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by kipchak 6y ago
The loophole gold did lose quite a bit of it's value as a result though, looking at a CPI adjusted price chart gold went from a high of $692 an ounce in 1934 to a low of $246 in 1970 culminating in the end of the gold standard, and the
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by kipchak 6y ago
I definitely agree that there's value in having people do things that aren't necessarily in their immediate best interest, but I think the cause of ire is people being deceived in order to do the right thing rather than asked. In
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Advising people to not grab up masks for themselves and deprive others is a good idea, but I think the troublesome part is telling people they shouldn't buy masks because they're useless when they aren't, versus asking them n
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by kipchak 6y ago
" the process being divided into intervals of four, with the embalmers actively working on the mummy every four days. A ritual procession of the mummy marked these days, celebrating the progress of restoring the deceased’s corporeal in
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by kipchak 6y ago
The Mount Hagen single instant coffee packets are pretty decent and light if you're boiling water on the trail.
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by kipchak 6y ago
The particle beam being applicable for radar spoofing seems like it potentially fit nicely with the hard to explain Nimitz carrier group sightings. Specifically the carrier group at the time being out to test it's fancy new integrated
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by kipchak 6y ago
There's a fun short story called 'The Road Not Taken' from the perspective of an alien civilization that stumbled upon agrav tech but is otherwise at a Napoleonic technology level attempting to evade earth. From their perspec
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by kipchak 6y ago
To me it always seemed a bit similar to justifications used for the "peculiar institution" - the system can't exist without slavery, therefore slavery must exist. The benefits of cheaper labor was well appreciated; Carnegie c
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by kipchak 6y ago
It and the other changes made seems to have had an effect on resale values/interest though, 993's[1] catch a good bit more than 996s[2] looking at BAT auction results. Granted there's nowhere near enough enthusiast interest t
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by kipchak 6y ago
Password managers for me.
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Pretty much, he wrote an article comparing the two a while ago. http://peterturchin.com/cliodynamica/psychohistory-and-cliod...
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Assuming you're referring to [1] or [2] or [3], it doesn't look like a debunking to me so much as healthy scientific debate, specifically between the Seshat and DRH projects who are both competing for limited resources-The John Te
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by kipchak 6y ago
Very broadly speaking we tend to now think of history or time as being fairly linear with progress being made while ancients tended to think of history as cyclical and those before them as random. The Antikythera mechanism or the somewhat i
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by kipchak 6y ago
I've been pretty much following Lyn Alden's newsletter and Fortress model portfolios, which consists of international ETFS (VWO, VPL) energy and metal commodities (RDS.B, SCCO, GOLD, FNV, WPM), and IVOL. Uranium ETFs like URNM mig
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by kipchak 6y ago
The newer/larger stores seem like they might have also helped with inventory/space management, at least in my experience the smaller stores would be more likely to have things on extreme clearance.
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by kipchak 6y ago
Could that make such inflation hedges a good pre-inflation hedge? For example buying gold with the expectation that people will soon want more hedging than they do now, though this relies on getting in earlier than others.
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Retail might never sell, I doubt commercial institutions Vanguard for example would not sell for idealistic reasons.
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Without getting into the politics of it, the purpose of the air strikes according to NATO to "to halt and reverse the humanitarian catastrophe that was then unfolding."[1] - specifically a "ethnic cleansing campaign"[2].
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>He made clear that it is not just historical, but an ongoing operation, a successful attack on the American public. What would be the modern/ongoing equivalent, something like PRISM and surveillance in general serving a role like t
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Wouldn't other nation states presume it was a psy-op as well? Also regarding the CIA ESP projects, are you saying that Project Stargate[1] and the Gateway process[2] were disinfo, or not technically run by the CIA? I hadn't though
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by kipchak 6y ago
>Researchers have suggested that alternatives to a carbon tax could include more direct taxation of mining — though with a high likelihood of chasing such activities away. Framing regulations of Bitcoin in terms of in terms of environmen
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I would guess they knew what awaited them, but hoped efforts to open the country would be successful and they would be allowed to return. The Manhattan was able to return some sailors to Japan in 1845[1] that shipwrecked in Japanese waters,
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by kipchak 6y ago
My understanding is that during the period (1600 to 1868) leaving the country, even by accident was punishable by death. better treatment of shipwrecked American sailors was part of the demands of Perry's expedition in the Convention o
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by kipchak 6y ago
I wonder if there's a good solution to this problem, given it seems to be something well known at least back to WWII.[1] The best I can see is encouraging an open flow of information and education to increase the number of people who s
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That looks to be fan art from the video game/book Stalker/roadside picnic (specifically a bandit) used for advertising whatever you'd actually get in the mail. If you reverse image search it a couple different variations of t
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by kipchak 6y ago
> I would not be surprised to hear a people in zero-gun households are now seeking to acquire their first one. About 40% of sales in 2020[1] were to first time owners, I think it's a fairly safe bet 2021 will increase those numbers.
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I think it's worth noting that the supreme court case 'New York Times Co. v. Sullivan' referenced in the paper was over an ad taken by supporters of Martin Luther King Jr, critical of police treatment that had a gist of trut
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by kipchak 6y ago
I really like my YouTube recommendations after a lot of time on the site and manually clicking "I'm not interested" on a good number of them. I've also wound up with several accounts over the years that all have slightly
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For anyone curious what the fuss is about their previous game Detention is widely available.
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The list of trustworthy and untrustworthy sources seems to have been manually compiled in a prior paper. >For that purpose, we use a widely-used and publicly available list of English news media Twitter accounts provided by Volkova et al

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