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by nopriorarrests 6y ago
Well yes. USSR had plenty of different -stans included, they are independent countries now. They are getting back to middle ages since they got independance 30 years ago, thats true. But you can take stats for russia proper from soviet time
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by nopriorarrests 6y ago
Russia totally recovered by any metric you can pick, from household income to average life expectancy. Heck, moscow in 80's looked like dumpster fire. Now it looks like a proper european capital city. EDIT: to prove my point, russian
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U.S. Treasury blasts records with $3T borrowing need this quarter(reuters.com)
1 points by nopriorarrests 6y ago|0 comments
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by nopriorarrests 6y ago
Well, I think that what basically happens now? Half of the nation angry at president rhetoric, and half of the country angry at press bias. Just different halves, but being angry at many things at once is hard, mentally. But you have your w
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SoftBank to write down WeWork by $6.6B, compounding portfolio misery(mobile.reuters.com)
133 points by nopriorarrests 6y ago|70 comments
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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
OK, it's not just work from home, it's the whole lockdown hysteria. I barely left my home for last 5 weeks. No live music, no bars, no meetings with friends, no long walks. I don't know about covid, but my mental well being a
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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
Why is it double speak? Yes, I think that healthy 29 y.o. male with wife, kid and mortgage should have the ability to make a decision between going to work or losing his home. To make this decision for him looks unethical to me. And why exa
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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
>Wait, are you talking about the people who want to send everyone back to work now This is an argument made in a bad faith. You can't send "everyone to work now", if you are not running a gulag. People who are financially
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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
>it should be pretty obvious that doing no or late lockdown ends up in situations where there are large numbers of deaths. Even this is debatable. I have no skin in this game and no strong opinion, but let's be honest -- lots of peo
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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
>situation where most medical experts would agree that the quarantine is necessary for saving lives The same experts (like WHO) told everyone 3 month ago that masks don't work, that no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission w
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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
If some machine takes your money and produces 98% war and 2% science, maybe - just maybe - the only true solution to fund more science is not to put more money into said machine, but change configuration first.
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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
China begs to differ.
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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
I still do not understand the logic. Let me put it straight. 1. US Government has unlimited funding, heck, it came up with 2 trillions _during last month alone_ with some financial alchemy which I don't fully understand. But clearly it
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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
You might be right, I honestly don't know. But if this is the case, maybe first you need to reform the government (in what exact way? and how the reform should be done, politically?) and after first task is accomplished you can feed it
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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
Honest, no snark question -- what exactly US government did in last 30 years that should warrant providing more money to it? Is there any guarantee that another trillion dollars will be used more efficiently than blowing up another Middle E
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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
It is interesting to see Marc Andreessen in 2020 to quote Mencius Moldbug from 2013 almost word to word. To quote Mencius directly -- " One pathology of our age is a childlike credulity in the magical efficacy of complaint. Don’t comp
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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
Are you sure that WHO is run by reputed experts and not by career bureaucrats whose motivation is mostly political, not medical? Because after the whole thing unfolded, it seems to be exactly the case.
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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
I don't get it. It's not like all other food ordering apps a very complicated, they are quite simple in fact -- and they are still operating at loss, as a businesses, not even able to "keep the lights on", as you propose
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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
well, yes you are? This is why people measure in percentages, as opposed to absolute numbers, such as dollars of GDP.
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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
>What do you mean by "privatize the profits" here? CEO's we getting their fat bonuses (tied to share prices) for years, inflating said prices with buybacks, and now, when shit hit the fan, they are dumping half-bankrupt co
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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
>Why does the Fed create and spend 1.5T dollars to purchase worthless and arcane financial instruments, but never spend on public goods like housing, student education, public infrastructure Because Fed is not Government, plain and simpl
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Washington pushes $6T stimulus package(cbsnews.com)
1 points by nopriorarrests 7y ago|0 comments
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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
> It doesn't prevent the coming collapse of the prosperity we have enjoyed these last 100 years lots of people are tweeting that they are 3-4 weeks from disaster. that's some very special definintion of prosperity. These are nu
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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
>the virus will go away probably between 3 to 6 months It took 3 weeks to fuck up Italy in a royal way, so "3 to 6 month" does not instill confidence, tbh
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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
>I don't think FB or Apple can win a bidding war with state actors, and especially not a wealthy monarch. Depends on your personal risk profile, I guess. If I was a highly professional security researcher (one can dream!), the one c
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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
Actually, this is my second question. How much money FB/AAPL are ready to pay for a security researcher who can find 0 day in their software to work full-time for them? Is Nefarius Inc. really competitive with them, salary-wise? I just
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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
Honest question. Given that RCE's are extremely rare, can't FB and AAPL announce 100M USD bounty to get them first and patch them, avoiding bad PR and brand impact? Damn, make it 200M?! Or bad actors can easily pay 5x more to expl
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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
first paragraph: The Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos had his mobile phone “hacked” in 2018 after receiving a WhatsApp message that had apparently been sent from the personal account of the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, sources have told the G
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Google Chrome Will Phase Out Third-Party Cookies by 2022(adweek.com)
1 points by nopriorarrests 7y ago|0 comments
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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
>there are a ton of dangerous or complex jobs that can be simplified and made safer with this technology. Honestly, this is a good point. However, just to play a devils advocate, for emergency situations you don't need a real-time b

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