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by largepeepee 4y ago
Refineries actually use a blend of different grade of oil for various products. And many countries only produce a specific type of oil, which is why we import several types of raw oil even in the US and that affects our local prices.
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by largepeepee 4y ago
The problem with hindsight is people often forget just how chaotic previous events like the entire pandemic was. Even the "experts" were flip flopping globe affecting decisions, we had no idea what the right solution was and how l
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by largepeepee 4y ago
Bad take. If anything, it reveals just how many things are not up for voting in our democracy - because people will definitely vote down spyware whose obvious target is us.
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by largepeepee 4y ago
Turns out big tech, even at the high end has become just another churn and burn industry these days. It's quite exhausting even for just a 4 year stint previously, I can't imagine what it must be like now with the constant headlin
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by largepeepee 4y ago
He already did, he mentioned in the comments there was no option to approve it so he's stuck at that page.
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by largepeepee 4y ago
Looks like the US state power is now making an obvious push to follow the CCPs footsteps after quietly eroding people's rights for years. Hopefully the people will push back on it, can't say I have much hope since the political sy
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by largepeepee 4y ago
Reminds me of a news piece that covered how a popular Muslim app, think it was a simple direction of Mecca, was selling data to brokers who resold it to govts who tracked the people. Kinda spooky how data is being abused these days, pretty
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by largepeepee 4y ago
I'll add that the decline of community culture was in part due to the greed of the current leaders, like Google and Facebook. Think the dislike button or the normalization of exploiting any data that was previously made to reduce stora
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by largepeepee 4y ago
Ah, yes minister. Probably the most intelligent political comedy of all time, used to be a must-watch, and still highly regarded for the intelligentsia in multiple countries.
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by largepeepee 4y ago
>I find the world of forgeries fascinating because it speaks of the human mind, how our desire to make something real blocks our perception and any kind of critical thinking. Not just forgeries but modern claims like Salvator Mundi were
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by largepeepee 4y ago
Problem is Alameda was needed by FTX as a market maker. Alameda was over 50% of the trades and often the counterparty of the others. It is a scam in the end, FTX will die without Alameda.
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by largepeepee 4y ago
Well SBF pissed off too many wealthier people and was too obvious in his infinite money scam. Munger at least has proved himself many times and has the history to show it. Poor comparison.
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by largepeepee 4y ago
It's far from just tokens. They funded several sol projects that are now underwater without their money even DeFi ones with how FTX was controlling serum. Serum itself was the backbone of numerous sol projects and when it got exposed f
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by largepeepee 4y ago
It's also a self-reinforcing cycle. Children that told they are smart from tests tend to have higher confidence and that has positive effects during a time where most children are unsure about themselves and their role in their world.
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by largepeepee 4y ago
You are basing it on military power, of which no doubt China and the US has some crazy claims, but if you just look at ridiculousness Europe's ones are probably the craziest because of colonies. Portugal's EEZ claim for example is
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by largepeepee 4y ago
Not true. Besides 7th in Japan, there's 6th fleet is in Italy and 5th in Bahrain. So really half the US Navy is always stationed overseas with the first fleet being inactive.
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by largepeepee 4y ago
It's not even limited to Europe or China. The US lays claims to many deserted islands in the middle of nowhere in the Pacific for their HUGE EEZs and bird poop. No one dares contest the most well-armed navy on those though...or else.
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by largepeepee 4y ago
There are plenty of people who treated FTX as a high savings yield account and just kept it there. Most don't want to talk about it now since it's embarrassing but look at the trading firms with writes down of 50% or more. For sma
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by largepeepee 4y ago
Another way to put it is, the endgame of unregulated markets are monopolies.
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by largepeepee 4y ago
My understanding is that ivy league schools have impossibly huge coffers, and this seems to boil down to money. Or perhaps MIT is offering a bad deal on purpose to sink negotiations?
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by largepeepee 4y ago
How about get rid of obfuscated monetary bullshit like darkpools first
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by largepeepee 4y ago
You know it's a weak argument when it starts with "but China does it, so we can too"
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by largepeepee 4y ago
There seems to be a stable coin war going on with USDC leading the charge. Has been happening for a few weeks now starting from a tweet from Brian. Going be interesting to see if they actually manage to depeg tether.
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by largepeepee 4y ago
It also depends on the degree of trust your community has with law enforcement. Small town where you know the cops by name? Sure. Incompetently ran large cities with adversary relationship with corrupt civil service? Maybe not.
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by largepeepee 4y ago
Well the pictures prove the whole "line" bullshit is nothing more than marketing if there is that much boring infrastructure already around it from the start. Aren't we just falling for their plans for giving it that much med
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by largepeepee 4y ago
I think it's more like having downsized by half, they now have lots of excess unused inventory to offload.
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by largepeepee 4y ago
When you start protecting lies, you don't deserve any respect. Just because no one likes the regime doesn't mean you go around attacking people for pointing out falsehoods about it. It will only make it harder for people to find t
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by largepeepee 4y ago
Go spread your thinly veiled propaganda elsewhere. Even the mods notice how blatantly bullshit the post was and flagged it.
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by largepeepee 4y ago
The problem with extremist takes like yours, is they remove any nuance, to the point of covering for other equally "anti-human" acts that eventually pop up. Take the falun gong cult, or Scientology of the east for instance. They w
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by largepeepee 4y ago
>For the last several decades society put massive pressure on kids to conform to heteronormativity. Only decades? You mean for all of history, where there are distinct roles mostly because of anatomy. In fact, it was only in recent decad

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