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by iSnow 6y ago
The fiat on/off-ramps are the choke points of the whole crypto world. Yes, you could use your BTC to buy Teslas and drugs, but that's it. You can't pay at the supermarket or on the web directly, it all goes through payment pr
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by iSnow 6y ago
Help out someone who is not very versed in finance: what on earth are "non-debt and non-dollar assets"? Are those stocks from non-USD economies?
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I don't feel the same sentiment here. But for the sake of argument, two things have happened: - data driven manipulation by platforms reaching the majority of the population. Pushing the spiciest posts to the top to increase emotional
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IDK man, the last POTUS didn't seem so anti-authoritarian to me, but that might again be an outside position.
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God, I'd love to have a digital back for a medium format camera. But those are incredibly expensive, there's no way I can justify that.
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by iSnow 6y ago
I used to own the infamous Kiev 88 TTL with a range of lenses, and while I loved the knock-off design and heft, the build quality was disastrous. The film cassettes leaked light which ruined some films, the transport would jam, and the shut
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Like the Jelly Pro? :)
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I don't think it's about the FBI as much as the rest of the three-letter soup. NSA, CIA et al. most certainly are a threat to anyone outside the USA holding valuable secrets.
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The web roughly took from 1995 to 2005 to take off. DLT and DeFi manage value, not just data or customer interactions, the cost of every error can be devastating. Yet, DeFi already has a couple of billions under management which isn't
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by iSnow 6y ago
I work in one of the big old industries and we commission web shops to build first versions of web apps that internal IT then takes over for maintenance and future iterations. We have standardized on Angular on the frontend and require prov
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I think the author would agree. They are bemoaning Typescript which is everything but lightweight and the build chain. JS for me was a very nice change from the heavyweight OOP languages but now what the usual stack implies is just as bloat
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There's a bit of hyperbole in the article, but it strikes a nerve. I originally came from Java and was so fed up with the hulking class lib and the arcane build systems sprinkled with Ant snippets and XML galore, so JS felt like a fres
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You could be right, but I was under the impression that pipeline gas was liquified as well, but maybe I am wrong.
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Western Germany was not halfway a Soviet satellite but firmly in NATO - coincidentally the nation where the IRBMs to take out Moscow would have been launched. And yet it bought gas from the USSR which had been super correct and never tried
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>It's hard to see behind immediate benefits. Those of us who can and do resist silly temptations, should be supported. Very true, and this is why I am equally skeptical about the German determination to get this through, come hell o
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The USSR also has not used gas deliveries as a lever against Western Germany at all.
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I am not an expert, so be kind, but I think you got a thing or two wrong: - Germany imported close to 110bn m^3 ( https://www.statista.com/statistics/332218/gas-trade-imports... ) - a typical big LNG tanker has a ca
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by iSnow 6y ago
"It's just business" is also how the USA got interested in protecting Germany's energy independence against German political decisions right when the USA started to have an abundance of fracking gas. The pipe is still a
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Considering we all are buying oil from Mohammed "bonesaw" Salman's Saudi Arabia which likely financed a lot of islamist terror, I am not sure the difference is that big.
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I doubt Germany is known for doing senseless things for no good reasons, so here I believe the author is missing some crucial piece of information: - Germany is currently mainly depending on Russia, The Netherlands, and Norway for gas ( htt
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It doesn't work. Moderation has it's name precisely because suppressing content that is crated to incite emotional reactions keeps the mood in a community. All free-speech platforms I know of devolve into a hotbed of Neonazis and
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by iSnow 6y ago
>That's true in theory, but the Supreme Court has taken upon itself to impose uniform standards for the whole nation. As I recall, the German Constitutional Court upheld the practice in general, reasoning that it was an expression o
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Oof, I won't go into details, but you got a couple of things wrong about Germany. First, the crosses on gov't buildings are specific to Bavaria. As the USA, Germany has a strong federal constitution which allows the states some le
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>There was a very vocal loony subset, but that is the Internet for you. Yeah, no. I am actually amazed the platform lived as long as it did because there was no opposition to members voicing death threats against politicians/activis
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That's most certainly not true for Germany, at least if we are talking about German definitions of conservatism. A lot of GOP members are more close to what in the German political system would be seen as the extreme right, arguably bo
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Only technically. They moved to another domain to dodge the FBI investigation post-Capitol. It's just a rebrand.
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I actually like Reddit as well. You can remain pseudonymous there if you so choose and still have meaningful interactions with people. And (depending on the sub) people don't form mobs as easily as on Twitter/Facebook. Social medi
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At a $100 price point, I'd expected a DCF77 receiver tbh, not a crystal oscillator.
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>Homelessness does not beget homelessness. It is most important to note that But is this really a fact? I agree with your later reasoning that homelessness is a symptom of deeper problems, but I'd argue that our societies should hav
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>because they prefer to get drunk instead of spending it on food and rent. After a certain point, alcoholism is no longer a choice or preference, it's a debilitating disease. And before that point, it's frequently self-medicati

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