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by q1w2 5y ago
I don't understand the point of this comment. I'm not making any judgements in my comment above, I'm merely stating my perception.
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by q1w2 5y ago
Right, but it's important to distinguish excess deaths caused by covid and covid hostpital impacts vs excess deaths caused by lockdown behavioral changes. Lockdowns and mandates are something a region can instrument independently, and
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by q1w2 5y ago
This assumes the use-case is small credit-card like transactions. The real (unspoken) use-case of bitcoin is large-scale international money laundering.
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by q1w2 5y ago
No, because it does not alter the supply. The algorithm in the blockchain software forces a certain rate of coins minted, regardless of the number of miners. It will just make remaining miners more profitable. It will though reduce the s
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by q1w2 5y ago
The planets around Alpha Centauri orbit a red dwarf. They are almost certainly tidally locked and lack any atmosphere. The more distant ones that might not be tidally locked are likely frozen like Pluto. ...but who knows.
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by q1w2 5y ago
This will only work for a handful of very nearby exoplanets, unfortunately.
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by q1w2 5y ago
If any of this exists, then they're doing a terrible job. There is far more anti-American propaganda online than anything American-made.
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by q1w2 5y ago
The advantage of democracy is that it usually obviates the need violent political civil wars as the people are able to express their will as to who is the leader. This is an inherent disadvantage of dictatorships, as political factions can
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by q1w2 5y ago
It's odd that it never asks for pedestrians.
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by q1w2 5y ago
When global gas prices rose this year, a black market emerged in Kazakhstan to smuggle out gov't subsidized gas to neighboring Kyrgystan and China (sold at triple the price). As the price of global gas went up, this black market becam
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by q1w2 5y ago
In Kazakhstan, gov't subsidized gas was being smuggled from Almaty to neighboring China and Kyrgystan in order to sell at market prices - triple the amount. This caused a massive black market to emerge, so Kazakhstan raised prices clos
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by q1w2 5y ago
This comment lacks nuance and is brim with sarcasm. Understanding geopolitics is an exercise nuance. Kazakhstan has to deal with huge and strong foreign adversaries, and has no strong alliances, yet must protect distant cities which all bo
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by q1w2 5y ago
...and thus it was... https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/troops-protesters...
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by q1w2 5y ago
I wonder if there's a political version of HN that with actual experts in geopolitical analysis. Social media is just everyone pushing their own agenda and guessing without providing any evidence or meaningful analysis, and when it com
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by q1w2 5y ago
This is very much untrue. The US began getting involved Ukraine the moment Russia began sowing discontent and violence in Ukraine - as early as 2012. https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/08/politics/us-ukraine-se
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by q1w2 5y ago
...and with that €400, you will likely buy heat, at least partially, supplied by Russia.
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by q1w2 5y ago
It's pretty telling that several western leaning nations/political groups in Asia have been defeated by non-Western adversaries. We've now seen this in Armenia, Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and now Kazakhstan. I think the
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by q1w2 5y ago
Again - we are judging him on an email he sent. ...yet that email is nowhere. All we have is the media's impressions of an email they have not released. Your links ALSO do not disclose the original email this is all about. I'm n
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by q1w2 5y ago
Something like the Taliban in Afghanistan.
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by q1w2 5y ago
Numerous Russian politicians have recently said that the Soviets gave Kazakhstan too much land, and that the northern portion of the country which holds the 25% ethnic Russian population, should return to Russia. This seems like a possible
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by q1w2 5y ago
The most likely government to be installed will be an islamic state, so I would not be very hopeful. Also, Russia might intervene militarily and annex the norther half of the country - as they have recently made comments that the Soviets ga
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by q1w2 5y ago
Nazarbayev is 81 years old. It doesn't seem likely he'll emerge as the new ruler, even with Russian backing. ...but he might lend legitimacy to any new leader the Russians try to muscle in.
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by q1w2 5y ago
I think it is a bit naive to think this is a grass roots "protest". This might be a knock-on effect after the US withdrawal from Afghanistan. Nazarbayev was a Soviet man, so it's possible this is a western intervention. It
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by q1w2 5y ago
What does nextdoor have to do with this? Are you just posting random urls?
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by q1w2 5y ago
It is entirely possible that the article was commissioned by the competition. This sort of thing is cheap and done all the time.
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by q1w2 5y ago
This is modern outrage journalism in a nutshell.
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by q1w2 5y ago
"People" in each line are different groups of people. ...but the underlying lesson is correct - you cannot just listen to the loudest group. You have to enact policies that are based on an educated understanding of economics.
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by q1w2 5y ago
I do not see it anywhere on that site. Perhaps the search doesn't work. Can you link it directly?
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by q1w2 5y ago
I'm not going to join on the outrage/mental illness bandwagon based on the media's interpretation of an email they are not releasing. I'm guessing that the email is indeed anti-semitic, and I'm guessing that the med
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by q1w2 5y ago
Does anyone have a link to the original email. I hate reading articles that just take snippets and add their outrage commentary.

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