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by hilbertseries 5y ago
> That's why you have people who are dying of covid but think they aren't very sick, or even think the virus isn't real at all. Yeah, this is 100 percent not the reason people think covid isn’t real.
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by hilbertseries 5y ago
Seems that British nationalism runs pretty deep too, no? How else would you explain brexit?
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by hilbertseries 5y ago
It’s interesting how you’ve written so much here and not given what concrete example. Makes it very difficult to examine your argument, when you simply state that secular ideology is religious. I think it’s worth noting the definition of se
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by hilbertseries 5y ago
The US is the largest oil producer in the world.
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by hilbertseries 5y ago
What is this nonsense? Yimbys are support upzoning property, so denser housing can be built. They support removing parking minimums so denser housing can be built.
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by hilbertseries 5y ago
I think you’re missing the point, capital gains is when you sell an asset. The article is talking about how much net worth grew due to asset appreciation. Not how much stock they sold. The article is arguing for a wealth tax, without admitt
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by hilbertseries 5y ago
Ban cryptocurrency in the US. The crypto market would immediately tank. Other western companies would likely follow suit. US sanctions can be issued against exchanges, if desired. Obviously cryptocurrency could still continue in this scenar
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by hilbertseries 5y ago
You know that before covid only two adenovirus vectored vaccines had been approved? And neither Ebola vaccines have really reached wide adoption.
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by hilbertseries 5y ago
> it’s censorship resistant. Govt’s can’t just stop payments or shutdown the network. If they have a firewall, they could block the majority of exchanges, wallet apps, and even ips of some of the largest mining groups.
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by hilbertseries 5y ago
What’s the advantage of cryptocurrency over mpesa?
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by hilbertseries 5y ago
The beeple NFT that sold for 60m, was obviously an attempt to make NFTs look valuable.
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by hilbertseries 5y ago
What’s the advantage here over mpesa?
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by hilbertseries 5y ago
You think there’s no difference between non violent protest and sharing state secrets?!?!?
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by hilbertseries 5y ago
Sure if words don’t have meaning then there’s no difference here. In Snowden’s case they knew that Snowden could not leave Russia, without being detained and potentially extradited. If Snowden was extradited he would be tried and go to pris
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by hilbertseries 5y ago
Foreign key constraints are not practical for distributed data stores. And are actually more controversial than you’d think for regular databases, due to their heavy performance cost.
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by hilbertseries 5y ago
Here’s some evidence that it is naturally occurring from a virologist. https://twitter.com/wanderer_jasnah/status/13942477140246609...
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by hilbertseries 5y ago
Pump and dump schemes are illegal for the stock market. These regulations don’t apply to cryptocurrencies.
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by hilbertseries 5y ago
Self driving cars will never be as cheap as a train... Why would you compare the two?
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by hilbertseries 5y ago
I really love Baudrillard's writing and I'm particularly fond of America. But, I do take issue with this idea of "the larger context in which it took place" being the American media. When the context in which took place,
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by hilbertseries 5y ago
No, you just have the same way of thinking as Chomsky, where you're so anti-imperialist that everything the US does is bad. Even when it's good. The invasion of Iraq can be bad and the gulf war can be good, there's no contrad
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by hilbertseries 5y ago
Man those essays are some hot garbage. If you read them, you come away thinking that the US just decided to attack Iraq to make a point to Saddam. Let me quote it > Unlike earlier wars, in which there were political aims either of conque
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by hilbertseries 5y ago
This seems somewhat orthogonal to the question asked. They have Kinesis which competes with Kafka, SQS with competes with a variety of message queues, redshift, dynamo db, etc and it’s my understanding that Athena was originally a fork of P
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by hilbertseries 5y ago
The point is clear you said > We need long term data on technologies before we immunize hundreds of millions of people with it. But we have already done this, hundreds of millions of people have received the mRNA vaccines.
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by hilbertseries 5y ago
If it works, not very well. There were some very small underpowered studies that showed promise. Then large RCTs were done and it didn’t work. Brazil would certainly not be in the situation it’s in right now if ivermectin cured covid. http
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by hilbertseries 5y ago
How does interest factor in here? Your mortgage is fixed with the bank.
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by hilbertseries 5y ago
I think exploitative in this context refers to the prevalence of sex trafficking in sex work.
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by hilbertseries 6y ago
Gasp, in the year 2021 counter culture has been monetized for the first time in history.
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by hilbertseries 6y ago
When new fields are being researched there’s a ton of low hanging fundamental work that can be done. Over the years all of the low hanging fundamental work is done and research gets more specialized and the amount required to learn increase
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by hilbertseries 6y ago
Gonna need a citation on that easily substituted. Ending trade with China would kill Apple for instance.
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by hilbertseries 6y ago
China would intervene if they started a nuclear program. I was mostly being facetious. But it would be rather satisfying after China has spent the past few decades propping up North Korea and letting them develop nuclear weapons. If Taiwan

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