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by cynusx 4y ago
It mostly comes down to whether you trust in democratic institutions or not and whether you think it's a good idea to have markets operate outside the control and supervision of regulators and an enforceable rule of law.
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by cynusx 5y ago
Happiness isn't about money, it's about remaining curious and challenged.
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by cynusx 5y ago
Mongol horses eat all the food in an area, they have to remain mobile. They were easily defeated (2nd time around) with area and food denial methods like castles.
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by cynusx 5y ago
Well, General Winter is much more powerful if your equipment doesn't work in subzero temperatures and you have huge supply chain bottlenecks that make it hard to supply fuel and winter clothing. None of these factors are at play here.
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by cynusx 5y ago
Horizon65 | Technical Lead | Remote | https://horizon65.com Horizon65 is building a retirement investment advisor for normal people pulling together quants know about forecasting stock market and investments and making it unders
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by cynusx 5y ago
It does to finance as well, however the intent is to also target 2nd and 3th degree actors because it is extremely common to hide the true owner of the money in Finance (tax evasion, sanction evasions, ...) Here SIGINTEL can contribute a lo
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by cynusx 5y ago
There's a lot to add to this article in my opinion: Many lenders refinance loans because lenders also need to finance their activities and refinancing through securitization is a profitable way to do so, that goes for student loans, bu
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by cynusx 5y ago
You're right, I actually had the benefit of chatting with somebody who organized the lab test network around covid-19 and asked if they (Belgian government) considered ramping up hospital capacity and training non-qualified people the
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by cynusx 5y ago
I would look at it as a great thing, it seems your only drive was making money before which is pretty sad by itself. I'd first secure your money against inflation by investing 80% of it in safe assets (Real-estate, ETF's, investme
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by cynusx 5y ago
I remember from a visit in Kenya that the way they control monkeys was to keep shooting the alpha until eventually their next leader forces the group to retreat and leave the human settlements alone.
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by cynusx 5y ago
Surely kids below the age threshold will love to break the rules and try it out. There is one upside though, which is that enforcement becomes progressively easier. At some point every young person that smokes is breaking the law. I think t
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by cynusx 5y ago
Which no-code apps have this ability? the ones I know are rather basic
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by cynusx 5y ago
I think most no-code solutions fail to think about what happens when a software engineer turns out to be needed after all. It makes it easy for really simple websites/apps to be built, but the reality is that business people have no id
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by cynusx 5y ago
Better to just to slap a carbon tax on cryptocurrencies. The incentives are too big for miners but their end-users are just expecting it will go up in value forever.
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by cynusx 5y ago
In my humble opinion, the immersive version of the internet requires an enabling technology first which would be something akin to a direct neural link or a nerve-link to our central nerve system. Only if it's perceived on the level of
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by cynusx 5y ago
EID readers are notorious difficult to get working properly, especially on non-standard platforms like linux/mac. The smartphone app has significantly improved the user experience and can rely on biometric functionality, SMS and other
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by cynusx 5y ago
It's always helpful to make the distinction between problems and solutions; it's true that traditional finance providers are horribly stuck in legacy systems, however their main problem is not so much that they are unable to rebui
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by cynusx 5y ago
US often bases troops on request of their allies. China claims 80% of the South China Sea as "ancestral lands" and they are actively building capability to take it by force. How would you feel if you are in charge of Indonesia or
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by cynusx 5y ago
It may very well be that the US doesn't initiate a war over Taiwan, but what guarantee do we have that the PRC's ambition would end with Taiwan? China claims about 80% of the SCS which would give them control over 60% of global ma
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by cynusx 5y ago
Belgium is pretty provincial, but there is plenty of improvements in governing that the Brussels area can enact themselves... A simple one would be to merge the 11 communities and not have a different police force govern each side of a main
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by cynusx 5y ago
They didn't bother cleaning it up for that long because the stench down-river from Brussels went into a flemish area and when they did finally succumb to pressure from the flemish side to cleanup the stench of this river they mismanage
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by cynusx 5y ago
China is acting as an aggressor in the region, the US is only providing shields and containment to nations that seek their assistance. The US strategy is to enforce peace through strength which is what you can expect from a democratic count
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by cynusx 5y ago
37% of China GDP is reliant on foreign trade and it lacks significant domestic resources like rare-earth metals, copper and oil. All which have to be imported. The Chinese belt & road initiative is a huge project to reduce the reliance
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by cynusx 5y ago
There is actually great strategic interest in Taiwan. China is mostly contained by seas that are surrounded by island groups, which means that almost all its military and external trade passes close by potential hostile islands. With Taiwan
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by cynusx 5y ago
Renters that leave can sell their keys or notify an okupa of the vacancy for a financial reward.
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by cynusx 5y ago
Going for a year of holiday on the spanish governments' expense (paro) is definitely a thing. It is extremely common for employees to ask to be fired so they can get unemployment benefits (paro) and travel for a year. But, after living
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by cynusx 5y ago
There always seem to be some sympathy in Barcelona for those poor people who can't afford apartments, but there is plenty of really affordable apartments on a train-ride's distance and they are extending the metro every year into
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by cynusx 5y ago
That would work and incentivize effective removal of space debris too. It may even be implemented by consensus as it would generate revenue for the taxman.
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by cynusx 5y ago
You are forgetting the multi-millions of people that lost money on crypto so far. They are just written off as sore losers... Confirmation bias plays a big role in the popularity of crypto, in unsettingly the same way as it does with people
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by cynusx 5y ago
They have a lot of problems to solve still to make it a decent content platform, for now it's a huge crapshoot of self-promoters/marketers. Filtering rooms by language, proximity, rating would be helpful for example. Nothing great

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