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by nootropicat 4y ago
That's not the problem, that's the reason almost all medical development happens in America. Rich people from all around the world travel to American hospitals if they have serious health problems, not to public hospitals even in
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by nootropicat 4y ago
That article manages to contradict itself. In one place they state "In reality, neither are reserves a binding constraint on lending," and in another "But whether through deposits or other liabilities, the bank would need to
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by nootropicat 4y ago
Well, Erdogan agrees with you and results are clear. The argument is wrong, mostly because even if deposit and borrow rates were equal (they aren't), central bank offers and charges it on MB, but borrow rate is in the end charged on al
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by nootropicat 4y ago
>You do not know your gender, race, wealth, or facts about your personal strengths and weaknesses, such as their intelligence or physical prowess. Rawls thought these facts are morally arbitrary: individuals do not earn or deserve these
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by nootropicat 4y ago
>Are there limits to the growth on a finite planet? Yes, but we are 4 orders of magnitude away from them. Adding the potential for space industry, this grows to 13 orders of magnitude. That's ~1000 years of 3% annual growth assuming
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by nootropicat 4y ago
It's not exactly new? There were several general betting market in crypto, but they never got much popularity. https://augur.net/ https://polymarket.com/
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by nootropicat 4y ago
Right now it appears unreliable, but once it's eventually proven to be nearly perfect, it should be compulsory with penalties for child cruelty if not followed. Birthing a child with genetic defects that would be detectable by common m
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by nootropicat 4y ago
I recommend Chinese Milight led panels, there's a 2000 LM variant, very bright, cheap but high quality. They have full RGB + white temperature + dimming, I found the RGB part a pointless gimmick but dimming is invaluable.
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by nootropicat 4y ago
This is completely outside the competency of the current porn industry. You gave an example of a still image, but it's going to end up with an AI generating a full video according to a detailed text prompt. The porn industry is going t
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by nootropicat 4y ago
>Return is directly correlated to risk This is at least a weak EMH assumption. It's not a law. In crypto sometimes the opposite is true for short to medium periods of time because uninformed people are afraid of 'too high'
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by nootropicat 4y ago
Tether fud in 2022 is truly embarassing and slanderous. The only time they had real problems was when part of their money was stolen and confiscated with connection to Crypto Capital - which only happened because they were refused normal ba
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by nootropicat 4y ago
Again, the fraud requirement is literally impossible - it's a category error - an algorithm can't commit fraud. It was conflated in the past because without smart contracts ponzi schemes were necessarily executed by people. >Un
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by nootropicat 4y ago
>If you were doing this though (using funds to mint other tokens to sell), the principle was clearly not in USD It was often in usd. >"It's 'completely safe', until it's not" which is exactly the point th
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by nootropicat 4y ago
Generated tokens were different than what you had to deposit to get them. Deposited funds were (almost always) completely safe.
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by nootropicat 4y ago
Nobody paid that in borrowing, that APR was generated by minting new tokens that could be sold to someone else.
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by nootropicat 4y ago
Fraud logically can't be part of the mechanism of a ponzi scheme itself. A ponzi scheme is any financial scheme where old investors are paid exclusively by new investors, and without new investments the system doesn't generate any
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by nootropicat 4y ago
UST wasn't a stablecoin, it was a ponzi scheme along with Luna. The invention here is obfuscation - move the exponential ponzi growth part into a separate token. In a very straightforward ponzi $2M coming after $1M would allow initial
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by nootropicat 4y ago
No, perfectly safe three digit APR yield was the norm for months, and high double digit - for about 1.5 years. Checking the contracts was easy, as usually they were copied from other projects and thus known. Often capital was locked doing n
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by nootropicat 4y ago
I think investors probably didn't know. High safe defi yield existed for most of 2020 and 2021 - during that time it would be legit. It's possible that's how it happened - first plan based on safe yield that disappeared (exac
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by nootropicat 4y ago
The whole idea was to become a middleman to a ponzi scheme and charge a performance fee. They described what they are doing in their documentation, but the core ethical problem here is that the only users that would use their service are th
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by nootropicat 4y ago
I think hype is way ahead of reality. I'm not aware of any experiments that reliably extended the lifespan of healthy mice (ie. not one intentionally modified to have some specific illness). I will believe it's actually starting t
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by nootropicat 4y ago
>you can't realistically expect to be able to treat yourself if you don't spend a good year or two researching your specific health issues. There's a big difference between trying to learn everything and about some specifi
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by nootropicat 4y ago
Yes, I have seen something similar happen too - a temporary illnes that most likely didn't need any drugs, prescription for drugs that caused side effects, but then another drug for those side effects and the situation repeated 5 times
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by nootropicat 4y ago
Given that you know the outcome: a supposed second strongest military is losing in a war everybody expected them to dominate in a week, explanations like that are the most plausible ones. Hard to believe outcomes have hard to believe causes
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by nootropicat 4y ago
There would be less congestion on that day, but the total fee amount would be roughly the same.
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by nootropicat 4y ago
A more optimal contract would just mean it would happen faster, with a higher gas price while the sale is ongoing. I think this was also intentional - as a way to make the congestion last longer.
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by nootropicat 4y ago
Fees rising isn't the same as 'breaking'. Also this was clearly intentional marketing to promote their chain. Fees would get that high on every single blockchain because the mint price was below the empirical market price, le
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by nootropicat 5y ago
That's because it's a combination of envy and the fact it's mostly a ponzi. Many people got into 8 or 9 figures from ~zero by being active into crypto, they are overwhelmingly below 40 years old. Basically everyone in tech
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by nootropicat 5y ago
Once the question turns into star systems instead of asteroids, the answer is: lift hydrogen out of stars and transmute it into lithium as needed. Resources are heterogeneous only for civilizations significantly below level of 2 on the Kard
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by nootropicat 5y ago
I think slashdot is simply too old and younger millennials+zoomers went elsewhere. I remember reading it as a teenager for news, but felt completely disconnected from the community and never even created an account. Jokes about Micro$oft fr

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