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by smsm42 3y ago
Price exists. Information that is embedded in the price, or, more precisely, in the myriad of market interactions that, among other things, also create the prices, however, is often lost. Or replaced with other information - e.g. who has a
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by smsm42 3y ago
Don't confuse the reddit/twitter crowd with the businesses dealing with billions of dollars. The latter can not survive - or at least can not operate in any way that is connected to the US financial system or touching it in any fo
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by smsm42 3y ago
Same here, noticed a lot of stuff from Amazon lately arrived in a condition as if somebody used it as a piñata. Fortunately, for the stuff I ordered it didn't really ruin anything except the external packaging, which I didn't ne
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by smsm42 3y ago
Isn't that the case for every business operating in the US anyway? If they don't cooperate with OFAC, they will find themselves in deep doodoo very fast. Has nothing to do with being scam or not scam, it's the law and complia
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by smsm42 3y ago
US govt could also create a govt wallet and force usdt to transfer the tokens there I imagine, if they want to proceed with seizure. They'd likely will need some legal framework for this but it's easily doable. Then us govt can au
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by smsm42 3y ago
Yes, they don't have any power. That doesn't prevent them from presenting it like they are eagerly collaborating. And why not? Nobody wants to piss off federal government or the Congress, it's better to show they love it.
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by smsm42 3y ago
Corpspeak for "we follow the laws, please don't shut us down or fine us, we're the good guys".
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by smsm42 3y ago
> So they removed the special casing for these functions, and added a helpful comment for people who might be confused. Technically correct. But: what happens is that when you start python, it outputs: Type "help", "copyri
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by smsm42 3y ago
I think the point is not whether certain tool does things in certain way. It's the lack of thought about how the user interacts with the tool and whether or not the particular way of doing it makes the interaction easier. Too often &qu
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by smsm42 3y ago
> defense minister is handing out assault rifles to West Bank Settlers but nobody really wants to be there. The right to self defense is one of the basic human rights. "Human" here includes Jews, to the surprise of many. Israel
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by smsm42 3y ago
> As an occupying force they are obligated to protect the population they are occupying Israel hasn't been "an occupying force" in Gaza for 18 years. All those years Hamas explicitly renounced responsibility of doing anyth
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by smsm42 3y ago
Not a Tesla, this is for sure. As long as there are any cars with physical controls and replaceable lightbulbs on the market, those are the ones I'll be driving. Fortunately, this is still very much the case, especially if a car for yo
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by smsm42 3y ago
I replaced two of my lights in my car and I had to re-adjust the carpet piece that covers it. That's all I had to do, no software updates, no service centers, nothing. Are we going in the future to have to call a service center for a s
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by smsm42 3y ago
Doesn't 13 contradict 15? Also, if I opened a startup and followed 10, I'd end up with a team of my wife and my dog. Which would be a wonderful company, but the revenue potential would be somewhat limited. 18 seems to me a fundame
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by smsm42 3y ago
> The USA spends more GDP on healthcare than any country on earth and the insurance companies are immensely profitable. Yes, from the recent report of 2020 [1]: The health insurance industry continued its tremendous growth trend as it e
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by smsm42 3y ago
What? Nothing in what I wrote has anything to do with that stupid claim.
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by smsm42 3y ago
> It's not fair if we ban things in one direction and not the other If Hamas would show around the maps, and Netanyahu would show around the maps - I'd say, no problem, let them both have their maps. That's not what Hamas
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by smsm42 3y ago
> For Palestinians to say the want to be “free from river to sea” means the “genocide of Israelis”. Yes. > But, amazingly but unsurprisingly, for Israelis to say they want to be “free of Palestinians” Who says that? And more importan
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by smsm42 3y ago
This is not apartheid, and something is, but not this. I don't know what exactly happened with those people - though by the fact that they call Jewish inhabitants of Jerusalem "settlers" I can know I can't trust a word t
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by smsm42 3y ago
It's indeed pointless, because it is a lie, always was a lie and continues being a lie. Naming the names of some of the far-left groups doesn't make it less of a lie. Arabs in Israel are integrated, have representation in the Knes
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by smsm42 3y ago
I don't remember a single instance of a mass protest on campus or in the streets, in US or in Europe or in Israel, where the protestors would demand that Israel occupies Egypt, Iraq and Syria, throw their population into the sea (or in
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by smsm42 3y ago
Yes, it is convenient for potential victims of genocide that calling for genocide of those people is considered calling for genocide. It's also true. "From the river to the sea" is calling for the genocide of Israel populatio
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by smsm42 3y ago
And once you start picking apart any of those examples, you'll find out that random trolls may post some stupid and false stuff, but a coordinated disinformation campaign usually has either governmental or quasi-governmental entity beh
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by smsm42 3y ago
What's causing people to distrust everything is not some troll farms lying to them. It's their own government lying to them, constantly, repeatedly, incessantly - and then claiming only strict control by the same government over
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by smsm42 3y ago
Well, if it doesn't have bipartisan support it still could be - and often is - another way the government is robbing from you, just only one set of partisans gets to benefit from it for some reason, so the other set is objecting.
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by smsm42 3y ago
How it's thought terminating cliche? If anything, it's thought initiating cliche. It compels you to consider the actual trade-off between keeping the barrier and removing it, instead of just dismissing the status quo as "stup
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by smsm42 3y ago
I just had the reverse problem - gmail decided to stuff half of the mail for 2 days into spam, and I had to spend half an hour manually extracting them back. No idea what happened, most mails were from previously known good addresses. That
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by smsm42 3y ago
YAML itself is not too bad, especially with a good IDE. But YAML and its ws-sensitivity combined with Go templating is horrible. Every component by itself looks kinda reasonable, but when they come together it makes an unholy mess.
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by smsm42 3y ago
That has been one of the most annoying aspects of dealing with helm templates. It's like that USB plug you never can insert the right side up, only it has like a half-dozen sides and to cycle through them all to figure out the right on
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by smsm42 3y ago
In theory, it is. In practice, prosecutors are very reluctant to go after cops for such type of crimes, or for any others that relate to their professional functions - perjury, excessive force, evidence tampering, violating disclosure rul

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