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by than3 3y ago
Not really an option near; or in Silicon Valley. You pay the savings in sanity points when you get roommates or family. No amount of savings is worth it. Downpayments for houses in that area with a 740+ credit score is at least 200k and onl
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by than3 3y ago
Any bank with a ticker on a market. Technically no security on the market is safe from this mechanism. Banks are particularly vulnerable. With a properly timed news drop, shorting, and forcing the market maker to exit delta-hedging (due to
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by than3 3y ago
Bobby, If you take that statement you just made, and take it just one step further, asking a why is that when they haven't really innovated in 20+ years? The realistic answer to that is exactly what I just said. Alternate revenue strea
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by than3 3y ago
Almost every solution I've seen in this space can be decrypted fairly easily because of a similar issue found years ago with SSL compression. I think it was the CRIME attack on SSL iirc. Same issue is found across most consumer-based s
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by than3 3y ago
That's because they have backroom deals with the manufacturers. Its impossible to compete when the manufacturers are actively hostile and don't provide the firmware/code/specs in a way that the hardware can be supported
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by than3 3y ago
Microsoft is no better than an accounting firm at this point. The only reason they are still around is because of the data collection from spying on their users, and malign and coercive practices that are illegal but remain unenforced proba
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by than3 3y ago
Anything which collateralizes in the currency would be exposed. Additionally, you may want to re-watch the China Hustle. They have no laws protecting foreigners from theft/fraud. Its encouraged. The yuan also has its own issues.
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by than3 3y ago
I agree the corruption of language is an ongoing problem, and its often done to mislead and is easy to come to incorrect conclusions, which makes communicating about these things tangibly all the more difficult. As for the ratcheting mechan
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by than3 3y ago
I'm always on the hunt for more articles to read. Scarcity is just a given in a scarce world. The perception of shortages on the other hand acts similar to static versus dynamic friction. Once things get moving they become less sticky.
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by than3 3y ago
I largely agree. People generally miss fundamentals and don't account for a moving store of value, they often assume its constant. Economics is marginally only used to sell something often with deceit in mind on someones part. As for w
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by than3 3y ago
There's a lot of garbage out there about de-dollarization. MMT for example, magical monetary thinking is more appropriate since it lacks any rationality or understanding of the fundamentals of who sets prices for produced goods.
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by than3 3y ago
Generally speaking, it turns into free assets. The people involved usually don't acquire the assets/associated debt without some kind of guarantee. OneWest Bank for example after 2008 had a guarantee where if the assets defaulted
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by than3 3y ago
Safety and Liability will always be an issue. Monopolistic and malign practices always creep in. Say you miss and are late on rent, and then walk in to find you've been terminated. They won't say its because you were late on rent,
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by than3 3y ago
Am I wrong in thinking that all banks should have no exposure to the stock market period? The whole being able to trigger aggregate indebtedness violations through synthetic shares (options), seems like a systemic risk that no ones paying a
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by than3 3y ago
There are a lot of good reasons for it. First, centralization and consolidation increase the risk of fraud and corruption, and malign influence with regards to antitrust. Second, almost no new banks are being chartered. What do you think ty
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by than3 3y ago
Anyone happen to archive this article before they took it down? Its showing up as a 404 resource now.
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by than3 3y ago
Yet the toggle is automatically on for a number of applications even when it says its turned off. That still makes its existence a misleading coercive lie giving you the illusion of control; for those that don't already know better. Th
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by than3 3y ago
Moto, I have to point out that line of reasoning is seriously flawed. The assumptions you make at the beginning are just that, assumptions with no rational backing. Communication is necessary to have any kind of intelligent discussion, and
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by than3 3y ago
It is rare that something like this gets written with actually correct details, and refreshing when it actually lines up with history correctly. It would have been a near perfect piece covering these historic issues, if only .... That last
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by than3 3y ago
I'd disagree. If you play a line like the Englund Gambit, you are going to get trounced. A lot of times, Memorization isn't even needed. People develop mental shortcuts for calculation in positional, endgame, and middle game secti
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by than3 3y ago
I kind of feel if you think this then you've approached chess all wrong. Your moves are all about controlling your opponents influence and responses while developing your pieces before situating for a breakthrough or attack. Interestin
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by than3 3y ago
No, they really don't. They use a ML Siamese head network that was donated to them back ~2012. Nothing has changed since then, and they don't prevent people from creating new accounts. There were issues reported to them in 2016 ab
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by than3 3y ago
Well indoctrination is one of those things that's hard to believe unless you see it in action. Its hard to teach about too because it is something that you don't really believe is happening until you've seen it from experienc
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by than3 3y ago
No, they have no right to that information, and if medical accomodations need to be made you stick with that (i.e. what your Doctor says); you do not volunteer information because they will fire you for it. It may not happen immediately, al
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by than3 3y ago
The main factors are: Supportability Security Reliability Consistency Supportability is how much additional cost you have for solving the same tasks or problems on that platform. Tooling reduces these costs making it more supportable (if de
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by than3 3y ago
> That's not true. This captures all the weed-out classes. No it doesn't. You are wrong. There are a number of well understood ways where you would not see deviations like this in the statistical outcomes. Flawed, skewed, or un
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by than3 3y ago
Its a balanced scale, any good is equally weighed by the bad. Except the larger representative lobbyists often tip the scale towards bad more often than not.
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by than3 3y ago
Its more about indoctrination prior to the age of reason. Kids biologically can't discern lies prior to that age unless they've had some form of trauma (from what I've been told), and often accept what's read and written
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by than3 3y ago
Parties are the formation of demagogues, and we all know how that worked out for Rome.
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by than3 3y ago
There's a very interesting read on the USMC University website that covers political warfare (which this would arguably fall into). Its freely available.

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