xwolfi

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by xwolfi 5y ago
I disagree we arent special. Not that we've been selected by the divine, but dont we sit down for long periods of time trying to model reality, speak multiple languages (sounds silly to a native english speaker but most of us non nativ
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by xwolfi 5y ago
This is a false comparison: everything new has opponents (everything has opponents, even loving a girl, laughing at jokes or shaking your hair in some places), so yes ofc there are people who said social networks wouldnt find a business mod
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by xwolfi 5y ago
The problem is the amount of crime one could do with a fake stablecoin. Maybe you re right and the central bank of Japan (that has nothing to do with the banking industry) is criminal. But it doesn't change that stablecoins must be aud
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by xwolfi 5y ago
This is completely false, I work in banking and I remember being super excited by the FinCEN files, but it was utterly ridiculous! They pumped it up just to tell you our own compliance department was reporting a lot of things... like dudes
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by xwolfi 5y ago
And I mean, it's true for a lot of places. When I lived in France and there was some riot, my american friends called me asking how I was, afraid for my life because of the CNN loop, and now that I live in HK, I have german friends, to
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by xwolfi 5y ago
Yeah it's funny because while I would agree the communists have shown adaptability (hey we still kinda vote in HK and they just today told us to "cast our sacred ballot", impressive gymnastics), I think meritocracy and legiti
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by xwolfi 5y ago
The key difference between China and the rest of the elective systems is: do they even consider voting as a positive feedback loop? As long as we dont convince (and as a "small" city, we cant force, only convince) them that it s i
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by xwolfi 5y ago
I agree to some extent (bit sad since I got the right to vote in HK just this year and bleh) but I cant argue against the principle they put forth on the face of it: yes only patriot should ever be elected, yes calling for foreign sanction
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by xwolfi 5y ago
It's another discussion on the HK election reforms, which probably would not have happened without all the media hysteria 2 years ago. We'll see, I predict people either wont vote or vote blank and the gov'll have to do a cra
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by xwolfi 5y ago
He obv didnt know
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by xwolfi 5y ago
He was part of the team investigating the hack.
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by xwolfi 5y ago
Yes, to speculate on a ponzi they know will fall but they think they can time. In normal finance, it s just too crowded to make the same amount of margin short term.
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by xwolfi 5y ago
Soon they ll innovate by having government backed physical "coin" they ll call coin notes :D
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by xwolfi 5y ago
I work in a bank, we could get robbed by social engineering (and are ridiculously paranoid, we even have phishing exercises when the bank send you a link, you click on it and they say "dude that could have been phishing, read xyz to le
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by xwolfi 5y ago
How about telling a woman to wear a veil not to provoke erection in adolescents ? :D Something as passive as what you wear should not be a trigger for crime in a reasonable city. Telling people they should dress for the fascists' peace
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by xwolfi 5y ago
But you wonder how the colonialists managed to colonise in the first place... I mean if the culture is rich and beautiful, it's still useless if it crumbles at the sight of the first merchant ship from thousands of kms away. Point bein
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by xwolfi 5y ago
Yeah it's probably not pure luck but instead complete adaptation to the particular environment. Now you talk of aliens breathing and eating meat which can be conceived but... what of a pure liquid helium planet ? The intelligence there
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by xwolfi 5y ago
Gold is not like that. When my country, France, floated the idea to maybe sell our reserves now that it's useless to pay for things people may need, the pressure from Russia and other very large holders was so heavy we dropped it: not
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by xwolfi 5y ago
But that whole definition of friends of foe you've given is ridiculous though. Russia is trying to resist US bullying and european expansionism near its border, Iran revolted against US-selected dictators, and China, the largest countr
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by xwolfi 5y ago
The weird thing is who pays for all these ads and who take compulsive buy decision based on them ? If we could someone boycott every company we see in these ads maybe they d stop? I really dont think we should pay royalties in excess of cos
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by xwolfi 5y ago
Yeah when most people end up working cutting hair, driving cars, carrying bricks and so on... I feel this is going to remain a pipe dream to replace the people copy pasting stack overflow in creative ways (productive developers) any time so
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by xwolfi 5y ago
Most shares are held by companies: either pension fund, to create your ETFs, mutual funds, or holding for you in normal broker account, or financial institutions, to provide liquidity, to put to work the pension fund huge inventory (most he
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by xwolfi 5y ago
No he means stuff like the Hong Kong protests semi-robotic stream of inane content maybe ? Like I know americans are a bit like adult babies and it may not be inauthentic state run accounts, but the speed and amount of disinformation on twi
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by xwolfi 5y ago
I have a silly idea. Say the truth, admit you made a lapse of judgment, offer to repair your victims. Silly I know, but maybe you d be surprised this would go a long way in getting out of this shit situation eventually instead of turning ev
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by xwolfi 5y ago
Because the company printing a single stock is already a signal it is worth a little bit less. If you have N stock for capital valuation $V, each stock is worth $V/N. If you emit one more, you basically need either to argue your compa
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by xwolfi 5y ago
I think the first thing you must learn when trending towards adulthood is that nobody has any clue and we're just marginally fancier than ants in the grand scheme. Hell I grew up in Normandy and was 16 when some Americans became so mad
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by xwolfi 5y ago
Ah that's cool :D Me all I could say was "but I spent years deploying in aws when you chose another one when everyone told you not to and nobody s using it because nobody needs it, not because we're not certified". I was
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by xwolfi 5y ago
Agreed, but it's also going to face even more resistance. I was ok spending all this time on something I knew I could pass quick, but practical ? Damn if you want to do a real test, get into a job with a 3 months probation and your ren
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by xwolfi 5y ago
I disagree it's cheating though. Cheating is clearly defined by the exam condition, which are stupid (one time test rather than result evaluation but heh, it s a compromise). We had this debate between dev in my company because the exe
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by xwolfi 5y ago
Yeah but you just need to think about what we look like and how we came about and look at the combination of things that helped (distance to the star, liquid water bombardment, moon regulation, Jupiter protection, time) to feel it's ve

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