mamonster

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by mamonster 7mo ago
>The EU could also cut US access to clearing houses (Clearstream / EuroClear) or the SWIFT payment system. Right, so that the USA would cut us from DTCC? Eu finance sector is MUCH more dependent on access to US markets than the othe
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by mamonster 7mo ago
I read the piece but IMO this there is a hidden last step not mentioned: Present in the article: 1) Core banking was good in the 70s - True 2) Core banking sucks now - Also true Missing: 3) The switching costs for a major bank are insanely
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by mamonster 8mo ago
Well if you want the possibility of military tribunals you have to accept the risks of something like the 1962 Algiers coup, the 27 May revolution or (if you want a more recent example) the Wagner rebellion. I'm not certain that would
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by mamonster 8mo ago
I agree with you - I should've caveated that the Anglo-Saxon aversion to military coups comes precisely from Cromwell IMO.
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by mamonster 8mo ago
>In 2021 the US had the its best opportunity to date to assemble a military tribunal to try and then execute a President It's completely foreign to the US or the Anglo-Saxon world in general. The military as the final guarantor of s
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by mamonster 8mo ago
>Oil rent came from outside the system; foreigners paid for a tradable asset, and the money circulated through the economy with real multiplier effects. Military rent is internal redistribution towards assets designed for destruction. Th
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by mamonster 8mo ago
>The latter half of careers, and certainly 30-55 is generally the period of highest productivity of working careers. For illegal immigrants though? They are not regularized to the C-suite but to Uber Eats and construction work.
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by mamonster 8mo ago
They contribute to GDP spend, but from the fiscal point of view they are a drag. As for actual percentages per country, I think it heavily varies. In EU i think family spending is like 3% of GDP. The hope is that this drag will either gener
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by mamonster 8mo ago
Horrible fiscal ticking time bomb that ignores the fact that regularization means naturalization over the next 10-15 years and so access to EU healthcare system. The biggest drag on government budgets in EU are socialized healthcare and ret
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by mamonster 8mo ago
>This was a good demonstration of how China views its neighbours. As vassals to be brought to heel from time to time, rather than equals. And China will use violence to achieve these aims. That’s the Mao doctrine, followed by every Chine
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by mamonster 8mo ago
>The top net contributors are countries like Denmark, Sweden, The Netherlands, etc., Not by raw amount of euros no. By % of GDP or per capita maybe.
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by mamonster 8mo ago
Arestovych claims that it also collapsed usage by Ukrainian brigades because 80% of the Starlinks at the frontline in use are provided by volunteers and so not registered with government. Ukraine needs a way to whitelist them whilst allowin
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by mamonster 8mo ago
Instead of tennis I would use basketball. You can be the #1 rated player up to your last year of high school but if you don't hit the growth spurt required for your position your career will take a completely different turn. Conversely
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by mamonster 8mo ago
In finance (at least in smaller companies), the most common form of tech debt is an Excel spreadsheet governing some super important process that was written by someone from the C-suite 10 years ago and has not been changed since because th
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by mamonster 8mo ago
0 chance it can spread. PAYGO systems in general were set up when expanding demographics were not in question. Nobody is stupid enough now to switch to a system that requires an ever growing labor pool in perpetuity. The problem is that the
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by mamonster 8mo ago
>How does Poland manage to be industrially active and growing? Because in a single market new capacity will grow where costs are cheaper. If (Cost of Good X in PL) + (Transport Cost PL->FR) < ( Cost of Good X in FR) then it is cle
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by mamonster 8mo ago
I wonder what the Islamic jurispudence behind this is given that enslaving other Muslims is pretty explicit haram afaik, but then again Afghan Islam is like Chechen Islam in that it is built on top of the original moral systems (Pashtunwali
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by mamonster 8mo ago
I mean, the exact same arguments can be used for everything that goes through "parallel import", like German cars or luxury clothes. The basic problem is that controlling beyond the 2nd sale is operationally/economically impo
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by mamonster 8mo ago
>Universities haven't caught up. Many CS programs still focus on theoretical foundations. Which means that fewer graduates train to deploy Kubernetes clusters, fine-tune large language models, or architect zero-trust security framew
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by mamonster 9mo ago
My prediction: Before end of 2026 at least one European government (likely Denmark or Norway) will get hit with OFAC sanctions. This is the one lever that Trump has apart from tariffs that is super painful and does not need any approval fro
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by mamonster 9mo ago
Trump is gonna end up destroying EU right wing parties which have been very pro-Trump exactly like he did to Pollievre. I wonder whether UK media decide to hammer Farage over his Trump connections to screw Reform super hard.
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by mamonster 9mo ago
The same as any other century. The whole point of Michelangelo is that he went beyond the limits of his time. To be the Michelangelo of today you need to go beyond the limits/tastes of today, not of Michelangelo's time. And the Mi
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by mamonster 9mo ago
That move reminds me of Cameron promising the Brexit referendum to placate Eurosceptics because he thought it would never happen.
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by mamonster 9mo ago
>The US can, and always has been able to, maintain its security interests in Greenland without trying to forcibly take it. I think someone has shown Trump the Project Iceworm documents and he decided that it would be a great addition to
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by mamonster 9mo ago
Being able to completely turn off the Internet in your country seems to be a non-negotiable capability to develop for any non-democratic state. I think a lot of them took a look at how Twitter and Facebook were used for organising during th
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by mamonster 9mo ago
From this video they look more like the Sturmabteilung....
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by mamonster 9mo ago
Yes, it got sanctioned according to the SDGT list, which means its transporting IRGC oil (or rather at least it got sanctioned for that).
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by mamonster 9mo ago
Very hard to make sense of this story. On the one hand, I've not seen any concrete evidence that suggests that this particular vessel has transported Russian oil in the past, and as the article says the flag was "painted on".
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by mamonster 9mo ago
>Poland, Taiwan and Ukraine should try to get nuclear weapons. Poland is gonna get them in 2026 in a roundabout way because I fully expect Macron to actually extend the French nuclear umbrella to the EU as he has hinted he wants to do. T
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by mamonster 9mo ago
The global impact of this is that nuclear non-proliferation is basically about to die. Iran, Ukraine, Venezuela and the complete absence of any regime change attempts in North Korea is enough evidence.

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