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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
There is a small seeming exception in regions where housing prices are rising rapidly: if the owner is willing to forgo increasing rent at the rate of housing price increases (which is pretty common among smalltime landlords), then renting
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
I've seen papers where CRISPR was used to modify mouse embryos so the mice grow up to express certain proteins in certain organs (the proteins were useful for modeling disease). The differences between this and human modification are p
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
> The "please restart" page only appears when opening a new tab (so the disruption is minimal). I usually open a new tab when I want to do something in that new tab, which makes the disruption very annoying. (As far as I reme
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
Only if they livestream. Most conflict reporting is delayed anyway due to OpSec, and most OSINT has a delay for image analysis before publication.
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
That will only let you know when the plane is overhead, and costs 30 USD more than Twitter.
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
I don't connect to Twitter, but I thought that LibsOfTikTok posted evidence in the form of screenshots and recordings of what hospital representatives had said over the phone. Someone even found a paper where authors affiliated with Bo
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
What is the focal distance of solar gravitational lensing?
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
Completely ignoring the brokenness that is HOAs, it makes logical sense to have hyper-local taxes for infrastructure in places which vary in population density: dense neighborhoods will have lower per capita infrastructure maintainance cost
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
They both make money by selling ad space and attracting eyeballs to that space, but the audience of Coindesk is going to be much more interested in the financial details, whereas the more general audience of CNBC is going to be less interes
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
FWIW, most of the presige media (NYTimes, WaPo, WSJ) have been running puff pieces which parrot SBF's claims of ignorance without much if any fact checking or investigation.
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
Do you have any pointers to how to do this? I have a dual-boot Win7 machine I would like to have run Windows as a VM in Linux, to keep the proprietary executables I need for work running with a smaller security footprint.
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
> The term normally used is 'manhwa'. I don't know about English usage, but in Korean these are different concepts. "Manhwa" (만화, maan-hwaa) means "comics", usually in print. The Korean word for an onli
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
This. When I lived in Europe I was getting 60+ minutes of walking every day just between work and home and lunch and work. In Korea, I get 40+ minutes to and from subway stations. Family in the US will tell me they went for a really good 30
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
If stars were really for bookmarking, the solution would be simple: don't display total stars publicly. But we have browser bookmarks for this, and there is a way to subscribe to repo updates which is much more granular than a star. Ta
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
For some reason Firefox has horrendous issues on older devices. On my Win7 company-issued laptop a fresh window from a fresh FF install grabs 3.2 out of 4GB of RAM. On my phone (2GB RAM) it gets into a crash loop where trying to type into t
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
> you're happy Elon bought Twitter. OT, but I'll say that. The implication of Elon's control of Twitter being bad for democracy is that whoever had control of Twitter before Elon also manipulated our democracy.
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
Look into the elections for the Doge of Venice: (via https://www.rangevoting.org/VenHist.html ) > Thus the process for electing the Doge, as of 1268 (when it was employed for the election of Lorenzo Tiepolo), had reached
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
In that proposal, it seems like all the risk of the loan is carried by the bank with none of the profit. How would such a bank be profitable? What happens if the loan is not paid back?
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
I'm a bit confused here. I understand that depositing money creates a liability for the bank in the sense that money (and interest thereupon) may be withdrawn at any point... but until the depositor withdraws, isn't the actual cas
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
You are splitting hairs where it doesn't matter. More alarmingly, by your reasoning the bank is not lending out cash either, so there is no value in considering 'cashflow' at all. But in practice when people say they 'pa
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
I don't know about this specifically, but my guess is that when loans are cheap it is much easier to perform a leveraged buyout: taking out a loan on the assets of the company being acquired.
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
> there are some people so opposed to a government ID that they don't register their births or get social security numbers How do these people pay taxes?
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
A fundamental limitation of RLAs is that they don't follow the ballot chain of custody, only the counting procedure. So if you have an old-fashioned political machine with dead people voting or people in nursing homes being scammed out
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
There were a bunch of 'incidents'. https://www.piratewires.com/p/birdwatch?utm_source=post-emai... > All we know for sure is last week there were notable embarrassing contextualizations of right-wing propa
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
Energy of a wave is proportional to the square of amplitude, so I guess they took the square of the doubled amplitude in dB.
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
Birdwatch is designed to add context with which both extremes agree. The quoted watches are reasoned, and cite sources. Actually more informative than 99% of Twitter. The change seems to be that it has now rolled out on all accounts rather
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
The US is the world reserve currency, so in uncertain times investors in foreign countries buy dollars. This is the only reason why the US is not currently seeing inflation rates of 20 or 30% per year. The rest of the world is not uniformly
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
> especially since most of them have no competitors anyway due to consolidation. This is the core explanation for the observed price increases being of the same magnitude as increases in corporate profits.
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
> Did you really read the article? Please don't do this. It's against the rules, doesn't contribute any new insight, and the answer is plain from the conversation: they did. (Divorce stats being included into new metrics o
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
Local government officials in China are promoted / demoted based on local GDP growth. This incentivizes them to increase local industry and also to fluff up estimates of local industrial output. Repeat across the entire country for 20

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