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by pakitan 4y ago
So, if I had posted this myself as a random HN comment, it would be fine but a random Facebook comment should somehow be held to a higher standard?
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by pakitan 4y ago
Judging by the trustpilot review solicitation, the business model could be "start free, amass trustpilot reviews and backlinks for SEO purposes, rank near the top of google searches, start charging for the service".
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by pakitan 4y ago
> I know bad situations happen, but these articles spin it into a nightmare that just doesn't make sense. If it was FUD, Tesla's PR department would be quick to point it out. Instead they are reaching out to customer for &quot
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by pakitan 4y ago
I'm not intimately familiar with Ghana's economy. I was just pointing out that this is a trade balance problem not a "we can't get our hands on USD" problem. Maybe they haven't exported gold before and now, by
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by pakitan 4y ago
> Necessity will force countries to find USD alternatives. You're misunderstanding the fundamental problem. It's not about a "shortage" of USD for Ghana, where they ran out of USD suppliers and no one is willing to se
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by pakitan 4y ago
They are. The highest 16% is offered for the Polkadot shitcoin. Without even touching Nexo, you can get 12% just by regular Polkadot staking. To get the 16% that Nexo offers, you need to have 10% of your portfolio in Nexo's own shitcoi
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by pakitan 4y ago
He's also being purposefully obtuse about his 2 largest regrets - the "poorly labeled" account and underestimating the size of the withdrawals. He's still behaving as if having billions of liabilities in real money backe
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by pakitan 4y ago
Wind power is responsible for something like 5% of generated electricity in the world. If we scale it 1000x, to reach the cat level, we'll have enough electricity to power 50 Earths :)
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by pakitan 4y ago
And that paper looks extremely fishy. You can see they tested with 10m/s and 15m/s. I definitely wouldn't want to live at place with average speeds like that. Then you need the wind to blow at a very specific angle of 10-15
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by pakitan 4y ago
It does require legal change but not the one you're implying. I love how the conversation moved from the initial outrage of "they're scanning my private images!" to "ok, they are scanning my images but I need to hav
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by pakitan 4y ago
> Also I fear this is really changing society. Many years ago, as you got older you got into a better place in life because you had saved up and bought all the stuff you need and slowly aqquired good equipment and everything you need. Yo
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by pakitan 4y ago
He said "dealer". The dealer must be working with the official VW hardware/software, not some knock-off Chinese cable.
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by pakitan 4y ago
Not sure what would you like me to elaborate on. I'm just saying that there was widely held stupid belief that it's not possible for BTC to fall below $20K. Hence the "interestingness" of this level.
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by pakitan 4y ago
This particular level ($20K) is actually very interesting. Because it's the top from the previous bull run. And cryptobro TAs everywhere were parroting incessantly the mantra "Bitcoin never falls below the top from the previous
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by pakitan 4y ago
> His contention is that it doesn't so restricting money supply isn't a solution. Restricting money supply may not be the solution. I don't think the author claims that restricting money supply can't be a part of th
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by pakitan 5y ago
That's incorrect. Only companies who receive foreign currency are forced to convert 80% of that to RUB.
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by pakitan 5y ago
> Game theory says “on three JUMP HIM!” Yes, sure. But what you're betting on here is that when Sweden says "on three JUMP HIM!", the rest will follow. And when you have multiple countries now refusing to take Russia out o
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by pakitan 5y ago
Did I say that the only reason to get invaded by the Russians is wanting to join NATO?
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by pakitan 5y ago
> defensive alliance Yeah, right. Remind me please who was NATO defending against during the military operation in Libya? Iraq? Regarding the rest of your arguments, whether you want to support joining NATO is your own business. I'm
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by pakitan 5y ago
Maybe you should reconsider your logic? Ukraine wasn't attacked because it's a NATO member, it was attacked because (among other things) it wanted to become NATO member. There isn't a process where you just submit your wish
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by pakitan 5y ago
You mean so far you've lived a peaceful life and were skeptical of joining NATO but now that you've seen what Russia did to Ukraine, you're tempted to share their fate?
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by pakitan 5y ago
This is the company from the article: https://www.neurorestore.swiss/join-our-programs
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by pakitan 5y ago
> His point is that ALL actual work is also *dominated* by system behaviour If that's his point, it seems obviously wrong. Some work, like in the experiment is dominated by system behavior. For others, system would play a much small
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by pakitan 5y ago
I think I get it now. The point of the experiment is to ELI5 the concept of variance to management types who skipped statistics classes :) Could be useful for some bosses I had :)
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by pakitan 5y ago
I don't get it. This "experiment" could have been replicated by a simple computer simulation, given that worker output is entirely random. The supposed moral of the story is that system design defines outcome, not individual
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by pakitan 5y ago
I'd be more cynical and suspect this is some kind of elaborate SEO strategy. Submit the site to social networks -> wait till gets some love from the Google algorithm -> put ads on it -> profit.
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by pakitan 5y ago
I'm not an economist but the examples with tobacco and premier league wages struck me too as extremely bad. Supply/demand curves are an abstraction and for that abstraction to be remotely useful, you need to assume all else is bei
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by pakitan 5y ago
Well, great then, they just need to apply the same strategy for their shareholders!
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by pakitan 5y ago
That's like MSFT issuing MicrosoftDollars to pay their dividents.
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by pakitan 5y ago
> It’s pretty easy to understand when you realize Americans don’t like eachother. As a general rule, people don't like each other. In places where people live close to one another it's not because they like it but out of some k

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