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by yokaze 6y ago
I took the same advice up from Dave Crenshaw and it works great for me. If I commit on doing something it will take time, and putting it on the calendar let's me see if I have the time and also blocks and protects the time, so I don&#x
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by yokaze 6y ago
Yes, the price is not hard fixed in Bitcoin, largely because it is not really a habitual currency, so any fluctuation will directly impact the actual asking price for everyone. But still, the asking price for the "service" is in B
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by yokaze 6y ago
Ah, sorry. Then I am misinformed. The locale "zh_CN" does give me Sunday as the first, which seems then misaligned with actual practice.
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by yokaze 6y ago
> sunday is 7 My understanding is that all days except Sunday "week-day" (星期日) are numbered. Monday is (星期一) "week-one". So there is still some room for ambiguity left if you allow for counting from 0.
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by yokaze 6y ago
China and Japan have Sunday as the first day since the 4th and 8th century respectively: http://chartsbin.com/view/41671 . So presumably, you come from a Europe-centric view: http://chartsbin.com/view&#x
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by yokaze 6y ago
> If every person has an "digital currency wallet"... Nothing that follows in this paragraph depends on the pre-condition of having a digital currency wallet. > I think this structurally has less resistance than writing phys
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by yokaze 6y ago
> that is likely to require less congressional approval on a per use basis. Sorry, I don't see how that could be the case: Either you need congressional approval, or you don't. And how is the technical implementation of money t
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by yokaze 6y ago
How are you paying ransom-ware then, if not for crypto-cash?
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by yokaze 6y ago
> TL;DR - money is already digital, what central banks really want is centralized accounts that they can helicopter money into That is not a matter of centralised accounts, but policy. Central banks could just as well have mailed a check
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by yokaze 6y ago
> Everybody is responsible for obeying the traffic laws, for example. Well, we do have traffic police and courts and lawyers. Yes, everyone should follow the rules. But the point of having an individual responsible for conceptual integri
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by yokaze 6y ago
"Mountebank" gives me 763k matches, "Chirurgeon" 185k. Never come across them before I looked for uncommon terms for doctors in the English language. I am not saying it is not a word or incorrect, but that I haven't
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by yokaze 6y ago
> Doktoringenieur Never seen it in practical German though. > And is even more right than a regular Herr Doctor because he is also an Engineer. On the contrary. The traditional universities didn't want to accept technical univers
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by yokaze 6y ago
Probably you are right. I fail to find any more concrete reference where the claim in the papers is based on.
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by yokaze 6y ago
This. But it would require some kind of introspection to see that the extraordinary salary which caused them to move there in the first place might be actually a contributing factor for a lot of the problems they are complaining about.
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by yokaze 6y ago
I don't remember where I read it originally. Google gives me: https://www.statnews.com/2020/05/15/under-an-america-first-p... https://www.dw.com/en/coronavirus-digest-trump-orders-pr
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by yokaze 6y ago
> For Europe, one big obstacle was that the EU decided to bargain for vaccines as a group, which made the process of securing shots very cumbersome. As a result, the region got cheaper vaccine prices but delayed delivery. The EU regulato
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by yokaze 6y ago
That is hospitalisation in _regions_ where vaccination started early or late. It does not explicitly discriminate between vaccinated people or non-vaccinated, only possibly by proxy of age. People under the age of 35 were previously not in
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by yokaze 6y ago
No, FIAT currencies derive a value by the government putting one to it. The government spends it and accepts payment with it. Government spending in the US is 35% of the whole GDP. Try to argue with your tax office, that it is an illusion&#
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by yokaze 6y ago
While I agree with you in general, I don't think it is 100% true. Currencies of smaller states have been target of speculative attacks ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculative_attack ). But actually being a fia
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by yokaze 6y ago
Moderna: 0 severe cases in the vaccinated group, 11 in the placebo group: https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/peer-reviewed-... Pfizer/BioNTech: 1 severe case in the vaccinated vs 9 placebo group (
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by yokaze 6y ago
A couple of points: > your odds of a negative effect from COVID without vaccine is between 0.04% and 0.006% And with the vaccine, they are 0%. Or sufficiently close enough, that they weren't registered in the large scale studies of
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by yokaze 6y ago
It's not a narrative, it is a fact.
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by yokaze 6y ago
You are right, certainly there could be a fit, but finding the right place for someone implies that the hiring decision has already been made. For me, it sounds like he applied for a standard software developer job through the standard proc
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by yokaze 6y ago
Not sure that I do. I think, there is subtext which may not translate across cultural boundaries. The smiley seems to indicate a joke. In my experience, working part-time means getting paid only the proportional amount for the benefit of on
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by yokaze 6y ago
> Keynes dangerously underestimated Germany’s economic capacity to bear the cost of war reparations; as a result, those predicting again and again Germany’s economic collapse were caught off guard when the country proved able not only to
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by yokaze 6y ago
And only assesses the strictness of the rules, not the degree of their enforcement either.
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by yokaze 6y ago
Because it is as easily replaceable as a bank card, in case it gets compromised? Oh, wait...
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by yokaze 6y ago
> I tried to reason with them and they don't seem to listen. The problem is, you have put yourself there in the opposition. That they are threatened with losing there jobs is actually reinforcing their belief. Personally, I haven&#
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by yokaze 6y ago
Most cats, that is. 50-70% do not respond to catnip.
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by yokaze 6y ago
> That's a terrible reason. HTTP header values are not necessarily UTF-8, and an implementation that blindly assumes they are is broken. Actually, they are explicitly specified as ASCII ("follow the same generic format as that

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