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Unfortunately you see this pattern often after a regime change, that the group that is able to seize power -- in this case, the ANC -- is not necessarily competent enough to govern. These are different skillsets. Message discipline, mobiliz
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A lightly-sourced AP story almost set off World War III(responsiblestatecraft.org)
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> Poor countries generally have much greater inequality than wealthy countries, with the result that elites in poor countries (say, top 1%, 5%, or 10% by either net worth or income) are often wealthier than elites in richer countries. Th
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> > Client money is segregated in special bank or custody accounts, which are designated for the exclusive benefit of clients of IBKR. No, originally you talked about segregation between crypto and non-crypto. I responded that there i
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> The US is officially, metric; ansi converts back for the uneducated. This is the type of flamebait we don't need.
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> But at least all the customer assets are there and segregated from the business assets and you cannot use them as the piggy bank for your business. Why would they be segregated? The priority of creditors in a bankruptcy proceeding is c
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First, you are getting this casualty reversed if you think a few thousand billionaires just drop on a poor country, raising GDP. What happens is wealthy countries give rise to wealthy elite, and poor countries have poorer elite. The billion
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How many of these nations - Had naval ships in the region at the time of the sabotage, conducting tests of remote controlled underwater exploding drones? - were previously caught with such a drone (seafox) sitting underneath the same pipeli
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It's a fascinating project and a real shame funding was cut off. The deep borehole in Mexico was also stopped due to lack of funding. Maybe they can use global warming dollars to renew these deep borehole projects around the world, as
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I heard this on the Duran podcast, which is a good source of geopolitics from a realist perspective, as they follow official readouts fairly diligently (so I don't have to). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65saUjbbNLM
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"Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, bots, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'l
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The register isn't a news site but a news aggregator. They are a bit like the IT version of Zero Hedge, where they dig up interesting factoids and then add their own short editorial, often inflammatory/sarcastic/humorous. IIR
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The idea here is that the (NATO) drone on the second pipeline had the wires cut and so failed to detonate, and Sweden recovered it and defused it. Therefore Sweden has the physical evidence and immediately shut down the investigation. The s
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> Worst case, they would restructure in chapter 11 and continue to operate retail as normal. The market need that Carvana met was reducing the hurdles of buying a used car for those people who generally don't buy used cars. The bigg
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I upvoted this story because it was interesting and fun to read, but there are a few problems with the article. 1. The author makes it seem like South Korea's credit problems are due to LegoLand announcement, rather than the global cri
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In some sense, yes the ultimate purpose of a bearer currency in the era of government controlled custodial currencies is having a currency that the government can't seize from you or put prior restraint on you spending. Thus by definit
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The error in this argument is assuming that the price of a good must equal its marginal cost. Software, for example, also has a marginal cost of zero -- it can be reproduced with the same technology as electronic text, and yet developing so
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Clearing House Electronic Subregister System https://www.commsec.com.au/support/help-centre/About-the-sha...
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Real heuristics, of course, are not arbitrary, they are the result of trial and error processes where societies and people with differing moral systems compete with each other, proving the fitness of their heuristic by surviving while less
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As this is primarily a text on point-set topology, I recommend reading this article on the Texas Topology approach, which was taught to me when I was in undergrad https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii&#
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That's interesting -- can you point me to a more up to date source where Reich reverses himself or significantly updates his views?
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But if you ever try to put any consequentialist theories into practice, at root there will just be a set of deontological heuristics guiding your behavior. Consequentialism is just deontology in drag.
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Yes, it really strengthens the case of those who claim it's all correlation functions: Question: Who runs silicon valley? Answer: Steve Jobs Question: How can Steve Jobs run Silicon Valley if he is dead? Answer: Steve Jobs was the foun
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I wish someone would lay out the case -- or point me to a document that lays out the case -- of why it's a national security threat. The only arguments in the reuters piece is: * control devices -- if TikTok can take over devices, that
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India/Brazil/Mexico trade with Russia for some goods and with the US for others. That's what makes them non-aligned -- they do business with both sides. By the way, this is like 2/3 of the global population, so you don&#
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British Military Intelligence is a credible source in the same way the Ukraine MOD is a credible source - they are participants in the conflict and have a propaganda mission to fulfill. In that case, you must believe that Russia was shelli
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There are no credible reports of S-300 being used to target any land system. The S-300 would be a very poor missile to use this way, and it would make no sense to waste it blowing up unimportant targets, when Russia is still sending large w
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This is a great project! But I would caution against being quick to interpret these numbers until you actually accumulated many years of data and are able to compare it to other macro economic variables such as the unemployment rate or chan
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Correct, the S-300 is a sophisticated missile designed to intercept highly maneuverable airplanes that have a number of defenses. The idea that you would shoot such an expensive missile at a fixed ground target - in this case, a farm along
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> I've never stated commodity money should replace all other form of exchange. In fact per above, you list a system where both credit and commodity money exist in parallel with one another. Perhaps I wasn't clear, but the pheno

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