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   What is an ‘economic hitman’? – Decoded(youtube.com)

   2 points by tauwauwau 5y ago|3 comments
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   by tauwauwau 5y ago

   I came across this video today, it's about a book called "Confessions of Economic Hitman" by John Parkins, which describes how IMF is used to hold entire economies of poor and developing countries hostage to enrich the rich.
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   by tauwauwau 5y ago

   I was talking about the current era. But you're right, it has been like that for a long time, modern technology just has made it more efficient. My comment was hyperbolic, it should have been more moderate.
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   by tauwauwau 5y ago

   I agree with you to a certain extent, also I didn't mean to disregard the value that money provides by giving us a way to assign a quantifiable value to things. That's entirely different and in that way it can be counted as one of
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   by tauwauwau 5y ago

   To me original motivation is solving a problem and innovation. If you come up with an idea to create a service/product, you may be invested in the innovation in the beginning. But, as soon as you start making it using other people&#x27
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   by tauwauwau 5y ago

   Money corrupts everything, it replaces the original motivation. If companies didn't have to maximize x% of the profit made on the investor's money per quarter/year, they will be able to focus on product/service, customer
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   by tauwauwau 5y ago

   It's generally related to the infrastructure. Like migrating Dockerfiles, Jenkins, SonarQube servers.
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   by tauwauwau 5y ago

   I haven't used IPFS so I was trying to see what the IPFS image URL would look like but when I tried to inspect the images using (right click -> inspect element), Chrome selects the whole division tab (class=MuiCardContent-root) in t
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   by tauwauwau 5y ago

   I can confirm that it's working on Windows 10 too. It let me uninstall Cortana :), lets see if anything breaks after restart or if it comes back in next update.
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    by tauwauwau 5y ago

    I agree with everything you said but your usage of "Just Because" for daily meals doesn't feel right.
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    by tauwauwau 6y ago

    This worked for me document.body.style.backgroundImage = 'url(\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com/noimage.png)'
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    by tauwauwau 6y ago

    This episode of Planet Money should shed some light on it. What I understand from this episode is that there's a 2 day delay in settling trades, that's why clearing house exists. https://www.npr.org/2021/02&#x
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    by tauwauwau 6y ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expert_system Manual rule writing and AI are not mutually exclusive.
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    by tauwauwau 6y ago

    You are probably talking about Escheat system. Planet money had a nice episode about it, here's the link https://www.npr.org/transcripts/799345159
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    by tauwauwau 6y ago

    Kurosagi, a Manga about a black (Kuro) swindler (Sagi) swindling other Swindlers. It has covers a lot of schemes. https://mangakakalot.com/read-iw9hn158504903371
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    by tauwauwau 6y ago

    You are right, thanks for clarifying. I asked that question as the GP made the case that breaking GPL is equivalent to pirating (breaking any other copyright). But GPL ensures a resource is always shareable and anyone who tries to break it
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    by tauwauwau 6y ago

    I'm not arguing in favor of piracy, but isn't GPL anti copyright (copyleft)
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    by tauwauwau 6y ago

    Not going to argue about the profit based motivations, I'm sure someone else would do it. How about the power that it gives Apple over developers, is that worth their time?
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    by tauwauwau 6y ago

    Just going to leave it here. Leeuwenhoek microscope made an appearance in a Manga Isekai Yakkyoku [Other world pharmacist] https://mangadex.org/chapter/10571/18
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    by tauwauwau 6y ago

    Great, you assumed I'm user of one particular mobile OS. Well, at least you included "currently" in your remark.
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    by tauwauwau 6y ago

    Thank you for existing, here's a totally unrelated comment for you https://mangadex.org/chapter/97419/7
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    by tauwauwau 6y ago

    Believe me, we got it. All developers are scummy and trying to make a living without paying 30% of your earnings to the platform is just too much to ask. Even though YOU purchased the device YOU don't want to be able to run any and all
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    by tauwauwau 7y ago

    Just going to leave it here Quotes from anime Space Brothers Tomii Ryūnosuke: The American thinker Buckminster Fuller once called our planet "Spaceship Earth." On the other hand, British scientist James Lovelock stated that our pl
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    by tauwauwau 7y ago

    In my experience people with great knowledge generally have an urge to pass it on and they appreciate self initiative taken by the person learning. I have mentored a few people during my job and generally feel that my time was wasted only i
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    by tauwauwau 7y ago

    Doesn't it just mean that both sides have to maintain postMessage() handling? Just like host and iframe with different origins. Google will not be able to receive any events/messages unless they're sent by not-google.com. Tha
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    by tauwauwau 7y ago

    I read it a few years ago, when I wanted to know how many methods can there be in a Java class. (count: 2 bytes, but compiler fails to compile such a class a long before that). Many of the concepts such as structure of class files should st
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    by tauwauwau 7y ago

    Regarding illegitimacy, in absence of any laws anything can be legal (no laws) but not moral. Just going to leave it here Tokyo Trial https://www.netflix.com/in/title/80091880
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    by tauwauwau 7y ago

    Just going to leave it here. Seems relevant Planet Money: Joke Theft https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/04/06/710404524/epis...
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    by tauwauwau 7y ago

    Going to leave it here Inside the Java Virtual Machine by Bill Venners https://www.artima.com/insidejvm/ed2/
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    by tauwauwau 8y ago

    xkcd visual field https://xkcd.com/1080