
My background is in international finance, and therefore when I promise you that DAI cannot defend a virtual peg without holding large amounts of actual underlying US treasuries or physical USD, I'm only making that promise because it&
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by boc 4y ago
I love when I find new source material for /r/NCD in the wild.

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