brightstep

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by brightstep 5y ago
American Prestige focuses on American foreign policy but has been doing a segment covering the war from a heterodox perspective. The podcast is left leaning but reasonable and consistent in its analysis.
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by brightstep 5y ago
Doing so may violate US law https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/959
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by brightstep 5y ago
Sure the king has thrown some families in the dungeons, but show me which of his princes you’d rather see on the throne?
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by brightstep 5y ago
I don’t think the residents of an invaded country care very much if they are killed by regular armed forces or intelligence. They’re dead either way.
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by brightstep 5y ago
The best explanation I've heard for why he'd stop with this region is to keep Ukraine out of NATO, which is a desire Russia has expressed before. The theory goes that a country with an active regional dispute would not be allowed
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by brightstep 5y ago
It does matter: wealth represents resources. Huge wealth inequality allocates resources, and therefore decisions of how to allocate those resources, into a small number of hands. Take Bezos' rocket and mega yacht. Is that a useful way
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by brightstep 5y ago
You need to read this not as an assessment of merit, but as a strategic outlook. Central banks see crypto as dangerous to the economy and threatening to their power and their country's sovereignty. Central banks have a lot of power. It
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by brightstep 5y ago
As someone who just sold their home and is currently renting while waiting for a correction, I definitely want this to be true. Why are you confident those factors, absent a rate intervention, will produce a correction?
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by brightstep 5y ago
The article claims Matterium solves four big problems in commerce, including being able to know if shoes will fit before receiving them, but provides absolutely nothing to validate any of them.
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by brightstep 5y ago
This economist contradicts himself several times. He alternately says cryptocurrencies are and are not a real currency. He also says economists aren't really qualified to analyze the space, which is interesting because he starts off by
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by brightstep 5y ago
Your incredibly low level of trust, thankfully, is just as rare as sandwich poisoners.
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by brightstep 5y ago
The quality of being exchangeable for goods doesn't make it a currency. Even if it were a currency, it would be a very bad one without many of the properties required for sound monetary policy.
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by brightstep 5y ago
It's way easier to lie via text. There are verbal and facial cues that make it much harder to maintain a convincing lie.
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by brightstep 5y ago
The number of people who'd do something like this is miniscule. Human society is built on trust for a good reason. We know that rules are imperfect and trust our fellow humans to do the right thing. They don't always but most of t
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by brightstep 5y ago
> Trust is the most important thing in crypto What? I thought the whole point was to be trust less ?
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by brightstep 5y ago
Why would a large corporation replace a shareholder meeting with a public on-chain vote? What is the incentive, what is the benefit to them?
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by brightstep 5y ago
The argument is it could or should be. It has in the past.
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by brightstep 5y ago
> If users change their opinions easily, they will be attracted to the extreme ends of the polarity spectrum. This is an interesting result. In general, I think most would agree it's a good thing to change your opinion based on new
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by brightstep 5y ago
They're not comparable if you see YouTube as just a company. But you can look at it differently. It is also an organization with total authority over a widely used realm of global public discourse. It can use that power to determine wh
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by brightstep 5y ago
Tech companies only stand to gain from partnering with an invasive government. The idea that they'd side with us over the state that regulates them and provides a market to seek profit is a fantasy
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by brightstep 5y ago
With regard to your first problem, it may be hard but should result in a more thoroughly decentralized system, no? And on the second, I thought PoS is orders of magnitude less compute-intensive?
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by brightstep 5y ago
That's true, and there may have been fewer casualties if such a leader had stepped up sooner
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by brightstep 5y ago
One nuance this summary misses is that there was a serious hesitancy among Northern politicians to seriously address the slavery issue. While many believed it was abominable, they didn't step up to stop it because it would shake up the
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by brightstep 5y ago
maybe two well-named concepts then? If you're unable to reduce it at all, I'd consider that a code smell.
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by brightstep 5y ago
I don't like either of your or rubocop's approach. If you have that many conditionals, bind a local variable that describes the condition being checked. Then you have an easy to read `if` with a single variable.
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by brightstep 5y ago
It's not possible to get the autocomplete unless the function/method you're calling takes a union. Many libraries can't do that because they need to be flexible in what they receive. So yeah, you can define a union, but
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by brightstep 5y ago
In some cases you can use it to define string arguments to an external library. Maybe table names to an ORM or a well-known file path. This helps because you get autocomplete from typing `MyEnum.` and seeing options, even though the externa
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by brightstep 5y ago
If you maintain the same interface (same classes, methods, types, etc) it seems to me a module ought to be hot-reloadable within the same process. This is already possible with a loosely-coupled plugin architecture and I could see it being
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by brightstep 5y ago
If you strip out the woke language, it's pretty easy to see this as factual. The Jedi absolutely are a police force. They often use violence and psychic manipulation through the Force. They are arguably a religious force, pursuing a fa
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by brightstep 5y ago
It seems different to me. To be completely visually (and maybe auditorally) detached from your physical surroundings for hours each day? That's a step beyond working at a desk, even one in a drab office building. Though point taken, be

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