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by graeme 4y ago
This isn’t Reddit. I ended by saying I don’t think Elon is really all that rich and that his major holding is a bubble. I think there’s a reasonable chance Tesla blows up and lots of financial schenanigans will be revealed. I however, do no
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by graeme 4y ago
Fair point, changes the cost to to a bit over 4 million euros. Maybe make that $7.5 million dollars? And yeah to do this ethically you’d probably want to publicly support sequestering your own usage, say how to do it, and then you’d likely
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by graeme 4y ago
I’m not an Elon fan, but “ $2,640,000” for transporting the nominally richest man in the world is….not that much? You could use Climeworks to actually sequester 1895 tons of CO2, forever, for €1,895,000. So about doubling the operating cost
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by graeme 4y ago
I prefer waist circumference, but BMI is not far off for most people. I’m quite muscular, only times I ever hit “slightly overweight” on BMI I also had a small gut I checked the the BMI of elite hockey players ranged from 25.5 to 27. And th
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by graeme 4y ago
It’s more about direction than absolute level. It has my body fat far too low I think but I can see it change with my waist/weight over time
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by graeme 4y ago
Oh right, this one is inches and pounds. You would change it by going into the shortcut and entering different conversion figures based on the formula in metric instead
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by graeme 4y ago
Weight is a poor metric to track in isolation, prone to error. Much more robust to also track waist circumference. There is actually a neat formula called the navy formula to estimate body fat and lean mass from four variables for men and
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by graeme 4y ago
1. Complete victory for Ukraine, with Russia at minimum gone from Donbas and likely gone from Crimea 2. More supply trouble, not less, as Covid waves become a fact of life in China. This may be masked by recession 3. 2023 will be the first
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by graeme 4y ago
The whole thing is debated and I’m not sure we have a clear answer. As of yet public health authorities are not recommending helminths, and they cause a lot of problems too
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by graeme 4y ago
Note that the most important of these are intestinal worms, helminths. The other would be bacteria. Respiratory viruses, by contrast, are not on the list. It is instead chronic presences in the body which may modulate immune response and
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by graeme 4y ago
Can you feed it larger quantities of text or just short excerpts?
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by graeme 4y ago
You have to look at both sides of the equation. There are excess deaths in every region coinciding with Covid spikes. It takes enormous mental gymnastics to say “some deaths were over counted so deaths as a whole must be over counted” and c
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by graeme 4y ago
It was the top story on cbc radio yesterday. They pre-announced a potentially world changing announcement. Actual announcement was important but nuanced. HN comments had this tone. When you’re at that level the press and regular people move
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by graeme 4y ago
Not volatile? The point of stablecoins is they’re supposed to match the USD in value. By definition they are more volatile than usd as they are pegged to it and vary in price
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by graeme 4y ago
Ok, best explained. If you had no prior bias, airborne spread was most likely cause for Diamond Princess pattern. Western society and WHO had a 100 year prior bias against accepting that respiratory diseases spread via the air. It all comes
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by graeme 4y ago
Not so. Surgical masks still filter about 50-60% of aerosols. They are made of similar material to N95 masks, only issue is fit. A 50-60% reduction has substantial effects! There's been a lot of "perfect is the enemy of the good,
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by graeme 4y ago
It was apparent very early that there were spread patterns only explainable by aerosols. The Diamond Princess was the earliest publicized example, with cases occurring onboard despite isolation in cabins. Japanese experts understood the l
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by graeme 4y ago
I agree with this explanation too and think it's complementary. The US system is pretty happy to let people blabber on and incriminate themselves. That they can't immediately arrest him isn't a huge hurdle while they build th
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by graeme 4y ago
A criminal bank, yes.
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by graeme 4y ago
No, I’m not forgetting that. You’re ignoring my comment. SBF was a donor to those politicians, but a conspirator with the attorney general. Whole other level of involvement. The US can put in an extradition request and it will be handled…
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by graeme 4y ago
The biggest answer people miss is that: 1. Sam Bankman Fried is in the Bahamas 2. Sam Bankman Fried was Tether’s biggest customer and banked with Deltec, Tether’s bank 3. The attorney general of the Bahamas, the man with the power to arrest
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by graeme 4y ago
Yeah, noticed that. Figured that warranted downvotes more than being dead, though it is a tough call as the site could become reddit with too much of that
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by graeme 4y ago
^Haga, if you can see this, your comment below mine is dead. Went through your history, doesn't look like you've said anything astonishingly objectionable recently. Your comments are all dead
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by graeme 4y ago
Both. If you take 900 reasonably skilled people and direct them towards nonsense for a few years, that is definite value lost to society. It sounds like $1 billion in actual cash was lost this way. And the buildings they were in could have
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by graeme 4y ago
They detailed their methods in greater detail here: https://protos.com/faq-tether-usdt-investigation/ This isn't a criminal proceeding. But no one has rebutted Protos despite ample opportunity. And Tether specific
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by graeme 4y ago
Protos is a news agency. The primary source of their report is the blockchain. You're free to replicate their work or try to falsify it by pulling the same transactions they did and verifying their work. To date, no one has disputed wh
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by graeme 4y ago
They represented themselves as a crypto exchange where you traded cryptos with other users. In actuality they took all the cryptos away and lost them. So all of the "trades" happening for at the least many months were not real tra
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by graeme 4y ago
Huh, that's very unusual. Swapping the CEO. Incidentally Gary Rever was the one outside director who came on the board with Chalopin during the takeover. Perlman and Olveira joined the following year.
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by graeme 4y ago
Well, the Protos Papers established that FTX/Alameda were Tether's largest customer. And they acquired 36 billion Tethers. Now Alameda is proven to be a fraud. So, this basically eliminates the possiblity that they paid cash for t
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by graeme 4y ago
You may enjoy "inspector Tether". The "Fiat Currency --> Crypto Loans" bit was prescient, in light of knowledge that Tether's largest "customer", FTX, was a total fraud. Highly unlikely FTX gave Tether

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