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by kaonashi 5y ago
The problem is the pricing model. All of their competitors work on a subscription model that comes with a pre-existing library of games, while stadia requires you to pay full box-price for all the games you play. If it weren't such a
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by kaonashi 5y ago
It's part of their country, but I guess western powers still can't give up the ghost of trying to recolonize China.
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by kaonashi 5y ago
Not the first time he's been loudly wrong. It really depends on the semantics of the code in question and not on the absolute line length anyways. I've seen 30 character lines that are hard to parse, I've seen 120 character
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by kaonashi 5y ago
basically all of crypto is
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by kaonashi 5y ago
Thought the same thing, but it was brought to the FBI's attention by the stores who found the packages. Unless they're doing some heroic omissions in their press release, which is not out of the question.
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by kaonashi 5y ago
the water level has been getting extremely high as of late, too -- could see a flooded LSD again
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by kaonashi 5y ago
What is that "narrative" other than "racism is a thing and affects outcomes negatively".
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by kaonashi 5y ago
So it's not just privatized NASA catching up with decades old tech?
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by kaonashi 5y ago
If you take any investment money, then you're beholden to investors and investors want growth.
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by kaonashi 5y ago
that's mostly due to financial bailouts. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=8fX
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by kaonashi 5y ago
The US gained its advantage during the 40s-70s, when the government sector was a much larger percentage of the economy. We've been coasting on the efforts of that period and are now losing ground to countries that have their act toget
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by kaonashi 6y ago
inflation is never a monetary phenomenon, always an overspending problem, the supply of money only matters insofar as it is being spent on output -- if the gov't prints $trillion and buries it in the desert, the price of goods isn&#x27
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by kaonashi 6y ago
Private property is by definition a limit on freedom -- it's always a trade-off. Slave societies were always obsessed with protecting their freedoms.
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by kaonashi 6y ago
The goal seems to have been to siphon as much money as possible to defense contractors while being politically unassailable, so I think it's succeeded admirably.
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by kaonashi 6y ago
if a nation-state wanted to attack btc, they'd simply make transactions between its currency and btc illegal, and prosecute citizens and exchanges which transact with its citizens
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by kaonashi 6y ago
if your definition places injuries to human beings in the same category as damage to things, then your definition is just an excuse to do violence on people
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by kaonashi 6y ago
no, they are categorically different
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by kaonashi 6y ago
Moving the goal post from violence to property damage?
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by kaonashi 6y ago
The violence was 99% the cops beating on people, so not really, no.
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by kaonashi 6y ago
Lots of things can be used as stores of value that don't require the electrical output of a medium sized country.
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by kaonashi 6y ago
Masks aren't about personal protection. In fact the masks that do offer personal protection often have vents which undermines the entire point of wearing the masks in the first place. You wear them because you might be infected and
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by kaonashi 6y ago
Always deplatform your tips.
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by kaonashi 6y ago
So crimes committed by Americans on reservation land are basically unchargeable now?
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by kaonashi 7y ago
I still end up reverting back to google a lot, especially for more natural language question-type searches.
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by kaonashi 7y ago
Virus pandemics affecting global trade, climate change is starting to build steam and become irreversible, right-wing ethnocentric parties are taking over in much of the developed world. How can you not take it seriously?
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by kaonashi 7y ago
In terms of vaccine development, yes. In terms of the economics of health care distribution, I'm not so certain.
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by kaonashi 7y ago
The biggest thing I took away is that it wasn't the initial outbreak that was abnormally lethal. It was the only after it had been incubating and mutating in millions of human hosts that the second wave broke out.
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by kaonashi 7y ago
Not saying everyone needs to have the same level of say in the outcome of the economy, but there's a minimum below which the system becomes unresponsive to real human need and a maximum above which diminishing returns sets in.
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by kaonashi 7y ago
He doesn't 'give money away' no-string-attached. He uses the donations to control the way the economy deals with the externalities of capitalism. It's fundamentally anti-democratic for that share of the world's ec
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by kaonashi 7y ago
It's more like Step 1: Place fortune in a large tax-free foundation Step 2: Invest that wealth as normal, but without the need to pay taxes Step 3: Spend charitable funds in such a manner as to increase the value of investments from st

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