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by vernon99 5y ago
It’s neither of those - ruble is not in a freefall and you are right to be cynical about solidarity. In reality this is just another manifestation of the cancel-culture, just on a whole other level, country scale.
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by vernon99 5y ago
Except it’s just totally incorrect to think that oligarchs have any degree of control over the situation and any meaningful access to Putin. The relation is reversed, he was the kingmaker and have been controling them fully for quite a whil
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by vernon99 5y ago
Because Russian propaganda is not on Fox news, but in Russian media, of course. Why would they care about the west, unlike Ukraine that badly needs western support? And Russian media is full of the positive propaganda right now.
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by vernon99 5y ago
History is written by the winners
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by vernon99 5y ago
“agreeing that "these countries will become members of NATO"”
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by vernon99 5y ago
Yup, came here to leave the same comment. The video is great and he actually has a solid take on modern geopolitics overall. As a westernised russian I could be biased. But I’m also trying to maintain a neutral realistic perspective and thi
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by vernon99 5y ago
It's proven to have an opposite effect. Cutting their ties with the west just consolidates their loyalty. It's painful for them once that happens, but long term effects are actually not serving the purpose.
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by vernon99 5y ago
#1 is simply and absolutely not true. See Buharest summit of 2008, where NATO explicitly welcomed Georgia and Ukraine aspirations to join. Current state of affairs in both countries is a direct result of that. https://en.m.wikipe
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by vernon99 5y ago
Yeah, I got you! Come join sometime, either an official or a renegade version - you’ll love it! Just don’t hold any expectations whatsoever :)
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by vernon99 5y ago
Why do you choose to use this term in its definition by some “btc maxis” instead of what an actual and huge community of developers mean by it? Some cognitive bias at play here my friend? Edit: typos
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by vernon99 5y ago
Not sure why people downvote this comment. Web3 is essentially a bunch of tech related to decentralized apps and bitcoin is not a protocol to do that, at that point it’s just sometimes an intermediary step to move your capital into the syst
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by vernon99 5y ago
Why people who haven’t been to the few recent burns (or any ever) feel obliged to comment on this thread. And why they think their comments have anything to do with the actual reality? Isn’t _this_ what is called out of touch? The origin of
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by vernon99 5y ago
Here’s a good explanation from somebody on Twitter that I mostly share. “Web3: “user-generated authority, enabled by self-certifying web protocols.” A superset of technologies that include blockchains, but are not limited to them. Or we can
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by vernon99 5y ago
Read Bhagavad Gita - there’s a great audio book and if you grind through the first couple poetic chapters, it’s amazing. It talks a lot about the concept of selfless action (karma yoga) and why this is the best mode of operating in this uni
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by vernon99 5y ago
I think in thia case remittance is more of a way to create organic currency supply for btc. If you have btc from your son and the store owner you buy your fruits from has some btc from his son, why not to use btc for trade? Currency has a g
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by vernon99 5y ago
A comment from a passerby. You say it like this is something you don’t have agency over (at least early on). It’s like saying that “yeah, you cannot be a good painter if you are solving math problems all the time”. Same with childless multi
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by vernon99 5y ago
> Energy production is produced only because it is economically viable Tell that to sun And what’s bad about leaving the lights on? Is energy a scarce resource or what? Since when is it bad to use it? This is such a strange take you have
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by vernon99 5y ago
I don’t think you can do a diff as there so many factors that you can miss without having a complete bird-eye view of the business or the org. But nevertheless, this is a great advice in that it still would give you a good example of a func
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by vernon99 5y ago
Is sun radiating energy in all directions also a waste in your terminology? You can call any use of energy “waste” this way. Would bitcoin mining be better if it would use clean energy? I think you really are mixing two things here: energy
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by vernon99 5y ago
This is a great one, thanks, we may use it for PeerBoard!
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by vernon99 5y ago
This is actually a very good point often missed in similar discussions. People have different personalities and traumas and some are more suited for stable relations (what you call secure here) and some are less (anxious/avoidant types
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by vernon99 5y ago
As somebody who saw family wealth slashed 100x due to crazy inflation just 20 years ago, 2x fluctuations are nothing. This is the perspective worth recognizing. Bitcoin is actually very stable by comparison. Edit: fat fingers typing.
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by vernon99 6y ago
I’m pretty sure a lot of folks from HN will help you fund such research and prototyping if needed, me included :)
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by vernon99 6y ago
I hope this won’t be perceived as a shameless plug, since feels very relevant to the discussion. We at PeerBoard are trying to solve this problem with creating a robust discussion platform that can also be whitelabeled and used from any dom
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by vernon99 6y ago
These costs are still included in your ride cost though
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by vernon99 6y ago
This actually seems to me like a much easier problem to solve than scaling a two-sided marketplace in a lot of places. This is purely a capital + regulation problem and Google has a lot of capital and regulation will catch up as soon as fir
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by vernon99 6y ago
This is an scientific take and most of the casual folks don’t see it this way.
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by vernon99 6y ago
Can you please share the link to this drumming thread? As a drummer carefully monitoring my mental states, I’m intrigued!
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by vernon99 6y ago
You can have it all remotely too. Intentional communities are being formed now across the globe with the idea of getting amazing people together in the nature to maximize both their joy AND productivity. This is the best of two worlds reall
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by vernon99 6y ago
The real concern is systemic inflamation caused by sugar (both high average levels and large spikes are bad)

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