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by siculars 5y ago
I don't think it is possible for humans to be optimal vs, say, slime. Slime, presumably, does not have incentive structure that individual humans collude in at their benefit to the detriment of others. For example, why did the US build
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by siculars 6y ago
Which leads you to wonder if casualty rate is a deterrent to firing rockets. What if it were different? Would that make an impact?
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by siculars 6y ago
I've been here a long time. This may actually win the award for most ridiculous comment ever written on HN. To argue that a main should willingly sacrifice their people for... what exactly? Why do you think these systems were built? To
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by siculars 6y ago
No, I’m fairly confident in that comment. Any ranking of military capabilities on virtually any dimension puts Israel in a higher tier than Greece. https://www.forbes.com/sites/dominicdudley/2018/02/26&#x
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by siculars 6y ago
Greece, Cyprus and Israel are natural allies in the geo political oneupsmanship that is the middle east. Israel provides the technology and protection to execute this maneuver.
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by siculars 6y ago
Israel has the means to detect and prevent such shenanigans.
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by siculars 6y ago
Many articles in Turkish run media. But in reality? Not much.
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by siculars 6y ago
Na. Turkey needs to be counterd by others. And others need to defend themselves from Turkey. These the are natural allies in this region for obvious, not so obvious, subtle and not so subtle reasons. There is a very long history of unhappin
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by siculars 6y ago
I've been taking many DEI trainings at Google. I'm wondering how that will work at a Google Riyadh office. Is DEI a global truth? Does it survive contact with reality in KSA (and other locations that don't share western liber
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by siculars 6y ago
A docudrama might be a more appropriate description. Nevertheless, Chernobyl on HBO was haunting and forces you to stop and think how a similar tragedy could be avoided. More broadly speaking it forces you to think about systemic power stru
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by siculars 6y ago
Interesting thesis. Is it me or does the author compare Gebru to Einstein?
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by siculars 6y ago
This is more or less exactly the scenario that played out in Texas this week, Feb 14-19 2021. All the players (gov, regulators, power generators) decided that it was too expensive to weatherize the network for a 0.1% chance event. Yet... he
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by siculars 6y ago
Na. Lots of places have socialized medicine like Israel. Not many of them, if any of them, are having the successful rollout Israel is enjoying. The entire Israeli society is prepared for this sort of event more so than any other in the wor
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by siculars 6y ago
See how well that turned out in Gaza. Regardless of final status outcomes, defended borders will remain. If only the PA did not pay for slay[0] and had enough money to secure vaccines on the open market. [0] https://en.wikipedia.o
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by siculars 6y ago
1) At worst, flatly false. At best, debatable. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/04/world/middleeast/israel-p... . 2) Generally, the Palestinian Authority can do a better job allocating its resources,
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by siculars 6y ago
It's because at every level of government Israel plans for, practices and anticipates any type of scenario from nuclear war, to chemical attack to biological warfare. Rapidly distributing materials to the population is absolutely withi
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by siculars 6y ago
I think a WSJ article would call this "multiple expansion." I lost a lot of coins betting against the market recovery going into the summer of 2020. Because printing free money must have consequences, yes? Turns out I could not ha
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by siculars 6y ago
This is the classic trap of "failure of imagination". Failure of imagination can be fatal in that it obscures your vision of the future due to your own biases, perspective and lack of knowledge. It is critical for people to seek o
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by siculars 6y ago
They already do. See Arizona.
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by siculars 6y ago
Please tell me you don't ask for people's banking login information.
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by siculars 6y ago
There is no free money. The IV on options like long calls to hedge a short is astronomical. Line numbers I've never seen.
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by siculars 6y ago
Github obviously did not do enough due diligence here. IANAL but am familiar with Sanctions considerations and IMHO, this does not rise to the level of the action taken.
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by siculars 6y ago
It’s already beginning... https://www.fincen.gov/sites/default/files/shared/Notice-Vir...
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by siculars 6y ago
https://www.fincen.gov/sites/default/files/shared/Notice-Vir... It’s already beginning.
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by siculars 6y ago
Really looking forward to see how the EU respond here with Turkey vs, say, China or Google or FB. It's just interesting to me how values change depending on whom you're talking to.
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by siculars 6y ago
This is the way. L+1 thinking.
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by siculars 6y ago
This is obviously the way. Sovereigns will assert their control on any monetary asset. They have, they do and they will. It is not that far of a leap to consider a timeline where all wallet addresses are simply registered and crypto assets
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by siculars 6y ago
So, um, did SF just permanently end their commercial real-estate market? Add this to the other interesting government initiatives launched in CA this week and you have to wonder why all businesses are not flocking to relocate to CA.
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by siculars 6y ago
They do what they do because they have the US protecting them. Also, Liberty is taken for granted until you dont have it.
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by siculars 6y ago
He was kind of very up front about being solely focused on economic freedom. Coinbase’s mission is to create an open financial system for the world. This means we want to use cryptocurrency to bring economic freedom to people all over t

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