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by wwtrv 5y ago
How is this relevant considering that according to FlightRadar the closest airport was the destination airport, where they were supposed to land anyway?
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by wwtrv 5y ago
You need register with a real name and credit card and pay 100$ to be able to publish anything on the app store. Irregardless of how effective the review process is even if you manage to sneak any app with malware past it Apple will still b
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by wwtrv 6y ago
Not that I’m in any way justifying them but Russia’s actions in the Ukraine might be considered to be defensive in nature (from a purely pragmatic real-politik point of view). Ukraine used to be pretty much a puppet state of Russia until 20
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by wwtrv 6y ago
And what exactly would Russia gain by invading Central Europe? Even now they can barely afford maintaining their occupation of Crimea.
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by wwtrv 6y ago
But the only way that could realistically happen is if a large corporation or a wealthy individual bought the local club and replaced all of it’s players with significantly more expensive ones and I don’t see what’s particularly appealing a
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by wwtrv 6y ago
“The market” did manage to solve it in most East European countries (which had relatively rudimentary copper infrastructure which I assume played a part). You can get a 1Gb line for €20 or less (usually from multiple competing companies) i
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by wwtrv 6y ago
And what would China win exactly? Even if they somehow miraculously manage to keep TSMC up and running they would not be able to export anything produced there to other countries and permanently loose access to all western IP. And the sanct
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by wwtrv 6y ago
Why wouldn’t those people just move to different countries? I’m sure that most countries in the west would be very happy to receive large number of highly qualified engineers for free. China can’t really close them in labour camps and expec
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by wwtrv 6y ago
There are humans who can communicate somewhat effectively with chimpanzees using sign language, does that mean humans now have access to the several hundred year old chimp culture? I don’t think so. Anyway, while we can assume that whales a
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by wwtrv 6y ago
The British didn’t recognize naturalized US citizens at the time, if you were born in Britain and later emigrated to the US they still considered you a British subject. The US government obviously had a different view but there wasn’t much
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by wwtrv 6y ago
In many European countries you can be "poor" (i.e. have low or negative wealth) while still maintaining a relatively high standard of living. The most expensive asset most people own is their home, so if you rent all your life or
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by wwtrv 6y ago
To be fair, if we’re talking about wealth distribution (as opposed to income distribution) many European countries have similar inequality to the US. Some, like Sweden for instance, are even worse than the US. https://en.m.wikipe
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by wwtrv 6y ago
Considering that the data on prices is pretty much complete garbage I wouldn’t be surprised if they just multiplied the ‘average’ price and per capita consumption they obtained from WHO (they seem to be implying as much in the methodology s
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by wwtrv 6y ago
That’s a bit of a stretch... shutting down energy supplies to Central/Western Europe would cost Russia more than it would Germany considering that energy exports are 70% of their total exports and generate over 50% of budget revenue. B
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by wwtrv 6y ago
The NYSE was opened in the 1790’s and even in the 20’s stock volatility was significantly smaller compared to bitcoin, DJIA “only” grew around 5 times between 1920 and 1929 (so comparable to the decade between 2009 and 2020). To find someth
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by wwtrv 6y ago
Maybe that’s because “no tracking” is close to impossible without a walled garden if you want to use commercial, ad revenue based apps or services.
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by wwtrv 6y ago
While the argument might be overblown in many cases you can’t really deny that many South/South-Western European countries have huge youth unemployment rates, especially in low incomes areas, which can at least partially be attributed
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by wwtrv 6y ago
According to StatCounter it’s ~30% while it’s two times smaller than in the US (~60%) I wouldn’t say it’s “tiny”.
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by wwtrv 6y ago
Well in the EU we have SEPA transfwr which are ussually free and close to instant between an increaskng number of banks.
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by wwtrv 6y ago
There are no official agreements since neither US nor any major European countries recognize Taiwan/ROC but US has declared multiple times that they would defend Taiwan (see ‘ Taiwan Relations Act’ & Six Assurances’)
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by wwtrv 6y ago
ARM Ltd. is earning relatively very little from this and there seems to be little reason why would that change in the future. This is why it can’t really survive as an independent company. If you compare net income instead of mkt. cap Intel
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by wwtrv 6y ago
No, I said that the value created by bitcoin is not directly related to how much energy is used. Technically the same outcome could be reached with much less wasted energy.
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by wwtrv 6y ago
Which claim? That there might be less wasteful ways to process crypto currency transactions? I’d love to hear the evidence..
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by wwtrv 6y ago
Bitcoin could still provide all that value without wasting all that energy. The mining process provides no real value.
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by wwtrv 6y ago
Iregardless of what ones opinion on maintaining standing armies might be usually it creates significant added value (unlike mining bitcoin) for the economy. All those people in the military or working in industries producing for the milita
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by wwtrv 6y ago
Pixar and PSN provide actual value to some people, while mining bitcoin is completely superfluous (not saying that bitcoin itself is necessarily useless but that the same result can be reached without wasting as much energy needlessly)
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by wwtrv 6y ago
In what way was the Capitol mob “state sanctioned”? The president has a constitutionally defined role and ordering angry mobs to sack government buildings is not part of it (and in any case he didn’t explicitly tell them to do it)
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by wwtrv 6y ago
“ none of it is GitHub/Microsoft's fault.” Not really: https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/financial-sanctions/... pretty clearly states they don’t even need to ban that specific person let alone thr
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by wwtrv 6y ago
I assume, they meant the UK finally fully leaving the EU this year rather than the sale to Nvidia
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by wwtrv 6y ago
The third paragraph kind of contradicts the second one one. I mean why don’t they pretend to be businessmen, politicians or investment bankers then?

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