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by option_greek 5y ago
> leech the society for the rest of their lives Would these houses even be built if someone is not paying for them. They are not leeching but investing. May be we could call it leeching when they form a cartel and start raising rent pric
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by option_greek 5y ago
The USD vs other currencies cannot be compared to USD vs commodities which paint a more transparent picture because no one wants their own currency to be stronger than USD due to export competitiveness getting effected. So whenever USD goes
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It's Official. The Inflation Numbers Are a Hot Sticky Mess(bloomberg.com)
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by option_greek 5y ago
Not even as difficult as that. As the prices rise with a regular periodicity, people stock up more goods with expectation that in future their money will buy them less. Which causes more price increases and corresponding increase in stockin
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by option_greek 5y ago
The money fed prints doesn't stay in USA. It floods the entire globe trying to find the maximum return it can. That is the reason all stock markets everywhere are at record highs and commodities are continuing to push upward. As more e
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by option_greek 5y ago
Oops. I think its worse than NSFW. It seem to fetch some pics of questionable age :(
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by option_greek 5y ago
I did a few quick searches on differing topics and I must say the relevancy is almost on par with Google. DDG doesn't even come close: especially for typeahead suggestions. Only weird thing is that it doesn't feel fast - may be du
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by option_greek 5y ago
Might as well read the link I posted. The drought's effects were enhanced because of exporting of grain to Europe and forced switch to cash crops like Cotton in the years before.
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by option_greek 5y ago
It doesn't directly go from fed to toilet paper. It starts with fed, inflates assets like real estate, stocks, commodities and leaks into actual economy due to the expected returns on these assets. For example, rents, prices of hardwar
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by option_greek 5y ago
Yes not bad at all: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_of_1876%E2%80%931...
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by option_greek 5y ago
I understand the sentiment. But problem is every new generation thinks they are the only revolutionaries to have suddenly discovered activism. For previous to previous generation it was about stopping wars and killing nuclear power. For the
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by option_greek 5y ago
May be depending on Natural gas for everything in the name of climate change fighting isn't such a good goal. Now not only is coal not fully out, nuclear is dead/dying and solar, wind unreliable or unplanned for interms of integra
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by option_greek 5y ago
I was one of their users and compared to their competition, their offering was awful in the places that really mattered: Storing and Restoring of backup data Let's say you had your old laptop backed up and upgraded your hardware&#x2F
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by option_greek 5y ago
If I could pin your comment on all threads related to Firefox, I would. All this whining is what will finally do Firefox in.
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by option_greek 5y ago
That's the shortsightedness part of it. They should have tried to get them license compliant and may be even negotiated with them to keep it compatible with Mastodon network. It would have not only helped both parties but also introduc
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by option_greek 5y ago
Guess the contenders for BeEvil list keeps growing. 6 year olds? What's next babies raised in Meta day cares? Why the Zuck are these companies not punished.
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by option_greek 5y ago
I don't mind my laptop not screaming obscenities at me every time I do a cargo build/run. The local changes will have to be synced frequently enough for this to work. May be have the remote compiler named "cargor" and le
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by option_greek 5y ago
The world is filled with nuclear energy. We are literally bathing in the results of a continuously running nuclear reaction if you think about it.
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by option_greek 5y ago
Why not take advantage of the dollar being the global reserve currency and just keep increasing the debt? Its not like the debt is in some other currency. Its in the same currency so all that the debtors want is more of the same. Any good a
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by option_greek 5y ago
I totally agree. You are probably referring to the ads that can't be turned off or the very friendly Cortana that haunts every system like a ghost that no one invited nor needed. Or may be the unguessable updates that are almost always
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by option_greek 5y ago
For each rust submission, there shall be a comment at top lamenting the gradual rusting of hackernews.
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by option_greek 5y ago
Surprising that Volkswagen and Boeing can be under scrutiny and pay massive fines but this EvilCorp gets a pass at everything.
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by option_greek 5y ago
Adding "using library X or language Y" helps in discovering the content during future searches. It also drives people to checkout the code to see if some parts are reusable. There is nothing wrong with mentioning the language and
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by option_greek 5y ago
Interesting points. Many eastern philosophies assert that the experiences are purely at the level of mind. As per them, so long as the mind can segregate experiences as desirable and undesirable, it will continue to crave the desirable ones
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by option_greek 5y ago
As per the serology report that comes out once in a while that uses random sampling, most cities/towns/places have 60-70% people already having anti bodies. It is assumed that almost everyone acquired immunity due to infection at
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by option_greek 5y ago
Its to help people develop p2p applications in a stack that's popular without understanding inner workings of usual p2p technologies. Using this people can create p2p applications that much easily without needing to host them somewhere
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by option_greek 5y ago
Its more light weight and usually doesn't enforce any particular way of doing things. Regardless of warp support, I have most of the other things on your list integrated one by one (JWT/dashboards /react/diesel) but it w
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by option_greek 5y ago
Please consider giving warp as choice for the web server.
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by option_greek 5y ago
There are severe complications possible post covid for children (MIS-C) which makes this a very risky thing to do.
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by option_greek 5y ago
Not sure that bipedal motion is all that effective. Could have just put wheels instead for faster navigation and of course fly over terrain it can't navigate like its already doing.

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