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by nyokodo 4y ago
> Is there enough money in high finance to support the development of sophisticated tools to rig trading markets? Yes, but a well timed economic WMD on countries heavily reliant on efficient capital markets would greatly distract them fr
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by nyokodo 4y ago
This doesn’t sound like a botnet so much as a (possibly Russian) child of Stuxnet.
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by nyokodo 5y ago
> I don't know the name for when you have to bail out and parachute to your destination while the plane continues onward. Either D.B. Coopering, or CIA Black Opsing.
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by nyokodo 5y ago
> why should we trust '60 Minutes' investigation more than the FDC, the Drug Maker, or Elong Musk? It's tough. A major flaw in the culture is the disproportionate attention given to celebrity opinions.
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by nyokodo 5y ago
> If my food isn't nutritious I either wither away or am forced to eat more food Less nutrition doesn’t mean no nutrition. The vegetables are still plenty nutritious.
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by nyokodo 5y ago
> Why are fertilizer prices rising? Supply chain issues, logistics problems, and high demand lead to rising prices which lead the largest exporter of phosphate fertilizer, China, to halt exports to protect domestic supply. Russia is the
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by nyokodo 5y ago
If oil workers are essentially contractors in unpleasant environments then they should be paid appropriately, i.e. so highly that they can cover the off years with the good years, pay for their own insurance, and foster other lines of busin
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by nyokodo 5y ago
> Morocco isn't Russia, but handing your life support to a distant and culturally different country… seems daft. Perhaps, but making yourself a vital part of keeping the lights on for a country with a brutal colonial history within
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by nyokodo 5y ago
> Putin is unstable, and him losing power would make him fight like hell If Putin can single-handedly cause the rockets to launch then your fear is possibly rational. However, if there are any other people in the loop at all then Putin i
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by nyokodo 5y ago
> hey will start to turn on Putin Sanctions usually don't lead to the population turning on the regime, after all it tends to make the population more dependent on the regime, but sanctions do frustrate the regime's ability to
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by nyokodo 5y ago
> decide to take the world with them? Russia always threatens the nuclear option so while it shouldn't be ignored by defense agencies it also shouldn't be taken __too__ seriously. In order for the nuclear option to be used over
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by nyokodo 5y ago
> it's like when the UK announced Brexit. The UK didn’t get kicked out of the global financial system. The comparison is like comparing a shooting star with an asteroid impact.
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by nyokodo 5y ago
> I live 12h drive from the border of Ukraine. The closer you live to Russia the more this conflict matters. The more your country relies on the globalized economy the more this matters. This war is a big wake-up call to Europe, and many
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by nyokodo 5y ago
> there are proxy operators in the theatre. Maybe, however, it’s more likely that Russia’s military is less competently run than previously thought. I wouldn’t be surprised if intel was being shared with Ukraine and weapons definitely ar
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by nyokodo 5y ago
> I don’t understand how his mind works. Russia has terminal demographics. Russia’s borders as they are today are impossible to defend let alone with a soon to be rapidly shrinking military. If they don’t take regions they can defend far
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by nyokodo 5y ago
> In fact if NATO had moved in about 50 to 100K troops at the invitation of Ukraine sometime over the past 3 months, Meanwhile Russia being right on the border quickly invades Ukraine before the NATO troops can arrive and now we have NAT
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by nyokodo 5y ago
> why it’s okay for the US to do business with Putin but not for the EU. I was attempting to answer why the US imports Russian oil at all given we have production capacity to meet our needs. The wisdom and morality of doing business with
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by nyokodo 5y ago
The US is technically energy independent thanks to shale oil but, unless my knowledge is out of date, the shale business is only dabbled in by the big oil companies that own the vast majority of the big refineries in the US. Shale oil is do
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by nyokodo 5y ago
> people defending yelling at people. The probability is unusually high that they personally yell at people in collaborative meetings.
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by nyokodo 5y ago
> reconnect with old friends When I’m shown an anthropomorphized dog puppet thrown away, dropped haphazardly from a truck, put into a trash compactor, and then treated like a mannequin I’m not being primed to think “reconnect” with anyon
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by nyokodo 5y ago
> in a limited fashion. With the proviso that everything human is subject to limitation, I don’t accept the same degree of determinism that you appear to accept. An only marginally curtailed tribalism doesn’t resemble English Common Law,
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by nyokodo 5y ago
> unprincipled, easily-duped, low-information voters The Iraq war was authorized by Congress including most of the Democrats and The NY Times and other left media backed the war, at least at first. It’s sad to say that it was a bipartisa
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by nyokodo 5y ago
> We hold to tribes first, not beliefs. By default yes, but we broadly overcome the default in many aspects of life so we should be collectively beating back political tribalism as much as possible. We’re not slaves to our basest instinc
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by nyokodo 5y ago
> They're just being expelled from their government position for a specific reason. Granted the story is about a political employee being fired but it's in the context of people's fundamental freedoms being taken away with
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by nyokodo 5y ago
> Either it's legal, or it isn't In justice there is enormous scope for discretion and mercy. That used to be a value common on the left, no longer.
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by nyokodo 5y ago
> break Canadian law Tiananmen Square protesters broke Chinese law but China violated their human rights. China was in the wrong regardless of how much popular support they manufactured.
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by nyokodo 5y ago
> ROI is not a relevant concept for education investment If there is no return or even return sought then it can’t be called an investment. It’s just spending on part-time prison for kids.
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by nyokodo 5y ago
> entire elections were decided at times by the votes of 5K - 10K people. Except for Epsom, Tauranga, and Coromandel which have continued their outsized influence most elections since.
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by nyokodo 5y ago
> Calling the current state of affairs "the nuclear option" is disingenuous at best. Could be, but to extend the metaphor giving yourself the political option to call in the military is certainly taking the safety off the big r
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by nyokodo 5y ago
> if you need permission to protest at all. This isn't about protesting "at all" it's about protesting in a way that stings the government. You can protest in a legal way but then you're dismissed. The Truckers a

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