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Insiders working at studios and media companies who provide the content directly to warez groups.
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It literally says what materials they've used it with successfully and mentions what materials they're still aiming to be able to use.
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It's like being a junior developer again, blundering through the codebase to fix some problem, which I do through brute-force coding, laser-focused on the goal, heedless of any broader considerations :) LSD has the opposite problem whe
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Methamphetamine is neurotoxic, lis-/dex-amphetamine and methylphenidate are not.
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The LSE has an auction after the market closes IIRC. And these guys built an slow stock exchange, although their definition of "slow" is quite a bit quicker than yours: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/arc
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> But why didn't they include psilocybin or other psychedelics in this decriminalization? It is because they are defacto decriminalized already due to this policing decision? Because a) they contribute to very little of the problems
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I can code on ketamine as long as I'm not doing anything novel nor dealing with something that requires a global, holistic view of a system and its interactions. Once you've done something for long enough it becomes subconscious,
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The smarter you are the better you are at justifying your own beliefs and decisions, even in the face of countering evidence and/or cognitive dissonance!
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Stephen Erikson is an anthropologist and archaeologist which explains a lot of the deep historical depth to MBotF. Apparently he went on a dig in Mongolia between books nine and ten and almost died from a stomach bug and then a spider bite!
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> Then someone thinks "wow, this is way too complex! All I need is a simple UI." Then history repeats. This gives me flashbacks to writing a Java applet (supporting the MS JVM!) in which my boss has decided AWT (no Swing lol) w
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> Marks of maturity of a project - acknowledging upgrade requirements, publishing upgrade guides, supporting previous versions for a publicly stated time range, etc. All of which did happen for AngularJS. And you could still be using you
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The most valuable assets by far - accounting for over half of all wealth - are land in highly desirable locations, because both individuals and companies have to pay rent while the landlord pays basically nothing in upkeep in perpetuity whi
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Which also costs time and money to handle and secure, potentially more than card charges do. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180130005244/en/New...
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Or as Henry George put forward over a century ago, we should tax only the unimproved value of land, as everything else is the product of humanity, while land is finite and required for everything else. https://astralcodexten.subs
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Bank loans create new money by increasing bank deposits, which is then destroyed when the principal is repaid, leaving behind the interest on the loan. So it is theoretically possible for every company to borrow money at once.
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The graph showing a supposed sharp fall in US productivity isn't without its own serious criticism as well: https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2020/01/17/debunking-the... Their argument is what the grap
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> Monopolies, by and large are formed (and broken) by government aid/intervention. So natural monopolies and economies of scale are caused by governments?
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USDC is exactly as unaudited as USDT, they've just flown under the radar so far.
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More specifically they have confidence in the stability of its value over time. It's the same reason that US T-bonds etc are said to be "risk free" and why the USD comprises 60% of the world's currency reserves. The EU
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The way "productivity" is calculated is fundamentally flawed though, making it a flawed metric to discuss or use. https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2020/01/17/debunking-the...
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As someone that once implemented close to 100 different indicators for a real-time stock chart AFAIK there is no evidence that technical analysis is particularly useful. In the short-term markets are lead by sentiment and in the long-term b
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Considering what XQuery does the syntax does a great job of being readable. Every time I look at React components using JSX I'm unfavourably comparing it to XQuery.
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It's true of Africans as well, but you can divide humans by the little variation we have, and it turns out there are a dozen or so groups in sub-Saharan Africa, and one group pretty much everywhere else.
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Reducing the use of the USD as a reserve currency has been US policy for a while now. It only accounts for 60% of global reserves right now and has been trending down for a long time.
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The Bank of England has two great introductory papers on money in the modern economy, they're about as easy as it gets when explaining quite a complicated system. https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe&#x
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I realised after getting back into it this year that I started playing FL about 11 years ago, it's amazing that it has not only lasted that long but that it still has a ton of content I've yet to complete.
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Thank you!
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The idea that a country would be surprised and shocked to find out that other countries - including allies - had plans in place for military operations against them is ludicrous. Every country's military war-games potential conflicts,
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Russia wants access to some of the best farmland in the former USSR, mineral resources and the strategic benefit of unfettered access to the Black Sea and the Mediterranean? It's a war for resources Russia doesn't have and Putin t
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I personally think it's the discovery of Proof of Work algorithms leading to dismantling of solar systems to build Dyson Spheres that capture a sun's energy to power miners. Possibly constructed by Von Neumann machines thinking ab

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