kipchak

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by kipchak 8mo ago
Which meeting are you seeing? That search doesn't seem to work for me, I'm only seeing the one Jan 2012.
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by kipchak 9mo ago
Likewise, it's always good to think through different perspectives. For what it's worth there are definitely people who think it will take much longer than most expect, due to for example the creation and growth of US Stablecoins,
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by kipchak 9mo ago
Given the details mentioned (9 guard deaths) the "unconfirmed reports" is probably referring to the x post[1] mentioned in the peoplenewstoday.com article. Personally word not somehow getting out of dozens of people being shot see
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by kipchak 9mo ago
I agree the dollar is uniquely successful, but the Pound ended convertibility in 1931, and limped as a reserve currency into the 70s. While not a reserve currency, another example is Chinese currencies like the second zhiyuanchao going off
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by kipchak 9mo ago
Couldn't you make the same case for every other former reserve currency which has had something replace it?
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by kipchak 9mo ago
This was arguably largely offset by the actions of the treasury's increased short duration issuance (>1 Trillion in t-bills) combined with draw-downs of the reverse repo facility[1] instead of from banks. It's difficult to tell
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by kipchak 10mo ago
I think the main problem is a YouTube "customer" is there because they're looking for long form content, and someone looking for sort videos is probably already either a TikTok or Instagram user with no particular reason to s
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by kipchak 10mo ago
I drive a Corolla (great highway mileage!) and will probably get something larger the next time I buy because it's smaller than most everything else on the road, both in terms of visibility and collisions. My person tightwad math chang
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by kipchak 10mo ago
Orch OR is probably wrong, but the broader point is that we still don’t know which physical processes are necessary for cognition. Until we do, claims of definitive brain simulability are premature.
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by kipchak 10mo ago
It could well be the case that the brain can be simulated, but presently we don't know exactly what variables/components must be simulated. Does ongoing neuroplasticity for example need to be a component of simulation? Is there so
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by kipchak 10mo ago
Consider for example Orch OR theory. If it or something like it were to be accurate, the brain would not "obey physical laws that can be described by mathematics".
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by kipchak 10mo ago
It seems like the brain "just" being a giant number of neurons is an assumption. As I understand it's still an area of active research, for example the role of glial cells. The complete function may or may not be pen and pape
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by kipchak 10mo ago
>We need to change our politics to redirect taxation and spending to achieve a better society. Unfortunately, I'm not sure there's much on the pie chart to redirect percentage wise. About 60% goes to non-discretionary programs
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by kipchak 10mo ago
Are we even sure we understand the hardware? My understanding is even that is contested, for example orchestrated objective reduction, holonomic brain theory or GVF theory.
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by kipchak 10mo ago
Helldivers might have more to do with preventing people from easily farming super credits versus game integrity.
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by kipchak 11mo ago
It takes a bit of time to get used to, and games don't necessarily do a great job explaining it. At first I preferred the stick also but eventually grew to prefer it. I'm not sure how popular it is but a fair number of games like
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by kipchak 11mo ago
You might also like 'Stick It To The Stickman' and 'One Finger Death Punch' 1 & 2.
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by kipchak 1y ago
I think this is part of the reason why Apple has been promoting subscription services. iPhones have historically been apple's largest revenue source, but revenues have been increasing, from about 10% to 20% over the last 10 years. Lets
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by kipchak 1y ago
High income consumers are a steadily increasing percentage of consumer spending, and the bottom 60% of consumers are something like 20% of all spend. One outcome is just that the trend continues and high income consumers spend more which of
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by kipchak 1y ago
Anecdotally trying a nuface device on sore muscles a couple of times there seems to be some sort of positive effect.
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by kipchak 1y ago
Maybe hoping to bump into them for a impromptu elevator pitch for a show?
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by kipchak 1y ago
There's more details in the technical explainer linked in the article. https://www.lighthousereports.com/methodology/surveillance-s...
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by kipchak 1y ago
Arguably this boom bust cycle is more of a intentional feature than a bug. Thanks to the cycle private actors are able and to capture the benefits of the boom, but when the bill is due the downside falls on the general public or taxpayers a
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by kipchak 1y ago
I think he's referring to something like the strategic petroleum reserve, where you pile a bunch of resources including those from other people's mines in a stockpile in case of supply issues.
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by kipchak 1y ago
There is also a substantial amount of mostly unexploited rare earth elements like Coltan.
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by kipchak 1y ago
The risk to the dollar is a flight to gold causing an decrease in interest of buyers purchasing treasuries, resulting in higher rates paid to buyers of this debt. To give a sense of scale the US issues something like 1-2 Trillion in new tre
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by kipchak 1y ago
Aldi US did the same back in 2015.
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by kipchak 1y ago
I agree, but just want to add that part of this was offset by CDs being cheaper than cartridges. When the two overlapped with the N64 and PS1, N64 games were about $10-20 more expensive. Turok and Doom 64 for example were originally $75-80,
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by kipchak 1y ago
I agree with the point that populists have a strong incentive to not solve problems, but I'm not sure that means populists can't be effective. For example in US history FDR was arguably a populist, and I would say pretty effective
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by kipchak 1y ago
In this case S&P just re-affirmed their rating so for now not much, hence the line in the article "There was no reaction in markets on Tuesday to S&P's credit rating affirmation".

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