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by nyolfen 5y ago
how does argentina fit into this equation
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by nyolfen 5y ago
it's a pleasant social activity when you're young; you have a ritual you perform together and share informal bonding time. smoking also gives a physical sense of relief once you're addicted to it and it gives you something to
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by nyolfen 5y ago
trust emerges in situations with iterated interaction; defecting is most effective in anonymous or discrete situations, since there is less opportunity for punishment. america has urbanized rapidly in the last half century, at the same time
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by nyolfen 5y ago
benzene is not one of those
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by nyolfen 5y ago
“whataboutism” is a thought-terminating cliche — it’s a directly analogous situation that shows that there are no principles or rule-based order, only power. you have the power to get away with doing this, or you don’t; lofty rhetoric is a
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by nyolfen 5y ago
chia is already up to an exabyte; not quite the same thing but i think it shows the limits of possibility
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by nyolfen 5y ago
i am guessing that the israelis approach governments or corporations with the request to reduce the quality of imagery of israeli territory in order to hinder hamas' OSINT efforts, and include the caveat that gaza etc be blurred out as
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by nyolfen 5y ago
decentralization a la libgen
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by nyolfen 5y ago
he left out the most damning part: > “At least 11 gain-of-function experiments, adding a furin site to make a virus more infective, are published in the open literature, including [by] Dr. Zhengli Shi, head of coronavirus research at the
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by nyolfen 5y ago
products subject to direct market forces are incentivized by this as well. you don't pay for crack with popups.
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by nyolfen 5y ago
“pronouncible gps coordinates” is a great idea, but hardly seems like the kind of thing you can claim to own, barring specific implementation
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by nyolfen 5y ago
which natural resources were we getting out of afghanistan
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by nyolfen 6y ago
our sanctions do not prevent civilians from importing food, that is a function of worthless money
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by nyolfen 6y ago
perhaps you should take a look at the link; there is even a nice meta analysis https://hcqmeta.com/
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by nyolfen 6y ago
it turns out hcq is actually quite effective, shame it got culture-war'd: https://c19hcq.com/
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by nyolfen 6y ago
kind of hard to import goods or even leave the country when you are paid in toilet paper
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by nyolfen 6y ago
being able to save money is a basic affordance that many in despotic monetary regimes are deprived of -- this extends far beyond venezuela, which is just a dramatic example. defecting from a debased currency to discipline abusive central ba
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by nyolfen 6y ago
how about this: https://i.imgur.com/lSfdTfK.jpg
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by nyolfen 6y ago
charging 30k for a motorcycle didn't help
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by nyolfen 6y ago
your comment only makes sense if it's interpreted as describing a world where bitcoin conquers the world and there is no other kind of money > Only because we _currently_ lack trust? If so, shouldn't we focus on that instead?
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by nyolfen 6y ago
His department presumably allowed this to proceed
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by nyolfen 6y ago
the nyt posted a really excellent media-essay about durer a few months ago, highly recommended: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/25/arts/durer-se... (it also actually includes art by him)
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by nyolfen 6y ago
the first link shows that the documents he leaked had details about spying on chinese networks; the third link says he initially intended to try to fight extradition in hk. what neither of them say, and what you are accusing him of, is that
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by nyolfen 6y ago
snowden's passport was revoked while he was in the air, before he landed in russia > He initially flew to Hong Kong and tried to gain asylum there by sharing details of Chinese network targets. this accusation is unsubstantiated in
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by nyolfen 6y ago
i would suggest that german telecoms not contract their mobile network deployment and management to nsa, then
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by nyolfen 6y ago
> I don't understand why a community would go down that route when solutions like zero-knowledge proofs already exist and have a better track record you don't understand why a community at a nash equilibrium wouldn't jump
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by nyolfen 6y ago
this argument is more than a little patronizing when the alternative is this: https://i.imgur.com/lSfdTfK.jpeg
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by nyolfen 6y ago
> It turns out that having a fixed number of coins that fluctuate wildly in price is very bad for building a currency, but we have people on here arguing that it's a good thing. sorry, is that just because you say so? the success of
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by nyolfen 6y ago
this is one of the best use cases for crypto -- as a popular disciplining measure against governments that devalue their currency. see venezuela, nigeria, argentina... my sympathies are solely with the ordinary people who would otherwise wa
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by nyolfen 6y ago
> Or, it was a good first try that needs iteration now that we understand that hyper-deflation is a bad thing for a currency in what sense is bitcoin "hyper-deflation"ary? i think you are thinking of the word "deflation&qu

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