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by permo-w 2y ago
it doesn't invalidate anything; my original point was that Musk has this much money, meaning that he's just moving money around, meaning that this pretentious analogy is not actually making any kind of insightful point whatsoever.
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by permo-w 2y ago
changes nothing
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by permo-w 2y ago
right but you don't have $1T to do that, whereas clearly he has however much money he's paid for it. it's a weird thing to do, but if he has the money to do it then meh?
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by permo-w 2y ago
>The next step is engineering a hydrophobic coating or other biodegradable packaging that offers an adequate level of resistance to accidental scratching for a particular application then you're back to square one. you might as well
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by permo-w 2y ago
it's not even necessarily about waste of resources. many microplastics and other complex oil-derived chemicals are quite obviously not [known to be] safe for human and other animals' health. we know pretty much for sure that most
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by permo-w 2y ago
is it a paradox? how unlikely is it that there's a plastic substance out there that can be quickly dissolved to bio-degradable substances but only using a relatively cheap and non-toxic solvent not present in most use cases for plastic
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2,200-year-old pyramid filled with coins and weapons found near Dead Sea(livescience.com)
31 points by permo-w 2y ago|10 comments
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by permo-w 2y ago
it doesn't help their argument to start off with "this is a falacy"
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by permo-w 2y ago
>can you point to an interview where he demonstrates any depth or nuance to his foreign policy decisions, that would indicate he pays attention to any of the details we’re discussing? first of all, I shouldn't have to, because what
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by permo-w 2y ago
this is wilful misunderstanding. the result of those "involved" actions is to be less involved, less close, less interlinked
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by permo-w 2y ago
it would be impossible for someone in his position not to know that. he would have to be shockingly, droolingly stupid to not know that, and I know it's fashionable to say that Trump's stupid, but he quite obviously isn't. he
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by permo-w 2y ago
yeah and what we're describing here is a disagreement in opinion, not a factual inaccuracy.
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by permo-w 2y ago
I’m not sure the word fallacy means what you think it means
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by permo-w 2y ago
of course he does but he doesn't care
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by permo-w 2y ago
the simplest way to stop climate change would be a massive transition to nuclear power, ideally fusion, but until the technology is there for fusion, fission. nuclear power, great though it is, costs money, huge amounts of money
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by permo-w 2y ago
I really don't think it's that complicated. this is just Trump's personal philosophy. he's been saying it for decades. he doesn't think the US should be so involved around the world, and he doesn't think the wo
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by permo-w 2y ago
milli- sometimes represents 1000x and sometimes represents 1/1000. I see what you're saying though
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A New Byte System(billibyte.site)
3 points by permo-w 2y ago|3 comments
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by permo-w 2y ago
first of all it's 1.5bn, second of all they're obviously not going to withdraw it all in one account, they're going to find the absolute limit you withdraw from one account without hitting serious KYC, and then do that howeve
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by permo-w 2y ago
okay, so? spending money is not the same as depositing it at the fed.
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by permo-w 2y ago
run ads, ask for donations, include genuinely premium features for a fee? anything other than restricting basic functionality.
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by permo-w 2y ago
you're just repeating a stock phrase you've heard here without any actual regard for the discussion being had
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by permo-w 2y ago
I suppose the difference is that counterfeiting currency requires very rare information, some very specialised machines and [something similar to] whatever the hell dollars are made out of. you could put a few motivated and intelligent teen
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by permo-w 2y ago
I also think there are a lot of people who are neither and just bought teslas because they're a relatively high performance exec-style car at a decent price
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by permo-w 2y ago
your guess as to what % of $1.5bn that would be?
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by permo-w 2y ago
even if you conscion the frankly risible assumption that they don't already have systems in place to do this, are you seriously trying to suggest that setting up a system to beat some KYC checks is going to put any kind of a dent into
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by permo-w 2y ago
yes, but they're not expensive if you already have them in place and you're a nation state with essentially free labour. once again, we're not talking about some random clowns who've accidentally stolen a usb stick with
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by permo-w 2y ago
>99% of Tesla's were sold to green, left-leaning buyers source
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by permo-w 2y ago
right but N Korea is not most people. hacking is one of their primary industries. they almost certainly already have systems in place for this
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by permo-w 2y ago
do we really think that an entire nation state is unable to set up the apparatus to cheat a few measly KYC checks? coin to coin exchanges do not require KYC, so hypothetically if they can beat KYC (which surely they can) they wouldn't

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