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by laughing_man 3mo ago
But that defeats the purpose of depositor's insurance. The purpose isn't to make sure people get their money back; that's only a side effect. The point of depositors insurance is to avoid bank runs, which can be contagious.
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by laughing_man 3mo ago
lol no. Iran hasn't yet been able to enrich uranium to the necessary purity to make a bomb. Yes, making a bomb is easy once you have the materials. Getting the materials is very difficult. If by "dirty bombs" you mean a c
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by laughing_man 3mo ago
I don't think any of that would provoke a nuclear response. As long as the Iranians stay away from NBC attacks, the Israelis aren't going to nuke them.
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by laughing_man 3mo ago
Felix on the "what about it" YouTube channel says flight 14 will be even faster. That's going to be something to see.
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by laughing_man 3mo ago
The leading theory, from what I can tell, is slosh. The flip on separation is relatively violent, and while there's not much fuel left compared to the amount at launch, it's still heavy enough to do damage.
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by laughing_man 3mo ago
What target could the Iranians hit you believe would provoke a nuclear response?
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by laughing_man 3mo ago
I would expect them to not launch thousands of missiles at Israel... is that a trick question?
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by laughing_man 3mo ago
Why do you say they're "clearly going to be worried about getting nuked"? I see no indication that's true.
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by laughing_man 3mo ago
Iran has launched thousands of missiles at Israel over the last few months. The idea they're worried about Israeli nuclear weapons is fanciful.
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by laughing_man 3mo ago
As I understand it, the 9g limit is software intended to keep the pilot alive. The jet can do more.
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by laughing_man 3mo ago
Buy the same token, your car's autopilot can't kill you without even hitting something by making a turn that's too sharp.
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by laughing_man 3mo ago
China officially ended its one-child policy in 2015. Barring medical reasons, there was no reason for their daughter to be their only child.
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by laughing_man 3mo ago
We don't have a true free-market in health care, so regulations and various programs are meant to create an environment where we get the benefits of a free market while still having universal availability and a universal "standard
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by laughing_man 3mo ago
There has been a sustained anti-capitalist propaganda campaign in the last few years, so this isn't surprising. Most people are sheep.
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by laughing_man 3mo ago
Heh. Steam thinks I'm 126.
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by laughing_man 3mo ago
I agree. We should have dealt with this in 2009, but we didn't. There are still individual banks that are too big.
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by laughing_man 3mo ago
Everyone else is literally everyone else. It doesn't matter what you have or what you do for a living, the collapse of the financial system is going to affect you negatively.
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by laughing_man 3mo ago
Yes, but that can be a good thing, from your perspective, if you owe a lot of money.
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by laughing_man 3mo ago
It's even worse than that. If you make withdrawals with the intent of evading currency reporting requirements you've committed a crime even if the withdrawals don't constitute structuring. Also, in regard to the fictional
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by laughing_man 3mo ago
Iceland's banks were full of money from people in the UK. It's a lot easier to default when there only a small political and economic price.
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by laughing_man 3mo ago
Here's the thing about debt, though: If your debt is denominated in your own sovereign currency, you can just print more when you run out of money.
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by laughing_man 3mo ago
If they bail them out it should be done like the GM bailout. Shareholders leave with nothing.
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by laughing_man 3mo ago
I don't know. The guy I bought my house from owed the bank $400k. He didn't make any payments for two years, and then they paid him $20k to go away.
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by laughing_man 3mo ago
How are they going to use my tax money if I stop working and don't pay taxes?
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by laughing_man 3mo ago
The problem is if large banks fail they take everyone else with them. We should have dealt with this in 2009, but for some reason it didn't happen. But money talks, I guess.
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by laughing_man 3mo ago
ICE is doing no such thing. They're trying to do their job. Law enforcement, you know, what the state is supposed to be doing? There's no Star-spangled Gestapo. That's just fever dreams on your part. And the reason we&#x27
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by laughing_man 3mo ago
xargs supports null termination. While it's true not every command supports multiple targets, presumably you know if you're using one of those commands.
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by laughing_man 3mo ago
That won't save you from weird file names, but null termination will.
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by laughing_man 3mo ago
Depending on the actual command, this can be far slower and less efficient than xargs. You're creating a separate process for each invocation of bar when a lot of commands will take many targets for a single invocation. Try this with
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by laughing_man 3mo ago
So you want the government to fail at the things you want it to fail at, yet you're trying to project that onto conservatives? Good lord. You actually think the president and SCOTUS are more corrupt than Congress? Amazing.

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