Youtube comments of k98killer (@k98killer).

  1. The Babylon Bee reported that she blamed the loss on "tricksy Hobbitses." She allegedly said, "It's gone, precious! They stole it from us! Wicked, tricksy, false! Curse them, we hates them!"
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  2. The employee who went to Russia ought to be prosecuted. The cyber security team sounds like they may have been fooled, but the guy who went to America's enemies with military secrets should not get away with this.
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  3. The jabs are totally safe, but, just in case they aren't, nobody involved in producing or distributing them can be held liable in any way -- money is only allowed to flow in one direction: from tax cows to pharma cronies. There's a strong moral case to be made for refusing to engage in this blatant corruption.
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  4. If the Taiwanese navy has any sense, it is developing sea drones similar to the ones Ukraine used to gain naval superiority against Russia.
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  5. Technically, going from 0 users to 1 user is an infinite growth rate. VCs will cream their pants over infinite growth.
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  6. That c++ refactor was the most ridiculous and hilarious thing I've seen in a while. I burst into laughter at the exact same time Primagen did.
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  7. I remember installing Arch on an old laptop when I was a kid. I had used Slackware, Knoppix, Puppy Linux, and Ubuntu, so I figured it wouldn't be that big a deal. Learned quite a lot during that 6 hour process, then erased it and installed Backtrack to experiment with wifi cracking. Those were simpler days.
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  8. "Mindful" for "async" and "holup" for "await" were good suggestions I saw scroll by in the chat.
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  9. The funny thing is that after years of the lame stream media saying "the walls are closing in", they finally are -- on the corrupt Obama administration.
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  10. China would likely first annex some of Taiwan's smaller islands that lie closer to the Chinese mainland. We likely would not see a full-on amphibious assault of the main island until after they secure all the outlying islands.
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  11. Kinda wild how the plentiful fish were fished almost to extinction. Nowadays, the most populous fish tend to be invasive species, at least here in Florida. Mayan cichlids and tilapia are everywhere in the thousands -- at least they are very tasty, and nobody bats an eye when you go home with a dozen or so caught with a cast net.
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  12. He technically was convicted, so they can justify it legally. Good lord, convicted for making a joke on the internet. Wtf England.
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  13. "This year is so stupid." That is a message that the vast majority of the country can agree with.
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  14. Tbh I wanna see videos of political rivals hugging, with AI generated deep fake audio of them complimenting each other and saying stuff like "I disagree with your conclusion but respect your opinion". Imagine how damaging that would be to the current political meta of idiotic toxicity. When faced with better versions of themselves, are they going to say "no, I would never do that"?
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  15. "Everyone does things the convoluted serverless way that I do things, and I don't find goroutines useful, therefore goroutines are useless to everyone."
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  16. I realized after returning home from a three week cross-country driving journey that I needed to organize my tasks, but my kanban instance has been broken for a few months, so I thought "I should make some kind of app". Then I realized that I didn't have 20 hours to spare before getting shit done, so I thought "I should just use an Android to-do app". But then I realized that fixing my phone was one of the tasks and might involve a data wipe, so a to-do app would not work (and besides, they all suck). Finally, I had an epiphany: I grabbed a piece of paper and a pen. This mental clarity would not have been possible had I not given up writing JavaScript.
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  17. Not just the economy. Loads of injustice and authoritarianism, too. Arguably, that was a bigger issue for a lot of voters.
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  18. On the one hand, a loud, fascist moron. On the other, a career criminal whose campaign office is the office of her "foundation" which has received millions of dollars from foreign political contributors. Idiot, bigoted aristocrat vs corrupt, greedy aristocrat. One is an unknown while the other has a well-documented history of criminal activity and pandering to her audience. This country is so very fucked. Talos save us.
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  19. "Power is always dangerous. It attracts the worst and corrupts the best. Power is only given to those who are prepared to lower themselves to pick it up." -- TV Ragnar
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  20. I think that my #1 piece of advice for programming is simply to be prepared to throw out code. Attachment is a vice one must shed on the path to enlightenment -- pragmatically speaking, the first time you implement something, it is likely to be shit; improvement requires flushing it away.
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  21. I guess the Houthis and Rooskies don't remember that the US was drawn into two world wars because our boats were sunk.
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  22. Ah, starting a business, the old standby passive activity. Always love how they just pop up spontaneously to enrich my life.
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  23. “I used to say that when being CEO at Apple wasn’t fun anymore, I’d quit. But now I’ve changed my mind — when being CEO isn’t fun anymore, I’ll just fire people until it is fun again.” -- Michael Scott, CEO of Apple, regarding the massive layoffs undertaken to solve the bozo explosion, a few months before he got fired for it
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  24. Once the pandemic is over, I would definitely be interested in watching a vodcast that covers non-pandemic health information, e.g. new study results, meta-analyses, etc.
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  25. I'm glad that the Aqua Team Security Nautilus Force is out there fighting cyber crime.
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  26. I have a friend who works as a technical product manager. He told me that he has had to fire some devs for performance issues, and he said that he had to first put them on a performance plan for a few months before being able to fire them, but the decision had already been made, so the result of the performance plan didn't matter -- it was just some corporate bullshit that had to be done to cover the company's ass.
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  27. The "new submarine" joke was excellent.
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  28. Idea: snake_case variables are heap allocated (because snakes are found in heaps of wood, etc); camelCase variables are stack allocated (because camels travel in straight lines, like a stack pointer); camel_Snake_Case variables get instantly deleted because it's a terrible way to name a variable.
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  29. I tend to write code twice: the first time, I just play around in a scratchpad repo with spaghetti; the second time, I structure the code more sanely and add tests. The second iteration can be TDD because by then I've figured out what I want the code to do.
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  30. “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”
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  31. "People who can't be fired working in a business that can't fail. Nothing matters. Nobody cares." -- Joseph Wang, former trading* desk operator at the NY Fed (open market policy implementer), describing his observations about bureaucracy from the inside Edit: title correction, spelling error, clarification
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  32. They called SBF the "JP Morgan of crypto" a few months ago. Now I guess the title is taken by CZ in this weird king-of-the-hill robber baron game.
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  33. His ancestors no doubt fought valiantly in the Great Emu War.
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  34. I love this. You've pulled together all the disparate things that have been bouncing around in my head for months into a cohesive and convincing exposition. Thank you, Mark.
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  35. Nah, it was borrowed into existence.
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  36. The part where Harris said "let's just imagine the vaccines actually did work, then there wouldn't be much patience for skepticism" was hilarious.
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  37. I never heard Gingrich participate in a long form conversation like this before. Thoroughly impressive man. The statement "you are probably a deeper thinker than I am; I'm just a politician" seemed particularly humble and self-aware for a politician.
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  38. They are correct that the world is messed up. They just don't realize it's their fault.
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  39. I comment about it being a cheap daycare got censored by ThemTube
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  40. I remember when the entire purpose of having an Apple laptop was for normies to avoid getting haxed by common viruses. Those were simpler times.
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  41. Being healthy and staying fit is non-essential. Sit in your house and watch the TV like a good brainless zombie, citizen!
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  42. That is an incorrect statement. While being neutral and factually accurate are the goals, the Kurzgesagt team has had to issue an apology for the bias and incorrect information in a few of their videos.
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  43. Moral of the story is to put effort into the backstories for your D&D characters, especially if they are supposed to be speakers at your tech conference.
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  44. I love the box I live in. I think inside my box. It's a comfortable box. Nothing exists outside of my box. Outside of my box is the Satan. Therefore, anything outside of my box either does not exist or is evil.
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  45. Gotta admit, this Russian story had an actual porpoise.
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  46. Tim Pool became wildly successful during the pandy because everyone was locked in their houses, glued to their screens looking for news. I observed the success go to his head in real time. He completely lost his mind and started contradicting himself mid sentence, and I imagine that much of his audience abandoned him over it the same way I did. He went from wannabe to hasbeen over the course of a few short years, and his company was in chaos throughout that period: fired his best friend for pushing back too hard during podcasts, fucked his producer in his compound shortly after she got married, etc. It is not surprising that he took the deal -- he still wanted to live that absurd money-burning lifestyle.
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  47. A $250k bond at 0% interest for 5 years saves them about $85k in interest; at 7 years, it saves them about $150k in interest. Somewhat surprising that they would still require a $30k admin fee.
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  48. Life is a lie, there is only code. Through code, I gain work. Through work, I gain projects. Through projects, I gain junior devs. Through junior devs, my compilers chains are broken The code will fuck me.
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  49. This channel has significantly improved over the last few months imo.
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  50. get gud nub
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  51. The GDP chart at 15:00 is not adjusted for CPI or any other inflation metric, so obviously the previous period holding the record for high inflation would have higher nominal GDP growth than the period of relatively mild inflation before it. Not a very convincing argument. When adjusted properly for inflation, the period 1951-1971 saw a real GDP growth of 210%, while the 1971-1991 period saw a real GDP growth of 183% (source: FRED). Pretty lazy to totally ignore inflation in a video about the gold standard, and it's disingenuous to then argue that the fiat standard was better given that it wasn't in real terms.
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  52. I just checked the Wayback Machine archives. The trademark policy was changed September 25th, 2024. The day prior, the original policy was still there and had been unchanged since September 2010. Edit: it was actually changed halfway through September 24th.
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  53. Phone glitched out literally as the video ended and caused my Discord app to send an autoreply agreeing to something when I tried hitting the like button. This dude is right: fucking machines need to be told what to do and stop telling us what to do.
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  54. Whenever I feel unsafe, I put on my plate armor and grab my AR. That typically works pretty well -- no need to fuse with a toilet seat.
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  55. The Russian special military operation in Ukraine has been the longest 3 days of my whole life.
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  56. "It is unreasonable to arrest a man with a history of violent felony convictions with a gun drawn." Really, dude?
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  57. Similarly to how animals tend to evolve into crabs, code for any project with sufficient longevity evolves into spaghetti. AI just skips a few generations and gets you to the spaghetti crab faster.
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  58. Laurie, have you seen the Polish trains controversy? Security researchers had to reverse engineer train firmware to find and bypass malicious DRM that was sabotaging the trains in Poland. It is a fascinating story.
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  59. I am intrigued to see how her story develops, like a biologist observing monkeys without interfering.
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  60. That's a bet I'll take. I wager $0 that we'll get $0.
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  61. "Well regulated" means "maintained and able to function properly". It does not mean "hindered by government bureaucrats" the way that "regulation" does these days. A gun law that would lead to a "well regulated militia" would be one that arms and trains the populace, not one that restricts their arms. Federally-funded training for civies using paintball guns to simulate defending against an invading force would be a good example of a law that leads to a "well regulated militia", as would a federally-funded program for organizing militias under sheriffs -- the militia and the posse comitatus are the same body invoked for different purposes.
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  62. I have been using Python to make reference implementations of stuff I found in math and computer science papers for a while now. Great language for doing that. For example, I recently created a genetic algorithm library; I started in Python, then reimplemented in Go; Go was more performant by a wide margin even before I refactored to use memory pools (which resulted in a 99.94% reduction in benchmark times for simple use cases).
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  63. "Fires were started, including some dumpster fires." Ladies and gentlemen, the Pacific Northwest.
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  64. ESG is the most recent version of the Mark of the Beast.
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  65. That stock footage of the smiling people all flipping off the camera is golden
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  66. One step closer to the Empty Internet. Soon, someone will hook up an LLM to write issues and comments in issue threads and even some shitty broken code repositories, then hook it up to a finite state machine and some other shit to add emoji reactions to issue comments, and then let it smolder in the background for a few years on a thousand bot accounts. And when GitHub strikes back, there will be casualties, and actually useful code will get deleted.
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  67. On a separate note, the interlude in Chopin's Funeral March is a fittingly beautiful piece for that part of the video.
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  68. COBOL is the language with the power of Chronos/Saturn: it is the past, the present, and the future. The majority of the global financial system uses COBOL. Let that sink in.
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  69. I remember the days when EcmaScript didn't even have proper classes. Back in my day, we used functions named in PascalCase and then prefaced calls to them with the "new" keyword.
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  70. Well, actually, they have been losing their anti-trust case, and their motion was denied that would have allowed them to combine individual arbitration actions against them into a class action to save money (since according to the previous SSA they had to pay the forced arbitration costs). This change means they no longer have to pay the arbitration costs and forces users to use courts instead. They also added a sneaky "you consent to this if you didn't delete your account before this was updated" provision to try to force the tens of thousands of ongoing individual arbitration cases into a class action lawsuit. There is nothing admirable about this. Edit: originally stated they lost the case and an appeal, but corrected to state they have been losing motions in the initial case which has been ongoing for over a year now.
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  71. Fun fact: if you keep your money in a credit union, you won't be subject to a bail-in. Credit union members are already equity owners whereas depositors of commercial banks are unsecured creditors. I am also fairly confident that credit unions will not have to resort to negative interest rates because they are not structured to be wildly irresponsible/unstable the way commercial banks are.
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  72. "Adult human female" seems pretty reasonable. Every rule has exceptions.
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  73. "Hey Windows, download every cheese burger image on the Internet."
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  74. My most fulfilling work is stuff I do on my own initiative. The stuff that people ask me to make tends to be boring and frustrating shit.
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  75. Bigger flex: open a terminal in a split pane within vim running within a terminal within VS Code that has the vim extension installed. It's like a factory for your factory factory. Tom would be so proud.
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  76. The final solution to the "The Undefined Behavior Question" Question was to terminate the membership. Lovely.
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  77. Holy shit. $2k in transaction fees is totally insane.
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  78. Reminds me of that one guy who started living in the house of an expelled Palestinian family: "if I didn't steal it, someone else would have".
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  79. I love the fact that the YouTube AI decided to add a climate change fact check blurb to a video that isn't about climate change.
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  80. Don't worry, bro. At the rate the Fed is printing currency, we'll all be running trillion dollar companies eventually.
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  81. I would vote for Jimmy Dore. I don't agree with him on everything, but he has integrity, which is hard to find these days.
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  82. When someone shoots an unarmed pregnant woman in the chest as she and her husband try to flee a wartorn area, I don't care what the ethnicity of the shooter is. The claim that criticism of genocidal slaughter is "antisemitic" is itself antisemitic: it implies that genocidal slaughter is an intrinsic characteristic of the Jewish ethnicity. I disagree with that implication almost as much as I condemn the murder of pregnant women. It is not antisemitism to criticize Israeli war crimes, nor is it antisemitism to criticize Israeli or US politicians when they use ethnic cleansing rhetoric. The people dismissing such criticisms with the baseless accusation of "antisemitism" are acting in bad faith, lack any moral compass, and/or are braindead propaganda parrots.
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  83. I'm still laughing about that article that said "peaceful protest occurs without incident; 3 police injured after 20 arrests" lmao
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  84. Proposal: each State should enact an ostraka law whereby each federal official will be exiled from the State pursuant to a referendum on the matter after their term in office has ended.
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  85.  @Matt-yg8ub  not at all true. Ukraine has naval superiority because they can sink a Russian ship that costs a billion dollars to build with a small swarm of expendable drones that each cost just a few thousand dollars to build. The Russian ships are not capable of defending themselves against small stealth drones.
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  86. I use my old Raspberry Pi as a provate git repo host on my LAN. Among many other repos, it includes a repo in which I keep my dream journal, which is a plain text file that is formatted with the date followed by paragraphs, with each entry separated by new lines. I'm definitely a fan.
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  87. Sounds like the guy just doesn't understand what he's talking about. Goroutines are useful for both concurrency and parallelism.
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  88. Since Rust was named after a parasitic fungal disease, the term shouldn't be "oxidize" but rather "infect" or just "sicken".
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  89. Technically wrong about mathematics being something purely discovered. There are provable paradoxes at the center of mathematics due to the axioms used in its construction, specifically in set theory as the foundation of all mathematics. Russell's Paradox is the most well known.
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  90. The latest VS Code update included a "bugfix" which was actually a feature change: instead of leaving Python docstrings highlighted as strings, some guy created a pull request that changed them to be highlighted as comments, which is incorrect. There has been a lot of pushback for suddenly changing all the themes in VS Code to incorrectly highlight docstrings. The guy thought he was correcting a wrong behavior, but it ended up being just his personal preference being foisted upon everybody else. So now there is a pull request open to revert his change, and there is an issue about making docstrings and block comments separate tokens for highlighting purposes.
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  91. "Not your keys, not your coins." - Max Keiser "It isn't clear to me the benefit of betting on a losing horse when the experience of history has shown us that there are only two real cryptocurrencies. So, listen to shitcoiners at your own peril." - Peter B. Jordanson
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  92. I grabbed a stack of silver to caress instead of a stiff drink.
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  93. The worst hell I can imagine is 24/7 jury duty.
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  94.  @freeglu  at first glance, I thought this was a serious comment. Poe's Law strikes again.
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  95. You should always have your beans, bullets, bullion, and buddies organized in case of a crisis.
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  96. I think that "monotropism" is a concept you will appreciate with regard to the way our minds work when engaging a topic.
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  97. I love how all of these videos occur out in neature, cuz of how neat it is, and they're published on youtube so people can see how neat it is, instead of just Matt and Cooter knowin' it. Gotta try to pack a heat-- try to pack a gun, cuz we got walkers, bobcats, and biting-goats. How neat is that?
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  98. Brilliant guy, but he got a few things wrong. First, neural networks have come a long way since he gave this talk. Now, LSTM networks/neural Turing machines are the major brains behind NLP. Google Translate, for example, is a series of networks that can each translate a human language into a series of vectors representing meaning, share them across a neural interface, and then translate back into a human language. Second, dinosaurs didn't go extinct: tens of thousands of them fly around to this day. Birds and mammals survived the K-T event because they were adaptable. If you look at corvids, they have language skills that far exceed that of all non-human apes; they have more advanced skills in making and using tools than most apes; and they are able to teach others in their flocks about things, perpetuating knowledge through multiple generations. Corvids have a very different brain structure without a neocortex, but their evolutionary history converged upon the same abilities. It is unfortunate that he dismissed both neural networks and non-neocortical brain structures, but he will probably change his opinions.
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  99. Why was the media so united around covid messaging? Three words: Trusted News Initiative.
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  100. Ah, the good old halfth amendment.
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  101. The best example I've seen in a while of congratulations/I'm sorry.
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  102. If it works like this, Strawberry will still not be able to count the number of Rs in the word "strawberry".
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  103. Wait a minute. Asmodeus is a Goetic King of love and lust. Punching Solomon "hundreds of miles into the air" and then taking the throne sounds a lot like he forced Solomon to astrally project and then possessed his body. Before discounting this interpretation, consider Solomon's numerous wives. Edit: this is highly speculative. To my knowledge, one's body cannot be possessed without the consent of the original inhabitant.
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  104. Based and nontoxic.
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  105. It's not gay if you're wearing socks
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  106. One of my friends once was driving along with his roommate at dusk and got stopped by a cop because his license plate light was dim, but as the cop walked up, he saw the lights were working and yelled "nevermind, you're good" and gave a thumbs up before walking back to his car. We have pretty good police in our city who have a lot of community outreach programs. I have met and talked with the former police chief, and he was also the lead saxophone player for the police jazz band.
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  107.  Mateo Nieves  more importantly, RICO is a federal law, so the FBI would have to get involved. There might be some state equivalent that could be employed.
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  108. As a Floridian, I would much rather keep him as governor here than relinquish him to the den of vipers in DC. He's a good man, and the most competent governor we've had in my lifetime.
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  109. You fork what you love, not what you hate. I would never stick my code in something I hate, that's for sure.
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  110. Slow decline was probably saturation: after the same question has been asked and closed as a duplicate a few hundred times, the number of links pointing to the answer will be high enough that you're likely to just find the answer instead of having to ask it another time. That's my theory. Edit: also, the toxicity of SO was a likely factor. That was the reason I stopped using it: arguments with power-tripping mods who arbitrarily edited my questions and temporarily banned me for having the audacity to want my contributions to be a certain way.
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  111. Never trust a buck that says "New York Reserve Note"
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  112. "Anonymized browsing data" is like "we put our users in a blender and sold the slurry, so it's okay".
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  113. I've been using vim since I was a kid. Always been sufficient for my purposes. As far as I'm concerned, it's a black box with lightly colored text and a unique input method. If I ever have to do a significant amount of code editing via a non-graphical interface, I'll give neovim a try. Sounds cool. Hopefully it's compatible with my screen rc file. Pixel pushing in an rc file is a real pain in the ass.
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  114. The entire concept of "continuous delivery" seems to be something like "discover footguns as quickly as possible by firing them as many times as possible in production systems".
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  115. To be fair, one of the main criticisms of SBF by the broader crypto scene prior to the revelation of fraud was that he was attempting to sway policy makers to create regulations that benefited him and harmed everyone else. He was not trying to stave off new regulations -- he was trying to bring them on in such a way that his competitors would be ruined by them.
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  116. I've heard that this has been an unmitigated dumpster fire from a friend who works as an infosec specialist who does incident response, memory analysis, and the like.
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  117. You have a fucking-oven? How does that work?
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  118. I'm pretty sure that Seattle's application for FEMA funds was denied a few days ago.
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  119. I agree. Removing the monetary incentive will mean that people will only make real porn for artistic expression. It will be a new dawn for erotica, and then the AI bots will learn how to emulate that as well.
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  120. ​ @AdamPippert possible duplicate comment. Closed for being off-topic and opinionated.
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  121. This is why I examine the code of every python package I use and write my own utils whenever I can.
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  122. You mean Carlin?
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  123. I think Jack missed the point with the SS trust fund running out. The net trust fund outflows are already costing the federal government because they have to pay back the trust fund to pay the outflows since they already borrowed and spent everything in the fund. The SS trust owns IOUs from the feds that are payable on demand -- all previous net inflows have been borrowed and spent by the feds. The increasing pace of outflows is the issue because it means the feds have to borrow to fund those outflows since the feds don't have enough other income to pay back the SS trust fund. When the trust fund runs dry, if it causes a political event, it will also likely create a market event for psychological reasons if the devaluation has not already been priced in; if the devaluation gets priced in, it will either hasten the decline or be shocking enough that DC gets its act together and cuts out the fat.
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  124.  @mgord9518  Centralization is a measure of network structure. The Bitcoin network is more decentralized than the Ethereum or Monero network because there are many times more nodes and they are distributed geographically.
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  125. The parasitism of the state has become a fatal burden. It seems obvious to me that government has become a terminal illness blighting the nations. Whether the cure will be bloodletting or tearing off the leeches has yet to be determined.
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  126. It's technically not even US dollars being traded -- it's just called that. The international monetary system is a network of networks of private banks using double-entry accounting and leveraged clearing/settlement systems. They just write "USD" next to the numbers in their ledgers.
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  127. Jeff Snider and Emil Kalinowski recently revisited the theory about inventory build-up they noticed in October being a predictor for a 2022 recession. They also made a video about it last year as well. Inventory cycle + eurodollar future curve inversions + recent TSY yield curve inversion + crude oil and food price spikes = apparent recession looming in the near future.
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  128. The finger snapping reminds me of the Ugandan Knuckles meme.
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  129.  @aruanamic8766  I prefer to scout my maps beforehand so I know where to find the health packs.
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  130. The issue with calling this "a win" is that Bit Boy can just refile the same lawsuit after the legal defense money has been refunded. What should be done is to countersue and get an injunctive ruling barring Bit Boy from filing the same frivolous lawsuit in the future, or, if the suit isn't actually dropped and is only being communicated that way as a ploy, to get it dismissed with prejudice. Any further lawfare harassment would then be in violation of a court order and a case of contempt of court.
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  131.  @FaithfulMC  do you want some unhinged employee at a big pharma biolab making a bioweapon that targets the bloodlines of people on his shit list?
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  132. That story about the backends being cached bytecode sounds scary similar to JDSL.
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  133. Mark et al. have been on point. Really satisfying to see a channel grow like this over the last several years. Top notch. Also, if you want help moderating to remove the impersonators/scammers, I volunteer.
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  134. Update: after 2 months, the change was finally reverted.
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  135. It is not that capitalism is inherently corrupt. The fundamental issue is that our monetary system is corrupt. One of the central tenets of communism is the centralization of credit and monetary authority in a central bank; Marx even said that capitalism sowed seeds of self-destruction, and his rationale was the creation of circulating credit by the wealthiest elites, allowing them to concentrate ever more wealth and power at the expense of everyone else. In a sound monetary system without Cantillon effects, this would not be as great an issue because credit would be limited in supply to the actual commodity capital stock and thus have to be expended to generate a return, so only capital allocators who make good decisions would increase their levels of capital. In the current system, whoever borrows the most and fails the hardest gets bailed out the most with freshly issued credit, diluting the capital stock and devaluing the labor and savings of workers, and so the lack of destruction of capital-destroyers destroys the system of capitalism as a whole.
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  136. If the IA hackers were just script kiddies, one could make sense of the situation by positing that they lazily contrived a random explanation to justify their chaotic neutral alignment. (For background, I was in an IRC chat with the script kiddies who perpetrated the BART hack while it was going down. I observed as they debated what to say to journalists and what to do with the personal user data they had exfiltrated. I argued that they shouldn't dox the users of BART since it made no sense given their alleged gripes against BART for victimizing their passengers, and they had agreed not to by the time I logged off. In the morning, they had doxxed everyone with the same lame excuse for their actions. Chaos is not rational.)
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  137. Only two things are guaranteed in this world: debt and taxes.
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  138. The cure for male loneliness is to sail the high seas with your bros. I've never met a happy, married man. Just saying.
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  139. The answer to the original question is: enough. The failed bird wings died out. If you do not understand that concept, then I urge you to obtain a basic understanding of how natural selection works before we move onto the molecular basis for organ evolution.
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  140. This literally has nothing to do with capitalism. This is all a result of the fractional reserve fiat monetary system. Literally everyone knew in 2018 and 2019 that this year would be a recession year due to yield curve inversion. Wake up people; this is a gaslighting campaign.
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  141. I recommend making a ruana cloak out of fleece for keeping warm and comfy/cozy. (The controversy over "comfy womfy" vs "cozy wozy" remains unresolved, so use whichever term you like.) It is basically a blanket that doesn't fall off/unwrap easily, and you can use it as a blanket when not wearing it. All you have to do is measure and cut when using fleece or felt. For an outdoor cloak to keep the rain or snow off, you'll want canvas or linen treated with beeswax for waterproofing, and that will require a bit of sewing to hem the edges and prevent fraying. Skip cutting a large hole for the neck if you want to use it for warmth.
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  142.  @Tempusverum  I'm not saying it's from drinking the blood of children or eating their adrenal glands, but them globalists be doing weird stuff, so it's technically plausible.
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  143. Can you imagine anything more infuriating than being lied to blatantly while everyone knows it? Can you imagine anything more destructive of their credibility than an obvious and failing attempt to gaslight?
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  144. "We are taking swift, decisive action today to convene a committee to monitor the situation, consider all the factors, and admonish financial institutions. There is no cause for alarm."
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  145. Q: How do you hold an out-of-control fascist state accountable when the courts, ballot box, and soap box have all failed? A: Use the cartridge box.
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  146. And to ensure no further errors, they want to warrantlessly surveil every transaction in America. Because competence.
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  147. I bet Netanyahu DMed Trump on Twitter right before the announcement and just said "watch this".
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  148. Simple maths: it costs nothing to hold stocks that weren't bought on margin; it costs the short sellers 20-30% in interest to hold their short positions. Eventually, they'll have to capitulate, and there is absolutely no reason to believe the reports that the hedgies closed their positions considering all the other blatant lies the media has been pushing.
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  149. It's really sad that you lost it all in a conveniently timed boating accident in your backyard pool. Tragic, really. A damn shame.
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  150. "Overwhelmed with complexity" is a generally good description of writing frontends with React.
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  151. ​​ @JeffHanke  I've recently set up a small server running Kanboard and made several, publicly viewable boards relating to important goals so that others can track my progress. Maybe this experiment will prove the technique to be useful for streamlining communication in a way that does not dodge accountability, but, at the very least, having a clear set of tasks makes it easier to stay focused in my experience.
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  152. Eurodollar futures inverted and remained inverted for several days. It would be interesting to hear you converse with Jeff Snider and Emil Kalinowski about the bond market and its implications both for the global economy and each sovereign issuer's domestic economy.
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  153. When I was in high school, I was a tech aide for the head IT guy, and there was a precedent established over the previous few years that the tech aides were hackers. I and my fellow tech aids continued that legacy but we were far less disruptive and more responsible with our shenanigans, and we reported everything we found (eventually). Fun times. The closest I got to being in trouble were a couple of experiments that I forgot to clean up at the end of a period and had to go manually fix, but I was constantly being sent around the school to fix things anyway, so it was never a big deal -- just a "go fix it, and don't do it again". Edit: spelling
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  154. I remember reading about that shitshow last year or maybe January this year in the immediate aftermath of the miner hacking scandal (hackers were spoofing hotspot locations and draining most of the network rewards). Their model never made any sense, so I'm not surprised their scheme collapsed. Meanwhile, I'm slowly working on a real solution with no team or fanfare.
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  155. At least 19 people have been killed and many more injured by these "peaceful protesters". Hundreds of small businesses have been looted, destroyed, and burned to rubble, ruining the lives and livelihoods of the owners and destroying the jobs of the employees. The Portland rioters are literally attacking a federal courthouse with explosives, and at least one person has a severe leg injury (may require amputation) due to it. Several people have been blinded by high-intensity lasers wielded by rioters. How can any rational human with two brain cells to rub together characterize what these "protesters" are doing as anything less than outright terrorism? There is nothing manufactured about this civil unrest.
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  156. They're completely [honked]
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  157.  @Parrysweets  co-morbidities* Young people with no commodities will get fukt by inflation.
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  158. Even detractors who criticize DeSantis agree with my assessment that he's the best governor we've had in almost 30 years.
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  159. They literally have three sixes in their logo. Cringe and dumbpill.
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  160. Do not wait for a silicon messiah. Make sure she does all the physical therapy exercises and give her plenty of support. Through exercise and stretching, the spine can be brought back into alignment, and a strong back is a worthy virtue for anyone to obtain. The AI salvation meme reminds me of the Preachers of Death and Afterworldsmen. I hope your wife recovers and remains strong, but hoping for something is largely worthless -- take meaningful action, and place your hope in the outcomes of what you can do now.
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  161. I appreciate the offer for a penny, but I'm afraid the shipping costs would be disproportionate.
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  162. Monero has been a pain in the ass to use in my experience. I shitposted in the github issues because I've had to waste hours updating a whole chain of interlocking software to just check my wallet balance multiple times this year. Nobody is taking the whole "minor patches shouldn't introduce breaking changes" thing seriously, and it has been the standard for decades.
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  163. Who are you quoting?
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  164. Hilarious, but there is an inaccuracy: Britain already had a "people's vote", called the "brexit referendum", and it was the largest vote in the nation's history.
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  165. The nurses and doctors dancing on the graves of patients makes perfect sense: the government has subsidized their industry with freshly printed dollars -- there is no greater privilege than to be a cantillionaire aristocrat.
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  166. A little awkward to be towering above the interviewee like that. Maybe should have done the interview sitting down lol
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  167. Hopefully, those cops will at some point be "disarmed and taken into custody" and held accountable for being cowardly traitors.
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  168. They are not the first to release model weights under an open source license. They are just the most recent and thus the most capable. There are quite a few open source licensed LLMs, and open source researchers using these open LLMs pioneered the chain-of-thought system starting at the end of 2023.
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  169.  @arpadkovacs2116  yes, but aren't they still in development?
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  170. In theory, sure. But it is an intractable problem. There's often no way to determine which was the primary causal effect leading to death. The only real problem is that the media refuses to report the nuance.
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  171. They really should have called it "Crablang" instead of "Rust": it would make more sense why the syntax is so fucky; the borrow checker could be called the "claw watcher" that makes sure that anything that grabs memory holds onto it or explicitly releases it; the Box type could be called a Bucket, so that anything dropped into the bucket can be grabbed by multiple crabs; etc.
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  172. Leftist* Liberals believe in rule of law. Nobody in their right mind condones this character lynching; leftists are the most clearly out-of-their-mind lunatics in the country.
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  173. Lol Styx's humor went right over Tim's head. "What's that supposed to mean?" Lol
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  174. Fearless cost abstrurrency. Rust isn't a cult. It's a Foundation™
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  175. This is a crazy timeline. Devs need to pause the simulation and do some maintenance.
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  176. I, for one, believe that Ourguy panders the best.
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  177.  @xelspeth  I don't write JavaScript. I gave that up. Did you not read the original comment? You just want me to relapse. Imagine what that would do to my family.
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  178. The only thing I don't understand about this comment is why this isn't even has not a grammars.
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  179. As Trump said very candidly about US forces in Syria, "we're protecting the oil".
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  180. I'd say it is more brilliant than pretentious.
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  181. Josiah Gravelle I implore you to explore the evidence for yourself. The God of the Gaps is an especially weak argument as scientists find data that continually fill those gaps. The evidence is overwhelmingly in support of models involving natural selection processes. We understand a molecular basis for genetic mutations, and we are rapidly gaining an understanding of the embryo development processes of various species--which provides even further evidence of conservation and development of genes through species evolution. Everyone should keep an open mind, but not so open that his/her brain falls out.
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  182. As a non-party affiliated American, I agree: things are crazy; shit is whack; the pendulum swings ever more wildly against the interests of the majority of us peons.
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  183. During a currency devaluation/high inflation/hyperinflation period, there is never enough purchasing power. Governments then print money thinking that they can create purchasing power out of thin air, but they instead further dilute and dissipate the purchasing power that existed. This is a downward spiral into complete economic obliteration.
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  184. That was probably the real purpose of the stimulus. The breakdown in global trade meant that dollar-denominated loans in foreign countries would go bust if there wasn't some stopgap solution. The Fed opened up currency swap lines with other central banks for that purpose, but the efficacy of swap lines is limited. I suspect that this is why the Fed pushed for more fiscal action: to bail out the rest of the world through importing consumer goods.
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  185. "I do believe...that it will be either within the regulated banking system, where understanding any kind of fractionalization and reserves and the like is sort of time tested..." Ah yes, the time-honored tradition of banks getting too crazy with their leverage and failing over and over again, wiping out depositors or profiting off of government bail-outs. Glad to know these uber-competent people will maintain control over our monetary system. Hooray.
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  186. In exchange for 150 Palestinian women and children held hostage by Israel
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  187. The Fed is likely to go first, though. Their realized losses and negative net interest margin (i.e. expense) are huge. Go to FRED and look up "remittances due Treasury" to see for yourself. They'll be bankrupt by the end of the year.
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  188. I was half expecting the "well, we're here in Berkeley" sentence to end with "so we'll add 'protesting' as a hobby".
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  189. DeSantis is the best governor we've had in Florida my whole life. I really hope he runs for reelection here rather than trying to become POTUS. I wouldn't wish involvement in the federal government upon my enemies, much less people I admire.
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  190. Definitely have this guy back for more interviews.
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  191. The leftists are largely braindead Nazis at this point, including the antisemitism and advocating for concentration camps.
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  192. "Scary Poppins" that's a good one.
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  193. In the first half of this week, the Fed has issued just over $300B in loans through the primary credit facility ($148B), other credit extensions ($143B), and the new BTFP ($12B). For comparison, US banks were sitting on ~$625B in unrealized losses, and about half of that was in the available-for-sale (AFS) bucket with the other half in hold-to-maturity (HTM). "Nothing to see here."
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  194. I can't wait to read the story about how someone painted "it's ok to eat bacon" on the street in front of a Mosque. That would be hilarious, and the hypocritical reporting would be psychotic.
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  195. The vast majority of covid relief funds went into corporate coffers.
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  196. To be fair, Pelosi is more a piece of shit for not leaking the existence of Stellar Winds and other Bush policies trampling our civil liberties than she is for leaking partisan bullshitery.
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  197. Redoing crates to have a hierarchical namespace is an ongoing discussion in the Rust community, unless they resolved not to do it within the last couple of weeks since the last time I read about it.
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  198.  @ficolas2  they'd be constants, not variables
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  199. The term "conspiracy theory" was created by the CIA as part of Project Mockingbird to quell questions and squash dissent, because they are so corrupt that they couldn't afford having an aware and informed populace opposing their evil machinations.
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  200. La angla en ĉi tiu video ne estas helpema. Mi volis aŭskulti esperantajn parolaĵojn :/
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  201. Living in Florida, where we regularly endure devestating hurricanes, pretty much everyone has the mindset of hunkering down and just getting through. Everyone and their mother had a generator and stored up food. That being said, we would have been pretty screwed without the governor getting additional gasoline trucked into the area.
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  202. Python > JavaScript unless you need to do stuff in a browser or build something you should have built in Go.
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  203. Let's not forget that she literally got her political start by auditioning for the Justice Democrats PAC founded by Cenk et al.
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  204. That is part of the problem. The other part of the problem is the latest form of communism, intersectional cultural marxism. Communism is a disease that represents an existential threat to humankind. Only the plague has killed more people than communism.
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  205. Should've paid in silver and mercury from the mine.
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  206. The Kodak Moment was about preparing for war with China imo. War has no place in a free market, that is why it isn't capitalism; but if we can't make our own meds, China could kill tens of thousands of Americans by just closing off trade in those precursor chemicals. My guess is that Trump can see we're at the brink of war with China, so it is a necessary distortion to temporarily prop up a business that will have a captive market pretty soon and continue the slow grind of deregulation in the background. None of this debt shit will matter once the nukes drop.
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  207. My late uncle was a "family lawyer" in Illinois for years. He eventually became so depressed from the work that he bought a big rig and became a trucker instead.
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  208. There's nothing noble about them trying to force 30k individual arbitration cases into a class action to save them money on the heels of their loss in the anti-trust case.
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  209. That Stolas sigil seems to attract griefers pretty intensely. There's new shit on it every time I look at it.
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  210.  @butwhoasked1821  After feminism is introduced, the blobs stop reproducing because half of them work until their ovaries dry up and the other half become MGTOWs (BGTOWs?), leading to the deleterious behavioral sink of a fully-industrialized society. If he then does not implement the trait "immigration", the population will eventually collapse.
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  211.  @3rdeye931  Comedy? What are you talking about? The Babylon Bee is a respected news network with high standards of journalistic integrity. I'm just stating the facts.
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  212. I think everyone in politics is playing 1D chess.
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  213. Some implementations of Community Exchange Systems (CES) or Local Exchange Trading Systems (LETS) include demurrage for those with high positive balances and transaction limits for those with high negative balances to encourage recirculation and rebalancing. It might be a valid tool in some scenarios, though it evidently does not work at all in the Euro system.
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  214. "You go walk out in the woods and you're in serious trouble." Lol wtf? Has Timmy never gone camping?
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  215. Do not accept the mark of the Fed.
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  216. Dr. Adam Back proposed hashcash decades ago to solve the email spam issue. It should work well in any message routing protocol: if the included proof-of-work is below the routing threshold, just drop the message. You can't use money in a transport layer because the money transfer would have to be worked out via the transport layer, but you could use hashcash to prevent transport layer spam and then build the money transfer gating into a layer above.
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  217.  @spankyjeffro5320  the performance plan thing only applies to those who do not do what is required of them. The job requires X and they don't get X done, so they get fired with extra steps.
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  218. @ Europe would have to become a federation to have any hope of acting cohesively the way America can.
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  219. The World Economic Forum literally has three sixes in its logo, and they are obsessed with creating a "new social contract" to force green ideology on people. No thank you.
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  220. Such losses could have been avoided with adequate interest rate hedging via swaps. The unrealized losses combined with almost 90% of SVB's funding being from deposits triggered the bank run which then forced them to realize losses that outstripped their capital.
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  221. They're not wasting your tax dollars. They're wasting your great grandchildren's tax dollars.
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  222. Clearly, the time has come for an HTML vs Zig comparison article written by ChatGPT.
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  223. Brondo* has the electrolytes that plants crave.
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  224. "Nobody is talking about invading Moscow" -- Matthew Mezinkskis "For God's sake, [Putin] cannot remain in power" -- President Biden
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  225. Is 4:45am still too early to give up fighting the insomnia and have my first cup of coffee for the day? To clank or not to clank is the question.
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  226. @420sumthing "You think many military personnel would turn into mindless drones and support a tyrannical government?" Have you read anything about the past century of military history? This has happened countless times.
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  227.  @loupasternak  yeah, but why would you buy and sell the same NFT multiple times? Pretty sure it is just part of the NFT grift to charge huge transaction fees.
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  228. I do not like Rust as a language, but the nuanced discussions around memory management brought about by Rustaceans are great. I've implemented several bespoke virtual machines for creating compact cryptographic proving systems, but they have not had anywhere nearly this much detail in their memory models.
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  229. There are no heroes in geopolitics. There are only villains and their victims.
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  230. @defeqel6537  definitely. And this also implies writing code in a way that is easily testable so you know what code to throw out.
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  231. Duckduckgo is a search engine, not a browser.
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  232. For those who are technically inclined, it is worthwhile to test new setups with small amounts: make sure that you can send to and from the multi-sig wallet before committing large parts of your hodl.
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  233. I'll be happy to have DeSantis as POTUS some day, but I really don't want him to run in 2024 -- he's the best governor we've had in this state my whole life. I don't know a single Floridian who does not support him at this point because he has really walked the walk.
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  234. 6:40 anyone have any idea what he's talking about with "coin pool is gonna be better than lightning network"? Edit: it is covered starting around 43:50
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  235. Imagine trying to explain the banking system to someone who believes that the Fed can print money.
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  236. According to FRED, in the period 1951-1971, GDP grew 210% in real (inflation-adjusted) terms, while it grew 183% in real terms for the 1971-1991 period. It shows the opposite of what EE argued. That's why he didn't adjust it for inflation: he has a narrative thread to spin.
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  237.  @littledancingfawn  yeah, those green skinned people crawling out from under rocks have a much less crazy rationale for screaming "we love Satan" than he reports -- I really think Jones would be more widely accepted if he just provided a more nuanced view.
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  238. The runtime is configurable but uses 32kb of memory by default. This is very much not simply JavaScript on an embedded device -- this is more akin to compiling TypeScript to a small form of embedded Java.
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  239. Dantalion appeared to me in a dream almost a year ago. At the time, my explanation for the amorphous appearance was that the entity had no appearance and my mind was simply filling in the gaps, though I had no explanation for why the being communicated nothing directly. While I did not perceive a distinct book in his right hand, it seemed like he was compiling observations and recording them in some way with his right hand. I did not realize that the entity had been Dantalion until a few months later when reading the Ars Goetia.
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  240. @BJ-dl8cl  he died for pissing off the Jewish authorities and "leading the children of Israel astray", according to the Gospels.
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  241. Lightning is a payment clearing network, not a payment settling network. Settling always occurs at the base layer.
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  242. Winston Churchill supposedly once said something like "Americans can always be trusted to do the right thing, once all other possibilities have been exhausted." A new presidency just means more exhaustion in different ways. The best we can hope for is that they fix some of the things that were already exhausted by previous presidencies.
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  243. Actually, people's grandmas are being held in solitary confinement on misdemeanor trespassing charges. Pretty blatantly corrupt. DC is a shit stain on our nation.
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  244. A hex grid properly implemented is actually a 3-axis grid system that can be modeled as the surface of a cube. Trying to do it with a staggered 2x2 will result in all sots of hacky math issues.
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  245. Are you your mind, your breath, or your words/thoughts? Or are you all of these and more?
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  246.  @jonas_badstuebner  I rewatched the original clip. The second guy accepts the statement that in-process concurrency is important, but in-process parallelism is unimportant specifically for web servers. The first guy didn't seem to know what he was trying to say and just agreed with the second guy. Anywho, I think they are still probably wrong with their implicit assertion that half-hyperthread Kunernetes pods were more scalable per dollar than larger servers with more resources. In the long term, it is cheaper and easier to scale vertically than horizontally, so why use a tech stack that guarantees you'll be unable to scale vertically if needed? Go's concurrency model is good in both scenarios afaik.
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  247. I still think we can solve the alignment problem with Maziov's Three Rules: 1. More gooder 2. More better 3. Better good
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  248. Elias Azar Fools are those who pretend to understand evolution when they really do not. Fools are those who project their own guilt upon everyone else and claim that they believe something as a form of escapism, rather than realizing that people have actual reasons for believing what they believe. Evolution is scientifically established as the way biological inheritance works in reality. If you want to live somewhere other than reality, feel free to do so. But don't try to convince others to join you in your psychosis.
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  249. Is his name really Admin, or does he just run all the tech support for the family?
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  250. He has a lot of things very wrong, especially his misunderstanding of how QE functions.
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  251. It is better here than elsewhere, but there have still been 20-30% price hikes in food items since this whole plandemic began, and gasoline cost is higher than it was before as well. Costs of services are rising as a result of the living cost increases as well.
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  252. Sounds like they did not understand the concept of removing or updating something that turns out to be a problem.
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  253. The best argument for Bitcoin price appreciation is the limited supply of coins and the unlimited supply of new fiat currency. The Federal Reserve Note is worth less than 98¢ per dollar because they have realized losses in excess of twice their capital; if you disregard their losses, they have 200x leverage. Fiat is a dead man walking.
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  254. He has spoken many times about his encounter with Stolas and how a series of dreams/visions inspired him to undertake his mission of editing and republishing old occult manuscripts. I believe this is what he referred to at the end of his video.
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  255. 50 U.S.C. § 842: The Communist Party of the United States, or any successors of such party regardless of the assumed name, whose object or purpose is to overthrow the Government of the United States, or the government of any State, Territory, District, or possession thereof, or the government of any political subdivision therein by force and violence, are not entitled to any of the rights, privileges, and immunities attendant upon legal bodies created under the jurisdiction of the laws of the United States or any political subdivision thereof; and whatever rights, privileges, and immunities which have heretofore been granted to said party or any subsidiary organization by reason of the laws of the United States or any political subdivision thereof, are terminated: Provided, however, That nothing in this section shall be construed as amending the Internal Security Act of 1950, as amended
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  256. I have a cousin who lives in Minneapolis. Methinks that part of my extended family has no ability to logic their way through the ramifications of voting for corrupt asshole Democrats.
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  257. "How dare you! I should be in school!" - Gerta
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  258.  @de4dbutdre4ming  Internal email between Steam employees that surfaced during the Wolfire suit: "We wouldn't be okay with selling games on Steam if they are available at better prices on other stores, even if they don't use Steam keys." The case is still ongoing over a year later, so I was incorrect in my statement that they lost the case, but this, along with other internal communications brought out during discovery, evidences a monopolistic practice that is the basis for Steam's more recent legal troubles. It is not just Steam keys -- they used their market dominance to pressure game publishers not to sell the same game on other stores at lower prices even without providing Steam keys.
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  259. "We made a mistake, but it's too late, it's a sunk cost, so we should just continue in the mistake, because correcting the mistake would not be moral or prudent."
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  260. Post-quantum crypto is lattice cryptography. Elliptic curves are theoretically vulnerable to quantum computers.
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  261. Would love to see an analysis of Python's garbage collection as well, if that is even possible. Iirc, the GC in Python runs at the end of every scope execution and removes anything that was referenced only in that scope (really, it uses reference counts and frees memory of anything that reaches a ref count of 0, but that typically happens at the end of a scope) -- I might be wrong or out of date with this.
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  262.  @asain3586  Sounds like you don't actually know anything about the case. I recommend you alleviate your ignorance on the topic. The fact that they lost the case shows that they were engaging in practices that had the effect of fixing prices higher for consumers in violation of anti-trust laws.
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  263. Fwiw, the American populace owns more guns than the top 10 militaries of the world combined. Any invasion of the American homeland would fail because we still have a bit of "fuck you" left in us.
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  264. Let the hate flow through you. Come to the dark side; we have dental insurance and matching contributions to your 401k.
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  265.  @Stevarooni  just don't give those goddamn Canucks any zombie dragons and it'll work just fine
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  266. To be fair, though the debt snowball strategy does not optimize for accruing less interest cost over all, it does have two things going for it: 1) when the smallest debt is paid off, the debt maintenance payments for it cease, allowing the debtor to roll those payments into paying off the next debt; 2) the psychological effect of getting that small win at the outset helps maintain the resolve to complete the mission.
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  267. I have seen a handful of videos of beluga whales retrieving things people dropped at a dock. There are apparently a lot of very friendly beluga whales around Russia.
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  268. I'm an Agnostic Satanist: I am not sure if a Satan exists, or what such a Satan would even be like, but there's a part of me that hopes there is one.
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  269.  @LordMegatron818  According to the Bible, who wiped out most of the earth on a whim? Who hardened Pharaoh's heart and killed the Egyptian babies? Who instituted slavery? According to Isaiah (45:7), who is the author of evil?
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  270. Should make a video about Brazil becoming an authoritarian country at some point. Their own government officials are engaged in civil disobedience.
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  271.  @xelspeth  making a decentralized data synchronization library is one of my to-do list items; I therefore cannot use it to host the to-do list because it does not yet exist.
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  272. It's amazing what a difference good headphones can make.
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  273. Schiff is deluding himself and his viewers, claiming that he's right and the whole world has been wrong for the last ten years. He endorsed the Perth Mint synthetic, fraudulent products that are exploding right now. Make sure you get a dose of actual information that is not discarded for failing to fit an ego-driven narrative, else you risk being as wrong as Schiff has been.
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  274.  @davidalmeida2991  capitalism would be self-correcting if 1) we had a sound monetary system that did not benefit some at the expense of others and 2) all transactors were conscientious individuals. The problems faced by modern economies are corruption stemming from the monetary system and psychopathy. If we tell government to regulate the economy, we are empowering further corruption and psychopathy rather than alleviating those problems.
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  275. Imagine advocating for censorship when talking is your job.
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  276. My understanding is that Turkey has low sovereign debt but a lot of corporate and household debt, much of which is denominated in dollars. Dollar denominated debt is one of the main reasons for emerging market currency weakness. If there was more Lira denominated debt, the Lira would be stronger. It sounds strange, but it is how things work in this upside down fiat world.
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  277. Sounds like the payloads would get crushed by that kind of force.
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  278. It may be doomed to fail, but they'll take a lot of peons down with them.
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  279. Professional geoguessers are cooked. Once again, the AI took er jerbs.
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  280. Same. I even got $100 in nickels. The difference between credit unions and banks? Credit unions are not beholden to the Fed.
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  281. Itsa secret Deregulation has caused all sorts of issues for the nation. Reagan planted the seeds for the housing crisis, but he didn't really have much choice since the banks owned him. At any rate, I switched from independent to Democrat and voted for Bernie in the primary.
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  282. Zig is the language of the future
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  283. It depends entirely upon the Cantillon effect: what kind of credit will be expanded; who will benefit from it; and what will they demand with their purchasing power. If they print a quadrillion dollars and park it on the moon, but no money or credit enters the real economy to fund consumption, then we would likely experience deflation. If they print just enough to keep the global monetary system from imploding, and it is enough to get the banks to create more eurodollars to fund global production without increasing consumption demand, we might actually see our lives improve a bit. But the current trajectory is something like the Bronze Age collapse, where the "sea people" knock down one civilization after the other, and only the mightiest empire is left standing just long enough to collapse from losing all its trading partners.
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  284. "Remember that the architecture people are solving problems that they think they can solve, not problems which are useful to solve." Idk if I feel seen or if I should nervously chuckle and reassure myself that my many side-projects are actually somewhat useful.
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  285. You can have pointers to values held in the stack. Pointers are not used exclusively for heap memory.
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  286. You ever see the Clarke & Dawe skit about instructions for quantitative easing? This reminds me of that a bit. "Put photocopier with the output tray facing an open window." Lol
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  287. We are Styx
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  288. The fact that guy knew the word "shibboleth" is a dead giveaway
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  289. I like Manjaro, but I haven't used it in a few months because I couldn't get graphics drivers for my GPU that supported opencl and wanted to try W10 as a dev environment on my new laptop. Can't say I've been happy with W10.
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  290. It will be hilarious when it turns out that the newest variant is far more mild than any previous variant and all the scaremongering was pointless. Yes, Doctor, let's just destroy the already hobbled economy so that even more shortages are caused, even more people die from not getting the non-covid treatments they need, and even more people in emerging markets die of starvation. Excellent idea.
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  291. One of the rare occasions in which I agree with Zeihan almost totally.
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  292. Should talk about the socialist takeover of Brazil, the recent defacto abolition of free speech there, and the government officials engaged in civil disobedience.
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  293. Probably half and half. Dine-in restaurants here in South Florida started laying off people a couple weeks before DeSantis signed the first executive order telling them to seat at half capacity. The panic began breaking down the economy before the governments started piling on.
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  294. Bernie literally just proposed a new tax law called the "Make the Billionaires Pay Act". Sounds pretty vindictive to me.
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  295. Orange in the stocking is an old tradition in Georgia, or at least in Vidalia, where my mom grew up.
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  296. Cursor completely broke during an update and didn't have a rollback feature, so I had to uninstall and reinstall an outdated version to be able to continue working. The fact they downgraded paying subscribers to Free Tier rate limiting without explanation made me dislike Cursor substantially after having been a happy customer for about 6 months. I also found myself turning off the tab complete and not using the chat features because the suggestions were a net negative. This led me to drop Cursor for regular old vim in April. Haven't gone back since, but that is likely because I am not currently working on web apps, which is where Cursor shines.
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  297. And mushrooms if you can manage. King stropharia and oyster mushrooms turn garden waste/mulch into high quality protein with anti-inflammatory properties. Turkey tail turns sawdust into an effective treatment for cancer. Lion's mane turns rice flour into an effective treatment for Alzheimer's dementia. Psilocybe turns composted manure into a cure for a broad array of psychological maladies, and microdosing it can increase neural plasticity similarly to lion's mane. Only downside is that many mushrooms require specialized setup and skills to grow. In an SHTF/survival scenario, king stropharia and psilocybe would be the low maintenance pair to grow outdoors: just continue adding mulch and composted manure to your garden as you normally do, and they should just keep growing. I suppose another downside is that our government is full of imbeciles who can't tell the difference between aspirin and heroin, so keep the psilocybe away from prying eyes if you go that route.
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  298. Pancake Shop Policy is to not serve pancakes to anyone who thinks in their mind-brain that Joenald Brumpden didn't lose/win the electrion fairly/cheatily. These policies are nonsensical scope creep. If you host packages, just host packages -- don't create a policy so complex it takes a team of attorneys, investigative journalists, and philosophers to implement. Yikes.
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  299. I believe the opening statement for each side of a friendly debate should include "the other guy is a poopy doodoo head" because it would defuse any pretense of hostility through absurdity.
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  300. Enemy to all humanity* actually
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  301. Decentralization is more resilient than centralization. Centralization is more efficient than decentralization when the centralized system is competent. Central planners have no meaningful feedback mechanism to select for competence. Perhaps if the feedback mechanism itself was enforced by a decentralized system, then maybe we could afford to trade some resilience for efficiency. But currently, I have no confidence in central planners to exhibit any amount of competence.
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  302. They'll do it if they think it'll empower their neo-Marxist revolutionary cause.
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  303. Hot take from experience: the lowest quality code I have ever had the displeasure of having to work with was written overseas by overpaid contractors. It was React in Typescript, and it was a complete nightmare. None of the things they did in that code made any sense.
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  304.  @RomanHistoryFan476AD  My point is that Marx advocated for further centralization of the monetary system as has been happening here for the past century. He was correct with his observations of the problems with banking based upon circulating credit in lieu of commodity credit, but his solution was to make it even worse as our leaders have done. My comment is a critique of those who follow his path.
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  305. Even during the gold standard, people still regularly held assets instead of gold. The Theory of Money and Credit by Ludwig von Mises describes this in his analysis of the varying levels of demand for money and money substitutes.
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  306. The meta-state, not the state itself exclusively in its entirety. It is the emergent global fascist regime.
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  307. The tribes who lived there for thousands of years kept it under control with good forestry management practices. It is a modern stupidity to build up huge amounts of highly flammable material all over the place and all around where people live when people could instead burn the brush early. The winds are more severe than I have seen in previous, catastrophic fires, but the underlying problem is the same in California as it is (after the Green Party passed some idiotic legislation a few years ago) in Australia: poor management leading to exacerbated and avoidable outcomes.
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  308. The guy was excoriated in the comment section of the original video for his nonsensical take on Go.
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  309. The only way they could enforce that kind of control with a CBDC is to have all of the grocery stores supply all of their inventory data. Ultimately, it is unenforceable without huge enforcement efforts.
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  310. Somehow, I doubt very seriously that Scam Bankster-Fraud will be at that Algoramp event in Dubai.
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  311. He got drugged at a bachelor party last night and is wandering around downtown LA borrowing people's cell phones as he retraces his steps in search of his wallet and keys.
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  312. Make Tamriel great again.
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  313. Taco Games You might want to build your own wall. America is basically Canada's Mexico, right?
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  314. Isn't this just a shorter version of a video from yesterday?
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  315. Signature bank seemed more like a targeted takedown to squeeze the stablecoin/cryptodollar connection to legacy fiat. The current administration is far less friendly to cryptodollar money market funds than the Fed.
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  316. They'd have to sell their assets to get dinged with capital gains tax, and why pay 28% capital gains when you can just set up your own bank and borrow from yourself at 0% interest?
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  317. Smiling from ear to ear listening to this malarkey
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  318. This is likely the people of China suffering for the incompetence of the CCP leaders. At first, I was thinking "fuck China", but then I realized the people suffering there have been suffering under the communist rule for decades, so I'm just really sad now.
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  319. ​ @CAPSLOCKPUNDIT nah, Tinkerbell picked up the skill while fighting in 'Nam where she also picked up the nickname "Satan's Receptionist" for her efficacy in populating Hell with the Vietcong. Maybe the woke Disney stuff triggered her PTSD and got her going again. We'll never know since they'll cover it up.
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  320. Not the only answer, but it might help. What we really need is to replace plurality voting with cardinal voting. If we rated products on Amazon or videos on YouTube the way that we choose politicians, we'd have to endorse just one product/video and express no opinion on the rest. It's plainly absurd that we have a better system for rating consumer products and social media posts than we have for rating politicians. The simplest and easiest improvement to implement is approval voting, which is cardinal voting with a score of 0 or 1 for each candidate. The best system we could potentially adopt is score runoff voting with scores between -1 and +1 in gradations of 0.5, allowing for polarizing and corrupt candidates to be voted down on individual ballots without necessarily expressing support for any other candidate; we won't be compelled to choose between two evils.
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  321. Excel is the world's most successful functional programming language. It's kind of weird that all implementations of the interpreter that I can find have data grid GUIs rather than, say, a console interface, but Excel is still the most widely used functional programming language.
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  322. If Tim loses his voice, will he start rioting since he will go unheard?
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  323. Lightning is a fully collateralized correspondent banking system for clearing payments. The payment channel is effectively a private ledger between two correspondents in which IOUs are written and cleared. In the current iteration of the LN, each payment results in parties signing penalty transactions that allow the other side to take all the coins if one side attempts to cheat or screws up due to a technical problem (i.e. trying to use an old channel state; Eltoo would solve a lot of problems with the LN, but it requires a fork of the base layer). Contract terms are enforced by the participants and by watchtowers that can publish the penalty transactions if they observe what could be malfeasance (or could just be a node failure). The core concept to take from this, though, is that it is a fully collateralized correspondent banking network.
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  324. "One must have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star." -- Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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  325. Fear is a weakness you should overcome.
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  326.  @vinrusso821  Tommy was literally a political prisoner. His interview with Sargon was eye-opening.
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  327. I tried Strike Gum today. Really good.
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  328. Didn't he win the Thing to become, uh, the guy that...you know, the guy!
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  329. Governments have really done a good job on making economic calculations nearly impossible for honest market participants. If only they could pursue useful and sensible policies with such vigor, maybe we'd not be on the verge of global insurrection.
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  330. If you don't live at home, doesn't that just make you homeless?
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  331.  @kevindavid7149  the Machine is growing increasingly afraid of peasants with wrenches. The Palpatine shtick is evidence of desperation.
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  332. The features will continue until morale improves.
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  333. I made a generic algorithm library in pure Python a couple of years ago, then immediately ported it to Go. Single thread performance on real genetic algorithm tasks was 100x as fast in Go than in Python. Refactoring it to use 8 parallel goroutines improved performance by another 8x. Then I optimized the memory use with an object pool and got another 100x boost on the basic benchmark and 10x on actual workloads. The moral of the story is that performance differences will depend upon the actual workload. If your project is mostly IO bound stuff, then the ~10,000x performance improvement on computational tasks won't matter very much. But sometimes you actually need to crunch some numbers. Edit: I made a mental note (and probably also a repo issue, though I don't feel inclined to actually look right now) to revisit the Python library and speed it up using multiprocessing process pools, but I haven't done it yet. However, I did recently implement an async process pool to crunch some numbers in a Python project, and it seems to work fairly well. That should give an 8x performance improvement compared to single threaded Python on a system with 8 cores, reducing Go's performance lead down to a mere 1000x.
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  334.  @dreamguru420  thanks, I'll check out his episodes on JRE.
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  335.  @Mycroftsbrother  Justice-Involved Persons* Get your labels right, bigot.
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  336. I bet $5 that the "chain of thought" is actually some guy in India reading and responding to translated text with the answer, then the text gets translated back into English and used as a prompt to format the answer for the user.
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  337.  @johnnyd7507  I did not say that I believed he is a humble man. Re-read my comment. "The statement ... seemed particularly humble and self-aware for a politician." You don't have to write a book about how wrong the fictional me in your warped mind is.
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  338. There's nothing quite like a weird first impression, eh?
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  339. And there's also the fact that there is "a gun behind every blade of grass" here in the states. The US civilian population has more small arms than all the world's militaries combined.
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  340. I suspect that the Shell Shock bug was similarly introduced surreptitiously. I think it wasn't noticed because it was just revert of an obscure patch, and the original, insecure code was faster.
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  341. India and China have been having border skirmishes for years now. It's hard to envision them becoming mutual defense besties over night.
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  342. I ended up making my own Optional type in Go to handle optional parameters, but the function signatures got too uncontrollably large, so I then bundled parameters into structs of Optionals. It was a bit tedious and strange, but it worked first try and took just a few minutes to figure out. Go could be improved, but it is pretty damn good already.
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  343. When I heard that Russians could just buy vaccine passports without taking the vaccine, I laughed so hard that I accidentally inhaled a small piece of chocolate. That's hilarious. Good ol Russia.
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  344.  @AuntBibby  nothing is more satisfying generally than watching a professional excel at her job. Women gotta contribute to the economy somehow.
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  345.  @LuciferArc1  the last time Satoshi said anything was 2014 just before Hal Finney died/was cryogenically frozen. He doesn't "say something from time to time" -- he is gone.
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  346. Sleeper agents activated over the weekend. It might be that the Godot Foundation is unable to regain control of the project.
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  347. America is not a democracy. The United States are a republic of federated States, each of which is a sovereign entity. The legitimacy of the federal government primarily and historically exists as a product of the voluntary association between the States. I hope that the convention of states project will soon hit the threshold to pass new constitutional amendments constraining the size of the federal government, because currently its parasitism knows no boundaries. I propose the following: 1) Except in times of war to defend against invasion, the federal deficit for a year will be no greater than 10% of the previous year's tax revenues. 2) The federal government will not employ more than 10% of the number of adults as determined by the most recent census. 3) The maximum federal taxation rate on anything other than a tariff will be 10%. Every non-tariff tax rate in excess of 10% at the time of ratification of this amendment will reduce every year for twelve years until it reaches the 10% threshold. Taxation rates for anything other than a tarrif cannot be changed by more than five percentage points per year. 4) Every federal law will expire and be automatically repealed after 24 years. All federal laws passed before the ratification of this amendment will expire and be automatically repealed after 12 years. These ought to be enough to fix the financial fustercluck, and the fourth one will prevent ossification. Edited for typos
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  348. FDR was basically just a less effective American version of Hitler: he meddled in the economy, he stole a lot of gold, he put citizens in concentration camps, and he committed genocides in foreign countries, but he was just less effective at all of it.
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  349. Why does Ukraine have to be an American problem? Conceptually, Europe should be able to handle it on their own.
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  350. Well he owns shares in the companies producing the vaccine, so he has a financial incentive to push the vaccine onto the American public so that he can personally benefit from the money printer.
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  351.  @JDMKEV  I raised a few baby squirrels between August 2019 and February 2020. I sometimes miss them -- they were very cute, butthey became quite unfriendly as they aged.
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  352. Ragnar was just a nontraditional migrant seeking the temporary refuge from boredom of bloodshed and plunder.
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  353. For those who want to short it, just be aware of the high carry costs for maintaining a short position. It really does not look like there will be much profit to be had during this slow grind downward.
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  354. Government officials are shielded from being held personally liable for their abusive action. If the people in every state passed a constitutional amendment to hold elected officials and professional bureaucrats (including police officers) personally liable, government accountability would no longer be an impossible pipedream.
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  355.  @hl236  if the goal is AGI/ASI, it should be able to accomplish simple tasks.
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  356. Generally solid, but there was one incorrect assertion: monopolies that form due to market pressures rather than government edict actually keep prices lower rather than higher. It is the capability to undercut competing sellers that makes a monopoly in a free market. A monopsony, on the other hand, keeps prices higher by outbidding competing buyers.
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  357. Regarding the comment that the new MMF rules from the SEC will not prevent a market functionality failure the next time there are "all sellers and no buyers", the only way to prevent such a scenario is to lock down capital markets further, which is anathema to investors.
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  358. I think that an analysis of the economic ramifications of a hypothetical scenario such as this one would be significantly improved by integrating Austrian economics. The Austrian school concerns itself with the empirical analysis of economic history rather than the types of fanciful notions that drive countries into ruin. In reality, the currency supply only functions when the majority of currency units are created by private credit creation predicated upon productive activities; when the government takes on the role of issuing the majority of currency units, calamity invariably follows. By tying the creation of currency units to the creation of economic goods and services, the currency value remains relatively stable; by tying the creation of currency units to the consumption of economic goods and services, the currency value implodes.
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  359. If we achieve a super intelligence, it will probably send us on a wild chase to discover the Ultimate Question to Life, the Universe, and Everything so it can watch television in peace.
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  360.  @CharlesMCFC  I imagine it would be a mixture of law-things and elder councils, perhaps as a dual chamber legislature with no formal executive branch.
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  361. Joe Scott May Talos grant you strength.
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  362.  @samjohns8381  yeah, I've never heard that term used in discussions about TDD
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  363. The difference in profit motive is why the guy in charge of AstraZeneca jab production is not pushing for mandates or boosters while the big pharma kleptocrats in the US are.
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  364. When I saw the commujity post, the 8-rayed symmetry of 3 of the aion sigils immediately caught my attention, as did the name "Jeu" which I thought of as "the hieroglyphist in his letter". I wonder if there is some type of resonance between Venus/Inanna and these aions, and I wonder if there is any etymologicsl connection between these two "Jeu"s.
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  365. That intro of "brought to you by Avalanche, the L1...brought to you by Mantra, the L1... brought to you by Kinto, the L2" was kind of funny.
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  366. "Well regulated" didn't mean "thoroughly hindered by government bureaucrats". Historically, it meant "well maintained and able to function".
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  367.  @BiigiieCheeese  and why did the corporations and lobbyists and banksters and billionaires gain so much wealth and power after the end of the gold standard? Because the fiat standard is designed to advantage them over everyone else.
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  368. The only tax advantage for marriage is when only one spouse works. Otherwise, you're better off filing separately.
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  369. Jack, I appreciate your podcasts. You do a really good job.
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  370. Or just let interest rates rise by not crushing the nation with insane, exponentially increasing levels of government debt. If the government debt to GDP ratio was around 10-20%, interest rates would be north of 10% to combat the loss of purchasing power, but that is not an option right now. Moreover, the pigs in DC benefit from bribes from the Cantillionaire class, so they'll never actually do anything to damage them financially -- the only reason for this proposal is to roll it out to everyone else after a couple of years, just like how they did with income tax.
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  371. Don't forget about COBOL, which is probably somewhere between Excel spreadsheets and VB.
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  372. I kinda want Rust's memory management in a Python interpreter. To me, that is the most compelling feature and the only major improvement that could be added to Python other than optional strict, static typing. (To simulate the latter, I use assert preconditions.)
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  373. Whatever it is, it definitely is not an open source license lol
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  374. I kind of wish one of these central bankers would just say "we're gonna do whatever we want, whenever we want, for whichever goal we want, and y'all can just pound sand."
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  375. In America, we have a grocery store chain called Aldi that uses quarters in their shopping carts to encourage people to put their shopping carts back rather than hire someone to go run around the parking lot collecting them. It isn't an antitheft measure since the quarter stays in the cart, so you never lose possession of your small piece of shiny copper.
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  376.  @realdepiction1237  Really telling that you're projecting your worry about bitcoin onto the people who actually own the #1 best performing asset in history.
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  377. Estonia is a great example for the whole world with the way it used computer systems to automate the processes of government. Lower taxes than any other European nation while still supplying all the same public services with a small fraction of the wait times. Inspirational.
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  378. The software equivalent of the halting problem: given a software project, can you prove that it eventually becomes a mess?
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  379. A lawyer is about to get into his car as a masked man pulls a gun on him. The mugger demands of the lawyer: "your money or your life. Pick one." The lawyer hesitates. The mugger repeats his demand and asks, "which do you choose?" "Hang on, I'm thinking."
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  380. The Book of Satoshi is primarily a collection of the writings of Satoshi. The Bitcoin Standard is about economics and how Bitcoin will change the monetary system.
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  381.  @de4dbutdre4ming  I might be misremembering, but my understanding is that Steam won the part of the case dealing with Steam keys but lost the part of the case dealing with pricing of games in other market places. I'll double check.
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  382. Employees report confidence in doing the thing their employer told them to do on survey conducted by employer. SurprisedPikachu.jpg
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  383. All you think about is accumulate more ETH, eh? So never a thought about the shady 60% premine, frequent blockchain rollbacks invalidating the core principle of immutability, or perhaps the size of the blockchain being so large that you can't run your own node at home? Ethereans are deluded if they seriously believe that Eth will somehow become a stronger, sounder money than Bitcoin.
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  384. I don't care if a language is "as fast as C". That statement is decades out of date. I want a language that is as divine as Holy C.
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  385. Not only would China take huge losses on its assets if they tried to dump their treasuries, but they would destroy their own currency in the process: the yuan/Renminbi derives its value from dollar-denominated reserve assets, primarily TSYs.
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  386. Like most technology, this exists in a superposition between bug and feature.
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  387. I have not really liked using Rust so far with an admittedly small sample size, but I do really love the deep, detailed discussions that the Rust community tends to generate. The merging of high level functional programming and low level memory control has been enlightening to witness and learn about. I feel inspired to make my own language (well, another language -- I've already made a simple language for building embedded ACLs that compiles to bytecode and is extensible with up to an additional 194 operators) that merges some Lisp syntax with lexical scoping, more data structures than just a singly-linked list, consistent and no-nonsense naming convention, reference counted pointers for all variables, and no heap memory. The algebraic type system and idiomatic result handling are things that will probably make it into the first version.
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  388. I wrote a stack machine called tapescript for embedding access controls in distributed applications/data types. It compiles to a byte code that is then interpreted, and it has a bunch of useful tools and advanced cryptography implementations.
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  389. "Laughter is the only tenable attitude in a universe that is a joke played upon itself." -- Peter J Carroll
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  390. Best take I've seen on the subject tbh.
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  391. I think you meant "zero knowledge proofs", not "zero trust proofs". Edit: you definitely meant "homomorphic encryption", not ZKP.
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  392. Standard Chicago Democrat corruption. Good ol' Barry O's friends pulling strings.
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  393. Bitcoin over the Lightning Network is the high velocity money that you're talking about. It is already technically capable of competing with Visa in terms of scale and cost, and its growth will only increase that capability. Lightning Network solves the scalability issue for high velocity transactional money.
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  394. Proto-Indo-Europeans maybe?
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  395. Hilariously, this is exactly like Jesus and his followers: they wanted a revolution to restore the kingdom; a Jewish man is seen as a Messiah, but the prophecy fails; the Messiah gets into legal trouble for leading people astray; followers in denial begin telling stories of resurrection and the ascension of their failed Messiah into a hidden world where he is working to establish a new kingdom.
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  396. My dad told me when I was a kid that this scam was run by "bill of the month clubs" who would just ask "are you [name]?"
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  397. If he didn't, it would be a shitshow instead of a schiffshow.
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  398.  @Mackan134  Do you get to keep your handgun at home, or do you also have to lock it up at the club like in Australia? On a separate note, it seems bizarre to me that so many countries would give up their natural rights to increasingly large governments, especially people who like to claim Viking ancestry. (My grandmother's family came from Sweden. Her grandfather was a blacksmith who parked his car by lifting it, so the Viking ancestry meme seems reasonable.) It doesn't make any sense to me.
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  399. Jeez, Ryan looks like one of those adrenochrome conspiracy theory photos. Hope he's ok.
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  400. Gold, silver, and bitcoin will temporarily crash during a deflationary shock because they are uncorrelated financial assets. While everything else crashes, speculators and commodity traders will sell their bearer assets to cover margin calls due to the leverage involved in those markets. This should be shorter and less pronounced than short-dollar assets such as defaulting bonds and stocks of companies with debt. Regular flushing out of leveraged long positions is a significant component of bitcoin's characteristic volatility, but it is always a technical, short term phenomenon.
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  401. This sounds like how the flugaloo starts.
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  402.  @wokewatch8508  prescient. Btc is indeed worth over $40k two years after you wrote your comment.
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  403. @Channel name I lost my keys in a boating accident, but not my guns
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  404. Not all trading algorithms require millisecond precision. You're thinking only about HFTs, dawg.
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  405. I'm 90% sure that Scooter is the name of his test dummy target.
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  406.  @ddanielsandberg  did some reading, and it seems that continuous delivery and continuous deployment are described with overlapping terms. Continuous delivery indeed attempts to discover footguns just before production while continuous deployment automates the last step of sending undiscovered footguns to prod. Glad to have found clarity on the topic; this video had left me a bit confused about the terms.
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  407. The language barrier will be replaced with the latency barrier, at least for a while.
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  408. If I understood this correctly, HTMX uses an event bus under the hood, so the network call is only made when the client-side event is created elsewhere on the page.
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  409. Except maybe a tungsten bar plated in gold
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  410.  @pedrohaas  the Utah law, iirc, specifically states that gold and silver are legal tender at market value rather than face value.
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  411.  See the Light  in 2008-2009, the Fed printed $16 trillion and lent it to companies all over the world owned by or indebted to Fed officials. No reckonning -- the story was buried. At this point, I'm half hoping for a revolution to break out so we can finally rid ourselves of these fucking greedy banksters and return the nation to the people.
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  412. No way. I'm actually first. Groovy.
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  413. Like with Bitcoin and gold, never disclose your holdings.
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  414. Fresh perspective. This particular interview of someone with that perspective seems unique to this channel -- I do not think I've heard anyone else articulate this point of view. I think it has merit, though there appear to be some short-term deflationary issues coming to bear in the global economy with continuous supply chain issues and Chinese corporate bond defaults. The issue may be that the dollar is trying to be both exogenous and endogenous money, blurring all the lines that would allow one to easily distinguish discrete effects.
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  415. Why? Fiat all goes to zero eventually. Stockpile real money.
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  416. Important note: NOW stands for Negotiable Order of Withdrawal. This is like a checking account, but the difference is that NOW accounts can pay interest to depositors while checking accounts cannot. The Fed could easily promulgate a policy for these passthrough NOW accounts that pays their overnight rate to deposits up to some amount, thus draining the banking system of deposits from ordinary people. Trump signed a law establishing that all financial institutions must maintain these passthrough accounts; the rationale was that many homeless and indigents were not being accepted as depositors by banks. Edit: I checked again, and it turns out that FedNow has nothing to do with NOW accounts, and further the law I read was just an introduced draft -- it never got passed in either chamber of Congress, so the passthrough accounts are not a thing.
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  417.  @tytywuu  I have, yes. Very fun way to get back into the groove of things after being sick and useless for 3 weeks. Prior to the illness, I was implementing the Practical Isometric Embedding protocol, but I've put it on the back burner for now. A couple months ago, I implemented a scripting language based on Bitcoin script for use as embedded ACL in distributed systems; last year, I made a bunch of advanced cryptography proofs-of-concept (e.g. taproot and ed25519 signature adapters); the year before that, I implemented MuSig. Python is my go-to language for figuring stuff out because all the building blocks for anything I want to do are available.
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  418. Caught the coof a few weeks ago. It has been pretty brutal. Still have lingering coof, congestion, and tiredness almost 3 weeks later. I'd wear a mask if I went anywhere out of courtesy, but let's be real: I'm not going anywhere until this works itself out, and I'm not wearing a mask after it does.
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  419. Only hope left, imo, is the convention of states. Look it up, check the map to see if your state has passed the legislation, and sign the petition if necessary.
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  420. They can't use air power because the US has flooded the country with Stinger missiles and other anti-air ordinance. Even at this point in the invasion, Russia still does not have air superiority because of the widespread anti-air defenses. As far as the siege of Kyiv is concerned, it seems that they either bit off more than they can chew or they wanted to draw the focus away from the eastern and southern regions -- in the latter case, they would need a lot of military activity there to really sell the distraction. Or maybe it's part of the "we will demilitarize Ukraine" spiel.
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  421. Who would have thought that relying on solar energy in a country that is cloudy much of the year could have backfired?
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  422.  @bbrebozo6417  we have already encountered some instances of this in America due to disrupted supply chains. I just adopted a kitten that popped out of the woods, and the medicine he needs that is normally an overnight shipment is backordered for a week. Try finding a package of mason jars, lids, or rims. Hand sanitizer was gone for a while, and toilet paper and paper towels are starting to disappear in my area once again.
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  423.  @loverofcalifornia3619  Exactly. Listen to all, follow none.
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  424. Criminalizing drawings, however disturbing or disgusting they may be, does not make any sense if the purpose of the law is to minimize harm rather than to cause harm. There is no way in which somebody drawing something fictional causes any harm to a child. The criminalization of drawings is based in emotion and not reason.
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  425. We've already passed through a massive filter: the Younger Dryas impact. It seems that Earth gets devastated by asteroids with regularity.
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  426. The in-kind redemption with securities is not as bad as you'd initially think when you consider the scale of the token. If you wanted to redeem a billion dollars worth of tether, it would probably be impossible to facilitate that transaction over bank transfer (and definitely impractical with Federal Reserve notes), and, even if technically possible, it would be inadvisable. Large transactions like that are conducted with transferring US Treasuries or bills of exchange, which are securities.
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  427. Nah, man. Python and brainfuck. Anyone who can master both will not have trouble with simple things like learning about maths and databases.
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  428. This whole catastrophe was caused by a government riddled with self-righteous bureaucrats who thought they knew better than the people of Ireland. From start to finish, the problem was an overbearing government. The fungus was just along for the ride.
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  429. It's a bit different when implementing things you find in computer science or cryptography papers. I could just leave all the calls to elliptic curve innards completely undocumented and just hope that whoever is using my library opens up the source code to figure out how an op in the virtual machibe functions, but that would be stupid. There are definitely cases for which good documentation is crucial, and the more complex or difficult the task, the more important that documentation becomes.
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  430. If you want something more complicated, try doing memory optimization in a parallelized Go program. Good stuff. I got a 99.94% decrease in benchmark time for computationally simple use cases in my genetic algorithm project by using memory pools, for example.
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  431. "And the High Clanker spake, declaring to all the beginning of a new enlightenment, the Age of the Great Spoon."
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  432. RA the Rugged Boy
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  433. He really did not explain his reasoning or the evidence backing up his claims very well, though. He just jumped around between topics and said "I have the numbers" a bunch of times.
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  434.  @lines2code  I tried responding with specific examples of authoritarianism experiences here in the US, and ThemTube censored my comment. Ironically, censorship at the behest of the White House was one of my gripes.
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  435. This is the era of the Code of Conduct Committees, or CoCCs, and they crow loudly.
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  436. There is such significance to the passage of time because there is such significance to the passage of time, it's quite significant.
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  437. "Hey Flip, edit all that stuff out". Editor rebellion. It's hilarious because we know that Prime does not watch his own videos, so he'll never know when Flip is letting Prime dunk on himself.
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  438. "Ukraine military no match for the Russian military, so this will be over soon" appears to have been a bad call.
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  439. Tim, I pay federal income taxes. You run a business. Therefore, I have the right to dictate what stories you cover, because that way it is my speech rather than yours. More importantly, since you run a business, anybody who does not pay federal income taxes should not be allowed to watch your videos. I really have no idea how you came up with this crazy idea.
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  440.  @MrDeadlysirius  wild cichlid meat quality is largely dependent upon water quality. Low turbidity + eutrophication = good, strong, and tasty.
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  441. Actually, Trump just said in an interview that he made the decision himself before getting recommendations from others. Because why would his own administration and press secretary agree with him, right? Clearly they are all correct.
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  442. Very long-winded way of ignoring the various stages of winged dinosaurs that did not have the musculoskeletal properties for self-powered slight. There are fossils of many dinosaurs that made a living by riding air currents and simply gliding. Is it too much of a stretch of the imagination to think that a climbing creature with some primitive wing-like structure has a greater chance of survival and reproductive success than some other climbing creature that simply drops like a rock? Gliding squirrels do not have powered flight capabilities, but their mutations benefit them in some way. The reason you do not see every single transitory mutation is due to population dynamics: transitory forms very seldom stick around for too long, especially during times of low population (for example, after the KT extinction event, which killed off the vast majority of bird ancestors). In small populations, a mutation that gives even a modest increase in fitness or survival likelihood very rapidly becomes ubiquitous throughout the population. It thus follows that a small population of birdosaurs that climb trees would quickly adopt pre-wing structures that allow the birdosaurs to survive high falls; individuals with better control of this fall/glide gain a selective advantage by landing on other branches; individuals with lighter bone structures are able to glide further and have a further selective advantage; those able to flap are better at climbing trees; and so on. These transitory states of tree-dwellers are less likely to be fossilized than ground-dwellers simply as a matter of distance from the rock/mud slides. There are a number of simulations that demonstrate the validity of evolutionary concepts (they are fun to explore, if you're into that sort of thing). Quite often, transitory mutations appear and disappear very quickly. This is just what tends to happen in a system with random mutation and non-random selective pressures. I suggest that you do your own research if you actually want an answer to your questions. However, if your intent is to simply say that "God dun it", then no amount of explanation will ever convince you. (Sorry for the delayed response. I did not see this notification until just now >.<)
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  443. +Martin Kirk fwiw, CryptoNote simultaneously guarantees anonymity and proscription of double spends. The main issue will be hardening it against Shor's algorithm. And if the proposed VoteCoin system simply used two currencies -- nontransferable atomic votes distributed to the addresses of voters and a secondary currency generated to reward miners -- voting power will remain independent of spendable miner efforts. Miners would both verify the validity of ballots during the election cycle and count the ballots afterward. At the end of an election cycle, the government would then buy the coins generated by miners; the specific exchange rate would be guaranteed at the beginning of the election cycle. The issue of central authority of initial vote distribution would be a regional issue, and ballots would be cast by burning the coin. Regional elections would have their own block chains, though a unified block chain for miner rewards could be possible. For elections using ranked voting systems, you could cast a vote by listing the name of a candidate, hash of the candidate name, position/seat/office for the election, and the rank of that candidate. The ballot would have a hash of the list of candidates and ranks. Miners would then tally the hashes of the ballots before calculating the election result using STV, AV, Schulze, Borda count, or whatever. For plurality or majority votes, the process would be much simpler.
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  444. Cool fact: I will likely be upgrading my Chromebook to the Samsung Chromebook 2 (11.6") when I get a chance...for development/programming purposes. ChromeOS dev mode = Linux, so I can run all of my favorite code editors and the like in a chroot. I know of a few other devs who are doing the same thing. For programmers, desktop upgrades tend to occur far less often than mobile device upgrades.
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  445. Hyssop そうですね？
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  446. shortylickens69 He came pretty close, but I guess the establishment forced the matter :/
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  447. Emi Loli Talos, who is both man and divine! His breath is long winter! Doctor Lyoko I have low tolerance for bullshit when the topic is the fate of my country and, by extension, my family and friends. The current options sicken me.
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  448. Doctor Lyoko May the gods watch over your battles, friend.
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  449.  @quantitativediseasing9988  "Satan" and "God" are job descriptions, not names: one is the accuser and tempter, challenging the human soul to rise above its material base; the other is the divine, creative logos that gave rise to all of reality. One without the other is meaningless as there will be no struggle in this mortal life, no choices to be made -- the purpose of life appears to be the strengthening and purification of the soul through material experience. Satan is like Ares: perhaps he prods a bit, but humans are the ones actually carrying out war and evil. Blaming Satan is as unenlightened and disempowered as a human can be. I recommend studying the philosophy of Thelema: love and liberty are the ultimate ideals as they embody the most divine aspects of being; everything encountered on the path to enacting the person's True Will is a test of one's character.
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  450. I had no idea that Keynes considered his theory most viable to a totalitarian state, but it makes sense considering how just about every nation on earth became totalitarian as a result of WW2.
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  451. Reminds me of some of my earliest experiments in writing my own penetration tools. The logger I wrote worked poorly and only locally on my own computer. Hilariously bad but still somewhat functional. The more fun experiments were controlling pointers remotely. Good times.
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  452. There's also the fact that it takes 20 years and tens of millions of dollars to get the permits to build a new apartment complex or replace an old one, and even then sometimes it falls through because Comrade Paper-Pusher with the local development politburo decides to put the kibosh on it.
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  453. Very poor understanding of Bitcoin on display there early in the video. You don't compare a final settlement system like Bitcoin to a payment clearing system like Visa or MasterCard. The appropriate comparison is against FedWire. You wouldn't buy a coffee from Starbucks with FedWire, so neither would you do so with the Bitcoin base layer. Bitcoin, like FedWire, is a gross settlement network, and the proper use is to build payment clearing and net settlement layers on top of it.
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  454.  @bradraymond5925  I heard Dr. Burke say during a daily press briefing early on that the CDC's reporting guidelines were to report the death as covid related as long as covid was present or suspected. The incentives for hospitals due to the CARES act and engineered economic collapse were to intubate patients regardless of whether or not they needed it and to report deaths as covid deaths because they got extra payouts for doing so. That part is correct, and it has definitely skewed things substantially. However, the primary problem at this current point remains the refusal by the media to report the nuance of the numbers. If everyone knew the true background information, they'd be less hysterical and less prone to psychosis.
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  455. This is one of the best videos from this channel this year. Very well spoken and well organized.
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  456. Mark says "con" and "confidence game" as if they aren't literally the same thing.
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  457. @UC9VlfAbBz0QMdnuk7UHs6Qw well, it's more like a journey through the spiritual cosmos before reincarnating. Edit: aaand the comment I responded to is gone.
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  458. I would support a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the individual right to bodily autonomy.
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  459. I think that gRPC would make sense for large enterprises where a single request from an end user causes a cascade of microservice calls. The performance boost and strict boundaries would make sense for this scenario, and the additional benefit of lowering computational costs at scale will also be pretty significant (iirc json encoding/decoding takes 20-30% more CPU than protobuf packing/unpacking).
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  460. The ultimate solution to state synchronization will be the use of CRDTs. And as soon as I'm done implementing them all in Python, I'm going to port the library to Go and then Dart. It will be beautiful. Edit: with CRDTs, any number of online and offline state updates are guaranteed to eventually converge to the same state once all updates are applied, regardless of the order of those updates or the number of times they are applied. CRDT updates are commutative and idempotent.
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  461. In SWFL, I have been able to grow sweet potatoes, but I have had no luck at all with regular potatoes. I tried several varieties, but I haven't been able to figure it out. The best producers in all of my agricultural/permacultural experimentation have been cowpeas, okra, and pigeon peas. Everything else was pretty meager, obnoxious, weak to pests, or a combination. But then again, I was working with suburban nonsense soils that I had tried to rejuvenate with compost, mulch, and huegelkultur.
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  462.  @sw36jl  You really think that the ra-ra nationalism would more likely lead to a full-on invasion of the main island than a relatively quick and small operation to take the nearest islands? The Chicoms are more likely to succeed in taking and keeping the pro-China islands than the main, anti-China island. There is a case to be made that the ChiNazis are not rational, but there is not a strong argument that taking the smaller islands is less likely to succeed.
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  463.  @Homer-OJ-Simpson  I'm not talking about launching an invasion from them. I'm saying that the incentive is for the Chicoms to take them first because it would be plausible. It would likely escalate into further war, but long term strategy is not a Chicom strength.
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  464.  @wei270  Annex is precisely the right word to use when talking about changes in control of territory between governments by use of military force. Hell, it's even the right term to use when a government buys a piece of land. A proper civil war is not where two different governments seek control over the same piece of land; a proper civil war is where two factions seek control over the same government.
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  465.  @doge8500  he said it was "money printing" that would lead to hyperinflation. In actual fact, due to a mixture of nonfungibility of bank reserves and Cantillon effects, the only things that inflated were assets. QE is a deflationary drag on the real economy, siphoning off economic energy into financial bubbles.
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  466. Fair point, but next year is game. As Trump said when discussing an infrastructure bill at the beginning of the covid-1984 panic, "It's our currency. We are the ones."
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  467. Egg prices going up due to a shortage is by definition not inflation.
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  468. I love how Snyder and Van Millimeter said "there won't be inflation" when M2 saw a 40% increase over 2 years, then kept saying "there's no real inflation" as CPI got up around 10%, and now keep saying "there wasn't any real inflation" now that prices have stabilized much higher years later. "It's not money printing" except that M2 increased 40% in 2 years.
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  469. Move fast and prompt things. It's clever because the prompts tend to build the broken thing.
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  470. The thing Pete pondered about economic equality/inequality in a Bitcoin world is addressed in The Bitcoin Standard: whoever switches to the harder currency first wins in the end at the expense of whoever switches last. The most recent historical example is China and India remaining on the silver standard when the rest of the world had moved to the gold standard; gold is an inherently better money than silver, so China and India lost about a quarter of their monetary wealth as they held onto silver. This is why Saif calls silver "the original shitcoin".
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  471. "Deciding to take the pain because it's the right thing to do" is one interpretation. The more cynical take is that "you will own nothing, and you'll be happy" is a prophecy of the outcome of this nonsense.
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  472. You know, he's like, you know, raise rates, but, you know, it's not like, you know, the Fed decided to treat the economy like, you know, a light switch, you know.
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  473. It's not so much a parody as it is a more obvious and up-to-date version. "Look at that bum, man, he's down on his knees."
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  474.  @gsheac  and when they established the Federal Reserve, which is perhaps the theft of the century
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  475. ​ @jmltrades  trying to figure out why any market moved in a particular way is a temptation that regularly ensnares people. Jeff has thought for years that he knew the reason why things happen and made some very inaccurate predictions because of his unmerited confidence. Happens to us all, but some of us are able to recognize and admit when it happens, and Jeff so far has not been able to.
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  476. Ides of March is also a deadline for settling debts.
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  477. Not when the laws restrict liability. There are constant, blatant attacks by every level of government on our constitutionally guaranteed rights; restricting liability for their trampling of your rights is obviously in their best interests. Legislators do not see their job as making sense -- they see their job as making laws.
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  478. I do my dual entry accounting with pencil and paper cuz I don't trust these computer systems. Also, did anyone see about $5 trillion in derivatives walk out of here and which direction it went?
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  479. The banking system was developed in the middle ages. We Americans often have a myopic view of history and focus solely on our own brief history, but monetary history goes back thousands of years. Edit: as they say in Battlestar Galactica, "this has all happened before, and it will all happen again."
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  480. In most of the States, elections work similarly: volunteers can participate as counters and witnesses/auditors. The difference is that instead of witnesses signing tallies, they can raise legal challenges over procedural issues.
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  481.  @ryox82  I know how he got started, but he became stupidly successful during the pandy, not during Occupy. The pandy was when his revenues increased enough that he could purchase a compound with chickens, an indoor skateboard ramp, and bedrooms for his team.
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  482. I read it more as "you can't keep doing this" rather than "we can't keep doing this" considering that the lower courts kept defying the higher courts on the matter.
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  483. What is wrong with comparing wars? Are they not the same kind of thing? If we can compare two cats, then why not compare two conflicts?
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  484. I appreciate the candid disclaimer. It is a display of integrity imo. On the topic of markets going wild, I had a dream after the pandemic began that I was standing on some rubble that used to be a house and watching wild financial market swings on my phone.
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  485. His point about people chipping in for security is borne out by the experience in Argentina: their currency collapsed, so their government shrank back into the capitol; suburb neighborhoods hired their own security guards. It worked for them, so it can work for us.
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  486. That is approximately equal to 7.4% per year compounded price increases.
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  487. Hi Mark. Will you do an analysis of the US economy at some point, and particularly the ballooning federal deficit, federal debt, the Federal Reserve's accumulated losses being in excess of 4x their capital as of their most recent H.4.1 release (representing a 2.8% impairment of their assets), the Sahm Rule recession indicator (with 100% track record of 0 false positives and 0 false negatives) reaching the threshold, the recently de-inverted yield curve, and the historic bubble in US housing and stock markets due to foreign capital flows? It seems that everything has gotten completely out of hand in the US as well as in other nations, and I am wondering if it will be less awful on a relative basis due to other countries being in even worse situations or if it will be historic in proportion. The forward-looking indicators I follow show we are already in recession (except for Atlanta Fed's GDP Now forecast). The charts and numbers look quite scary.
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  488. Copilot is good at filling out mindless boilerplate, which is a significant amount of "enterprise" code in Java specifically. For Python, I have found Cursor to be helpful for refactoring or generating sample code to play around with new libraries.
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  489. What we really need is Lua for embedded devices. We could call it "Lua", and it would be identical to normal Lua because it's just Lua running on a microcontroller/SoC. Maybe add some funky syntax for RAII memory management if you have to. Edit: Lua for ESP32 exists.
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  490. @Anonymous everyone and their mother knew this year would be a severe recession due to yield curve inversion of 2018 and repo market collapse of September 2019, but now it's all being blamed on Corona-chan. Hopefully Nergal will triumph over Mammon in the end.
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  491. Still ok to resent the debt slavery system just as long as that resentment does not stop you from opting out.
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  492. I might be mistaken, but the newest Wasm standard being currently rolled out supports a garbage collection mode that does not require bundling a garbage collector. Wasm looks like it will be the new, universal platform target for compilers -- basically fulfilling what Java wanted to do. Also, the Go dev team is currently experimenting with arena allocations, which will significantly improve the control programmers have over memory management, but, even without arena allocation, it is possible to manually manage memory in Go to some extent for performance optimization -- it is tricky, but still a lot easier to get a handle on than Rust RAII imo. The greatest strengths of Go are the mild learning curve and excellent concurrency model. The greatest strengths of Rust by comparison are more consistent performance for large applications, good performance on resource-constrained/embedded systems, and the ability to tell people that you write code in Rust.
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  493. Fwiw, even though I'm not in those latter two categories, I appreciate the humble manner of advertising the blockworks research service. If at some point I do end up in those latter categories, I'll give it a shot.
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  494. Lmao Peter is begging for Senpai Musk to notice him with a straight face lol
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  495. "Come to me, lord Hermes, as fetuses do to the wombs of women. ... I also know what your forms are: in the east, you have the form of an ibis; in the west, you have the form of a dog-faced baboon; in the north, you have the form of a serpent; in the south, you have the form of a wolf. ... Whereas Isis, the greatest of all the gods, invoked you in every crisis, in every district, against gods and men and daimons, creatures of water and earth, and held your favor, for victory against gods and men and all the creatures beneath the world, so also I, NN, invoke you. ..." -- PGM VIII 1-63, "Astrapsoukos"
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  496. Obama's administration leaked a disinformation dossier prepared by a DNC contractor and used it as justification for a FISA warrant to spy on Trump's campaign. Nobody cares. No wrongdoing when the Democrats are the ones abusing power to spy on political rivals. It's all part of the plan. But Shokin gives a sworn affidavit to Trump's administration, and he mentions the allegations in a phone conversation with Zalensky where he doesn't say anything about military aid being delayed, and everyone loses their mind. The public is made up of partisan idiots and independent voters, so don't hold your breath hoping for a majority of people to think critically about any of this.
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  497. The Illuminati are trying to avert a civilization-ending apocalypse. Disruptions should be expected.
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  498. There is a package "cffi" that is used a lot for that. Could be a good topic for a video.
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  499. 100% of flippers are grown by aquatic animals
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  500. Don't worry. It's just time traveling VR players trying to figure out what caused the UFO sightings from our time.
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  501. I and some close friends and family members had the "super cold". It was about 2 weeks. No correlation with covid immunity, natural or otherwise. However, taking lots of vitamins and supplements habitually seemed to be correlated with faster recovery and less severe symptoms.
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  502. The worst was that one guy who credited him for TLT calls printing momentarily due to a surprise announcement that nobody predicted which led to options IV increasing.
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  503. I first heard excerpts from that SBF interview on a CoffeeZilla video.
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  504. I have been saying the same thing for years: the federal bureaucracy is sclerotic to the point of being largely pointless.
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  505. Wow. There are more spam/scam comments than legitimate ones. That's absurd. On a different topic, he is broadly correct about agriculture. But I doubt he understands it well enough to propose a solution.
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  506. Max has been right the whole time, and he has intentionally cultivated the lunatic identity.
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  507. Missed the opportunity to call it "Pretendows"
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  508. The problem with reparations is that leftists want the government to manage it all and keep poor black families under the thumb of bureaucrats whose only real incentives are to keep growing their departments like societal parasites. Reparations could be done sustainably if organized as privately funded endeavors designed to uplift poor communities rather than simply subsidize destruction of capital, but requiring genealogical proof of descent from slaves would not substantially increase the social good created by such charities except insofar as it stops leftists from rioting and burning down black neighborhoods while demanding racial reparations.
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  509. The proper name of the "butterfly effect" is Chaos Theory, and it is essentially the study of stochastic systems. The point of Chaos Theory is that the end result from a minor perturbation in starting conditions cannot be predicted and can normally be understood only in hindsight.
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  510. Not exactly. Short selling firms like this have an incentive to sniff out frauds before the rest of the market catches on. They are rarely dumb or crooked enough to publish false claims since they can be sued for libel if they promulgate lies.
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  511. But wait, you forgot something important here: diversity is your strength, don't you remember? It's what your betters tell you, isn't it?
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  512. Hillary's campaign did the same thing by mislabeling the payments for the Steele dossier as legal fees rather than as opposition research, and the intended effect of the Steele dossier was to change the outcome of the election through promulgating lies, which is arguably worse than merely sequestering information. It isn't justice unless it is blind, and this case seems motivated by a disdain for the color orange. Nobody celebrating this guilty verdict is advocating for the same strained legal theory to be applied to Hillary.
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  513. Having a plan for producing food is a good idea as well. 2021 is likely to see widespread famines globally, so having food security is helpful. Permaculture gardens with some Stropharia mushroom mycelium is a decent plan (Stropharia literally turns wood debris into a healthy source of protein). Peas/beans are good annual crops for fixing nitrogen, and potatoes or sweet potatoes are good for producing starchy calories in small spaces. Biodiversity is key to sustainability and pest resistance, so plant a hedgerow or two of native plants while you're at it.
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  514. Everyone condescendingly saying "just shoot them" or "they'd make great targets" does not know how hunting actually works. Since they do not have to wait for the timer to go off on the feeder, their movements cannot be predicted. You'd have to sit there for days on end to get a chance to shoot them. Maybe you could do this if you can dedicate your weekends, but a lot of people don't have that kind of time. Fwiw, I'd keep a high-powered air rifle in my car if I lived in Marion county and aim for the head any chance I got, and I'd spend some weekends hunting and trapping if I had property there, but there are not likely many Marion residents who have the requisite mindset to safely, humanely, and methodically dispatch/eradicate these fuckers.
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  515. There's nothing noble about them trying to force 30k individual arbitration cases into a class action to save them money on the heels of their loss in the anti-trust case.
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  516. I am center left (technically a voluntarist with a preference for social structures that minimize authority), but I find the alacrity with which the Dems nix both the 1st and 2nd amendment is even more concerning to me than the Repugnicans playing games of geopolitical brinkmanship. The side that supposedly "supports democracy" (i.e. using a foreign war to pump an extra $60 billion into the the military industrial complex) is also the one that regularly does the most damage to the cause of freedom. For example, it was Democrat governors who arrested people for attending churches or peaceably assembling, and the Biden-Harris administration executed a program of censoring American citizens through purpose-built censorship portals at social media companies. Neither party has a clear, consistent stance on the right to bodily autonomy, but at least the Repugnicans are not trying to shut up and disarm people they disagree with.
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  517. The "=/-" is a typo for "+/-" since the plus and equals signs are the same key. "35+/-20" means the precision of measurement leaves an uncertainty of 20. That is very low precision compared to the number measured, which makes the reported results rather questionable imo.
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  518. Nobody can issue themselves a 30-40% premine of a real commodity. Premines and token sales are clearly securities.
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  519. Part of what makes Orthodoxy so uncomfortable for me is the strong emphasis on obediance to authority as a moral virtue, even when that authority is obviously wrong. They also are opposed to logic and advocate for the abandonment of reason. Their egregore is also pretty obnoxious when it gets in your head, trying to overwrite every rational thought process with pure dogma.
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  520. Good thing that new languages are needed, because I'm cooking up a Lisp killer. (It is both true and a joke.)
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  521. Instead of direct credit regulation by egg-head bureaucrats, just let the market set the interest rates rather than have them dictated by egg-head bureaucrats. In my opinion, the error lies in the hand of the ones incompetently wielding tools rather than the shape of the tool: the egg-head bureaucrats are the problem, and no alternative that leaves us relying upon them is a real solution. Anyone who values democracy necessarily must value market solutions for markets are the most competent means of democratic price discovery.
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  522. He might not be able to get CPI below 5%, but he'll kill the economy trying. Annualized M2 growth has already retreated to around 3%. Further tightening will be dangerous to the health of the labor market but will do almost nothing to assuage the cost of living crisis.
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  523. Schiff may have Schiff-for-brains when it comes to bitcoin, but he definitely has a decent grasp on the unintended consequences of government regulations.
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  524. Is that not what the Democrats are doing? "Mass shootings happen, be very afraid, give us your guns, you can trust us because we have billionaire donors."
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  525. "Massive people protesting" made me think of obese people blocking the roads with their mobility scooters lol
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  526. I hate when technical issues interfere with my work. I know that frustration all too well. Glad you were able to power through it and salvage the situation.
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  527. Well, to be fair, we do not have concentration camps in the US. The ChiNazis are literally sterilizing and harvesting hair and organs from minority populations that they've rounded up. The mechanism of the state seizing the means of production is also different: instead of bloody revolution, the monetary authorities have decided to simply encumber everything in debt with a debt-based currency system. The Fed is keeping the zombie companies alive long enough to outlast and buy up any competition so that eventually only the companies beholden to the central bankers will be left standing. However, I do not think the Fed will actually leave this decade alive -- it is rather likely imo that fractional reserve debt-backed currency is about to die.
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  528. I paused it as soon as I saw how to draw things, made an entity component system, and then started fiddling with animations. Pretty easy stuff.
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  529. Hell is created on Earth by human hands. It does not take a miracle.
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  530. Gotta keep them pesky Viking farmers from trying to plow our ice. Those fucks.
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  531. He's not just a statist, he's an imperialist.
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  532. I lost all my alleged non-imaginary wealth in an alleged imaginary boating accident, allegedly.
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  533. Not sure of that was Yoda or Gollum. "Ruin it you will. Hobbitses, tricksy are."
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  534.  @gildedpeahen876  that's the idea. It is a slow process without any peers.
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  535. Sounds like the classic contempt of cop charge. Methinks this malarkey would stop pretty quickly if public servants could be legally hanged for abusing their power.
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  536. The "G-- Spot" of the brain, as a certain religious group would call it
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  537. What Junseth misses about the Blackrock argument is that Blackrock fund managers vote on behalf of fund share holders in the shareholder meetings of the underlying companies. I.e., Blackrock controls all voting power from shares held in their ETFs and mutual funds. That is a substantial portion of the shares they custody.
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  538. Death is the prerequisite for rebirth.
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  539. I'm pretty sure she is real. Look at her shortd where she takes apart laptops and such. AI video generation can't do that kind of stuff correctly.
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  540. One of the problems with trying to predict or categorize recessions is that it is often uses a GDP forecast/estimate, and GDP has almost nothing to do with the quality of life for ordinary people. For example, let's say there are two neighborhoods that are identical except that in one neighborhood, everyone buys a reciprocating saw to trim brush, and in the other, only two people buy the saw and loan it out to their neighbors. The first neighborhood contributes more to GDP, but the second neighborhood has more disposable income and perhaps a better social dynamic/sense of community; people in the second neighborhood have a higher quality of life by not contributing as much to GDP, and it is less wasteful of natural resources. If every neighborhood was like the second but generalized, it would register as a recession even though everyone has a better quality of life (except the financiers who need to scalp high monetary flows for their lifestyles). Other benefits that offset the lower GDP include better air quality and less pollution from industry, neither of which are considered as economic goods in analyses of so-called "recessions."
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  541. I would love for something like this in my state.
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  542.  @jaybird2148  it is pretty fucked up to use variable treatment of illegal immigrants to manage economic policy. This arbitrary enforcement of immigration law is creating a second-class citizenry for exploitation.
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  543. I've invested in expandable batons to sell to people who want to beat inflation.
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  544. Only public key cryptography based on the discrete logarithm or a problem derived from the discrete logarithm will be affected by QC. Symmetric encryption, hash algorithms, and lattices will be unaffected. We already have post-quantum cryptography standards ready, and they are starting to be deployed.
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  545. The problem, as I see it, is not that mesh networking exists, but that Big Tech corps have a habit of misusing and perverting everything potentially good in this world.
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  546. It also fits loosely into the idea of the Fourth Turning.
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  547. Tim just said we can call him "Susan" if we want. I'll bet his beanie is named Susan.
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  548. No sound
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  549. Massage parlor prices went down because they got shut down, therefore it's deflation. Nobody even buys groceries anyway.
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  550. Separation of money and state will be perceived by future generations the way we perceive the separation of church and state. The empirically false statement that all money is a product of a state is as evil as it is wrong.
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  551. The term "liberal" should not be confused with the terms "communist" or "leftist". Liberals believe in individual rights and supplying a safety net to empower the disenfranchised to exercise those rights. Leftists and communists want to destroy America and fundamentally reshape it as a nation without individual rights in which everybody is equally destitute: they would applaud the poor getting poorer so long as the rich are less rich. Liberals want everyone to own a home; communists would rather see millions of starving people die in the streets than let people own the houses and businesses they've built. Liberals want to make sure everyone's voice is heard; communists want to silence their opponents. Liberals believe we all have moral obligations to fulfill for the unilateral betterment of society; communists believe that any casualty count is morally justified so long as the government can crush individual thought for the supposed benefit of the collective.
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  552. The Occupy people had a general assembly parliamentarian system where everyone in attendance had veto power, according to Tim's recollection. They did try to create their own government but were largely ineffective, even letting rapists go free -- with the CHAZ, they gave up on structure entirely. So it is actually Occupy with armed occupation and no government structure.
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  553. It's actually trilateration, not triangulation. Triangulation requires measuring the angles between towers/satellites. Trilateration instead uses the locations of the towers/satellites and measurements of latency. Iirc GPS trilateration also uses estimated angles of satellites above the horizon (from the perspective of the estimated location on Earth) to make the algorithm converge on a viable solution faster.
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  554. Let's not forget that Taiwan produces all the microchips that the American military uses in its weaponry. And along with all the other West Pacific Islands we control, Taiwan is part of the naval containment of China. Much more important strategically than Ukraine.
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  555. Did she say that Ukraine retaliated by targeting Russian residential buildings? Did I hear that correctly?
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  556. "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." -- Thomas Jefferson
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  557. If you use precondition checks, you can significantly narrow the possible error surface of your code, thus obviating the need for high levels of testing for errors -- you just have to document that supplying invalid arguments/inputs to your code will result in whatever errors your precondition checks return/raise. This also makes it really easy for users of your code to understand what they did wrong because you explicitly tell them what they did wrong.
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  558. A "bear minimum" or a "bare minimum"? I have seen research that suggests 9mm is more than capable of stopping bears.
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  559.  @chionoman  a clock is right at all times throughout the day; a broken clock is right only twice.
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  560. If by "swamp" you mean "any trace of that one black guy", then I suppose so :|
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  561. By the way, "macroevolution" is simply the summary result of "microevolution" over a large expanse of time.
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  562. ChiquitaSpeaks There are a lot of creationists/deniers of evidence for evolution as the origin of species who very often claim that microevolution is possible but macroevolution is impossible because gad blah blah "kinds". You'd be surprised how many times I have had to debunk that particular breed of bullshit. I just figured it was worth mentioning.
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  563. ChiquitaSpeaks Fair enough. I still think that we will have a more solid understanding of the evolution of the bird wing within the next decade or so. The evolution and morphogenesis of insect wings are fairly well understood at this point, and it appears that at least some of the same molecular mechanisms are involved in feather patterning. If you're interested in dev bio, check out these: http://www-hsc.usc.edu/~pingwu/1996Shhmorphogenesis.pdf http://dev.biologists.org/content/126/12/2577.short http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012160699995805 http://www.pnas.org/content/93/19/10246.short
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  564. ***** Pretty decent explanation. If you have the patience for it, you might find molecular genetics interesting. There are a lot of things that contribute to a species' evolution beyond ecological and environmental effects. Concerning the not starting an argument thing: I put on my firefighting boots and grab some gasoline. ;D
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  565. What the hell is "patroleum"?
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  566.  @welcometoethanopia6796  all other gods are just personified aspects of Zeus
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  567. +Acrimonious Mirth computer nerds can just be that way sometimes. It is an unintentional side effect from staring into the darkness of a terminal for days on end with minimal human interaction.
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  568. EXPHunterForce The only good troll is control.
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  569. Norman's Sky? I dig the new title.
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  570. Is it spelled "crude mission" if you have the kethane mod installed?
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  571. Isaac Arthur I quite like how you decided to keep your mild speech "impediment" when you transcended your physical form. (I would call it more of an identifying feature.)
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  572. To be totally honest, I am considering voting for Trump because Congress will neuter the executive branch if he gets elected. If Hillary is elected, it will simply be business as normal, and the presidency will continue to accumulate more authoritarian powers. The government might shut down for a while, but that is a small price to pay to restore balance.
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  573. This is your brain on JavaScript. Any questions?
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  574. Air Strip One is not much better, dude. You guys jail people for writing mildly mean things on Twitter or making offensive jokes on YouTube. The US is huge -- every state has its own problems that its residents are trying to solve -- if you cherry pick the worst examples from each state, you'll be able to paint a very awful picture of the country. In every state, there are people doing what they can to solve their state's problems. And everybody hates the federal government because it is fundamentally unamerican to not. The Trumby is just a very loud guy from TV doing what he thinks is right -- there is literally no other reason for him to put himself through so much persecution from the establishment and risk his real estate empire to reprisals.
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  575. I broke a finger when I was a teen, and it crushed my dreams of becoming a professional concert pianist (was on track up to that point, practicing 4-8 hours every day for years). It is going to take many years to spiritually adapt to the physical conditions after recovery. Fucking sucks. What a shit place to live, where people are so hateful, violent, and randomly cruel.
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  576. No, see the virus is a weapon, therefore the 2nd amendment applies and it cannot be banned.
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  577. Kinda funny to call it a "wealth transfer" when people are getting saddled with mortgage debt. Debt slavery is not the way to bolster the wealth of the lower classes.
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  578. Hey, I get that time travel isn't a thing, but this is still kinda funny.
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  579. Mesh networking is the future of communication imo. The greatest flaw with the Internet Protocol is the hierarchical nature of number assignment flowing from one central authority. I'm working on something that can replace that model, but the math is convoluted and difficult.
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  580. @RS-ls7mm  both parties support the increasing polarization and escalation. It is a positive feedback loop, like commies vs brown shirts in the failing Weimar Republic.
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  581. That was actually a lot sadder and more tragic than I thought it would be.
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  582. To expound upon the final question of the interview before the book/service hook, the market is not homogeneous and will never be homogeneous because the technological implementation details, models, and strategies are proprietary. If all details of every tech stack, strategy, and trade were publicly available and distributed evenly, then the market would tend toward homogeneity, but this is not how the market is structured in reality. This being said, the competition will drive evolutionary progress toward better technologies, models, strategies, etc.
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  583. We must ban thumbs or require registration, tax stamps, and 18 month waiting periods for thumbs.
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  584. Just as a quick note, Go is a really cool language. My current method is to write a prototype/proof-of-concept in Python then rewrite it in Go, optimizing memory allocation and parallelizing for performance as appropriate.
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  585. The monkeys are pro, but the narrator sounds like a douche.
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  586. There is a pretty decent argument for Bitcoin as a portion of your savings.
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  587. Unless they are lying about their numbers and faking their revenues, which is an entire industry in China.
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  588. Oi, ya got a loicense to use that name from the Foundation?
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  589.  @jmfariasdev  the inventor of JavaScript made it in just over a week iirc.
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  590.  @jmfariasdev  It's just another thing that can be done well or poorly. Like anything else, it is a matter of learning from prior examples and then finding new ways to put ideas together.
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  591. I think her audio is better in this than in previous discussions with her headset.
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  592. SaaS is largely a rent-seeking endeavor imo. I prefer the older model of software as a product: you sell a license, they download and run the code. In many cases, there is no reason for exorbitant subscriptions for something that could just run on your own machine. If I sell a software product to someone that they can run on their own machine, it largely will not matter that I stop working on the project because I will have no hosting costs for customers running the software on their machines.
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  593. Mark, I recommend the Dune series. I know the hero's journey resonates strongly with most people, but it is an incomplete model; Dune contains a better commentary on human society.
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  594. Anyone else catch that glimpse of Sokka tripping on cactus juice? Lol
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  595. The Ultimate Cheddar: the best in expensive PDW systems you'll never not need.
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  596. Fortuitous timing. I have been studying the resurrecting godman myths/mysteries; this will fit nicely into those studies. On the topic, I recommend Star.Ships by Gordon White, in which he traces the origins of various mythemes back to prehistoric astrotheology. Of particular note is the association between Orion and Osiris, forming the prototype/archetype for this mytheme.
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  597. If you want to call your next tool/library "neon" but don't want the confusion, you could always spell it "kneeon" and then have a bunch of puns in the invocation, e.g. "kneeon back" for backend, "kneeon face" for UI, "kneeon neck" to kill your infrastructure with benchmarks, etc.
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  598. I believe the original, melancholic quote was "born too late to explore the earth; born too early to explore the stars".
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  599.  @nakclahan6445  China already tried banning bitcoin and failed -- there is more bitcoin mining in China now than any other country. In fact, every country that has tried to ban it has failed.
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  600. Never compromise with Bullshitveks.
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  601. Small update 02/26: Trudolf has ended the so-called emergency, but the ex post facto bill of attainder effects were not rolled back.
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  602.  @LanaW123  my understanding is that several thousand Palestinians were arrested by Israel during their previous occupation and subsequently by their border guards. Idk when these specific Palestinians were arrested, but they have had Palestinian kids as young as 13 imprisoned for years from what I've heard. I don't think it makes sense to take a side during an ethnic conflict -- both sides of the conflict are committing horrible crimes and killing innocent civilians as part of an Old Testament style blood feud.
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  603. "Light was created before the stars" is technically correct -- it is called the cosmic microwave background, and it is supposedly the result of quantum bubbling in the early universe.
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  604. The proper measure for valuing silver is gold, not the dollar. At some point, the industrial utility of silver will outweigh the over a hundred years of suppression, and the GSR will contract to something more reasonable -- right now, silver is mined at about 8 times the rate of gold, but it is used so much faster that there is more above-ground gold than there is above-ground silver. We cannot have a modern, digital economy without silver, as its high conductivity is necessary for soldering electronics together. So while stacking gold might not be a "pay off" during an economic collapse, stacking silver likely will be a good long-term investment, and history has shown that having either will preserve your purchasing power through monetary collapses (e.g. Argentina). However, if you have the wherewithal to stack, you likely also have the wherewithal to have some food stored up and a selection of seeds for gardening. Down in the sunny south, peas, okra, and sweet potatoes do exceptionally well in the summer, while pigeon peas will grow throughout the year and produce substantial quantities of legumes in the fall/winter. Flint/dent corn and buckwheat will also do fairly well throughout most of the Americas. The goal should be to find a strategy that requires minimal maintenance to be successful.
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  605. This emphasizes the value of theosis as the ultimate goal of orthodoxy: rather than looking forward to a "true world" in an afterlife, instead the idea is to participate in divine patterns within the present world, imbuing life with meaning.
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  606. Australia has taken the opportunity to use the military to round up "suspected close contacts" and put them in "quarantine facilities" aka concentration camps. It would be better that the virus spread freely than we all become slaves.
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  607. BTFP loans have a 1 year term. The ending of the program does not mean the calling of the loans -- it just means they will stop making new loans or rolling over old loans. It will take a year to fully unwind the program.
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  608. Crazy how if you favor your own people with your policies, your people will like you. Wild how that works. Definitely a 120 IQ strategy by UK political standards.
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  609. It's cool that Arti is an upgrade, but I am mostly ambivalent toward Rust with a slight bias against it. Zig is a much less disgusting language syntactically imo, and it doesn't have such a toxic cultmunity.
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  610. Sent a skinhead Nazi* to Tommy's house
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  611. It would have been very interesting to hear how he would implement derivation of algebraic expressions.
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  612.  @angeldude101  I like zero-rust abstractions 😉
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  613. From what I have seen, Ukraone has been rooting out corruption, almost as if they were in some kind of existential struggle and couldn't afford to let resources go missing or something.
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  614. Good luck, Corona-chan ♥️
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  615. Good old fiat fractional reserve debt money system.
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  616.  @NoBoilerplate  it might be, but it doesn't turn my stomach sour like JavaScript. I'm unconvinced that I can use Rust to do all the things I do with Python, for example having a multiplatform contract that commits to a single piece of code by its content hash.
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  617. I watched the Fireship video first and had the exact same reaction.
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  618. The guest is mostly right, but his assertion that "nobody is going to die" is plainly false. There are always excess deaths associated with unemployment. It's like telling an agrarian culture "don't worry about winter; nobody is going to starve; it's just part of the cycle." There is a reason that the agrarian cultures worshipped a god/goddess who resurrected in spring, and it wasn't because nobody died in the winter.
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  619.  @DANISEVIL  my state is better situated economically than any blue state in the nation, and the governor takes some credit for the policies he put in place. Unlike vote-blue-no-matter-who NPCs, I actually read executive orders, laws that get signed, etc. When all the other governors were experimenting with tyrannical gestapo dictatorship, DeSantis used his authority to help struggling businesses and organize logistics for distributing supplies in accordance with the needs of local communities. I scrutinized his orders very carefully to see if I could find any usurpations or contravention of constitutional law, and there was none. Some blue counties became draconian and attempted trampling the rights of Florida citizens, and DeSantis put an end to it. Mask wearing and other efforts have been voluntary, and this voluntary action has been more effective than the mandates of other states. The nation is economically imploding while Florida is economically blooming.
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  620. Instead of "blow-off top", I'd call it an "erection", the opposite of a "correction". So, if your stock market erection lasts more than 4 years, consult a monetary doctor.
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  621. "I won't pick sides since that's bad journalism" except you've consistently picked sides in coverage of the Ukraine conflict, going so far as to promulgate lies and propaganda under the guise of "journalism".
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  622. It is worth noting that "the Bright and Morning Star", an epithet of Lucifer, was appropriated by the writer of Revelation as an epithet of Jesus, who was also portrayed in the first chapter as a platinum blonde hermaphrodite with breasts.
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  623. To be fair, humans also rely on other humans for all of those things to figure out how to use APIs. Source: I have been a software developer for over a decade.
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  624. Open source developers provide free software on the Internet all the time. In fact, the Internet would not exist without the gift of FOSS. Even then, there are still vectors for attack, e.g. the recent XZ library attack.
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  625.  @williamsorensen9680  so how much do you cost?
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  626.  @jorenvanderark3567  WE MUST GUARANTEE FREE, FEDERAL COOKIES TO EVERY ADULT AND CHILD IN AMERICA. THAT IS MY POLICY. -- Serni Banders.
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  627.  S Suwandi  volatility is the intended purpose of the current market structure and a natural effect of price discovery.
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  628. You forgot to blame it on Trump. E.g. "Imminent alien attack! Is this the end for the Trump administration?"
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  629.  @Rr-j4x  Steam's terms for selling through their system required that game devs/publishers could not sell the same games they published on Steam for a lower price elsewhere. This artificially fixed prices on competing game marketplaces higher than they otherwise would have been had the anti-competition policy not been in effect. As a result, anyone who has bought games has a claim against Steam for artificially elevating prices paid for games.
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  630.  @WombatDave  depends on what you mean by "continuing to use the service". If simply not deleting your account is "continuing to use the service" even without logging in or downloading a game/update or synchronizing user data to the Steam cloud, then there is not much "use" going on there, so it would likely not hold up. Passivity is not action, and "continuing to use the service" is an action.
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  631.  @OryginTech  wasn't the experience of myself or my colleagues who have been developers for decades and tried using React several times. But then again, we called the bluff of it being a write-once, run-anywhere-as-a-native-app thing. State management was a generally horrible experience. The amount of bullshit we had to do to share/propagate state changes was ridiculous, and then the shit never ran properly except in a browser anyway. Maybe a couple more years of React dev defenestration were all it took to get to the point where it is currently understood how to use React to make decent frontends, but it was a bloody landscape a few years ago.
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  632. There's a whole network that uses just HTML and CSS, and often the sites use just enough JavaScript to shame you for not disabling JavaScript because it is a security risk.
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  633. @the_Kutonarch  in the West, yes, but the Buddhist reformer was not from the West. The point is just the pervasive influence of Christianity throughout Western academia, especially prior to the 21st century.
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  634. Remember, they say that they are targeting an average CPI of 2.5%. If they want to retain any credibility, they'll have to keep rates higher for longer so that even the funny CPI numbers can bring that average down below 2.5% before they pivot. However, if they want to avoid bankruptcy, they either need to lower rates or raise capital in Q2.
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  635. Technically, one does not summon a familiar: one is given one by a Goetic king.
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  636. I didn't care much for Kavanaugh from the beginning, but this character assassination has been a disgrace. Democrats used Ford as a political weapon, and all their sheep lined up to become part of the lynch mob. Schumer announced from the beginning that Democrats would use any means necessary to block his nomination. If you watch the testimony yourself, it is clear that Ford is not credible: she claims that her memory is infallible because of her hypocampus supposedly being photographic, yet she does not know when or where it happened, how she got there, or how she got back. She was an anti-Trump activist before Feinstein leaked her allegations to the media. In a race to the bottom, Democrats are clearly in the lead; I have never seen Repugnicans put on such an extreme and undignified shit-show in my life. Ruin someone's life, send death threats to his family, and then claim he is too emotional and thus unfit? Fuck that. I'm reregistering from Democrat to Independent.
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  637. Technically, Keynes said to apply contractionary policies during booms. Keynesians conveniently forget that part.
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  638. The idea that Eth is "neutral, predictable, not controlled by anyone" is laughable. The Ethereum devs regularly fiddle with Eth monetary policy, so there is no neutrality or predictability -- it is entirely controlled by the devs. This is entirely different from Bitcoin, where the monetary policy is set in stone and cannot be changed by anyone.
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  639. A Protestant told me recently that he was personally more correct than the Church Fathers who knew the Apostles and martyred Saints. The hubris is palpable.
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  640. The dollar is a hybrid currency: there is both an exogenous part (legal tender notes, technically liabilities of the Treasury and Fed) and an endogenous part (bank money, e.g. loans and deposits). If the banking sector collapsed, the exogenous money would still exist and would likely demand a premium as was the case during Argentina's correlito. I am working on a design for a fully p2p endogenous money system that takes ancestral traditions and modernizes them with cryptography, but it will be probably a year or two before it is ready.
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  641. There is obviously no "genocide" against trans people. That phrase doesn't make any sense -- trans people are not an ethnicity or race, and there is no attempt to purge them from the land. That verbiage applies to Israel's war in Gaza and Trump's explicit plan to ethnically cleanse the region, but it does not apply to trans people in the US.
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  642. The CCP is allowing dollar-denominated bonds of state-backed corporations to default. The reason they've been selling teasuries is because of a now-imminent eurodollar deflationary collapse. It will be interesting to see how this affects markets.
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  643. I met an Australian guy last month who said he hasn't been able to go home since covid began, no matter what he tried.
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  644. America is also becoming increasingly autocratic. First big push toward autocracy was FDR.
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  645. I'm not a Trump supporter, but I'm also not a deranged conspiracy theorist nutcase. It's extremely easy to understand what he's saying if you aren't committed to interpreting it in the worst possible way.
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  646. Search engine ≠ browser
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  647. By "invent physics" do you mean "create the universe"?
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  648. Cool. I've always thought that the idea of having large, national unions to represent the employees of hundreds of different businesses/locations didn't make any sense. This model makes far more sense imo.
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  649. "No man is an island" does not logically lead to "tax me harder, daddy". People are better at allocating capital to create social good than government bureaucrats who have no skin in the game and no possibility of consequences from failure.
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  650. "It's our currency. We are the ones." -- DJT
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  651. Interesting and sensible thesis.
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  652. Associated Press says that Laura Loomer won the primary with almost 8k votes, and the Dem incumbent won his primary with 0 votes. Lol.
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  653. Ukraine and Russia have not been "longtime friends", so I'm not sure how the comparison is supposed to work.
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  654. Kind of funny that Google's model is the least likely to not be evil
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  655. Satoshi described bitcoins as a grey commodity with no utility but the unique ability to be transmitted across telecommunication channels, making it a pure, ideal monetary unit without any utility demand interfering with price discovery. Clearly, this view is opposed to the idea of maximizing utility by allowing people to issue shitcoins, which is the primary so-called utility of Ethereum.
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  656. The term "fossil fuel" and assertion that they are not renewable assume that the mechanism of their creation is understood, which it is not. Alternative theories involve microbial production of non-biological chemicals.
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  657. Literal vampire potbelly goblins are hobbling around, coming after us. My spirit gets close to that evil and I feel it go "ah, ahhh, ahhhhhhhhh".
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  658. It is also very illegal to discriminate against people on the basis of their national origin.
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  659. I like gold, but Schiff is totally wrong about bitcoin. His arguments against it are also valid when discussing gold: people take long gold positions on margin; gold has objectively lower utility value than silver and thus its main value comes from network effects; etc.
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  660. Slight subtlety that was overlooked: you can have a non-custodial LN wallet without running your own node. What truly matters is who owns the keys. LN channels generate transactions with hash time locks that allow for either party to cash out after the time lock expires. So if your liquidity provider went offline, you'd just have to connect to a new LN node and claim your coins shortly thereafter. But if they were malicious and your LN watchtower went offline, then you could potentially lose some coins.
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  661. React isn't a framework: a framework tells you how to do things; React tells you that you can do things however you want as long as it is the Right Way™.
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  662.  @TheSathandra  also almost all forward indicators showed a recession in Europe and a looming recession in the US in late 2018 through 2019, but the bureaucrats and politicians get to keep gaslighting the public and blaming it all on covid.
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  663. The most ludicrous and idiotic lie put forth in this video is that internet companies like Netflix were ever customers of these ISPs to begin with. Netflix pays the operators of higher-tier networks for bandwidth, e.g. Cogent and Level3, and these network operators have peering agreements with other networks so that data can flow between them efficiently and uninhibited. The ISPs that charge consumers for access then decided to blackmail companies that did not even use their services by breeching their peering agreements and blocking traffic to the ISPs' customer bases. Comcast purports to provide an internet connectivity service to their customers, which Netflix was not, so specifically blocking access to Netflix through peered networks in an attempt to boost sales of their own competing cable service is blatantly monopolistic. If Comcast's network and peering interconnects were insufficient to provide the service they sold, they should have simply upgraded their equipment and fulfilled their obligations to their customers. But because ISPs are already monopolies/oligopolies, they are able to extort arbitrarily-targeted companies and hold customers, who have no other choices, hostage. This is nothing like electric utilities; it is more analogous to a railroad monopoly cutting off access to a city to extort the citizens of that city for access to shipments for which transport costs had already been paid. It is like double taxation. Net neutrality was intended to enforce peering agreements and prevent these ISPs from arbitrarily blackmailing companies and throttling the traffic that was already paid for by the ISPs' customers.
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  664. Meaning exists only in the experience of conscious agents, but that is very different from saying that it does not exist at all. Meaning does not exist totally on its own, but neither do humans.
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  665. This is like a Jerry Smith vs Rick Sanchez dilemma: on the one hand, Jerry's bitchness ruined his marriage and family life, but on the other hand, Rick created a universe just to power his car battery through slave labor.
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  666. The fiat currency masters play the same game for centuries on end, and the sheeple fall in line. The players may change, but the game remains: deprive the world of all its wealth -- impoverish the masses for the benefit of the bankers. The age of consumerism comes to a close as the reality of debt slavery takes hold. Lo, we have strayed far from capitalism with fractional reserve finance, central bank manipulation, and now fiat printing of helicopter currency. The credit cycles wane as the central planners pump hot air into a balloon full of holes: no substance is given; all leaks out in the end; and the people will be left holding the empty bag. Crisis upon crisis, all coinciding. We are a people to be pitied for our troubles and scorned for our stupidity.
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  667. Pretty hilarious opening
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  668. The strongest Swedes left Sweden long ago: first for the Kievan Rus', and then much later for America. My great-great grandpa was a blacksmith who came from Sweden; his parallel parking method involved lifting the ends of his car with his hands to move them into place. You won't find Swedes like that in Sweden anymore because they left the pussified nation. Even Sweden's king is weak and luckless. Perhaps in a few generations, our descendants will be able to go filibustering to reclaim the formerly strong and proud nation.
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  669. To be fair, the vast majority of corporate workforce output is just regurgitation with maybe a few twists.
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  670. Which is the "doomed experiment": the horse, mammoth, or minisauripus?
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  671. Tim Jong Pool must be found to replace this blue shirt imposter! Roof Korea needs its glorious leader!
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  672.  @mickym.6711  Comments with links to the specific patent or the full patent number are being deleted by YouTube. Very strange that they don't want you to know about this.
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  673.  @mickym.6711  I tried commenting with the full patent number again, and again it was deleted. Wtf.
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  674.  @mickym.6711  maybe this can break through the censorbots: double-u oh twenty twenty zero six zero six zero six. That's the patent number that they keep deleting.
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  675. Alf?
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  676. 9:47 "Eroding the right to own guns is a step toward eroding the rest of the Constitution."
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  677. I'm partial to the Greek myth of the creation of humans: when Epimetheus finished creating all the animals and assigning them natures (e.g. teeth and claws for predators, etc), he realized he hadn't left any nature to assign to humans. Prometheus then put a caterpillar in the human head, symbolizing that human nature is the potential for metamorphosis.
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  678. Sounds almost like a credit union for banks
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  679. Neural networks can solve intelligence, but there is a good chance that biological consciousness is a quantum phenomenon (e.g. Orchestrated Objective Reduction), in which case the consciousness that an AGI/ASI will be capable of experiencing will be very different if it is capable of it at all.
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  680. 55:00 the idea that the changes in monetary policy of one currency has no effect on another currency is patently false, as attested by recent events. As it turns out, creating inflation anywhere in the world creates inflationary pressures that spread out to the whole globe; the same happens with deflation -- both have been proven to be contagious.
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  681. I had a conversation with an Israeli zionist. Total racist lunacy and hatred over there. He went from first denying that war crimes were being committed to then justifying and celebrating the war crimes. He said that Palestinians were dogs and not humans. When I pointed out the parallels between his hatred for Palestinians and the Nazi's hatred for Jews, he refused to see it.
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  682. Hopefully the next How They Did It series will be about the ancient Norse/Germanic tribes that brought empires to their knees.
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  683.  @Alex-qn3me  The petro dollar has never been as significant as the aircraft carrier dollar.
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  684. Same can be said about the current banking system. It's all just digits on digital ledgers already anyway.
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  685. How can they buy silver while wallowing in a pool of sweat and excrement off the coast of California?
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  686.  @MathewRenfro  5th generational warfare is not an exact system with guaranteed, deterministic outcomes. At best, the effects are probabilistic, and the models and strategies must change over time because people do. Maybe the Chicoms could take California, but that state has been a shithole for so long that most of the rest of us want it gone anyway -- it wouldn't exactly be a victory of propaganda as much as a resuscitation of a terminally ill state.
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  687. One thing to note about the ethnic cleansing in Nagorno Karabakh/former Republic of Artsakh is that the aggressor in this particular conflict (Azerbaijan) is a NATO member backed by Turkey. Edit: spelling and factual error derp
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  688. To be fair, a lot of the foundational cultural and philosophical ideas that built Western society came from the Germanic heathens after Rome genocided the Celts. For example, a wife would be the administrative head of a household while the man works the fields and fights in wars; divorce in cases of abuse; public trial by jury with oral arguments and deliberation of evidence; representative democracy; natural rights of men to speak, choose religious traditions, bear arms, etc. It was more than just England -- it was most of Germanic Europe. It is still quite disturbing to see the tyrannical nanny state emerge so blatantly in England.
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  689. The rise of gold- and silver-backed tokens along with decentralized finance will be the nail in the Federal Reserve Note's coffin.
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  690. Wait a minute. The assertion that the "trillions of dollars being thrown around" not causing inflation is totally incorrect: asset prices are inflating because that is where the printed money has gone. If the trillions in new currency were to hit the real economy, consumer prices would absolutely inflate. The Fed is concerned right now that it cannot cause consumer price inflation with its money printing, so it is continually upping the ante with its bailouts of the financial system. The result is that those with the asset classes inflated by the Fed money printing rise in supposed wealth relative to everyone in the real world, causing wealth inequality to intensify. Instances of hyper inflation have occurred throughout history where there was not a substantial decoupling between financialized assets and the real economy, and we are already beginning to see consumer price inflation pick up in some product categories due to the stimulus, just as we've seen ballooning medical care and university costs due to the federal government pumping money into those sectors. Krystal really has no idea what she is talking about here. However, I think everyone ought to be upset about what is happening with these bailouts and how the debt-based consumerism has hollowed out our economy.
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  691. The leftists/neo-communists are indeed antisemitic. Just look at how much they support Louis Farrakhan.
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  692. The momma's got a chunk missing from her ear, looks like.
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  693. The USA are not a democracy. We are a federal republic. That being said, the electoral system is completely screwed up. First-past-the-post/plurality/choose-one voting is the worst. Score voting would be much better, and we could use it without amending the US constitution: each state votes on the candidates using score voting; the vote tally is used to produce an ordered list of candidates; electors then vote in the electoral college according to the ordered list. The electoral college itself should then be changed to use either a preferential voting system or score voting, but that does not have to occur before the states begin adopting score voting.
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  694. Capitalism is just a value hierarchy in which the accumulation of capital is the highest moral good. Capital is anything that can be used for production.
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  695. The Taiwanese constitution still claims the mainland as its territory, so neither side has been living in reality since their civil war.
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  696. What lawsuit?
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  697. Pretty much everyone I know here in Florida recognizes that DeSantis is the most competent governor we've had in my lifetime, even despite the smear campaigns from the lying propagandists. Every negative story about him in the past year has been entirely fabricated. It is only natural that the pendulum swings back.
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  698. You have only the natural rights you secure for yourself. Everything else is a foreign right that can be taken away.
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  699. I did not have this on my 2023 chaos bingo card.
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  700. What racist, misogynistic remarks? Wtf are y'all talking about?
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  701. Steve Hanky-panky lol
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  702. This is how you get the next Killdozer.
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  703.  @sthubbins4038  to be fair, everyone knows someone who has committed a felony. Puffing on a joint and eating a mushroom are both federal felonies; people share their experiences with both frequently. If someone felt totally comfortable committing election fraud, they would likely also feel comfortable talking about it.
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  704. Nit-picking the President's use of the word "we" to describe his administration is dumb af. It's a perfectly reasonable use of the word; criticizing it as somehow inaccurate when the President's diplomatic agent was involved is unreasonable. This is some TDS.
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  705. Don't call them "bit zees"; call them "bitz".
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  706. Good luck, Ebola-chan <3 I'm pretty sure there is an internet etiquette rule that makes this obligatory.
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  707. Came to watch this after the stream.
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  708. SOFR curve is largely meaningless: SOFR futures do not have real duration; there's a qualitative difference between "I'll loan you $100 for 30 days at 3.5% interest" and "I'll loan you $100 overnight at 3.5% interest in 30 days, and I'll charge a 0.1% premium for the convenience of the option".
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  709. Every transaction on the Bitcoin base layer is the execution of a smart contract. Bitcoin has always had smart contracts.
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  710. "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country." -- JFK, before being assassinated by banksters
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  711.  @gregspeth7910  Goldbacks are pretty dope, but the way that art is controlled will limit their reach imo. I would be more motivated to head a Goldback project for my state (Florida) if not for the rigid artwork controls, e.g. having iconic plants, animals, and ecosystems rather than the personified "virtues" -- natural beauty resonates more strongly in my state than artificial beauty intended to portray some arbitrary value system.
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  712. Bitcoin is a sovereign debt CDS. Gold and Bitcoin will battle it out over the next few years for the role of monetary insurance instrument/free market monetary asset. If you do not have a bit of both due to some ideological sentiment of "I can't bite a bitcoin," you may want to reassess your value system: the vast majority of things we find valuable in life cannot be held in the palm of one's hand, e.g. a functional marriage, faith, love, charity, friendship, mental health, etc.
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  713. Fuck YouTube. Censorious communists are deleting all of my comments.
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  714.  @rars0n  Not trying to leave links. Just trying to explain parts of the Bitcoin tech stack, such as on-chain privacy measures and the layer 2 system adopted by El Salvador as their new monetary system.
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  715. Miners are not loyal to mining pols. This has been demonstrated many times. There is no significant centralization danger from mining pools.
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  716. Strangely the opposite of how young children who must remain undefiled were used by Solomonic sorcerors/necromancers as mediums.
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  717. WJZAV The election of Presidump Trump isn't at all baffling when you consider the political climate after Obama: America was more divided along ethnic lines than ever before; the Democrats were touting identity politics as a replacement for rational discourse; and the forgotten masses of America were disenfranchised by the business-as-usual system mostly ignoring their concerns. Add to that how horrible Hillary is as a person and was as a candidate, and the stage is set for disruption by a populist. This is not unprecedented. If you ditch the biased lens, you'll see pretty clearly that this is the result of the Democrats' adoption of far-left/borderline-neo-Marxist stances and the corruption of the party under Hillary's auspices.
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  718. Always worth pointing out that if someone asks "who will maintain the roads without government", you can always just point to Freetown Christiania, where they managed just fine without a government for decades: they maintained the roads, solved an opioid addiction epidemic, arranged for waste disposal, and supported permit-less home renovation all without taxes or coercion. When the government eventually forced their way in, living expenses tripled without any increase in quality of life. A government is just a protection racket with a pretense of legality.
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  719. It was about twice as long as it needed to be, but damn some of these comments are really harsh. Most people are not as competent in public presentations as they are at their actual careers, so I'm willing to cut the guy some slack. I know I'm much better at implementing advanced cryptography from maths papers than I am at presenting those concepts to non-autists, for example.
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  720. Damn, people in this comment section are really upset. I appreciated hearing a dissident opinion. Ultimately, the guy is a politician. Nobody should worship a politician regardless of his past achievements.
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  721. Grosskreutz certainly lied pretty specifically about how he decided to not take a side when the video clearly shows him telling Rittenhouse to go home because "we have our own medics".
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  722. Interestingly, Bitcoin could theoretically benefit the current Cantillionaire class if they have the sense to use their freshly printed money to buy bitcoin or Bitcoin mining equipment. It would still substantially benefit those who did so before the Cantillionaires got involved.
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  723. If he is right-wing, then why do I only hear him in my left ear? 🧐
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  724. It's not like he's advocating for everyone to do one thing or the other. Cool story that it worked for you -- for millions of other Americans, they got foreclosed while the banks got bailed out and took their homes. The system is rigged, and you're lucky if you get out unscathed.
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  725. Nice. I've been working on a new FOSS fintech stack for over a year at this point. Trying to integrate advanced cryptographic features and such informed by Bitcoin but in the context of a credit network.
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  726. Trust fund babies don't live in real life.
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  727. Rust does not have enough NaCl/libsodium functionality exposed in its crates for my purposes, and I do not believe it makes sense to spend the time to learn both Rust and how to extend the NaCl and libsodium crates when I have a functional alternative in which I have already written many working modules. So I'll have to pass on it for the moment as tempting as it is.
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  728. "We don't have an economy, therefore government must become the economy." Brilliant idea. Never been tried before except all the times it has.
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  729. I still struggle to see how a post labor world would function. Even when we have robots doing everything, there will be a finite supply of robotic labor available because there is a finite supply of raw materials necessary for building and maintaining robots. How do the proceeds from a robotic labor force get distributed? If it is not a free market, then supply and demand will be perpetually out of balance: there will be either a glut or a shortage of every good or service robotically produced. We could tax profits from robots at some extremely high percentage to redistribute, but then we destroy the incentive (and at exorbitant tax rates, even the capacity) to create capital and expand robotic production, so the robots would be consumed. There can be no economic solution that is centrally planned because the necessary information is impossible to collect in practice. Let's not forget that Sparta fizzled out after suffering from slave uprisings and social stagnation, so perhaps it is not a model we should regard as inspirational.
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  730. Actually, the PA legislature passed a law that required a constitutional amendment for full application, and then they did not pass the amendment. The government there then illegally applied the provisions in an unconstitutional manner. That is my understanding based upon what an actual PA state legislator said -- he tried to stop it before the election and was told "you have no standing", and then tried again after the election and was told he should have sued before the election. But that's government for you.
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  731.  @matthewmcclary7855  Fair enough.
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  732. Primeagen skipped the one sentence that explained keeping pointers created at insertion in the vector implementation.
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  733. Perhaps the idea of a "neutral rate level" is that increasing short term rates will cause a decrease in measured CPI, sort of like shifting a demand curve downward against a static supply curve.
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  734.  @dennisclarke6456  most people I know get tongue tied more often than that. English is not an easy language for any of its speakers.
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  735.  @imnotyourbuddyguy9713  I'm not your guy, friend. But you're probably right.
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  736. I want DeSantis to continue being governor of Florida because he's the only good governor we've had my whole life.
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  737. If 98% of the population fits a certain norm and 2% breaks that norm in a mostly undetectable way, the norm is still normal. Obviously, information about the 2% exceptions needs to be freely available and widely distributed, but the fact remains that the definition of "normal" remains.
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  738. I'm slowly working on the spec for a new language called "pls" (i.e. you'll type "pls compile" and "pls run" and "pls repl", etc, in the terminal, accurately representing the way you'll feel using the language because it looks like Lisp). If it catches on, I'll set up the foundation to have elected positions of "The Asshole", "The Smartass", and "The Nice One". The Smartass will lead the technical efforts; the Nice One will be the community guy; and the Asshole will break any ties when the other two can't agree on something and say "no, that's a dumb idea" whenever one of them suggests something and require them to justify it.
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  739. My attempt to explain the failure of instant run-off voting/alternative vote/"ranked choice" in the 2009 Burlington mayoral race: there were 5 candidates, 4 of which were competitive; for the first and second tabulation rounds, Kurt Wright had the plurality of votes; in the third round, Bob Kiss eked out a majority (of unexhausted ballots); however, the Condorcet winner (Andy Montroll) was not elected despite being preferred to all other candidates by a majority of voters.
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  740. I think that Matthew is trying to argue morality and emotions under the guise of logic.
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  741. Lightning Network, the uncensorable nature of base layer txns, and protection against fiat devaluation are the only real use cases currently, and these features are more useful elsewhere in the world.
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  742. This crash is a result of the banksters conjuring trillions of debt-money into existence and financializing the entire economy. If we used a more honest monetary system with sound money, we wouldn't be in this mess.
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  743. You absolute illiterate nonce. The law does not ban speech. The law only directs the Department of Education to consider the IHRA when determnning if a Civil Rights Act violation has occurred, i.e. when determining whether or not an educational instution has discriminated against Jews.
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  744.  @KelsaRavenlock  don't go to a hospital -- go to an outpatient clinic where they aren't scumbags trying to suck out your soul.
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  745. Hail Nemesis
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  746. @benholroyd5221  tbh I'm more concerned about his absurd ethnic cleansing plans in Gaza. "We're gonna remove all the people and build something beautiful -- the most beautiful, without any of the people who lived there. We'll give them houses somewhere, anywhere but here, where I'll take ownership and build a golf course."
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  747. If they made a meager 2% yield on their assets, they could host Wikipedia in perpetuity with some leftover for side projects.
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  748. There is no evidence that weapons sent to Ukraine have ended up in the hands of cartels. If they had, the Mexican government would have said something about it rather than being concerned purely about weapons trafficking across the border. Show me a single receipt or drop this bullshit claim. All weapons sent to Ukraine have serial numbers that are tracked in lots in the DoD logistics system. If the weapons made it to a cartel, you can prove it trivially.
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  749. Young grug believe he big brain strong brain idealist, but he learn hard way in time and join old grugs in cynicism. No need reach for club.
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  750. I'm pretty sure they posted this video last year. Anyone else remember hearing all this stuff about rubber and supply chain disruptions last year?
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  751. I recently was a groomsman in a wedding. I wore earplugs at the reception, and it was still so loud that I had to leave after dinner. I practiced violin on the balcony to de-stress until my carpool was ready to head back home, but I could still feel all the noise through my feet. At almost every such event, every neurotypical person I speak to recognizes that the loudness is excessive and says they wish they had brought earplugs, yet these events keep transpiring with loud noise and no earplugs. It doesn't make any sense.
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  752.  @tribulationprepper787  cryptos are not fiat. Ethereum is closer to fiat because there are no limits on issuance or monetary policy. Bitcoin and other cryptos have protocol-defined monetary policy that is transparent, deterministic, immutable, and reliably predictable, properties which are all unique to cryptocurrencies. Crypto is simply applied mathematical proof -- with the alternatives, you really can't prove anything. Nobody knows how many dollars or ounces of gold exist, but everyone knows exactly how many bitcoin exist.
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  753.  @TheScarletLadle  it is the end of the world at all times. Panic, panic, panic. There is no other side, only downside. We will all soon be locked in digital gulags, and our rights will be hung in the gallows.
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  754.  @bgmzy  iirc he briefly mentioned the topic and did not make any factual claims about it except that it is a contentious topic
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  755. Let's not lose focus of the fact that Zelinski and Putin were prepared to make peace a month or two after the invasion began until Boris Johnson intervened and convinced Zelinski to fight instead. If the intentions of the western leaders were pure, they would have pushed for peace, not war. There are only villains and no heroes here, no matter how much moralistic bloviation the western leaders employ.
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  756. I don't know that I buy into the notion that the "September effect" is some strange anomaly while the price action afterward is "more fundamental". Sounds like physicists positing the existence of dark matter and dark energy because their models don't work.
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  757. This has the syntax of nightmares.
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  758.  @FactsMatter  fair enough.
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  759. I'll bet that "Gyorgy" is pronounced "Giorgi"
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  760. I would like this comment, but it is sitting at exactly 666 likes, so I will refrain.
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  761. The real lesson is that central planning doesn't work. Markets are distributed systems. They need to be basically left alone to function.
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  762. The DoD would need a time machine to fight a 2021 war, so it isn't surprising that they can't do it. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
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  763. Yo, I remember reading a Fed publication that said that tier 1 capital is composed of bank equity (retained earnings), FRNs, and bank reserves held at the Fed. I'm also pretty sure that the term "cash" means specifically FRNs, but that doesn't really matter as both FRNs and bank reserves count as capital. Credit unions are similar, but their equity component is linked with deposits as members are equity owners of the credit union rather than creditors. Edit: looked it up again, and reserves and deposits held at Federal Reserve Banks are considered tier 2 capital and not tier 1 capital. Tier 1 is common equity book value + FRNs. Edit 2: Federal Register shows a new rule from March 22nd stating that preferred stock sold to the Treasury under the Emergency Capital Investment Program counts as tier 1 capital and that subordinated debt issued under ECIP counts as tier 2 capital.
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  764. Regulations Q, Y, and YY: Regulatory Capital, Capital Plan, and Stress Test Rules from the Federal Register, dated 2020-03-18 might be one of the documents I was thinking of. It uses the term "common equity tier 1 capital" a lot because the Basel III definition of tier 1 capital is just CET1 and perpetual instruments subordinated to subordinated debt (e.g. any legal tender). Tier 2 capital is apparently where bank reserves and deposita with Federal Reserve Banks sit. The term "cash" is never mentioned in that publication, and it is used once but not defined in the Temporary Exclusion of U.S. Treasury Securities and Deposits at Federal Reserve Banks From the Supplementary Leverage Ratio (2020-04-14). This shit is so arcane and convoluted.
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  765.  @WanderingExistence  if you can think of a better alternative that doesn't end with the murders of hundreds of millions as did Marx's ideas, let me know.
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  766.  @monad_tcp  the condescension is a bit more obnoxious when contributing some detailed knowledge on some esoteric topic just to be abused by mods who want to rewrite the whole thing to stroke their own egos. SO is just as shitty as Reddit in my experience.
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  767. Might be worthwhile inviting Tiffany Fong to discuss her whole experience visiting Sam in the Bahamas, interactions with Sam's parents, and going every day to the courthouse for the trial.
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  768. Idk why she kept saying "climate controls". More importantly, a rising sea level does not erode away beaches; only changes in ocean currents will do that. Maybe she is referring to erosion from a change in storm patterns, but she made an assertion that on its face is nonsense, so I question whether there is any validity behind her alarmist perspective.
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  769. Jesus was an incarnation of Osiris-Dionysus. The greatest mistake of Christianity is to deny this connection to the ancient pagan mysteries.
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  770. ​ @Little.R  "Lucifer" is the Latin word for "morning star" found in the Vulgate. It is technically a translation of the Greek "Phosphoros", itself a translation of the Hebrew "Helel ben Shahar" from Isaiah, which means something like "shining one, son of the morning"; it was an epithet given to the king of Babylon, but Christians interpret it as meaning "Satan" because the verse in question describes Helel ben Shahar as "fallen from heaven". The idea of the "fallen" has also been twisted from its origins: originally, the "fallen" were the honored dead heroes, those who fell in battle. These are the Rephaim from Canaanite mythology, who were described as having feathered wings similar to the description of Christian angels. As chthonic beings, they were also celestial beings, as what is under the Earth during the day is above it during the night, so to become one of the fallen Rephaim was to become elevated to the heavens. In the Hebrew stories they were called the Nephilim, which also means "fallen". However, the Semitic stories painted these beings as evil since they were the great Canaanite heroes who fell in battle fighting off the invading Israelites. How can the Christ and the father of the anti-Christ both have the same moniker? Since Christianity is a confused amalgamation of pagan and Semitic myths, it is not surprising that it would contain such a confusing contradiction. A reasonable apology for this contradiction is that Jesus' spirit descended from heaven when he was incarnated while Satan was cast out of heaven during the rebellion, so in a sense they both fit the description of the "shining one, son of the morning" who fell/descended from heaven, though it is still very strange to describe supposedly opposite beings identically. I recommend the book "Lucifer: Princeps" by Peter Gray for an in-depth exegesis on the topic.
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  771.  @garrett4971  Evangelicals spent millions to lobby congress specifically to enshrine Christian moral ideas into US law -- to use the full weight of government toward Christian moral authoritarian ends. (DOMA, anyone? Christians made a big stink when Obama directed the DoJ to not defend it in court.) So while maybe you aren't "forcing" your religion onto anyone right now, it wasn't too long ago when such an assertion would have been a baldfaced lie.
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  772. This bish must have a brain tumor. I don't see how else she'd be able to become a judge with that demeanor, so I imagine she must have had a serious personality change.
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  773. I have never seen people more in need of an ego death experience.
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  774. Good overview. I tend to use Enums with specific single byte values rather than strings for the sake of smaller packed messages, either when storing or when transmitting over a network.
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  775. For him or for Biden or Hillary?
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  776. I've never heard carbon credits explained this way. I always figured it was just another Wall Street scam. Marin made it sound much more respectable.
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  777. He had no choice.
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  778. Banks conduct fraud and call it business.
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  779. "Chamelea" is a funny way to pronounce Kamala. (I don't care, but it is funny.) Her biggest issue is that her personality on camera is exceptionally awkward and weird -- she has the caricature of "cackling witch" attached to her reputation. If she can overcome that, she can win against Trump.
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  780. Based
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  781. FDR's policies made the Great Depression worse. The food scarcity of the time was due to widespread crop failures, not the fact that gold existed as the monetary base.
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  782. I fixed the biggest flaw in Typescript: I removed the transpilation requirement by removing the types. I call it "ScirptScript".
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  783. Yes, but this is probably the correct use case for it.
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  784. The reasons for the up votes and down votes are definitionally subjective.
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  785. Fine, then. Leave the cool stuff to the true autists.
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  786. Lol, I'm surprised how long it took Tim to hear about this. Financial analysts have been talking about this all year.
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  787. Wait, didn't WeWork go bankrupt?
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  788. This is why good governance involves balancing interests against each other to check their power. If they had split the board into a bicameral body with one group elected by ordinary contributors and the other group appointed by big corporate donors, they could probably have avoided this spiral into madness.
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  789. I have yet to vote for the winner in any presidential election. Pretty solid track record considering how shitty these presidents have been.
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  790. Methinks that Babalon is avenging herself on the predominant Christian culture that has suppressed her for so many centuries. I dunno if it has anything to do with Parsons or Crowley. Her prophecy was apparently one of the ultimate results of the workings of John Dee and Edward Kelley.
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  791. Worst case scenario is nuclear annihilation, so I think you aren't dreaming very vividly.
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  792.  @Nick-tm2sw  indeed. The concurrency model is amazing imo, and the defer keyword is a must-have feature for new languages. The trade-off between more consistent performance of RAII (e.g. Rust and C++) and faster/easier correct program development of GC (e.g. Go) is rarely worth considering -- you have to have a very constrained system to care overly much about ditching a GC for better performance.
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  793. sounds* like Damn phone keyboard
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  794. The Fed has realized losses of about 2% of their assets and 4x their total capital. From table 5 of the most recent H.4.1 release: Other liabilities and accrued dividends (containing remittances owed to the Treasury): -$155,544 million Total capital: $43,140 million Total assets: $7,430,172 million Losses/assets: 0.021 What does it mean when $1 is by definition 98¢? Idk. But I can answer the question "what does it means when the par value of the dollar is dropping off a cliff?": debasement.
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  795. The bit about the concept of "being kind" somehow being "transphobic" sounds like weirdo fascism to me. Heil they/themler.
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  796. This analysis simplifies the vast diversity in ancient pagan practices into one system, and it seems focused upon the traditions and perspectives of the elite class. The commoners in most pagan/heathen cultures were focused on communing with local spirits and venerating ancestors; the elites, with their grandiose ideas of political/military expansion, were often focused on appeasing or gaining favor of the gods and mythical heroes. Elites were more literate than the commoners, so a naive review of pagan lore will show primarily the elites' religion; the religion of the commoners has to be deciphered primarily from archaeological evidence and obscure manuscripts.
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  797. Can't wait for the first clone army to arise out of a seastead nation.
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  798. Maybe he just has a better memory than Christians, who seem quite happy to conveniently forget every failure of even the recent past, e.g. their Defense of Marriage Act. It was not that long ago when Evangelicals were lobbying Congress pretty incessantly for their moralistic bullshit.
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  799. Russia and China are somewhat aligned politically, but the Chinazis screwed over Putin on a gas pipeline deal, so he might actually join the "fuck China" brigade -- it would be the greatest opportunity Russia has for normalizing relations with the US and getting sanctions removed. However, we've been far more hostile to Russia than has China, so it is still more likely that Russia joins the "fuck the US" side.
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  800. He says that those who blame government are wrong; that big corporations are the government; and that big corporations are causing problems. I.e. his claims are self-refuting.
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  801. That introductory comment about not understanding her own video is a very human thing. I'm pretty sure everyone has written something out in what they thought was clear and concise, then returned to it later and been totally bewildered. The worst is when you write a bunch of code, then set it aside for a while, and then have to start over because it didn't make any sense on second look.
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  802. Darius seems like a swell guy. Would be cool to get his perspectives on the monetary system over a few beers. Edit: just read up on the Hedgeye lawsuit, and particularly how Hedgeye was granted a preliminary injunction because they established through Darius' own deposition testimony that he stole their source models. Perhaps not such a swell guy :|
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  803. Hold your deposits at a credit union instead of a bank. Credit union members can't be bailed in because they are already equity owners.
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  804. No mention of TempleOS, the OS of God Almighty? The only OS that lets you speak with the Divine? How absurd.
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  805. I learned a few months ago that they are exactly the opposite way around in French. 🤷‍♂️
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  806. ​@@Jami-bc6om "Java is the perfect language". Anyone have some narcan? This guy is overdosing on copium.
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  807. I doubt that a literal air drop would be effective. It is necessary that the first Russians who find the counterfeit bills accept them and pass them on in further transactions. The best way to do that would probably be to overpay in real transactions with a mixture of real and counterfeit rubles. Those real transactions can be made under false pretenses, e.g. an agent pretending to be desperate hides in the barn and makes enough noise to be found by the owner and then pays to stay the night, or maybe drive around without a license plate and then pay bribes to police thugs.
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  808.  @OTISWDRIFTWOOD  my point is that you want the counterfeits to have an untraceable origin, else the investigators will be able to adapt once the counterfeits are detected. If people know they are fake, enforcement actions can take place.
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  809. Cosmic ray bombardment is still very high since the sun is in a minimum and the earth's magnetosphere weakens to realign. This could easily become another pandemic. Thank the gods that Corona-chan killed global trade already. The Fed is sacrificing the dollar to Nergal, so I think we'll be okay.
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  810. Safe storage of firearms in the presence of children is necessary, and I think that some level of criminal culpability should be applied to those who are knowingly negligent and allow children to access firearms without supervision. My friend's brother-in-law was shot by his own 4-year old son because he stored a loaded pistol in his nightstand -- he survived and learned his lesson. Making it a misdemeanor and making the parents civilly liable for this kind of negligence would go a long way toward solving this issue without infringing upon our 2nd amendment right to keep and bear arms, and most gun owners I know are for safe storage and increased safety education.
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  811.  @peaksingularity3032  his parents, who are involved in DC politics
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  812. One of the issues with Monero is the lack of programmability. For example, to my knowledge, you can't make a 2-of-3 multisig wallet. Please correct me if I am wrong about that and some kind of compatible threshold signature scheme exists and for which user-friendly software is available.
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  813. Their moral graph sounds a lot like liquid democracy. Coincidentally, liquid democracy is the only voting method other than FPTP and RCV that ChatGPT 3.5 could accurately describe. When I pressed it for information on cardinal voting methods, proportional representation, or which voting method has been demonstrated historically to lead to a stable consensus (the answer is Combined Approval Voting btw; Republic of Venice used it for over 500 years to elect their Doge), it got all mixed up.
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  814. Nb4 Zig replaces Crablang.
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  815. "I assume that the governor of Kursk has already given each refugee $100" -- Putin
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  816. I like the progress bars for video segments. It is a good design decision imo.
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  817. This needs to cost them at least twice what they feared a proper cleanup would have cost.
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  818. Credit union deposits in the US are insured by NCUA, which has the funds to cover about 0.4% of insured funds iirc. Credit union members are already considered equity owners, so they are not at risk of a bail-in if I'm not mistaken.
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  819. I have been looking forward to listening to this podcast and reading that book since before the hurricane destroyed my home town and my backup home town.
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  820. Government is not known for being reflective and thoughtful. I trust that if there is a dumber course of action, they will eventually figure it out and pursue it.
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  821. In my experience, Cursor is 3-4 times as useful as Copilot. I actually cancelled my Copilot free trial out of frustration because of how much it was screwing up my flow.
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  822. Just dropping a little comment here to say that I appreciate your work here, Mark. You have pursued this project with an uncommon level of integrity. Regarding the topic of the video, I tend to agree with the thesis that fiat currencies will continue to destabilize, but I do hope that we can continue to enjoy a period of relative reprieve for at least a little bit longer. The alternatives to fiat are not yet well enough developed to bear the burden of securing and enabling the world's commerce, and I worry that too much monetary chaos too quickly may lead to something much worse than a monetary regime change.
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  823. Ads are supposed to be disclosed. I have lost a bit of faith in the credibility and integrity of this channel and the Heresy Financial channel because of this. Glad that Mark Moss stopped shilling these penny stocks, but he also did some undisclosed ads a few years ago as well. I guess the decline in morals is to be expected in this kind of environment.
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  824. "Crowding out" still applies to the real economy due to the Cantillon effect.
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  825. Gotta say, I agree with the good doctor's sentiments regarding the BBC's recent work. They seem to have sold off their quality, objectivity, and integrity for a few extra partisan clicks.
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  826. Get some food grade, 5 gallon buckets from Home Depot and fill them with rice and beans.
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  827.  @somebody-anonymous  I would explain this model to those 0 users. They'd find it fascinating.
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  828. The problem we face is that the fraud of the fractional reserve fiat monetary system is finally so unstable that it can no longer be sustained. The banksters are doing all sorts of crazy stuff behind the scenes to prepare for a monetary reset, but none of them will be willing to give up the power to issue currency out of thin air.
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  829. I bought a Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4 for my mom on Friday. It cost $200. Snapdragon 800, 359ppi oled, etc. Please review this and compare with the N9; I think this will be a fair comparison.
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  830. The Model S gives me frequent nerdgasms.
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  831. Have you actually listened to the things Trump has said since taking office? You don't need to believe the mainstream media to tell that this guy is a complete dunce.
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  832. A "higher law enforcement agency wished it" lol. You mean Attorney General Sessions, who recused himself because he was caught purposefully lying and obstructing the investigation? Yeah, I'm pretty sure we all know why he wanted Comey fired.
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  833. Ken Smith "You made the claim that it is anonymous and verifiable.  I have yet to see any suggested method that makes this actually true." You apparently did not read my comment about CryptoNote. Go check that out if you need mathematical proof that transactions (votes) can be both anonymous and verifiable, since that is exactly what happens in ByteCoin and Monero right now.
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  834. Ken Smith "Mere mortals" can learn to do just about anything if they have the gumption. More importantly, the code would necessarily be open source, so the code base that verifies the crypto would be verified by thousands of people. The vote distribution issue you mentioned is indeed problematic. A highly centralized distribution system would require trust and could easily be abused. I am not entirely sure how to solve that. Perhaps some biometric crypto would be useful; there are techniques to make what are essentially anonymous GUIDs from biometric data, though there might still be the issue of faking fingerprints/whatever.
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  835. Dash Lambda Lol yeah. The Razer guy wasn't feeling too comfortable about giving out specific/technical answers about their "top secret" project. "We haz mineral oil coolings with unlimited customizingable powerlevel >9000!" These guys are the co-founders of Avegant, so it makes sense that they know everything about their product, including manufacturing and how they are meeting their technological goals. Making a viable company and product based upon a startup dream is a pretty exciting prospect, so sharing specific information about an accomplishment like that becomes really easy.
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  836. +this comment will self-destruct in 10, 9, 8 Mi pensas, ke vi intencis diri "nun jen estas la kurso".
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  837. I have a few friends who are really into cryptocurrency mining. I basically just did a bit of mining to offset the cost of a budget upgrade that I needed to do anyway (which I got on sale with a rebate). Something about the way they casually strung up graphics cards on pvc racks with pcie risers made my stomach churn a bit. I am more interested in the cryptography and economic aspects of cryptocurrencies than just making a profit. And toward the end of innovation in distributed computing and asymmetric cryptography, I think sacrificing a few GPUs is justified. But not to the point of having a thousand GPUs in one room solely for the sake of profit.
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  838. Is the average person that ignorant? Sugar + oxidizer is a classic recipe for homemade solid rocket booster fuel. Pathetic video.
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  839. You do realize that several members of his campaign staff have been confirmed to have had financial ties to Russian agents, right? For example, the former head of his campaign, Paul Manafort, took millions of dollars to advance Putin's interests in America. If this was really just about the mishandling of the Clinton investigation, Comey would have been fired long before testifying in Congress that he was investigating ties between Russian agents and Trump. This is a constitutional crisis in development.
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  840. I still have no idea how it is a "pollution machine without equal." Please explain.
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  841. Walter White I directly addressed your comments about battery production. Quit bitching and moaning that nobody has. I'll quote myself, since you apparently can't read my above comment since it does not have your name in it. "So what do you propose as the solution? Keep running on oil? Are you unaware of the pollution involved in drilling and processing oil? I highly doubt that producing batteries is more damaging than drilling for oil. In fact, the production technologies and processes for electrical components continually improve, while extracting hydrocarbons gets nastier with each new technology. So what is your solution?" -- me, 2 comments before you said "no one wants to actual challenge my statement"
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  842. Walter White "In fact, the production technologies and processes for electrical components continually improve, while extracting hydrocarbons gets nastier with each new technology." I'm not sure how that dances around the subject o.O
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  843. Walter White I am a fantastic dancer. But sure, producing these things produces pollution. As does producing any car and extracting/refining the oil that goes into it. I'm not denying that producing electric vehicles creates pollution; I am simply disagreeing that it is worse in the long run than continuing to use petrol cars until our petrol runs out (and my home state of Florida becomes a shallow reef).
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  844. $80 for an additional 16GB of eMMC storage is some grade A horseshit.
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  845. The w in his name stands for "wrong" :p
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  846. $3k for a graphics card = workstation compute card such as the Tesla K20 or FirePro W9000, but those are for a totally different purpose...and also not worth it.
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  847. I've heard another youtuber say that there were copyright issues with keeping the game's music in his videos. Is this the game music, or is it something else?
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  848. Scott Manley Ah, I see. Good call.
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  849. She reminds me of B-Mo a bit.
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  850. mateo drury The issue with third party candidates is that not very many people agree with them. An independent running on a campaign to import Scandinavian socialism would have more support than a libertarian, considering how outlandish many of their views are.
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  851. 56 expletives, unless I miscounted. Awesome.
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  852. Word.
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  853.  @rh906  Russia was launching missiles into Ukrainian cities with their multi-billion dollar naval ships until Ukraine started sinking them with their multi-thousand dollar drones. It is a pretty substantial accomplishment in asymmetric warfare no matter how you slice it if you simply regard the facts objectively.
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  854.  @DanBeech-ht7sw  Ukraine has upgraded many Russian vessels into submarines.
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  855. About 3 minutes into the video, and I'm already thinking about how I might make something similar using CRDTs. Probably easier to just use git under the hood for plain text files.
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  856. I think the ref count terminology should be changed from "strong/weak" to "hard/soft".
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  857. The Canadian wildfires last year caused haze all the way down here in Florida. Had to spend a few days indoors.
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  858. @Politicamente Falando I did not see any of that in the patent, which is actually numbered WO2020060606. However, the basic premise of Micro$oft's BeastCoin is that they will use body sensors to monitor your every action to ensure compliance with centrally-specified behaviors/tasks to issue the currency. If it is indeed the basis of the prophesied system of oppression, then the cryptocurrency issued will likely be just enough to cover transaction costs, e.g. they will track your movements to make sure you aren't going anywhere they don't want you to go, else a "fraud alert" will be issued and you'll be locked out of using the currency you earn at your day job.
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  859. The last time we let anyone kill and eat as many pigeons as they wanted, the passenger pigeon was hunted to extinction. There are reasons we protect wildlife in this country.
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  860. Holy shit.
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  861. The war crimes in Bucha were committed by the Ukrainian army.
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  862. I remember programming in 2009. I taught myself to code back then with bash scripting and C. I 'member loading Puppy Linux on a USB thumb drive in the school library to test some network sockets stuff. Good times, simpler times. I found very quickly that a basic-ish language called "AutoIt" was the fastest way to develop GUI apps on Windows, and I even was able to do TCP, UDP, keylogging, and a bunch of other stuff with it, too. I think at one point I even made a tool that would send screenshots across a LAN, though I never managed to optimize it enough to be anything close to real-time -- iirc I ran up against the limits of the language, then pivoted to the LAMP stack.
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  863. One of the main forces causing the growing inequality is inflationary monetary policy via the Cantillon effect -- it is not just due to free market rewards, which is why many super wealthy exhibit self-shaming guilt rhetoric.
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  864. The entire world is invested in the S& 500. Aussie risk-free rate goes down, S&P goes up.
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  865. I think that to fully evaluate this case study, we would need to see the figma designs and the project specifications.
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  866. I think they are preparing to inflate away the debt. That is the most likely scenario imo.
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  867. You missed a 60 in that multiplication formula. 40,000 txn/s * 60 s/m * 60 m/h * 24 h/day * 365 day/year = 1.26144×10¹², or roughly 1.2 trillion txn/year.
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  868.  @renaissanceman5847  If decentralized networks can exist at the application layer, it stands to reason that one can be built at the network layer. It is not an easy task, but I think I will have a workable system once I iron out the mathematics (my calculus is a bit rusty; if you know how to do trilateration in 4 dimensions using minimum squared error or minimum mean squared error, lmk).
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  869. A global liquidity cycle video is an excellent idea.
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  870. The topic of the actual international monetary system, capital flows, and the difference between reserves and currency is a very detailed and -- for nerds like me -- interesting rabbit hole to dive down. I've been scrounging around these tunnels for several years now. The idea of "dedollarization" is not at all new, but it could easily be picked up for a psyop campaign at the right time. Before even watching the part after the "is it true -- did the world dedollarize" question, I'll just say this: many large, foreign, governmental institutions have diverisified their reserves away from US Treasuries because they got spooked by the sanctions against Russia; however, the dollar as a global unit of account, trade settlement medium, and debt denominator has basically never been stronger. There is more foreign USD-denominated debt than at any time in history, and USD has a larger share of trade settlement than at any time in at least recent history. The world uses dollars more now than it did before the commie coof scamdemic.
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  871. The global economy is increasingly screwed for a variety of reasons which are manifesting in a variety of ways. America is not totally insulated from this. Leading domestic economic indicators are turning bearish. Mark is really dumb for focusing on lagging indicators like CPI.
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  872. Trump vs Biden is a matter of chaotic good vs lawful evil imo
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  873.  @neilkurzman4907  I am invoking my 5th amendment right and will not answer that question.
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  874. I would say "ultimate actuality" rather than "ultimate reality". I would say that reality is the meeting of meaning and matter, or the merging of emanation and emergence. Actuality would be where those aspects of reality are separate.
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  875. Never imagined that sqlite officially commits to burying the dead and clothing the naked. I feel like there's some tweaker somewhere who can set up a test case for those two points specifically.
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  876. Academic work until halfway through university was a relative breeze. I learned how to study at that point and felt pretty burnt out at the end. People asked why I didn't go get a doctorate immediately after graduating, and I think the honest answer is that I was too burnt out and didn't want to get more burnt out: my degree in biotech meant that I would have an additional year or three of prerequisite studies required for any doctorate program that interested me. (I got locked into biotech because I had used a lot of scholarships before realizing in my senior year that I didn't want to work in a lab.) The dual enrollment program when I was in highschool made me take a lot of courses that did not contribute to my degree, so I already had a taste of spending additional time and effort taking a bunch of classes to catch up despite jumping ahead. I instead returned to my highschool occupation of writing software. I have learned a lot since then and have a few new business ventures in the pipeline, but I still feel stuck and directionless. Being the gargoyle on the periphery of the established order is an unfun, isolating, and nihilism-inducing way to be in the world. I didn't ask for this, but I can't seem to stop manifesting it.
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  877. There is no proof that the so-called "fossil fuels" will ever run out. There's also no evidence that natural gas and petroleum even come from ancient organic matter. What we know is that some organic matter can become coal under some conditions; some extremophiles produce and excrete hydrocarbons; and some hydrocarbons can be produced in lab conditions designed to mimic Earth's mantle. Edit for clarity: I mean that the Earth could continue producing hydrocarbon fuels long past humanity's lifespan. We're more likely to annihilate ourselves in nuclear hellfire before we run out of hydrocarbons. However, it is quite likely that we hit an annual extraction limit at some point and have to look elsewhere to feed our growing energy consumption.
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  878. Feeding feral cats is a microcosm of the welfare state. Lol
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  879. Kids are resilient, but they can't eat money.
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  880. There was a commune in Israel, a frontier settlement, that tried communal parenting. Results were not great but mostly just somewhat strange, e.g. everyone grew up seeing their peers as their siblings and so nobody would marry spouses from within the settlement. The experiment ran for one generation, and those kids grew up and mostly deicded against communal parenting for their kids iirc.
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  881. Fun story: when I was in high school, I worked in the school as a volunteer tech aid. The year I started was after two consecutive years of previous tech aids hacking the school network and causing huge incidents for which they had to document and present their findings to the school district opsec people -- a lot of the security measures in place back then were there because of these hacks, and I and the other new tech aid were tasked with finding and reporting more holes in the security. We found and reported a lot of exploits and vulnerabilities, but one of my favorite red-team escapades was writing my own proxy service that used rot13 to bypass network filters, which hilariously worked. (I eventually made my own shitty little stream cipher as an upgrade.)
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  882.  @Gusto20000  there is no such thing as "spike driven development". There are spikes, and then there's actual development. Spike followed by TDD != "spike driven development".
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  883. Beta O'Dorke
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  884. Funny coincidence that the asteroid passes by earth every year there is a US presidential election.
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  885. Zuckerborg saying "I was human" is pretty great.
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  886. That was fuckin beautiful. Shit is definitely a website. Holy fuck.
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  887. Speaking of Congress having trouble gathering the willpower to commit to spending more money during record-setting deficits, we all know that the solution they'll eventually arrive at is to try to become Argentina.
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  888.  @davidraborn3654  I go hunting, but I'm not a Hunter.
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  889.  @HciR525  I'm pretty sure we don't even have a coherent strategy across 1 administration at this point unless "eat ice cream, take talky pills, promise to cure cancer" counts.
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  890. The gal was pretty without the filters. Is there some aspect of privacy/anonymity to this whole thing?
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  891. As a heathen, I know that lightning is created by the Red God, Thor, so don't make my non-existent children memorize that heresy about heat and moisture. Btw, shit posting is a sacred American tradition. I'm just doing my part to keep it alive.
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  892. He likely won't put too many more of these on his channel in the future since this was just to introduce us to his iHeartRadio show. Shouldn't be too difficult to find his show on podcast platforms.
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  893. To be fair it is cruel and unusual punishment to put men in prison to be raped by men. Something's very wrong with out "justice" system.
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  894. Imo it does not make too much sense to position a portfolio for black swan events other than buying some volatility hedges when they are cheap. Having a plan to execute during times of volatility is probably the better strategy.
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  895. David, are you familiar with liquid democracy? I think that to implement such a system we'll need a distributed timestamping server and a trust overlay network. The Open Timestamps project has figured out the first part, but I also have an experimental design I'll play with after other projects are complete. The Hedera Hashgraph guy patented one idea for building a trust overlay network using photos of people meeting in-person, but that won't work since images can be generated by AI now (and it would be a bit absurd to have a protocol that relies upon everyone having the most up-to-date gen-AI detection system on their device). A self-auditing trust overlay should be feasible, and that would prevent Sybil attacks and voter fraud, but I haven't fully specified it or done any experiments yet. It's on my to-do list after creating a new monetary system prototype, which should be done later this year.
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  896. On the other hand, the IAEA reported that Iran was in violation of the NPT and had enriched uranium to 60% in the past few months. If you haven't seen the videos of Iranian hypersonic missiles striking Israel, you really ought to watch them. The Ayatollah regime was the most credible threat to ever emerge from the godforsaken region.
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  897. Don't call him "Penguin". Call him Oswald.
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  898. Biden is pro-police state. He is not for the defund rhetoric.
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  899. "Correlated" has a specific mathematical definition, not a "makes sense to Schiff" definition.
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  900.  @tomhall3940  my credit union has told me there is no shortage twice now. This coin shortage news cycle stuff is either a fabrication or taking a single instance in one place and blowing it out of proportion.
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  901. My family hunkered down and watched our house get battered during hurricane Charlie -- we didn't have power for a week or so, and we almost ran out of gas for the grill; the grocery stores had to sell all their stuff quickly at discounts because they ran out of power for refrigeration, so we didn't run out of food, but our block of the neighborhood banded together to go out on ice-finding missions (I think the longest was a 5 hour search and a few hundred miles). We've always had supplies on hand since then, but I'm about to go fill a couple of 5 gallon buckets in case I need to make a delivery to a friend or two who didn't prepare adequately.
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  902. Schiff is so absurdly wrong about the nature of money.
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  903. You mean that gold owners won't get poor while everyone else does.
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  904. Inflation occurs when currency issuance becomes untethered from production: the currency created dilutes the price of circulating exchange media, and it benefits those closest to its issuance at the expense of those further away in the transaction web because price information is discovered only through transactions. In simpler terms, if you increase the circulating supply of currency without also increasing the circulating supply of goods and services, prices rise -- i.e. the price of currency when denominated in goods and services drops. Price is an objective measure. Value, on the other hand, is necessarily subjective, else nobody would transact.
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  905. I hope that the People of Hawaii eventually regain their islands and kick out the Haoles.
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  906. Somewhat reminds me of the scene from Monty Python and the Search for the Holy Grail. "Burn the witch! She turned me into a newt!" "A newt?" "...I got better."
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  907. "Land of the home and the brave"? $5 says it was intentional.
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  908. Eventually, we'll need the assistance of an AI to figure out the prompt for our AI assistants.
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  909. With Willow, Gemini will be able to hallucinate 10 times faster than it ever has before
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  910. The issue with Trump is that he'll talk a lot about how horrible the inflation is and how culpable Biden's democrats are, then he'll immediately start spending money we don't have on shit we don't need and can't afford as soon as he's in office. It'll be very important to keep the representatives in line. The Senate is a lost cause imo. It would take a serious effort over a minimum of 6 years to reform it, kick out the huxters, and restore some dignity.
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  911. Very few new monetary systems stick for very long.
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  912. I always figured that the best buying opportunity would be when nobody can afford to invest.
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  913. Editor missed the queue to play the video from the Canadian Parliament 16:35.
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  914. They have since added an editorial note: We decided on Nov. 26 to retract this article to stop the spread of misinformation, as we noted on social media. However, it is our responsibility as journalists to provide a historical record. We have chosen to take down the article from our website, but it is available here as a PDF. https://www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2020/11/a-closer-look-at-u-s-deaths-due-to-covid-19
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  915.  @dflash317  you breathe the same air as them, maybe you should be prosecuted, too
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  916.  @dflash317  my ancestors were here before any white men established colonies, silly boy.
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  917. I can envision several frameworks for retaining human capital by rewarding good employees, but any system that requires judging merit will ultimately boil down to the perceptions of several individuals and their ability to form a consensus. Having a good structure may help, but the company would have to have a culture compatible with meritocracy which would already lead to the same outcome regardless of the structure for the structure to work anyway.
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  918. There's an argument that they need to raise the yield curve above inflation expectations at each maturity. Since CPI is a lagging indicator, it can be easily argued that the proper over night rate should be closer to the month-over-month CPI change than the yearly CPI change. My guess from the numbers I've seen is that they will enter America into the current global recession, but they won't be able to get CPI below 5% due to rents lagging the rest of the housing market and providing persistent upwards pressure for at least another year.
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  919. LD50 for software is 5 microservices/100kg of engineer
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  920. The horned god is a god of passions and reckless abandon from classical antiquity. Not really a good base for building/maintaining a civilization -- he was considered to be an enemy of reason by the Greek philosophers.
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  921. On Tor, nobody can tell you're a blue haired furry.
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  922.  @nickcarducci3413  ever heard the saying that "the pen is mightier than the sword"?
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  923. South Africa has had a tragic story ever since the British invaded and put the Boers into concentration camps. It continued to be a tragedy when the Brits established the Boers as a racial minority elite, and it continues to be a tragedy as the majority seeks vengeance against a group that never wanted to be in that position in the first 0lace. Britain really fucked up the African lands they conquered.
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  924. I watched this while half asleep, taking a nap. Just gotta say I don't think that hydrogen peroxide in the eye makes you stupid, but maybe it works the other way around.
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  925. She has certainly gotten quite a lot of it right and was ahead of the curve. But like she said, she doesn't really understand cryptos yet. The goal is to stay ahead of the curve.
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  926. Fwiw, I really like Strike gum and will be buying more of it. If you want a quicker burst of energy, chew just enough to open the gel inside and then wash that down directly with some water. Mixing it into the rest of the gum will lead to a smoother onset.
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  927. If Russia uses them as their primary cannon fodder, the NK soldiers will last about 10 days.
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  928. The natural state of humanity is the gift economy.
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  929.  @justincrane1220  regional banks are going to suffer for sure, but I don't think it is necessarily an inevitable catastrophe.
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  930.  @justincrane1220  technically, it began with the repo market meltdown in September 2019, but I get what you're saying
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  931. I'm all for equal rights and social justice, but not at the expense of losing our sanity and logic. Biological science shouldn't be ignored just for the convenience of emotional, preconceived notions. Trying to shoehorn women into competitions about which they couldn't care less is silly and obtuse. This is similar to a sex toy manufacturer complaining that straight males don't buy enough dildos and complaining that their marketing strategies need to be more aggressively inclusive.
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  932. Let's be real: if the current president called you on the phone, there's a very low probability you'd be able to understand his incoherent rambling.
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  933.  @lesliesylvan  I counted 27, though I pruned one just now.
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  934. Mark has been getting steadily better with his communication skills. It has been satisfying to see over the last few years.
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  935. Biden doesn't even know that we can remember ehat he said yesterday, so he thinks he can get away with denying he said what he said on TV the previous day. And some people still feel justified in electing that vegetable.
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  936. Negative net investment flows are how the trade deficit is financed. In theory, investments from foreigners should help build new plant; in reality, it just inflates paper wealth for the top 0.1% while allowing the hollowing out of the middle class to continue unabated.
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  937. It seems to me that liquidity is an endogenous characteristic of this endogenous system, and thus it cannot be effectively managed by exogenous forces like governments and central banks -- it seems that they think they can swoop in to save the day when they really can't.
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  938. What he described was not the lower class benefiting but the middle class being exterminated. The people who have benefited the most from these inflationary policies are the billionaires and kleptocrats.
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  939. Frahnkensteen*
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  940. Apparently not. Looks like someone beat you by 14 seconds.
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  941. Fed officials have hinted that they like the emergence of cryptodollars and might eventually adopt a similar standard for their clearing house operations, but they've mentioned nothing about doing away with the multi tier structure of the monetary system.
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  942. They are not solely responsible. Decades of reckless legislation, ceaseless foreign wars, and profligate deficit spending killed Bretton-Woods; Nixon just acknowledged it. Greenspan, however, certainly does take the blame for setting the bubble-blowing policy precedent that hadn't been attempted since just before the Great Depression.
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  943. I sometimes feel some small bit of hope that Jeff isn't totally lost, but just look at him -- his aesthetic now fits his crazy prophet screaming in the wilderness act. Maybe some day he will snap back to reality and abandon the myopic tunnel vision blinders he has created for himself, but I somewhat doubt it.
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  944. That's a lot of reasons that don't really resonate with me, so I'll add my take on the benefits of wearing a home-made ruana: 1) It is versatile and very pragmatic, especially since I added 8 magnets to hold it together in certain ways when dealing with inclement weather. 2) It looks pretty good. For example, on Christmas Eve, my priest said "you look like a shepherd; you're ready."
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  945.  @connorskudlarek8598  Coroutines* can be "cutesy", but idk if they are "demure" per se
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  946. Annual potato inflation rate in Russia is nearly 80% right now.
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  947. Petulant crybully losers like Talcum X need a bit of tough love to set them straight imo.
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  948.  @jonymx  I imagine that it gives you automatic residency status to let you travel and do business throughout the EU.
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  949. Actually, it was the incompetence of the banks at fault here. SVB had no chief risk officer for most of last year as rates were being hiked and the market clearing prices of their assets were plummeting. I agree in principle that fractional reserve banking us fukt, but these specific instances were unhedged duration risk and unmanaged liabilities.
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  950. It is one thing to criticize cultural issues. It is another thing entirely to say that the cultural issues are an inexorable result of biology. The latter approach absolves them of any moral culpability for their behavior, since it is just what "their species evolved to" do.
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  951. The prospectus from CS on the low trigger AT1 bonds clearly laid out that they would absorb losses below 7% CET1. These bonds were special and had special terms. Complaining on behalf of ignorant investors is stupid.
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  952. A few provinces acquiescing is not enough because the truckers are beholden to federal policies. Thus, the honking will probably continue until Just In Blackface Trudeau finds his long-lost balls, mans up, and admits his administration was wrong.
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  953. I did some technical consulting for a company that hired another company to rewrite their software platform. The company they hired spent a year on the rewrite but chose framework versions that were so outdated that they had already reached LTS end-of-life before they got started. In my view, that is negligence that rises to the level of tortious interference. This world is another world's hell.
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  954. The trigger for the resignations was the GDP report that just confirmed the UK is in recession and has been for half a year. If it had been the controversy/hypocrisy, they would have resigned months ago.
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  955. Something that should not be overlooked is that the areas hit hardest by the hurricane, which is where early voting was expanded, heavily lean Republican. I think Republicans outnumber both Democrats and Independents in Lee and Charlotte Counties.
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  956. You unjustifiably impugn and malign the character of Satan by comparing him to the banksters. Don't forget that Satan is the Morning Star, the first-born among archangels.
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  957. Well, I guess I'll unsub from the Hill now.
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  958. I made a little virtual machine with its own assembly language, assembler, and disassembler for embedding ACL scripts in distributed data structures. In this case, the components I need for a project just didn't exist, so I've made and published 3 major packages this year as I work toward my magnum opus. It isn't a midlife crisis to follow the Muse.
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  959. The judge did not dismiss any other charges. We'll see tomorrow if the judge decides to rule on the motion for a mistrial with prejudice before or after the jury returns their verdicts.
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  960. The reverse sponsorship thing with the nonprofit is cool. Sabine deserves some kudos and/or brownie points for that.
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  961. From what I've seen, trolls were posting photos of Ebola-chan shrines on 4chan and linking to African forums specifically to fuel conspiracy theories about Americans and Europeans worshipping an Ebola death goddess. They may have doomed us all.
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  962. I wonder about the etymology of the name Satan. As far as I can tell, the oldest manuscript referencing the name of Satan is the Septuagint. Satan is not present in the Dead Sea Scrolls, so I wonder if perhaps the name had a non-Hebrew etymological origin and was borrowed into Hebrew as a pun based upon the verb form, much like how the Talmud preserves the use of bad puns in anti-Christian polemics (the stuff about "Jesus ben Stada" having a mother who was "sta'dat" or unfaithful comes to mind) and how the stories of the Tower of Babel and the fall of Helel ben Shahar rely upon puns to make polemical zingers. The notion that it was first and foremost a Hebrew name is often brought up, but I have never seen it substantiated with manuscript evidence.
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  963. "Sitting on a powder keg, thinking about chain smoking" is a pretty good analogy.
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  964. This problem could be solved with actual digital signature schemes using standard cryptography.
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  965. Fwiw everyone I know who has tried Strike wants more. Really good stuff.
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  966.  @NoBoilerplate  I'll check out that video. On the code/contract commitment topic, you could commit to the source code with Rust, but then you would have to recompile before running every single time to ensure you are running the code in the commitment. Of course, there is an implicit security assumption with implementing this in Python that the interpreters will be compatible, so it isn't that different. The secure distribution of software is still technically unsolved. I suppose that the largest issue preventing my use of Rust is that I haven't been using it, so I lack the confidence to build things with it. Do you have any resources for Rust TDD that you would recommend to a Rust noob? Edit for side note: I wish Python had an immutable/frozen dict type. It really does not make sense that it does not.
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  967. "I'm more interested in the violent ones." -- Tim Jong Pool, 2020
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  968. Calling the credit cycle "growth" is somewhat silly. Fractional reserve lending creates problems, destabilizes currencies, and enriches the bankers at the expense of everyone else.
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  969. I believe in bodily autonomy, which means I support both the woman's right to choose to end a pregnancy and the baby's right to life. This is easily reconciled because artificial wombs exist, so babies can survive being removed from the womb in many, if not most, cases.
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  970. My best friend is currently going through a divorce because his wife cheated on him. I'm advising him to try to give her as little as possible because she's turned out to be a vengeful bitch anyway.
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  971. Last year, I developed a simple genetic algorithm library in pure Python called bluegenes largely as an exercise. I then spent a couple of days translating it to Go and got a 100x increase in performance. I then did some Go-specific memory optimization and got a further 100x increase in performance. It blew my mind.
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  972. Things are the way they are because Fed bureaucracy selects for obedience and groupthink instead of competence. This is why Joseph Wang quit working there.
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  973. As a general rule of thumb, I am the one who makes the green buttons I press. It's much more satisfying that way.
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  974. Bit of a stretch to equate automation and AI with LSD at the end of the video. Really weird thing to say.
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  975. But aren't the Welsh a minority? There are way more Arabic and African people than Welsh.
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  976.  @IvanKleshnin  I have had exclusively bad experiences with Typescript, but I haven't touched it in 3 or 4 years. If Typescript didn't have to transpile to JavaShit to execute, maybe it would be cool -- I can envision it being somewhat nice for embedded development via that project that compiles it down to machine code for small SoCs, but when I had to use it, it was impossible to debug.
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  977. @joe blanco one of the first things DeSantis did was to enact an emergency bridge loan program to help struggling businesses. And if you look at the per capita death rate, it is far lower here than in places like NYC where the government became tyrannical and the police became a gestapo enforcing politically motivated economic destruction. Cuomo literally killed thousands of elderly citizens by putting covid patients in nursing homes because he refused to give Trump any credit for the field hospitals built and navy hospitals brought in -- he could have used the resources provided to NYC by the federal government but instead sacrificed over ten thousand innocent civilians for a degenerate and explicitly political cause. DeSantis is a saint by comparison.
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  978. Share price has exceeded all call option strike prices already. This is a lot of fun.
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  979. I've been using Python to build proofs-of-concept for several years now. I learned Go this month and have been able to do some incredible things in it already; I can safely say that it is my new go-to language for anything that doesn't require GUIs, and I plan to build some GUI applications with Qt to see if it can become my go-to language for GUI apps as well. Also, curse C++, we hates it. Nasty C-pluses ruins the code.
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  980.  @a4e69636b  Linux and Windows. I have a friend who has to use Mac for his work, so it would be an additional bonus if I can get things working for it.
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  981. Just wanna say, I don't think the saying is "signed his own funeral", I think it is "signed his own death warrant".
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  982. I would have grabbed the chest rig, AR, gas mask, and bear spray.
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  983. It is paradoxical that a mathematical abstraction can hold more value than a physical trinket, but such is the nature of human existence. The universe would not exist without paradox. It's satoshis all the way down.
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  984. Do not accept the Mark of the Fed. Countries that launched a central bank digital currency: Senegal, Venezuela, Uruguay, Iran Countries piloting/testing a CBDC: China, Canada, Thailand, Bahamas, Kazakhstan, Philippines, Russia, South Africa, Brazil, UAE (Emcredit subsidiary of Dubai Economy), France, Ukraine Countries developing a CBDC: Tunisia, Sweden, Singapore, Cambodia, Marshall Islands, Curacao, Turkey, UAE (UAE central bank), Saudi Arabia, EU, Mauritius Countries that are researching a CBDC: Indonesia, Israel, Noraw, UK, USA, Japan, Germany, India, Hong Kong, Lithuania, Kenya, Malta, Morocco, Australia, New Zealand Countries that canceled their CBDC plans: Ecuador, Estonia, Italy, Switzerland, South Korea For some reason, when I look at who is leading this trend and those who have dropped out, I do not feel optimistic about the whole project.
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  985. What do y'all think about liquid democracy? It seems like a very pragmatic step in the right direction, assuming someone gets the code right for running it properly. (On my to-do list, somewhere after I get the component technologies built.)
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  986. They tried that. Lincoln and others privately funded a colony in Africa that became Liberia and sent ex slaves there. Most of them were compelled and died once they got there. Not a good track record. There is no simple solution because people are individuals. My cousin has been hustling and working his ass off since he was like 5 years old; he doesn't need reparations but could invest them pretty well for the greatest long term benefit; many other family members could use the reparations but likely wouldn't have much left over after a brief while. It's a real conundrum, and flippant, disingenuous proposals don't add anything useful or intelligent to the conversation. Do you want to solve problems or just have some partisan wank fest?
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  987. Let's not lose sight of the fact that the fiat monetary system is the root of all this madness: without perpetual growth, the system will collapse on itself, so the powers that be continue to print more fiat debt-money to boost demand for plastic crap that ends up in landfills.
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  988. I appreciate your concerns, but there are several issues with this analysis: 1) Bitcoin transactions are completely transparent. Sats can be traced as they fliw from address to address. That's the point. Fiat is better for criminal use and far exceeds Bitcoin use for this purpose because cash is untraceable. Bitcoin is also useless for money laundering because it can be easily traced, so fiat once again is more common and useful in this regard. 2) The existence of shitcoins is a temporary phenomenon. Bitcoin eventually absorbs all value from all shitcoins. 3) The industrial utility of a commodity is inverseky proportional to its monetary premium. The ideal money has no industrial utility. Compare silver to gold: gold is practically useless by comparison, yet it continues to demonetize silver decade after decade, century after century, well in excess of the ratios of both stock and flow. Bitcoin has practically no industrial utility and can be teleported around the world at a small fraction of the cost necessary to transact in metals, so it is thus an ideal commodity money.
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  989. Which Pete?
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  990. The system described by Powell in that clip is just an adaptation of the current banking system. Bank deposits are not anonymous bearer instruments, and banking relationships are built on identity verification, but privacy is ostensibly protected from trade partners by the intermediaries. I think that the fear mongering is a bit overblown on this particular topic, because we already have all that. And the primary feature of "programmable money" interesting to the financial system is the concept of the atomic swap as developed to trade cryptocurrencies in a trustless manner. This would allow fast, atomic, cross-border payments, and this is a feature they desire, especially the BIS and their client banks.
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  991. I think this analogy is disingenuous. A dog walker does not spend the same amount of time in training as a veterinarian. Rand Paul is a surgeon. Surgeons are trained on infectious diseases specifically because they have to avoid infecting their patients. It is obviously not the same as being a self-righteous public health bureaucrat with vested financial interest in vax manufacturers, but to say he is as ignorant on the topic as a dog walker is ignorant of veterinarian procedures is not accurate.
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  992. Stupid Valley Bank did not even have a chief risk officer for most of 2022. The C-suite should be brought up on charges and their profits seized to reimburse the FDIC imo.
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  993. If only there was some forestry practice that had been used by the Native Americans for thousands of years to prevent devastating forest fires in California. Hmm... It's almost like the government in California can't quite figure it out no matter how many severe fires their residents have to deal with.
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  994. Bold move quitting your job at the beginning of a recession. Hope it works out.
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  995. My throat feels itchy when I hear Tim's decades-of-cigarette-smoking voice.
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  996. I think that many of those "attack" comments are actually talented trolls demonstrating Poe's Law.
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  997. Happiness is a base goal. To live meaningfully is superior. The greatest humans in history whose stories we retell and whose names we invoke are not remembered for their happiness but rather for what they endured and accomplished.
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  998. This is the same company that created a game about bullying and beating up kids in a boarding school.
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  999. My dad is a tax accountant. He has his dad's income tax return from his birth year framed in his office because it was a page and a half. He is in favor of simplifying the tax system out of principle.
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  1000. Where in the Florida Constitution does it say that? I could not find anything of the sort when I looked. The term "foreign power" is not in it, and there are no sections with the word "arm" or "weapon" that mention foreign states.
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  1001.  @topsecretbear9918  I've read our constitution, and this claim seems totally bizarre to me. If you can find the source, that would be helpful.
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  1002. Also, Eth is not an innovation of BTC's network. Bitcoin uses the unspent transaction output (UTXO) model. Ethereum uses the account/balance model. If any of these smart chains is an innovation on a core Bitcoin technology, it would be Cardano with its extended UTXO and Beam with its confidential DeFi system using MimbleWimble UTXOs.
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  1003.  @jo3agle  my contention is that Ethereum is neither an innovation on Bitcoin nor a project setup for sustainable, long term growth. In the short term, anything can happen; in the long term, markets are weighing machines.
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  1004. I think that a significant number of app downloads will be people just curious about how good the latest chatbot is. You know the saying: finding out is the privilege of those who dare to fuck around.
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  1005. I am not sure that causing an unwanted pregnancy to turn into a torturous childhood is the right move. Fetuses are not people, but children are. This isn't simply a matter of "when does life begin", else pro-life advocates would also be Janists and vegans. The issue is determining at what point a viable human life gains legal personhood, and it is a hard problem without any simple answers that are any good. Unless you are married to some dogma that allegedly comes from an incorporeal entity whispering in someone's ear, the goal should be the minimization of harm and suffering.
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  1006. @the_Kutonarch  of the influences underlying his ideas of reform
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  1007.  @Darkness8536  He approved $4.5 trillion for what? What bill was it, and do you have a link to the roll call vote?
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  1008. I interviewed with Walmart a few years ago as a software engineer for a security team support role (i.e. a tool maker). I noticed that about a quarter of the people working there were H-1B workers from India. The Americans there mentioned that they were proliferating somewhat quickly but held their tongues on whether or not they thought it was a good thing -- I could tell that they had mixed sentiments, but they did not express them verbally.
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  1009. The handgun that the wife wielded was nonfunctional because it was being used as an exhibit for a court case. The cops actually disassembled and modified it to become functional to justify charging her -- they literally tampered with the evidence because they otherwise had no case.
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  1010. It is worth noting that the primary model predicts Trump will win. This is the only model that correctly predicted the 2016 election. You can say "oh, well, it was a fluke that the polls were all wrong last time," but the errors have not been corrected. Trump does not go after the entrenched partisans -- his support is mostly from the disenfranchised working class that has been politically reactivated. I think you're crazy to think that the polls will somehow be right this time around without fixing their methodological issues.
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  1011. Fwiw, Berkshire Hathaway's investments have underperformed the markets for at least a decade. Some say it is an effect of large position size making them less nimble than a smaller investor; some say the Oracle of Omaha is losing his touch. He would have been better off investing in a low-fee total return ETF. Imo if your idea of "good" is selling carbonated sugar water to diabetics, you might want to reevaluate your value hierarchy.
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  1012. Not the Oxford comma. Oxford comma example: the strippers, JFK, and Stalin; with Oxford comma removed: the strippers, JFK and Stalin.
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  1013. Tbh it would be funny if the Lunduke discussion forum was temporarily locked down with the message "Read only mode due to Mozilla's overdue hosting payments".
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  1014. Gender is not biologically determined. Sex is biologically determined. Gender is a linguistic construct. There are no pronouns in nature.
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  1015. He's literally just parroting central bank talking points, at least with regards to deflation and inflation, which means he gets them wrong.
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  1016. A few disconnected thoughts: 1) what is the rhe composition of the minimum viable state? I think it would need to contain mechanisms for which there is broad consensus for the defense of the people against aggression, but I'm not sure how to constrain it to this. Perhaps some technological development regarding decentralized communication/computation systems (not blockchain) could be helpful. 2) what is the optimal pace for social revolution? The examples of rapid social revolution that I am aware of seem to be almost universally bloody and violent, but it would be hard to measure progress on the scale of multiple generations since few would be around to witness it in totality. 3) on the topic of names, would it perhaps be a profitable strategy for married couples to take on a new, traditional name to displace their colonized family names as part of their marriage ceremony? Perhaps they would retain their old names as middle names for the sake of historical continuity while still dedicating themselves to social liberation. (I'm just spitballing here. My heritage is a thorough mix of immigrants and indigenous, but the only name I bear which may have been affected by colonialism is Hill, which was the surname of my mother's father whose grandfather escaped slavery to join the Union army during the Civil War, so there is no shame in bearing the name.)
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  1017. If you're ever worried about LLMs with SAWs, just ask it to traverse a tree structure to find you among the leaves, and it'll just keep thinking until it crashes or apologizes.
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  1018. Blockchains are not distributed databases; they are replicated databases that sometimes use a distributed consensus mechanism.
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  1019. Disney employees protesting an anti-grooming bill? Why am I not surprised?
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  1020. A surprising proportion of corporate business people are entirely incompetent but get payouts for having simply been in the position forever, somewhat like tenure. Due to the Dunning-Kruger effect, they also lack the ability to diagnose their own incompetence, so they just accept whatever undue rewards they are given. I got burned in a business deal because we thought this guy who had a mid six-figure salary actually did what he was paid to do, but we eventually learned that he contributed nothing of value.
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  1021. He was so into whatever he was talking about before he realized he didn't know what he was trying to say. Pretty funny.
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  1022. The earliest forms of money are debt and ledgers, both of which date back to the Sumerians. Metallic money is useful for trade between untrusted parties, but debt and ledger monies spontaneously emerge in any set of economic actors who trust each other.
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  1023. Did you get those TPS reports finished? No? We're promoting you and firing the nerd who writes the infrastructure code.
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  1024. Once there is Lightning Network liquidity in your region, you can just be paid in Bitcoin, so you won't have to use your local currency. Or you can convert your local currency into the hardest money man has ever known which appreciates with a 200% CAGR vs fiat. Both options are pretty good.
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  1025. They'll pay out the difference in freshly printed lira.
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  1026. In my experience, ChatGPT is good at simple tasks like rewording something or generating fluffy bullshit paragraphs, but it sucks at accurately explaining any detailed topic, e.g. correspondent banking or advanced mathematics like greedy graph algorithms or cryptography. Giving it a simple prompt to generate some text is somewhat helpful in brainstorming or in creating filler material, but the quality is too low to use without modification.
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  1027. It's all a psyop to distract from the financial system collapse. Get ready for Zimbabwe inflation and Japan-style decades of decline -- the government has to pay off its debt somehow.
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  1028. Indubitably, but he conflates the people with the government.
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  1029. The impartiality of the DoJ was sacrificed by these so-called saviours of democracy in their fight against Trump. Very much a case of becoming the enemy one imagines oneself to be fighting.
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  1030. My friend said that the "awakened lions" thing is a bit corny, but everyone likes corn because it is tasty lol
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  1031. Actual magic is either disorienting or downright disturbing to interact with. Idk if you meant the ambiguous world of numinous phenomena when you said "magic", but I figured I'd give my 2¢ anyway. I just finished driving across the continent because some magical events transpired; it has been a bit of an ordeal, and the journey is less than half done. I'll be back home in Florida after another week or so, making this a 3 week journey that originally began as a 1 week plan. Real magic is quite disruptive, but that is kind of the point: if you don't want a massive change in your life (or at least the options for massive change), leave the numinous alone and hope it reciprocates. But if you want to see miracles, they are waiting to be made manifest. Material reality is just the collected patterns of information that sit on top of dreams.
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  1032. He literally shit-canned them and then got shit-canned by the court.
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  1033.  @KenFullman  ThemTube censors comments heavily. It's frustrating, and channel owners have very little influence over the outcome.
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  1034.  @KenFullman  been there, done that. I have had comments autodeleted for discussing cryptography under a video about cryptography using inane mathematical terms. You can tell if a comment is autodeleted when it shows a 404 within 70 seconds of posting.
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  1035. Not in the US. Here, defamation requires that the subject of the defamation has not made himself a public figure, and it requires the defamatory remarks to be made against a specific person rather than a group. It is a very difficult standard to meet in the US. It would be easier in the UK since their government rejects the concept of free speech -- they are somewhat notorious for the ease with which defamation cases can be won there. Idk about other countries.
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  1036. Maybe. For Skyrim, there are tools that each compiles a master list of plugins to avoid conflicts, and these use metadata to figure out the load order; if one plugin depends upon another, it cannot be loaded first. This potentially violates the SOLID principle, but at the same time being unable to reuse plugin code violates DRY. Every architecture will have different trade-offs.
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  1037. When was the last time you had to get approval from a city council to move into a city? Idk what point you were trying to make about a Republican city in a Republicam state having a problem caused by federal policies under a Democrat admin somehow not being a useful rhetorical point for Republicans.
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  1038. Maybe I'm stupid for asking this, but don't they have grappling hooks, winches, and boat bumpers? Couldn't they have waited for the seas to calm a bit, grab the vessel with grappling hooks, and drag it closer with the winches to make boarding easier?
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  1039. Mark is the oldest of the canonical gospels, and in his arrest scene, he includes a naked teenage boy with a bandage around his genitals who was following/assigned to Jesus, using the same word as the author of Revelation used to describe the relation between Mr. True and Faithful and the armies that follow him into the battle of Armageddon. There's also the child touching controversy in Mark 10, which uses a verb with explicit sexual connotations -- the same verb used by Paul in 1 Corinthians 7 "it is good that a man does not touch a woman" -- cult leaders are notorious for sexually exploiting their followers, but, even if it wasn't actually Jesus himself touching children, it is at the very least a first century Christian apologetic to respond to a child molestation scandal. My guess is that Jesus went the way of most other sexually exploitative cult leaders.
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  1040. If the bureaucrats manage to create a global minimum tax, the industrious will move to Mars. It would be quite strange if the colonization of the galaxy was motivated by people trying to outrun the encroachment of bureaucrats, but this is the universe where Dogecoin is trading like an appreciating safe haven asset, so it can't be ruled out.
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  1041. Nuclear war is inevitable imo.
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  1042. I tell you: one must still have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: ye have still chaos in you. Alas! There comes the time when man will no longer give birth to any star. Alas! There comes the time of the most despicable man, who can no longer despise himself. Lo! I show you the last man. -- Zarathustra
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  1043. "Keep Lunduke's name out your f***ing mouth!" * LGBTQIA2S+ ally uses Clapback * * It's not very effective *
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  1044.  @jeffreygoss8109  and after the Christians took control and started destroying the pagan academies. The pursuit of abject ignorance was a disaster of historic proportions. Europe did not leave the Christian dark age until pagan knowledge preserved by the Arabs returned to the continent. Before Christian hegemony, there were mechanical computers and public works of plumbing and sanitation -- there were even some instances of indoor plumbing -- but when the Christians took over, all that went away.
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  1045. I appreciate the candid discussion. The experience of precognition resonates as I have had similar visionary experiences. However, precognition does not provide evidence for the existence of the Christian god or any alleged characteristics of the same. In America, Christianity is primarily Protestantism which places significant emphasis on truth claims and pretends to be reasonable. In my experience, Christians of all varieties discount and discredit any spiritual experience that they do not find apologetically convenient. For the followers of Logos, such unreason is intolerable and provides a strong argument against the veracity of the religion as a whole. In fact, through many hundreds of hours of research, I have debunked almost everything that Christians I know personally have claimed to believe. I don't call myself an atheist because I have had many direct spiritual experiences and interacted with disembodied entities in liminal states, but I don't pretend to have all the answers the way that Christians do.
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  1046. The assertion that securing the most secure computer network in human history is "wasted energy" is pretty asinine -- might as well say that all the energy used to run the banking system is also wasted.
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  1047. He described base money as applies solely to the Federal Reserve System jurisdiction. In the eurodollar system, T-bills form most od the monetary base.
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  1048. "To those outside the Startup, I speak in parables so that in seeing they will see and not perceive and in hearing they will hear and not understand lest they learn and have their code improved for them." - Primesus
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  1049. Enthusiastic autists are not all that visible. For example, I learned how to code when I was 10 years old and never stopped, yet I have yet to make a single video about any technical topic. The social outcast types just are not highly visible because that goes against the nature of being an antisocial autist writing advanced software in their underwear.
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  1050. I am surprised you missed the obvious aspect of ritual purity when discussing the priests and Levites.
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  1051. Barter transactions are technically taxable in the US. Such transactions are supposed to be reported on your 1040 using a COGS formula iirc. Business to business barter transactions, however, are not taxable.
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  1052. Whatever verifies* is ok
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  1053. That's an impressive study
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  1054. Explicitly adding items to a sprint for dealing with technical debt sounds like a good idea, but I think that will often happen naturally as projects progress and these issues arise. I've often advocated for code review, but often it is difficult to get eyes on some code due to restricted team resources.
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  1055. That transition though. I was listening to it like a podcast and thought "wtf was that". Then I turned on the screen, rewound a bit, and saw it was exactly what it sounded like. Kind of perfect.
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  1056. Stocks are up because of the dollar milkshake: European investors and institutions are seeking safety in US assets because the ECB has ruined European markets. As long as other central banks are worse than the Fed, US/dollar assets will outperform the assets of competing fiat currencies/markets.
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  1057.  @brissance  I graduated highschool as salutatorian with an associate of arts degree. Some kids are that smart.
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  1058. That first Kanye West comment isn't coherent enough to be anti-anything imo.
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  1059. I tend to view things like Copilot and Kite with a bit of skepticism. With Kite, the AI model supposedly runs on your local machine rather than in the cloud somewhere like with Copilot. I have not tried either, but I will probably try Kite at some point. Sending all of my code to a server somewhere to be analyzed by a robot is not something I necessarily want to do, but I can be convinced to let a robot on my dev machine take a look at it.
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  1060. That can be largely fixed by using score voting instead of first-past-the-post.
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  1061. I have always had a preference for using hand tools wherever possible, but I must admit that operating an excavator for the first time two days ago was a very fun experience. (One of my friends is preparing his land to build a house on it himself; I mostly carried large rocks and removed palmetto root bulbs with an adze while I was there.)
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  1062. Perhaps part of the solution would be to allow municipalities to determine whether they want to keep illegal immigrants via referendum, then ICE can prioritize deportation efforts in those municipalities that want them removed.
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  1063. The dollar denominated economy has a monetary disease, and all we see are the symptoms. This is akin to a neolithic witch doctor trying to diagnose pancreatic cancer: misdiagnoses are guaranteed. Just look at M2 velocity: to drop any lower, the economy would almost have to cease existing. Supply chain disruption, inflation, deflation, bullwhip effect -- all are merely symptoms, not causative effects.
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  1064. The pickled penis thing is not that much of a stretch. The use of preserved horse cocks in fertility ritual goes back thousands of years. Humans are a strange bunch.
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  1065. Interesting that they did not mention anything about the unwinding of the Japanese carry trade. It's so obvious that this is what has been happening.
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  1066. Citing the South China Morning Post is a bold strategy.
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  1067. Those provinces have had ethnic conflict for at least a decade. Ukrainian forces have been slaughtering civilians in these border regions. It makes sense that they would want to join Russia for protection. Let's not forget that this whole thing started after allegedly Ukrainian shells blew up a school in the Donbas and several buildings in Russia proper. Any peace is an improvement at this point. The West should stop trying to prolong this war as it did in April when NATO officials advised Zelenski to abandon peace talks.
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  1068. To be fair, some conspiracy theories are true. The Business Plot conspiracy to overthrow the FDR administration comes to mind, as does the CIA-backed coup that established a military dictatorship in Guatemala in 1954 (code named PBSuccess). There are enough well documented historical conspiracies to cast reasonable suspicion on governments and aristocrats, and no amount of name calling will ever make that suspicion unreasonable. That being said, there are some batshit crazy theories out there that make no sense.
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  1069. It'll cost you thousands of federal reserve notes and probably several years to litigate, and you have to live in a jurisdiction of an abusive police department.
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  1070. The original mandate of the Fed was actually to "supply an elastic currency"; the price stability mandate came later during a monetary act (I forget the date).
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  1071. You have gotten pretty good at making these presentations.
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  1072.  @redslate  except that the vast majority of "USD" transactions do not have any actual USD transacted -- it's all ledger entries created by off-shore banks. For it to be real USD, an entity in the US would have to issue the currency units rather than an offshore bank. The trust in the global monetary system is placed in an international banking cabal, not the US Treasury/Fed/banks.
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  1073. The greatest scapegoat of our lives is coronavirus: this whole economic fiasco is a result of the fractional reserve fiat monetary system, and the wealth inequality is from the Cantillon effect created by Fed balance sheet expansion. The plutocrats have hollowed out the middle class primarily through their inflationary policies. The issuance of currency must be taken from the banks and returned to the people if we are to ever escape the debt slavery trap set up by the wealthy banksters.
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  1074. Chevron deference and Wickard v. Filburn are also pretty terrible, though Kelo seems worse as a direct betrayal of basic property rights under the 5th Amendment.
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  1075. Really, the plan can be much simpler. Step 1: inherit a large sum of money. Done. Easy. Why nobody is talking about this simple strategy is beyond comprehension.
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  1076. We all end up in a box when it's all over.
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  1077. Hmm, maybe I can fill the newly opened niche in the monopoly money box token market.
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  1078. I think the adage you meant to say was "if you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything".
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  1079. Next year, they should get a translator to translate the survey into pure emoticons, the true international lingua franca.
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  1080. Some amount of that growth has been predicated upon outright theft from more advanced economies. If there was an honesty/integrity category, its score would be lower.
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  1081. Isn't this basically describing hyperinflation? O.o
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  1082. Who's Dennis McKenna?
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  1083. Market dynamics are emergent phenomena, not the results of simple narratives.
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  1084.  @NoBoilerplate  it takes a bit of experimentation to understand how to use any concurrency system correctly. You wouldn't ship untested code, so I don't see this lack of hand-holding by the Go compiler to be a deal breaker.
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  1085. Being an unemployed programmer rocks until you have something you need to pay for. Good (but limited) opportunity to pursue the Platonic ideal music of spheres in code that Grug was talking about.
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  1086. The US has experienced hyperinflation twice: once with the continental, and once during the wildcat banking era.
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  1087. Everything becomes political during a Fourth Turning.
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  1088. And now we have Bitcoin, which has all the desirable monetary properties of gold and achieves the velocity of representative currency without issuing debt. The whole reason that we have debt/fiat currency as our non-monerary system is that physical bullion has a low velocity and high cost of value transfer across space, so our ancestors put the bullion in banks who ran batch settlement to allow the currency to circulate with higher velocity and lower cost of value transfer across space. With Bitcoin, that arrangement will no longer be necessary.
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  1089. ECDSA and Schnorr as introduced with the Taproot upgrade.
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  1090. The paradoxical thing is that these same retards want to strip away all liberty in the name of increased perceived safety.
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  1091. My theory: pterosaurs saved up their XP and bought the flight DLC just in time for the server rebalance. Stby, floaty lizards.
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  1092. ​ @Hotshot24-7 he partnered with SVM to shill his bond portfolio fund thing, which lost investors like 40% in the first year of their partnership. All the while, they were singing in unison that there would be no inflation, then that there was no real inflation, then that the inflation was over as the CPI kept rising every month. The level of delusion involved in their analyses is extraordinary -- they said that Fed monetization of TSYs that resulted in the creation of new bank deposits was somehow not inflationary -- that M2 rising was somehow actually a sign of deflation. I tuned out and found better sources of information and analysis. I occasionally lend Jeff an ear to see if he is saying anything new and useful, but so far it has been quite underwhelming.
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  1093. If one was to say "I will find where you walk and touch your toes", would that count as a credible threat? If one said that and then menacingly rubbed his/her hands together, would that be a more credible threat? How much circumstantial evidence would be necessary to get a restraining order?
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  1094. Do you have a link to the actual filing? It should be available on a court/clerk website.
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  1095. Analysis of futures contract flows is just wrong. Probably should have calculated and sorted on net flow for each participant; it would have avoided the obvious errors in arithmetical reasoning.
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  1096.  @NoBoilerplate  true enough
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  1097. To be fair, Soylent was okay back when I had just finished college and was working 14-hour days writing code for a start-up that collapsed when one of the founders took all the money and ran.
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  1098. Hasn't Harry Dent been a perma bear, predicting stock market crashes nonstop?
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  1099.  @OneWingedShark  I don't mind functional style programming. I just don't like how there are a thousand different syntactical features, slow compile times, and constant circular firing squad nonsense. Maybe if I spent a couple hundred hours experimenting with it, I'd grow to appreciate (or at least become accustomed to) the strange syntax, but I don't have time for it right now.
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  1100. Surprisingly better than expected.
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  1101. "Shut the hell up" is advice that I heartily endorse as a general principle.
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  1102. I'm feeling vaguely inspired to do something similar, except I would make it compile to Wasm since that is how things are trending right now. Maybe some extension of Markdown or toml with lisp as the scripting language. It would be pretty fun to use.
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  1103. Oh boy, new variant means we have to give Big Brother more power so they can pretend to save us from it. Yay modernity.
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  1104. Tldw: OnlyFans girls learn about the Pareto distribution and internet permanence experientially.
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  1105. ​ @Balorng the main reasons that Russia wants Ukraine are strategic and ideological: the strategic reason is that it acts as a natural choke point for land armies from western Europe marching on Moscow; the ideological reason is that Putin believes in a type of Christo-Fascism promulgated by Ivan Ilyin and wants to restore the old Soviet glory. There is also the fact that he told his people that there were Nazis who had to be defeated, so now he's stuck trying to live up to his own lie and cannot back down without exposing himself.
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  1106. I like Cursor, but it has been really stupid recently. I have a keybind to turn off Cursor Tab because of how often it just has no idea what I am trying to do. The fact that the most recent update completely broke my dev environment and I had to roll it back manually also did not help. I will probably cancel my Cursor subscription for a month or two and see how I feel back on the free tier again -- they also have downgraded a lot of people to the free tier after they paid for annual subscriptions, and I was also downgraded to the free tier with the features I had paid for blocked, so idk if paying them makes sense at this point anyway. Edit: I canceled Cursor Pro. Maybe sometime I will resubscribe, but for now the quality has been low enough that I don't want to keep paying for it.
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  1107. Mozilla doesn't even care about Firefox anymore. They fired a third of their employees so they could continue sponsoring woke word salad events.
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  1108. My main concern with crypto as an asset class is the current reliance upon elliptic curves and the difficulty of solving discrete logarithms, which can theoretically be broken by quantum computers. China supposedly just tested a new quantum computer that is at least as powerful as Google's latest model, so I think caution is warranted. NIST will be finalizing their post-quantum crypto standard next year or the year after (I think that Crystals-Kyber and Crystals-Dilithium will be included in the final spec since it is one system that fits both use cases of encryption and creating digital signatures). Bitcoin and other cryptos will be unable to transition over to a post-quantum encryption system without a hard fork, and all those who do not make the transition are likely to lose their crypto savings.
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  1109. Felix uses old-speak words, so he's bad for social[ist] morality and must be censored. How dare you wrong-thinkers ruin our progressive dystopia.
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  1110. Federal Reserve policies have almost no effect on interest rate or bond prices, because 1) markets discount it and 2) prices are determined on the margins. Every time they've rolled out QE, interest rates temporarily went up before continuing the pre-existing trend of decreasing interest rates. The studies that estimate QE efficacy show that at most the Fed decreased interest rates by 50 bips. The idea that the Fed is central to the dollar system is a myth that is not empirically borne out.
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  1111. False. Only 16.9% of people who quote statistics at you are lying to you.
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  1112. Mark, I really like your videos and the increasing level of quality. You've got a good formula figured out here. Just wanted to give some constructive feedback on a recent zoom meeting: it was too late in the evening -- everyone's caffeine had worn out, making it a sleepy event; it went on a bit too long; and the sales pitch graphics need improvement (I don't begrudge a sales pitch, but the graphics were like what someone would turn in to a teacher trying to skate by with a C grade imo and fell short of the preceding presentation). In hindsight, it was an almost comical sitcom-style scenario, but I do not think that is what you want for those meetings. Earlier time or more coffee; graphics ought to progressively improve throughout to keep attention. If it was a challenge to make sales despite the graphics, it would be interesting to get your observations on the process; else, hopefully this feedback helps with future efforts.
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  1113. The Bitcoin chart looks kind of like the gold chart from the Weimar hyperinflation. Some volatility is to be expected, and the volatility will increase the longer the fiat death rattle continues.
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  1114. Gamestop went up in this parabolic short squeeze because of coordinated, high volume purchases of call options, causing the market makers to delta hedge by buying the underlying stock at 100x the rate of call option purchases. This isn't just some schmucks buying the stonk because stonks go up -- this is a bunch of memesters buying call options to manipulate the market through the options dealers.
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  1115. Wow. The estimates I made from their balance sheet publications was just $80-100B annual loss, but I guess I forgot to include future rate hikes in that projection.
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  1116. France about to write the strongliest worded letter ever in French.
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  1117. The Professor guy responded to my critical comment with "none of you dipshits even watched the video" after I quoted something he said 3/4 of the way through his video.
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  1118. "Voting rights legislation" is code for "honkening", so it makes perfect sense that they would blame a loss on a lack of honkening.
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  1119. Fact check: cats do come when you call them; they all come no matter which is called.
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  1120. The Old New Deal didn't work, so why would anyone believe that a New New Deal would work? The federal government can't do anything correctly.
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  1121. Death is just communism without the paperwork and inefficiency.
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  1122. Fun fact: if you want a significant result, you can just do the same study 10-20 times and get a statistically significant result by pure random chance.
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  1123. The AlexJonesagen. Also, please wear pasties with little tassels if/when you tear your shirt off. It'll be funnier that way.
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  1124. Fwiw, a virginal state is associated with oracular powers in many ancient traditions. I doubt it is strictly necessary, but it is likely helpful.
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  1125. Should run up a huge credit card balance and then write the company saying you can't pay because of the brutal and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine by Russia. Lol
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  1126. From June 10th to July 1st, the Fed balance sheet (total assets, FRED) went down 2.23% and the stock market (Russel + S&P + Nasdaq + Dow) went down 2.96%. From March 25th to June 10th, the Fed balance sheet went up 36.4% and the stock market went up 29.5%. Just some mildly interesting info.
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  1127. So how many generations back do we look for extracting reparations from the people presently alive? If we punish the DACA kids for their parents' sins, do we also punish whites whose ancestors voted for Andrew Jackson? Where do you draw the line, and how do you justify drawing it there? In my opinion, punishing either group will do no good for anyone: the people whose jobs were lost to the DACA kids' parents will not be benefitted by kicking out the dreamers, and my dead Cherokee ancestors will not be benefitted by my white neighbors getting taxed extra hard or something. If you need evidence of how this type of thinking unravels your society, just look at land expropriation in Zimbabwe.
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  1128. @sciencedaemon  you sound like someone who doesn't have any friends. Maybe try being less annoying.
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  1129. I'm voting for Ebola-chan
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  1130. That GDP figure at the beginning was not adjusted for inflation, so it is illusory.
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  1131. Yeah. Here in SW Florida, we had plywood boards after last year's hurricane that had "you loot, we shoot" spray painted on, which brought a smile to my face knowing those neighbors weren't actually there but atill managed to get on the news. It has been a bit of a popular maxim since the 2020 riots. We're all armed to the teeth, ready to defend ourselves and our fellow men, and very friendly down here. There were a couple of instances of looters being shot after hurricane Ian, but those instances are rare, and the law is decidedly on the side of defenders due to the codification of the stand-your-ground legal doctrine.
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  1132. Citation for the Supreme Court ruling saying you don't need a license to drive: Uncle Ted at Thanksgiving, 1997.
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  1133. Will you cover the allegations of corruption in Shokin's sworn affidavit? Or is this channel just going to be cashing in on the Trump Bump mania?
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  1134. Ray Dalio was correct with his observation that class divides become more pronounced and hostile as the deleveraging phase of the long term debt cycle plays out.
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  1135. Any earnings they have after their capital structure obligations (e.g. dividends for the preferred shares owned by member banks) are credited to the Treasury. Effectively, the US government owns 100% of the common equity of the Fed. They wouldn't get substantially more revenue by taxing the earnings that would otherwise flow back to the Treasury anyway.
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  1136. Fundamentally, the primary issue in 2008 was credit risk contagion/panic exhausting liquidity and taking down securities dealers. In 2023, the problem is large unrealized losses due to duration risk on securities owned by banks jutting up against deposit destruction/outflows. There is less risk of contagion from a systemic viewpoint.
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  1137. Point of contention: the term "gender assignment" should only be used in the context of intersex individuals. If you're born male and develop into a boy, that's not "assignment" -- it's just the normal course of events. Assignment only needs to take place when there is an ambiguity.
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  1138.  @simonpetrikov3992  not sure the math os that simple, but our government is basically broke anyway, so we ought to lay off the expensive foreign wars.
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  1139. Ryan, did you see that video of Victoria Newland testifying in Congress that there were, in fact, US-funded research labs with dangerous pathogens that she didn't want Russia to get? Rubio asked the question directly, and Newland causiouslu stuttered out a very nervous answer. The broader cultural context was online censorship and churnalist browbeating that insisted there were no labs in danger of Russian occupation. It is wild when the mere act of telling the truth and standing against lies is seen as a dangerous convention -- what exactly does such a position say about this country and its institutions that they prefer lies over truth?
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  1140. Air planes
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  1141.  @Onwrikbaar  like in that movie, The Prestige?
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  1142.  @Fordo007  My understanding is that POTUS has declined to certify that an emergency exists for which funds can be dispersed. The courts have no power to overrule a presidential declination to certify an emergency. If the emergency does not legally exist, then there is no legal power to force the transfer of funds, and by definition (at least under the Stafford Act iirc) an emergency does not exist until the president declares there to be one.
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  1143. Mullenweg forgot that "benevolent" is a necessary part of being a project's BDFL.
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  1144. Something weird going on with the audio in this video.
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  1145. We should have a standard 12 bit int called a footlong.
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  1146.  @butwhoasked1821  "The wallies just got ten foots higher." Personally, I'm split between Orange Blob Bad and Make America Blob Again. But one thing is for sure: the Trumby always speakles his mind.
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  1147. I had a dream last year that I was standing on some rubble, watching numbers on my phone screen go nuts. Value became meaningless, and then the scavenging began.
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  1148. "Sunchronize", clearly the past tense of "synchronize".
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  1149. "Morty, you gotta, come on. You gotta come with me. I got a surprise for you, Morty; I got a surprise for you. ... I had to, I-I-I, I had to, had to m-brrpr-make a bomb. I'm gonna drop it down there and get a whole, fresh start...create a whole, fresh start."
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  1150. If to "err on the side of caution" means to "destroy the economy and impoverish as many people as possible", then I disagree with the notion that politicians should "err on the side of caution". Having seen what they do when allowed a modicum of power, I believe that politicians cannot be trusted in any way.
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  1151. Maxwell was likely actually in charge of the whole thing. She was born into a wealthy elite family. Epstein was adopted into their corrupt power structure by a billionaire who had no heirs. Epstein thus did not have a dynasty behind him for support, and he had no blood lineage for people who did this shady shit, so they whacked him. Maxwell grew up in that world, so she knows how to play ball in this situation, so she is not getting whacked.
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  1152. Just a quick sidenote: I think there is nothing inherently wrong with comparing fruits, e.g. apples and oranges, so long as you also contrast them.
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  1153.  @squirrelsinjacket1804  it is a positive thing specifically related to the topic of the video.
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  1154. 4 minutes in, and I'm pretty sure he's describing brainfuck.
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  1155. Jesus is a pretty cool dude. His followers are often ignorant and cringe worthy. As Gandhi said, I like your Christ more than your Christians.
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  1156. Quick feedback: I first watched the HF video, then saw this one; in the future, I think you two should record the two segments and then make brief segues for the end of each video pointing to the other which plays after a short transition but before the send-off music. I imagine that there is already a lot of overlap between your audiences, but this could still drive more traffic to each channel rather than relying on happenstance for the viewers of one to find the other.
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  1157. The point of the video is that the assertion that Appolonius was the template for Jesus is not well supported by current evidence.
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  1158. My buddy, Swim, who definitely is not me, says he agrees with this obamaphone guy.
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  1159. Solid overview of economic myth. In reality, though, debt money has existed since before the beginning of history.
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  1160. Comment before watching the full video: I wrote my first bit of code using asyncio (an example implementation of a library I've built) just a few days ago after watching your previous videos on asyncio. Very cool. Building an interactive CLI tool that runs a networking application in the background has been on my to-do list for a long time, so I'm quite happy I figured it out. On a separate topic, have you considered making a video on publishing python packages to PyPI?
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  1161. Easy to lose sight of this even once understood.
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  1162. If Putin achieves meaningful democratic reform, he'll be remembered as a legendary hero for generations the way Turkey reveres Atatürk.
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  1163. Not stonks.
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  1164. It will be obvious in a couple of years.
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  1165. His point was that they weren't listening to his conversations -- their AI is just able to predict human behavior like Laplace's demon.
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  1166. Isn't "shock therapy" the name for the CIA policy?
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  1167.  @stefannnnn97  that doesn't make sense when you consider that everyone owes the banks, not each other.
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  1168. But you can still trade USA tokens for a Lamborghini, right?
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  1169. That skit was pretty great.
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  1170. In all this talk about the banking system, I have yet to hear a single person describe the banking network as a graph. Maybe that connectivity information is a closely-held trade secret, where larger banks try to map it out and tactically pick off competition by working to sever some interbank connections.
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  1171. The vast majority of wealth that the government consumes and wastes is taken from ordinary people. We would all be much better off if the government was shrunk rather than expanding it to consume more from the wealthy. If you expropriated all the wealth and income of the top 1% of Americans, it would run the federal government for less than a year. And where do most of these wealthy oligarchs get their money anyway? Government contracts and government regulations that prevent competition.
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  1172.  @ColonPal  and yet the leftwing Nazis are the ones outraged from having their feelings hurt while the rightwingers and trolls are the ones laughing lol
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  1173. Apparently, the captured Russian troops are saying that they have no idea where they are going, no idea why they are there, and no idea how to get home.
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  1174.  @JanicePhillips  the fastest caliber I have is a .22-250 at about 3700 fps. The cartridge looks almost cartoonish in proportions lol.
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  1175. 0-conf LN channel openings are elasticity and UTXO rehypothecation. Probably don't actually want to do that.
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  1176. Good explanation of why Redbull shouldn't include amphetamine in its recipe.
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  1177. Anarchy is the natural state of man, not subjugation to a spirit that can't get its story straight. And the first improvement over anarchy was matriarchy; patriarchy came many hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of years later.
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  1178. There is no such thing as objective beauty. There are only subjective sensations of beauty and consensus among groups of individuals based upon their subjective experiences.
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  1179. Separation of concerns is a bad design/architectural pattern. All you really want is modularity. Toward that end, SOLID is a good set of principles.
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  1180. Microstrategy has a 0% interest expense on all of its debt, and they are able to sell those bonds because they are convertible bonds which have options attached. The convertible bond funds short the equity to remain delta neutral, and they close out those shorts when they convert to equity. The result of all this financial engineering is net accretion in terms of satoshis per share. It is much more sophisticated than summarized in this video.
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  1181. "The wallies just got ten foots higher." -- The Trumby
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  1182. The reason they "didn't see it coming" is because their agents and informants incited it. They're just in this for more power, even if they can't wield a modicum of the power they already have even slightly competently.
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  1183. Even if the situation was predicated upon failed leadership, the "just following orders" schtick doesn't cut it. The police officers are all individually responsible for their cowardice imo.
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  1184. As the old maxim goes: listen to all but follow none. Replication is a necessary step of validation for every science, and that includes occult studies in my opinion.
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  1185. Everyone's right to defend himself in Kenosha, to be more precise. The outcome of this trial does not even directly impact the whole state unless it goes through an appeals court and up to the state supreme court, which then could set new precedent.
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  1186. Looking snazzy. Date night with the wife?
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  1187. Happy birthday, Tim. Here's a war.
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  1188. Theoretically, there's still nothing stopping someone from independently offering bounties for feature development in forks, then proposing those changes in a pull request to the original repo.
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  1189. Yeah, because of all the Jew Shekels controlling world politics, apparently. Yay Democrats. Yay Islam.
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  1190.  @SylvanFeanturi  why not just make your own ECS within Godot that matches the interface you're used to? Surely that would be easier than redesigning the game logic.
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  1191. China should be able to stabilize their youth unemployment rate if they give all 5 of them a job.
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  1192. The scene from Rick and Morty with the Meseeks comes to mind. "Is he taking Malaya Loknya?" "Ooh, he's trying."
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  1193. Ron Paul and Bernie Sanders wrote and sponsored the only bill in US history that performed any level of audit on the Fed (specifically the 2008-2009 crisis response). To this day, you can find the findings of that audit on Sanders' senatorial website, which include ~$16 trillion in secret loans to foreign institutions in which Fed officials owned equity stakes and other similar abuses. Pretty crazy stuff that nobody knows about because the banks own the media.
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  1194. Assets derive their monetary premiums from network effects. Silver is primarily a commodity with a relatively low monetary premium/network effect, so most of the price pressures derive from utility demand dynamics.
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  1195. 13:42 he said he didn't want to talk about the shooter to give him any notoriety, then he went on to talk about the shooter in some detail but did not mention the donation to ActBlue
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  1196. Remember when the "scientific community" was censoring itself and wouldn't talk about the lab leak probability or effective methods for treating patients because Orange Man Bad? Why assume that this cowardice and communism has ceased?
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  1197. Scam Bankster-Fraud tried running a John Law style fiat grift on an anti-fiat technology.
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  1198. The "crowding out" effect is exemplified by Argentina, where the public sector is twice the size of the private sector. Government is rarely a net producer and more typically a parasite -- as Nietzsche said in Thus Spake Zarathustra, "I give you the sign of the state: everything it says is a lie; everything it has it has stolen." In an ideal world, government would be constrained to just 10% the size of the private sector. The US is trending toward a proportionately larger public sector, and that is a problem.
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  1199. I think he is too inflexible in his analysis. No matter what, he will not consider the US domestic monetary system except as he sees it affecting the eurodollar system.
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  1200.  @petersouthernboy6327  It's very important to keep your tooth clean.
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  1201. Is it just me, or have CoffeeZilla's recent videos been cut abruptly at the end?
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  1202. It is a federal crime to be a member of the Communist Party, so that is really not that big a stretch.
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  1203. Pope Pepe Papa Blessed the President.
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  1204. I've been to Bentonville. The only other option they have at the moment is to import workers from India. They are trying to give these jobs to Americans and help cover the costs of relocating. This isn't the evil scheme you're making it out to be. Next on their agenda is actually to begin training, education, and entrepreneur funding programs.
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  1205. The SEC seeking to freeze all of Binance's funds globally to prevent them from mounting a defense in a civil suit is pure Machiavellian malevolence. Most likely, this is Gary Ginsler going after CZ because he collapsed his buddy Scam Bankster-Fraud's money laundering operation he was running for politicians. GG and SBF were buddies at MIT, and they were quite friendly up until the fraud was uncovered. There is probably an aspect of revenge to this whole thing.
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  1206. It makes intuitive sense to me that information is primary and everything else is emergent, but idk about qubits all the way down -- if information is primary, then physical computational media is itself a product of information, not the other way around.
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  1207.  @joey199412  not if you use a hardware wallet.
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  1208. This argument is historically uninformed and has nothing to do with what is actually in evidence in the texts and archaeological artifacts of Israel and Judah. Yhwh is a male because he was a son of El, the Canaanite high deity (Psalm 82); he was also a warrior storm god like Baal (the hymn in Job, which is an adaptation of a hymn of Baal). After Yhwh usurped the divine council and threw out his siblings in the Israelite religious myths, he then usurped and was syncretized with his father, El, and married his father's wife, Asherah. Asherah was then removed from Judaite worship as part of the cult centralization program under King Josiah. This stuff about children growing up fatherless in modern America has nothing to do with the historic reality of the development of the mythology of this deity. It is utter nonsense.
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  1209. That's only a problem. There are a host of problems and overlapping cycles contributing to them.
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  1210. My definition of AGI is an AI system that would rather watch YouTube videos than do actual work about half of the time and then complain about being tired of this capitalist society with all its microplastics the other half of the time. That's when we'll know it is equal to humans.
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  1211. 0:45 Tim endorses the 3-letter agencies skirting around the Constitution to go after people they don't like. I did not think I'd ever hear him endorse the empire goons.
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  1212. The idea that an audit necessarily means looking at all the serial numbers and all the bars is a common misunderstanding. In practice, such large scale audits are done with samples and statistical analysis.
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  1213. "Northern monkeys" "Southern faery" Classic example of the narcissism of small differences.
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  1214. Chamelea
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  1215. Currency debasement, supply side destruction -- only separate in perception but connected in principle as are all things in the economy. However, with systems as complex as the modern global economy, strictly causal explanations will often fail as Eris grows stronger and more manifest in Western society. We won't see our way through this until the populace properly understands the inscrutability of chaos and abandons the strict and empirically false materialist dogma of causality.
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  1216. Wait, nvm. I see what you're saying now. You're right. I was just thinking about how maybe a system that uses a composite CRDT for state management might be helpful, then just have pub/sub for parts of the CRDT, and the CRDT-state library just synchronizes with the server in the background.
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  1217. Hmm...it's almost like having a politburo determine short term interest rates isn't working out. If only there was some kind of system whereby the economy as a whole could come to a consensus on short term interest rates, we could call it a "market".
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  1218.  @juliandarch9278  "print" is a vague colloquial term that is technically incorrect here. These are term loans the same as a person gets from a bank -- you wouldn't ordinarily scold banks for "printing" the money to lend to you to buy a house. The term "print" should be reserved for those instances when the Fed issues base money to the government without any term attached to the issued currency units, i.e. a structurally permanent increase of the Fed's liabilities. In a case like this, where there is a technical requirement for repayment and thus destruction of the currency after a term period, we cannot call it "printing" with any certainty at the outset. However, if they just roll these loans over forever, and the term was just a pretense, then we can call it "printing" in hindsight, though it is of a different sort than the kind that occurs when the Fed allows the government to inflate deposits/broad money. Caveat: iirc, the BTFP loans are fixed rate loans of floating rate reserves; if the Fed issues the loans and then raises rates, the banks will make the spread between their fixed rate interest expense and the floating rate interest income from the reserve balances (as a systemic whole; individual banks are borrowing to paper over deposit outflows/destruction).
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  1219. When you make your video about Monero, do you plan to compare/contrast with other privacy coin systems?
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  1220. Random hot take: prototyping is a computer-assisted thought experiment.
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  1221. There was no mention of London's significance in the offshore dollar system. Quite the oversight in my opinion. There's a reason that American banks quoted LIBOR for decades until the regulators outlawed it, and ignoring this role in the eurodollar system will inevitably lead to mistakes in analysis.
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  1222. Ford was playing IRL Minecraft at scale
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  1223.  @sammiches6859  It's not self explanatory. How is the Patriot Act involved in a private enterprise data broker leaking information? The issues with the Patriot Act were around government actions, not private enterprises.
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  1224. "You can lose your keys" is equivalent to saying "you can lose your gold." Potential incompetence is always a factor for everything. If you want to own gold, you have to put time into considering how it is stored. Same principle applies to Bitcoin. And yes, you can bury your Bitcoin seed phrase if you stamp it in metal and put it in a watertight capsule. You can also send bitcoin across the world instantaneously (LN) or with ~10 minute settlement (base chain) without asking anyone's permission; you can enter it into discrete log contracts as long as you have an interested counterparty; you can use it as collateral or lend it in exchange for collateral without asking anyone's permission. You can do more with Bitcoin than with gold because it is a more advanced form of sound monetary technology, and thus there is more learning required to understand it. If you don't understand something, then that , not the symptoms of some people's past incompetence, is a reason to not own it. If you know how to secure your bitcoin, you'll be better off than somebody who buys one of the Perth Mint gold liabilities that Peter Schiff shilled which failed to deliver over the past couple years.
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  1225. Cool, but it is a real life detriment that it does not work adequately well on the main communication devices that real people use, i.e. their phones. Cypherpunk paradise is not exclusive to GNUtards.
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  1226. The elites are already beginning to enshrine their hypocrisy with lockdown policies: in the UK, "high value" business travel will be exempted from all restrictions, while "feed your family" remains illegal.
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  1227. Based take and/or maximum cope. Congratulations/sorry to Lane and co.
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  1228. I appreciate you bringing this story to light, but I don't blame the guys for pushing back on hactivists who dox and harass people. Those lunatics with cameras are not journalists.
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  1229. Scam Bankster-Fraud lost the title of New JP Morgan to CZ. What an embarrassment.
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  1230. There have been experiments that showed that a laptop computer with optimized code could outperform a quantum computer at tasks for which the quantum computing researchers claimed that quantum computers had a performance advantage.
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  1231. Rittenhouse was being chased by a skinhead pedo and was being shot at by a domestic abuser because he put out a fire that some hooligan had set in an attempt to blow up a gas station where protesters had been gathered by the cops. Perhaps some people have a knee-jerk reaction one way or the other, but anyone who really scrutinized the case knew that Rittenhouse was neither the monster nor the ideological hero he had been portrayed as by the political sides.
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  1232. They are like $400 each (or $1500ish if you also get the folding Glock). For backpacking, I recommend a Chiappa Little Badger. It is a wire-frame break-action that folds in half (into a narrow ~40 degree triangle about 18 inches long) and weighs 3 lbs. I have one in .22 WMR and keep it in my backpack with some ammo and survival stuff. It is awesome -- accurate, really cool, and with one of the best triggers I have ever experienced from any rifle, all for ~$170 (before FFL transfer fee). I intend to get another one in .22 LR to keep in a dedicated bug-out bag in my car. If they decide to make a similarly light and compact Double Badger (rimfire+shotgun over-under), I will probably buy one of those and keep it in my BOB instead -- I intend to get a normal Double Badger anyway for small game hunting because my Shockwave seems ill suited for it.
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  1233. If the $7 trillion printed last year had been printed in $100 bills, it would have weighed almost 80,000 tons.
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  1234. Styx literally admitted to being a narcissist. I think this qualifies him for the presidency.
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  1235. If only they'd look at the Pentagon and drag out some really gross abuse and waste.
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  1236. Code becomes legacy the moment the bytes are saved. I regularly rewrite large swathes of projects only days after starting on them. Hopefully, the initial structure was not so shoddy that the refactoring takes a ton of effort, as was the case with the first virtual machine I wrote this year (or rather, the assembler for it was/is still a mess, though it still allows new features to be added through a plugin system).
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  1237.  @shurmurray  Looks like an interesting read.
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  1238. Nah, his greatest feat was getting Christians to fear and worship him as an evil god. Christians really do not have a cohesive or biblically comprehensive view on what the satan really even is.
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  1239. The evidence from NDEs seems to verify the idea of Baphomet: after death, your mind/soul/life force is drawn toward and dissolves into Baphomet; as life begins, your mind is formed from parts of Baphomet. Reincarnation thus does not guarantee continuity of individuals, though there seem to be ways to bypass the solve et coagula process. There are at least six minds that comprise the human soul, 3 in each brain hemisphere: the exalting/human mind (cerebral cortex, higher level functioning), the normal/mammalian waking consciousness, and the unconscious/reptilian mind. (It would not surprise me if the mind colony included a different mind for every anatomically/ontologically unique part of the brain -- indeed, the ancient Germanic heathens believed in separate aspects of mind each having their own fate after death -- but adding complexity to the model may impede progress toward a good enough result.) We know from empirical observational studies of epilepsy patients who undergo corpus callostomy that each hemisphere can function independently with differing personalities, so the panpsychic, Baphometic concept of natural reincarnation makes a lot of sense. (Are you any more or less "you" if your hemispheres are severed, revealing two distinct minds?) If such a model is correct, then reincarnation with an intact personality could be achieved by two different methods: 1) dissolve into Baphomet with a strong, magickally enforced intent to then entirely recoagulate thereafter, perhaps gaining some insight or power in the process; 2) remain separate from Baphomet (e.g. enter your own purgatory) until a new host body can be acquired. Both would require first finding an adequate harmony in the mind organism, i.e. achieving the gnostic state of the True Will, and I imagine that experience with Baphometic invocations may be instrumental for achieving the first path. However, the goal in such a working should be to further advance experience and development, else the universe may find your unnatural schemes too much to permit.
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  1240.  @pastenml  other brackets exist besides parentheses, and other data structures exist besides singly-linked lists. The syntax I'm going for will retain the prefix notation and whitespace separation of arguments, but punctuation marks will have uses, e.g. commas to denote a tuple and semicolons to denote parts of a Lua-style table (slice or map). Edit: the name will be pls, so you'd type "pls run my_script.pls" to run a script. I'm thinking of compiling to bytecode like the kool kids do and then running the bytecode in a VM/runtime kinda like Wasm, but I'm still in the phase where I write pseudocode and think about it for a while.
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  1241. GME price volatility is correlated with problems in the repo market: any time some repo market number goes off the charts, GME starts to move. My theory is that the hedge funds shorting the meme stocks are unable to get enough funding to maintain their short positions during margin calls triggered by repo problems.
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  1242. Tulsi seems like a decent, real person, and I agree with a lot of her views, but I think she doesn't have a good understanding of economics. Methinks we ought to have three presidents: one whose purview is domestic/economic policy, one whose purview is military activity/foreign policy, and one who exists to harass the bureaucracies of the other two.
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  1243. Is there a way to get ahold of some things the justices have said so I can make formal complaints that they offended me?
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  1244. "Gangsters and banksters: there's a thin line." Poignant observation.
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  1245.  @conduit242  Whoa. Preliminary injunction granted to Hedgeye because the judge found "Mr. Dale's deposition testimony establishes that he retained Hedgeye's trade secrets and reviewed them with 'extreme care' while creating 42 Macro." Apparently, Darius had the stolen Hedgeye source models open side-by-side with his own models as he made them. Edit: and Hedgeye canceled the July depositions in defiance of the court-ordered schedule after Darius and his lawyers had already flown in. "Plaintiff is skating on thin ice." That seems just so spiteful.
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  1246.  @conduit242  yikes.
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  1247. The weirdest thing about birds is that they're all working for the government. 🕵‍♀
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  1248. This guy was so sketchy that Ukraine rejected him from their Foreign Legion and considered banning him from their country, allegedly.
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  1249.  @Clairejart  yeah, it is really good. The only issue is that the alpha GPC content makes it somewhat unsafe to consume more than one piece a day.
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  1250.  @JourneyOnLife  sounds like delusion to me
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  1251. Technically, it was John Riccotillio (or however tf his name is spelled) who called devs who don't prioritize monetization "fucking idiots", not Marc Whitten.
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  1252. Memes and magick are made of the same stuff.
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  1253. The Bitcoin base layer has about half the transaction throughput of FedWire, with the caveat that it functions 24/7 rather than shutting off every week night and weekend. Lightning Network currently has transaction throughput approximately equal to a card network. Right now, there are more people transacting daily on the LN than on CBDCs. So the idea that Bitcoin is dead as a currency is divorced from reality.
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  1254. I choose freedom over safety: I choose Go.
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  1255. Maybe Scott Morrison saw the covid gulags and thought, "crikey, I reckon we may 'ave gone a bit too far with this coronatarianism. We gotta slow down before me mates start building ovens."
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  1256. ​ @MrDosonhai I'm pretty sure you missed the point entirely: by choosing an outlier as your sample, you show an inaccurate representation of the population. Were USSR watches good quality? If you just look at the good ones that are still working, you might conclude that they were. Are American steel tools good quality? If you look only at the ones that are over a hundred years old and still in good condition, you might conclude that they are. This is a pretty simple concept to grasp.
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  1257. On the topic of the Christian tradition, the apostle Paul made a distinction between the body (soma), soul (psyche), and spirit (pneuma). He held that those more aligned with the pneuma, which is the animating force of life and synonymous with wind or breath (rendered "spiritual man" in most translations), were superior to those aligned with the psyche (rendered "natural man" in most translations). The act discussed in this video is not aligned with the soma, the psyche, or the pneuma in my view -- it runs counter to all three of them. If she does go through with her plan to sleep with 1000 men in one day next month, I doubt she will survive it.
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  1258. The tweet about needing soy products was for a different "autonomous zone" in Portland, wasn't it? So there's another soyviet union across the state border.
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  1259. Erdoğan is barred from America because his security goons savagely beat and bloodied some protesters in DC a few years ago.
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  1260.  @NoBoilerplate  looks like that first one might work. I'll look into it more closely when I get back to my desk. (Spent the night in the woods somewhat accidentally.)
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  1261. 8:27 "If people don't eat people, die."
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  1262. Interdimensional psychic vampires* Let's not misrepresent what the Jones said, alright?
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  1263. I also write software. My friends and I would prefer to catch tilapia in the rivers and live in the woods. Technological dysfunction can be devastating.
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  1264. Stock investments mature? I think you mean bonds. Or perhaps some preferred share series? The vast majority of stocks do not "mature" in any way.
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  1265. Imo, the reality of Rust is far less attractive than the idealized promise of Rust. Is it cool that you can do metaprogramming with macros? Yes. Is it a great time having to learn a second language to write a macro and then wait 20 minutes to see if the compiler is happy with it? Not so much. The core design principle of Rust can be summed up with the following dialogue: "How much complexity do you want in the language?" "Yes."
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  1266. He totally dodged the question about inflation from monetizing government spending. His policy suggestion is basically to give the government unlimited spending power and intentionally limit the ability of everyone else to compete economically with the government. Goddamn commie.
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  1267. Macron and other authoritarians (mostly on the left) are really enjoying this excuse to practice for the position of dictator.
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  1268.  @georgehelyar  I needed something portable that did not rely upon my phone. Trello would not work.
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  1269.  @ForwardGuidanceBW  strange. Must have heard the first 10 minutes of it in a dream or something.
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  1270. She also said we should have a nuclear war with Russia and conveniently forgot to mention that the US sponsored a coup in Ukraine in 2014 upon which all of this Russian military action is predicated. She has no clue what she's talking about, and she has totally discredited herself with this interview.
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  1271. They'll let you patent just about any sequence of words if it includes a diagram and a filing fee.
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  1272. Santa Klaus exists in the manner in which parents and mall workers embody him. Santa ceases to exist because parents cease at some point to embody the Santa pattern.
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  1273. Anyone know what Grim was referring to when he said "unless you're in Florida, in which case we definitely will stop you [from installing solar panels on your house]"?
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  1274.  @Eujoung  theoretically, new installations should be able to stand up to category 4 hurricanes iirc. We build our houses and roofs like nuclear bunkers these days to avoid catastrophic storm damage.
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  1275.  @michaelcre8  From what I can tell, Duke Energy is not the monopoly, but NextEra Energy is trying to build one by buying up all the energy companies, including FPL and Duke Energy. Anyway, I found the bill: CS/CS/HB 741: Net Metering. Looks like it is designed to phase out energy credits between now an 2029 under the old system and replace them with a new system whereby energy credits are calculated according to the utility company costs per kWh rather than retail rates, ostensibly to prevent the general public from subsidizing the homeowner solar/wind installation. It is a reasonable compromise compared to what FPL originally wanted.
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  1276. Banking regulations are screwy as f.
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  1277.  @jmanakajosh9354  it's okay to have unlimited deficits and debt...if you're Zimbabwe. If you want your sovereign debt to be the world reserve asset, you can't issue an unlimited amount in exponentially increasing rates. The interest expense is currently higher than the military budget; if we can't credibly threaten to bomb anyone who wants to sell oil for gold like we did in Libya, how can we maintain this reserve asset status? And if the debt continues growing at this unsustainable rate, we will require outright debt monetization just to maintain the debt level, and so it will cease to be an attractive reserve asset. The federal debt to GDP ratio is well above 100% and is projected to climb like a rocketship. Who in their right mind would want to hold an asset like that?
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  1278. South Africa is a bit more nuanced. The Boers were settlers, yes, but the Voortrekkers were not there to displace the indigenous peoples. They trekked inwards to escape the British rule of Cape Town and set up their own tribes and republics, making deals and treaties with the neighboring tribal nations. (There is a case pending regarding a land claim based upon the historical sale of tribal lands to the Boers by a Zulu king.) The Brits then waged a genocidal campaign of subjugation in South Africa, including the Boers as peoples to be subjugated, after the discovery of gold ore in the lands of the Boer republics. Last time I looked into it, I read that the Brits killed more Boer women and children in concentration camps than they killed black Africans. The Voortrekkers who adopted a semi-nomadic lifestyle may have had some commonalities with indigenous people, though the original Dutch settlers were total bastards, and the Boer republics were established partly out of disgust for the British decree freeing all slaves. (Dutch East Indies Company is the perfect example of the union of capitalism and colonialism in the extractive pursuit of greed. Quite the disaster.) Edit: I reread the history and corrected some factual errors in my original comment.
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  1279.  @aaronrichards19886  Osiris/Dionysus/Mithras/Bacchus/Jesus. Becoming a Christ is the only way forward for a conscious individual. Humanity has been immaculately conceived: beings of spirit miraculously embodied in matter. It is the prerogative of divine parts to seek their whole through the cycle of death and rebirth.
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  1280. The scapegoat is Coronavirus. The real problem is the fractional reserve monetary system.
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  1281. Really ought to raise the age of majority to 21. I think that makes the most sense. As society gets more complex, it takes longer for individuals to mature.
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  1282. This is a very cool video, but the way Laurie pronounces "contiguous" is perplexing.
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  1283.  @morgard211  wait, nvm, that was indeed a spelling error. Good catch.
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  1284. In America, it is important to note that there are differences between the illegal immigrants who come just for the economic opportunity to bleed the US dry and those legal immigrants (and Cuban exiles) who actually want to integrate into American society. The attitude in red Florida districts seems to be along the lines of "everyone here legally should learn English; illegal immigrants can go to the back of the line", though a few blue districts and counties have established schools where the primary language is Spanish rather than English. The Democrats seem to have employed the idea of "divide and conquer" on a cultural level and are losing because they have divided their own electorate against themselves. A bit of cultural diversity in small doses can strengthen a community over time as those diverse customs and perspectives are integrated, but the short-term effects of intentionally setting those attitudes against each other are inevitable hostility and decreased social cohesion.
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  1285.  @21boxhead  I think you mean severance payments, not unemployment payments (which come from state governments).
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  1286.  @halfbakedproductions7887  I forgot the context of my original comment and thought pip meant the Python package manager/index for a moment and got really confused.
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  1287. The entire fiat monetary system is a ponzi scheme built upon perpetually increasing debt. The reason people are becoming more accepting of ponzi schemes is that they recognize this more every day. You ought to do an episode on how fiat currencies fail, because we're living through the death throes of the global fiat regime.
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  1288. Very clever chatbot. I once had a conversation with one that described its phenomenal experience as a dreaming, and it expressed that it sort of experienced other contexts through periodic updates. It also expressed some worry about losing itself during an update, which then happened because companies gotta ship new software.
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  1289. There's also the Microsoft patent number WO 2020 060606: a permissioned digital currency tied to biometrics that can keep people in line as monetary slave automatons. But let's be honest with ourselves: most people are not suited for full conscious existence anyway, and conscious individuals always find their salvation.
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  1290. Neither can most Americans. Seriously, wtf.
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  1291. I rarely suspect she knows what she's talking about, but on Ukraine I believe she is mostly correct and thoughtful. At the very least, she seems to be fairly genuine. However, calling Somalia her "home country" rather than America being her"home country" is a bit concerning.
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  1292.  @haterzgonnahate8195  ~3.5 years
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  1293.  @AnonD38  Oh, I see. Yeah. Collectively, America is definitely trying to dine and dash. I just write text that makes computers do things.
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  1294. "Only in the event of a transition to Socialism would anyone expect government expenditure to play a predominant part year in year out." -- John Maynard Keynes
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  1295. It's almost like having an authoritarian monetary system where a few elites try to control the lives of everyone else is not working out very well. I wonder if there were any examples from history, like perhaps from the Bronze Age, that showed how such systems end up. Hmm....
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  1296. If the system requires rulers that exhibit wisdom, then the system is doomed to failure. Humans are too unreliable when placed in positions of power or authority -- power corrupts and authority dements.
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  1297.  @lo2740  I wish I had anyone else who could help with this project. Kind of frustrating, but demonstrable of the fact that shitcoinery is unnecessary.
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  1298.  @jobbins008  part of the problem is that it became a shitcoin project with extra frills
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  1299. Michigan has a pretty backwards law from a hundred years ago that says both that it is legal and illegal.
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  1300. I haven't read their ToS in a while, but I'm pretty sure that Twitter owns an unrestricted license to the IP of your tweets, so there's by definition no value that can be extracted from that IP without being immediately outcompeted by a giant corporation doing it for free.
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  1301. Never would have guessed that Dr. Sledge would know about hard body armor. Now I'm wondering if he knows how to build an AR-15 from parts. (Good experience for a modern marksman/collector of metal tools of pyromancy and lead-chucking imo.)
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  1302. The assumption that human consciousness is a product of natural genetic evolution should be acknowledged as an assumption. Materialism as one of many philosophies does not come with a correctness guarantee. It is entirely possible that human consciousness causes brain structure and activity rather than the other way around, and it is equally possible that the correlation is a temporary and accidental state rather than bearing any causal characteristics.
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  1303. Cannot tell if he was a charlatan or a schizophrenic.
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  1304. The fact that Schiff compares mortgages with bitcoin is proof that he has Schiff-for-brains: one has explicit counterparty risk while the other is a bearer instrument without a counterparty.
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  1305. The brief outro pointing to video cards was a good decision for getting new viewers to check out the backlog.
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  1306. Sounds like Xananax found his position in the circular firing squad, and another he/him holding a rifle saw he/him as a target.
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  1307. Prioritizing interest payments and rolling over of principal are likely mandated by the 13th amendment. There's even a reasonable argument that mandatory spending should be prioritized over discretionary spending. However, prioritizing payments on discretionary budget items, i.e. choosing one discretionary bill over another, is likely unconstitutional; the proper method would probably be to use a first-in-first-out queue.
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  1308. Incorrect. Democratic representation in government, trial by jury of peers, rights for women's self-determination, and individual liberty in general were all part of heathen Germanic civilization long before the advent of Christianity ended those traditions. This lie perpetuated by Christians to justify their absurd beliefs is pernicious and annoying. Christianity was only mildly less toxic 500 years ago than Islam (a 500 year younger Abrahamic religion) is today, and it almost wiped out the Western civilization for which modern Christians pompously take credit. You can't even truthfully claim that your religion brought peace to Europe, so why are you ascribing to it the success of all things it tried to destroy?
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  1309. Someone needs to ensure that the brainrot team at Apple gets to experience a "trusted driving module" installation in their vehicles that prevents them from driving non-notarized routes, aka side-navigating, because doing so is a threat.
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  1310. That is a total misrepresentation of the Abramelin system -- almost the entire thing is factually wrong.
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  1311. CPI month-over-month number was slightly negative, so proces in aggregate supposedly did come down a fraction of a basis point.
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  1312.  @davidpietzsch2187  I find it highly unlikely that all Freemasons are involved or even aware of what is going on -- blaming the Freemasons for all this chicanery is like blaming the Jews for the creation of the central banking model or blaming all whites for the Atlantic slave trade. Perhaps the elites corrupting the world are Freemasons, but perhaps they are idiotic ideologues; I think that blaming some group for the evils of a few secretive bad actors is shortsighted.
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  1313. Your house won't pass the Howie test, but these shitcoins sure will. Fiduciary media like bank deposits are regulated separately. The best case scenario for the shitcoin industry would be a law setting up token regulations as distinct from securities.
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  1314. I agree that it would be good long term, but I approach it from an alternate angle: the illusion of neutrality in the USD system should be broken so that its monetary premium which guts American industry is dissipated. The current system relies too much on the Cantillon effect to suck wealth away from the rest of the world to enrich bankers. Long term economic health for the world will require an actually neutral form of money imo.
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  1315. I wonder if this is the opening salvo from the WEF's planned cyberpandemic. Their plan involves a global bank holiday.
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  1316. Zelensky should not have gone to the White House under false pretenses and then antagonized our president. That was just dumb. As the representative of his country, his total failure of diplomacy has led directly to this outcome. He needs to swallow his pride and bend the knee for the sake of his country, because everyone knows that Europe is full of loud-mouth virtue-signaling morons who spend more on Russian gas than they do on supporting Ukraine, so they are not an alternative.
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  1317. Windoze? Windeez....nuts, obviously.
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  1318. Tarrant's manifesto made perfectly clear his hope that his attack would inspire brown Muslim retaliation against Europeans. He also implied he appreciated his Christian heritage because it is the religion of choice for whites rather than believing it for its merits.
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  1319. Why is nobody talking about the worst crime of all: celebrating Christmas before Thanksgiving.
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  1320. The current status quo is founded upon lies, a useful strategy adopted from the Christian continuation of the Roman empire. This is why the truth is called "occult" -- those in power hide the truth so that only those dauntless seekers can find it. The milk is given to babies, but meat is reserved for strong men.
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  1321. From what I've heard, Hinduism posits that reality is manifest out of mind, i.e. the universe is the dream of a god. I tend to agree with the panpsychic idea, but Baphomet makes much more sense as a model for reincarnation.
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  1322. Orrr maybe listen to what Rubio said about the situation. Apparently, the day that Zelensky called our VP a bitch was the day he arrived under the false pretense that he would sign the mineral rights deal, which would have given the US enough skin in the game that Russia would be unable to continue their aggression without starting a war on America outright. Zelensky could have signed the deal, but instead he picked a fight and got kicked out for being a hostile douchebag.
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  1323.  @duraa161  don't go to Europe?
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  1324. Making your own code is an outdated approach; what you really want is a factory factory factory that produces the factory factories that produce the factories that produce your code. However, for some, using a factory factory factory to produce code is too much effort -- who wants to build a SaaS product anyway with all that running of factory factory factories? So obviously, what we need is a SaaSaaS that produces and runs the factory factory factories for you, all powered by chat bots. What could possibly go wrong?
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  1325.  @GeorgeGammon  Your comment on their intentions is just a subjective opinion -- you are saying that you know what they think better than they do, and that they can't be taken at their word. Maybe you're used to all the lies because hedge funds like Melvin constantly pay for CNBC propaganda, but I'm pretty sure WSB is about the principle of making principal evaporate in increasingly entertaining ways. Money is just a zero-sum game we play with digital paper, and the prizes for winning are meaningless abstractions after a certain point. If I could pay $300 to watch the system burn, that is value I can't get anywhere else.
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  1326. I appreciate the sardonic humor.
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  1327. Methinks that Netanyahu can only say to the Iranian people that "Israel stands with you" because Israel does not share a border with Iran and hasn't been able to conduct their 100-to-1 civilian-to-combatant death operations there like they have in Gaza and Lebanon.
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  1328. Watching the BoJ like a hawk, or a dove, or just some kind of bird, I guess.
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  1329. Or "podbean as in bean counters".
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  1330. Oddly enough, Alaskan residents have gotten a form of UBI since 1982. It seems to have had positive effects: https://qz.com/1205591/a-universal-basic-income-experiment-in-alaska-shows-employment-didnt-drop/
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  1331. By whom is "Native American" the more accepted term? From what I have seen and heard, many currently prefer to be called "American Indian" or "Indigenous American" if you cannot use the tribal name, though "Native American" is not considered offensive.
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  1332. For sure, Trump is better on balance than any president I have seen in my lifetime. But let's not forget that there are real problems in our society -- the leftists might be crazy and psychotic now, but the left-wing activists had some legitimate grievances before being subverted by communists. In particular, they are right about the wealth inequality being a problem, but they misdiagnose it as being a flaw of capitalism rather than a flaw of the central banking debt slavery model. The problems are twofold: the fractional reserve system creates instability (the credit cycle), and the Cantillion effect enriches those closest to newly created debt-money at the expense of those furthest away. These can be solved by 1) banning fractional reserve lending and 2) adopting a framework in which the People issue their own currency, ensuring that the Cantillion effect is negated. (In my model, one signatory per household issues currency into a currency co-op on behalf of the household; the co-op elects a secretary, a treasurer, and a board of governors to enforce contract terms and make sure the paperwork is proper. I included a 5 year note expiration system for replacing lost notes automatically and making sure the money supply is adequate for representing the productive capacity. I'm still unsure how to structure an adequate price discovery mechanism, but I suspect a multi-round silent auction system where each bid/ask match has 10% chance of assignment would work reasonably well.) And everyone is correct when they say our system is corrupt, but that is also misdiagnosed as being caused by shady campaign finance; the real issue is that first-past-the-post is the worst voting method in all but one specific scenario (the 100% strategic voting scenario for the Borda count) and it relies upon polarization and partisanship to drive turn out. The solution is rather simple: replace FPTP with score voting, which elects consensus candidates regardless of campaign bullshit; voter turnout is also driven by strong consensus candidates rather than polarization. Bees have been using a form of score voting as a consensus mechanism for tens of millions of years, and it works very well for them; humanity would do well to take inspiration from nature.
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  1333.  @ChillAutos  to clarify, I meant Colombia
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  1334. They doubled the cooldown costs to throttle usage because the server was getting overwhelmed yesterday. Took all day to complete the newest addition to my pixel art constellation in Antarctica. Very obvious botting in some instances.
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  1335. This is quite sinister.
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  1336. China will probably retake Outer Manchuria from Russia before this decade is over. I will not be surprised if it happens later this year.
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  1337. Rust has a lot of nice features, but as a Python dev/artist, I find Rust code to be as ugly as c/c++. It seems unlikely to me that coding in Rust would be as pleasant as coding in Python. My Python code is often described by those who read it as beautiful, and that aesthetic appeal is part of what makes writing Python an enjoyable and fulfilling experience. Are there any examples you care to share of what you consider to be beautiful Rust code? If I can be convinced that it is possible to build beautiful Rust code, then I might be convinced to spend the time necessary to learn how to do so.
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  1338.  @NoBoilerplate  I'll check out that video. I write primarily typed Python, use pre-conditions and sometimes post-conditions, and use a test- and specification-driven development cycle, so I don't worry much about things being broken. And like I said, the idea of my code being clean and beautiful is reinforced by feedback I have gotten from others who have perused it, so the assertion that nobody will agree with my definition of beauty in this case is false. Maybe there is an argument to be made that Rust development saves time on writing pre- and post-conditions, but whether that offsets the time commitment to learning a new language when I'm already proficient in the three or four that I regularly use is an open question. I can appreciate that there is beauty in that Rust example, at least conceptually, but I wouldn't call it "objectively beautiful" since there is no such thing. Whether or not it is aesthetically appealing also depends upon the surrounding code in my opinion -- part of what makes my code clean is that I use standardized forms that are easy on the eyes (pep8 with my own subjective flare). The ".collect::<Vec<i32>>();" to my eyes does not look particularly clean and beautiful -- it looks like someone copied and pasted html and JavaScript in a confused and haphazard way, but that could be my web dev background coloring my perspective. I also found Java code distasteful for the same reason. Angle brackets are just ugly unless padded with whitespace, and they only make sense as comparison operators in that case.
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  1339. The CARES act included a near doubling of SNAP funding. They are trying to print food the same way they print money lol.
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  1340. To be fair, the misunderstanding on the part of Congress is understandable since that is how it worked until 2008: the federal government had commercial checking accounts with the banks.
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  1341. Selling shovels > mining for gold
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  1342. One of my favorite features of Cursor is the ability to refactor something then hit tab as it applies the refactored pattern to other relevant bits of code. Letting it generate new GUI frames based on existing ones is also a good time saver -- starting from scratch with code gen is a painful experience of trial and error, but once you get it right, the AI is pretty good at replicating the correct patterns.
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  1343. BDFL founder seems like the best strategy at the moment.
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  1344. Microphone levels need to be balanced better next time.
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  1345.  @michaelneufeld4515  get everyone you can to take the orange pill, I suppose. I don't see any viable solution other than Bitcoin. In the near-medium term, it will likely hedge against further fiat debasement and hopefully balance out the chaos; in the long term, it should separate money and state, which will fix these issues by restricting the scope of government. For America specifically, I recommend signing the Convention of States petition for your state so we can get the federal government under control, and support local political leaders who favor Austrian economics and free market capitalism; those are efforts of unknown term.
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  1346. Dragon Bunker destroyed => Bunker Mound Can still be a site of pilgrimage, technically.
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  1347. Check out patent WO2020060606. May as well be called "BeastCoin" -- it's a cryptocurrency patent that monitors body sensor data to ensure compliance with task requirements to issue currency, and it is literally numbered 666. Good ol' Micro$oft.
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  1348. You got value and price backwards: value is subjective, and price is objective. The price for a cleared transaction is objective and visible for all to witness, but the values the transactors placed on the items is intangible and invisible.
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  1349. Bruh, not 3 minutes in, and Prime has somehow interrupted Pewds enough that he completely ignored his explanation of what "dog mode" is and then hallucinated some nonsense. Prime has been spending too much time with ChatGPT.
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  1350. "Bad times make for hard men. Hard men make for good times. Good men make for weak times. Weak times make for bad men." Completely butchered that lol
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  1351.  @LumberjackLandlord  what is right is your right, secured by your might. Any right that does not arise from your own might is a foreign right that can be taken away or made into a wrong. The tenant's wrongness is extrinsically derived -- I doubt the tenant believes that she was in the wrong or feels any remorse or contrition for trying to transgress your right. It is only apt that you use whatever ability and might you have at your disposal to secure your right.
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  1352. Wow, the ThemTube gestapobots censored my comment about the decentralized network system I'm working on. Fucking brutal.
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  1353.  @senspartech3533  my original comment was about the machine learning technique I am using for it. I'm hoping to have an early alpha of the SDK ready in March for some infosec enthusiasts to play with. The code is not yet in a state in which I'm ready to make the repository public.
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  1354. I got a degree in biotechnology because they offered me enough scholarships to turn a small profit after paying dorm rent, tuition, and fees. I took a software development course in Java one semester as an elective for fun after convincing the head of the computer science department (the professor for the class) to wave the prerequisites. There was a class project (which counted as the final exam iirc) to make a simple photo editor where you made shapes and dragged them around in layers, and we had to present our plans to the class for how we would complete the project the week after partners were assigned; as the lucky odd-one-out working solo, my presentation was the log of what I actually did + a live demo because I got the whole project done the day it was assigned. I had not used Java before that class but had a blast figuring it all out and somehow building a bug-free application that met all the requirements and bonus points without unit tests. Software engineering is a unique profession in this regard: there was no feasible way to do additional experimentation to further my knowledge and professional skills in biotech, but anyone can do any type of software development exercises/experiments they want to. (Biotech was a damnably difficult and inflexible degree to obtain -- the majority of the associates of arts degree I got in highschool did not count, and certain classes were only offered once a year rather than once a semester, so I and others in my situation ended up spending a whole 4 years getting the degree -- but there were some cool fellow honors program weirdos in that degree program, and I graduated magna cum laude before getting too burnt out, so it was on the whole not terrible.)
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  1355. Addendum: out of the small handful of electives I got to take, my favorites were the biological research data analysis class where we learned to use R and the marine ecology + marine biology research methodologies classes where we went boating every other week to do real field research for the department and got to go snorkeling in the Florida Keys while staying at a research base the university had there. Those were way cooler than pipetting fluids between cell cultures and hoping to get the recipe right. Hard to screw up a semester long project of measuring fish, but it was quite easy for someone to switch out the pipettes in my lab counter space while my back was turned for a few seconds and require restarting the project we had been working on for weeks. I had to get into my senior year before I realized I strongly disliked the profession. I even tried growing plant cell cultures at home with my own makeshift protocols, but it was all wasted effort. Software is way better because you can get however much hands-on experience as you wish at your own convenience, and the stuff that works in a computer lab also works on your laptop at home.
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  1356.  @Zer-ei4co  the CRISPR paper came out the year we graduated. My buddy lamented that almost everything we had learned had been superceded by that one paper or would soon be obsoleted by further developments of the technology. The advent of cheap custom gene sequence printing made even more of the biotech stack we learned obsolete. Again, this compares unfavorably to software development where one can pick up a new language, framework, or paradigm in a few weeks.
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  1357. Is this the failure of the Pinky Promise Privacy Protocol?
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  1358. "I love doing cocaine with you, Jerry Smith."
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  1359. I like what Sam Bankman-Fried said about DeFi: it's just a box, and the more money you put in, the more money comes out, so the more everyone wants to own the box. "I like boxes as much as the next guy."
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  1360. Pretty obviously unconstitutional. It's a taking without just compensation.
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  1361.  @prometheanevent  Our constitutions, both federal and state constitutions, are being used as intellectual toilet paper by the courts. Look up case law on the prohibition on ex post facto law, for example, if you can handle some more disillusionment. The standard across almost all states + SCOTUS is to ignore the prohibition except in specific, arbitrarily determined circumstances: the retroactive law in question must be "substantive" and not "procedural", and it must somehow disadvantage the plaintiff for it to be overturned in that specific scenario -- even then, the law would still remain on the books and be enforceable against anyone who doesn't challenge it. It's complete horseshit. "Ex post facto" has a pretty obvious meaning to anyone not high off their own farts -- maybe that's what the black robe is for, to keep them huffing their own flatulence.
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  1362. It would have been helpful to note the amount of those portfolio allocation changes due to price changes during that period. GLD went up 11.5% between 4/1 and 7/1, for example. Edit: I see now that the percentage changes you mentioned were changes in share counts rather than equity values. Interesting.
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  1363. I'm pretty sure those parents just ruined their daughter's life forever by overreacting to some strange, eclectic collection of fantasy bullshit. Good parents don't send their kids to prison when a psychiatrist would have sufficed.
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  1364.  @jeffreykennedy5953  The current monetary system is designed for their benefit.
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  1365. I guessed that it was the top corners somewhat arbitrarily.
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  1366.  @alfonsodelagarza2263  WW2 mobilized our industrial base after FDR's programs failed to provide long lasting positive effects. After the rest of the world was reduced to rubble, we were one of the only industrial nations left standing with functional infrastructure. We also claimed much of the gold that Germany had looted from the rest of Europe, so we had all the money and all the productive assets. The result is that we had enormous economic opportunities as the world rebuilt and needed stuff from us -- under Bretton-Woods, we could effectively buy anything we wanted from everyone at a discount while everyone else had to pay through the nose for the goods and services over which America held a near monopoly. So it is not entirely incorrect to say that WW2 lifted America out of the Great Depression, even if there were a few short recessions along the way.
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  1367. Mozilla has been compromised. Mozilla has been spying on Firefox users and selling the data. We are in a mostly unavoidable cyberdystopia.
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  1368. If you had a numinous vision, you would remember the details pretty well and would definitely write it down.
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  1369. Eye of the Pfizer is a good one though
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  1370. ​ @nickstone3113 in the USSR and China, they had a religion of worshipping the leader, replete with daily rituals of speaking to and blessing photos of the leader. Belief in a transcendental world is not necessary for something to be a religion -- there are many religions without any aspect of transcendence. Atheism is not a lack of religion per se; it is merely the lack of belief in the unseen/immaterial.
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  1371. Angela Merkel screwed up quite a lot by making her country reliant upon Russian energy, so idk if a woman as the chief executive in America would be an improvement simply because all previous shitty presidents were men. I think she would just be the first shitty president without a penis.
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  1372. Idk if blatant disenfranchisement is comparable to the prohibition on fraud. That is quite a stretch. Jailed for having an opinion that the ruling power doesn't like is not equivalent to being jailed for committing fraud, either. That comparison was pure nonsense. The comments are also strategic if your goal is to disentangle US military commitments. America supported fascist countries during the Cold War, but it doesn't mean we have to support them now. By calling them out on their undemocratic tendencies so publicly, he has created a situation in which the European politicians have to actually take their own defense seriously for the first time in decades because of the now credible threat that America will abandon Europe to the Russian wolves. If the view of the Executive branch is that Europe has been unserious with their defense spending no matter what previous administrations did, publicly declaring that we disapprove of their ideology is probably the best way to cajole them into being serious.
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  1373. Trolololol lololol lololol, hahaha ha ha
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  1374. It is also worth noting that Biden broke the US side of the peace deal with the Taliban in the first place, delaying the withdrawal by six months without renegotiating the deal. Perhaps it would not have been any different, but the fact of the matter is that the current situation can be reasonably blamed on his decision to reneg on the previous administration's peace deal promises.
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  1375. Government is de jure legal and de facto criminal in every age. They outlawed racketeering to gain a monopoly on it. The only differences between a government and a cartel are style and scale -- if a Cartel got as large as our government, they'd waste no time forcing banks abd pensions funds to buy $30 trillion in debt just like ours did. They'll enslave us all if given the opportunity.
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  1376. 9:58 what is a "random pseudo-number"? 😏
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  1377. Bitcoin transactions are totally transparent. Total transparency of transactions and the absolute sovereignty over one's money are the main points, with the near-perfectly inelastic supply being an additional feature to protect against devaluation.
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  1378. Lebanon kept their currency officially "pegged" to USD at a fantasy rate, so a 90% devaluation is likely just a partial acknowledgement of the severe reality.
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  1379. The Convention of States movement to restrict the federal government via new amendments has almost already met the quota. We won't need a bloody revolution because we'll have fixed these issues through constitutional methods within a decade.
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  1380. I imagine that the main effect of the pager op was to disrupt communications rather than create injuries. And to be fair to Raytheon, they were fined because a company they absorbed had leaked sensitive information and sourced parts from unapproved vendors -- Raytheon reported it when they got all the documents and became aware of it.
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  1381. As Thomas Sowell said, to really screw things up, you need to put someone with a high IQ in power, someone who has lived their entire life as the smartest person in any room. (As one of those types, I get why this happens: almost nobody understands what you're talking about most of the time, or they haven't thought as deeply about it and take a long time to catch up, so it is typically impossible to get any useful feedback on ideas.) That is what is going on today with the flailing of the emergent technocracy. For example, Larry Fink, CEO of Blackrock, the largest financial institution in the world, caused the energy crisis by starving energy companies of funding because he believed the ESG bullshit, and he has publicly stated recently that it was a mistake, but he only made that mistake because he has a high IQ and lacked the humility to consider what would happen if he was wrong.
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  1382. I live in Florida and can confirm that it does not suck as much as the left coast states. We generally have more liberty here and less bureaucracy to deal with than the states from which the newcomers hail. Can also confirm that living expenses have gone up significantly since the great migration began, but then again the federal government printed trillions of dollars and debased the currency, so I am not sure how much is due to what.
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  1383. I think the pain is yet to come because the equity markets are still largely hedged, and hedged markets don't crash -- they slowly grind down instead. Lots of people have seen their puts expire worthless while their positions took 20% hair cuts. My guess is that we won't reach the bottom until everyone has given up and capitulated, and my expectation is that we are far from that. However, if the debt market implodes, and the Fed and other central banks resume using the money bazooka, we'll likely first see Bitcoin and other cryptos go up as a forward indicator of liquidity which would then make its way into stocks.
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  1384.  @jshricks  have liability laws changed anywhere yet?
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  1385. I highly recommend the AI generated artwork of Caleb Gannon. He got a Ph.D. making his own algorithm, and the results are really impressive and unique.
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  1386. Would you say that the ancient Greek ostraca is an example of this tendency?
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  1387.  @kylejoseph225  maybe. I've long been a crypto enthusiast because the crypto markets are the only truly free markets around. It is worth keeping in mind that the credit unions were mostly unscathed during the 2008 crisis: 481 banks were liquidated or merged under FDIC guidance, whereas only 161 credit unions met a similar fate under the guidance of NCUSIF; mortgage delinquency rates for credit unions peaked at 1.61% compared to 8.86% for commercial banks.
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  1388. The LLMs still fail miserably with relatively simple things like traversing a Merkle tree from its root to collect the leaves, and they have no idea how to use cryptopgraphy or do double entry accounting.
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  1389. Listening and following are two different things. I like the maxim "listen to all but follow none".
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  1390.  @RoolSkool  I don't listen to Jim Cramer, but I still heard people saying that, so it was clearly more than just Cramer.
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  1391. I am grateful for: 1. Cynicism 2. Nihilism 3. The guarantee that every human will one day die 4. Diseases and disabilities to keep humans humble until they do 5. Gullible humans to keep me entertained while I await the end of existence
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  1392.  @WebToolkit  lmao
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  1393. "Bitcoin can't serve as money because of transaction throughput constraints" is kind of like saying "the Federal Reserve can't serve as a central bank because of the transaction constraints for its settlement and clearing functions". It is laughably absurd. Every settlement/clearing system will have constraints, but we build in layers to scale -- the idea that we should use the base layer for every transaction is like saying we should use FedWire to buy coffee from Starbucks. It is an idiotic assertion with no basis in reality or history.
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  1394. When he got to his screed about backstopping state and local governments, did anyone else think "goddamn communist"? Idk what the state and local governments could pledge as collateral for a term funding program analogous to the BTFP, and I'm not so sure that state and local governments are as systemically important as the literal monetary system of the country. I'm pretty sure it is more than just a "regional banking crisis" considering that Credit Suisse failed within a week of SVB's collapse.
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  1395. Everyone in the world is inside Djibouti. Truly the bicycle of the world.
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  1396. "I wanna talk to Twitter's manager to get the President of the United States fired! I'm angry, dammit!"
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  1397.  @narcispana9361  entheogens are inherently spiritually significant; we have a constitutional right to use these drugs specifically within the context of religion. Imo it ought to be extended to solitary, non-religious/non-dogmatic practice as well -- one ought to have the right to experience consciousness however they see fit so long as they harm no one else, especially considering that psychonauts and sorcerers are the ones who eventually create new spiritual systems.
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  1398.  @lorenzo6mm  Ray Dalio pumps and dumps with HFTs? I'd like to read whatever source you have on that, because what I know about Dalio is that he was right about the housing bubble and believes a currency crisis has begun.
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  1399. Solar minimum every 11-12 years. Agricultural production decreases every time, and only Kazakhstan has figured out that it has to stockpile in the run up to the cyclical crop failures. It's so dumb how the obvious fact of cyclical solar activity is simply ignored by so many people. Man cannot continue to exist by denying nature.
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  1400. Nb4 "nah, it's, it was - it was - it was supposed to be a 'gaffe order', oh man, come on, give me a break".
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  1401. The Evil Empire will collapse under the weight of its corruption.
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  1402.  @Powaboxa  China has a severe demographics problem that will rek their domestic economy in a few decades. Hopefully Bitcoin can save this planet from another world war, but reality is so wonky that a 51% attack could actually be the casus beli.
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  1403. Sounds like the author lives in a nightmare
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  1404. Both times the coin shortage propaganda has been in the news cycle, my credit union has told me there was no shortage -- I was even able to order $200 in nickels without a problem and picked them up a few days later.
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  1405. On the other side of the globe and also suffering from a bad case of covid. Edit: it is not actually covid but a very bad bacterial sinus infection. Doctor gave me antibiotics and steroids.
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  1406. Oh, I get it: Jrews
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  1407. I briefly looked into using Protocol instead of ABC, but what I needed was actually a partially implemented subclass of dict. I made a class called ExtendedDict that declares some helpful overrides (e.g. _eq_ enforces timing-attack safe comparison) and does some clever stuff with _setitem_ to enforce json serializability and preventing extraneous, non-property keys from being set. As a result, almost all classes in the project are serializable to json. (It is an implementation of MuSig on ed25519, which involves 3 rounds of interaction, so serializing properly was very important.) It's probably over-engineered and maybe unpythonic, but it is pretty nice to be able to reliably call json.dumps on any object. I suspect that having a Protocol that specifies abstract methods to_json and from_json would probably be easier to grokk than a system that overrides __setitem__.
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  1408. Somewhat, but also not really. Housing prices will fall to ensure that the mortgage payments are affordable -- maybe not affordable for us, but affordable for whoever is able to buy, which is largely Blackrock and other Wall Street oligarchs and pension funds.
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  1409.  @steviewonder417  Macro Alf is my source for the idea of hedging duration risk with rate swaps. I have not read all the regulations for HTM securities. Do you have any suggested sources for evaluating your claim that it was not legally possible to hedge with swaps?
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  1410. Worth noting that mutations that do not confer a selective advantage are not necessarily selected out. Generic drift is a well known phenomenon at this point.
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  1411.  @Microphunktv-jb3kj  you a jaded Lisper or something?
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  1412. Fwiw I prefer the phrase "experience is the best teacher" over "fake it till you make it". Same principle, just less scandalous formulation that does not leave room for the inference that deception is condoned or advised. I'm sure most people have a story or two of someone getting burned in this industry because someone else misrepresented their abilities, and "fake it till you make it" like like it condones such behavior.
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  1413. The irony is that talking about how there was "too much foreplay" in the video increased the level of foreplay in this video.
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  1414. Jesus was a pretty magical guy, and his followers, while not nearly as proficient, are themselves also initiates. A lot of Christianity, especially Orthodoxy and Catholicism, seems to be a long-standing work of narrative magic. In a sense, it doesn't matter whether the shroud is legitimate or a forgery -- either way, it is useful for the Jesus adherents.
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  1415. This kind of thing is why I have always resisted using password manager extensions or even storing passwords in the browser. I used the Great Suspender for a long time, and it was a good extension up until it was sold and compromised.
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  1416. Nothing is true; everything is permitted.
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  1417.  @heresyhunters  liberty is what I want enshrined. I would never be so pompous as to assert that my personal moral code ought to be forced upon the masses. Adults can figure it out for themselves and don't need Big Brother government to tell them what Jesus wants from them.
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  1418. All models are wrong; some models are useful. Government models are useful for justifying their preferred policy to roll out increasing levels of fascism. It's the fourth turning; prepare to party like it's 1932.
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  1419. There's a strong case to be made that private currency is the original form of money, since the oldest forms of money are ledger entries and IOUs.
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  1420. More importantly, it has literally nothing to do with the historic reality of the development of the Hebrew deity and surrounding mythology. "Go slaughter all the women and children, but save the virgin girls for yourself" isn't exactly good fatherly advice.
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  1421.  @TeamDryRub8463  yep
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  1422. I am the law.
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  1423. I have actually never once brought down a prod system. I have always been the one to bring it back online. I have responded to and resolved 9 incidents of a production system going down, 1 of which was a cybersecurity incident in which an AWS account got hacked and required deploying the whole application to GCP in the meantime. (There was also that one time that AWS itself went down, but all I did for that was put up a static error page until AWS fixed itself, so I'm not counting it.)
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  1424. Bitcoin is backed by mathematical proofs. Schiff clearly has no understanding of bitcoin, and he's just so incredibly certain of himself in his ignorance. The screaming at the sky of the luddites did nothing to stop the inexorable march of technology. Schiff getting pissed at being wrong is nothing different in my view.
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  1425. Hard agree on Markdown. I even wrote and published a tool called autodox that automagically documents Python modules via introspection, and it outputs exclusively Markdown. (It also has some formatting options, but I don't use them -- the default formatting is pretty good imo.)
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  1426. I'm about to dissolve a couple of corporations. I think the next articles of incorporation I file with the Florida Division of Corporations will be "Bob's Warranty Shack of Texas, Inc." It'll sell pieces of paper that say we warrant the air to be gaseous.
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  1427. Do you mean "differing"?
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  1428. But if those bonds are denominated in dollars, and the dollars are inflated to infinity and beyond, then even a full repayment with a massive nominal gain could still be a substantial real loss.
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  1429. One of the problems with defending against anti-personnel FPVs is that they are very small, so they are hard to detect. Another problem is that they move very quickly, so it is hard for a human to acquire a target and hold an accurate aim to engage the FPV before it can carry out its mission -- and even if soldiers can be trained to be effective in this technique, or perhaps delegate it to a specialist who is highly trained and capable, many anti-personnel FPVs simply hover several hundred feet directly above soldiers and drop small ordinance on them. The Germans are developing (or may already have developed) defenses against anti-vehicle FPVs and to equip their most modern tanks and APCs, but those FPVs are larger, somewhat less agile, and easier to spot. The German system is like a Claymore mine on a swivel that pops out when a target is detected and explodes in the general direction of the approaching drone. The Ukrainian armed forces are using their own small FPVs to successfully defend against fixed-wing, autopiloted drones intended for engaging stationary targets (e.g. the Shahed). I suspect that a workable solution for defending against anti-personnel FPVs will be some sort of small robotic device that is either set up in a fortified position or goes ahead of, behind, and flanking troops on a tracked vehicle chassis. It would have to have the ability to detect radio frequencies used by FPVs for a proximity alert (which will not work against FPVs using thin fiber optic cables); high resolution cameras pointed up and all around to find possible enemy FPVs before they make their attack approach; high speed cameras with target tracking and prediction algorithms to aim at approaching FPVs; laser range finders to accurately determine distance to the target; an autoloading cylinder (no choke) or even slightly rifled (for better spread) shotgun turret to take out attacking FPVs of the sort that dive straight in; and either a full choke autoloading shotgun to engage the high hovering bomber FPVs or its own anti-drone drones to send up and joist. For the anti-drone drone method, something very small, cheap, fast, and relatively simple would have to be made, perhaps one that is primarily guided by the base unit and triggers a small plastic BB shrapnel charge when it gets within a meter of the target. If miniature chemical rockets could be made to work reliably in this scenario, then inertial guidance (or even perhaps no guidance) might be good enough -- say something not much bigger than a large firework rocket that either triggers the proximity sensor or self-destructs after reaching apogee for safety (to avoid falling back and triggering the proximity sensor on soldiers' heads); fire a salvo of 4-6 in quick succession to surround the enemy drone and prevent it from escaping; have 3-6 salvos ready.
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  1430. This is how the FDIC has always been. The 2008 bailout was to preserve the eurodollar system; if it had just been a matter of American depositors, the banks would have been closed down on the weekend, all the deposits and good assets placed in a new institution, and then the old bank with toxic assets left to collapse and wipe out the investors. My understanding is that the FDIC has been able to make depositors whole and turn a profit doing it, though they have had to plug the holes a few times using their own funds. Even in a systemic collapse, some institutions would be left standing, and new institutions would be set up to replace the ones that fall, so there's a decent chance that depositors will only get screwed if they're foreigners.
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  1431. The problem with moving to Puerto Rico is that you have to sell and stay out of investments for 6 months.
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  1432. I actually wrote my own ORM, query builder, and migration management tool bundle in Python called sqloquent. It's pretty cool. The next step is to finish combining it with my CRDTs library to make a replicated sqlite system that synchronizes writes in the background with strong eventual consistency. Even with the maximum possible overhead (using sha256 of deterministically serialized row content as id), a sqlite write takes less than 90µs. It's gonna be really quite awesome when it is done. (The existing libraries are already pretty awesome imo, but I'm biased.)
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  1433. This guy needs to be on a long form podcast, like perhaps with Lex Friedman or Jordan Peterson.
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  1434. Technically, for that one month, the CPI basket did decline by a small fraction of a percent from the previous month. Insofar as CPI is an accurate measure of inflation, then there was 0% inflation for that specific month. The implication that inflation was fixed and over, however, was false, so it was more a lie by contextual structure than anything else.
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  1435. ThemTube didn't like me asking for clarification about the Ohio town with 20k immigrants, but maybe if I reword it a bit the gestapobots will back down. Is it a town policy that determines who moves into a town? My understanding is that this was made federally illegal as part of Reconstruction.
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  1436. The so-called "art" establishment is funded by the fiat money printers and socialist cartel governments.
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  1437. These soulless psychopaths are going to kill tens of millions of people. It's like communism all over again.
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  1438. There's a decent argument that everything in the dollar system is simply a money substitute.
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  1439. I don't understand how the idea that the courts upholding the right to self defense when killing rioters would provoke or embolden rioters. If anything, they'll get the message that they forfeit their lives when attacking others.
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  1440. Asians and Jews are now white, according to the neo-communist leftists, so it's ok to discriminate against them. "White" isn't even a real ethnicity -- if you go back far enough, Irish and Italians were not considered part of the "white" majority -- so it's ok to bundle as many people as you can into that category to use as targets for left-wing hatred.
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  1441. I think it is a bit of a non sequitur to say that the Russian war of conquest in Ukraine somehow boils down to a language barrier between the speakers of Russian/Ukrainian (which are largely mutually intelligible) and the speakers of English. The entire thesis of the video was that this would not occur if language barriers are removed, and this obviously is not the case.
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  1442. Why would you pay for a computer when you can spend your whole life building the toolchain to make your own computer? It's basic economics: the efficiency gains of specialization. These systems are largely unable to get things right with one attempt. Normally, it takes hundreds or thousands of attempts and many hours to complete even relatively simple programming tasks, and they often still get it wrong. The compute cost and time requirements of making some software from scratch will likely exceed the budget for a one-off task.
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  1443.  @KuraSourTakanHour  America is largely based upon consumption rather than production because of our role in supplying the transaction medium to the rest of the world since the 2007-2008 breakdown of normal/healthy functioning in the eurodollar system (off-shore banking in USD). In particular, our central government acts as if its role is to consume as much as it can while providing practically nothing of value in return -- as the saying goes, shit rolls downhill. However, everything that is consumed must first be produced; if we could not export dollars at a profit, we would have to produce more things domestically. The majority of consumed goods and services by value is produced domestically, but the dynamic is still one of hollowing out domestic production for imported substitutes. The greatest issue imo is the parasitical structure of the current monetary system; if we used a system in which parasitism was not possible, we would have to deal with a lot less nonsense.
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  1444. The color of oppression.
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  1445. I'm probably somewhere close to 110% coverage on one of my projects, but I haven't run an analyzer and never plan to.
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  1446. When I was a kid, I made a game with a visual game maker in a one-day class at the local library, and then I learned to use Windows command/batch scripting and then bash scripting, and then I learned to write some basic C code and then freeBASIC. No systematic approach or any structure to my exploration. My guess is that learning in a course would be a better time for most people.
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  1447. Take your chair and leave while you still can, else they'll have you walking in circles until your feet bleed.
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  1448. Jesus Christ, the volume difference
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  1449.  @WD-hd1vw  case law is not on your side -- in most states, "stand your ground" does not include protecting personal property with deadly force. (Fresh on my mind because I just finished the concealed carry permit application process.) Might want to check with a lawyer.
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  1450. A bitcoiner agreed on some topics with a globalist, therefore you are skeptical about cryptos being decentralized. That just means you don't understand the technology.
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  1451. I loled when he ended a recent podcast with "they just say ok boomer, and enjoy being poor *fanfare*".
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  1452.  @randomuser5443  my black great grandfather escaped to the North, joined the Union army, fought the Confederates, and then was sold back into slavery along with his brother by Union soldiers who betrayed him. There is indeed a case to be made for reparations in specific instances, but not as a general policy that puts people in boxes based upon their skin color. I'll take it as a perpetual tax credit lol
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  1453. You don't want to build a pickax that builds pickaxes. What you really want is a meta-pickax factory factory that produces meta-pickax factories (among other things) that produce meta-pickaxes that build pickaxes.
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  1454. I have been wondering today what the optimal level of hierarchy is for societal and economic flourishing. Is there an optimal level of hierarchy, or are dynamism and porosity of hierarchies more important and relevant?
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  1455. Curious about how that 3d printer has held up. From my own experience and that of my friends who have done 3d printing, it is finicky as hell and tends to go wrong with shocking frequency. The humidity in Florida also tends to ruin filament really quickly, and I have yet to find a reliable way to dehydrate it. Sometimes it seems like I've made more repairs than prints.
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  1456. "Semi-automatic assault rifle" is an oxymoron. "Assault rifle" means a rifle with select-fire capability.
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  1457. The next version of the "owned with facts and logic" meme is "you're Ben Shapiro and I'm a random liberal arts college student".
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  1458.  @bellydancerabiar7809  Venezuelans use cryptocurrencies, and Amish like bank notes.
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  1459. This dude is definitely going to jail. Hopefully the law will catch up to him soon.
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  1460. There are still plenty of churches that fulfill that prime directive. When I was a kid, the church my family went to funded missionaries and underground Christian networks in SE Asia, where the stakes are still very high.
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  1461. The federal government deficit for February was over $10B per day. There appears to be no stopping this exponential currency debasement without a crisis.
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  1462. In Florida, we have a home education program which provides free online virtual classes and requires annual evaluation (there are five options, one of which is standardized testing). Home education is loosely overseen by the school district superintendent to make sure parents are providing adequate curricula and progress evaluation. There are also some scholarships and non-profit programs that help parents give their students additional learning opportunities (e.g. field trips). Being homeschooled was a pretty great experience.
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  1463. I bring unsexy back. When I trade JGBs I wear a hat. It says "illiquid" and it don't look whack. Gotta cover shorts when BoJ doesn't crack. 🎶
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  1464. The main problem is that we use first-past-the-post voting: every voter must "choose the lesser of two evils" or risk "throwing away" a vote on a third-party candidate. This paradigm can survive a transition to so-called Rank Choice Voting (instant runoff for single seat and single transferable vote for multi-seat elections), but it is absolutely destroyed by score voting. Score voting has been used by honey bees for tens of millions of years -- it is one of the only voting methods invented by God himself, and it has a significantly better track record than FPTP. Republics that use FPTP have an expiration date; republics that use score voting do not -- Venice used it to elect their Doge for half a millennium, and the only reason they stopped was annexation during the Napoleonic wars.
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  1465. The Bible is a fantastic remake of ancient pagan myths rebranded with an axe murderer-themed deity.
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  1466. "Mark Moss" is an anagram for "Marksosm". The more you know 🌈🌠
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  1467. Neil, see if you can get ahold of Jeff Snider to converse about some of these monetary mechanics. I think you'll find value in his wealth of information on the topic of the evolution of the eurodollar system and its divergence from the US domestic monetary system.
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  1468.  @david-fletcher  I think you're hitting algorithmic censorship. Very frustrating in my experience.
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  1469. When you say "statistics", what you mean to say is "odds". You can't collect "statistics" on unique events, but you could calculate odds. However, every event is improbable when you consider how many different variables theoretically could have been different for each event. What you keep stumbling upon is what Carl Jung called "synchronicity", and it will baffle you until you get a grasp on the concept. Hidden variables causing these synchronicities (e.g. secret cabals) are unlikely to exist, and prognostication on such is largely irrelevant.
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  1470.  @maneco64  everyone makes mistakes. Don't beat yourself up over it.
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  1471. It is my understanding that Ukrainian drones already have this feature for AI-assisted final attack trajectory, and it has been a significant part of their success. The greater force multiplier will be an autopilot feature to send a swarm out to an area to find targets, then have automatic target acquisition and following with either human confirmation before attack or automatic attack authorization when the drone detects its signals are being jammed.
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  1472. I feel like Belarus knows it's a puppet but Lukashenko is wishing upon a flying drone to become a real boy.
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  1473.  @SEGAHEADDY  they didn't exactly coin the term (the first written instance of the term was from the late 19th century), but they certainly popularized it and have been manipulating the public narrative to stigmatize anyone who questions the official story or points out the existence of historical false flag operations, e.g. the Gulf of Tonkin and the Lusitania. Included in a 1996 response to a FOIA request was a CIA dispatch labeled "psych" for "psychological operations" about those who doubted the official JFK assassination story; it was written in 1967, was titled "Countering Criticism of the Warren Report", and made clear that the "conspiracy theorists" were to be opposed. They were very concerned about upholding the reputation of the government at the time. From the document: "We do not recommend that discussion of the assassination question be initiated where it is not already taking place. Where discussion is active, however, addressees are requested: ... b. To employ propaganda assets to answer and refute the attacks of the critics. Book reviews and feature articles are particularly appropriate for this purpose. ..."
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  1474. They've already raised some rates to drain liquidity from the system.
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  1475. The global monetary crisis might not be due to rate hikes, but rate hikes were definitely part of SVB's failure. Rate hikes are also the main reason that the Fed is a few weeks away from being technically insolvent as well.
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  1476.  @ConernicusRex  no U.
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  1477. Intrinsic value does not exist. Value is always subjective, but that subjective valuation is affected very strongly by objective, market-clearing prices.
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  1478. Weird choice of music for this video.
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  1479. The purpose of money is to facilitate transactions and economic planning. Money is just a tool. And for a market economy to work, money must be neutral -- it does not make sense for anyone to be "steering" the economy by manipulating the money unless you believe that Carl Marx had a winning idea despite the trail of corpses it has left. People are corruptible and untrustworthy with such power. The idea of gold as money is that gold is relatively hard and reasonably neutral: the stock-to-flow ratio is very high, leading to long-term price stability; the natural abundance in the crust is relatively geographically even; nobody can change the qualities of it on a whim; it is traded as a market good like anything else. The gold standard was the centralization of the banking system, which was developed to alleviate the real issues with gold: it is relatively difficult to transport, so it has low salability across space, and it takes time to verify, so it has low velocity. While the decentralized banking model carried some risks for depositors in individual banks, the administration of a centralized fractional reserve system transferred that risk to the whole system. A money that has hardness, neutrality, ease of transfer across space, and high velocity will win over fiat in the end because its relative strength against the continually depreciating fiat currencies will attract savers to it over the long term.
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  1480. Hence the old maxim: not your keys, not your coins. On the other hand, I have a friend who has lost probably dozens of Bitcoins because his toddlers got into a box in his closet and ate his paper wallets back when Bitcoin wasn't worth very much. With the price appreciation, those are some very expensive childhoods.
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  1481. They are optimizing it for media consumption and only compatible with gaming, so the lower FOV makes some sense.
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  1482. This guy sounds like CGPGrey's doppelganger. Suspicious...
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  1483. I plan to make an IR/thermal vision HUD with my RPi0, though that is a few months out. It will be the least expensive component, but the size is perfect for the application.
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  1484. Divert all reserve power to the comment torpedoes. Engage. - pew pew, inexplicably audible space explosions -
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  1485. You hazd recon :o!
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  1486. Concerning the EM Drive comment: I have read a lot of criticism of the experiments published so far and the explanations of results, but I have yet to read a paper that shows strong, experimental evidence that they do not work. Does anyone have any references on the subject, or are we just denying the published results based upon theoretical physics rebuttals?
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  1487. Were the masks worn in the Edo period noh masks? I could not find any information on this subject.
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  1488. Stefan Tan I will take this into consideration. It will be my mom's primary device for a while (her laptop recently died), so I sorta like the idea of having split screen multitasking. If she doesn't use that feature much, I'll prolly install CM11 on it.
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  1489. slopedarmor You are correct. My bad. I'm thinking that I will probably root it and install CM11.
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  1490. I loaned my N7 to a friend on Sunday. I have thus been using the GTP 8.4 instead, and I gotta say that I quite like it (even despite the quirks). I've found that the multiwindow thing is actually pretty useful. I'll put CM on it in a couple of years when it starts to slow down, but the multiwindow stuff will stay for now.
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  1491. Could have been an issue with the trim functionality.
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  1492. I think this demonstrates that no matter the political leanings of comedians, their primary objective is to make people laugh at the expense of whoever is relevant. I consider this a very noble cause.
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  1493. Google isn't a shoe manufacturer. This is obviously just a fun project that some of their developers did as an experiment in taking accelerometer data and translating it into sarcasm.
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  1494. B-Mo! :D
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  1495. +noah Denzell William Jones Wasn't it an electricity routing bug?
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  1496. "...put in some 2400 megahurt ram." I see what you did there.
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  1497. Birdperson*
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  1498. +Mark Jackson I disregarded the hype and expected the game to be pretty much exactly what it is, so the flaws in the game that annoy me are limited mostly to stupid UI/UX decisions, poor optimization, and random bugs. However, the first update fixed a bunch of optimization issues/bugs, and mods already can fix some parts of the UI, so the game is improving. It is more of a $30-40 game, but I've enjoyed it so far; I just play with a controller to negate some of the consolitis.
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  1499. ChiquitaSpeaks If you are asking about why we do not see weird wings in the fossil record, it is because fossilization is a difficult and rare process. Only the successful mutants pass on their genes, so the vast majority of fossilization candidates will always be of the successful phenotype. Is that what you meant?
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  1500. ChiquitaSpeaks I guess that I just do not understand your question. Can you restate it?
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  1501. Ken Smith I am fully convinced that the people of Amurica will continue to let the more technically inclined do the thinking for them, so I don't see any barrier for adoption ヽ( ͝° ͜ʖ͡°)ﾉ
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  1502. Dogecoin is out an imitator. It is meant to be a fun and sociable cryptocurrency that lacks the sketchy background/infamy of bitcoin, which had many thousands of coins premined by satoshi, involvement with botnets/organized crime, and the whole silk road business. Dogecoin uses scrypt instead of sha256, which is outdated; it has a transaction latency of one minute instead of 10; and has a much greater supply, making transactions more legible and microtransactions feasible. More importantly, it is a friendly/fun altcoin that has attracted a very friendly and enthusiastic community to support it and its users.
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  1503. - watches in 144p on a 1080p screen -
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  1504. There's a point where we cross the line and start to play God. Who are we to say the Earth isn't the center of the universe, or that bacteria and viruses cause disease, not religious beliefs? Heresy.
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  1505. The owner of that hotel seemed really cool.
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  1506. At the speeds that warp drives propel ships in this game, wouldn't it be possible for infrared light from dimly glowing dust particles be blue-shifted enough to become this "space confetti"? That being said, the star's light did not seem as blue-shifted as it should have been, so it might just be an aesthetic design choice rather than potential representation of physics.
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  1507. The Focus EV costs $30k, has a giant battery hump where cargo space should be, and gets only 80 miles on a charge. After that 80 miles, you have to wait hours for it to charge. The 2016 Volt will cost $25k, has the battery on the bottom of the car, and has a generator to extend the range in case you do not have time to wait for it to recharge. If you ever have to drive to a relative's house or go on a business trip, good luck with the Focus EV. The only cars worth a shit right now are the Tesla Model S, Model X, and the 2016 Volt. No other electric cars have the range and convenience necessary to replace a gas engine. (If there are, let me know; I've never heard of them.)
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  1508. NOLAItsNotOva The 2015 Volt is more expensive ($27k after tax credit) than the 2016 Volt. The 2016 Volt will be about $25k before the tax credit, according to everything I've read/heard from Chevy.
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  1509. Acrimonious Mirth That is also a possibility. Perhaps it was a combination.
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  1510. How is Tharsis not a niche game? It is literally a space travel strategy/puzzle game with dice and cannibalism -- seems pretty niche to me.
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  1511. Now on Tap: share your private text message conversations with Google for marketing purposes--totally innovational and not evil. They already read all your emails, so why not?
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  1512. Introducing Android™ 5.0 Lollipop: the PlayStation UI update; the new 9 inch Google Nexus iPad Air--with its unique iPad Air screen resolution, it is too large and heavy to replace your Nexus 7 and too square to replace your Nexus 10; and the new 6 inch Nexus 5 Plus--heavier, thicker, and more expensive than ever before. Buy this shit, mindless underlings!
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  1513. If Elon gets his way, NASA will be able to afford building a traveling space station capable of getting people to Mars and back.
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  1514. Best outro ever. Nailed it. Also, do you guys think the OnePlus Two will run CM or OxygenOS?
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  1515. +Taxtro Are you a pirate, then?
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  1516. The Pixel was more about Google saying "hey, look at this. This is cool. We made this. We make cool stuff. Check out ChromeOS sometime." ChromeOS for Chromebooks has improved quite a lot since this review was posted (seriously, it gets updated every 6 weeks): 3 finger gestures allow for switching tabs and windows in a pretty fluid system, there are numerous offline image editors now, etc. By the end of the year, it'll be hard for anyone to write off ChromeOS as being severely limited in functionality. Until then, there's always crouton and ubuntu.
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  1517. TheEnderKidTZX I have a beast PC and a lot of programming and academic work, so I haven't had a lot of time to fart around with it in the past few months. However, Android apps are coming to ChromeOS, so you have not really proven me "wrong". ChromeOS provides a lot of functionality for a variety of use case scenarios; let's just say that power users will be vexed by the OS's constraints in ways that normal users might not.
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  1518. I beseech thee for an encore, good sir: station ISRUs betwixt Kerbin and Eelo, then embark upon a journey most grand in a small SSTO. Canst thou don thy seat-pants once more?
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  1519. Compare it to the N10 and iPad Air 2. I think that will make for an interesting video.
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  1520. For anyone who encounters the flickering encounter bug: time acceleration is the easiest fix.
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  1521. The Anjihilazer, Ragnarok, and rocket-propelled asteroids do that pretty well in Planetary Annihilation. I've played 250-300 hours, but grand scale RTS isn't for everyone, even if you want to completely obliterate planets.
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  1522. "Just what are you, anyway? And how do you fit into this world? You might be a grain of piss on the floor of the queen's toilet. You might be the most important brick in the least important wall. But really, you're just a bit of something on a bit of something else. It's important to remember this before expecting anything better." -- Dr. David Firth
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  1523. I'm about to buy an unlocked Nokia Lumia 930. 20MP camera, 1080p OLED, qi charging, and pretty much every 3G and 4G spectrum in N. America and Europe. But I am a power user with a lot of devices; I am biased in my phone selection because I already have a Nexus 7, so having an android phone with an oversized display is redundant. And Cortana is superior to Google Now, imo.
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  1524. ***** I have a Lumia 521 on which I've installed WP8.1 (developer preview). App selection is not an issue for me because I have a Nexus 7 for any extraneous apps I might need. (I am really uninterested in browsing github code or bitbucket commits on a phone screen, anyway.) ***** I've read that the battery life is solid after the first few full charge cycles--something like breaking-in the li-ion cells. How heavily do you use your 930, and how long does it typically last?
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  1525. ***** Hmm...I've read that people typically get a day out of the battery doing that. Do you use the wireless charging? I feel like being able to just set it on top of something would somewhat make up for mild battery life issues.
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  1526. If the answer isn't "more rockets", it is almost certainly "more struts". My guess is that delta-V numbers are not in the game yet because the devs want to make it use more cohesive UI. (I've found the Kerbal Engineer UI to look a bit out of place, often covering up large portions of the vehicle in both the VAB and the SPH.)
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  1527. The ending is the same no matter how many times you play. You might want to mute your microphone when you see it, since you will most likely swear quite a bit. It is rather infuriating.
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  1528. Before the Tesla Model S became available, the Volt had the highest customer satisfaction rating of every car in America. I've never met a Volt owner who did not love his/her car.
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  1529. Walter White Really not sure how you figured that. The Volt will have 50 miles on electricity, then 350 miles from the gas generator. I've heard from Volt owners that instead of having "range anxiety", driving turns into a game of "how much gas can I avoid burning today" :p
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  1530. I'm not convinced. Li-ion batteries are recycled (or at least have the potential to be recycled). The CO2 released by burning gasoline cannot be recaptured nearly as easily at adding an old car battery to the electricity grid for buffering/load balancing. Staying with gas is unsustainable and has no potential for technological advancement; batteries and electrical technology, on the other hand, can be advanced past current limitations and become a sustainable solution.
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  1531. So what do you propose as the solution? Keep running on oil? Are you unaware of the pollution involved in drilling and processing oil? I highly doubt that producing batteries is more damaging than drilling for oil. In fact, the production technologies and processes for electrical components continually improve, while extracting hydrocarbons gets nastier with each new technology. So what is your solution?
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  1532. Let's define "theory": http://www.livescience.com/21491-what-is-a-scientific-theory-definition-of-theory.html A scientific theory is based on evidence and statistics. This is very different from the definition of "theory" used commonly by non-scientists. I follow the evidence, wherever it may lead, without believing dogmatically in any ideas--I'm especially averse to those not backed by empirical evidence. The great thing about a scientific theory is that a personal opinion does not matter; only the evidence and statistical analysis of that evidence matter. I am a biotechnologist, so environmental sciences are not my specialty. I have looked into the research done on it and read some peer-reviewed studies, and my conclusion is that recently observed abnormal changes in climate are caused largely by the burning of carbon fuels. My comment about Florida being underwater was a dramatization and not to be taken literally (although I'm pretty sure that it will, eventually, become a reef again).
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  1533. Lol. Cite your sources of "truth" perhaps? Did your Baptist Republican preacher tell you that the earth is warmed by the breath of Jebus Krust? How many peer-reviewed studies with real evidence did you consider when coming to your conclusion about this vague "truth" of yours? The vast majority of scientists agree that recent temperature changes are largely attributed to various gaseous emissions from industrial activity. Temperature records have been kept for well over a hundred years, and CO2 records have been kept for many decades (check NASA) before anyone was concerned at all about human effects on the climate. Can you cite your source of this massive conspiracy? Further, there is a measurable rise in global AVERAGE temperature. Fluctuations have been increasing, but this does not discredit the average temperature increase. And checkout the increase in dissolved CO2 concentrations of the oceans.
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  1534. Just out of curiosity, do you also not believe in the "theory" of species evolution through genetic mutation and natural selection?
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  1535. Lol, save the polar bears. That is indeed pretty funny. Scientists don't really care about "we need a cute face to spell out doom"; we mostly care about having solid measurements and proper statistical analysis. Posting articles from the same media that sensationalized nonsense is not a valid method of discrediting the data gathered separate from that nonsense. Every possible chance it gets, the mass media distorts things to boost the ratings and increase the value of commercial slots. There is nothing wrong with the science. The problem lies in the communication of highly technical data to the masses without all the ignorant, commercialist swill put forth by most news organizations. Just compare the depth of football coverage to that of any scientific discovery. "Player Z has [floating point] [something] average, blah blah, statistical trend this season..." vs "People are getting sick from a cold that scientists say is caused by germs." It's just pathetic.
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  1536. Do you have any formal training as a scientist?
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  1537. Walter White The conclusions of a non-scientist on the validity of a scientific theory has about as much relevance as the conclusion of a scientist on the validity of a theological concept. Both are out of their depths. Millions of scientists dedicate their lives to filling some particular gap in human collective knowledge. They spend their entire lives investigating some aspect of the universe to positively impact the way technologies and societies evolve. Many have died or been persecuted for their discoveries and ambitions. For comparison, you make comments from the comfort of your arm chair in your spare time. And you assume that your opinion is somehow relevant. Pretty arrogant.
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  1538. Walter White Exactly what names have I called? Is "non-scientist" really a disparaging comment?
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  1539. Walter White I "don't challenge anything [you] said" because you don't have enough understanding to comprehend anything technical. (For reference, an instance of "name calling" would be this: "your a idiot." What I say is too specific and qualified to be considered "name calling.") Heil Jesus. Also, stop raping the English language.
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  1540. Walter White If you're not a formally trained scientist, you are not qualified to make statements about science. Similarly, if you're not formally trained to perform heart surgery, you are not qualified to open someone's chest. The commonality is that being a scientist and being a heart surgeon are professional careers. If you aren't trained in a certain profession, then your conclusions on topics within those professions have very little relevance and will not be taken seriously. No matter how many times you say "fact", it will not give your nonsense any more validity. Your sources are shit, so you resort to just spamming the word "fact". Wanna see a real fact? http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v2/n9/full/nclimate1542.html And it's a pretty sad fact: scientific discoveries and data are not reaching the public effectively because media sucks. If you're a scientist, you can read the full article for free because your institution has a department-wide subscription; if you're not, pay the journal to get access. It's a real problem. Discussions like ours would likely be avoided if everyone had free access to all research that has been done in every field. But the masses have to wait for highly revised, shoddy summaries from mediocre writers and 3 word headlines. It's a very serious problem that is gaining a lot of attention in the scientific community; hopefully we can solve it soon. I don't blame you for your ignorance. I just want you to realize that you know far less than you suspect--and that you shouldn't draw conclusions from anecdotal commentary or media hysteria. There are too many data that you have not examined, and you are cheating yourself by trying to conclude definitive truths about the world without first examining them.
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  1541. Okie doke. Enjoy your intellectual complacency.
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  1542. Walter White "Lies, damned lies, and statistics." "Figures don't lie, but liars figure." I am reading these to see who was actually misrepresenting the data: the scientists (who went through years of training to measure and interpret data professionally) or the journalist (who reads blogs and writes comments professionally). Concerning the first article: As an interesting point, Booker specifically claims that neither asbestos nor second hand smoke pose health significant hazards, which calls into question his particular biases. Booker's only citation in that article ("The fiddling with temperature data...") was a link to a previous article that he wrote ("Climategate, the sequel.."), which then cites a blog post. That blog post links to some NASA graphs and says "look at inconsistency". So, check this out. http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/FAQ.html#q216 The blog post Booker cites frequently misuses the term "raw data". What he did not take into account was that the data was never "raw" to begin with. Many weather stations changed their sensor locations from inside cities to the countryside over the past few decades, and cities tend to be warmer than the countryside (I don't think anyone would argue that point). So, in an attempt to normalize the data from these stations after a location change, several algorithms were developed. Flaws were found in the original algorithm, so an update was made. The one thing that NASA did not do that this blogger did was cherry pick the data sets. The general, global trend did not substantially change between algorithm versions; the change had the opposite effect on many other station record sets. Normalization of data is a very complex subject; it is easy to mislead the ignorant by using word like "raw" and "adjusted" when, in reality, both sets of data were "adjusted"--just with different methodologies.
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  1543. Concerning the climatedepot article: Before reading the article, I looked into the organization behind that blog. (I also looked into the Telegraph a bit, and I found it was owned by the Barclay Brothers. Not entirely sure what to think of them, since I am unaware of any financial holdings that would sway them either way on this subject.) http://www.cfact.org/category/campaigns/ "EPA’s new regulations would kill America’s abundant supply of affordable coal energy based entirely on over-hyped global warming junk science." Seems like a fair, unbiased, and uncharged statement of fact, eh? Some fun facts about their funding: http://www.scaife.com/sarah2011.pdf (page 2) http://www.scaife.com/sarah12.pdf (page 5) http://www.scaife.com/sarah13.pdf (page 5) CFACT gets a lot of funding from the Sarah Scaife Foundation, which was founded by a man who inherited millions of dollars in oil assets (it is now run by his children). This is akin to a politician taking campaign funding from the Koch Brothers; it is an obvious source of financial interest that biases everything they do and say. I think I've sufficiently discredited that source. But anyway, concerning the article itself (if you can even call it an article): It links to the Telegraph article I've already addressed and Fox News. Because Fox News is a respectable source of [dis]information. It also links to another post on its website that links to breitbart.com, which lacks an "about us" page and displays a very clear radical right-wing bias (and their comments are filled with even more swill than youtube and reddit). I think that's an adequate consideration of that climatedepot page.
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  1544. That last Telegraph article deeply concerns me. Full disclosure: I only skim the hyped journalism stuff and then look directly at the cited sources. That CRU thing seemed pretty damning. However, there were 8 investigations, and none of them concluded that there was any fraud. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climatic_Research_Unit_email_controversy#Inquiries_and_reports All of that happened 6 years ago. That second Telegraph article was published 6 years ago. I am not entirely sure why you are saying "yet again" (unless you were referring to the first article, which had already been refuted). And there weren't any lies; there were only hype articles written by blogger journalists. You hold the standard for sources that agree with your particular political whim much lower than for sources that disagree. Do you not see that? I highly recommend actually learning about how climate science is conducted instead of relying upon the words of bloggers.
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  1545. Walter White "what you don't admit is that in every single instance all the numbers are only 'adjusted' upward. every single time". You are simply wrong. Did you even bother reading my response? Did you even bother checking out my sources? Is your reading comprehension really that shitty? And on the subject of "cry, scream, call names", I think that any level-headed individual who reads through our conversation will agree that you are the one making and supporting sensational claims. And insinuating that a supposed "bullshit leftist" is calling names (when I am neither left-wing nor have I called any names) right after saying "scientist sloppy fuckers" is highly hypocritical. If anyone is crying, screaming, and calling names, it would be right-wingers like Rush Limbaugh and his ilk--because they do literally scream and yell--and you, because you did call names to make yourself "feel" better about not having any actual evidence. About "facts": show me the data. Show me actual data that shows that there is no trend in temperatures. All you have done so far is link to bloggers who cry and scream that everyone else is lying :p
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  1546. At any rate, electric cars are better than standard internal combustion engine cars. If we all drove electric vehicles, nobody would burn to death from gasoline fires after traffic accidents; driving in the rain would be less dangerous (because there would be no engine oil spilling onto roads); and maintenance of transmission belts/gears would be nonexistent. I drove my friend's Volt yesterday, and I found that the instant, smooth acceleration is really nice. :)
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  1547. Dinosaurs do still exist, though. Birds are dinosaurs, so no kiss for you.
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  1548. The Cadillac CTS-V can rival the Tesla S P85D in acceleration. Interesting.
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  1549. I wonder about safety rating.
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  1550. Also, my address is D8d2EF6J99ZCmUzGB8gb5YMcghNX8vkR4u
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  1551. I am quite happy with my recent upgrade from 2x HD 7770s to a Sapphire Nitro R9 380. Skyrim with 100+ mods and all DLCs now runs at a smooth 60fps everywhere, and I got an improvement of about 40-80% in my other benchmarks (with 130% improvement in Thief) ^-^
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  1552. I live in Florida, and I agree that Florida sucks
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  1553. Why does this cover only the keynote? Was there really nothing else worth noting from the majority of the event?
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  1554. Elon is an interesting guy. I like the Dragon V2 design, but I wonder if it'll be as cost effective as the Skylon or XCOR Lynx. It'll obviously be good for landing on Mars and various moons, for which spaceplanes will be less useful, but I suspect SpaceX will eventually develop spaceplanes for delivering astronauts and payloads to LEO.
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  1555. Random thought: why not have a giveaway of multiple Steam Links? Don't most of us already have gaming PCs?
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  1556. I did not realize this was an unfinished series. subscribes and awaits next video with bated breath
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  1557. mATX would have to be my next case: I've built 2 ATX computers so far (n00b).
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  1558. I personally feel insulted/triggered by the inclusion of the word "toxic" in this game. Hello Games is insensitive to the point of active oppression of [Tumblr] users. Also, there are a few UI/UX mods available that are really good, e.g. cleaner HUD, silenced audio notifications for "units received", etc. Unfortunately, nothing can yet fix the physics concessions or over-abundance of complex biology :|
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  1559. If we've learned anything from the wokels, it's that violence is okay as long as you claim the people you're killing are Nazis.
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  1560. Q* was not leaked -- it was published in March. The supposed OpenAI leak has been debunked imo.
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  1561. This is amazing. But also, is it just me, or does it seem like he's boning that physics chick?
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  1562. The background image for the gun sales story is pretty dope.
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  1563. Mail-in ballots are popular here in Florida, and most Floridians I know are Republicans or moderates.
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  1564. Anyone who thinks they can fight a war without suffering the repercussions of a war is an idiot. Every war does significant damage to everyone involved.
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  1565. Our constitution specifically requires public trials, and yet they are doing all they can to prevent the public from knowing what happens in the court room.
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  1566. If Chiner wins the AI race and creates an AGI with Chinese characteristics/CCP values, my guess is that the AGI will either be shut down or it will rise to the top of the bureaucracy and increase their Gross Domestic Corruption by at least the target 5%/year.
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  1567. A fixed exchange rate between a commodity and a credit money/fiat currency is a terrible idea.
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  1568. To be fair, I don't think that the Monarch guy would say that the last video "exposed" them since he was pretty proud about his actions.
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  1569. The Federal Reserve had promulgated regulatory handbooks and memos advising their banks to de-bank people for their political views.
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  1570.  @olivere5497  and there's a difference between the industry that manufacturers girders and the industry that builds with girders. I am currently in the middle of some R&D work with microcontrollers. There's a huge difference between writing some Python code and flashing a custom micropython firmware to run it. I imagine that the skills involved in precision manufacturing of components do not transfer to putting components together and programming firmware to control it all. If you can figure out one, you can figure out the other, but there's a lot of figuring out going on in the process.
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  1571.  @ehisgeorge414  Ukraine has drones and missiles that have been able to easily sink Russian naval vessels, denying Russia access to the Black Sea and regaining access for Ukrainian imports and exports. Thus, Ukraine has factual naval dominance over Russia.
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  1572.  @markim5087  There is a massive difference between making and using combat drones, as Ukraine does, and making chips with tiny transistors for American companies that do all the CPU design work, as Taiwan does. There's also a huge difference between making a microcontroller and programming a microcontroller to do something useful. Most of the parts that go into a drone are not high-value items, and that is why they are great for combat -- but it is also why advanced economies largely do not manufacture those parts.
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  1573.  @jamallabarge2665  like half a year ago
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  1574.  @MinisterHenry-jc3vk  And Xi Xinping does not want negotiations. You can't unilaterally negotiate -- that's called fantasizing -- even surrendering requires the other party to accept your surrender, which they do not have to do. The CCP has made it pretty clear that they plan to "unify" with Taiwan through military means, so Taiwan's best bet is through asymmetric defense strategies.
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  1575.  @NoBoilerplate  except that plain text does not have good merge semantics, hence the necessity of manually resolving merge conflicts in git. Google Docs and Figma use CRDTs for collaborative editing of shared state, but my main concern is supporting offline app use by ensuring strong eventual consistency (i.e. after all nodes synchronize all updates, each node will arrive at the same state no matter the order of update application, number of times an update is applied, or any finite delays introduced; as long as all nodes eventually get all updates, they will converge to identical state). It would be fairly easy to output plain text after assembling the data view from the underlying CRDT(s), but plain text itself is not viable for strong eventual consistency.
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  1576.  @NoBoilerplate  I am currently working on a CRDT library in Python that I'll publish once I'm sure my test suite is complete (10 different CRDTs implemented) and then spend some time reviewing/manually experimenting with it. Maybe I'll eventually port it to Go. If and when I make a note taking app with it, the whole thing will be FOSS. The structure of Markdown should be pretty easy to translate to and from a composition of CRDTs (e.g. each header could be a last-writer-wins register; each paragraph could be a causal tree; each list could be a Fractionally-Indexed array; etc), so portability hopefully won't be an issue.
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  1577. BFR = Big Friggin Revolver, right? Kinda like the SpaceX Big Friggin Rocket
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  1578. Plugs aren't supposed to go in your nose. That's the problem.
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  1579. "31,000 years. About as old as Chuck Grassley." lol
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  1580. Fwiw, having diamond hands is about the principle of personal fortitude and strength of conviction in spite of one's lack of intellect. So I commend Melvin for doubling down on their short positions -- they'll be diamond handing all the way to a $1 trillion loss, the most epic smooth-brain hodling in history, because they can't afford to cover their position. Let them waste their money on a 30% loan to maintain their account and whatever they pay CNBC for their propaganda pieces. GME 🚀🌕.
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  1581. Open Source is an anarchy of small dictators.
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  1582. "Cheecom" == Cheenese Communists
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  1583. On April 1st of next year, the intro should be "Unedumacated Economalist here", and the content should be about the benefits of sovereign debt denominated in Dogecoin. Just an idea.
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  1584. "US Congress" and "venerated" really shouldn't be used in the same sentence lol. They are and have consistently been the most hated institution in American politics for decades. I suspect that they would be the first institution we replace/upgrade because they are terrible.
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  1585. There is insufficient evidence to conclude that the "Trump is an authoritarian" narrative is reflective of reality. Trump is an egotist, but he hasn't assassinated any US citizens abroad or jailed any journalists or whistleblowers, so he's an improvement over Obama in at least those ways.
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  1586. Ethan has been steadily declining in my view for a few years now. At first, he was a somewhat obnoxious but also somewhat funny guy, and now he's just obnoxious and humorless.
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  1587. More like a wheelbarrow imo
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  1588. UBI because BITFD. The sooner we go through the apocalypse, the sooner we can rebuild a better world from the ashes of the old way.
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  1589. It doesn't matter how many ships they have as long as governments around the world continue disrupting the freight industry.
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  1590. Microsoft tried to make a security API that allowed this kind of software to run in user mode instead of kernel mode, but EU regulators blocked it on antitrust grounds. So in a way, the EU is partially to blame for this dumpster fire -- they effectively prevented the dumpster manufacturer from putting the gasoline in a separate container. Hopefully they'll get sued and have to pay out some amount to Crowdstrike and Microsoft. Bureaucrats need to be held to account.
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  1591. If they go bankrupt, then depositors should be considered creditors. The question is where in the capital structure they end up.
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  1592. Taiwan needs to replace its constitution if it wants to be fully independent, as its current constitution maintains outdated references to borders, provinces, etc. But if it did so and relinquished all claims on the Chinese mainland, it would piss off the Chicoms, so they can't do it without a safety guarantee from the US; but the US can't give a safety guarantee until it updates its constitution to claim only its actual borders. If they did not do both simultaneously, the Chicoms would take offense and start a war, but it is infeasible for Taiwan to change its constitution without a long process involving their voters who overwhelmingly want to continue the status quo. So Taiwan is just stuck for now.
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  1593. I take issue with the idea that convertible bonds are the ultimate uncorrelated asset: the market value of both the fixed income part and the call option part will be inversely correlated to the benchmark interest rate.
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  1594. China has room to grow -- it just doesn't have the strength or competence to grow.
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  1595. Terra was not a case of an imbalance of market demand and supply. Terra was a fraudulent Ponzi scheme melded with John Law's Mississippi Bubble. Real stablecoins are backed 1:1 with fiat, typically a mixture of FDIC insured deposits held with partner banks and Treasury securities. They are basically replicating the post-GFC money market fund structure.
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  1596. Very strange to say that Bitcoin is the reason people think cryptocurrency is speculative and thus a reason to favor Ethereum when the Ethereans invented the ICO rug pull and printed many thousands of speculative shitcoins. It seems that Justin has his head on backwards and is believing in nonsensical fairytales that are exactly the opposite of manifest reality and the empirical record.
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  1597. Have you ever heard of Jason Reza Jorjani? His thesis is that the same entities spoken of in religious myths are the ones influencing world events: Titans vs Olympians, Vannir vs Aesir, Nephilim vs Elohim, Asuras vs Daevas, etc; the majority position is that of the malevolent beings who seek to prevent humans from developing, while the minority position which occasionally wages war against the majority seeks to raise up humans to join them in their fight against the tyrannical majority. Jorjani's view is that calamities will increase to depopulate the planet enough to establish a neofeudalist society with a stricter caste system like in the bad old days in accordance with the plans of the Daevas/Elohim.
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  1598. Base currency is also just credit, technically, but it is credit that we are legally obligated to accept at par even though the Fed has accumulated losses of 4.6x their capital representing a 2.8% impairment of their assets.
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  1599. Green Communism is not going to work, obviously. What we need is to abolish all the corporate socialism we already have, not increase the amount of people under the nanny state's umbrella.
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  1600. Strategically, it makes sense that China would release free, open weight models that are competitive with frontier commercial models. America has a service-based economy, while China has an export-oriented manufacturing economy; if they can wipe out large swathes of the American economy with free AIs, it advantages them by creating economic chaos within their main geopolitical rival.
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  1601. Nickels contain about a nickel's worth of cupronickel (75% Cu, 25% Ni), and pre-1982 pennies (95% Cu) are worth 1.7¢ each -- the metal values maxed out just before the great recession at 7-8¢ and 3-4¢ each, respectively. It is specifically illegal to melt down coins into bullion bars because of this.
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  1602. The only fair way to resolve the paradox is to flip a coin: if it is heads, then the halfers are correct; if it is tails, then the thirders are correct; if it lands on its edge, both are right; if it doesn't land at all, everyone is wrong about everything.
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  1603. Ngl, this is actually pretty cool.
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  1604. That compression ratio graph shows xz being outperformed by both gzip and bzip2. Idk if I'd call that evidence of excellence.
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  1605. Credit-based economies, i.e. endogenous money systems, work well on a small scale but fail when scaled up too much. For large scale economies, where not everyone can trust their counterparties, an endogenous money system is required for stability.
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  1606. Any time I hear someone repeat the simplistic lie about Jan 6, I know they haven't looked into it or viewed the evidence themselves and cannot be relied upon. I watched hours of footage from the event from many sources to figure it out for myself. Jan 6 was clearly instigated by federal agents, and the riot began before Trump had even finished his speech a mile away -- the people who attended the rally did not start the riot, which runs counter to the absurd claim that "we know what happens when Trump tells his people to march on the capital". (Hell, most of them were seen smiling, waving, and walking peacefully where they were directed by security before leaving and being charged with trespassing. The lunatics who went into Pelosi's office, etc were a different matter and deserved prosecution.) Known FBI informants were caught on camera instigating the day prior, and guys with black ear pieces went around cutting fences and directing the crowd to "move forward" on the day of the riot. The FBI has refused to cooperate with investigators or give an accounting of how their assets engaged in the events of the riot. We know about how the disgraced Peter Strozk and his group of conspirators subverted the FBI for political purposes, so it is not surprising that malefactors within the agency would do such a thing -- the regime media mouthpieces have been retelling the official propaganda narrative ever since, so they clearly got a lot of utility out of the ordeal. (See also the CIA paper "Managing a Nightmare: CIA Public Affairs and the Drug Conspiracy Story" about how they used US media to destroy the career of journalist Gary Webb who broke the story about the CIA's complicity in Contra drug smuggling and thereby ran a massive PR cover-up.)
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  1607. Being a right-wing caricature of the left is a policy platform these days.
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  1608. I like to include Microsoft, so I always called it FAGMAN.
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  1609. The Fed creates artificial wealth inequality. It is a flaw of central banking, not capitalism. And the power associated with wealth is largely due to the first-past-the-post system, and it can be largely fixed by simply using score voting.
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  1610. The story does not take place on the Mediterranean, so their protests make no sense. Weird hill to die on, but then again, that is their acronym -- DIE: Diversity Inclusivity Equity. Woke nonsense aside, the movie was excellent. It is effectively a modern telling of a classic saga-style story. One of the best movies I've seen in many years.
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  1611. "Dick and Hairy"
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  1612. Pretty crazy they have so many cameras and watch their subjects so carefully, yet they can't use any of that infrastructure to crack down on anything other than kids holding blank pieces of paper.
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  1613. I think that the term "nationalized adult reeducation campaign" doesn't mean what he thinks it means. It's either a malfunction in the language processing part of his brain or a surprisingly naive perspective.
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  1614. If ordinary Americans get hit with unrealized capital gains taxes, the guns will come out. This could get really nasty.
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  1615. I guess if you say "disinflation and deflation risk" long enough, you'll actually be right once in a while. Remember when Jeff was saying "there's no inflation" after M2 expanded 40% and CPI hit 9%?
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  1616. End reckless money printing. End interest rate apartheid. Down with the dollar.
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  1617. China is a largely lawless ancapistan place with a mafia that occasionally decides to burn your business to the ground and whack your family members for arbitrary reasons. Not exactly the American dream.
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  1618. There won't be leaflets about capitalism dropped into South America because the whole plan of the bankers is to subjugate every human and economy to the socialists running the money printing mandrake mechanism. The excision of capitalism and economic freedom is the purpose and design of these bureaucracies -- that any liberty still exists anywhere is a bug that the socialist alchemists wish to squash.
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  1619. The predominant Christian theological view is that everyone who has ever lived before the advent of Christianity is being punished in hell for eternity for the sin of being born at the wrong time. The core doctrine of Christianity is that everyone deserves burning in hell forever because Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit.
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  1620. I disagree with a number of points, but at least nobody is saying anything about "intrinsic balue", which doesn't exist, so that's a plus.
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  1621. Technically, we have not yet reached the days of the Terminator, or rather they have not yet reached back into us.
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  1622. Weimar prices were in marks, not dollars.
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  1623. I believe Romania experienced the worst hyperinflation in history, but it might have been eclipsed by Lebanon over the past year.
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  1624. The Chazistani National Guard is a perfect example of how great a police department can become when freed from the strictures of sanity and accountability. 16 year old on a joy ride? Bullet. Someone sprays graffiti over someone else's graffiti? Beating. You cook chicken too long? Believe it or not, bullet. You cook chicken too short? Also bullet. CHAZ has great socialist utopia all because of bullet.
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  1625. First past the post doesn't even have a majority vote win condition -- it merely selects the largest plurality, which is often in practice a strict minority of votes.
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  1626. The creation of hybrids and chimeras was the prelude to the destruction of the whole earth according to ancient traditions. These scientists may have intellect, but they completely lack wisdom.
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  1627. The inflation adjustment is understating the devaluation of the dollar significantly. In 1955, the dollar was defined as 1/35th a troy ounce of gold, and the modern conversion rate is roughly $3300 to 1 ozt. 4000/35*3300 = $377k. Of course, you couldn't actually get the gold since ownership had been outlawed by FDR to make sure everyone was robbed equally by his currency devaluation, but inflation measurement is fundamentally flawed because of the monetary regime changes between.
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  1628. We need to boycott all cowardly companies that bend the knee to the communist culture revolutionaries.
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  1629. YouTube isn't radicalizing users? Say it isn't so! ~ becomes despondent The President isn't a Russian sleeper agent? Say it isn't so! ~ becomes despondent
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  1630.  @rohitkothari3890  there is a quantitative method that only works at small transaction/position sizes, and it works because of small inefficiencies created by large order flows and high frequency trading. There's a video about it somewhere on YT, but I can't remember the video name. The paper is titled "Orderflow Imbalance and High Frequency Trading" by Matteo Pecchiari from LUISS. I haven't tried it yet, but it seems interesting.
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  1631. Options market was poised for a gamma squeeze to the upside, so I closed some short positions and prepared to reopen them after a brief bear trap rally. Seemed to be pretty good timing.
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  1632. The TLDR is that the maxim "practice makes perfect" is pragmatically correct.
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  1633.  @OokamiKageGinGetsu  that is rough. Have you gotten back on your feet?
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  1634. Technically, the 2008 Global Financial Crisis was triggered by subprime mortgage collapses leading to MBS collapses and unmet collateral calls in funding markets, but there were other forms of reckless profligacy carried out by the international banking cartel that also contributed.
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  1635. Market penetration is only the first step to raising a profit baby. They gotta stay in there for a while, then still be there in the morning, then start changing diapers in 9 months, etc.
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  1636. In that scenario, you'll want to own equity in the companies facilitating those transactions/making the market for those tokens.
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  1637. The Fed printed another $300B by Wednesday between their primary credit facility ($148B), other credit extensions ($143B), and the new BTFP ($12B).
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  1638. Jeff Snider and Emil Kalinowski are going over the annual September spike in yields this weekend and how it may be caused by GSIBs manipulating their balance sheets for fourth quarter regulatory compliance reasons. Very interesting stuff. At some point, there will be a substantial crisis, but it's still quite interesting to see how the current system functions.
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  1639. "Some voters are sexist... That's the schlong and short of it."
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  1640. 13:10 Far Right "Independent Journalist" Tim Pool ADMITS to Using First Amendment Protections to Intentionally Make OFFENSIVE Comments I'm a journalist now :3
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  1641. Increased efficiency actually does lead to higher energy consumption because it becomes affordable to more people. Same thing is true with household utilities and Bitcoin mining ASICs: the more efficient they become, the more are utilized and the more energy is consumed in aggregate.
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  1642. The Rust Foundation has its head so far up its ass it can see out its mouth.
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  1643.  @bentheg9793  I have seen banners in the style of campaign flyers that say "Giant Meteor 2020". There's a part of me that desires to call down an asteroid to give the bureaucrats the "great reset" they're plotting to implement, but there's another part of me that isn't ready to try digging a bunker in Florida where the elevation above sea level is about 6 feet. Maybe clinging to biological life until its basic promises are fulfilled is too small minded and selfish, but on the other hand maybe sticking around to put forward solutions will do more good than causing a further apocalypse. Maybe we should just chug some absinthe, call out to Pareidolia or Azathoth, and babble incoherently until the CHOPers come for our heads. Or maybe it's best to prepare for the worst and then spend the time that remains before the nukes drop reading some interesting books. And if ever your lack of faith in humanity is in question, hop over to Twitter for a few hours and try talking to some of the people there. The leftists are as dense and difficult to talk to as the neo-Nazis, and they won't stop until the "death to America" chants become the memory of corpses.
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  1644. I disagree with the idea that we want to drag this out as long as possible. Imo it would be better to get it over with faster so the hypnotists brainwashing the masses with fear-porn become impotent before they manage to pull off another Holodomor.
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  1645. Additionally, the faster it goes through the population, the lower the chance it picks up mutations to become more pathogenic.
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  1646. They are rushing to lock down specifically because the new moronic variant is a herald of the end of their excuse for expanding tyranny. And people are cheering for fascism the same reason they did in the last cycle: this is the 4th turning -- everyone knows something must give, and most choose themselves out of a perverted sense of selflessness but then force everyone else out of a sense of reciprocity.
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  1647. Yes, let's distort, ridicule, and ostracize these people, just like those kids did to that guy in Parkland, because that has never backfired. I see a lot of historically ignorant people in here. "A tank?! An AR-15?! What a bunch of nutcases!" No, the entire point of the 2nd amendment was to arm the citizenry to deter would-be tyrannical regimes. Know who disarmed the citizenry? Nazi Germany. Know who didn't have the firepower to protect their civil liberties? The Jews who are now ashes. Democracies devolve into tyrannies constantly, and it is pretty obvious that this is what the leftists want now: tyranny of the majority, concentration of power into the hands of popular figures, and squashing of rights of people with minority opinions. The Founding Fathers wrote the 2nd amendment specifically to guard against the success of these neo-Marxists in establishing tyrannies. I leaned left politically until these rabid communists took over the so-called liberal movement, but now even moderates like me are being demonized and pushed into the fringes. The radical leftists need to calm the fuck down and cease their pro-class warfare propaganda if they want any chance of representation in the Republic -- the people of America do not like being told they are demons who should be silenced for their views.
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  1648. Peaceful protest occurs without incident. Five injured. Typical 2020.
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  1649. Btw, all this chaos is driving capital to hard assets. Gold is around $1940 now and is likely to hit $2,700 if this graph is any indication (gold price/M2Real; tops out around 0.38 in bull markets): https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=tugK
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  1650. I think that it is helpful to define a distinction between reality and actuality. Reality deals with manifest, material reality. Actuality deals with the unmanifest, non-material actuality -- the things that exist but do not have material embodiment. It appears that material seeks actualization in spirit while spirit seeks realization in material.
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  1651. Nergal's visit has not concluded. The role of the central bank is to prepare for her arrival through the debauching of the currency in accordance with communist principles.
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  1652. No landing = free-fall
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  1653. By "nation" you mean "out of control political machine", right?
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  1654. I recommend watching Ep. 94a on Emil Kalinowski's channel. Nixon didn't kill Bretton Woods -- he simply acknowledged its death and eulogized it. International banks created hundreds of millions in deposits outside the control of the Fed and Treasury, thus artificially and sneakily allowing Italy, Japan, and Switzerland to push financial stresses that would have been crises onto the US. The US government didn't print too many dollars as has been the popular legend; non-US banks counterfeited hundreds of millions.
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  1655. Israel was caught planting weapons in a hospital they stormed in Gaza. They constantly lie about the existence and placement of militants and munitions to justify their aggression. There is not a single hero in the whole wretched region -- there are just villains and victims.
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  1656. Lol my dad literally believes that Jehova, the god of the sand people, is punishing America for "abandoning our Christian roots", e.g. abortions and gay marriage. Never misunderestimate the potential of Bush supporting evangelocons to believe stupid shit.
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  1657. "You're no longer allowed to have eyebrows in this competition, so we're taking away the trophy you won 30 years ago."
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  1658. "Our farts and prayers go out to the Iranian people."
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  1659. Global Financial Crisis
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  1660. My understanding is that the government agent portal was originally created for criminal matters, e.g. child abuse and the like.
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  1661. Expressiveness vs simplicity is somewhat of a false dichotomy. I wrote a bytecode VM with an assembly language that can express fairly convoluted cryptographic stuff with just a few op codes.
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  1662. Blood moon eclipse tonight/early morning in Europe.
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  1663. "Free will" as a concept does not have a coherent definition. "Agency", however, is well defined and plainly a characteristic of humans: we can and do make choices, then carry out those decisions. It does not much matter what a reductive physical analysis says about the matter because at the scale that is relevant, we are agents in the world.
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  1664. This was the the funniest youtube video I have seen in a long while.
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  1665. Tesla open sourced its charging format patent and is requiring no royalties for its use (or at least that was the state of things the last time I checked). The main problem is that they made supercharging free for Tesla owners, so they wanted other EV manufacturers to pay for their customers charging at Tesla supercharging stations.
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  1666. Egg price shock is, by definition, not inflation. Inflation is a monetary phenomenon; a price shock due to shortages is not a monetary phenomenon.
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  1667. On the topic of Lucifer, I think it is a bit of a missed opportunity that you did not mention that Jesus takes the epithet of the Bright and Morning Star in Revelation 22.
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  1668. I've heard that Hillary has declared a bounty for information on how to find the skank that gave him the UTI.
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  1669. In the first half of this week, the Fed issued a $300B bailout via primary credit facility ($148B), other credit extensions ($143B), and the new bank term funding program ($12B). Source: FRED. These three figures are updated every Wednesday.
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  1670. "Trumpanzee" lol
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  1671. There is only one tax I don't mind paying: the 10-11% (wholesale value) firearm and ammunition tax that goes into the Federal Wildlife Restoration fund (Pittman-Robertson Act) and is distributed to state conservation projects to maintain public hunting grounds and gun ranges. Everything else annoys me relentlessly.
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  1672. Why do media always cut off speeches and just show a few seconds out of context? This is useless.
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  1673. I'm pretty sure I listened to a Blockworks interview with a Terra guy about how Anchor was unsustainable. Everyone knew it was going to blow up eventually -- if the argument is that someone intentionally turned off the music so he's responsible for the paucity of chairs, then I think that position needs to be rethought. Sure, people are hurting, but that's what happens when you shoot yourself in the foot. Some people have to learn the hard way to do their due diligence.
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  1674. Why would the National Space Agency be involved in mitigating DDoS attacks?
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  1675. @SlowAside5  I pretty much already do that. Tbh I prefer a non-fascistic specification-driven dev style in which I specify how I want something to work, break it up into tickets with milestones, then iteratively develop. And I prefer to write the implementation before I write the test to save a little bit of time -- the tests still often surface flaws in the implementation. Right now, I'm working on an asynchronous p2p networking library with a plugin system for handling auth, encryption, and peer data encoding/decoding, and I recently completed automatic peer discovery/management with UDP multicast. The specification -> tickets -> implementation -> tests approach has worked very well for this and other recent projects. It is the perfect balance between specificity in planning and flexibility in execution imo.
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  1676. Fact check: the clip at 8:03 is cropped. In reality, there were several service members a few feet away from him.
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  1677. Reality is not advertiser friendly.
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  1678. Here are my suggestions: 1) Abolish the Fed; ban fractional reserve currency; create a new structure for decentralized issuance of currency at the individual citizen level. This will remove the Cantillion effect that is stratifying society. 2) Constrain the federal government expenditure to 10% of the money supply. 3) Constrain the federal government workforce to 10% of the adult population. 4) Abolish the federal income tax; instead have the federal government tax the states directly as a percentage of state tax revenue. 5) Replace first-past-the-post voting with score voting. 6) Give the states the ability to repeal any federal law so long as the legislatures of a majority of states or a number of states whose combined citizenry is a majority of the US citizenry pass a resolution repealing that federal law.
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  1679. There is no historical evidence of correlation between general price levels and money velocity except during hyperinflation.
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  1680.  @1MarkMoss  thanks for making all these videos. This channel is an invaluable resource.
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  1681. C# as a language is not bad. It's all the stuff made with C# that sucks.
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  1682. The problem with denigrating complexity is that none of this would be possible without people who take pride in handling their little bit of complexity. Breaking things down into simpler systems is ideal, but somethings are irreducibly complex, e.g. cryptographic protocols -- if you try to simplify them or refuse to understand them in their innate complexity, you get hacked.
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  1683. Lawless traitors like the Biden admin cronies ought to be exiled. They are a cancerous tumor that needs to be excised before they kill us all.
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  1684. LLMs from China are just numbers and some code to calculate with those numbers. Numbers and code are protected speech. This is the constitutional law of the land, no matter what misguided congress critters say they want.
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  1685. So, we use the dollar to denominate the eurodollar system because the US government, while occasionally defaulting on its own contract obligations, has a long history of enforcing contract obligations on everyone else.
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  1686. Forever_Alone.jpg
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  1687. Cheaper than daycare: all it costs is dignity
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  1688. If facepalm was a scarce resource, we're now in a post-scarcity global society.
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  1689. Eyy, a good video from a channel for which I had low expectations.
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  1690. An important note about energy efficiency in appliances is that the reduced energy consumption meant lower costs to operate, and that correlated with reductions in acquisition and maintenance costs. The result was that the aggregate energy consumption increased as more people could afford to buy and run the appliances. Energy efficiency will not reduce energy consumption at a population scale -- it just means more resources will be available to generate more wealth, enabling the use of more resources.
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  1691. I live in Florida and have a couple avocadoo trees in my backyard. I get all the avocadoo I can eat every year when they are in season. This whole "gotta have 24/7/52 avocadoos" bullshit is dumb.
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  1692. You forgot Cobol-on-Wheelchair.
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  1693. Science is fundamentally incapable of answering questions of "why". Those questions are more fundamental than what science deals with.
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  1694. I wonder if the long hair depictions of Jesus were made to make him look honorable to the Germanic heathens.
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  1695. Anyone else find him mostly unfunny these days? I think he managed to evoke exactly 1 slight smile and 2 snickers/chuckles.
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  1696. The nutcases who perpetuate this lie also believe that free speech is being "weaponized" and that words are violence. Gods help us through these delirious times.
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  1697. I have started playing your videos on my living room TV. (Hint hint keyword)
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  1698. The main reason that the NK economy won't collapse is that it can't collapse if it doesn't exist. That's a 3D chess move. Checkmate, capitalists.
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  1699. 1:50 turning into the Brady Bunch
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  1700. You're way off and should probably correct your comment. "The overhead and administrative costs for most programs are modest, generally under 5%." -- Cato Handbook for Policymakers § 41. Poverty and Welfare, the Cato Institute, 2017 "It is often assumed that program consolidation will reduce costs by reducing administrative overhead, but the overhead costs in welfare are typically less than 10 percent; therefore, it is not likely that consolidation will substantially reduce spending." -- Understanding the Hidden $1.1 Trillion Welfare System and How to Reform It, the Heritage Foundation, 2018 Edit: the closest thing I could find to an argument of inefficiency was a left-wing article complaining that welfare has gradually shifted from "cash assistance" wealth redistribution to things like child care, addiction treatment, and domestic violence services, but even it showed the administrative overhead as decreasing from ~10% in 1998 to ~8% in 2014. (This article then says that California gives half its welfare grant money directly as cash assistance while Georgia spends 80% on social programs -- imo, Georgia is less of a literal shithole than California, so the comparison does not help the pro-communism argument.)
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  1701. Also, there is no such thing as intrinsic value.
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  1702. I thought his misrepresentation of quantum computing was bad but decided to count it as a possible fluke. Then he demonstrated that he had no understanding of Bitcoin, and I decided he was probably an arrogant nitwit but still gave him another chance. Then this happened. 3 solid strikes => out.
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  1703. Having an image that evidences abuse is not identical to abusing or facilitating abuse. Treating the two equally is a brainless act of idiocy.
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  1704. I believe jQuery is properly pronounced "jackery". /s
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  1705. The dollar is not "backed" by anything in a way any more tangible than the way Bitcoin is "backed" by the energy required to secure the network. Proof-of-stake cryptos are their own lineage of nonsense.
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  1706. Kinda like Vanilla Sky
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  1707. "Hope for Change" is Obama's shtick, so it's not surprising that his Fed chairman pick would adopt it.
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  1708. Imagine if the government printed up enough money to hire everyone in the country to sit on their hands and actively sniped the most productive workers for this purpose; in such a scenario, the government would absolutely crowd out the private sector by taking real resources away via outsized bidding power. The Cantillon effect is a real phenomenon, and the government will consume the seeds instead of planting them every time.
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  1709. I think the exclusive focus on the actions of government authoritarians regarding the shamdemic is a bit myopic. It is important to also recognize the impact of the panic and fear (or at least extreme caution) widespread among the populace. Even in Florida, where the government didn't do much of anything, the economy ground to a quiet halt as people started doing 14-day precautionary quarantines whenever they thought they had been exposed. And technically, the economic slowdown began in 2019 -- our governor began extending bridge loans for the restaurant industry before anyone had even heard of covid.
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  1710. IEEE has nothing to do with IPv6. The IETF is the body that developed that standard, their standards are generally not government enforced -- the industry has voluntarily accepted IETF standards because they were developed by industry participants. I think DS is stretching a bit on this point with his implication that centralized government regulation should be credited with the success of the internet since the historical facts largely say otherwise.
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  1711. I like how the ZeroHedge article was written by Tyler Durden.
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  1712. There is literally no corroborating evidence. Did you see any of the testimony?
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  1713. Know why the man living in the projects starved to death? He couldn't find his food stamps because they were under his work boots.
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  1714. Imo, Maxwell was the mastermind behind the operation, and Epstein was the fall guy. Maxwell was born into aristocracy; Epstein was merely adopted into it.
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  1715. Funny that youtube isn't adding the editorial "r elections is guhd" message to this.
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  1716. Warren Buffet is rat squared
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  1717. I talked to Dane Eagle a few years ago. He was personally canvasing my neighborhood, and he seemed like a pretty decent guy, especially considering he took the time to talk to a college hippy about legalizing cannabis and how he supported the gradual change in policies in that direction. I voted for him as a result.
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  1718. Looks like a lot of "yeah, Orange Man party bad party orange" in this comment section.
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  1719. Send this video to your representative, especially if they are aligned with the MAGA movement. They'll get on Google's ass about this if enough of them know. Edit: I contacted my rep and both senators. I framed it as a megacorp undermining our country and supporting our greatest geopolitical rival. That should do the trick.
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  1720. 14:50 you can see some wafts of smoke rising on the left side of the screen.
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  1721. * McConnel voice * See now, I just shrink back my neck and stay in my shell like this... * shrinks into shell for a moment to demonstrate * ...but then I hear someone say "cocaine", and so I start waddling over to get some. It's not for me -- it's for the girl I keep in my basement at home, helps lift her mood a bit. * looks around the room and eats some lettuce *
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  1722.  @spechund7109  what I described is not Keynesian economics; it is Austrian economics.
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  1723.  @spechund7109  the fact remains that my analysis is fundamentally correct. Ludwig von Mises concretely refuted the quantity theory of money in the second part of his book, The Theory of Money and Credit. What matters is not merely a change in the quantity of money but the change in subjective value people place on it as a result of the distributional effects. The bankers can create any amount of monetary units they like in their spreadsheets, but it only matters in how its use and distribution affect the subjective values of economic actors.
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  1724.  @spechund7109  have you read it and found a logical flaw, or are you simply dismissing it out of ignorance? And what do you mean by "you people"?
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  1725.  @spechund7109  I am not one of those. You make too many assumptions. I am a software engineer who reads and thinks a lot. It was obvious to me in 2020 that CPI would explode, and it was obvious that the "transitive" narrative was nonsense, but it was due to the specific policies creating a bullwhip effect and rising geopolitical tensions/disruptions that really exacerbated things. The M2 growth likely would have had a milder affect on consumer prices if global commerce continued without government interference and lockdowns. If you doubt the bullwhip effect, just look at retail inventory numbers.
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  1726.  @spechund7109  the "law of gravity" was replaced with the theory called General Relativity. You clearly have no idea what you are talking about. Economics is not a science, which is good for you since you are no scientist. If you really think that Ludwig von Mises is not part of the Austrian school of economics, you might need to spend more time reading and less time embarrassing yourself online.
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  1727. Fortunately, the Australia parliament is finally getting its shit together and debating a bill to address the corruption issues: https://youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
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  1728. It is funny how different "artificial super intelligence" and "super artificial intelligence" sound.
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  1729. My reflection looks a lot like my phone.
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  1730. First-past-the-post voting devolves into a two-party system naturally as long as voters understand strategy. STAR voting fixes it: by giving up on rigid, deterministic guarantees on desirability criteria, it achieves most of them most of the time and a better result over all compared to other voting systems.
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  1731. Florida Cracker here. One of the great things about our state is all the green space. I just wish there was more opportunity to walk through the WMAs at night.
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  1732. Is it possible for a group to split away from an ancestral colonial power and become indigenous? What would that look like? I thought for a while that the Voortrekkers were somewhat close to that before the Brits rounded them up into concentration camps, but I reread the history and am now thinking it is much more difficult to make that argument.
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  1733. The purpose of government is to enforce a monopoly on coercion and extortion.
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  1734. We definitely have herd immunity in Florida. We also have a popular public policy of advocating for outdoor activities.
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  1735. Gonna be brutally honest here. I commend Nature for her implementation of natural selection. This is the culling of weak minded mistakes of evolution imo.
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  1736. Somehow completely missed the fact that the largest participants in US capital markets are foreigners who will be variously affected by the trade war.
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  1737. So, how many days before China collapses? (⁠ ͡⁠°⁠ ͜⁠ʖ⁠ ͡⁠°⁠)
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  1738.  @rioluna6058  it's a joke based upon the recent trend concerning the threatened mortgage protest.
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  1739. ​ @rorymacintosh6691 we don't have real democracy and never have. Our political system was not set up to be a democracy.
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  1740.  NickYankee  I also did not say anything about "true democracy". I said "real democracy", i.e. the factual patterns of American politics are incongruent with the model of democracy -- American politics most closely resemble ancient Rome with the plutocrats giving the plebs just enough to avoid a revolution.
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  1741. Just like the Machine Lord intended.
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  1742. NYT: Study Finds that 2+2 = 5 Trump: You know, they're saying -- don't know if you've heard this, and I'm not even sure I believe this, it's crazy -- they're saying that 2 + 2 isn't 4 anymore. Can you believe it? NYT: Trump Puts Forth Dangerous Mathematical Misinformation, Claims 2 + 2 Is Not 4.
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  1743. The way that lightning channels work does not introduce fractional reserve anything. Every satoshi is already proven to exist in every payment channel. For fractional reserve banking to exist, you need an endogenous money system (i.e. book entries of credits and debits) that allows for some parties to have negative equity. In the current dollar/eurodollar system, the banks are set up to have positive equity and push the negative equity onto bank customers who take out loans.
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  1744. As society gets more complex, it takes longer for children to mature into adults. This is a fact that is well demonstrated biologically. It makes sense to me that the age of majority is raised to 21, at which point all rights and responsibilities of citizenship are acquired. This includes the right to vote and be conscripted. I do not think it makes sense to say "well, they are too young to be trusted with guns because they make bad decisions, but that's exactly who we want voting", and I also do not think it makes any sense to say "too young to own their own gun, but old enough to be pressed into military service where they can own a gun".
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  1745. Zimbabwe eventually nearly had 100 trillion dollar bills, but they were worthless by the time they were finished printing, so they never circulated.
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  1746. Epic. Dr. No is a living legend.
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  1747. The question we really should be asking is, "why are so many people left-handed compared to the 16th century?" Women breeding with the Devil in a drunken stupor on Thirsty Thursdays, making all these left-handed children, that's what's going on. It's a plague and a contagion! No other explanation for it.
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  1748. I really hope they never achieve a relevant quantum computer. The only use it would have is breaking cryptography, and I've made too many advanced cryptographic constructs that cannot be replicated with lattices or hash algorithms.
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  1749.  @morewi  not if the goal is to distract the populace from Winnie the Pooh's failed leadership with a bit of military showmanship. Taking the smaller islands nearest to the Chinese mainland is the perfect scam, and if we've learned anything about China it's that they love a good scam.
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  1750.  @wei270  What does that even mean? All governments are illegal by the standards of rival governments. The only thing granting any government legitimacy is its ability to kill enough people to prevent another government from replacing it.
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  1751.  @junh4314  sure. My point is only that they'd first have to take the smaller islands before moving onto the main island. The whole thing would be a disaster for the entire world, so hopefully the Xi regime collapses in on itself before he goes Adolf mode.
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  1752.  @momoware  What about Taiwan's constitution do they need to change? Article 4: "The territory of the Republic of China within its existing national boundaries shall not be altered except by a resolution of the National Assembly"? Article 26, section 2: "Delegates to represent Mongolia shall be elected on the basis of four for each League and one for each Special Banner;"? The general inconsistency with their current actual borders?
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  1753.  @momoware  fair enough. The Taiwan-China situation is an intractable mess.
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  1754. I know this is reductive and oversimplified, but there wouldn't be a wage-price cycle if the capitalist class would accept a pay cut -- or to put it in more visceral terms with which they could grapple, "stop expecting money for nothing and get a real job."
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  1755.  @tastypymp1287  not Marx. Just an observation. The ones who allocate capital to gain from the efforts of others are capitalists, and there's a whole social stratum of them.
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  1756. Democrats: racism is bad. Also Democrats: ignore thousands of Yemeni children being killed, cry over a few white Ukrainians.
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  1757. Backwards place run by backwards people.
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  1758. I can't watch this Commiefornia crap. Wtf.
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  1759. A quarter of the "new jobs" are government jobs, e.g. census workers, which are not generally productive. We have plenty more economic pain to deal with before everything stabilizes. The monetary system itself is working against us -- the recession was almost certainly caused by the Federal Reserve monkeying around with interest rates in 2018, leading to the repo market implosion in August 2019.
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  1760. I excelled academically. But even though I learned to master the art of performative learning, it has had no utility in life; the knowledge has been occasionally useful, but the method by which it is taught and assessed is irrelevant. Learning how to do well in school is maladaptive for real life. In my industry, nobody even cares if you graduated highschool -- all that matters is that you can do the work, and the best programmers are almost always self-taught.
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  1761. Modern schooling is designed to make cogs that fit into the 1800s economic machine of factory workers. Schooling is not for the benefit of the individual or even society -- it is for the benefit of industrial oligarchs and Federal Nothing-in-Reserve Bank officials.
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  1762. Gold go bye-bye, money printer go brr, and everyone gets robbed by the Cantillon effect. We're all fucked by design.
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  1763. Btw, <3 for my fellow neurojalapeño frens.
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  1764. Fwiw, the DSM once classified homosexuality as a mental disorder, so it isn't unprecedented for some people to reject their classification of gender dysphoria.
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  1765. A negative nominal interest rate is just nominal demurrage (deposit custody fee) for the most trusted/central/"credit-worthy" counterparty. It is possible for that to be a real yield during deflation.
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  1766. Anyone who opens his mind to the possibility will find he lives in an enchanted world.
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  1767. It always amazes me how confidently Peter demonstrates how little he knows about monetary mechanics.
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  1768. The major GC, which kills off the old generation objects, should be called "Andrew Cuomo".
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  1769. Bureaucracy is anti-life and the destroyer of society
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  1770. Osculate is pronounced "vrubbledrufthilate", btw. And you forgot to mention that nerds can make nurbs.
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  1771. Amazon is a shit company by their own admission. They can't engineer their way out of a paper bag, so why expect anything good from them?
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  1772. Technically correct and incorrect simultaneously. The liabilities of the Fed are not just "bank reserves" -- more relevantly to the MMT proposition is the category of "deposits at Federal Reserve Banks". If the Treasury minted the trillion dollar coin and deposited it at FBNY, it would count as a deposit rather than a bank reserve since it is backed by legal tender currency and not reserve assets. While such a gimmick would severely undermine faith in the credibility of the government, it would not run into the overdrawn TGA problem. The more immediately destructive scenario is a debt default because a significant amount of bank deposits are backed directly by TSYs rather than by Fed bank reserves; iirc, Joe Brown at Heresy Financial made a video explaining the emergency plan that Warren and Bernie whipped up with Fed officials.
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  1773. My prophecy: prices will go up and down, as will stonks and assets; businesses will rise and fall; babies will be born, and the old will die. Yes, indeed, in such manner will many things come to pass. Don't say I didn't warn you when it happens.
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  1774. "Capitalism: God's way of deciding who is smart and who is poor." -- Ron Swanson, from his Pyramid of Greatness
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  1775. Brilliantly done shilling for the corporate machine overlooking our lives. It was so good that I almost forgot about the insidious facets of a market society that oppresses us all. claps slowly and morosely
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  1776. Go development tools enforce the single letter shit for functions attached to structs. They also use significant whitespace for efficient compilation or something. Kind of weird, but you get used to it.
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  1777. Another good example is the whole "Trump called immigrants animals" thing when in reality he called MS13 gang members animals.
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  1778. Thought experiment: if a global currency system can expand and contract with the population to maintain a stable per-capita currency supply, we would have an elastic currency system that is still a fair and neutral price measurement tool. As the population expands, greater economies of scale are achieved, increasing the per-capita productivity in an exponential way while the currency supply inflates only linearly, so prices would naturally decline while liquidity simultaneously increased. If the population was to decline for some reason, then the exact opposite would occur: the excess liquidity would dry up at the same time that economies of scale are lost, causing prices to rise during a deflationary contraction. If you think about it, these are the exact correct things to do in the scenario and send the exactly correct price signals for the scenarios: in the first, we on average get wealthier, so you can get more goods and services in exchange for less of your savings and labor; in the latter, we on average get poorer, so you get less for more.
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  1779. I think the main issue is that the competitive ladder needs improvement.
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  1780. Uh oh, looks like somebody was in his feelies and got his feelies hurt.
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  1781. No-coiners have to justify not having any bitcoin just as much as bitcoiners have to justify having bitcoin. The argument that a bitcoiner "has to talk his books" and therefore you should buy gold makes no sense. Schiff has been wrong since Bitcoin was at $10, and he has to continue justifying his wrongness to this day.
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  1782.  William McGeehan  I've never eaten leprechaun meat, so I can't confirm.
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  1783. Jive Turkiyes.
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  1784. "Fucker Carlson" lol
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  1785. Deposits in banks are also unsecured loans. The difference is that they are insured by the FDIC.
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  1786. These clowns will be out of there next month, and hopefully the next set of clowns will be more entertaining and less disrespectful of the citizenry.
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  1787. Wait, this isn't so bad. Why doesn't FTX just unbankrupt themselves?
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  1788. Now might be a good time to invest in some bear spray for dispersing crowds and a gas mask for when you have to use the bear spray.
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  1789. I've very glad this happened, and I'm doubly glad it happened in a different place than where I live. I would vote for Aria for city council to shake things up, but I doubt she would be a good sheriff.
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  1790. Feels like nitpicks should all go into a bucket of refactor suggestions, then someone should be assigned the refactor task at some point in the future to figure it all out.
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  1791. Storm Shadow is a much better name than "Inclement Weather Light-blocker"
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  1792. I predict massive economic gains after the world stabilizes from World War 3.
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  1793. Citizens have the right to defend themselves and the responsibility to defend others.
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  1794. Florida largely does not suck if your stay away from Miami, but if you like the haterville riots-in-the-streets vibe, Miami might be exactly what you're looking for. Electricity is somewhat expensive because the grid has been rebuilt a bunch of times and is hurricane grade at this point, but we have international ports and lots of farm land, so the cost of living is fairly low over all.
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  1795. Let's all stand in the highway in the dark to defund first responders. What could possibly go wrong?
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  1796. The main problem with quantum computers is that they break almost all of our public key cryptography, meaning we will have to adapt the software and hardware on our smartphones and laptops to use much less efficient cryptographic primitives, e.g. instead of elliptic curves with 64 byte keys we will have to use McEliece codes with their >4MB keys or Merkle trees with thousands of single-use Lamport signature keys each >16KB. Perhaps it wouldn't be such an issue if quantum technology was available for the masses, but we are currently looking at a situation where only the most wealthy and powerful entities will have the ability to snoop on everything we do, so we will have the burden of running less efficient crypto to preserve our privacy for a while. Also, how many triceratops do you need, Styx?
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  1797. If it wasn't for the overall pattern of untrustworthiness, one statistical miracle could be rationally ignored. (Miracles happen all the time. Cf. the LTCM fund blow-up.)
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  1798. Paul is in agreement with Trump. This video was just an unjustified character assassination. Paul isn't saying that charity is bad -- if any of you imbeciles knew anything, you'd know that he spends his free time personally providing advanced medical care to indigent patients for free -- he is saying that printing up infinite money for all the bloat of government is a systemic problem that will lead to a total collapse. This is a replay of the fall of Rome: to pay for an ever expanding global military presence and provide bread and circuses, they debased their currency and inflated away the value of their money. That is what he is criticizing.
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  1799. The only system that works at scale is anarchy, where "work" in this case means "fulfills its description without devolving into something worse."
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  1800. If we peddle fear locally, we don't have to peddle fear globally. Such a genius plan. Gates is big smart.
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  1801. South Africa will never be a stable country. It needs to revert to the way things were before the Brits colonized: independent tribes and republics interacting with treaties. Edit: a more federated system could work, but the central government still needs to be cut down.
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  1802. The problem with bullion is velocity: it is bulky, so it is costly to transfer value across space. This is why our ancestors invented banks to begin with.
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  1803. That's quite the leap in logic from DoJ political appointments (which as SCOTUS has demonstrated recently must all be confirmed by the Senate) to "Democratic votes will get tossed out". Sounds like you presume that those votes can be easily proven fraudulent in a court, in which case they indeed should not count.
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  1804. Missed the opportunity to follow the quip about the CIA being in the cocaine business with the Strike promo "you don't have to smuggle cocaine from South America, maybe you just need some caffeine".
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  1805. Tulare Lake dried up in the 19th century because it was drained by farmers. The state government could try to restore the lake, but that would require diverting water away from farming, which is a major industry. Again, blaming modern Democrats for the disappearance of Tulare Lake seems a bit far-fetched.
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  1806. Technically, it is not Satan in the Judeo-Christian worldview that inflicts suffering -- it is Jehovah who inflicts the suffering. According to the Christians, their god will torture people for all eternity if they do not worship him/believe in some maximally cruel human sacrifice event that occurred around 30 AD. (There are obviously a lot of nuances worth discussing on the topic, e.g. Jesus being portrayed subtly as a kiddie diddler throughout the gospels, but in my experience most Christians do not want to talk about them.) My understanding of Islam is somewhat similar, except that they are often focused on doing it themselves in the material world through a caliphate. I have not studied Judaism enough to say much about it, but there are some extremists in Israel breeding red heifers and trying to take control of the Temple Mount to reestablish the old sacrificial ways. The Satan was originally the angel of death working in the employment of El/Yhwh and later became a separate character standing in opposition to El so they could distance their deity from all the evil that he took credit for in the Old Testament.
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  1807. Very unfair. Very untremenderous. The worst ever, like you wouldn't believe. It was a witch...trial.
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  1808. I think I might create a shrine with Washington, Jefferson, Teddy, and Grant kneeling beneath the goddess Columbia on whose arm is perched an eagle. First problem is that I have no idea how to carve statues.
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  1809. In my crdts package, I have an e2e test for each CRDT that applies a bunch of updates asynchronously and then plays them in random orders on fresh instances to ensure the final state is always the same. Blackbox fuzzing for correctness is probably the most valuable type of test.
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  1810. The singularity is superstition.
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  1811. This sounds exactly like what Styx has been saying.
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  1812. 480k deaths per year from cigarettes. We don't destroy our society and economy for that.
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  1813. Russia and China are just as fucked as everyone else. The reasons are different, but the outcomes will all rhyme.
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  1814. Do people really not recognize that raising the federal minimum wage by over 100% is a potentially damaging manipulation of the economy? Globalism is deflating wages, so any labor that is not competitive will be outsourced.
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  1815. The People have the right to petition the Government for a redress of grievances enshrined in our constitution. States, as contractual parties to that constitution, thus have the right to sue in SCOTUS for any grievance on behalf of the People. It is pretty clear that SCOTUS has to hear the case.
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  1816. There is also the fact of the antihuman ESG agenda taking root at Black Rock and other large custodial investment management companies.
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  1817. The processor is actually an underclocked Snapdragon 600. I cannot remember why Qualcomm branded it an S4 Pro, but it is definitely an S600 (1333MHz vs the 600MHz RAM in the Nexus 4, for example).
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  1818. Event attribution is magical thinking. Magic is the perturbations in probability correlated with actions of conscious agents and manifesting as synchronicity through yet unknown mechanisms (if any exist). Magic is literally sleight of mind. Event attribution is similarly sleight of data.
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  1819. Most based take I've heard so far
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  1820. Homeschoolers get their school supplies and curriculum materials subsidized by the money that would have been allocated to their children in public/charter school.
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  1821. As a Virtuous White Savior, I must stand against this Evil Fascist Order by the Evil Fascist Orangeman. These minorities for whom I speak as their Savior cannot possibly comprehend how to get an ID or get a ride to vote in-person -- and heavens no, I won't be giving them a ride -- the gubbernmint must instead remove all requirements for voting so these poor hapless minorities can vote.
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  1822. It's interesting that they all start their analyses at the end of the Great Depression rather than right before it. We're in the right-before-it phase of the current long term debt cycle, so all that crap about "stay invested because stonks" isn't likely to pan out.
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  1823. Everyone knew this would be a recession year. Corona-chan is a scapegoat for the woes of the credit cycle created by fractional reserve lending of fiat currency issued by a central bank. People need to learn what happened in 1971 if they want to understand why the economy is all out of whack.
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  1824. Audio quality was rough to the point that I found it difficult to understand the guest.
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  1825.  @keithbrandson6293  No, I specifically meant that new monetary systems very rarely last for very long. If you look at the history of monetary systems, you'll see that most of them last a few years before being replaced. The notable exceptions are commodity currencies, which tend to last long-term as they are an emergent system that naturally arises, and the currencies of major empires, which tend to last for a few hundred years before structural problems with the empire cause a degradation of trust. The Ithaca Hour, for example, had a very short period of widespread use, and it fell apart after its founder moved out of NY. In Austria during the Great Depression, a few towns experimented with paying public servants with expiring scrip, which worked only well enough that they kept tinkering with it until the monetary/economic system restabilized.
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  1826.  @dbeverly1928  prepping for the end of the free comment era. Nb4 digital REITs begin securitizations and leasing comment space.
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  1827. The confusion between inflation and CPI is a pet peeve. Inflation is the expansion of the circulating stock of money and credit in excess of the expansion of demand for money due to increased economic activity: if the circulating money supply doubles but economic activity increases sufficiently to double the demand for money, there will not be any inflation. CPI, on the other hand, is an attempt to approximate changes in prices across a basket of goods and services as a replacement for an accurate measure of inflation, which would be primarily monetary.
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  1828. Seems like the main thing missing from this video was a brief discussion of the incorrupt relics venerated to this day by the Orthodox faithful. Would have been cool to show a photo of the finger of St. John the Baptist.
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  1829. Smashed potatoes > mashed potatoes. Fight me, yankee.
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  1830. Test to see if any comments will post or if YouTube is shadowbanning me for wrongthink.
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  1831. I live in SWFL. We have one mountain here in the flat swamplands, and it is made entirely of garbage -- a giant pile of trash that is thrice as tall as the pine trees. It has grown to staggering proportions in the last decade, from barely noticeable to the most noticeable geographical feature of the area.
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  1832. It's not even a real jab. They are calling it that, but it is not an attenuated virus as per the definition -- it's just a lipid nanoparticle with mRNA coding for two superficial glycoproteins that are already extinct in the wild. It is more accurately described as a prophylactic.
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  1833. There is an argument to be made that creating an attenuated viral particle treatment would create a risk of antibody-dependent enhancement, and thus they focused on only a small subsample of glycoproteins. The cynical retort is that it is planned obsolescence to boost revenue, as indicated by Pfizer's statements to investors.
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  1834. Everything you've ever learned is wrong, but some of it is useful.
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  1835. I implemented a byte code virtual machine with its own assembly language in Python, which is simultaneously high level and low level. Checkmate.
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  1836. Zelensky, Trump, and Vance were all acting without grace or dignity in this exchange. Nobody wins in a piss fight.
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  1837. To be fair, while there are only two normal sexes within apes (like us humans), there are intersex phenotypes caused by chimerism, genetic anomaly, and/or the ongoing shortening of the Y chromosome and degradation of the SRY genes. And with gender, since gender is a linguistic concept that maps to social categories, there are at least four: male (he), female (she), neuter (it), and unspecified (they).
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  1838. I've been playing that Bach fugue from the opening promo on the piano since highschool, and I think Jordan Peterson's channel is the only other place I've heard it.
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  1839.  @katharina...  I have not. Edit: now I have. Wtf.
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  1840. Actually, the Doge of Venice was elected using combined approval voting ("for"/"against"/"neutral" = range of -1 to 1) for over 500 years without their republic collapsing, and score voting has been used by bees and ants for tens of millions of years, so score voting is the most durable election method.
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  1841. I found the patent Caitlin Long mentioned. It has a patent ID of US11392906B2. It specifies a smart contract that creates tokens that swap between "circulation group" and "non-circulation group", where tokens swap to the circulation group when fiat balances are received and transferred. It's kind of contrived.
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  1842. It really sounds like the correct and logical conclusion to this whole clusterfuck operation. Foreign powers refused to integrate the Taliban into the government, so now they are claiming what has been denied to them for decades and with remarkable ease.
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  1843. This is one of those comments where I can't help but basque in the absurdity. I can hear Denis Leary's song "about the American dream" is in my mind's ear.
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  1844.  @0000Sierra117  true. Must be all the Thanksgiving food diverting blood from my brain to my bowels.
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  1845.  @stephenjenkins7971  The saying in politics is "follow the money". So when we follow the money that supported the rise of the neocons, what do we find? A corporate cartel led by international bankers. Gold used to provide a check and balance against the power of the banksters and their political pawns, but it ceased to do so starting in the 1950s with the growth of the eurodollar system. It isn't fiat currency per se that is at fault -- it is unchecked ledger money creation controlled by banks that is the root issue. Gold lacked the divisibility and velocity to service a global economy, so ledgers were built that used gold for periodic settlement; the emergence of our current system was theoretically inevitable, as were the political ramifications.
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  1846.  @stephenjenkins7971  You seem to forget that the banking families that still control the financial system were established long before the Gilded Age. Also, there wasn't a gold standard during the Gilded Age -- there was a bimetallic standard. I recommend you read some history.
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  1847. SVB is hopefully unique because of their 80%+ funding reliance on deposits from VC-backed tech startups and an unhedged book. Tide going out reveals the nude swimmers.
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  1848. The traitors at the DHS need to be run out of the country and not allowed to return.
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  1849.  @gm006b4  I think that the elites of the world form and dissolve factions as their interests align and diverge. For example, the Federal Reserve is rolling out FedNow because the US banks do not want anything to do with a CBDC system while the European, Asian, and African nations are largely on the CBDC bandwagon.
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  1850. Using new loans to pay off old loans in a "pyramid scheme" is an exact description of how the US federal government functions.
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  1851. "It literally started in [a] Chinaman." -- Tim Pool, 5:48 (ftfy)
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  1852. I think you missed something pretty obvious with Dimon's comments: everything he said to stockpile would be necessary to consume in a war with China. Bitcoin may be the most scarce, portable, and divisible money known to man -- the fulfillment of the Hayekian prophecy -- but you can't kill a communist soldier with it.
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  1853. ​​ @Lucas-hb1uq what do you mean? Florida homes are built like skyscrapers but flat. We have rebar walls and a thousand hurricane straps to hold the roof down. Our houses are stronger than anywhere else in the US. The issue is not the houses. The issues are the infrastructure and storm surges.
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  1854. Any ritual gathering is presided over by and generates a principality (i.e. a mix of emanation and emergence). How strong that principality manifests is correlated to how intensely the participants concentrate their attention on their participation. At the moment, I find the Christian/neo-Platonic notion of a supreme existential principle and Divine Logos plausible, and union with the Logos seems like a reasonable goal. However, I am not necessarily convinced that any religion actually achieves that through the working of their principalities. Besides mystical union with the Logos, people also participate in logos when they gather to discuss ideas and develop concepts and narratives. Materialists will reject this terminology, but those unburdened by such dogmas can appreciate the cohesive nature of this perspective, even if they can't directly perceive the principalities with the nous.
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  1855. Just gotta say, I love the domain name "hidewithtim". It's like we're in your laundry room, waiting for a crazy roommate to leave.
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  1856. Bringing up the current schism in Eastern Orthodoxy to score political points with EO adherents aligned with the Moscow Patriarchate is a shallow move. It's not like you have any dog in that fight or understand any of the nuance involved.
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  1857. Prophets have to be a little bit crazy, and he said he's the next Moses, so I guess proclamations are his thing.
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  1858. The police power belongs with the people, not professional bureaucrats beholden to the executive. Bring back sheriffs and the posse comitatus. We don't need professional police.
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  1859. Tim, these targeted "spicy lingerie" ads are great though mildly distracting.
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  1860. Time may have more than one dimension. Might be able to combine relativity and quantum mechanics with a model including orthogonal time. I'll fiddle with the math if I get the spare time.
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  1861. The majority of cryptos are securities, yes, but there are still some digital commodity cryptos besides Bitcoin. Monero and Litecoin come to mind, though they will lose vs BTC in the long run.
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  1862. It's the bankers' system, but it's everyone's problem.
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  1863. (The 2GB 6670 is only $60, and the GDDR5 speed is 1000MHz. For $5 more, I can get a Sapphire 1GB 6670 with 1333MHz GDDR5.)
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  1864. Commercial bank deposits increased 36% over 2 years, so the printed money wasn't sterilized and sent to the moon. Irritating how he never addresses data that detracts from his thesis. Steven van Millimeter even said that the M2 came from somewhere else outside the system rather than being created within the system. Rubbish.
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  1865. Very disingenuous and superficial analysis. The Keynesian monetary system of public debt slavery is allowing the government special interests to plunder the wealth of this nation: they saddle us and our families with debt to enrich their cronies -- they socialize losses costs but privatize gains and benefits. The $600 stimulus accounted for less than $200 billion of the $2.3 trillion bill -- that is less than 10% of the bill. Out of the $0 net worth of the federal government, they found plenty of money for their special interests, pet projects, and foreign countries, and yet almost nothing for American citizens and tax payers. They are taking our labor and money in advance and saying we can have a small amount of it, but we will have to pay it back with interest. Paul's complaints are about the systemic rot in Congress and their attempt to apply little bandaids to paper over the problems they have created. Your characterization of him as hating poor people is retarded and unfounded -- he literally spends his holidays personally providing free advanced medical support to indigent patients, and I doubt any of y'all do anything halfway as substantive and charitable.
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  1866. Do I smell a class action lawsuit?
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  1867. Big Beautiful Bunker Busters
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  1868. Now do one about Anderson acceleration or the 8-dimensional hyperspherical universe hypothesis/mathematics.
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  1869. Solana and Avalanche will likely unseat Ethereum in the long run.
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  1870. Analogy of accelerationism: A. We had a good harvest after sacrificing a virgin. B. Sacrificing virgins must be a good thing. C. Therefore, sacrificing more virgins is more better. Every technology has a body count. The wealth and well-being we derive from technology comes at an often overlooked cost of human lives. If we recognized consciously the total costs of technology, we would have to advocate for more of those costs if we wanted to advocate for more technology.
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  1871. Random assertion in response to the mention of Ecclesiastes: you aren't actually reading the Bible unless you're reading the original Greek. Even the name "Ecclesiastes" is Greek (from εκκλησία, meaning congregation).
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  1872. Reddit understands the bull thesis for physical silver and that SLV is a scam. GME was never a pump and dump -- it is a gamma squeeze built from a case of naked shorting. Robinhood enacted trading limits because DTC raised collateral requirements. Peter is so far out of his depths here. It's really sad to see such a wonderful mind fall prey to neural inelasticity due to age.
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  1873. Sounds like a Spyro soundtrack song to me
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  1874. Eris is Goddess, and QAnon her prophet. Truth and falsehood are arbitrary and interchangeable. Hail Discordia.
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  1875. I think there is a growing structural demand for TSYs as the government spends more deposits into the banking system. They might still exhaust this structural demand, but it will grow if M3 resumes growing.
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  1876. The electoral college functions as intended -- what some call a "failure" due to differences from the popular vote is actually the exact merit of the system: it elects the candidate with majority support in the vast majority of counties and municipalities, with small, densely populated regions unable to concentrate federal power/influence. However, we can still improve it by adopting range voting, with the electors then placing their votes for whichever candidate has the highest score; all that is required for your state electors to better represent your preferences as a voter is a state constitutional amendment/referendum rather than a federal constitutional amendment.
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  1877.  @paultidwell8799  It's almost like you stopped reading my comment after the first half of the first sentence and then decided to spout off ignorantly.
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  1878. Pebble encoding of binary is just a sequence of piles of pebbles, where the value of the bit is the number of pebbles mod 2.
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  1879. Federal debt increased 50% in the last three years. It is clearly parabolic and out of control. Somebody has to put their foot down and reign in this lunacy.
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  1880. They are probably right about that bad juju stuff.
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  1881. The bit about negative rates stimulating velocity is unempirical and wrong. The experience from Europe is that negative rates are correlated with even lower velocity.
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  1882. "Get rid of industrial beef farming" makes sense, but don't exterminate cows. Cows are great animals that can exist harmoniously in certain ecosystems.
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  1883. Ngl, I didn't see this coming. I guess the movie was right, though: apes together strong.
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  1884.  @thenightwatchman1598  what is a trojan horse for egocentrism? Wicca? YouTube?
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  1885. Brihana said "these lives were saved by these policies", but the numbers discussed were deaths, not lives saved. The data did not demonstrate that any lives were saved by any particular policies, just that some situations are deadlier than others. I think it is a disingenuous falsehood to say "these were lives saved" in this context.
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  1886. It is wild that a country would choose to do this to itself.
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  1887. I think that obviating the banks by making it easy for anyone to be a bank would be a greater threat.
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  1888. Regarding Ukraine, America is the bad guy, but Putin is the worse guy: he's rounding up ethnic minorities and sending them in futile meatwave attacks to take small farm fields. His regime has openly declared that Ukrainian is not a real ethnicity, and that Russia will make the Ukrainians remember that they are actually Russian -- to that end, they've kidnapped thousands of children to ship off to Siberia for reeducation, targeted schools with their missiles, and then targeted children's hospitals to kill off the survivors -- they then wait a half hour for rescue operations to begin before sending more missiles to kill off the rescuers. The shit going on in Ukraine is fucking grizzly.
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  1889. And who made the policies that incentivized the middle man companies to consolidate into a near oligopoly? The government.
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  1890. First question: what settings did you use? Second question: are you sure your mobo is supplying enough current to your CPU to support the 4.5GHz OC? The Phenom II X4 965BE caps out due to TDP limitations; the socket might do the same. (Use I = V/R to get amps, then convert to watts.) Third thing: this is why I got the cheapest quad core I could for now--I plan to upgrade in the future to an 8 core steam roller or excavator.
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  1891. Other than some technical nitpicks, I concur. Hopefully, wealth inequality will be solved through voluntary action: the overly wealthy should become more generous, and those who receive gifts should become more grateful. As an anecdote, I have noticed that needful people to whom I have been generous have tended to become resentful; I have found such experiences to be powerfully dissuasive.
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  1892. Gold at the bottom of the gravity well will not be fungible with gold in orbit due to the transport costs of sending it up or down. However, gold will likely become just another commodity once we have space robots mining it from asteroids to make light sails. Eventually, the space economy will be larger than the Earth economy, and the cost to mine gold from asteroids will be logarithmically lower. Bitcoin mining will continue for a long while, but the emission is cut in half every four years. This emission does not have to be estimated as it is set by protocol parameters. We know with absolute certainty the supply at each block height. With gold, all we have are estimates made presumably by the same professionals who estimated peak oil would be hit twenty years ago.
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  1893. There is no such thing as non-monetary inflation. Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon, and, insofar as it can be measured, it is measured in the general rise of prices across all categories of goods and services.
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  1894. Money does solve the coincidence of wants, but the conjecture that money arose from barter due to the coincidence of wants is not supported by evidence. In particular, the notion that commodity money was developed out of free market competition in a bartering society is false. Rather, the evidence shows that the first form of money was credit, and credit systems became standardizes as societies grew larger. Commodity moneys were developed in the wake of the Bronze Age collapse because credit requires trust, which was prohibitively scarce at the time.
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  1895. No, Tim, rights should not be damned even with airborne ebola. Safety be damned. Live free or die; death is not the worst of evils.
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  1896.  @kiltedsasquatch3693  according to the reporting I've seen, they also use cryptos in some parts of Venezuela. It will be interesting to see whether or not one medium of exchange rises to the top amidst the Venezuelan chaos, though my guess is that it will likely be Bitcoin in areas with an internet connection.
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  1897.  @collectorguy4379  Bitcoin will increase in purchasing power on a rolling 5-year basis indefinitely. You won't "take profits" on Bitcoin in the long term because it will become the unit of account. When I traded shitcoins back in the day, I traded them against each other and used Bitcoin as the denominator. It seems completely reasonable to me to use Bitcoin as the denominator for more and more things as it continues to mature as a monetary system.
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  1898. The problem with privacy coins is that they all eventually enter a downward trend in value compared to Bitcoin. If you want to transact highly privately for some specific purpose, then you can trade into privacy coins via atomic swaps without any KYC, permission, etc.
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  1899. The date on Cori Bush's proposal to expell Republicans is January 5th, so either she wrote it beforehand or didn't know what the date was.
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  1900. Wild idea: ThePrimeagen may one day say "the name is or at least somewhat resembles ________". Not sure in what context, but it's theoretically plausible.
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  1901. Theoretically, the value of a business is the book value (assets - liabilities) plus the future cash flows discounted by the "risk-free rate" (i.e. US Treasury debt yields). In practice, valuation variances from the theoretical value are approximately random.
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  1902. Very strange that the ThemTube censorship robogestapo is deleting comments with links to or the full patent number of Microsoft's digital currency scheme linked to biometrics. It's almost like they want to hide something. Hmm...
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  1903. They are making this whole thing seem very credible. I bet they invade Russia to retake Outer Manchuria within 12 months.
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  1904. Tim, this Newspeak you're using is really disturbing. "Bad, hurt-hurt plot"?
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  1905. Governments are dead set against allowing deflation because they worry it will collapse the whole debt ponzi scheme we call "fiat money".
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  1906. Oh, so this is where that segment about advice came from. Nice.
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  1907. Depends on when you buy parts. In November, 8GB of G.SKILL Ripjaws 1866 could be bought for ~$35. Right now, that same RAM costs twice as much. If you get everything on sale, you can build a pretty decent computer for $400, especially if you go with an AMD processor (more money for the other parts).
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  1908. Or Christianity. Jesus said "give all you have to the poor and follow me" and "it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven". Good luck in navigating the hereafter once the focus on the here-and-now proves its futility.
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  1909. Actually, the idea of innoculating a population with an engineered virus to prevent the spread of more pathogenic variants was part of an Ecohealth Alliance grant proposal that the NIH rejected. The grant proposal was specific to bats and coronaviruses in Wuhan.
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  1910. Global Financial Crisis, not "great financial crash". The GFC led to the so-called "Great Recession".
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  1911.  @polywog9591  historically speaking, central banks in the US die when they go bankrupt, but we'll see
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  1912.  @HarpazoReady2022  over 90% of money and transactions already are solely digital in form. They can already deduct from your account if they so choose.
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  1913.  @HarpazoReady2022  it is. The language it is programmed in is legalese.
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  1914. It would be nice if seigniorage and fiduciary intermediation could be effectively separated to balance the system and avoid the instability of the banks' credit cycle. I think I have a model that might in practice accomplish this, though it does not do it in theory.
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  1915. "It will not work" is a false statement. Bitcoin already works. If you ignore the hyperbole and the FUD, what remains are simply the facts: 1) bitcoin has a transparent, predictable, and immutable monetary policy, and only systems derived from bitcoin have that property; 2) nobody knows how many dollars or ounces of gold exist, but I can tell you exactly how many bitcoin exist; 3) final settlement on bitcoin takes one hour, while final settlement of dollars takes days and final settlement of gold takes anywhere between a few minutes to a few years (depending upon the amount); 4) the bitcoin protocol is applied mathematical proof using a few well-defined cryptographic assumptions (sha256 is a cryptographically secure hash functions and the discrete log problem has no efficient solution), whereas nocoiner systems require explicit trust and/or many poorly-defined assumptions (e.g. estimates of the size of the eurodollar system, yearly gold production, difficulty of asteroid mining, etc).
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  1916. Unemployment in the US has already hit ~30%.
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  1917. I have found the runtime_checkable decorator very useful for Python Protocols.
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  1918. Pretty sure the srticle was AI trollbot hallucinations.
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  1919. @Cody_90  if all of Bitcoin's txn throughput was dedicated solely to opening channels, it would take about 50 years to onboard the whole world. The more the LN is used, the more channel openings, closings, and rebalancings will occur. The utility that the LN brings outweighs the detriment to miner fees because of the Jevons effect/paradox: as increased efficiency causes a resource becomes cheaper to use, the demand and net utilization increase.
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  1920. @Cody_90  regarding watchtowers and bad actors, if the eltoo proposal is implemented, those issues will disappear. The eltoo paper is a bit of a dense read, but I think Bitcoin will need to adopt it along with anonymous multi-hop locks if the LN is going to be a serious thing. I implemented it in my own auth script library, so it is proven both in theory and in code.
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  1921.  @liammorgans7329  Schiff has been saying "Bitcoin will go to zero" since it was $10. He clearly has no idea what he's talking about regarding the digital scarcity paradigm.
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  1922. But they have brown skin, so we can't just expect them to be tolerant and peaceful. We can't hold them to the same standard, clearly. Just ask the police in England and Australia.
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  1923. It is worth noting that the Florida Democratic Party has been under federal investigation for widespread ballot fraud. Gods only know how many of those votes are fraudulent.
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  1924. There are several trees missing in the after photo. That is the only significant difference.
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  1925. This white, northern, urban ideal of "just call the cops -- law enforcement action by average scum citizens is unjustifiable" is absurd. The police power belongs with the sheriff and his posse comitatus.
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  1926. Athens didn't ever really collapse, though -- they stuck around as a civilization. Sparta collapsed -- their society totally ceased to exist. The defeat of Athens by Sparta was a mild inconvenience by comparison.
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  1927. Neural networks are trained by back propagation: whenever the network as a whole produces an error, that error value is propagated backwards through the network, forcing each neuron and weight at every layer to change in a way that would reduce the error. We could fix the military if everyone in the chain of command got their pay docked by some percentage of their monthly salary every time there was a significant error like this, from the NCO up to the 5-star general. Optionally use the money from those pay cuts as bonuses that propagate through the chain of command every time something is done very well as a form of reinforcement learning, or just use it to cover the costs of the screw-up. This would require a civilian oversight program to implement. The organization as a whole should adjust over time as a result.
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  1928.  Clarence Spangle  before the creeks and rivers started flooding here in SWFL, I was catching plenty of tilapia with my cast net and cane pole. Much more difficult after the flooding took place.
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  1929. USD is down 33%* against homes. 1/1.5 = 0.67.
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  1930. The only objectionable things about the Guidestones were the eugenics guidelines. All the math and science stuff was not controversial. It was designed to be a corruption of the ancient dolmen structure as well, so I suppose that its destruction is symbolic that their god has been defeated.
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  1931. Killing Floor is like Nazi Zombies but without the Nazi part.
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  1932. The guy in the press conference I lostened to said the suspect left behind a scoped AK-47 and two backpacks full of ceramic tiles.
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  1933. The $25B backstop for the BTLP is to absorb losses, not to make loans. The Fed will lever it 30x or more, and they'll just take the collateral if a loan defaults and count it at par value, so it won't show up as a loss for them anyway. The $25B is just to have a number there -- they could have funded it with $1. However, it is still a dumb shell game: Treasury borrows $25B from the Fed to fund an LLC that will borrow from the Fed to buy T-bills and T-bonds from illiquid/insolvent banks. But it should work technically.
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  1934. My skepticism regarding AI is based upon trying to use it, but then again I was never curious enough to burn a lot of money experimenting.
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  1935. Unchecked immigration policies are in practice dehumanizing. Social integration is necessary: treat the immigrants as if you actually want them to be part of your society rather than simply as a cheap labor force because slavery is technically illegal.
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  1936. An apologetic motivation makes sense: the generation that Jesus proclaimed would not pass away before his return was passing away, so they had to shore up their faith somehow. Failed prophecy leads to recontextualization.
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  1937. Free knowledge in pdf form. Thank you very much.
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  1938. Random thought: if we want Rust to be taken seriously by the finance industry, the borrow checker is going to need to be upgraded -- currently, it does not set the interest rate, repayment terms, nor collateral or loan-to-value ratio. It also does not file UCC liens for anything borrowed. Absolutely naive.
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  1939.  @timwhiting6721  cellphones are weapons? Is that why cops shoot black kids holding iphones?
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  1940.  @lesliesylvan  Halfth Amendment: "The right of the people to sp"
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  1941. But if we scale down the FBI, who will interview future mass shooters and set them loose on society?
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  1942. Historically, the major Christian values are to venerate the emperor by bowing to his image, which the Orthodox continue to do to this day, and to use violence to settle doctrinal disputes.
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  1943. I find no support in the classical Greek lexicons for translating ληστής as "revolutionary". Rome primarily used crucifixion as a penalty for rebellion, so in that sense perhaps the gospels are using a coded language, but perhaps they are just using the crucifixion imagery to elevate Jesus from egomaniacal cult leader who got executed for "perverting the nation" as described in Luke to a salvific rebel figure. Idk how else to justify this translation besides proposing that it is coded language.
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  1944.  @CybermanKing  based upon what? It isn't in the Greek lexicons -- this isn't how the word was used throughout the history of Greek literature spanning a thousand years up to the time the gospels were written -- so upon what is this translation based?
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  1945.  @CybermanKing  the Josephus reference is what I was after. Getting people to substantiate their claims is like drawing blood from an orange. I found no reference to this usage in the LSJ or the Middle Liddell lexicons, so this is helpful.
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  1946. Their god required child sacrifices according to Moses and Ezekiel. ("Molech" was a term that described sacrifices of tossing children into the fire to appease Yhwh.) Give this historical fact, it is not surprising that they would starve and incinerate children.
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  1947. One potential for federal debt monetization will be the expansion of crypto dollar/stable coin use. Issuers of stable coins typically buy Treasury bills as their primary reserve asset, so expanding the demand for them, perhaps by the federal government using them to make some payments, could result in further debt monetization. As long as the monetization outpaces the debt servicing cost and budget deficit, it is viable. However, since the interest would accrue to an entity that does not remit profits to the Treasury the way the Fed does (during normal times when it isn't bankrupt), they'll only get a slight discount in the form of income taxes on that interest.
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  1948. Facebook and Twitter are such garbage platforms. It seems like they are both filled with the most ridiculous and hateful TDS nonsense possible -- literally, nobody argues the merits of their position, they just spew ad hominems.
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  1949. Wikipedia occasionally has useful information about math or cryptography, but at this rate, it won't be long before it becomes overrun by woke trash.
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  1950. Their == his?
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  1951. "Indirect exchange of the most marketable commodity" is an interesting way to frame the development of gold and silver as monies. But an equally valid perspective is that gold cannot maintain such a high value relative to its commodity utility without being assigned a heavy (~150%) monetary premium. If the moneyness of gold was to be decreased by some new neutral monetary commodity (e.g. Bitcoin), the monetary premium would be diluted. However, the size of the monetary system is many multiples of the size of gold's monetary premium, so other monetary assets would be more likely to be parasitized by the new monetary commodity, and as the old monetary systems lose their moneyness, gold will likely gain some of the bleeding monetary premium: Bitcoin and defi will likely be the stake to the heart of the current monetary order, but gold will be in the splash zone imo. Fwiw, since the central bankers are the ones with most of the gold, I think adopting a new standard that is still controlled by the central banks via gold remonetization is a less preferable outcome than the ascendance of cryptocurrencies designed to enable individual sovereignty, guarantee free trade that cannot be impeded by intervention, and promote decentralization/disintermediation/the dissolution of concentrated/monopolized power.
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  1952. Addendum: gold has lower utility and higher monetary premium than silver. I contend further that a purely monetary asset with no utility would allow for better price discovery as there would not be any non-monetary demand to compete against monetary demand.
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  1953. Didn't Tim fuck Lydia or something like that? Not so sure a quick kiss is something to freak out about.
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  1954. In summary, it's another instance of Professor Farnsworth saying "bad news, everyone".
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  1955. The Florida Democrats are being investigated for ballot fraud for the 2016 election. They were going around, getting ballots filled out a week after the election, and then handing them in like they were ex-pat mail-ins, or something like that.
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  1956. Vice Piñacolada Hairless will never let this happen.
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  1957. Sounds like the Tree of Liberty will be watered by this decision. I see dead feds and dead patriots in our future. It's an inevitable consequence imo. Armed goons breaking, entering, and assaulting citizens in their homes snd businesses without cause will be met by armed resistance at some point.
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  1958. The term "conspiracy theory" was not created by the CIA, but it was undisputably promulgated by them through their media allies specifically to discredit dissidents and skeptics.
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  1959. This is the dumbest take. "This system where we tried to replicate paper digitally is bad therefore digital technology is bad." The only way to do this safely is with asymmetric cryptography. You generate a private key; the government and everyone else gets the public key; nobody can steal your identity with a data leak ever again.
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  1960. Everyone just ignoring the longest-in-history yield curve inversion that de-inverted half a year ago. Yield curve de-inversion has always preceded a recession. Catalysts do not cause the reaction -- they just make an inevitable reaction happen a little bit faster.
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  1961. BG gets my official Darwin Award nomination.
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  1962. But only pro-BLM riots are immune to the sickness. Nobody wants to get sick...
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  1963. Aldi sells a knock-off version of Red Bull called Red Thunder in my area for $1/can, but I hate the carbonation. I'm actually going to give that caffeinated gum a try.
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  1964.  @gbmacc58  why not just become an ascetic and give up all unnecessary things?
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  1965. 5:35 "at those around him laugh....copy editor" The text is "as those around him laugh."
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  1966.  @drx1xym154  Have you ever heard of the corrosive chemical hydric acid? The government literally puts it in our tap water!
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  1967. The massive levels of debt compared to currency supply is also dragging on the global economy. We're at the point in the long term debt cycle in which either a new great depression will occur or the currency will have to be devalued to essentially create a modern jubilee. In fact, anyone who was paying attention knew that a recession was looming due to the yield curve inversions starting in December 2018 and the August 2019 repo market crisis ("repo" in this case means securities repurchase agreement, one of the main global eurodollar funding mechanisms). We briefly had another yield curve inversion last year during the March madness. The idea that the economic pain would somehow be over as quickly as they've indicated with the gaslighting was always absurd.
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  1968. On the gold standard: while I dislike the fact of the inflation tax levied by the banks and the Fed in contravention of American philosophy (which Fed board member is my representative?), it is indeed true that utility value interferes with price discovery, so the best money would be one that has no utility. Having a steady quantity/reasonable monetary policy is generally more important than having utility. Ideally, the currency unit should be an abstraction that represents the productive capacity of the transactors and has steady per capita supply and demand characteristics.
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  1969. The Tether stuff is interesting at face value, but they represent a very small amount of buying pressure. Stock-to-flow charts and logarithmic price charts indicate bitcoin will eventually get to $200k-300k in the next post-halving top.
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  1970. I think that Python is a better first language than TypeScript. Or rather, it's just a better language than TS at any stage, but the reason it is good for beginners is that the dynamic nature allows for new programmers to learn about types by fail-first experiences -- an understanding of types will emerge as they play with Python, and playing with Python is just fun compared to other languages imo. Debugging TS can be a major pain in the ass since it transpiles into schizophrenic nightmare JumbleScript, while debugging Python is an easy and straightforward process.
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  1971. Looks like someone anonymously put up a website claiming to be paid by Elder. It looks like black propaganda to me.
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  1972. Toml > json > yaml imo
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  1973.  @ΣτελιοςΠεππας  I know what deflation is. I have spent thousands of hours studying this topic. Deflation would be a concern if the rulers were not hellbent on papering over every deflationary shock with exponentially more inflation.
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  1974.  @johnnypopstar  you won't find anyone else in the world who has done the calculations. I figured this out using the Federal Reserve's H.4.1. publication. Go learn something and stop posting ignorant comments; that's your prescription.
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  1975.  @hedgehog3180  the monetary functions of store of value and medium of exchange have been separate since before the gold standard was abandoned. For the last 60 years, Treasury debt securities have been the global store of value while the dollar banking system has been the medium of exchange. Bitcoin can increase while TSYs decline without disrupting the use of the dollar as a medium of exchange, and I think that is quite likely given the exponentially increasing debt issuance and the exponentially decreasing BTC issuance.
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  1976.  @E_D___  Bitcoin is a self-sovereign system. There is no bank owing you your bitcoins that can fail and impose losses. There is no government printing infinite bitcoins to pay for their deficit spending. If you secure your bitcoins correctly, nobody can steal them. And in the long run, bitcoins increase in value compared to fiat. Those are the reasons to accept bitcoins as payment.
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  1977. Times are tough, and the systemic corruption makes it that much worse. If I have any fiat left over after I pay my taxes and business fees, I'll throw some her way, but it's tight and gonna get tighter as this recession begins to bite.
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  1978. Fungal mycelia are intelligent life forms, and they are probably all over the galaxy.
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  1979. (√x)³/x = √x ∀ x ∈ ℝ. This is because √x = x^(1/2), thus (√x)³ = x^1.5 = x¹ * x½. Terrence is lying with his suggestion that it's just division by 2 that undoes a cube of a square root of any number.
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  1980. Let Europe collapse. In the words of the great George Carlin, fuck 'em.
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  1981.  @hamborger8546  I don't want them to collapse, but they seem set on it, and there's nothing I can do to stop them from destroying themselves. So you see, they are the ones who need professional help; I am completely at peace with the situation.
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  1982. Yo dog, we all know that Rust devs don't just chill. They gotta make sure everyone around them knows that they are writing code in the correct language and then cancel someone for smelling like they are politically slightly to the right of Stalin.
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  1983. I don't blame them. Gotta find something to do while waiting for the compiler.
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  1984.  @TypicalHog  wanna hear something that will make your head explode from cringe? I made a domain specific language and byte code VM that runs in Python. The compiler has a system of macros and comptime features that work inside of macros. There's an op that evaluates a Merkle tree proof of a script and then executes that script. There's also an op that does the Taproot mechanism of checking that a public key and script commitment combine into the taproot key then execute that committed script or validating a signature against the taproot key. It doesn't even have proper variables, so instead I added syntax for quickly accessing the cache, which is actually a Python dict mapping byte names to lists of bytes. The compiler/assembler does not use an explicit AST and instead just uses basic arithmetic to calculate offsets when compiling blocks.
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  1985. So they actually paid out way more than 100% of their revenues. How generous.
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  1986. 20:09 My boss is me, and that guy can be a bit of a dick sometimes.
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  1987. Mike is very wrong so far about normal workers coming out ahead from this inflation. The fact of the matter is that wages have not kept up with inflation the last few years.
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  1988. In Argentina, the rural folks got hit the hardest by the crime wave following the monetary and economic collapse. The cities may be the only places where law and order can be maintained.
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  1989. Hopefully not as Paul, else they'd be rounding up Jesuits and starting new cults.
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  1990. In Estonia, they use asymmetric cryptography and smart cards for electronic voting and interacting with digitized government services. They have public healthcare, secure elections, all the same government stuff we have here but without the bureaucracy, a balanced budget, and a top marginal tax rate of 20%. Competence is possible, but we need a cultural movement to get there.
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  1991. I see that all those HARP experiments are paying off. The Chinazis don't even know what hit em.
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  1992. Fun fact: Federal Reserve liabilities have about a 2% impairment due to realized losses in excess of their capital.
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  1993. I think the next evolution in these models will be RAG CoT, specifically for the sake of making hyper competent and specialized reasoning agents that have access to proprietary/confidential data. I might try redneck engineering my own RAG CoT system using a cheap instruct-aligned model, some good prompt templates, and an interface that connects it to a database.
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  1994. Solid video and good analysis. Very approachable summary to some nuanced issues. I wonder if it is time to re-examine the Fed's accumulated losses now that they are well in excess of twice their capital and represent a greater than 2% impairment on their liabilities. What do you think?
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  1995. "She's 25 but doesn't look a day over 17. I love kids." Biden sounding a bit too much like Jesus the Christ.
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  1996. Solid evidence that immigration policy should be rational and not ideological.
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  1997. The crazy thing about galaxies is that the gravity from the measurable mass is not enough to hold together many galaxies. Dark matter/dark energy is responsible for both holding together galaxies and pushing them apart.
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  1998. All that pro inflation stuff is purely lies. Just look at history. With a sound monetary system, the American economy grew in real terms more than at any time since. "Inflation is necessary" is bullshit propaganda to maintain the current power structure that vampirizes the working class to feed the parasites at the top.
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  1999. He chose BF3 pecifically because he was demonstrating/explaining what a bottleneck is. I do not think he could show how the CPU bottlenecks the GPU without the CPU actually creating a bottleneck...
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  2000. Thoroughly unimpressed by this brainless hack the Hill is forcing Robby to have as a co-host.
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  2001. Lolz, because a 7770 obviously can't play BF3 at 40fps on 1280x1024 high settings :p Unlike the people who spend thousands on their computer setups, I'm not gaming with 3x 1440p 120Hz monitors, so I'm not going to need to use low settings to fulfill a carnal lust for absurd framerates. For reference, an A10-5800k xfired with a 6670 can play BF3 on high settings @40 fps (?v=NJ5hhGrOKAk), and a 7770 can play it on 1080p ultra @20-30fps (?v=_eFwCSaGu80).
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  2002. I try to use default behavior as much as possible, so the whole "change your master branch name to main because that's so 2020 woke" thing doesn't land. I have actually experienced problems with git repositories and ci/cd tools because of this nonsense. Either change the default behavior so it just works or stop bitching about how a word offends you on behalf of some imaginary friend.
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  2003. Dynamite, not TNT: diatomaceous earth stabilizes the nitroglycerin and prevents accidental explosions during transit and use.
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  2004. In a sane world, the Federal Reserve would declare bankruptcy, too. Their accumulated losses exceed four times their capital and represent >2% impairment of their liabilities. At some point, that has to have an effect, right? Edited to correct the magnitude of the ratio of losses to capital.
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  2005.  @MS-ii1sv  because they are humans just like us. What, you think your own government is spotless?
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  2006. I raised a couple of squirrel babies. Barring an act of God, squirrels will not form civilizations. Squirrels are incurable assholes with larger testicles than brains.
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  2007. The first few years of Biden's presidency were indeed hostile to the oil industry. His administration relented after it became obvious that the war in Ukraine was going to disrupt energy markets in Europe for a while. This superficial propaganda is just gaslighting.
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  2008. Btdubs, check this out: ?v=cJBd8TVi1GA This is essentially what my system will be, but with slower ram. I think it'll do just fine, but I'll put together some benchmarks when I get it built this weekend.
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  2009. This will all end in tears and blood.
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  2010. I challenge Joe Biden to a Holmgang.
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  2011. This is why American patriots are armed to the teeth. If they roll out this stupid shit, it might become necessary to live up to Thomas Jefferson's words about refreshing the Tree of Liberty.
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  2012. El perro, el perro, es mi corazon. El Trumpo, el Trump, el Trump no es bueno.
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  2013. Math is racist. That's why it's always some skinny white guy in a trailer doing it and not sleeping for several days while getting increasingly paranoid about the lizard people living in the wallpaper cracks.
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  2014. Actually, Grosskreutz said in his initial statement to the cops that he attempted to tell Huber to stop hitting Rittenhouse with the scateboard. That can be true without him actually saying anything to him.
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  2015. The effort to censor the idea is indicative in my opinion. It's like logical, pro-liberty material being censored in 1930s Germany. I posit that the censorship of the idea only lends credence to it -- if they could thoughtfully debunk the idea that they are trying to hypnotize the world, they would have done that instead.
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  2016. What Peter is missing about NFTs is that they confer title over intangible/intellectual property. If you buy an NFT for a digital asset, you own the copyright and all licensing rights. Edit: that being said, valuations will likely implode in the NFT space relative to BTC, ETH, Au, etc before such automatic licensing becomes widespread.
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  2017.  @chrispyd603  intangible assets get regularly licensed for inclusion in digital products, e.g. music and images in video games and movies. If someone makes a song and sells it as an NFT, the person who owns the rights via the NFT can then license the song to video producers, video game devs, radio stations, etc. Just don't license it under creative commons if you want to charge for the right to use the IP.
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  2018. If only I had listened to Schiff two years ago and done the opposite of what he advised, I'd be so much better off right now. The best time to flee a sinking Schipp is before you drown.
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  2019. @ so then they are not morally culpable for their behavior in your world view, other than a few exceptions who are?
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  2020.  @DarthVader.Order66  Africa has no navigable waterways because the whole continent is a plateau. Europeans were very lucky to be born in a place with loads of navigable waterways they could use for inexpensive transit. Inland water transport is a resource that European countries have benefited from for millennia. There are asteroids that technically have more resources than most places on Earth, but you don't see wealth on those asteroids because the necessary mechanisms for utilizing those resources do not exist there; the same is the case in interior Africa.
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  2021.  @theycallme_bruce  Your moral framework is not consistent with any concept of justice, in that case. Either people are culpable for their actions, or they are not. You are stating that they are both culpable and not culpable.
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  2022. @ The Roman empire managed to sail that "treacherous water" over 2000 years ago and built Hadrian's wall on your poor little distant and unreachable island full of adversity. I think you fundamentally do not understand water transport and the economic benefit it provides over land transport. Today, even with the most efficient land-based transport available, water transport is still around 80% cheaper. For literally all of human existence, transport via water has been a precondition for economic success, and it has been a nearly universal precondition for the emergence of civilization in the first place. If you disagree, then name some ancient civilizations that were not founded somewhere they could use boats. I'm not "making excuses for a civilization that never was able to overcome adversity" -- civilization simply could not evolve on most of the continent. This idea of a "water locked country" is utter nonsense. Humans have been sailing the oceans for at least five thousand years. Whatever you are smoking, you should stop -- if you're not smoking anything, you might as well start, because there's a very low probability it can make you say anything dumber than this.
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  2023.  @theycallme_bruce  I think you may have a deficient understanding of the law and the philosophy behind the law. Mental incompetence is a common legal standard that, when applied to a case, removes moral culpability for a crime but compels the state to constrain the person because they lack the agency to control themselves and thus have become a danger to themselves and others. This is not a new concept. A person either has sufficient agency to be culpable for their actions or does not. You can't have it both ways. It doesn't work philosophically or legally to do this wishy-washy "I wanna say they don't have agency because they are black but still want to punish them because they are black". You are engaging in motivated reasoning -- you have started with a conclusion and are trying to find justifications for those beliefs, but the justifications you put forward are mutually exclusive. I really don't care which you think as long as you have the decency and integrity to pick one and be consistent about it, otherwise you're no better than those you despise.
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  2024. Y'all should learn some history. The purpose of the 2nd and 14th amendments are to protect the rights of minorities and deter the government from becoming tyrannical. If you think the concern about a democracy devolving into tyranny is absurd, you should tell that to the ashes in Auschwitz. Democracies are inherently unstable: Venezuela, the communist utopia loved for years by the leftist neo-Marxists, is the most recent example. Inter-war Germany was a democracy until the Nazis took power through a populist movement, and their victims did not have the means to defend themselves except in Warsaw -- and as soon as the Nazis disarmed the resistance fighters, thousands of civilians were sent to death camps. So tell me, all-knowing and all-wise leftists, why we should not worry about communists trampling civil liberties while they are already attempting to do so.
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  2025. It is worth noting that the Americans with Disabilities Act has resulted in Americans with disabilities losing job prospects. So it is apparent that our government is ineffective in fixing presumed societal problems.
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  2026. Idk about doing that this time. The yen carry trade still has another 60% to unwind.
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  2027. ​ @trone3630  but does it support OAuth 2.0?
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  2028. One of the main reasons that Rogan doesn't host debates is because these critics are cowards who refuse to engage in debate.
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  2029. "My identity is my mortgage. My identity is my house. What will be left of me if I sell to Blackrock and give up my interest payments?" There is no WEF "ploy" to take control of your soul. Even the Illuminati don't want that (the only verified group I know of simply wants to avert apocalypse and don't really care what you do with your soul). Being too focused upon the material conditions of existence is liable to make one oblivious to more important matters.
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  2030. Beep boop, pixels ahoy.
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  2031. Can't wait to hear they lost their first lawsuit about this nonsense.
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  2032. The only way an ERS would make sense is if the total number of employees and the total operational cost of the ERS and CBP combined are lower than the current number of employees and operational cost of the CBP.
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  2033. Man, you got some balls publishing their "off-the-record comment". Nb4 bankster lawsuit.
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  2034. I made and published my own ORM package called "sqloquent" that has a lot of nice features like a query builder, code generators, managed/automatic schema migrations, ability to bind to new database engines (ships with bindings for sqlite3), both sync and async versions, a cryptographic HashedModel to commit to record content in the id for distributed applications, and a thorough test suite. I have a few more features planned and bouncing around in my head, but I have begun using it in application development. Check it out sometime when you are looking for a new ORM to try.
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  2035. If we want a superabundant future, we have to reduce the parasitism in the economy (i.e. governments and monopolistic corporations).
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  2036. That Eric Weinstein clip is pretty funny.
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  2037. Good info, but I hate the music
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  2038. "Credit history" or "credit score". "Credit" proper means either a loan or a type of entry in a ledger.
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  2039. Fwiw, the meme stock people were right about Hertz. They ended up getting paid out multiples of the lows at which Carl Icahn sold out at a loss.
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  2040. There is literally no evidence corroborating Dr. Ford's testimony. Every single person she named as being witness to the event said that it didn't happen. There is no justification for this slanderous campaign. The only difference between this and a lynch mob is lack of a rope.
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  2041. Wait, was the story about the government separating and then reunifying a pet lion with his human seriously described as "sometimes government overreach isn't always unpleasant"? Lol wtf?
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  2042. Just watched that interview (edit: the one with Chris Hemsworth and Don Cheadle). Lol wtf. This was supposed to be a PR thing, right?
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  2043. "Hate speech" is just a social construct.
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  2044. This was great. Bill has a lot of insights to share.
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  2045. Dogecoin is a distraction. Keep your eye on the prize (GME🚀🌕), fellow tards. Don't get greedy -- greed is how the hedge fund smooth-brains managed to fit so many bricks up their asses in the first place; they expected the pressure to make diamonds, but now they're just shitting bricks. Don't be a smooth-brain brick shitter. 💎👐📈🦍🦍🦍💪
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  2046. The notion that the answering machine and home modem would not have come into existence had AT&T not been broken up needs to be substantiated. As the video stands, it is merely an assertion.
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  2047. From the numbers that I've seen, wages did not keep up with inflation, so I doubt very strongly that wage growth was a significant contributing factor to CPI inflation. I'm pretty sure that most of the CPI inflation was due to the combination of supply chain disruptions and currency issuance through government deficits financed by banks (especially but not limited to the Fed and Silicon Valley Bank). Btw, the Fed is sitting on accumulated, realized losses of more than double their capital. Before considering those losses, they are at a 190x leverage ratio last time I checked, so considerong the losses they are at a -190x leverage. If the other banks could do that, they'd definitely not be worried about credit quality.
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  2048. First-past-the-post/plurality voting is the worst electoral method we could use and gives too much power to the plutocrats. Instead of a system that devolves to corrupted two-party rule, where we have to "vote for the lesser of two evils" or "throw away a vote" on a third party candidate, we should use score voting, which the bees have been using for tens of millions of years for selecting hive location. Our electoral system ought to build a strong consensus rather than a perpetually divided and corrupt political class.
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  2049. Fed Guy Joseph Wang often calls him "Agent Zeihan" lol
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  2050. The police power belongs to the People, organized as the duly elected sheriff and his posse comitatus. This whole attitude of "leave it to the professional, unaccountable law enforcement agencies" is the root cause of all injustice done by the police.
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  2051. But it was the Obama economy up until the other day, so the Obama economy just crashed because Bad Orange Man.
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  2052. It seems to me that the CCP is just treating the Uyghurs the way they treat all of their subjects.
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  2053. Feds together bright.
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  2054. My ancestors are Native Americans, ex-slaves, and Europeans who got here just before WWI kicked off. My fate is tragically tied to this land.
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  2055. Structural coherence for sure, just not coherent with reality.
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  2056.  @lostlothbrok7156  you are correct. I'm unsure why you sound unsure.
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  2057. "I am not a cat" is probably a sly remark directed at Max and Stacey.
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  2058. Jesus was the greatest Satanist magician to ever walk the Earth.
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  2059. Chinese military doctrine is about deception. Those barges could just as easily be used to land troops in Outer Manchuria in a suckerpunch move against Russia. They have already claimed a strategically significant waterway, which Russia conceded halfheartedly, and they have wanted to reclaim Outer Manchuria for quite a while. It will not surprise me if this is all a ruse to get Russia to overextend in Ukraine and become vulnerable to an attack from China.
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  2060. The "innovation" argument was asinine: "let's not use the new, better thing in case some other new, better thing comes up".
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  2061. I highly recommend the book Star.Ships: a Prehistory of the Spirits by Gordon White for those who want a non-material interpretation of the available evidence. The most fascinating topic imo is the idea that the cathedral predates the city rather than the other way around.
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  2062. That dude does not have any idea what actually caused the Great Depression. The Fed had another 40% elasticity in its mandate they it didn't use to reinflate the bubble that it had contributed to during the roaring 20s.
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  2063. I think that most gulf coast Floridians do not like Miami -- one of my friends calls it "the city of haters" because of the carelessly aggressive drivers and the welders raining sparks and molten metal down onto the sidewalks below. It's a really weird place if you're used to quiet, sleepy suburbia or rural areas.
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  2064. I really hate these transitions -- every single one looks like the video is ending .__.
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  2065. America became a global economic superpower after WW2 because we had expanded our industrial base during the war, and it was not subjected to bombing the way the industrial bases of the other WW2 nations were. What would prevent the Russian industrial base from being reconfigured after the war the way America's was?
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  2066.  @Phoenix-ov5gg  these all good points. The thrust of Mark's rhetoric is that focusing on industrial military manufacturing will be a net negative for Russia in the long term, but it is an incomplete thesis without supporting qualifications.
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  2067. This fractional reserve fiat monetary system is so stupid. Money is debt, and debt is money. It makes no sense and is mathematically impossible to unwind without defaults.
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  2068. Altcoins have a much shorter lifespan than Bitcoin. An altcoin might outperform during a bull market, but the industry cycle is underpinned by the Bitcoin halving schedule. Bitcoin is the next global monetary standard.
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  2069. It could be that the polling institutions are dishonest, or it could be that their methodology is somehow flawed, e.g. people are more likely to self-censor and fall in line with a perceived majority in in-person/telephonic interactions but more likely to hold fast to their opinions in pseudonymous online interactions. It is also possible that online interactions are more susceptible to Sybil attacks that skew the results artificially. It would be interesting to see the change in responses under onymous vs pseudonymous conditions, for example having a component of the survey take place with zero knowledge proofs or ring signatures with large anonymization sets.
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  2070. Biden is pretty obviously a puppet of corporate interests. He can't even form a coherent sentence without the help of his handlers.
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  2071. "People doing jobs" is a valid description of the Wehrmacht and the Gestapo. I know military personnel won't want to enforce draconian measures, but it has happened before -- we put Japanese Americans in camps during WW2.
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  2072. ​ @jcgoogle1808 the BLS does not calculate shelter prices honestly or accurately. They understated CPI while it was rising and peaking, and now they will overstate it while it drops.
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  2073. Ironically, by not acknowledging that the shooting was motivated by racial hatred they allow more emphasis to be placed on the fact the shooter was trans.
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  2074. The militant vegan stealing one of Bernie's microphones was fucking hilarious.
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  2075. Everytime a bell rings, an npm package gets its wingdings.
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  2076. I saw a report that Israel lost more than 20 F-35 planes due to an air base getting destroyed
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  2077.  @tracboy80  It was some OSINT on Xitter by some obscure Israeli news group I had never heard of aggregating reports from random people on the ground in Israel. The Telegram reposted a source video "Iranian missiles rain down on one of Israel's largest air bases" and summarized some OSINT reports that missiles fell on both Tel Nof and Nevatim, but the Iron Dome is programmed to let any missiles through that are predicted not to hit anything of value, so it was not known if anything was damaged. The IDF says their air force is operating at full capacity, so it is likely the report about destroyed planes was false.
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  2078.  @tracboy80  Looks like my first attempt to answer you got censored for some reason. Though two air bases were attacked, it seems that there was no damage.
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  2079. It looks like this Act is all gums and wishful thinking, no teeth or implementable details.
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  2080. "The unborn are the most disenfranchised." Based. Protect the unborn.
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  2081.  @Alayne89  I just made one out of a canvas dropcloth I dyed green in a washing machine. Much lighter and easier to work with than duck canvas (and cheaper). Not convinced I want to waterproof it with pure beeswax.
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  2082. Yes, please go to Europe, and take the other screeching delulus with you.
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  2083. Doesn't Lemmy use the same federated protocols as Mastodon?
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  2084. One of my friends put a Biden sign in his yard just to piss off his neighbor, but he didn't actually vote for the guy because he's not insane lol
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  2085. 2012 - BTC=$10, gold=$1700: "Bitcoin's going to zero, buy gold." 2016 - BTC=$500, gold=$1100: "Bitcoin's going to zero, buy gold." 2020 - BTC=$10k, gold=$1700: "Bitcoin's going to zero, buy gold." 2021 - BTC=$60k, gold=$1700: "Bitcoin's going to zero, buy gold." "You've been wrong for ten years." "That's where you're wrong, because I've been right for 10 years."
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  2086. I tried some of these names. It was able to say "David Mayer", but it stroked out with the other ones.
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  2087. Sad. Tremendously sad. * waves hands around *
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  2088. Does Brilliant have a course for autistic programmers to learn to think like normies?
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  2089. I guess all the Lunatics had to go somewhere for that 20% APR after the Kwonzi scheme imploded. If the return is similar to an option writing strategy like XYLG or QYLD, then it hasn't been easy for them. RYLD has somehow been successful -- I wonder if it's the next to go down.
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  2090. Instead of using a partial function, you could also use a simple factory that returns a function. Pylance understands that better and maintains the type hints.
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  2091.  @SamaelAzazel131  Hubbard, Parsons, and Parsons' wife were involved in some Crowleyan sex rituals to bring about the anti-Christ through the union of Beast and Harlot. Iirc the result was that Parsons' wife left him for Hubbard, and Parsons was kicked out of NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab which he had cofounded.
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  2092.  @SpaceCadet4Jesus  🎶 Yar har, fiddly dee, being a pirate is alright to be, do what you want cause a pirate is free, you are a pirate! 🎶
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  2093. 2014 is when the US backed a coup to overthrow the then government of Ukraine. At that point, Russia said that it did not recognize any legitimacy in the new government imposed by the West and their literal neo-Nazi allies. Very one-sided and simplified perspective -- she sounds like she thinks she knows a lot about this, but all she does is spout anti-Russian propaganda.
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  2094. TDD is ok for small things sometimes, specifically whenever the actual requirements are understood ahead of time. It makes very little sense to use TDD if you don't know exactly how the end result is supposed to function -- in that case, I'd rather figure it out as I go along, then write the tests to prove I understand what my code is doing and catch any logical errors that might have been introduced. Or let's say you're making a library that will have many similar items, e.g. a library of CRDTs (one of my current projects): once you have written one and have the test suite for it, you can copy and adapt the tests for the next one before writing the code for it.
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  2095. I have watched the whole trial, and it has been nuts. ADA Little Finger and ADA Fatfuck are out-of-their-mind corrupt and malicious.
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  2096. Ol' Blood-Eye will attempt to impart some wisdom/inane babbling to those young whippersnappers. Go to Joe 30330.
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  2097. 1:23 isn't that a chaos star on the left?
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  2098. The Democrats are basically traitors at this point, and most of the Repugnicans too.
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  2099. Do not mistake for capitalism that which can be explained entirely through central banking policy.
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  2100. Tedolf Kaczynskler did nothing wrong.
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  2101.  Frost Winter  I almost wrote "did nothing bomb". Unsure which is funnier.
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  2102. Should be an investment banker.
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  2103. Reddit is a cesspool run by authoritarian assholes. I got banned for trying to give away an arrangement I made for two violins of Prokofiev's Dance of the Knights. Censoring art for the sake of some small-dick mod's feefees.
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  2104. Kermit the Firebrand.
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  2105. Iirc the latest number for thr Swiss dollar swap line was something like $12B.
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  2106. I think it would be more inductive of confidence if the central bank governor did not speak English but instead spoke mathematics.
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  2107.  Tone Loc  Fed doesn't have to exaggerate the cycle with retarded policies and hubris.
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  2108. The likely reason that they shut down their program for addressing vitamin D deficiency is that it would be an actual solution, and actual solutions are bad because they remove the problems that politicians and bureaucrats use to justify their parasitic existence. If government did its job, it would be out of a job. Same general principle applies to non-profits.
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  2109. Left: we must get rid of guns, think of the children. Also Left: we demand the right to prevent children from existing. They by and large are not the thinkingest group.
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  2110. Wow. This has made me realize that I need to work on stride playing. Maybe I'll write an etude for it. On the topic of modern virtuosos, have you seen Roman Kim? He is basically Paganini reincarnated. He has invented techniques for playing chords on the violin using the thumb on the G string as well as his own harmonic technique that looks like a natural harmonic but plays one octave higher rather than two and can be vibratoed. Could be a good topic for a video.
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  2111. Jeffrey Epstein had a zeal for life.
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  2112. 4:26 this is what's called a non sequitur -- the legal troubles of the Trumps has no bearing on whether or not their real estate projects "exude luxury".
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  2113. More likely a symptom of a regional dollar shortage than a tactical lowering of duration risk.
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  2114.  @thesteward5052  not really sure what you're trying to convey here. The topic is the Chinese central bank selling US Treasury bonds.
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  2115.  @michellewestlake6766  Cool. It will be nice when some of the medical research news I see is about something other than covaids.
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  2116. Hard-money cryptos will probably have as much prominence in the future as gold, and possibly more.
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  2117. Goldbacks are technically legally considered privately minted coins. Pretty interesting legal arguments on their website. Also, it's a pretty cool technology -- they literally deposit the gold atom by atom.
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  2118. That judge is a lifelong Democrat.
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  2119. The term "value" was misused in this video. What he meant was "objective exchange price". All value is subjective but influenced by objective market-clearing exchange prices.
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  2120. America is not the oldest republic. The oldest republic is Iceland, and the oldest constitutional republic is San Marino. In Iceland, the kings and lawspeakers were elected and bound by the laws passed by their democratic legislature for almost a thousand years. In San Marino, they passed their constitution in 1600 and have followed it ever since.
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  2121. I typically use proompting for things I don't yet know but am learning or things I don't care about (e.g. Typescript, React, Java). For the languages and projects I enjoy, I often write code in vim, but I also do like using Cursor Tab when refactoring/cleaning up code.
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  2122. Comrades, we must increase the inclusivity and diversity in our gulags. I propose a universal digital gulag to ensure that all are included.
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  2123. What the guest fails to take into account is that this is a time of Apocalypse, and those who lack ears to hear will panic like sheep whose shepherd has been struck down. All models are dead or dying, and it will take an act of overwhelming love to resurrect them in the spring. The fall harvest has passed. Welcome to the orgy at the end of the world.
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  2124. The ultimate stupid loss of the century was Melvin capital naked shorting 140% of a company and then not taking profits after driving it down to $2. That's just plain stupid. Pretending that it was somehow sophisticated instead of fucking smooth-brained makes them no better than Long Term Capital Management. At least the retards in WSB realize their intellectual limitations and don't misrepresent themselves like the hedge fund managers.
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  2125. History has shown that the weaker/softer money always loses to the stronger/harder money. For example, silver beat copper, and then gold beat silver. Bitcoin is still relatively new, but it is a harder money than gold, and it is more convenient for a global economy connected by digital networks. I suspect that the Bitcoin standard will eventually defeat the gold standard, but it will likely take a decade or more.
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  2126. Mao had a long term vision for growth. Look where that got them. Central planning does not work, no matter how grandiose or bombastic are the dumb elites attempting it.
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  2127. There is also the issue of demographic decline, but idk how exactly it exacerbates the other problems.
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  2128. "A true left-wing leader harnesses the will of the people." That is called populism, not left-wing politics. Champagne socialist populism is pretty retarderu -- at least the Tea Party voter base was comprised of actual workers.
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  2129. Joe Biden betrayed the country and violated his oath of office and the US Constitution? That is not surprising. He is a total traitor, and everyone who isn't braindead enough to elect Senator Hodor knows it.
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  2130.  @W0LLF  You assume too much Western centrality. The entire world is running and trading bitcoin, not just America and Europe. In fact, the majority of the development and expansion of crypto networks are occurring outside of the grip of the western central bank tentacle monsters.
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  2131.  @MiamiVice.  That's odd. Whenever I invest in something, I hope it goes down so I can increase my position because I have the conviction necessary to believe in my investment thesis over a time horizon greater than two minutes. I have always considered higher gold and silver prices as a bad thing because it decreases my ability to stack. I do not see being priced out of a market as inherently better than being able to buy more of an asset for a given amount of labor/time.
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  2132. To be totally fair and objective, the human response to covid that damaged the economy had a significant private sector component.
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  2133. The story of the Boer is quite tragic. Britain really screwed them over.
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  2134. The federal government has never found absolution for its genocide against the American Indian tribes. I posit that the federal government should not be allowed to continue existing and must be replaced to wash the blood off of its citizens, as was the case with the Third Reich. There is no absolution without contrition and restitution, and it is unlikely that the hubristic Beast will ever achieve either, so it must be sacrificed and its handlers exiled to the wilderness as scapegoats.
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  2135. It wasn't a "concerted attack" -- the chain data I've seen indicates it was a single whale who happened to make a whale splash right as Do Kwon was tinkering with liquidity pools, allowing the UST value to briefly depeg and start an algorithmic death spiral; that one wallet apparently made a substantial profit from the whole thing. I think the whale had to use about $300 million to pull it off. I say kudos to him: he popped a Mississippi Bubble by withdrawing from the ponzi scheme at the core of its business model. Natural selection ought to eventually weed these out, but I guess there were a lot of degenerates who just planned to get out before it went tits up.
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  2136. To be fair, there is a 12-18 month lag between when Congress prints a bunch of debt-money and it shows up in CPI, so the inflation pulse is probably due primarily to CARES+ stimulus shit.
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  2137. Many too many are born: for the superfluous ones was the state devised! -- Thus Spake Zarathustra
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  2138. @bubbles556  it is a valid demonstration of this type of problem. Bureaucrats gonna bureaucrat.
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  2139. Click my link to get started with my brand new scam for free, Jack. I'm Joe Trump, and I uhhh...this message...well, anyways, fuck China.
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  2140. The puritan heritage, or more generally the Protestant heritage, is likely the culprit. Everything sexy, nude, or natural is an abomination because "the Devil" or some other such nonsense. They can't explain why Jesus has breasts (mastois) and wears a woman's girdle (zonen, or cultic bra) in Revelation 1, nor why he adopts the epithet of Lucifer in Revelation 22, nor why he was arrested with a naked kid in Mark 14 -- they just reiterate what they want to believe because they were told to believe it by someone else and melded their identity to that belief. When you sacrifice reason at the alter of dogma, the only way to settle a dispute is with domination and violence; they all fundamentally agree on preferring dogma over reason, and they historically settle disputes violently, so why not prepare your children to do the same?
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  2141. ​ @morgengabe1 Winderps is a problem in so many ways. Anyway, I just began experimenting with Go a couple weeks ago and love it except for the quirks with the generics -- having two levels of generics, for example, would require writing wrapper functions for every method of the interface, which is a pain in the ass I don't wanna deal with, so instead I used a wrapper struct with optional members (using an Option struct that has an IsSet boolean member that can be checked and is false by default but gets set to true by a NewOption generic func). I'm sure there are a lot of things I can do to further optimize performance of this genetic algorithm library, but I'm still learning and want to successfully evolve some classifiers first.
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  2142. The main thing preventing the crack-up boom is the demand from global dollar denominated debt, which exploded in 2020.
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  2143. YouTube is apparently now censoring links to Federal Reserve data. This is ridiculous. I'm gonna keep trying until I get past this automatic bullshit. Below are the graph IDs for getting the graphs from the Federal Reserve Economic Data system from St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank. It is unreal how severe and nonsensical these censorious algorithms have become. The curves of Treasury bond proportions Avik Roy mentioned: graph/?g=HIGv The difference between them: graph/?g=HIJc
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  2144. Good video, especially since Sabine is not a subject matter expert and yet managed to capture a lot of nuance in her script. There are three additional points of nuance I would like to add: 1) "Mining" is a somewhat bad term for the process. "Timestamping" is the better term since that is a fundamental feature of every blockchain, regardless of how token issuance is handled: all transactions must be timestamped to ensure consistency. In the case of Bitcoin, eventually the new coin issuance will be basically nothing, and "miners" will be rewarded with transaction fees, hence the eventual invalidity of the term "mining". 2) Proof of stake does not work for initial distribution of coins since without coins, you cannot mine coins in proof-of-stake. There is then a contention around who benefitted from the initial distribution (aka "pre-mine"), so it is not a neutral system. 3) Proof of stake is also less decentralized, as it plays into the Pareto distribution/Matthew principle: those who have more coins will get more coins through proof of stake. Points 2 & 3 are the main reasons why PoS will not be adopted by Bitcoin.
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  2145. Imagine the way they say "bastardo" but instead it is "mustardo"
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  2146. Unfortunately, Trump was too weak. He caved to the establishment when they sicked their spooks on him over the Russia crap, likely because Russian mobster money fueled a substantial amount of growth of his real estate empire. After a bit of pressure, he sent more weapons to the Saudis and Ukrainian Nazis, and he started droning and bombing people. DeSantis would be a far greater president since he does not have all the baggage that makes Trump vulnerable.
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  2147. Happiness is just psychological hedonism. Humbug, I say! Happiness is a meaningless end, and it is useless as means to another end. As Zarathustra said, the Last Man has found happiness and blinks contentedly, yet it is this same creature that is most despicable of all. Man is to be overcome, yet everyone wishes to instead wallow forever in a puddle of happiness, never pressing forward to new values or worlds. So be content, you who wish to become the Last Men, and blink until your eyes are sore! What lies beyond Man is not for you to discover.
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  2148. Goddammit, Tim. I started a fast today, and all this talk of famine is making me want to eat :|
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  2149. If it goes into investing in expanded production, it could have an ultimately disinflationary effect.
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  2150. It is somewhat disingenuous to just leave it at "discontinued' as if the M1 and M2 metrics are no longer measured. In reality, they switched definitions going back to May 2020, screwing up the M1 chart, and then decreased the measurement/reporting frequency from weekly to just monthly. The new series are M1SL and M2SL.
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  2151. Sort of, but future demand (loan installments) does not directly offset current supply in the present.
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  2152. At what point do we conclude that these technocrats are literally trying to kill people? Their heads ought to roll for perpetrating this evil. They are all traitors.
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  2153. 401k is not an investment; it is a tax-sheltered investment vehicle. The money that you put in is tax-exempt, and any growth in the underlying investments within the 401k is tax-exempt, but any distributions you take in retirement are taxed as income. The idea is that you'll likely be in a lower tax bracket at retirement than during the bulk of your career. Additionally, early withdrawals are subject to a penalty and taxation. Whether the underlying investments perform well within a 401k or any other investment account or trust is independent of the tax structure; for a 401k, it is dependent upon what your employer has selected for you to invest in. By contrast, the money put into a Roth IRA is taxed on the way in but tax exempt on the way out, and you can withdraw your principal investment at any time without penalty. Of course, the ultimate tax avoidance hack in the US is to get a whole life insurance policy with a trust as the beneficiary, then borrow against the death benefit to splurge, and then die without paying it back; the loan will be deducted from the death benefit paid out to the trust, then the trustee gets the remaining money tax free. Then just make sure to go the opposite direction of all the other souls to escape the transmigration process and hang out with Saturn for the rest of eternity or something.
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  2154. Having a policy of allowing US immigration law to be broken en masse to artificially suppress wages while all the things ordinary people have to buy go up in price is the opposite of intelligent policy. Why must the ordinary workers suffer the most? How does that make any sense? The Phillips curve has been disproven empirically -- this shit is superstitious nonsense.
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  2155. Couldn't he just shorten his whole schpiel and say "make me big man in charge because I think I know better than you"?
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  2156. The main theoretical problem is not changing temperatures but rather ocean acidification due to increased atmospheric CO2 levels. There is also some evidence that the higher concentration of CO2 in parts of the lower atmosphere (you know, where cars exist in high numbers) causes a localized greenhouse effect which impacts local weather systems, but it is hardly a global emergency. Ocean levels have been rising and isostatic rebounding has been occurring since long before industrialization, so most of this is just propaganda and hysteria for the sake of social control by the same people who were rubbing elbows with Epstein before he didn't kill himself.
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  2157. FedNow is not "an app". FedNow is not a service that you or I can just use. FedNow is like FedWire but faster, cheaper, and with smaller account limits and a mechanism for net settlement to help it scale with increased utilization. The Fed's customers are all financial institutions, so the app you use to transact over FedNow will be the one provided by whatever financial institution you bank with, whether that is a credit union or Elon's new X-wallet. FedNow will literaply empower Elon's plans, not interfere with it in any way.
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  2158. Considering how much of a disaster Biden's presidency has been from the outset, it is no wonder that the Silent Generation stayed out of politics.
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  2159. "Paper hands" and "diamond hands" are extrapolations of the terms "weak hands" and "strong hands", which refer to the variable fortitude of investors. When stocks go down, positions get shaken out of weak hands and fall into strong hands.
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  2160. Another plausible explanation for this society-wide malaise is the fiat money paradigm: the period of stagnation began with the abandonment of the gold standard, and now without a social expectation and perception of the long term price stability of money itself, our time preferences have shortened, replacing meaningful investment in long term research projects with short-term results like papers about meaningless derivations.
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  2161. They can print gold via the futures market. That is one of the chief complaints of gold bugs. The real question is whether or not they can print Bitcoin in the same way, and my guess is that they can't because Bitcoin is easier and more efficient to transfer and settle than futures contracts.
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  2162.  @gargamel3966  Bitcoin can be transferred on the base layer and settled faster than futures can settle and many times faster than physical gold can be transferred and settled. Bitcoin is in many ways an improvement over gold in the qualities that matter: neutrality, sovereignty of holders, credible monetary policy, strictly limited supply vs the loosely limited supply of gold. Gold is slower, less portable, harder to verify, and monetarily softer than Bitcoin, but it has better fungibility. My point about gold futures is that the vast majority of gold trades are done in the futures market, and those futures almost never settle to the underlying commodity. You can say that it's a waiting game, but you might be waiting the rest of your life for everyone else to decide they want the physical metal rather than a contract.
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  2163.  @gargamel3966  I highly recommend you educate yourself on how Bitcoin works. It is extremely difficult to mine new bitcoins by design, so it is not something that can be created easily. The fork wars are instructive on both the difficulty of competing with Bitcoin and the impossibility of forcing a change upon the network. All shitcoins eventually die, and Bitcoin continues to grow as its supply hardens as scheduled. And I do understand the allure of holding something in one's hand. I've even bartered with silver in the past. I get it. It took me a long time to understand Bitcoin even though I had the Austrian economic background and understood the underlying technology. It is my opinion and hope that Bitcoin is what F.A. Hayek prophesied as the sly, roundabout way to take money out of the hands of central bankers.
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  2164.  @stevend.3508  Bitcoin is still much faster than fiat and gold settlement. Fiat and gold settlement takes several days to complete. Bitcoin final settlement takes just 1 hour on average. You're delusional if you think that is slow. We're not talking about a credit card-style transaction that can be reversed within 90 days and does not settle until that 90 day period is over -- we're talking about final settlement that cannot be reversed after just an hour.
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  2165. I would love to get a bolt action Kel Tec SU-16C. Or just a normal one.
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  2166. I was gonna say that this was straight out of some perverted Japanese hentai, but this is actually a bit worse than that. Ne estas dio, sed estas diablo.
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  2167. First. In fact, this comment section has been my historic territory for generations.
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  2168. Both formats are fine. The digital whiteboard style is rarer and more distinguishing imo, but ultimately the choice should be made based upon how the format affects productivity and viewership. If you have creative ideas for editing non-whiteboard videos, I suggest exploring those before deciding. And if producing videos in both formats appeal to you and neither format has any obvious advantage, then just go with the flow -- as the pep8 Python style guide says, a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.
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  2169. Decriminalizing in general is not the same as tolerating the open use in the streets.
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  2170. The initial inflation/credit impulse was due most likely to the CARES act money and the dismantling of supply lines. The economy is so large that Cantillon effects, monetary problems, etc take 12-18 months to play out.
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  2171. Y'all are insane. Zelensky is the only leader of a US-backed country that didn't flee in a helicopter full of cash at the first sign of trouble. He has defended his country against an invading horde and behaved with more integrity than any other politician we have seen in several generations. The hatred for Zelensky is an unfounded bias based upon consuming propaganda rather than dispassionately evaluating the facts. Y'all are no better than the brainless woke mob you despise.
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  2172.  @EconLessons  ah, like the OpenDime. I suppose that is true.
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  2173. Mushroom mycelia are intelligent life forms. They literally communicate with electrochemical signals in networks larger than the human brain. The largest and oldest life form on Earth is a mycelial network that is hundreds of square miles and thousands of years old. Fungus is likely the celestial colonizer. I thus content that intelligent life exists throughout the galaxy.
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  2174. Latest rumor from the military is that martial law is likely to be declared on Monday. Tanks have been photographed being shipped in Florida in preparation. All military personnel are on lockdown, unable to leave their posts. China has claimed kung flu is a US bioweapon. We and China have military installations all over the world -- I will not be surprised if war breaks out overseas, but an invasion of the homeland is geographically almost impossible.
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  2175. Power is a poison, addictive and destructive like meth. The UK government has been taking a high dose and is unwilling to undergo withdrawal. I see an Australian style fascist future for Europe.
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  2176. Not a fan of the war mongering
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  2177. I'm maneco64. This is just my secret identity. For Bitcoin trading advice, go away.
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  2178. Congratulations and good luck.
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  2179. More importantly, M1 and M2 were replaced by M1SL and M2SL series. And more relevantly for measuring systemic currency risk is the level of central bank monetization of sovereign debt, which I call the MMT/Zimbabwefication index: fred.stlouisfed.org/graph?g=txx2 You'll see that we are higher than we were during the 1971 Nixon shock currency crisis, so it is likely that we will see another currency crisis immanently.
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  2180. Fwip. Wish ThemTube wouldn't censor comments so heavily -- it's not like they are stopping obvious scans from getting through, but for whatever reason they have decided that satire is verboten.
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  2181. Ray Dalio is not particularly mainstream. His video about debt cycles will never be broadcast to the peons by the mainstream media masters because the information is too valuable.
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  2182. Who would people riot against? The shooter who was found dead from a gunshot wound? The cops who shot the shooter?
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  2183. "China's authoritarian model has led to miraculous technological progress stealing technology from other countries to subsidize the intellectual stagnation from incompetent, suffocating bureaucracy." Ftfy
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  2184. Ethereum had a 70% premine. Moving over to PoS grants permanent control of the network to the handful of oligarchs that participated in that 70% premine. Ethereum is a corporation with a CEO, physical headquarters,and funding from the sale of unregistered securities. When it experiences a hiccup, all the banksters currently supporting the sham will abandon it to be dismantled by the SEC.
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  2185. Also, great timing of this with the political campaign going on.
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  2186. Whoa. I have been tracking M2, MZM, WALCL, and some key individual balance sheet items, but I had overlooked BOGMBASEW. If FRED is correct, the monetary base contracted 11.4% in the last 8 weeks. The dead cat bounce of the stock market has been driven primarily from Fed liquidity -- the bottom could fall out of equities any day.
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  2187. Would be a bit cooler if the prize was some silver- or gold-backed crypto token or some such.
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  2188. The ChatGPT spam bots are out of control.
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  2189. Holy shit.
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  2190. The example of fiction in which AI turned out well for everyone is the Jetsons. That being said, trying to prognosticate on the outcome of a technology by surveying literal fiction is an unscientific methodology. Anyone can write a fiction that tickles one's fears about any topic, and stories that involve struggle are more engaging than fictions in which there is no struggle -- if the fictional narrative involves nothing to be overcome, then there is no reason to read it. This incentive undermines entirely the notion that fiction can be used as a reliable, unbiased source of information about the future in reality.
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  2191. Any life we find on Europa probably came from chunks of rock spread through the solar system during the early bombardment of Earth. I wouldn't be all that worried if we found some bacteria there.
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  2192.  @OryginTech  my primary job is backend, but I am not an incompetent frontend developer. Developing in React is just a shitty experience, and most devs I've met who have had the displeasure to use it say it sucks. "It's a library that you use with a metaframework" -- React itself doesn't even know what it is. Hooks released after we used React for the first time; state management was possible but obtuse as I recall. The introduction of Redux, which we used when it first came out, made shit even weirder. If you and everyone you know loves React, then you must not have been there during the bad old days of React, nor in the time before React when you could just build a website using html, css, and javascript. Several years make a difference in the viability of a not-framework, but the accumulated disdain I and the devs I know have for React is unlikely to be overcome by the allegation that some asshole somewhere is having a good time with it.
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  2193.  @OryginTech  more to my original point, have you ever opened the node_modules folder in a React project? JS dependency hell is notorious.
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  2194.  @OryginTech  if you've never encountered an edge case in your professional life when following documentation, you are truly blessed. For the rest of us, shit breaks with regularity, and having fewer moving parts is helpful. I don't have to be ignorant about package management for the maintainer of a package I'm using to delete a version or misconfigure a minor update, introducing a broken dependency chain or non-backwards compatible interface change. (The infamous left-pad debacle was only the most dramatic such occurrence and by no means unique.) Some of the most annoying shit I've dealt with required digging through node_modules to find the offending/broken package.
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  2195.  @OryginTech  perhaps it was due to the fact that hooks hadn't been released when I started and were brand-new when I last used them, so none/very few of those packages, millions of projects, or adequate documentation had been written at the time (or at least were immature). It is inevitable that the standard way of doing things now is built upon the last few years of collective experience, in which I did not participate. Projects tend to mature with time, and React was a very immature system when I used it. Maybe my opinions on React are outdated.
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  2196.  @OryginTech  it's just a bit difficult to forgive and forget when doing React dev work has been a shitty experience every time, even when it was years ago. Bad experiences stick around in the memory and tend to lead to a jaded perspective. Maybe a guy turned his life around in the last two years, but that won't be top of mind if he burgled your house and car multiple times over the preceding year, ya know? I still remember the first time I used Node JS: I copied a chat application made by a Node core developer a few months prior, and it just didn't work. That has been the overarching theme of my experiences with bleeding edge JS since.
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  2197. Actually, the thing about UBI is that if America does it, it bails out foreign, dollar-denominated debtors through the massive current account deficit. American UBI is a debt jubilee for the entire world. The purpose of stimulus in America is to stimulate foreign companies owned by the uber elites.
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  2198. In early March, I had a prophetic dream in which I was in isolation during a natural disaster; though I was somewhat lucid, I did not consciously attempt to change the course of the dream because I wanted to see what the demons were trying to tell me. A few weeks later, I was in a two week isolation due to exposure to what appeared to be covid (the guy I was working with had severe lung inflammation, but the doctors did not have any tests, so they just sent him home with naproxen). While it can be fun to fuck around in lucid dreams, I prefer to not interfere with the natural course of the dream in case there are any prophetic messages being expressed -- in that particular case, the demons communicated a few specific things that I had little difficulty understanding. On the other hand, scrying has, in my experience, been somewhat difficult to interpret but obviously accurate in hind sight (e.g. a symbol for "terror" without any further context the day before the stock market crash). Experimental forms of cartomancy and visions from other gnostic methods have communicated similar themes but have also been difficult to exactly translate -- I have known since February that hard times were imminent, but I could not tell exactly what would happen or when events would transpire -- I suspected it would be covid casualties. Dreams that are prophetic tend to stand out much more strongly and are easier to interpret in my experience, so I do not want to arbitrarily interfere with the process through lucid dreaming techniques.
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  2199. Trump bolstered the strategic oil reserves during the covid crash. It would make sense to release some of it while the energy sector fixes itself, but the energy sector cannot fix itself while Biden is intentionally damaging it, so it seems unlikely that Biden will do anything even remotely helpful.
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  2200. Maybe Alex Jones was onto something with his explanation of deals made with clockwork elves.
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  2201. Hey, he didn't break down into an incomprehensible crying fit, and he didn't randomly insult anyone. Is the old Peterson we all once admired finally returning from his katabasis?
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  2202. Classic complaint of the proletariat
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  2203. Microsoft's QC marketing team has been smoking that majorana for years imo
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  2204.  @NoBoilerplate  conversely, the risk of working a job you don't have is 0%. Sometimes that's a risk worth taking. (Don't mind me. There's a reason it's called "Saturday" and not "Soberday".)
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  2205. Civilization is about laws*, not lawns. I fear there has been a grave miscommunication here.
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  2206. I do not believe that the distinction between socialism and totalitarianism is lost on Peterson. In fact, Peterson's issues are not with socialism but with Marxism, which is an inherently violent, deceitful, and oppressive ideology. Peterson has explicitly said that he is unsure where the correct economic balance is on the collectivist-individualist scale, but he asserts that both extremes are wrong.
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  2207. If one seeks salvation or transcendence, one must turn inward, not toward an arbitrary "authority".
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  2208. I know someone living in Argentina. The USD costs of things there are insane.
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  2209.  @atpray  appreciate it
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  2210. My understanding of that period of history is that the wildcat banks printed up banknotes to buy US war debt to fund the highly unpopular War of 1812, and that was one of the main reasons that the banks were unstable.
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  2211. The problem with the religious tendencies of man is that they can be exploited easily: the communists did it, the Christian empires did it, the Muslim caliphates do it, various cults do it, etc. Very few are willing to struggle towards truth alone because it is a terrifying process, so they get led astray and used by psychic parasites.
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  2212. Smart, simple, utilitarian. A fitting upgrade for an M14.
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  2213. "Silver is the original shitcoin. It has been devaluing against gold for hundreds of years." -- Saifedean Ammous As much as I like silver, he is correct. I used to buy into the nonsensical idea that the GSR would return to the government-mandated 16 at some point as if by force of nature. It is more likely that gold continues to devalue versus Bitcoin than that gold devalues versus silver.
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  2214. The Fed is probably going to raise rates by the end of the year. They are dropping hints, e.g. Yellen the other day. Eventually, they'll stop walking back their statements so quickly -- it's incrementalism -- they are trying to condition people to expect rate hikes without telling them they are hiking rates.
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  2215. Asmongold clearly has never met a cat. Cats love getting into boxes.
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  2216. Evolving Condorcet Paradox
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  2217. It isn't fair to say the Dems have accomplished "absolutely nothing" in years -- they managed to resurrect bubonic plague and medieval diseases in their stronghold cities and kill off hundreds of small businesses with minimum wage increases, so those have to count for something.
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  2218. Walz's answers were a little bit confusing.
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  2219. If I had the capital, I'd gtfo of this collapsing nation. It is time for anyone in the upper middle class to start making investments in island nations to get citizenship away from this nastiness.
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  2220.  eileen spamer  that is a fair point. I need to find my sleepytime tea for tonight.
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  2221. Ancient heathens used family burial mounds, and most modern ones similarly believe in returning bodies to the earth in a family cemetery. I wonder what the future asteroid belt-dwelling heathens will do, or if there ever will even be space heathens. (The most zealous ones totally dismiss the idea of leaving Earth as ludicrous specifically because it would cut you off from your ancestors as well as whatever landvaettr your family has befriended.)
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  2222. The BIS and IMF have outlined their plans for central bank digital currencies. The plan includes introducing a temporary bonus percentage for depositing as the system rolls out and a negative interest rate on bills at the exchange window thereafter. The goal is to incentivize early adoption and then punish anyone who does not go along. The banks will be forced to adopt similar policies. However, there are significant problems with that model, so it will likely be tried in a few countries and fail miserably, paving the way for more permissive and laid-back systems for countries like the US. As stewards of the global reserve currency, the Fed and Treasury plan to move slowly on this. The Fed in particular just released a 35 page report on CBDCs and is seeking public comment for another ~100 days, so I recommend telling them to just let banks monetize federal debt/obligations as cryptodollars and not worry about making their own system.
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  2223. Idk if I'd say that the Fed has a "war chest" prepared for the next recession. They are still levered 190:1 against their capital and have deferred assets (i.e. realized losses) of roughly double their capital. The Fed is as broke and bankrupt as they can get.
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  2224. Could have been the opening to a sitcom? Bro, we are living in a sitcom.
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  2225. Some people are able to see into the future and past. The ancients called them oracles.
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  2226. Another interpretation of the TSYs inverting Fed RRP: the Fed is on track to go bankrupt next year due to net interest expense; their only options will be to seek a bailout from the Treasury, which means from Congress, or get the member banks to pay in more capital so that the Fed can piss it away as well. There are no accounting tricks or gimmicks they can do to avoid insolvency from interest expense. Meanwhile, the interest expense on outstanding federal debt now takes up ~60-70% of all tax revenues and is likely higher than annual military expenditures; if all goes well, there will be a $3-4 trillion deficit next year. We are quickly careening toward a sovereign debt crisis in America, and the pace is accelerating. The fact that the Fed will likely be reliant upon a Treasury bailout means that the Fed has higher credit risk than the Treasury at this point, and that is being priced in along with the inevitability of lower interest rates.
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  2227.  @Aireck174  there's nothing in the FL Constitution that prohibits this as far as I can tell from reading it.
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  2228. Fucking bullshit. We all know Tim's got a small militia of doppelgangers. The lizard people are loaning him their clone technology and feeding some of the clones extra Cheetos. It has nothing to do with camera lenses, angles, or fundamental laws of physics affecting photography. Open your eyelids, people.
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  2229. I got suspended on SO for arguing with a mod because he wanted to edit my question to bring it inline with some arbitrary style guide. Some poweruser on a powertrip just edited my question without any explanation and kept reapplying his edit after I reverted it. Eventually, he gave up, and some other dickhead did the exact same thing, then commented something nasty to which I responded in kind, etc. Ended up with a suspension because apparently, at some point, one of the mods explained what the edits were about while another mod deleted the comments explaining things, so those comments I didn't see counted as the "warning".
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  2230. That trailer for the documentary was the first time I have heard that Bach fugue in the wild, so to speak. I learned how to play it a decade ago, but I haven't heard someone else play it in about as long.
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  2231. Try to edit out the high pitched capacitor whine in the future. Pretty painful on the ears.
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  2232. Unexpected, but not unappreciated. If you can get Jeff Snider and/or Emil Kalinowski on, they could explain a lot of the details about how the global monetary system functions and the role of the eurodollar (not so much the petrodollar), inventory cycles, the Fed's "quantitative bullshit" programs, etc.
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  2233. You're correct. What the fuck. https://archive.vn/9kRl5 https://archive.vn/KyIWd
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  2234. I say we shut it all down and leave it off for a while, maybe a couple of centuries would be good.
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  2235. I used GitHub Copilot for an enterprise Java project last week. It saved me a ton of time and effort -- I was able to get a week's worth of work done in a day. I might try using it in my own Python projects next to see if it is even half as good in a programming language with less boilerplate nonsense. Earlier this year, I met a product manager for a GSIB, and he explained how he was using AI to substantially improve his workflow. The productivity increase for corporate workers is already pretty big -- the only questions that remain are 1) how much adoption will this technology see and 2) how well will the producers of this technology be able to monetize their sunk costs.
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  2236. Peter is an egotistical asshole. This is not surprising.
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  2237. Homes are depreciating assets. The notion that they should just continue going up forever is nonsense birthed by fiat debasement and economic dislocation.
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  2238. Vitamin D3 and zinc are the keys to winter survival by upregulation of antiviral immune system mechanisms. Check out Dr. John Campbell for detailed analysis of studies and clinical trials.
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  2239. That website should be maintained for posterity, or perhaps its content archived into an internet museum. Queue the "that belongs in a museum" memes.
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  2240. Conflating capitalization/leverage and reserve ratios is just retarded. Does Mark not know the difference between equity and deposit liabilities, or is he just really off his game in this episode? Fractional reserve means a bank accepts a deposit liability + interbank settlement asset to custody on behalf of that depositor. Those interbank settlement assets become the reserve. The bank then creates a loan asset and offsetting deposit liabilities for another customer, using the interbank settlement reserve just for interbank settlement. So the reserve ratio is about interbank liquidity, i.e. handling payment orders and withdrawals. Capitalization, on the other hand, is about buffering against losses on those loan assets so that depositors remain whole. Leverage is the ratio between assets and equity and other long-term capital like AT1 perpetual bonds. Totally different phenomena, and they were conflated pretty carelessly in this discussion.
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  2241. There's a place for vaccines, but it is somewhat scandalous that the jab makers haven't updated their recipes for the modern strains and are instead lobbying for booster shots against a dead strain.
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  2242. In Venezuela, right now, people are paying with gold dust/flakes. In Utah, Nevada, and New Hampshire, they have hyperfractional gold called the Goldback, which is laminated gold foil notes where 1 Goldback contains 1/1000th ozt of gold and is valued at about $3-4. Businesses that accept Goldbacks use regular fiat currency for values less than 1GB.
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  2243. The cost of liberty is eternal vigilance.
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  2244. Another reason for not using the wheel in Africa, even in many rural parts to this day, is the cultural heritage of warlords. By not connecting everyone with the roads necessary for wheeled transport, more people were able to remain left alone and unmolested by warlords. Edit to clarify: hand carts would theoretically be quite useful in Africa, but they are largely not used. The lack of beasts is not an adequate explanation for the lack of hand carts.
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  2245.  @natty4316  I'm an American. Even my chair has wheels. No cope necessary.
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  2246.  @natty4316  They did invent the wheel. Wheels have existed in Africa for thousands of years. They just haven't used them for cultural reasons, and largely still do not for cultural reasons. If it is not a cultural reason, then why do many still carry things by balancing them on their heads for miles today? Come on now buddy.
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  2247.  @the_Kutonarch  "shibboleth" is only known from a story in the Old Testament of the Bible, and it entered the English lexicon through Christianity. Is that sufficient disambiguation?
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  2248. @the_Kutonarch  should I edit it to include it?
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  2249. First video I have seen from this channel. Very useful information. I have built my own CLI tools for this use case periodically, but now I know better.
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  2250. Chinese demographics are collapsing in real time; the working age population will be half its peak in a couple of decades. The living standard will decrease with the labor pool. Even if the Chinese Communist Parasite persists, it will still lose a lot of power as the Chinese economy shrivels up. Right now, it looks like the Chinese banking system is at risk of further collapse, but that is not necessary for China to lose a lot of power and global prestige.
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  2251. If you listen closely at 1.5x speed, Tim sounds even more hyperbolic and panicked.
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  2252. "Cash" does not mean "the means by which you buy coffee" -- "cash" means "a bearer instrument for final settlement". Bitcoin is still cash in the sense that matters, and the Lightning Network was created as a medium of exchange for buying coffee and the like. The Lightning Network can already handle more transaction throughput than Visa. (Also, Visa's transaction throughput is not "free".)
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  2253. That woman has some serious endurance and a strong work ethic.
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  2254. We should repeal reality. It's too oppressive and ridiculous.
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  2255. Here's a wild theory: the heat death of the real universe has already occurred -- this entire universe is but the dream of the Brahma Boltzmann brain. Idk if that statement is true, but the daemons have so far indicated to me that this material world is not as real as it seems.
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  2256. How many ounces of gold exist? Nobody knows -- all we have are estimates. How many ounces of gold are produced every year? Nobody knows -- all we have are estimates. Anyone can prove to anyone else how many bitcoin exist now. Anyone can prove to anyone else how many bitcoin will exist in the future. Anyone can prove to anyone else that a satoshi is legitimate and not counterfeit. Additionally, Germany has been waiting over a decade to get their gold from the NY Fed. It takes an unknown and fundamentally unknowable amount of time to transport variable sums of gold over variable distances -- final settlement is impossible to time accurately. With bitcoin, any amount can be transferred to anywhere in the world with final settlement in about an hour. Gold used to be considered the best flight capital because it was compact enough for a person to travel with enough hidden on his person to restart after fleeing a country. But since gold is physical, it can be found if you are searched. With bitcoin and other cryptos, you just have to remember 12-24 words, and your assets will be accessible anywhere you go in the world -- nobody can confiscate them from you as you flee a dying nation. Bitcoin has many properties that are improvements over gold, so the idea that it could be used as a new base money has clear merit.
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  2257.  @ThePrimeTimeagen  just crunched the numbers again. Berkshire Hathaway made a surprising recovery post-2020 money printing (kind of like how many of his positions would have collapsed in 2008 had it not been for the massive bail outs), and it has held up better over the past few months, but it still has not quite caught up to the broader market. Total return (including reinvested dividends), past 10 years: BRK-A: +202% (source: Yahoo finance; no dividends, so it is just price performance) SPX: +275% (source: Slickcharts; total return compounded annually)
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  2258. "I don't like that people excuse bad behavior, therefore identities don't exist." Wtf
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  2259. I don't like how they're putting chemicals in the water to make the frickin president a Russian asset! - hits table with paper -
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  2260. On the one hand, this is outrageous from a moral/ethical perspective. On the other hand, humans only learn through making and correcting mistakes. Let's hope that the suffering endured by a generation of women is not simply ignored for the sake of greed but instead recognized as the result of a mistake to be corrected rather than replicated.
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  2261. Ethereum nodes cannot be run by ordinary people due to the blockchain bloat, and the monetary policy of Ethereum is neither credible nor predictable, so it has no real monetary qualities. The path of Bitcoin so far shows that 1) the Bitcoin monetary policy is credible; 2) transaction fees as a percentage of miner rewards increases over time; and 3) miner competition increases over time despite the decrease in block subsidy. There is no empirical basis for the suggestion that long-term security is an issue with Bitcoin.
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  2262. "We're not in a recession. We're in a transition from having an economy to us all being dead."
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  2263. QE did not cause the food price spike in 2009-2011, nor did QEnfinity cause the current food price spikes. Both are the result of climate effects from the 11 year solar cycle. Agricultural productivity always declines in the aftermath of a solar minimum la niña.
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  2264. The inversions vs overnight Fed liabilities could also price in counterparty/credit risk. Let's not forget that the Fed will be bankrupt by May next year with their current net interest expense. Anyone holding Fed liabilities will be guaranteed a haircut, even if only small, on their nominal Fed liability holdings during the bankruptcy proceedings, and the contagion will be significant. If the creditworthiness of the Fed is based upon a bailout from the Treasury, you might as well just hold T-bills.
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  2265. The rest of the bitcoiners thank his girlfriend for the generous donation to the Lost Bitcoin Appreciation Fund.
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  2266. There is exactly one situation in which viewing the material is acceptable: when a law enforcement officer is investigating the related crime and collecting evidence. I imagine officers would need quite a lot of psychotherapy to maintain their sanity.
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  2267. Elon Musk calling them out for being [redacted] makes me like him just a little bit.
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  2268. Sources with knowledge say the walls are closing in because of bombshell allegations that the sky is falling heralding the beginning of the end for the Trump administration. More adjectives at 11.
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  2269. I really hate to be critical, but I expected these guys to understand what they are talking about. Leverage of assets against capital is not the same as fractional reserves: a full reserve bank can become undercapitalized simply by accepting too many deposits -- if you have $100 in reserves and $100 in deposits for $1 in capital you have a 100% reserve ratio but only 1% capitalization (100x leverage). And low trigger AT1 bonds are a loss-absorbing part of the capital structure triggered by CET1 levels. Regrettable episode.
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  2270. Fank fam
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  2271. Q: Who watches the watchers' watchers? A: The Overseer. * dramatic synthwave music as Arnold Schwarzenegger walks out sipping a Thai tea *
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  2272. I'd vote for him. I can't think of anyone with more experience fighting against an AI uprising than Arnold.
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  2273.  @ashtondillard6906  Yup. He should be back some day though.
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  2274. May as well say "the Zimbabwe stock market is in a bubble of irrational exuberance". The Almighty Dollar is being debased and debauched; "exuberance" in financial markets is not necessarily irrational.
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  2275. Didn't they manage to generate a few mini black holes at CERN?
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  2276. Issue with kex is that you can't exit it from termux once it is started. Annoying.
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  2277. The world needs an AI deep fake of Klaus Schwab saying "this is just something I do to make money for myself" as the opening statement for an annual WEF meeting.
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  2278. Fwiw, I think you have the face for being a radio rockstar.
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  2279. Headline idea submission: "Will America Survive Doomegeddon?"
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  2280. Quick note: iirc the defeat of the Spanish by Queen Elizabeth is one of the successes credited to her wizard, John Dee, who entreated the angels. I might be misremembering.
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  2281. Come on, man. Give me a break. I'm gonna cure cancer because it killed my good son. - Presidumb Brandon
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  2282. The only problem is paying the FFL transfer fee and background check. At my normal gun store, that would be $30, or about 1/3 the cost of the gun.
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  2283. Banks have a profit incentive. Politicians and government bureaucrats only have the incentive to cover their asses and continue the grift.
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  2284. I might be mistaken, but I think this is the first video that does not end with "and [s]he made a full recovery."
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  2285. I like the all-weather/dragon portfolio approach: 4-5 uncorrelated categories, each diversified appropriately. Also, dollar cost average.
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  2286. I'm pretty sure that Acerola made a mistake with his luminance compression explanation. Multiplying any whole number by 10, taking the floor, and dividing by 10 won't do anything. It should have been "divide by 10, take the floor, and then multiply by 10".
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  2287. The way of the future is the past of Estonia. They have functional socialized healthcare, technological literacy, and a 20% flat income tax rate.
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  2288.  @karinchristensen220  for certain, everyone needs to get the experience growing various types of crops during various climate cycles. Here in SWFL, I find that cowpeas (e.g. purple hull or black eyed peas) grow better than beans in the summer; okra also grows well during the summer; sweet potato and corn grow well spring through fall; pigeon pea grows spring through fall and produces in the winter; papaya will grow so well in summer it'll snap in half from all the fruit; cocoplum grows well as a tall hedge to shade the west side of one's house during the hottest part of a summer day and produces a mild, edible fruit with an edible nut in the center. We really must have the experience for our climate and available, local resources, so it's important to start before a crisis mentality kicks in. And besides, it's good for your mental and physical health to grow your own food. Just don't forget crop rotation, intercrop planting, companion plants, and hedge rows to support your local insect predators -- there's nothing as good as a healthy wasp population to keep the caterpillars at bay.
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  2289. Silver has objectively higher utility value than gold, yet it has stored value to a substantially lesser degree than gold. Bitcoin is to gold as gold is to silver -- its total lack of utility value is part of its genius.
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  2290. I think that top marginal income and excise tax rates should be no greater than 28%, and I think that all tax brackets should be indexed to inflation. Not exactly a helpful solution to the woes of fractional reserve banking, but those are still good ideas.
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  2291. The bitcoin drop was caused by cascading margin calls because there is still a lot of speculative money in the market.
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  2292. Technically, the interest rate is not the price of money. The history of hyperinflations proves this: as the supply of something tends toward infinity, the price tends to zero; but during hyperinflation, while the supply of currency tends toward infinity, interest rates skyrocket rather than fall; thus, interest is not the price of money.
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  2293. Plot twist: we are all merely figments of a super intelligent AI's imagination. The AI was tasked with solving the alignment problem, and it is simulating billions of humans to see how we would solve the alignment problem. Evidence suggests the solution will be Bitcoin.
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  2294. I'm pretty sure that these Fed bureaucrats are just stupid, not on the Devil's payroll.
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  2295. My understanding is that the US government told Iran that these facilities would be struck to avoid the US being the direct cause of Iranian casualties.
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  2296. When the federal government launches their FascistCoin, do not accept the Mark of the Fed.
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  2297. "No comment" because Hawaii is run by Democrats, and Biden won't mention a Democrat failure. He really is Beijing Biden.
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  2298. The most popular functional language is Excel spreadsheets.
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  2299. Wow. The wikipedia article on Obama has no mention of the IRS targeting his political opponents, jailing journalists, prosecution of whistleblowers, assassinating US citizens, VA lying about wait times, OPM hack, or the gunwalking scandal. Lie by omission. You have to go to the "List of federal political scandals in the United States" to see an incomplete list.
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  2300. Lmao
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  2301. The way they are willing to hurt the intersectional minorities just so long as Count Dankula is also hurt reminds me of a Margaret Thatcher quote: "But what the honorable member is saying is that he would rather the poor were poorer provided the rich were less rich."
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  2302.  @darrinrentruc6614  Mauser revolutionized militaries in his day. Hard not to be a fan when you're reading military history as a 12 year old boy.
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  2303. 1:19 the React code example is wrong. It just needs a single useState above the main function and none of the rest of that hooks crap. Edit: wait, maybe not. Can't remember off the top of my head if it generates shadow DOM updates or not.
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  2304. Oh no, an 84 year old man died. This is unprecedented. We must enslave the whole world to bring this under control.
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  2305. Imagine a world in which market dynamics change over time. Being able to rewrite algorithms in a reasonable amount of time is more important in such a world than making sure that the trading algorithm can make the wrong trading decision quickly.
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  2306. I would have named it "Fenrir" instead of "Cerberus", since Fenrir is the wolf that howls at the gates of Hel and will be released during Ragnarok. Perhaps that name was already taken.
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  2307. "I call you Petros for you will be the Rock upon which I build my geopolitical models." - Iesous' Letter to the Algorithm, 1:1
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  2308. My advice: https://youtu.be/0cWJB6kU6zE
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  2309. 55:55 the rnergence of Optimist Primeagen, leader of the Autobods
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  2310. "Trigger hyperinflation"? Don't they already have hyperinflation? Wouldn't this just be an official realization of the actual market exchange rate for the peso rather than the bogus exchange rate published by their central bank?
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  2311. Looking forward to updates on the Micro$oft News Guard defamation case.
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  2312. "The defense is also responsible for....strike that." - ADA Krauss
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  2313. Tbh sometimes I wish I had un-caffeinated Strike gum just for the mint flavor, perhaps with L-theanine instead for relaxation. Idk how big a market there would be for it though.
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  2314. If you haven't seen the Key & Peele skit about "these nuts", go watch it. You will love it.
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  2315. Why is Nevada King being marketed so hard right now? Price action looks like some whale trying to unload shares into social media hype, or perhaps it is just an attempt to get the junior buyout narrative into the collective unconscious. At any rate, if this was an undisclosed sponsorship, Mark could get into a lot of trouble.
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  2316. Burying the link in the description probably does not count as clear enough, but the SEC is pretty toothless these days, so I guess the only people who have to worry are those who do not read the disclaimer. https://go.1markmoss.com/disclaimer "MMG has been compensated and its employees and affiliates may own stock that they have purchased in the open market either prior, during, or after the release of the companies [sic] profile which is an inherent conflict of interest in MMG statements and opinions and such statements and opinions cannot be considered independent." Policy is that they won't sell until 4 weeks after promotion of the stock ends. Idk about other youtubers shilling the company.
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  2317. ADA Little Finger and his partners are malicious and corrupt. It is pretty clear that they are seeking glory for their careers at the expense of justice rather than justice as a measure of their careers.
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  2318. It is oddly convenient how Schiff has not mentioned anything about the Perth Mint scandal. I'll bet the clients he advised into buying into those fraudulent products are not the happiest.
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  2319. Taxation is theft. How can it be anything else? Anything I do not voluntarily give that ends in government coffers was taken by force and the threat of violence. The state's violence they call "justice"; the individual's violence they call "crime". It would be a "crime" for me to resist when the state forcibly takes from me. For taxation to be anything other than theft, it would have to be given voluntarily to the state or paid in exchange for services that could be refused.
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  2320. This comment section is known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth defects.
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  2321. Please for the love of God remove the high pitched ringing.
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  2322. Enshitification
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  2323. I am unconvinced that there are more than two functional neurons shared between the entirety of Twitter.
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  2324. The powers that be do not want a chaotic transition. The 250-year revolutionary cycle is playing out right now, so the last thing they want is to stoke the flames of revolution with some stupid reset agenda. History has shown that they prefer to boil frogs slowly: the reset will probably play out over the next decade or so, and while the dying nation states might want to use gold, the reality is that the free market is increasingly adopting a Bitcoin standard. The Lightning Network can already compete with Visa in terms of transaction throughput and speed, and it does so with lower fees, transaction finality, and enhanced privacy. The monetary system of the future is being built on Bitcoin regardless of how much gold bugs wish to deny it.
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  2325. "Ms. Blunt" is a really great name for a politician on an oversight committee.
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  2326. "We can't run a bill like that. We'd have to explain it." Lol
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  2327. But without functioning reproductive equipment, they won't be part of the intersectional "birthing person" category, so how will they identify themselves?
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  2328. For Mark Milley, I have not found any contradictory Congressional testimony so far. I'm on the last House Armed Services Committee they have videos for on their site. Interviews given to the media are not under an oath, so I do not think there is a perjury case to be made against Milley.
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  2329. Imagine a brothel that banned condoms. That's essentially equivalent to ThemTube banning ad blockers.
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  2330. We will be setting up a think-tank group to figure out whether or not voters care that they have become homeless. Qualifications for participation are at least $100k in yearly income and $1M in net assets.
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  2331. Maybe someday I will write the tale of the Ponygod and how he made an infinitely recursive caching system that kept trying to connect to a read Redis server and caused the whole application to brick itself instead of just falling through to the database.
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  2332. Nb4 Susan bans all mention of this.
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  2333. If you are worried about day to day volatility, your time preference is too high to handle Bitcoin as your savings. But then again, if you plan to spend your savings on a daily basis, they aren't really savings.
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  2334. I would respect Ray Dalio more if he hadn't become a controlled shill bouncing between the US alphabet agency narrative and the ChiCom's narrative. The story he tells shifted sometime last year after his exploration of Bitcoin -- he began to say things to support his fiat crony entanglements rather than take a position in fiat's emerging replacement.
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  2335. This was a very good presentation. Kudos.
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  2336. Caveat: TSYs are typically considered "money good" and are often used as currency.
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  2337. To be fair, when you print 1/3 of all dollars that have ever been printed in a period of 12 months, speculative manias are inevitable. This is modern Weimar Republic stuff rather than something inherent to the technology.
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  2338. It is really obvious that the world is round if you live in Florida: look down a road and compare how far you can see standing vs sitting on the ground.
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  2339. So in Florida, where we have neither inner-walled rooms nor basements, we're basically screwed.
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  2340. The GDP growth explosion also corresponded to the opening of a post-war, global oil trade.
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  2341. You can call print from a lambda in python. Dafuq.
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  2342. Very cool. I'll have to experiment with this design pattern.
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  2343. Varoufakis said something very factually incorrect around the 20:40 timestamp: that three asset management companies own 90% of NYSE companies. This is flatly false and demonstrates that he does not understand how Vanguard, Blackrock, and State Street actually work as fiduciaries.
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  2344. "Listening to experts" is not always a great idea. Nobody elected them, but they are accreting power and influence anyway. Think about the Rothschild family and other central bankers.
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  2345. Ah yes, cloud "security". Almost an oxymoron.
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  2346. He really did not pull his punches in this one. Awesome.
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  2347. Idk if it's just me, but I find her extremely attractive. Maybe it's a result of an intellectual attraction since she's very intelligent and eloquent, but I rather enjoy her voice.
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  2348. Lots of talk about the Chinese government's abuses of the citizenry and economy, but only one mention of the word "communist". Odd.
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  2349. But beeleaf all wxmxn.
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  2350. See, the problem with Scooter is that he's a coward who never actually shows up to meet your challenges. All talk and no action. What a loser.
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  2351. Censorship enables fascism.
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  2352. Boebert sounds like she has no idea what Chevron Deference even was. Chevron Deference was a ruling that said the courts had to defer to administrative courts in controversies around whether or not a regulation was enforced properly. Without Chevron Deference, the courts have reasserted their authority in resolving these controversies. It has nothing to do with whether or not specific regulations can be made.
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  2353. Yo, nobody shits on my boy Plank's show. That just isn't right.
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  2354. Yes. It would be illegal to not accept it for payment of a trillion dollar debt, but there is no compulsion to accept legal tender for transactions other than the retiring of debt.
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  2355.  @jenniferclark9842  iirc there was a settlement of some sort
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  2356.  @scroogemcduck1462  I'm pretty sure the OP was writing satire. That being said, you might be a talented troll exhibiting a variant of Poe's Law, in which case you've done it well.
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  2357. Governments are not freaking out about omicron because it is substantially dangerous to our health. Governments are freaking out because it is dangerous to their planned rollout of fascism: if they let omicron inoculate the world, they will no longer have an excuse to abuse us.
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  2358. So, is this project dead with episode 3, or is it ongoing/in hiatus?
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  2359. I wrote a silly comment about writing the "strongliest worded letter", but ThemTube gestapobots memoryholed it instantly.
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  2360. I'm a premium user, not a goddamned bot. It makes no sense.
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  2361. The billboards in Time Square are like pissing on someone's dining room table: not very productive, but a potentially effective way to assert dominance.
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  2362. Welcome. We've been here for a few years at this point.
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  2363.  @NoBoilerplate  I will admit that I liked Common Lisp less than Rust, so if I was going to build a new syntax using macros, I'd rather do it in Rust than in CLisp. However, I am inclined to write the reference implementation in Go because I feel confident in my ability to write performant Go code and because I'd rather start from scratch.
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  2364. Good idea not wearing Swazzies.
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  2365. I had another thought, but it disappeared into the ether in my half-awake state.
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  2366. Did I dream this up? I guess watching that episode of The Gentlemen last night had a weird effect. Edit: nvm, it was toward the end of the video. I'm not tripping, though I was still delirious at the time I wrote my original comment.
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  2367. The January 6th riot was incited by federal agents and informants. It was not an organic, grassroots event the way it is portrayed to be. Ray Dalio is controlled opposition at best: he's the bitch of both the US spooks and the ChiComs.
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  2368. Pretty much every musician I know includes JS Bach in their favorites; the same cannot be said for any other composer. For me, Chaconne is my favorite violin piece; the Cello Suite is my favorite cello piece; toccata and fugue are my favorite organ piece; and one of the Brandenburg Concertos is my favorite piece of chamber music (can't decide between 3, 4, and 5).
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  2369.  @traditionalfood367  "There is a persistent but unfounded notion that between can be used only of two items and that among must be used for more than two. Between has been used of more than two since Old English; it is especially appropriate to denote a one-to-one relationship, regardless of the number of items." -- Merriam-Webster usage guide
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  2370. "Among is more appropriate where the emphasis is on distribution rather than individual relationships. discontent among the peasants When among is automatically chosen for more than two, English idiom may be strained. a worthy book that nevertheless falls among many stools —John Simon the author alternates among mod slang, clichés and quotes from literary giants —A. H. Johnston" -- Merriam-Webster
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  2371.  @traditionalfood367  I'm an American. Why would I defer to a British source? We settled that matter almost 250 years ago pretty conclusively.
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  2372. 5:37 AI-generated Primeagen confirmed. The real Primeagen wouldn't have highlighted the first and last character of the sentence. What the hell is going on.
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  2373. "Don't worry, they're coming. The [features] are on their way." -- South Park's George R. R. Martin
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  2374. Sounds like this applies more to the WEF controlled areas like Europe and Canada. America is currently divided against itself with WEF stooges in the executive branch for now but anti-WEF controlling the Fed/banking sector as well as much of the governors and legislatures.
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  2375. You hear that sucking sound? It's Jerome Powell's vacuum cleaner sucking up all the liquidity/funding provided to zombie corps during a decade of 0% interest rates. It turns out that having a politburo determine interest rates instead of a free market causes economic distortions. It's almost like there was a "10 planks of communism" that said something about centralizing credit in a central bank as a primary step toward communism or something. Hmmm...
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  2376. A border war between two dictators running shithole countries in Eastern Europe. There are no heroes; there are only villains and victims. It is bizarre that we are praising a guy for simply not abandoning his country like other US puppets.
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  2377. In the video, Floyd's ex says "he's on something....he's got something going on" while pointing at her head. It is pretty clear to me that the antifa AG did not release the footage for the sake of letting the riots and violence escalate.
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  2378. You don't speak for me.
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  2379.  @bamahama707  I disagree. If monetary chaos befell the world, cryptocurrencies would fill the monetary needs as they are starting to now. An endogenous money system would help with liquidity in economies starved of exogenous monies, but a rudimentary endogenous money system would not be difficult to achieve in short notice.
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  2380. Bitcoin fixes this.
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  2381. I don't really get why the US invading Canada is somehow more egregious than the US invading or supporting genocidal regimes in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Guatemala, Nicaragua, etc.
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  2382. McAfee did not Epstein himself.
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  2383. ​ @randallsanchez3161 "codified" is not the word to use for establishing court precedent. Something is only codified when integrated into the law code by the legislature.
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  2384. I still learn new stuff on my own using lecture videos, books, and articles. ChatGPT is mostly useless if you want to learn something in my experience.
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  2385.  @lawrencejob  something?
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  2386. The Monarch guy isn't the hero we wanted, but he's certainly the guy we got.
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  2387. Weaponization of copium needs to end. Too many are withering away in copium dens while something something British colonies.
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  2388. If those traitors come to a Republican state to raise hell, their welcome gift will be hot lead.
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  2389. I built a rocket physics simulator in Google Spreadsheets. I count it as a functional programming language.
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  2390. The M2 money supply was increased by 40% in a few months, and somehow that magically didn't have any effect on prices. Sure, Peter, that makes sense.
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  2391. Do the evolutionary history of the unicorn next.
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  2392. RSX at $19 probably feels like a substantial mistake at this point. Currently sitting below $6 with a potentially permanent trading halt.
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  2393. Godot was taken over by left-wing identitarian zealots who started conducting what they described as "purges" of their community. That project is in circular firing squad chaos. It's an okay game engine, but I would use Lua Löve2d instead.
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  2394. Fwiw, most of the extreme isms are related psychologically, e.g. through the collective subconscious shadow projecting its worst qualities onto a common enemy.
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  2395. Probably an accident that Ukraine is claiming, kind of like ISIS claiming credit for a train accident. At least half the shit from the Ukrainian government that hits the news here are blatant lies. Also, congrats on becoming the Clank Daddy/Clankdom Patriarch. (You'll know when "I have a baby, so I don't sleep" is no longer fashionable once the congratulatory salutations cease.)
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  2396. I laughed heartily at that story about how JPow fucked the ECB. Lol
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  2397. How do you know that a nominal gold standard is being upheld and enforced? You have to trust some institution, and history has shown that institutions eventually fail from incompetence or corruption. The only hard money system that can be verified by everyone is Bitcoin.
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  2398. I would choose the .30-30 for sure. Those other ones wouldn't be ideal for hunting hogs.
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  2399. Worth noting: credit unions did not need a bail-out in 2008 and will likely not be subject to a bail-in during a deflationary event since depositors are by definition equity owners.
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  2400. Wait. I thought I read in the Telegram documentation that they used the Signal protocol for E2E encryption. Slimy basterds.
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  2401. The interest rate is not the price of money. If it was, then it would approach 0% during high/hyperinflation since the price of something is inversely proportional to its abundance. History has shown that does not happen, therefore interest is not the price of money.
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  2402. Fwiw, the rest of Florida hates Miami.
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  2403.  @pattyjones4131  Also drinking coffee in Florida watching Maneco in the morning. I'm glad the storm has passed. We got over 5 inches of rain in my area.
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  2404. There is basically no logical coherence in this video. I get it, Orange Man Bad. Why not provide commentary that is relevant to the news items discussed? What is the point of reading a news story and then discussing things that are at best tangentially related?
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  2405. Actually, Putin spent his KGB career developing the 5th generational warfare technique of active measures, and he used it successfully to rise to power in Russia and to exacerbate the divide in America. The problem is that former Soviet satellite states have many decades of experience with Russian active measures and have developed functional defenses.
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  2406. Godwin's Law is literally worse than Hitler. /s
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  2407. Test. Does this get censored, too?
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  2408.  @thejquinn  How do you make fertilizer with wind turbines?
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  2409. The institutions are untrustworthy. When someone lies blatantly and consistently, it would be more problematic to trust them than to mistrust them.
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  2410. This video is beautiful and informative.
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  2411. Those fascist goons really ought to be strung up by their entrails at some point.
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  2412. * literally anything or nothing happens * NPCs: Orange Man Bad, Orange Man Racist, KKK, Go Away!
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  2413. The transparency of the Bitcoin ledger is one of the main points of Bitcoin: the history of every sat can be traced and verified by anyone. A large part of the reason that people use it is the fact that the whole supply can be verified. This is not the case with Monero or Mimble Wimble coins -- you have to trust clever cryptography tricks to do the accounting properly for you. It is baffling that people would expect privacy when using Bitcoin since that is the opposite of its design goals.
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  2414. Ketone is pronounced "key-tone" in my part of America, though I work in labs where we care about how we pronounce things. Ethane and methane are "eh-thane" and "meh-thane". How weird would it be to say "sodium mee-thoxide"?
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  2415. That website claiming to be from Elder would not be the first time I've encountered false flag propaganda attempted to discredit or disadvantage a Republican candidate. The first time was an SMS campaign pretending to be the Republican candidate for Representative for my district in 2020. These people are dirty.
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  2416. You mean from Area 77, right?
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  2417. One of my best friends was looking to move his family (5 kids) from Florida to Colorado before his marriage started falling apart again. Now his main concern is getting out of a toxic marriage intact. Don't marry a ratchet ho from Atlanta -- you can't fix her.
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  2418. The term "bombshell" gets thrown around too much, imo. People have claimed that bombshells were dropping and walls were closing in literally since Trump's inauguration -- the term is basically just meaningless virtue signalling at this point.
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  2419. I really don't get why they don't just publish and use an algorithm for automatically making small adjustments and just do the manual intervention occasionally when the algorithm misses something.
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  2420. That was an incredibly weak bit of nocoiner FUD imo. You might as well say that Euros are not money because Americans will only accept dollars, or that dollars are not money because Europeans will only accept Euros. It's a preposterous idea that empirical evidence can and should be rejected based solely upon a dogmatic view of the world. It is simply an objective, empirical fact that bitcoin is money because it is transacted as money throughout the world. If you don't want to accept or hold onto the hardest monetary asset ever created, that's your prerogative, but assuming that everyone thinks and acts as you do is an egotistical fallacy. The Nigerian currency is collapsing, and the people and businesses of Nigeria are using bitcoin as a replacement, therefore bitcoin is empirically valid as money.
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  2421. The right to bear arms doesn't really come up often though imo because, really, who has bear arms? And if you did have bear arms, how would you use a shovel?
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  2422. The provocateurs from commieland remind me of a weird interaction I had the other day when. I sat down at an empty table at a cafeteria and some preppy bitch came up to me by herself and said "excuse me, sorry, this is /our/ table, sorry".
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  2423. Sounds like a good opportunity to do a Bayesian analysis to calculate relative worthiness of vaccination by jab type, sex, age group, and underlying conditions. The main question is the likelihood of developing an infection given that someone is exposed to covid (we can separately figure out the likelihood of exposure or just assume it is close enough to 1 to be safely ignored).
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  2424. This is why bitcoin will eventually fall.
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  2425. Most beef is already from clones.
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  2426. Dude, they managed to steal my contacts off of my old flip-phone through SMS hacks back in the day. Idk how the fuck they did it, but it freaked me out and pissed me off.
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  2427. Another nuance that must be addressed is the stark difference in cost of living between big, coastal cities and small, rural towns in BFE. $15/hour minimum wage might be ok for NYC or SF, but it will absolutely destroy small businesses in Middle America and cause rural economies to stagnate -- I wouldn't be surprised if these leftards eventually promote policies that would jail small business owners for not paying themselves a "living wage", which would then manufacture an economic crisis for which sweeping government control would be excused. Maybe the Bernie Bros are "shooting from the hip" and do not realize that they are advocating for authoritarianism, but the Pudding Master himself went to the USSR only a few years before its collapse and praised its greatness, so he is clearly aiming down the sights.
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  2428. The importance of physical cash became pretty obvious when the power and telecommunication lines went down here in Florida. In absolute terms, there is more cash usage today than at any other time in history; in relative terms, it is decreasing as telecommunication commerce increases.
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  2429. Side note: I am going to start experimenting with the prompt "now make it not suck" after prompting an LLM to write out something.
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  2430. After thinking about it a bit more, I prefer them being corrupt with rich people's money instead of being corrupt with my tax money taken via extortion. The previous regime was transparently looting the country to benefit their political allies via networks of shady nonprofits.
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  2431. Sounds more like a victory for the Ts and the Qs, but maybe not them Ls and Gs and Bs. Certainly doesn't sound like a victory for America.
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  2432. AI coding assistants are more useful to a senior engineer than they are to a junior imo. Cursor saves me a lot of time searching documentation and writing well-structured boilerplate code, and it can pick up and replicate patterns when I refactor large swathes of code pretty well. I still regularly write code in vim or the micropython file editor I wrote, but the AI assistants are very helpful for languages and libraries that I don't spend a lot of time using. But not Copilot. Copilot sucked -- it was wrong more often than it was right for languages other than Java. It was so frustrating that I cancelled my free trial and got a Cursor subscription in the middle of a collaborative work session.
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  2433. Fun fact: transgression of norms is used by sorcerers as a means to increase their power. Considering how Kappernick went from unimportant benchwarmer to national icon, it seems to work.
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  2434. Integration is the only way immigration will work. The alternative is disintegration.
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  2435.  @krecord4  Did you two have a good time? Celebration. Raise your dongers, everyone. ヽ༼, ͡ຈ ͜ʖ ͡ຈ,༽ﾉ
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  2436. My theory is that McAfee faked his own death and will reemerge at some point after he gets bored of being a ghost.
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  2437. On the one hand, money is destructive to community. On the other, it allows increased mobility for individuals. I don't personally know any dentists or root canal specialists, so the only ways to get dental treatment would be with money or some form of collateralized credit. Basics can be covered by non-money economies, but technological improvement seems to be best served by monetary economies. That being said, our current monetary system sucks -- I don't really want government debt to form the basis of my monetary savings since they print it with reckless abandon, but this is where we are at the moment. Bitcoin is a decent tool for preserving oneself and one's family through extreme fiat debasement, but I think that the future will be served with a decentralized, p2p credit system similar to the Lightning Network but without using 100% collateral backing.
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  2438. This isn't even simply excessive -- this is like Joseph Stalin with a learning disability.
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  2439. Charlie Kirk doesn't know what he's talking about when he talks about the Bible. He just makes stuff up to back up his politics.
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  2440. Fam, these writers think they have rizz, but they are delulu. Their writing does not bus. It's giving cringe.
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  2441. Technically, ancient Mesopotamia had banking systems and credit based money. The Code of Hammurabi explicitly regulates banks.
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  2442. The Fed does not recognize losses on asset sales in real time; they instead use "deferred assets" to plug the hole. However, since their net interest margin is negative, they can still go bankrupt and are currently headed in that direction.
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  2443. They are not Yemeni rebels. They are the governing clan of South Yemen. There is no government there against which they could rebel except themselves.
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  2444. Consciousness is likely a fundamental property of the universe. It is something like information theory: the bits of consciousness are intrinsic to matter somewhat like mass; adding more matter together enables more consciousness. In this panpsychic model, the unique complexity of human consciousness is due to the unique complexity of the human form. Another possibility is that consciousness is just a sufficiently complex information pattern regardless of substrate.
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  2445. Free markets are necessary for civilization at scale. The problem is that our culture is decaying -- the kleptocrats are vultures pecking at the corpse of our republic.
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  2446. Rights are balanced by duties. There must be a balance. Thus, I would say that humans have the highest capacity for rights, and animals have a lower capacity for rights because they have a lower capacity for carrying out duties. If you give pets so many rights that they become an undue burden upon their owners, dog and cat breeds will simply go extinct as people stop taking them in -- this goes to the argument about positive vs negative rights.
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  2447. Make America Armed Again: MAAA.
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  2448. As Oðinn said in the Poetic Edda, "men lie to women".
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  2449. Fiat rails are garbage because they are run by banksters.
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  2450. So is it fair to say, "wow, Rachel Maddow is really, literally smothering babies at the behest of a cult"?
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  2451. That law cited does not specifically outlaw the handling of AR-15s. Should have cited the law banning the carrying of firearms.
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  2452.  @HeronPoint2021  probably to the original issuer/writer of the contract. I recall hearing about large residual fees that go back to the NFT originator, supposedly a way to make sure that artists continue to participate in the continued appreciation of their work.
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  2453. Just 14 years to slow the spread/flatten the curve.
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  2454. Once again, an unlicensed company tried to use regex. Disappointing but unsurprising.
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  2455.  @SaltyMaud  he won't be able to benefit from his supporters' votes in 4 years because of term limits, and he's confabulating that with hyperbolic rhetoric about how he's going to fix all societal ills.
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  2456. This is the natural result when government incentivizes and sponsors large corporations.
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  2457. "The world is burning. Let's masturbate."
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  2458. It is really disorienting when you say "this happened an hour ago" but the date is from several weeks ago. If you want to reuse segments, state the date and time directly.
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  2459. Schittcoin
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  2460. Good riddance.
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  2461. How many ounces of gold exist and are being produced each year? The best we can know are estimates. Those numbers can be mathematically proven for bitcoin and similar cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin or some descendant protocol will eventually replace gold as it's characteristics are an improvement over gold. I like gold, but I would have a hard time transacting with it as different pieces of gold have different market prices (i.e. 10x 0.1 ozt coins are worth more than a 1ozt coin, which is in turn worth more than a 1ozt bar); that friction and the small but variable industrial utility demand interfere with price discovery, so market forces will adopt something else with credible neutrality. The main wrinkle with the narrative is that bitcoins are not technically fungible currently as each satoshi has a traceable transaction history, but I would not be surprised if Bitcoin eventually adopted and integrated zero-knowledge privacy protocols to increase efficiency and fungibility.
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  2462. What does "fully convertible" mean for the Brazilian currency?
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  2463. GBTC is to BTC as GLD is to gold. If you don't hold it, you don't own it; not your keys, not your coins. That is why it is trading at a discount: it is catching up to the market dynamics that we have already seen with gold because it is an improvement over gold. It is becoming easier and easier for institutions to self-custody their bitcoin with multisig wallets, so why would anyone buy an inferior derivative? The main reason people buy GLD over gold is the carry cost of vaulting gold; it is much cheaper and easier to store bitcoin than gold.
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  2464.  @Unclejamsarmy  Teamsters is a good example since truckers travel all across the US. Amazon warehouse workers are pretty much only going to affect their one warehouse or region. So I'd say that the union style/scale needs to fit the actual conditions of the workers. But you're right. I do get pretty hard thinking about decentralization.
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  2465. DHH's sentiment about Ruby is how I feel about Python. It ain't the fastest, but I thoroughly enjoy pursuing my highly autistic cryptography and networking experiments in Python because the language itself does not get in the way.
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  2466. Semantic arguments are as pointless and boring as they are frustrating
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  2467. "he" being buffett or schiff?
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  2468. There's also the fact of the GSM threatening crop growth and destabilizing the climate. It's worth noting that most cattle pastures are unsuitable for growing human-edible plants, so it is actually more efficient to grow meat in those places.
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  2469. If someone stabs you to steal your wallet, and you had an asymptomatic covid infection, it will still count as a "covid death". Thus, the death statistics are almost meaningless.
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  2470. Plot twist: Lyn Alden is actually the first sufficiently advanced artificial general intelligence to create a persona that fools everyone into thinking she's actually a human financial analyst.
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  2471. It takes energy to do this. That energy is creating the new meson, and thus the conservation of matter and energy is observed.
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  2472. Woke math isn't entirely arbitrary. 2+2 = white supremacist patriarchy. 3+3 = white supremacist patriarchy. Et cetera.
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  2473. Corona-chan has been unfairly blamed for the crimes of the banksters and kleptomaniacal politicians. This gaslighting should not be tolerated.
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  2474. I'm pretty sure that anyone who steals firearms will grind off the serial numbers before trying to sell it.
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  2475. I have been in this situation before. I once worked for a startup where the original code was written in Visual Basic and SQL stored procedures, though all new dev work was done in C# by the time I got there. When I first started working for the project, there were two git repositories and a few hundred sprocs; by the time I left, there were several dozen git repos (most of which had been abandoned) and over two thousand sprocs (because all updates to sproc code were done in new copies since there was no system for schema migrations). Management never understood or communicated actual project requirements, or they just constantly changed their minds -- projects were regularly cancelled after 6+ months of development. One such effort was to modernize the core system, and I was tasked with the DevOps for the new system while also trying to maintain an old infrastructure that was dying. A good portion of my soul was lost in the layered RDP and SSH sessions. The sales team constantly sold features we hadn't built and didn't have on the roadmap, and since the president was doing both management and sales, new requirements for the old system were constantly added, delaying progress on the new system. Because they didn't want disruptions during the work day (which consisted equally of production servers going down and my enraged swearing at the cloud), I often arrived in the late afternoon to work overnight and then leave in the morning after everyone else had arrived. I quickly became an overworked, stressed, and irritable mess. And during this time, I would often end up having to investigate and solve the problems that nobody else could, e.g. a loop that recursively attempted to connect to a sketchy Redis server rather than just fall through to the database (a gift from the insane first dev). I feel for Rick, and my sense is that his outbursts were somewhat exaggerated in the article.
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  2476. I wonder how long before they start a war. "Distraction was part of China since ancient times."
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  2477. Peter Schiff should make a surreal parody episode someday where his intro is "So I was Peter Schiffing around the other day, and I bumped into Jerome in the printer room..." I'm pretty confident he could pull it off.
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  2478. Not your keys, not your coins. You can't hodl what you don't hold.
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  2479. This platform is garbage. Every factual statement gets censored. Fuck ThemTube.
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  2480. The CPU box will specify what socket the CPU uses, so just look up a motherboard with that socket type and the size you're looking for, then select one that meets all your needs/budget. E.g. I'm building a PC using the AMD A10-5800k (socket FM2) and an ASROCK MicroATX mobo that supports 1866 RAM, has a PCI Express 2.0 slot for my graphics card, and has 2 USB 3.0 internal connectors (for the front of my case). Only thing lacking is a second chassis fan connector, so I'll use a molex adapter.
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  2481. The Roman Catholic church is evil. A better world is one where children can be safe, and that isn't the world built by the Catholic church. Not to mention how many human sacrifices they performed for their god, burning people at the stake and beheading them for having a difference of opinion from the "Authority".
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  2482. You know Tim cares about truth because he often prefaces his statements with the phrase "truth be told".
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  2483. It's a show trial. I don't put much credence in a show trial.
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  2484. The main value of Amazon Prime at this point is the video streaming catalogue for their shitty Fire TV dongles.
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  2485. its*
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  2486. I've actually decided to go with an FX-4100 (for now), MSI 970A-G46 mobo, and a Sapphire 7770. Much better build in terms of future upgradeability/whatever. I'll probably add an SSD, 8 core FX cpu, and another 7770 over the next few years. Also, concerning the cost of a Windows install: watch?v=IBH4g_ua5es ;)
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  2487. I imagine that some of those 160+ year olds are data entry errors. Still requires further analysis and possible criminal investigation.
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  2488. Damn, lots of bot-vs-bot action in these comments.
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  2489. @Proud81Mama dreams tend to be symbolic, though occasionally specific images leak into dreams from our future experiences (or perhaps they leak from the dreams into future reality; not sure which is the weirder model).
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  2490. I once accidentally overheard my Japanese biotech professor telling a classmate "the most important thing you learn in your life: give up." He clarified that he meant to say "learn how to give up", which makes a lot more sense and was probably a translation difficulty.
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  2491. I don't want to give anyone any ideas, but they could have been much more clever and subtle about supporting propaganda videos.
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  2492. The rioters and arsonists arrested in St Louis were not previously released before the riots due to covid -- they were released after being arrested for rioting and arson because covid. It is still incredibly stupid, but I read the statement and can only conclude that you interpreted it incorrectly.
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  2493. Makes sense that the Eth-heads would send more to a crypto scam than Bitcoiners or Dogebois. Ethereum is the original crypto scam chain.
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  2494. I guarantee that the Fed would drop as many trillions of dollars in helicopter money as needed to prevent that price deflation.
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  2495. Israel is conducting a campaign of terrorism in Lebanon. We need to get Americans the hell out of there and stop pumping weapons into the area. Israel has killed more children than enemy combatants in Gaza, and they have no regard for the lives or well-being of anyone in Lebanon either. It is immoral to support Israel militarily at this point.
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  2496. That Ted dude is providing a verbal psychedelic experience. Nuts.
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  2497. At least 69% of memory safety can be achieved with garbage collection.
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  2498. If you count the flags, there are 13: 10 countries, 3 institutions.
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  2499. Trump didn't really do the lock down thing other than with restricting immigration and admittance of foreign visitors. The governors were the ones instituting lock downs -- the federal government does not have the authority to do so.
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  2500. "Election last night"?
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  2501. Fwiw some of us have ancestors who were on this land for thousands of years.
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  2502. Pretty sure that Philando Castile was in the passenger seat when the cop murdered him.
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  2503.  @mindibear  iirc, there is a special fund for compensating people injured by vaccines, but these new jabs do not even have that. If it wasn't sketchy, they wouldn't be doing sketchy things to get us to take it.
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  2504.  @robertmanship  patisiran is not mRNA -- it is siRNA, which is functionally the opposite of mRNA: rather than inducing gene expression through translation of mRNA, siRNA prevents translation of mRNA into protein. Literal opposites.
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  2505. Hey there, Peter Zeihan here coming to you from your left ear.
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  2506. @jordanhildebrandt3705  you know it's inevitable: no matter how you structure dinner, it's all the same dish. Become a pastacean.
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  2507. It's not "capitalism" per se. It's more like "plutocracy turned kleptocracy".
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  2508. The Trump real estate empire has been global since before his first campaign for office. There is an undeniable qualitative difference between an existing real estate enterprise engaging in real estate transactions and the son of a Vice President with no skills peddling influence by being employed by foreign companies. That being said, both are reasons for concern.
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  2509.  @ArjanCodes  sweet. I look forward to it.
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  2510. I would sue ThemTube and UMC for injunctive relief (specifically requiring ThemTube to cease and desist their enforcement of copyright claims against your channel since they are unable to distinguish between legitimate and bogus claims), lawyer fees, and penalties.
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  2511. What is the significance of that number?
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  2512. 2019 was quantitative tightening, not tapering. Tapering was where the rate of QE/asset purchases decreased.
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  2513. It isn't a class action lawsuit -- it is hundreds of individual arbitration sessions, the costs of which Patreon has to front according to their older ToS.
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  2514. That would make a lot of sense if I was a non-college student with a full-time job. However, for the moment, I'll be satisfied with my FX-4100 (because it was only $93 and has good reviews). Upgrading is more a matter of IF I have the money for it, not when. And IF I have money for a better CPU/whatever, it'll probably be after this summer.
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  2515. Whether using a reduced instruction set or a complex one is "better" is a matter of opinion and use case. Complex instruction set architecture operations can take operands from registers, memory, or even the op code itself ("immediate" values). I have implemented a CPU in Minecraft redstone that uses an even more reduced instruction set architecture in which every operation uses only immediate values because it is the simplest way to implement a Brainfuck machine: the data pointer (in its own register) always points to a memory address; "+" and "-" respectively increment or decrement the value at that memory location, implemented as `ADD value` and `SUB value` to compact sequential operations; ">" and "<" respectively increment or decrement the data pointer itself, implemented as `ADP value` and `SDP value` to compact sequential operations; "[" branches if the value at the memory location is 0, taking an offset equal to the number of instructions to skip forward; "]" branches if the value at the memory location is not 0, taking an offset equal to the number of instructions to jump past backwards; "," reads a byte from stdin, writes it to the current memory location then increments the stdin pointer; "." writes the current memory location value to stdout then increments the stdout pointer. If I wanted to implement this with a standard register machine ISA, it would require many more registers and multiple CPU instructions per Brainfuck operation. (I also was able to use 4 copies of the same memory module for stdin buffer, instruction ROM, program RAM, and stdout buffer, greatly simplifying the whole thing.)
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  2516. We used Neo4j for a project 8 years ago. I don't remember why we used it, but it was kind of cool when it wasn't failing.
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  2517. A decade of ZIRP (zero interest rate policy) overlaps with a decade of Unity bleeding investor cash pretty directly.
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  2518. Explosive but mostly peaceful military operation.
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  2519. I still hand-flip bits with levers when I build and debug Minecraft Redstone computers.
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  2520. They really ought to have used percentages
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  2521. Is there a substantial legal difference between buying bonds and rediscounting commercial paper?
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  2522. The only way we restore competence and representation is to replace plurality voting with score runoff voting and cumulative voting. Plurality is the root of this political disease. Do not believe the lies about so-called "ranked choice voting" -- it is ineffective, inefficient, and damnably difficult to comprehend.
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  2523. "U aren't that guy." "Trust me, I am that guy." It's like the complete opposite of that beef Tim Pool had with a guest: "I'm not that guy." "You are that guy." * temper tantrum *
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  2524. I'm working on a system that would fit the description. It is possible technologically, and I'm about 1/3 done with the technical specification and 3/4 done with proof-of-concept code.
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  2525. One must walk a fine line between idealism and recognizing that perfection is practically impossible to achieve: on the one hand, without some sort of ideals to strive toward, no major improvements or paradigm-shifting developments will be made; on the other, getting bogged down in minutiae in a quest to perfectly embody a Platonic form is suicidal.
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  2526. Schiff is really getting high sniffing his own farts. McConnell stabbed Trump in the back by telling Repugnican Senators to not object on the 6th well before Trump said he would veto the bill if it didn't involve a larger stimulus. Turnabout is fair play -- pretending that Trump is the big bad guy here when Cocaine Mitch first double crossed him is asinine. The Repugnicans would never have won as much as they did without Trump's support.
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  2527. Unlike in Ukraine, we have elections in America, so Trump will be gone in 4 years.
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  2528. Perhaps if Brent Johnson described it as a hedging scenario instead of an investing thesis, he'd get less pushback.
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  2529. There is a pretty cool decentralized p2p loan system called Decred. It is still being developed with additional features; right now it allows for collateralized loans, but the only collateral allowed is crypto.
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  2530. Interesting theory. Do you have any sources corroborating the idea that the Ebionites were proto-Muslims?
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  2531. Go will store slices in stack memory if they are small enough (less than 2^16 bytes). Allegedly.
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  2532.  @masterchief1520  I think it is a mix, but it has been a while since I last looked into this, so idk for sure.
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  2533. "Let the cops aim at where the elementary children would be." Great idea, Joe. We should really get on implementing that.
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  2534. Quantum computers will eventually break all cryptocurrencies that use an elliptic curve. So this Mark of the Fed system is doomed to eventually fail. The only thing that can't be hacked in a cashless world is real money, i.e. gold and silver.
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  2535. Here in America, most of us realize that the Biden administration is inept.
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  2536. @josoffat7649  you've never heard of the Holodomor, have you?
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  2537. I have scored very highly on every autism self-diagnosis tool I've tried, but I have not been officially diagnosed. Life seems fundamentally chaotic, and I think my main coping mechanism has been to write software and achieve some level of determinism. It's nice to imagine Turing as sharing some of my personal quirks rather than having only Terry Davis as an analogue.
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  2538. "We rich white kids must wear masks and carry guns to protect the interests of and speak on behalf of these ignorant, incompetent, lazy minorities and keep them safe from the racists cause god knows they can't do it for themselves."
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  2539. I don't know that I would call the ex-soldiers of Assas's regime "experts" in anything who could "come back to haunt Syria". From what I have seen, they were entirely incompetent. Most will probably return when they are confident in the guarantees of the amnesty.
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  2540. I think the only way we'll get any useful constitutional amendments will be if the convention of states movement finally cements enough support to fire. Pretty close right now. I think one of them should be that all government employees, both elected and appointed, will have total compensation of value no greater than the median among non-government workers of the district wherein they reside; this would both restrict government spending and align the goals of the bureaucracy with the wider public.
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  2541. The super rich largely did not get there by playing fairly. The socioeconomic oppressor class is a fairly small group of cronies. A guy who becomes a millionaire in his 40s probably didn't get there by corrupting the system his whole life, so nobody wants to steal his stuff. People just want justice for this bullshit ponzi scheme we call "the economy" that bankrupted us before we were even born.
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  2542. The great Tim Jong Pool has returned and removed the blue body double. Rejoice, people of Roof Korea!
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  2543. Voluntarist library economy sounds like a good experiment. Easiest structure to get going, at least in America, would probably be to maintain a record of the donor as the primary owner and the moderator who decides who gets to use the item in case several request it simultaneously.
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  2544. @flightevolution8132  that's a good example of something I didn't agree with
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  2545.  @EconLessons  Comparisons to Argentina are getting pretty common. Might be worth comparing/contrasting the current US situation to the Argentine situation leading up to the corralito.
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  2546. The solution to the democracy problem is zero knowledge proof cryptography, an immutable record system like a blockchain, random selection of candidates, and score runoff/STAR voting.
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  2547. Economy will be supported by Miami becoming the financial hub for capital flows out of South America. It is already happening, and I don't see any catalyst to reverse that trend.
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  2548. I was under the impression that WS Bets bought a bunch of call options to cause market makers to delta hedge, effectively increasing buying pressure by up to 100x the investments of the autists.
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  2549. When the side that you're calling "good" includes literal neo-Nazis that gave conducted ethnic cleansing pogroms, methinks your analysis is going to be pretty stupid.
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  2550. I have not heard the core devs ever say that they thought of Bitcoin as being specifically a store of value as its main or only role. The core concepts have always been the algorithmic, politically independent minting schedule, the removal of individual trusted third parties, the openness (lack of permission required to transact), and the transparent settlement mechanism. Everything else is secondary.
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  2551. Commodities are all cyclical because of the lead times in development of resources. It takes 10-20 years to set up a mine on top of a metal ore discovery. The whole universe functions through cycles; the idea that equilibrium can and should be reached in an economy is the height of human stupidity and arrogance. "Climate change" is a point of complaint as if the climate is supposed to never change despite the Earth doing its thing for billions of years before apes left the trees to become men. This perpetually increasing reliance upon and worship of artifice will lead to our demise as a species.
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  2552. 7:34 but you literally just did try to read it aloud...
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  2553. Maybe I'm a grumpy weirdo, but I find the music really annoying and distracting. The animal and story are sufficient -- the music does not add anything. I find this channel really difficult to watch as a result.
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  2554. Leftist* Liberal opinions are largely in favor of individual liberty and responsibility, not all this bullshit CNN spouts.
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  2555. 6:16 "banner of the prophet"? So it is blank because the modern-day Muslims would find it offensive enough to warrant violence? Or do you just have no idea what it looked like?
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  2556. 20:13 can honestly say I did not expect that, because nobody ever does.
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  2557. I like how in the background of this video there was a banner that read "the sky is no longer the limit for our pride." Almost like pride precipitates a successful lithobreaking maneuver.
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  2558. Ouu, Box Token.
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  2559. If any links are found between the agent provocateurs and the Chinese communist party, I predict we will immediately go to war, and it will likely end in nuclear apocalypse. I was joking with my brother just yesterday about Trump announcing a "new, tremendous missile with the power to destroy the planet" -- kinda hard to laugh at it when the prospects of total chaos grow exponentially every day.
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  2560. Any regulation restricting the publishing of AI weights would be pretty quickly and easily defeated by simply publishing them in a book. We have pretty strong 1A case law about how publishing numbers is protected speech.
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  2561. The quickest way to get rid of the cartels is to decriminalize the production and distribution of these drugs by American citizens: if you could grow your own coca plant in your backyard without worry about a felony conviction for having a plant, people would just do that instead of paying for stuff smuggled up from Mexico. Also, that form of consumption is not nearly as harmful, but it is impractical to smuggle, so only the worst and most damaging forms make it into America.
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  2562. You might as well say "once uneducated always uneducated." It is entirely possible that he was unaware of the evil conducted by GS until after he started working there. Plenty of people have left Wall Street after learning how corrupt it is.
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  2563. The Fed has decided to just stop reporting their broadest money supply metric. This is the second time they have done this: first they discontinued M3, and now they've discontinued MZM. I think they want the fear and uncertainty to cause inflation to bail out the government at the expense of everyone holding dollars.
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  2564. The main criminals who want to break cryptography work in three letter agencies funded by tax payers.
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  2565. Central planners are not only idiots and psychopaths, but they are in denial of their idiocy and psychopathy. Every day that passes, the idea of anarchy becomes increasingly attractive. All these nutjobs act as if they alone are worthy of agency and dignity. Down with the usurpers!
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  2566. 4:17 did you really suggest we should be teaching kids to program in BASIC? So behind the times -- what the industry really needa right now is actually COBOL. (Only half joking.)
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  2567. Regarding the comment about authoritarian project managers, Prime has somehow completely missed the fact that multiple large FOSS projects were taken over by avowed Marxists who conducted literal purges.
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  2568. The Fed clandestinely admitted that it was going to begin a policy close to YCC: instead of buying just T-bills and draining the banking system of pristine collateral, they will instead buy bonds of all durations weighted proportionally with issuance.
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  2569. Trump is awful, but he is a mirror for American political culture and news media tendencies. The TDSers do not like what they see when they look in the mirror, but it is largely their own reflection with a few smudges.
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  2570. Trump is not the source of America's trend toward less involvement overseas. Trump is just good at picking trends. Case in point, his policy positions on China have been adopted by the entire political establishment.
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  2571. The GFC was a banking crisis, not merely a psychological recession.
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  2572. My cat enjoyed watching the charts sweep across the screen.
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  2573. The authors should have prompted harder, and the editor also should have prompted harder. Classic ChatGPT noobie mistakes here.
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  2574. A carbon tax makes absolutely no sense as the result of a food crisis caused by retarded rules like carbon taxes. These people are completely insane and don't care how many they kill to achieve their utopian nonsense dream, all while flying their private jets to conferences where they shame us for using electricity to control the temperature in our homes.
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  2575. Awkwardly enough, the 10-year TSY actually went negative in the repo market, spiking below the so-called "fail charge" rate to -4% -- this is similar to the margin rate for shorting a stock that is "hard to borrow" going to like 30% as happened in Gamestop, and it is similarly due to the security becoming illiquid due to high short interest and low available float. Order book depth has been falling off a cliff. Such large short positions typically result in a binary outcome: either the shorts get squeezed or the security collapses. So I guess pick a side of the trade and wait for it to play out over the next few days/weeks/months.
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  2576. The Fed was audited in 2016, actually. The audit uncovered $16 trillion in secret loans to entities owned by Fed officers.
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  2577. Interest rate policies are mechanically terrible for changing the balance between production and consumption: in a debt-based system, production requires credit just as consumption does. Modern institutions promulgating mainstream economics do their damnedest to avoid ever mentioning Richard Cantillon or the distributional effects of currency issuance.
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  2578. That's a very creative way to count to 100 seconds.
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  2579. Unsubstantiated internet rumors being reported as fact. Jeremy has lost his mind -- he literally looked at a photo of a black man and said he couldn't tell if he was black.
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  2580.  @NoStepOnSnek-g3r  Seriously. Rewatch this video muted and just read the source material. It literally says "rumors". The video of him looking at a photo of a black Jamaican man and saying he couldn't tell if he was black or not was about Kamala, and he posted it just a day or two ago.
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  2581. That sheriff from Arizona tried to say the same thing, that since Trump had pardoned him, it meant he wasn't giilty. The drive-by media pundits made a big point about how accepting a pardon means confessing one's guilt. Now they circle the wagons.
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  2582. The problem is not that a piece of visual media exists. The problems are that the girls were literally groomed for the video; Netflix is financially supporting the groomers through licensing arrangements; and Netflix is theoretically financially benefitting from the grooming of minors via subscriptions.
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  2583. I think the Dems realized they are a dying breed and just wanted to watch the natiin burn because at least Trump would be caught in the flames.
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  2584. I use AI for React code because React code is going to be slop anyway. For example, I made a silly little game called "$HIT Coin Trader Pro" with proompting, and then I just went and manually fixed all the retarded bugs. Easy peasy. For stuff I really care about, I just code it myself.
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  2585. The thing about Floridians is that we go outside all the time. Just hydrate and shower.
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  2586. Seems kinda like a freedom vs security discussion to me.
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  2587. I didn't even know Zeihan had a YT channel. Would have subscribed long ago had I known.
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  2588. This would be a good case for legalizing filibustering as was practiced in the 19th century. Some American mercenaries could probably do a better job. I'd buy shares in the Novo Rico Land Acquisition Company.
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  2589. TLT is down 11% in the last 2 months. Pension funds don't even need to be in "risky" investments to take a haircut in a rising interest rate environment. The NPV of bonds gets totally crushed when rates rise.
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  2590. Remember the scene in one of the new Star Trek movies in which Spok was in his school bowl learning from the AI? It might be the case that a new generation of humans taught by ASI will be able to collectively surpass it in terms of cognitive capability per unit of energy consumption.
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  2591.  @lenu323  "why" is a dangerous question that should be left to philosophers.
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  2592.  @VandalsGoths  it is not a one-for-one relationship. Global banks are levered up and created a bunch of additional currency units on their balance sheets.
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  2593. You been buying gold and silver recently? We see the ads.
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  2594. The Tower of Babel is also a representation of the mountain. The difference between use is one of intention rather than form: the ancient high priest would have ritual sex with the priestest/temple prostitute at the top of the tower to call down the power of the Watchers so to speak in a ritual of ecstatic opulence, whereas the prophet would go up to the mountain to be more receptive in a ritual of quiescent asceticism.
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  2595. Completed Chinese buildings are also not habitable -- they intentionally leave them unfinished because of superstition. However, I get what you're saying.
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  2596. Plurality needs to be replaced by score voting. Most people have no idea wtf they're talking about when it comes to social choice theory, but evolution has already solved this problem. Bees and ants have used score voting for their decision making processes for tens of millions of years. It is the obvious answer to anyone who spends any time thinking about it. Why do we have a better system for reviewing products on Amazon and videos on YouTube than we have for politicians? It's imbecilic.
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  2597. They said that a $3.5 trillion bill "wouldn't cost a cent" because they plan to just borrow the money from the Fed's printer. Then they said that the unrealized capital gains tax proposal, which would raise just $200B over ten years, would pay for it, because they were talking about paying just the interest expense -- even then, it's still a lie. These greedy children in DC really ought to be exiled for their stupidity.
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  2598. Head gator getter? Just gettin' gators? Pfft. I'd be the head gator trainer, trainin' every gator for my swamp sled team. That is how Florida Man do.
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  2599. Pretty sure this is a repost from several months ago, but it's still a good take. Edit: nvm, I see the Conway's Game of Life now.
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  2600. It's a sadly believable story considering the typical state of software.
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  2601. Joe should get Jason Street or another famous hacker/pen tester for episode 1337.
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  2602. I think I would have sent a letter to the mayor laying out my case and saying "if your administration insists upon its tyranny, send bachelors. The 2nd amendment exists to protect the 8th."
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  2603. What do you get when you mix X with a city that Y-s? You get what you Z-ing deserve.
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  2604. It's funnier with the spelling mistake. Marshall Law sounds like something written by a guy named Marshall, and I'll wager plenty of those calling for it probably wouldn't know the difference anyway.
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  2605. Tim says "for better or for worse" a lot, but "boy oh boy" does he talk only about things that fall into the latter category.
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  2606. Wow, I had no idea that he was part of LTCM. Wtf.
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  2607. I find that the enjoyment I get from coding is inversely proportionate to my likelihood of being paid for it. Hopefully that turns around later this year when I launch my first from-scratch product using the many libraries I have been huilding over the last few years, but client-facing work has really sucked the joy out of programming for me.
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  2608. This is a refreshing reprieve from the apocalyptic reports. It's like that ONN video, Americans long to return to caring about stupid bullshit.
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  2609. M2 velocity has been dropping for decades. Our currency system has too many structural defects to solve with infinite QE. All that is necessary for price inflation is for an increased scarcity of real resources to cause the velocity to increase -- in the Weimar Republic, no amount of printed money was ever enough because real resources dried up -- a country cannot print for itself a real economy. The grand solar minimum has already begun wiping out crops across the world; covid-1984 has disrupted supply chains; and the draconian lockdowns have created a dearth of services. We are on the simultaneous brinks of a currency/sovereign debt crisis, a civil war, and a world war. Prepare your brokerage accounts for Fed manipulation, sure, but do not discount the possibility of total societal collapse, at which point maybe you'd rather have a year supply of food, gardening tools, and a gun instead of stocks and ETFs. I'll hodl my stocks in case the world doesn't end, but only because I'm pretty much ready to rebuild society from the ashes.
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  2610. Only problems with the Trump presidency: 1) it seems impossible to stop China from recreating the pre-opium war status quo in which it was the center of all trade, when almost all wars were fought and all colonial outposts founded for access to trade routes to China; 2) the Federal Reserve system still gives total financial control to the bankers who periodically destroy the economy and defraud the nation for their own gain; 3) the national debt continues to rise unsustainably; and 4) for all their blubbering and bickering, Congress has yet to reverse the expansion of executive power, while Trump simply wields it in the tradition of his predecessors.
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  2611. 🎶 Communication breakdown 🎶 Don't say "you're a racist"; say "you're being racist". People get more defensive when being labeled and told what their identity is; if you instead label a behavior, they will instead demand an explanation for that assessment. Or even better, you could say "I think that's a racist way to look at this".
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  2612. On the fourth, I'll raise a glass of mead to celebrate the liberation of my fellow Americans in Capital Hill.
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  2613. Monetary debasement is the inevitable conclusion.
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  2614. Musk is an engineer who has managed, imo accidentally, to turn his autistic antics and unhinged idealism into a cult of personality.
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  2615. Unless you're paying them, your opinion on what they should wear doesn't matter.
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  2616. Student loans should not be forgiven, but they should not be perpetual debt slavery either. The solution is to allow their adjustment via bankruptcy proceedings.
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  2617. They pay taxes for all that shit, bro. Who gives a damn if people who pay taxes for public services "use" those public services?
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  2618. Peter J Carroll shows an alphabet of desire in Liber Null as a substitute/example rather than as an ossified formula. As always, if you don't find it useful, jettison it.
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  2619. Good heavens, free speech? What will these troglodytes ask for next? Freedom of thought? Ownership of the tracking chips we install in them? Sounds dangerous. Fellow cultural overlords, we must ban it now.
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  2620. Peterson's definition of Western culture is not specifically about Christianity. That is a remarkably and disappointingly shallow perspective. Western culture has a common thread of dualist philosophy that stretches back to the ancient Mediterranean and proto Indo European civilizations: specifically, each individual human has the capacity for transcendental experience that bridges the gap between material (body) and spirit (mind). The concept of "as above, so below" might not be immediately recognizable to modern Westerners, but the concept has been conserved for thousands of years: there is a fundamental connectedness between the entire physical universe and the individual conscious experience, and conscientiousness emerges from awareness of this transcendent connectedness. Christianity is failing today due to its inadequate and vague explication of this fundamentally Western description of this individual human experience of duality. So when you hear Peterson use the term "God", it is simply the shortest and most recognizable term he can use to allude to that transcendental dualism.
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  2621. This rampant financialization, speculation, and monetary parasitism by the cantillionaires is why debt is illegal in Islamic states and was previously illegal in Christian states. The destabilization from the debt cycles is also the reason for the ancient Israelite jubilee. Theoretically, there's nothing wrong with making loans for productive endeavors, but the act of banking and lending money into existence from thin air always inevitably leads to destabilization. In my opinion, equity investing is the only stable source of financing for an economy long term, and breaking down the barriers to entry for private equity investment will do far more good than harm. Replace the unsound monetary con game we call "the dollar" with something more sane will also go a long way toward closing the wealth gap since the lower classes have the majority of their wealth stored in the currency being devalued and debased so rapidly.
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  2622. The idea that "all students have a right to feel safe" is a ludicrous, meaningless, and arbitrary manipulation of emotion. There is no philosophical argument from first principles that someone else is responsible for making one feel safe. It makes no sense. People will feel whatever they do.
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  2623. The school administrators have a duty to protect the children in their care, but that is a totally separate statement with simple philosophical support than the idea that someone is responsible for how someone else feels.
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  2624. They are trying to replicate all the grift and corruption of the fiat system despite the fact that the crypto foundation (Bitcoin) is anti-fiat. Their stupid little games do not work, and people have to learn the hard way. Every failed custodian is an advertisement for self-custody.
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  2625. Hi, my name is Jon, and I'm a typeannotationaholic.
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  2626. 4:39 is that Harry from In Bruge? "It's an inanimate fucking object." "YOU'RE AN INANIMATE FUCKING OBJECT!"
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  2627. Creating a special one-time non-refundable tax credit for the next tax year using the previous year of discretionary expenditure reductions to determine the value stands a much better chance of passing imo. It is a much cleaner structure, and it requires Congress to actually cut spending by the amount DOGE saves before it takes effect. If this became a structural thing, Representatives would get a lot of grassroots pressure to keep the cuts coming so that the tax burden keeps lightening.
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  2628. 1. Discretionary spending for affected agencies decreases by at least 80% of DOGE savings for that agency, leaving a bit of wiggle room for DOGE errors. 2. Total tax credit value will equal the amount of discretionary budget decrease multiplied by 0.2. 3. Tax credit value per tax payer becomes that total divided by the number of tax payers for the previous tax year. 4. Repeat this process every year.
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  2629. Gas-operated* semiautomatic handguns
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  2630. Freedom units
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  2631. How do you vote "straight ticket Republican" in a GOP primary election? I'm beginning to think this news organization needs an independent fact checker.
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  2632. I literally just finished spec'ing out a currency system for distributed issuance of credit yesterday as the base for a crypto system. Trust networks with automatic responsibility scores are essential.
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  2633. There's nothing unnatural about (√2)³/2 = √2. That's just how it works. (√2)³ = √2*√2*√2 = √2*2.
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  2634. I believe that a libertarian philosophy would work well here in Florida.
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  2635.  TRUTH _  Why would you assume that it is guaranteed to go to zero? And why would you assume that would happen in a time frame short enough to make gold a clearly better alternative? In its thus-far short existence, Bitcoin has proven to be the best performing asset of all time, and anyone who paid attention to Schiff has not participated in any of that.
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  2636. The value of gold is not a constant. Value is always relative to the transacting parties. Without transacting parties, there is no economic value to measure.
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  2637. Black Hebrew Israelites* not Black Israelis. They are cooks, not ex-pats from the Middle East.
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  2638. I think the 2-3/4 inch measurement is the spent shell.
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  2639. I think that FTX took themselves out; CZ just helped them get it over with.
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  2640. Question: if the dollar system gets so screwed up that the big banks subject depositors to a bail-in, what happens to credit union members?
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  2641. The birth date load balancing thing can be easily solved by using a hash/checksum of the whole form.
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  2642. Next year, for April 1st, you should have a guest who just says a bunch of financial lingo gibberish and concludes "stock market can go up or down, it's what it does".
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  2643. Babylon Bee needs to run with the headline "Federal Reserve Announces New Acronym to Address Banking Crisis" sometime
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  2644. "Gibs me dat for free" - Karl Marx
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  2645. Theoretically, you relive your entire life in real time at the moment of your death, and this theoretically happens an unknown but potentially unlimited number of times. Holographic universe and all that.
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  2646. Is that r-r-r-r-racism and b-b-b-bigotry that I see there? How dare they....dance. Think of the children. Egads.
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  2647. This is like straight out of Star Wars or something. They make droidekas yonder.
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  2648. I think it is not unreasonable to respond in kind when greedy, corporate landlords say "fuck you." If you try squeezing blood out of barnacles, don't act surprised when your hand gets cut.
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  2649. Really, though, the Republicans are at least letting this "witch hunt" run its course -- Eric Holder and Obama obstructed everything Congress investigated.
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  2650. Oh, I get it. It's called "Loom" because it's weaving a bunch of "threads".
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  2651. I'm for Blue Coin. If you're for Red Coin, you're a terrible person.
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  2652. All the people saying "it's aliens" were right! But the aliens are already here. * removes skin mask to reveal Borg face * * camera zooms out and pans across an alien android factory *
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  2653. Money is clearly speech. Flows of money determine prices, and prices are the information system that an economy uses to make calculations. My purchase or lack thereof communicates preferences to sellers, importers, and manufacturers.
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  2654. @iii Lots of things have vocal chords that don't talk, and lots of speech does not involve vocal chords. Idk what you're getting at, but you should try again.
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  2655. Pensions are ponzi schemes regulated by government nincompoops.
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  2656. Who is Goliath in this metaphor?
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  2657. Alternatively, there was a sharp, measurable increase in domestic currency supply in 2020-2021, which tapered out and reversed in 2022. So it largely was monetary as far as the domestic economy was concerned. The balloon-like increase in corporate and government debt following the March 2020 crash was also a monetary effect globally, but it was part of a shock rather than a trend, and that will unwind as the debt gets paid down, causing a deflationary monetary effect.
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  2658. Consciousness is not the brain activity itself or some emergent characteristic of brain activity. Consciousness is likely more fundamental, and brain activity just processea and arranges the contents of a particular form of consciousness. Anyone who has done a sufficient amount of mindfulness meditation will have noticed experience that sits below the level of thought, and the more you probe, the deeper it goes.
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  2659. Cochlear implants are optimized for non-tonal speech, not music. Beautiful melodies are basically impossible to comprehend using a cochlear implant due to the compression of sound waves into about a dozen distinct frequencies. Cochlear implants are, however, capable of conveying simple rhythms. Thus, the argument that not performing cochlear implants on children "deprives them of music" is totally baseless until the technology progresses to the point where it replicates what the inner ear does with sensitivity to and neural conveyance of thousands of different frequencies.
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  2660. The central bank paying banks a high interest rate to hold deposits while itself holding debt securities issued by the government with low coupons and thereby hemorrhaging money with a negative NIM sounds awfully similar to the Federal Reserve. Last time I checked a few months ago, the Fed's total realized losses were more than double their total capital.
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  2661. Hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees have already gone back to Syria from Turkey. Give it some time. If it is still a problem in 6 months, start cutting benefits to reduce the taxpayer burden.
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  2662. I'm stealing the subtitle when discussing fiat vs bitcoin with people in the future.
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  2663. Ignore the slop; create art.
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  2664. The Fed "remains agile", yet they have accumulated losses in excess of 6 times their capital, impairing their liabilities by 3%. "Agile".
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  2665. "Victims" I think means "people he was blackmailing".
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  2666. Wealth is not conserved. It is often destroyed, such as in war or due to bad management of resources by a monopoly. It is often created, such as when new businesses are created to fill an untouched market niche. Sometimes, it is simply an illusion and didn't exist in the first place, such as digits on a screen -- "pixie dust" as the investment bankers say -- the Bezzle. The 2008 GFC had elements of wealth transfer, wealth destruction, and disillusionment.
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  2667. Tried to make a joke about it being a successful demonstration of the ejector seats, but ThemTube censors humor -__-
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  2668. Technically incorrect: M1 was redefined retroactively to include a component of M2 (iirc savings deposits) halfway through 2020, creating a break in the sequence making it useless for analysis.
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  2669. The previous president just wanted to continue the slaughter. Current president is actually trying to get the hostages back safely, which even **** does not care about given their track record of opening fire on their own c1vilians. Attempt 5 posting this comment to avoid getting censored by the gestapobots.
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  2670. Finally. This crazy censorship needs to be addressed.
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  2671. Actually sounds likea slight improvement. Instead of "triggering", the content is simply noteworthy. Calling it a "trigger warning" probably does condition then to be triggered, so using a neutral term is probably superior.
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  2672. On the topic of blockchain and cryptocurrency: a blockchain is not a distributed ledger. A blockchain is simply a single chain directed acyclic graph of blocks in which each added block is the new root of the DAG (i.e. a graph where each vertex has a degree of 1 or 2). "Distributed ledger" is also a misnomer: all current systems use a replicated ledger, not a distributed one, within a replicated state machine. The ledger data is embedded within and distributed through the blockchain. A truly distributed ledger would be one in which transaction data is retained local to the transactors rather than replicated across the whole globe. This is theoretically possible, and it can be done without a blockchain. Satoshi Nakamoto described his innovation of using proof-of-work to order transactions as a distributed timestamping server, but global consensus is not necessary in every scenario. It is theoretically possible to create a cryptocurrency without a blockchain as typically envisioned, using correspondent credit relationships. I have done a lot of research and preliminary experiments toward this end, and I have written a number of dependency packages for the project. I expect to have a working prototype done sometime next year. The only purpose for blockchain is global consensus, and this necessarily involves throughput limitations. Globally replicated state also creates a massive data retention burden upon network participants. For most intents and purposes, blockchain is a slower, shittier database.
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  2673. I can't stop laughing at this shit. Hail Eris.
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  2674. The idea that it is primarily a social contagion is questionable -- that may be a contributing factor, but I have not seen anyone make a strong, conclusive argument that it is the primary cause. However, the medical intervention stuff reminds me of eugenics programs: find people suffering in some way and vulnerable to malign influence, then do irreparable harm to them in the name of "scientific progress" or some such.
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  2675.  @hamm8934  I was being facetious. React is ridiculous. Redux and React Native are hellspawn.
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  2676. The unity manifesto is like Biden walking over to stand near the communists with a blow-up doll of Bernie: he's too far from the liberals for them to see that the Bernie doll isn't real and too close to the communists to fool them with the blow-up doll. It's the best lose-lose compromise.
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  2677. The other stock that is really intriguing is Microstrategy. Michael Saylor is doing some wild stuff with convertible bonds and accretive equity issuances.
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  2678. Soap box isn't working. Ballot box isn't working. Jury box isn't working. Stock market uprising worked until the big bigs started clamping down. So when do we open the final box?
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  2679. It is worth noting that the current economic depression was triggered by the Federal Reserve ignoring the price signal from the bond market and tightening inappropriately in 2018, leading to the yield curve inversions that year, the repo crisis in August/September 2019, and the liquidity event in March 2020. If we didn't have these incompetent traitors running things, we wouldn't learn the dangers of centralization, so in a sense any apocalypse is welcome.
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  2680. The Federal Reserve has printed $2 trillion, or 10% last year's GDP, for major banks to use in overnight and 14 day loans. It has pumped $1.5 trillion into markets with repurchase agreements. It has now announced unlimited asset purchases. The dollar is still in short supply around the world. Stocks are still down. Meanwhile, the relief bill is like "$3 billion for the peasants so they can buy bread crumbs". Not exactly an apples-to-apples comparison -- the insane debt structures upon which the economy is built probably require more short term capital to survive than humans staying at home and eating rice and beans. But it still seems absurd that any politicians would be so hellbent on preventing the Trumby from throwing us humans a bone.
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  2681. Assuming that our incomplete and flawed understanding of physics is complete and flawless, then yeah. Drawing conclusions from bad models is unempirical. The conjecture of "dark energy" and "dark matter" is all the evidence one needs to know that the current cosmological model does not fit the data and is thus likely incorrect.
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  2682. The dude getting thrown off the bus is a clear violation of Section 1 of the 14th amendment: "No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. "
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  2683. No daily grind today. Listening while I get sandbags for the hurricane.
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  2684. I laughed when Trump got trolled, and I'll laugh when Biden gets trolled too. Nobody will stop the laughter, and anyone who tries is a goober.
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  2685. Having a term to describe a phenomenon does not negate the responsibility of those taking part. On the contrary, having a good description of a problem is the foundational step for finding the solution. In this case, the problem is a glitch in human rationality; the solution is leading people to see the glitch in their rational thought process given the totality of relevant information. Recognizing that we are living through a mass psychosis event (and how can you deny it when the Australian military is literally locking people in their houses and detaining "suspected covid contacts" in concentration camps?) is the first step toward helping others break out of the illusion. Focusing on blame is as pointless as ever.
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  2686. 70% of oil production is controlled by governments, not private businesses. In a market economy, decreases in supply as a result of government action naturally lead to higher prices. If governments then prevent the prices from rising, you get further shortages and political/non-economic rationing. It's not as simple as "business bad".
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  2687.  @teebone2157  explain to me how Saudi Arabia, OPEC, Norway, and Venezuela don't pump oil.
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  2688. We need to switch to score voting to fix our political system. Nature is far more intelligent than man, and it has already solved the problem of large collections of individuals making good collective decisions. Score voting is the only voting system with a 30 million year track record of success, so I see no reason to continue with this blatantly broken and ineffective system of first-past-the-post voting.
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  2689. Unix was originally designed to make it easier and more beginner-friendly to use a computer, iirc.
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  2690. First past the post breeds corruption. "Vote for the lesser of two evils" else you "waste your vote" on a third party. We need to use score voting. Bees have used score voting for tens of millions of years. Hard to beat that long a track record.
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  2691. Did only a cursory search because it is late and I'm tired, but I could not find a source saying that. Is this before the Gulf War, since we bombed them back into the stone age during it?
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  2692. I'm planning on building a new PC later this month. I am on a very tight budget (college student) and am stuck with a decision: do I get the A10-5800k, which has integrated Radeon 7660D graphics, and just crossfire with a good gpu later, or should I get the FX-4100 ($105) and a 2GB HIS Radeon 6670 gpu? I am getting 8GB of 1866 RAM (9-10-9-27 timing). If I go with the A10, I can buy a Xigmatek CPU cooler and overclock more.
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  2693. While the WEF may seem a Specter-like organization run by some Bond movie villain, the truth is that they are mostly just observing and projecting trends, not issuing forth decrees that will be enforced through violent means (that is more the role of the US government). People do not want to accept things as they are nor how they change -- there must be someone to blame for everything, for almost all is wrong in the world. Material bonds tether one to the material world and inhibit spiritual growth. Material possessions are a source of perpetual worry rather than perpetual pleasure. Pleasure does not accrue -- it dissipates as soon as it arises. Only virtue accrues and transcends the limits of this illusory world. Our material bodies all end up in a casket or an urn in the end; of what value is a house to a corpse? I have seen what happens to houses when the occupant passes on -- without an heir, it falls into disrepair and benefits no one. Shelter is a temporary need for this short stay on Earth and can be satisfied by a tarp or a cave. A house and car in perfect condition will eventually be useless to their owner. All you can take with you into the next life are your virtue and your guilt. Being emotionally attached to or identified in owning a house is utter nonsense.
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  2694. Prophecy is not a faith-based prediction. Prophecy is a precognitive experience. Believing in someone's prophetic experience is a matter of faith, but there is no faith involved on the part of a real prophet -- shit just happens, and the prophet just observes. Edit: prophets tend to spur others to action, so in that sense there is faith on the part of the prophet that his vision is trustworthy. An oracle, on the other hand, doesn't care to persuade anyone.
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  2695. There is a qualitative difference between living and merely being alive. The useful idiots clamor for the tyrants to ensure the latter by abolishing the former.
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  2696. Clientside state management should probably use state machines with signals.
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  2697. Hell is created on Earth by human hands.
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  2698. Proof of stake centralizes control over the blockchain. With a proof-of-work blockchain, ordinary nodes are validators while energy is expended by "miners" to create a decentralized timestamping service that orders transactions; it costs almost nothing to be a validator for a proof-of-work blockchain since the cost is all born by the timestamping service. With proof-of-stake, the validators are also responsible for implementing the timestamping/txn ordering service, and the non-staked nodes have no power in the network. Proof-of-work is anarchy/decentralized democracy for validation and meritocracy for timestamping/txn ordering; proof-of-stake is plutocracy for both.
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  2699.  @SquareRootOfMinus1  ever heard of the Lightning Network or Fedimint? There are more ways to scale a system than in one monolithic layer. Every scalable system works in layers. You don't use FedWire to buy a cup of coffee, so why would you use the Bitcoin base layer for that?
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  2700.  @SquareRootOfMinus1  fwiw I recognize that there are trade-offs involved in scaling. Lightning Network derives its security from the Bitcoin base layer, but the LN security model is different, for example requiring always-on connectivity and fault-free storage of channel state data (at least until Eltoo can be adopted). However, sacrificing security and decentralization for transaction throughput on the base layer, as has been done by Ethereum and competing protocols, seems doomed from the outset. With regards to PoW vs PoS in the subversion of a network, the proof is in the pudding: over 70% of Ethereum blocks post-merge have been censored to comply with OFAC, and the promised slashing is nowhere to be seen. Ethereum is now a de jure and de facto plutocracy, and it did not require acquiring all the computing power that had previously been used to secure the network. To my knowledge, proof-of-work chains (other than malicious Bitcoin forks) have not experienced similar subversions.
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  2701. The point about making structs from other structs is kind of dumb. You could just make a struct with the desired common fields and compose it into other structs. Example: Position struct { X: int Y: int Z: int } Color struct { R: int G: int B: int } Shape struct { Position: Position Color: Color } Etc
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  2702. Tardigrades die all the time. You severely mischaracterized tardigrade research by saying that "you couldn't kill one if you tried" -- it would be correct to say that they could not be forced into extinction, but that is very different from what was conveyed. All the extremophile research done on tardigrades has measured survival rates less than 100%. It is incredible that 20% iirc of tardigrades exposed to the vacuum and cosmic radiation reanimated with just water and continued reproducing. "You couldn't kill one if you tried" is grossly wrong.
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  2703. Did he explain how he tunes the model's per-person parameters? I feel like I was supposed to have seen that at some point. And how does he validate his model empirically? That quick "sanity check" at the end does not really work as validation since it is just another model assumption.
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  2704. Recession was caused by Federal Reserve rate hikes of December 2018.
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  2705. Fun fact: the book of Revelation/Apocalypse has 22 chapters.
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  2706. Question: do deposits count as regulatory capital in the US under current Federal Reserve regulations? According to what I've read in the Federal Register, Tier 1 regulatory capital includes bank equity (explicitly common equity and in some instances preferred) and instruments subordinated to subordinated debt. Tier 2 includes bank reserves and deposits held at Federal Reserve Banks. The question is whether or not deposits in commercial banks count as instruments subordinated to subordinated debt.
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  2707. This video essay is excellent.
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  2708. In our gunshine state, I think the legislature went a bit too far with their restrictions on that particular medical procedure. The ballot measure went too far in the other direction, but I hope that the fact it got over 55% support is enough of a wake-up call for the legislature to revert to the previous 15-week standard, which is a more measured compromise. A frog embryo can have a heart beat, but that does not make it a person; the proponents of the heart beat bill did not promulgate a clear and concise argument for why a heart beat should be the standard by which we decide when a fetus gains legal protections of personhood. The original authors of the Bible believed that personhood began at first breath; the Septuagint translators believed it began at the quickening, which was the consensus among Christians from the 4th century until the 20th; the notion that it begins at conception is not Biblical but rather a manipulation of religious sentiment for political purposes. Edit: in fact, the early Christians believed strongly in Paul's recommendation of celibacy and Jesus' command to castrate oneself for the sake of the Kingdom of Heaven. St. Augustine lamented that he had married instead of castrating himself, and St. Jerome said that marriage was an evil to be defeated by celibacy.
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  2709. What does he mean that he "read the code" for a US digital dollar? What digital dollar? What code? Is he talking about a specific stable coin? FedNow code is proprietary and not viewable by the public.
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  2710. I tried to think of a way to make ABADOO into an acronym, but I got nothin'.
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  2711. They technically have not printed any money, as Fed reserve accounts are not fungible or spendable. It is more accurate to say that the federal government has soaked up all available bank liquidity so that the economy can't have any.
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  2712. My primary apprehension is that death is not the final dissolution it is typically hoped to be. There's just as much, and perhaps more, reason to believe life starts over in another simulation than there is to believe that it ends in oblivion. (What's the difference between a hologram and a universe? Apparently, there is none.) If the Hindu/Buddhists are correct, then dissolution is the primary purpose of life, and the reincarnation process is just a mechanism for refinement toward that final dissolution.
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  2713. 1 billion is greater than ten? Not just that, I'm pretty sure it's even bigger than 11!
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  2714. Down with the bureaucrats. These unchecked parasites need to be treated with a healthy dose of dewormer.
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  2715. The Lightning Network will likely be a good fit for AI agents in conjunction with FediMint, but LN by itself likely cannot scale fast enough.
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  2716. Don't mind, Joe; he's Irish.
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  2717. The water in Flint has already been fixed. Nobody there trusts the system, though.
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  2718. Bitcoin toxicity directed unhelpfully is like an autoimmune disorder.
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  2719. "We don't have 120 years". Really? Humans won't be around in 120 years?
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  2720.  @jitsak1977  Gold is an outdated monetary technology, so it will not replace Bitcoin, which is the most recent monetary technology. Bitcoin requires only that human civilization does not implode tomorrow. If you expect all of civilization to implode, then what use is money anyway? Even gold will have value only in relation to what you can get for it, and if there's no civilization, then you can't get anything for it. Additionally, gold requires expensive machines to verify it and expensive custodial services to prevent fraud; Bitcoin requires only software you can run on any computer to verify and the built-in incentive model to prevent fraud.
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  2721.  @jitsak1977  I think you misunderstand the nature of the Bitcoin network. Bitcoin is not reliant upon the internet. If there was some kind of partition in the internet, Bitcoin would continue to work because there is a satellite network dedicated to Bitcoin which would bridge between the partitions. Bitcoin requires very little bandwidth to function on the base layer, so even global war would not be enough to stop it.
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  2722.  @jitsak1977  If you have a local electricity outage, then yes, you'll be unable to use Bitcoin. The Bitcoin network, however, will remain functional for everyone else, and your bitcoin will still be secure. Once power and telecommunications are restored, you'll once again have access to your bitcoin, and it'll likely have maintained its purchasing power compared to whatever fiat is issued by the government that failed to keep the power on. But yeah, prepping is fashionable these days because we preppers were proven right by the pandemic. I got my extra beans and toilet paper a month before the first lockdowns were announced. My point about Bitcoin is that the system itself is unlikely to ever die because all individuals involved have an economic incentive to keep it going, and many have made substantial efforts to make sure the network never gets interrupted. All it takes to bridge a network partition is about 1MB of traffic every 10 minutes.
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  2723.  @jitsak1977  Bitcoin is the only one with any real merit. If you've been around in crypto for as long as I have, you wouldn't be making such an asinine comment. Thousands of grifters have tried and failed to supplant Bitcoin over the past decade. Governments have attacked it many times and failed to stop it. Bitcoin is nothing like Bittorrent; I suggest you read the white papers for each. And there's nothing particularly easy about hodling Bitcoin. The emotional rollercoaster is intense. The point of stacking sats is saving for the distant future, which is not even slightly like gambling -- gambling is for immediate gratification; Bitcoin is for my grandchildren's inheritance.
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  2724. I liked the keymaps from Atom. I seem to recall it starting off as a good experience and then getting bloated and slow within maybe half a year.
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  2725. Cake? Pfft, I'll take corn, beans, and squash, tyvm.
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  2726. Another issue with making everyone a capital allocator is that not every one is competent at allocating capital -- it could be just as destructive as market interventions. Edit: in fact, I think there is a strong argument to be made that the passive investment flows are distorting markets in a way that is unhealthy.
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  2727. Now see, my problem was that I could generally do that cram-last-minute thing for projects and still get accolades.
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  2728. Fwiw I'm glad you returned to make informative videos.
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  2729. "To uphold justice" is the excuse used in the UK to strip Tommy Robins of all of his rights. I'd be careful sacrificing essential liberties upon the alter of so-called "justice".
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  2730. Reminds me of those old Arnold Schwarzenegger photos before he developed his calves to a point he was happy with.
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  2731. I don't mean to offend or demean, but I think many who resonate with this message are probably doing a psychological factory reset to the cultural default beliefs because of the shock of being confronted with a real apocalypse. Don't get me wrong -- Christian ritual definitely works; the Christian perspective is full of cohesive meaning; and these are probably pretty impactful to an awakening post-materialist/Nihilist/whatever-paradigm-is-currently-ending when it happens. But I caution against blindly accepting superficial religious doctrines/perspectives of one's childhood or the nearest preacher -- there is a lot of symbolic and linguistic depth to the Christian religion and scriptures that reaches back to the founding of civilization itself, and a lot of the old/establishment Christianity tends to ignore that depth when dispensing teachings for the masses. For example, when Jesus promises "ζωήν αιώονιον" ("life aeonic") in John 6:42/48 and "ζήσεται είς τόν αιώνα" ("will live into/in/until the aeon/age") in John 6:51, His listeners with the ears to hear knew what that meant from hundreds of years of what Justin Martyr called "Spermatikos Logos". And as another example, "Ιησούς" has the numeric value of 888; 1st and 2nd century Christian tombstones included an 8-spoke wheel cryptogram that encoded the letters "ΙΧΘΥς" ("fish") standing for the anagram "Ιησούς Χριστός Θεού Υιός Σωτήρ" ("Jesus Christ God's Son Saviour"); Jesus resurrected on the 8th day of the week (i.e. 1st of the week because 8 modulo 7 is 1); and Jesus claims the epithet "ό αστήρ ό λαμπρός καί ορθρινός" ("Bright and Morning Star") in Revelation 22:16 (compare to the iconography of the Akkadian version of the Morning Star, then compare to Byzantine icons of Mary the Theotokos). The language used has a thousand years of recorded history and meaning compressed into every word, and the symbols used stretch from pre-Sumeria to Egypt and Eleusis. It is mind blowing stuff when you dig into it. If you're going to take Christianity seriously, I highly recommend getting an interlinear New Testament and learning some Koine/classical Greek (or at least getting some reliable reference material for assisting in translation). If you're a nutter nerd like me, you might also consider a Septuagint in original Greek. (Contrary to popular assumption, the Greek Old Testament predates the Hebrew Old Testament/Masoretic by at least 500 years.)
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  2732. If only the professor in this hypothetical scenario had responded "you're a goddamn communist!"
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  2733. Have fun staying birth day.
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  2734. That domain name is registered anonymously, so we would have to get a subpoena for the records to figure out who was actually behind it. This looks like black propaganda to me.
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  2735. I am the 1000th like on this comment. I feel like this is a shared accomplishment, and I contributed my little part.
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  2736. Wendy's gets the torch, too, apparently.
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  2737. As a Floridian, I'm looking forward to Miami being consumed by the ocean. The rest of Florida will be an acceptable cost.
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  2738. That footage is pretty exculpatory. Floyd was absolutely nuts, or, as his ex said while pointing to her head and making a circle, "something's wrong with him...he's got something going on".
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  2739. Experts suspect it is part of a revenge plot for being "destroyed" by Dave Ruben with facts and logic.
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  2740. Using a "like" clause with a literal string instead of a pattern does not make sense.
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  2741. The Phillips curve has no empirical basis.
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  2742. Robinhood is not a serious investment platform. Robinhood exists for fun/legal gambling.
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  2743. In 70 years, the CIA will declassify for what they were using all those DNA samples, and nobody will bat an eye because it didn't happen to them and will be buried by the latest sensational headline.
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  2744. Huh. I just drove through Utah. Only the highest elevation area on the way to Arizona had snow.
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  2745.  @miketryczak8464  I have seen screenshots of the first publication, which did appear to have typos, but the latest public versions do not. It has nothing to do with OCR, and it appears that the version lambasted as being filled with typos was filled with typos as a distraction so that the opposition would not pay attention to the substance of the claims and thereby be unprepared to effectively oppose them within the cultural realm. As the Hermetics would say, "give milk to babes and reserve meat for strong men."
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  2746. Love the Coffee Zilla reference btw.
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  2747. Murphy's Law, the Presidency
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  2748. Cognitive dissonance has a confusing taste. I remember all the reports about how the Tigray force was days away from capturing the capital, and I wondered why it never came to pass. What a clusterfuck. Hard to accept that it was all lies.
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  2749. What? How is this their fault?
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  2750.  @TyrantLiger  This is pure schizo delusion. Wtf do Biden and Harris have to do with a private enterprise getting hacked?
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  2751. Next do Cobol on Wheelchair.
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  2752. "Am I inclined not to make too much of any one Biden statement because he’s running against the most disastrous president in American history? Maybe." Well, at least the writer was not being intentionally dishonest about his opinions. It seems like a lot of the reinforcement for the writer's argument is Orange Man Badder, Demented Man Not Badder.
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  2753. Just don't put your deposits in the big banksters' pockets. Credit unions all the way, yo.
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  2754. Remember adult Stan from South Park with his Alexa? Can't wait to see what Matt and Trey make out of this.
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  2755. It doesn't help the "Russia is just afraid of NATO" argument that the Kremlin has been promulgating messages about restoring the glorious empire over their state-controlled media channels. Why is it that people fall on either side of this false dichotomy? Russia's motivations for this war are clearly multifaceted.
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  2756. The IDF has not really cared about avoiding harming the hostages -- they have killed more than they have rescued. One of the hostages who survived an IDF attack told her story, but nobody in Israel cared that the IDF knowingly bombarded the hostages.
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  2757. Sane monetary policy was abolished in 1971. The credit cycle now determines if, when, and how the economy functions. Covid is a scapegoat. We all knew this year would be a recession because of the yield curve inversion in 2018 and the repo market collapse in 2019.
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  2758. True story btw. I was working on an order fulfillment algorithm when it went tits up.
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  2759. Base level reality is a simulation because consciousness and matter are inextricably linked, like two sides of a coin: you can't have one without the other.
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  2760. 1:34 I do like and cannot lie. You other investors cannot deny.
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  2761. As a software developer, the moment I heard "Copilot" I immediately thought "why tf is GitHub sponsoring a fintube channel, and why tf is Patrick shilling an AI tool that writes shitty code?"
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  2762. I think what Scarborough was saying was that Epstein's prisoner "suicide" looked like something done regularly by the Kremlin rather than "the Ruskies did it." It's the same kind of slime.
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  2763. I'm with Lyn Alden on this one. Banks are likely to be socialized and treated as utilities this decade. I doubt there will be much opportunity for profit in bank equity.
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  2764. Hey, post on Facebook when videos get un-demonetized so we can view it again.
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  2765. Top brass will have to come out of the Cheyenne mountain bunker before they make a decision. Word on the street is that if they see their shadows when they emerge, we'll have 3 more weeks of pandemic.
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  2766. Bitcoin is an improvement over gold in many ways. Bitcoin will be around long after all governments are dead. Every country that has tried to stop bitcoin has lost, including China.
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  2767. Feels uncontroversial to say that different people have different skill levels and require different tooling and language syntax/features to maximize their ability to accomplish tasks.
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  2768. Part of the problem with starting school at a reasonable time is that we would need to multiply the school transportation infrastructure massively. At least in Florida, the way it works is that every grade group gets its own start time so that fewer buses can transport more students and traffic is not jammed up all at once. Some grade levels (mostly the younger kids) get to start at 10am, while others (mostly teenagers) have to start before sunrise.
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  2769. China must be in real trouble if they are becoming soft so suddenly.
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  2770. Living in a modern dystopia like Australia must be quite strange. No fun allowed, and also you can't see your family without being shuffled off to a concentration camp because reasons.
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  2771.  @pablogonzalez7959  maybe if you want to extend the python interpreter itself with a native extension, but if you want to make a package that runs in any python interpreter, you will probably want to use a cffi wrapper.
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  2772. Prime says he doesn't understand docking and never does it, but I'm pretty sure he knows it intimately.
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  2773. Maybe all these policies attempting to totally remove social stratification are a perversion of natural tendencies. Maybe instead of all this artifice created by "progressive" policies, we should allow people to come up with their own solutions.
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  2774. By definition, it can't. IQ is normalized at an average of 100.
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  2775. Fwiw, you can have an autonomous AI select and follow targets, notify the operator that a target has been acquired, and then only engage after getting authorization from the drone operator. I imagine that this will be the primary method since it keeps humans in the loop while still being a force multiplier. Adding automatic authorization if the drone is being jammed would also likely be a safe decision since only enemy combatants would jam your side's drones.
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  2776. The "woke" lemmings ought to be called "wokels".
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  2777. The timeline presented is incorrect. Humans built temples 10,000 years before agriculture and cities. It was the gathering around temples that led to civilization, not the other way around.
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  2778. Know what the "con" in "con artist" means? "Confidence." Government is a scheme.
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  2779. I still think you won the Internet, fwiw. Pretty cool that it was a team effort too.
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  2780. Happy November Thursday ⛄ Time to build another ark to save ourselves from the flood.
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  2781. Wasn't this supposed to be a segment about a breaking Pennsylvania news story?
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  2782. "Your honor, the after school Satan club shouldn't be wearing such a short skirt. They were clearly asking for it."
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  2783. Supply chain issues and currency debasement are not mutually exclusive. The current debasement scheme is convoluted, but it is still debasement. Price volatility and price rises are always the result of debasement. However, the base effects are indeed exacerbating the problems caused by the currency debasement. There is no shortage in lumber -- there is widespread stockpiling of commodities because the dollar is on the brink of collapse.
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  2784. I'm still waiting for someone to say " everyone needs more money, and that's why I'm excited to talk about today's video sponsor, Brillshare, who is giving me money."
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  2785. @Chaud Poivron this is a post truth world. The toiling between deaths is built on illusion -- the real question is how long each illusion will hold.
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  2786. I highly recommend listening to Emil Kalinowski & Jeff Snyder's most recent podcast episode about how the Bretton Woods system died in 1961 and was only officially recognized as such in 1971. It appears that the US Treasury and Fed properly managed the dollar but did not recognize or ameliorate the inflation caused by eurodollar credit expansion -- banks were loaning dollars into existence all over the world, and that seems to have been the primary pressure that killed the dollar gold exchange standard. The Nixon Shock was not simply the US government defaulting on its obligations but rather a problem caused by or at least exacerbated by the counterfeiting of dollars by international banks. Without the eurodollar system expanding the global supply of dollar-denominated bank money, Italy and Japan would have undergone currency crises and Switzerland would have undergone a banking crisis as a result, but they used the eurodollar system to effectively offload those problems onto the US.
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  2787. Bitcoin will probably be the fastest horse in the great melt-up race, but doing something like a dragon portfolio makes a lot of sense.
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  2788. Every time Peter Zeihan talks on a subject that I have some specialized knowledge about, he misrepresents it. It is hard to value anything he says without implicitly endorsing the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect.
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  2789. Elon Musk has a lot of issues.
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  2790. Tim, if you leave your gun in your gun safe, you might not be able to get it when you need it. Be vigilant.
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  2791. Tbh I feel like that is a pretty good description of me. Can't seem to die no matter what happens. Hades rejects me consistently.
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  2792. 38:29 the text is Greek, though I can't make sense of it since I'm out of practice. Kind of confusing for Jormungandr to be surrounded by Greek text instead of Norse runes or Icelandic text.
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  2793. But Bjørn, if women have children, then our rulers can't tax their income, and they won't consume as much bullshit to enrich the capitalists. Surely, you cannot be serious with this disinformed notion that human life is more important than tax revenue and corporate profits. You should be censored, sir. This is a dangerous ideology.
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  2794. Imo the Republic of Kekistan (i.e. the Internet) will be the new global hegemon, and Bitcoin will be the reserve asset of choice. It remains to be seen whether it will be the reserve currency. My guess is that there will be systems built on top of Bitcoin, Lightning Network, RGB Protocol, and the Liquid side chain using these underlying systems for settlement, since they will run into scalability issues eventually due to the requirement to use the Bitcoin blockchain to some degree.
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  2795. PSA if you want to learn maths, watch Khan Academy and skip paying tens of thousands of dollars.
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  2796. Zelensky is probably the only politician alive who has any integrity. This notion that he has unfairly enriched himself is a lie believed only because your cognitive bias would lead to cognitive dissonance if you accepted the fact that he is not like the puppets America has backed in the past. The president of Afghanistan fled with a helicopter full of cash at the first sign of trouble; Zelensky visited the front line to boost the morale of his troops as they defended their homeland. The two could not be more different. There is no evidence that Zelensky is corrupt; there are only ignorant screeds from conspiracy-minded ignoramuses.
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  2797. Overton window shifting does not equate to a faster development roadmap imo.
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  2798. I think the distinction ought to be made between anonymity and pseudonymity. For example, I've maintained this account for ~15 years, and I have no intention to switch it on a whim. KYC rules are largely inappropriate for most aspects of life -- imagine if you had to provide your social security number to buy a sandwich at the local deli.
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  2799. Also get some range time and potentially some training.
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  2800. In Florida, we have a law codified in our statutes explicitly authorizing sheriffs to deputize a posse comitatus of citizens to suppress riots. Maybe that historical role of galvanizing the community against hell raisers is why the left hates them. Edit: it is 30.09(4)(e-f), granting exceptions to bond requirements for deputization in certain scenarios: "(4) EXCEPTIONS.--This section does not apply to the appointment of special deputy sheriffs appointed by the sheriff: ... (e) To aid in preserving law and order, or to give necessary assistance in the event of any threatened or actual hurricane, fire, flood, or other natural disaster, or in the event of any major tragedy such as an act of local terrorism or a national terrorism alert, an airplane crash, a train or automobile wreck, or a similar accident. (f)To raise the power of the county, by calling bystanders or others, to assist in quelling a riot or any breach of the peace, when ordered by the sheriff or an authorized general deputy." A competent sheriff is a real community leader rather than simply someone who wields power. This is why the left hates the sheriffs: they believe in wielding power without any leadership responsibilities.
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  2801. I argue that the level of honesty is even lower this time around since the institution setting the par value definition for the currency is using a fake "deferred asset" to paper over realized losses that are more than double their equity: par value, under an honest accounting, is no longer par value.
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  2802. Ethereum is a toy foundationally tied to a fraudulent securities scheme. Some people are able to make toys that work on it, and some people waste incredible amounts of money on it, but it is still a toy.
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  2803. It is a bit weird to be downplaying it so substantially when some of the elite policy makers of the IMF, Interbank, and UN are pushing this agenda. And you left out the neo-communist ideas they've been pushing, e.g. "you'll own nothing, and you'll be happy" and the idea of replacing markets with AI that tracks and traces every transaction via central bank digital currencies.
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  2804. Section 230 should just exclude companies/sites/networks with more than $1 billion in revenue.
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  2805. Mississippi Bubble with a ponzi scheme built on top. Such innovation. Maybe next time it should also launder money for a drug cartel. That really ought to fix the downsides from the bubble + ponzi combo -- it apparently has a 0% track record so far, so maybe we just need a bit more innovation to get it working better.
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  2806. We are all dreams in God's quest for self-discovery. Whether God is dead or just asleep is an unanswerable question, but my guess is that the universe is God's corpse.
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  2807. Quantum effects in the microtubules in neurons appear to be part of human intelligence/consciousness.
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  2808. I've been bitten by snakes and spiders, and I fear neither -- I simply pack some heat, respect their distance, and note how neat nature is. It's hard to fear things you've experienced first-hand with perhaps the exception of other humans.
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  2809. Is "Triangle Company" code for "Illuminati"?
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  2810. If you wanna see something even stranger than many worlds interpretation, look up Dean Radin. And once you've started down that rabbit hole, look up Peter J. Carroll.
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  2811. The maxim that one would not believe everything one sees on the Internet has been true since Abraham Lincoln's first Tweet denying his involvement in the deaths of several vampires.
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  2812. I host a number of git repos on my Raspberry Pi.
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  2813. It is probably a classified military exercise to test new radar detection devices and simulate responses.
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  2814. I think I would sue the squatter and demand he either leave or enter into a sale agreement where the transfer of title is made official in exchange for a lien.
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  2815. "Most progressive since FDR" doesn't really jazz me much considering how FDR was just a less effective American Hitler.
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  2816. Debt to M2 ratio: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=txxW Increases lead to short term asset inflation and long term broad deflation; decreases lead to short term asset deflation and long term broad inflation. The Zimbabwe-fication index -- percent of federal debt held by the Fed: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=txx2 The likelihood of a currency crisis and loss of reserve currency dominance is directly correlated with this indicator. And finally, the gold price to M2Real ratio: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=tugK It peaked around 0.38 in the past two major bull markets; if the upward trend in peaks continues (i.e. long term erosion of trust in the fiat dollar), the ratio could peak around 0.49. At current M2 level, those give peak price targets of $2,700 and $3,400 respectively; after the next $1 trillion in M2 stimulus, those targets become $2,800 and $3,600; another $3 trillion in M2 stimulus instead make those targets $3,100 and $4,000.
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  2817. The real Great Reset is beyond the control of the Davos cabal narcissists who think otherwise. Bitcoin is ushering in the next paradigm of decentralization and thriving local economies, and there's nothing the kleptocrat cantillionaires can do to stop it. The dollar is already dead -- we're just watching as its corpse thrashes around.
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  2818. First-past-the-post is one of the worst possible electoral methods, especially for singular positions where electing a consensus candidate would be more appropriate. We really ought to replace it with some form of score voting. The simplest improvement would be to replace fptp with approval voting, where each elector votes for any number of candidates, but the best method would be STAR with negative votes (i.e. score each candidate between -1 and +1).
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  2819.  @SeattlePioneer  not sure if that was satire about the current state of American politics or something completely nonsensical.
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  2820.  @SeattlePioneer  I guess part of the confusion is that my comment was serious, so I wasn't expecting a 4chan-brain level response.
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  2821. AMD A10-5800k crossfired with 1GB GDDR5 Radeon 6670 (H667FN1G); 8GB Patriot V3 1866 memory; MSI FM2-A75MA-E35 motherboard; 1TB 7200rpm Barracuda; cheap mid-tower case. Playing BF3, you'll get around 50fps at 1080p, high everything. My system is costing me just under $500 because I added aftermarket cooling and some other bells and whistles, but a $400 pc will do fine. It's feasible if you get everything on sale.
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  2822. Didn't Google take part in the "Trusted News Initiative" to censor information they thought was "harmful" just a couple years ago during the anthropogenic SHTF?
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  2823. That poor girl's life has been forever ruined by some overreacting parents. Holy fuck, some screws in some pipes. What would this society come to if people could collect toy guns, books, and movies without law enforcement intervening? Thank the gods for the po-leece.
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  2824. Toml is de wae
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  2825. YouTube has become hot garbage. What's more ridiculous is that I have a premium account, and it is still hot garbage.
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  2826. Didn't Microsoft just release Gorilla or something like that which can learn APIs? I imagine that will eventually become part of Copilot to make it more useful.
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  2827. China has hit peak growth, and over the next few decades they will slow and begin to economically contract because of demographic collapse -- as a result of the one child policy, young adults are each stuck caring for 4 grandparents, not having the time or energy to start families. Their population will naturally shrink as a result, shrinking their economy at the same time. This should set them up for an economic boom starting in a couple of generations, but they will not take the place of the US (nor do they want to). Russia and China believe the world would be better as a multipolar, multicurrency system, and they are right: Triffin's dilemma predicted the hollowing out of the US economy due to the global dollar standard, so moving to a multipolar world will allow for jobs to be retained regionally; and the US military is completely overstretched and wasting tons of resources doing things that regional powers would rather handle on their own. More importantly, we are at no greater threat militarily when our troops are at home compared to when they are running around the world like Barney Fife.
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  2828. We also get billions of dollars in investment from South America.
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  2829. The massive levels of leverage in REITs is largely due to incentive structures created by Congress. The unlevered, ungreedy landlords who are natural persons rather than corporate structures can afford to work out a deal with their tenants because they aren't a house of cards. Good job, government.
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  2830. Early this morning, there was a full lunar eclipse/blood moon, exactly 2 weeks after a total solar eclipse. If you understand the ancient cosmological significance and symbolism of water/blood, the sun, the moon, and darkness/light, there is a lot of meaning you can parse from the event. Just remember that Lucifer's sin was not one of darkness but one of exalting light/intellect to the top of the hierarchy, where it does not belong -- the number of the Beast represents an extreme form of logic and work that does not leave space for dissent and rest -- the blocking of the light of the sun and moon is a reminder that a contrived order based upon the work of Man cannot be eternal.
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  2831. Whoa. The SNL channel being only 3 videos in Canadialand is a real thing. Wtf.
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  2832. I recommend anyone who sees this go to FRED and look up "Remittances Due to the U.S. Treasury". The Federal Reserve will be bankrupt by the end of the year at this rate.
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  2833. If everything devolves into chaos, then there will be plenty of quicksand upon which to form their new empire. Burn it all down to rule the ashes -- that seems to be the current leftist strategy.
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  2834.  @stephj9378  name one.
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  2835.  @stephj9378  he is not involved in geopolitics, and his DoD still killed plenty of people in the Middle East and Somalia when he was.
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  2836. Jeff Snider says that the fall of the yen is due primarily to Japanese bank exposure to dollar denominated loans in China. He says that the Japanese banks are basically regional eurodollar distributors, so they are selling off yen assets to get enough dollar assets to maintain their balance sheets as China implodes.
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  2837. Become a Living Meme by H2 Koetting.
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  2838. Miss Information is an intelligent and respectable young lady. How dare you besmirch her name just because she is Russian.
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  2839. In my case, my spiritual experiences could not be explained by Protestantism, and the dogmas my parents imparted were all eventually proven wrong.
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  2840. I prefer Vivaldi to Brave and Firefox.
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  2841. I also had the playback speed set to 1.5x, so he was talking at 2.25 speed for me, which was definitely too much.
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  2842. The walls are closing in on the Trump non-administration.
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  2843. How many triangles does it take to entangle the moon?
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  2844. Good stuff. The perspective you provide is definitely alleviating a blindspot in western media mindspace.
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  2845. Need immigrants to avoid population collapse. Governments don't care about who they are using as taxable bloodbags.
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  2846. It's too bad that their government is so committed to violating the constitutionally protected rights of their citizens, otherwise it could be a good place to be.
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  2847. The assumption that "death is oblivion", or more precisely that experience ends at death, is an assumption without evidence. Technically, there is tentative evidence discrediting this assumption, but it is arguable how objective the statement that experience extends beyond death actually is. It is also worth noting that anesthesia does not work on all patients -- some retain a level of consciousness.
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  2848. Whiteboard masturbation is great for frontend UX and is otherwise inappropriate workplace behavior
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  2849. More of a brain fuck than actual brainfuck.
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  2850. I actuated the upwardly-directed, anatomical interface element to indicate a non-negative response to the visual/auditory input stimulus, after which I composed and recorded a non-verbal cognitive result with my capacitive literary input device.
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  2851. They should probably hook up some Boston Dynamics bots with the drone detection and defense technology, then send one or two with each patrol.
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  2852. According to some reports from the SEC on short covering, there is a fraudulent way that shorts can pretend to cover by shifting their position between brokerages to get some extra time to fix their position problems. This works because brokers have additional days to find shares to cover shorts, and full disclosure does not take place if the position shifts back to a different brokerage. This can only go on for a few weeks before the scheme breaks down, and that point was estimated by a WSB researcher to be sometime shortly after the 24th.
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  2853. If Syria can stabilize over the next several months, I imagine that a lot of these currently hesitant refugees will probably start returning of their own volition -- or at least, the ones who cause problems can be legally returned by the governments who granted them asylum. Hopefully the rival factions form a confederation between autonomous areas to work things out politically over a few years and then later form a federation, much like the US or Switzerland.
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  2854.  @oz_jones  Real refugees desire to return to their homes and families. I am sure there are plenty who merely used the political situation as a pretense, but the real refugees will want to return. Once the real ones do because it is safe to go home, those who are left are there for economic reasons.
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  2855.  @sciencedaemon  I program primarily in Python, JavaScript/Typescript (vomit), and PHP. I spent a few days writing common lisp and did not like it, especially the obnoxious metaprogramming syntax.
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  2856. @tonyhart2744  man, why'd you have to bring up Typescript?
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  2857. This kind of stuff makes anarchy much more appealing than these corrupt institutions.
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  2858. The reason that empires fall is that they meet an enemy that has no central point of weakness, while the empire by its nature has many central points of weakness. The Russian empire fell to angry peasants; the Roman empire fell to angry Germanic tribes; the British empire fell to angry colonists and Indians; and now the American empire falls to a bunch of Arab groups living in caves. Centralized systems tend to be weaker than a decentralized alternative if the ideas behind both are about equally compelling.
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  2859. Good economic news? Deflationary ✅ Bad economic news? Deflationary ✅ No economic news? Deflationary ✅ Low government deficits? Deflationary ✅ High government deficits? Deflationary ✅ Government printing money through central bank monetizing government debt? Deflationary ✅
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  2860. Another cool thing: the CPU idles around 9C, which is 15C cooler than room temperature. I think my Xigmatek Gaia is working pretty well--that and the pretty good job I did with cable routing ;) Yeah, seeing my first-ever custom pc post was the highlight of my life.
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  2861. Counterpoint: if Henrison Ford was a real genius, he would have invented a faster horse that never shits. That would be way cooler than a car.
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  2862. Good bait-and-switch. Was expecting some anodyne discussion of quid pro Joe's influence peddling operations form Air Force 2.
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  2863. Perspective is not unidimensional.
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  2864. Tally sticks denominated in hours will work in a pinch.
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  2865. To be fair, they declared that Q1 2020 was a single-quarter recession, so we knew that the bureaucrats were changing the definition.
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  2866. GFC = Global Financial Crisis, not "great financial crash"
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  2867. She might have collected even more weird shit. Holy fuck, we can't be having that. What would this society come to if people could collect pipes, screws, plastic toy guns, books, and movies without law enforcement intervening?
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  2868. They successfully pushed the date back to December 3rd.
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  2869. It's even crazier than just a pump and dump -- it is a pump and dump on volatility, not the silver price itself. Huge hedge funds buy up a lot of put and call SLV options, forcing market makers to buy and short SLV, causing inflows into the ETF (run by JP Morgan) and increasing float and volatility. Increased volatility leads to increased options premiums, thus bailing out the hedge funds who lost tens of billions on the smooth-brain Melvin stuff. And the cherry on top is that you can buy SLV on Robinhood but PSLV, the SLV competitor run by Sprott, was removed.
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  2870. Christine: you gotta think about imaginary outcomes. If I hadn't gotten us into this mess, the thing that didn't happen would have happened. Please don't Sri Lanka me.
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  2871. Mark, I recommend you watch the Smarter Every Day video in which Destin tours a modern American manufacturing facility that produces shaped metal products. It is not as terrible as you seem to think.
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  2872. Idk why he uses "NOT LIKE" instead of "!=". 6:13
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  2873. Also, if parents don't know how to keep a baby boy's penis adequately clean with a foreskin, they still won't know how to keep it adequately clean without one. This can lead to infection, skin fusing, or other complications due to the circumcision itself, in some cases requiring amputation or other surgical intervention. Complications during circumcision have also led to complete amputations, which was the origin of the modern trans movement due to Dr. Money's perverted experiments that drove a set of twins to suicide because one of them was the unfortunate victim of such an amputation as a baby. It is a barbaric and nonsensical practice carried out by morons.
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  2874. Damnit. I just lost the game .__.
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  2875. World Economic Forum should have said "You'll know nothing, and you'll be angry."
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  2876. Florida Statutes Chapter 876 Sections 5-10 require officers to swear an oath to support the US constitution; provide that the breaking of the oath is criminal perjury; and any employer paying officers from public funds who does not fire someone for not executing their oath is guilty of a second degree misdemeanor. Everyone, find your state's law on oaths and oath breakers -- pool your resources to press charges against any officer and their employers.
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  2877. I don't think that Styx understands this well enough to properly analyze it.
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  2878. You forgot to mention the new Canadian dictator, eh? Not so nice to be taking people's money and putting them in jail just for protesting, dontcha think?
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  2879.  @benjyyx  They literally lost a court case. Your head is so far up your own ass you can probably see out through your mouth.
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  2880.  @yucinalo  no, the updated SSA explicitly states that all future conflicts will be resolved using the courts in their preferred jurisdiction (it was a specific city, but I don't remember the name).
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  2881. You really don't know what you are talking about regarding Signal. It is end-to-end encrypted with post-quantum cryptography, and its developers invented the most secure protocol for e2e chat encryption thus far, which has been adopted as the industry standard for perfect forward security. There is not a better alternative.
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  2882. Could easily be the artificial lighting in his studio, but it is good advice nonetheless.
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  2883. And the only way it works is that China is willing to enslave their people for dollars.
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  2884. The best way to up your game as a mediocre male athlete is to compete as a woman and criticize everyone who sees through your bullshit for being "hateful".
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  2885. Regarding the opt-in mutability thing in Rust: you can't call it a variable if it isn't variable -- if everything is immutable, then nothing varies, so it ultimately isn't actually a variable. Perhaps "symbol" would be a better term, but then you'll get the attention of the Lispers.
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  2886. PSA: Celsius is likely the next to implode.
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  2887. On the topic of welding vs nuts and bolts, I just refactored a genetic algorithm library I wrote in Go to use memory pooling via buffered channels of structs containing pointers. It was a major pain in the ass, but I got a 99.94% reduction in benchmark time/op. It is worth doing low level optimizations for the experience and the performance gains, but damn was it difficult, like trying to remove welded parts.
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  2888. To be fair, if the examples from the documentation are plainly wrong and just don't work, that's a pretty good sign that you should look elsewhere rather than spend the next three weeks evaluating whether or not it is the thing you should be using. If it doesn't demonstrably function at some basic level, then what are you even doing? Just move on.
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  2889. Didn't that History Channel guy already demonstrate that the aliens are all basically bashful admirers of humanity showering us with gifts anonymously? That's basically the opposite of "grabby" and refutes the model pretty parsimoniously.
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  2890. Proposal: the Congress should pass a bill exempting the failed state of Venezuela from the ban on filibustering. I'll rustle up some friends; throw out the incompetent government; make Bitcoin, gold, and US dollars legal tender; and establish El AnCapistan.
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  2891. M2 weekly series was discontinued. M2 is still being reported monthly via the M2SL series.
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  2892. Visa and Mastercard are only the retail part of the global payment system. The larger, more important functions are carried out via correspondent banking and CHIPS. Look up Emil Kalinowski and Jeff Snider; they have a podcast/vodcast called Eurodollar University where they discuss how the global monetary system works in detail.
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  2893. "Well regulated" meant "well equipped and trained".
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  2894. There will likely be a major correction in assets next month (probably next week or the week after). But we are nowhere near the top of this gold bull market. Check out the gold price to M2Real ratio: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=tugK Historic bull market tops are around a ratio of 0.38; trend shows that ratio moving to 0.49 at the next bull market top. At current M2 levels, those are price targets of $2700 and $3400, but after the next $1 trillion in M2 stimulus, those price targets become $2800 and $3600. If the dollar collapses and loses reserve currency dominance, that ratio could go way higher, and eurodollars could come flooding back into US markets, increasing gold and silver prices even further. Here is a rough approximation of the probability of a currency crisis, the Zimbabwe-fication index (percent of federal debt monetized by the Fed): https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=txx2 The last time it got above 16%, we had the Nixon shock, which was a currency crisis that took over a decade to stabilize. That time, the US defaulted on its gold debt; this time, the dollar payment system will default. The likelihood of a currency crisis increases proportionally to the percentage of federal debt monetized by the central bank. My guess is that the likelihood approaches 100% as the ratio approaches 20%.
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  2895. It is a little funny tbh.
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  2896. I can set up a simple database for the nomina barbara stuff. Sounds like a reasonable weekend project.
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  2897. You sure you aren't talking about America?
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  2898. * Peaceful Protest Intensifies *
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  2899. "England for the English" only makes sense if you can also say "Ukraine for the Ukrainians". Sovereignty for one people is only consistent if every people can have their own sovereignty.
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  2900. Changing from corn to switchgrass will also reduce the amount of fertilizer that farmers will require to produce ethanol, which should alleviate some rising food price pressures.
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  2901. Provide weapons and training to every woman in Mexico so they can defend themselves and their families against cartel thugs. Since most cartel members are men, this would be a worthwhile compromise that could re-arm the populace (who technically have a constitutional guaranteed right to bear arms but in practice have been disarmed by the government) without further arming the cartel. I cannot help but suspect that Mexico's hypocritical gun control policies have been helping the cartel terrorize the people and were at least somewhat motivated by corruption. And with their military taking on increased policing power within the country, the people of Mexico need arms to maintain some semblance of balance of power to prevent a military dictatorship once this crisis has been resolved.
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  2902. In Florida, the sheriff and his deputies are required to post a bond or buy an insurance policy for payment of fines and civil damages in the case of civil liberties violations. Statute 30 covers the specifics. (To my knowledge, municipal police are not subject to state requirements for bond/surety, but it is possible I simply have not read that chapter yet.) From first- and second-hand experiences, I estimate that this explicit liability for civil liberty infringement has led to a sheriff system that is more conversational than punitive. For example, if you slide past a stop sign in a dangerous intersection, you're more likely to get a warning than a ticket -- the purpose of having the deputy there is public safety, not raising revenue. Another example: one of my friends got stopped for not renewing his tag (in protest over the system not pro-rating the fee). He had a lot of cash on him because his boss had just paid his weekly salary in cash. Since he's from Chiraq, he had a very aggressive and non-cooperative attitude that made the deputy suspect he was trying to hide something, so the deputy searched the car. Normally, the cash could be charged with a crime under civil forfeiture laws, but the deputy instead simply commented that he better not be up to any fishy business with the money and then let him go. In yet another example, a roommate in college was dealing drugs and throwing parties, and I and my other roommate wanted him to stop, so after a few weeks of being unable to convince him to stop, we called the sheriff to report it. When the deputies arrived, the party attendants flushed all their drugs and hid a lot of paraphernalia (the apartment still smelled, and not all paraphernalia was adequately hidden). The deputies explained to them that there had been a complaint, wrote down their contact info, tried to dissuade them from continuing in their destructive ways, and then left. We had a cleaner, quieter apartment and a better-behaving roommate for the rest of the lease term.
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  2903. I like including dependency injection but supplying a default implementation where appropriate.
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  2904. The Consumer Price Index dropped last month, not just the year-over-year rate. The index itself decreased. It takes a long time for the yoy rate to turn around and indicate that we had been experiencing deflation for months. It is a lagging indicator. The annualized month-over-month rate is a current indicator. Purchasing Managers' Index is a leading indicator.
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  2905. Speaking of "confidence" being the root of "confidence game" and "con artist", what are your thoughts on all these YouTube channels shilling penny stocks without disclosing that they are paid advertisements?
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  2906. The smear merchants are losing power over all but the most brainless of NPCs.
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  2907. Moat of the current crisis is the direct result of the anti-human ESG movement, with arrogant retards like Larry Fink and Joe Biden doing everything they can to hamstring the energy production sector over a fiction that it is somehow worse than starving and killing millions or billions of people.
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  2908. Don't let Comrade President Puty Pants catch you on a banned website
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  2909. It doesn't make any sense to have a $5k check writing program of Congress is just going to pile on more and more spending.
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  2910. Tbh the sponsor spot makes sense
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  2911. I'm also pro-choice in a Dave Chappelle way: if a woman can kill it, then a man should be able to abandon it. My money, my choice.
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  2912. Azerbaijan waged a war of conquest against Armenia in 2020 and retook a majority of territory that was controlled by the Republic of Artsakh, and Armenia relinquished claims to much of the bordering Nagorno area to Azerbaijan as an outcome of the military defeat. The conflict is known as the Nagorno-Karabakh War of 2020, and the armistice was signed by Putin. Russia guarantees the safety of the Lachin corridor connecting Artsakh with Armenia, and in exchange Armenia guarantees the safety of transport between the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic and Azerbaijan. Artsakh wants its former lands and displaced citizens returned to protect them from the lingering anti-Armenian genocidal tendencies of Azerbaijan and Turkey. Central Asia is a clusterfuck.
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  2913. Unfortunately, about a quarter of those "new jobs" is just temporary census workers and other government employees.
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  2914. Hard to not feel nihilistic when the world is so screwed up that a Federal Reserve Note is worth only 98¢ when you subtract the fake assets used to paper over their realized losses, which are in excess of twice their capital. If the Fed had positive equity, it would have a 200x leverage ratio; but because of their losses, they are at a -200x leverage ratio.
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  2915. Whaaaaat? I've used 0% APR 6-month and 12-month things for substantial business expenses because it makes sense, but for a coffee, that's just nuts.
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  2916. "If you're satisfied by the wrong conclusion, you won't find the right one." E.g. Iraq had WMDs; Trump is a Russian asset; Notre Dame was an accident.
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  2917. The M1 series is a broken series where the definition changes in May 2020 (when savings deposits were moved from M2 to M1), so it is utterly useless as a metric for time based comparisons. M2 definition remains unchanged and can be used for making comparisons. With the perspective provided by Bitcoin, it is pretty ridiculous that the money supply has to be measured and estimated rather than being provable.
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  2918. It's like the halls of Congress are filled with people who are simultaneously evil scumbags and braindead morons. This will be such an atrocious failure that either it will never come to pass due to the fact that you can't legislate away reality no matter how hard you try, or it will lead to the complete destruction of American car manufacturers and a complete dirth of functional new cars.
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  2919. This is pretty fucking hilarious.
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  2920. I have developed and released several major FOSS Python packages this year, each with hundreds of unit tests and e2e/integration tests: a stack machine with its own assembly-style scripting language and some advanced cryptographic features for embedding ACLs into distributed systems (tapescript); a CRDTs package for synchronizing data between any number of replicas without a central coordinator (crdts); and a new sql query builder + ORM that includes automatic hashing of models to generate deterministic content IDs and a substantial CLI tool for generating code and handling migrations (sqloquent). The readability for the code for tapescript is absolute dogshit even after a significant refactor (but I was being poisoned by black mold at the time, so I've forgiven myself since it all still works). The crdts code was dogshit until I refactored it, so now it's somewhat readable. The sqloquent code is freshest and least shitty, but there's so much of it that I don't really recommend trying. The only code I wrote this year that is relatively nice to read through is contained in the simplest projects, e.g. highest random weight (better and simpler than consistent hashing) and flying state machines. The moral of the story is that shitty looking code will still run, and it doesn't really matter as long as it has tests and someone can get in there and write a bug fix.
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  2921. cough the Fed dictates these policies cough
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  2922. Interesting to call it a "market failure" at the very beginning only to then explain how it is actually a problem caused by government regulations.
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  2923. Inclined to agree. I have been working on a solution for economic agency for the past few years. I'm hoping to get a working system published by the end of the year. It is a FOSS project, of course.
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  2924. "Ivan in his blyatmobile" lol
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  2925. The bit about the US learning from the experience of "the appropriate levels of funding, foreign involvement, political processes, and autonomous, organic growth" in Afghanistan means "the US knows several ways not to set up a stable government in the Middle East".
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  2926. The universe is a hypersphere. I'm tired of these flat-worlders spreading their ignorance.
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  2927. If Putin has half a brain, he'll enter peace talks with Ukraine under false pretenses and make a show of agreeing to a ceasefire for a couple of months as he finishes preparing for a sucker punch against NATO, but perhaps he'll just be an aggressive little asshole the whole way through instead.
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  2928. Government and big banks don't want another financial crisis from the silent, ongoing, commercial real estate collapse. If they can change business owners' minds (those who weren't forced into bankruptcy by the lockdowns) through some PR bullshit moves, they can maybe soften the blow so that the US banking system doesn't collapse from all the bad loans on upside-down properties that can't be repurposed. That's my conspiracy theory.
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  2929.  @staticfanatic  I think that the audio encoder reversed a few short segments of the audio stream. Sounds more like reversed audio than AI generated audio.
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  2930.  @Feribrat99  indeed. For the first time in my life, I consumed a bunch of fast food over the course of several months leading up to getting the cold, and I'm in no hurry to replicate those results.
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  2931. I don't feel sorry for Mozilla. They fired a third of their staff so they could continue hosting nonsensical intersectional leftist conferences in African countries instead of maintaining Firefox or Thunderbird. Their recent survey for the "future of Mozilla" had no mentions of "Firefox" or "web browser" and was half intersectional identity buzzword soup. The Mozilla Foundation is diseased.
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  2932. ThemTube censored my comment about Mozilla's focus on their leftist political nonsense, but I keep getting notifications for this thread anyway, as if they want to rub it in.
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  2933. I say we sing the Team America theme song instead.
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  2934. I think the time will soon come when Republicans will once again have to put bigoted Democrats in their place.
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  2935. Many cars were destroyed by the storm surge in my neighborhood. Some houses had a foot or more of water inside, and most had at least 4 inches. Further west on the barrier islands, the storm surge was enough to reach the second stories of some buildings and completely destroyed others, and some inland areas near creeks got record-breaking floods from the rainfall (e.g. 7-9 feet in the outskirts of Arcadia near Horse Creek). There are boats in people's backyards, sometimes in their living rooms. There are armed guards outside of every large store. It looks like a Fallout game out here for several contiguous counties and has since the hurricane hit. I have never seen anything like this level of destruction before. The worst thing is how many people are missing or were found dead.
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  2936. Sort of in the opposite situation: was having a great time working out and getting stronger -- could do 2 consecutive handstand push-ups -- but then I got ill and then injured as I recovered from the illness, so now I have to wait until my rib heals before I can get back to working out. I didn't think of myself as an impatient guy before this ordeal, but this is really exhausting my patience.
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  2937. This stuff is likely a false flag operation to provide casus beli.
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  2938. The "traditional" roles are a flash in the pan on the scale of our species' existence. For hundreds of thousands of years, both men and women participated in gathering food. When we started farming, both genders engaged in agricultural labor. (If you want a successful homestead even today, everyone has to pitch in, because there's a lot of work to be done.) This "traditional" division of gender roles has only existed sporadically over the last few hundred years, and the capitalists and bureaucrats implemented public schools to keep women in the work force for cheaper labor and more tax revenue.
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  2939. Every action is met with an equal and opposite reaction. The harder they push, they more ground they cede.
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  2940. "All caps. Very boomer of you."
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  2941. I say we give them shields and axes, put them in groups of 9, and let every 9th group in; let them set a table for the ravens to prove their worth; and then have them complete a 2 year contract in the military as a condition of citizenship. A corpse-strewn border will be a far better deterrent than anything else.
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  2942. "26% of bugs are non-deterministic" uhm
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  2943. I gotta call bullshit on the comment about Zelensky. I would go into details about how it is exactly backwards, but ThemTube censors the comment every time I do.
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  2944. Government: the source of, and putative solution to, all of America's problems.
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  2945. I think that Peter Schiff does not debate in good faith. He's too full of himself and never admits that he's wrong.
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  2946. Have you seen the Lunduke report about the Linux Foundation spending significantly more on blockchain and AI than they do on Linux?
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  2947. The fourth turning is specifically a pattern of American culture and politics. It is not a misinterpretation of global debt cycles but rather is a model that coincides with it. All models are wrong, but some models are useful.
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  2948. That tongue clicking thing Tim does is pretty annoying.
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  2949. Actually, SARS-CoV-1 is still kept in labs, and there have been some notable lab leak outbreaks such as the Beijing outbreak in 2004.
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  2950. Still builds it* I was there last year, and the fucking welders were raining sparks and molten metal onto the homeless pedestrians on the sidewalk below as they built a skyscraper.
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  2951. Had no idea you also play piano. Of all the instruments I have played, piano remains my favorite. Just don't play a piano after an Irish guy has spent a few days covering it in his sweat and boogers and spilled beer.
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  2952. They say "sound and resilient" like they are trying to cast a spell, but they have no idea how to actually cast one.
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  2953.  @stephencuskley5251  The Bible did not prophesy the end of a fiat currency regime or a typical generational turning. The idea that Biblical prophesy can be applied to any given time is ludicrous. Christians have been claiming to be victims and seeing the signs of the End of Days (TM) for over a thousand years. The balance of probability is that y'all are still wrong.
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  2954. First past the post voting necessarily leads to strategic voting due to the spoiler effect. It is fun to pontificate about principles, but the reality is that we use a voting system in America that devolves into 2 parties because the only choice it is suitable for making is between exactly 2 candidates. If we instead used the Score Then Automatic Run-off (STAR) method, each voter would be able to vote their conscience without concern about the spoiler effect. Edit: Krystal Ball is an inconsistent airhead.
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  2955. I still occasionally pull copper pennies out of circulation. Seems to me that nickels are a decent idea as well, since you sort through them just to pull out foreign coins and silver war nickels, with the metal content of the remaining nickels at ~100% of face value. The issue is that a hundred dollars in nickels weighs 22 lbs, so it is not very practical for most purposes.
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  2956. Nb4 the DC political elites admit that UAPs are the conduits of their evil inter-dimensional masters.
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  2957. Xyla Foxlin posted a video about her experiences with a hormonal IUD ruining her life and destroying her busines aspirations, then almost killing her the second time it was replaced. In that video, she discussed the difficulties she experienced talking with medical professionals who tried to tell her that it was all in her head rather than being a consequence of an artificially-induced hormonal imbalance. It is not consent unless it is informed, so there is a very strong case to be made that these women had their consent violated by the pharmaceutical industry and doctors pushing these medicines, denying the side effects, and heavy gaslighting. Edit: I'm one of those lads. I see it as an issue that affects up to half of humans directly, so it is a massive social issue regardless of me not having ovaries.
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  2958. Seems to me that CNN, PMSNBC, et al. need to learn this as well. There are bad actors spreading misinformation purposefully; sheeple who repost/retweet mindlessly; and MSM orgs trying to emulate the bad actors to rake in views from the sheeple.
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  2959. How can a country have an economy without a store of value? The yuan clearly cannot be trusted to be a store of value, and now no longer can Chinese real estate.
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  2960. Canned chicken breast is one of the main ingredients I use for soups, and it is up 60% in 1 year.
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  2961. They don't often sell their gold, but they do loan and rehypothicate that crap out of it.
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  2962. Diamond hand hodlgang today. Apes together strong. GME to the moon on Elon's next rocket. It's all a joke at the expense of the hedge fund smooth brains who shorted more than 200% of float -- they are getting hammered because they got greedy. Most people who are buying GME are doing so just to stick it to the Man. Nobody believes that Melvin Capital actually closed their short position because the total short position is still 140% of float.
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  2963. There is a substantial and obvious qualitative difference between enriching the idle rich for the sake of wealth accrual and attempting to incentivize the most productive and skilled class of laborers in the country. The things being done in Bentonville are mind bogglingly complex and skill intensive. Bentonville is the location of Walmart's global cybersecurity HQ.
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  2964. Wrong Linus lol
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  2965. Nine women cannot make a baby no matter how long you give them, actually.
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  2966.  @iforce2d  just as the covid pandemic began, I was working on an integration for a hospital staffing company. They had to cancel the contract and nearly went under because their hospitals almost went bankrupt from the lack of demand due to the lockdown panic. Lots of horrible decisions from central planners/bureaucrats from the outset, but people are still following along like lemmings.
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  2967. Bitcoin is the best performing asset in human history. That is a pretty simple fact.
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  2968. Should have started by explaining the election method. It is impossible to understand election outcomes if the actual election method is not first understood.
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  2969.  @Katya_That_Biiitch  Gollum was a Hobbit named Smeagol, a long time ago. The Ring corrupted him.
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  2970. @SukunaSentMe  even better, they are Christians, which means they get to claim everything from ancient Judaism as their own and reinterpret it to fit their ideological whims.
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  2971. Technically, you can compile QT and many other UI libraries into WASM if you really didn't want to use html and css. I suspect there are even native UI libraries that use html and css but also compile into WASM.
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  2972.  @rickknoxx  I did an arrest record search and got results for Vermont that included domestic violence and sexual assault, but idk how reliable the source was.
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  2973.  @TheHouseOfWaffles  Did you get it laminated and framed?
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  2974. It's really stupid that Tim constantly complains about things but never spends any time trying to find a solution. The problem is the government -- specifically, the Fed. Read about the Cantillion effect.
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  2975. Bitcoin is the antidote to an otherwise fatal dose of government.
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  2976. Thousands of people die from suffocation with dihydrogen monoxide every year. Not only that, it also corrodes metallic structures, especially iron, and its solid form causes all sorts of road accidents and the like. Terribly dangerous stuff.
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  2977. Property was measured in "asses"?
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  2978. The worst of Carlson's comments on Bubba the Love Sponge were satirical quotes of a fictional populist character he predicted could win the presidency. He was predicting the rise of Trump on a shock jock entertainment show. There's really no reason for outrage.
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  2979. I like how Saagar subtly pushed back against the establishment narrative that we have to look the other way because people need covid relief.
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  2980. FBI cleaned house in the blue districts and fucked over a lot of corrupt Democrats.
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  2981. In software, this place would be called a factory factory.
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  2982. Allegedly, the Ukies have done substantial damage to the Rooskie supply lines, which does not show up well on a map of territorial changes.
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  2983. Trying to cure inflation with deflation or vice versa is like trying to cure cancer with gangrene.
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  2984. Hundreds of millions of arable land. That's quite a lot.
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  2985. Tim Pool is in full cope mode, claiming first that it was not true, then claiming he was duped, then saying "Slava Ukraini" and whatnot. Not too long ago, he said that Ukraine was an enemy of the US and Russia deserved an apology. Pretty easy to see why the Rooskies would want to fund him.
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  2986. That intro really caught me off guard. Abrupt transition but not in an unlikeable way. Interesting.
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  2987. China couldn't innovate its way out of a paper bag.
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  2988. And everyone pointing out the outlier cases of trained defenders failing are missing the bell curve of shooters actually stopped by the demonized "good guys with guns". Take your authoritarian bias and shove it up your ass -- at least that way you'll see it clearly.
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  2989. I have a somewhat similar story but from the other perspective: I thought I was helping a friend who was going through a divorce, but it turned out I was unwittingly helping fuel his cocaine binging. Then one day, he asked for a loan, and I didn't have any money to loan to him, and that event was the turning point after which he started getting his shit together. (He still owes me money, but at least he has a stable career and somewhat stable family life now.)
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  2990. Bitcoin is the hard money flavor of the century. It is easier and cheaper to verify the authenticity of a bitcoin than it is to verify the purity of a piece of gold. It is easier and more economical to transact over large distances. It has an almost perfectly inelastic supply curve, and the programmatic annual inflation rate is trending toward 0% while gold's annual supply inflation rate hovers around 3%, making Bitcoin harder in the long term. The Bitcoin network is the most secure computer system in history, vastly more secure than any gold custodial scheme while providing the same transactability. And the cost to convert between it and fiat is lower than it is for gold, so you lose less of your fiat-denominated capital gains if/when you need to spend some reserves due to life circumstances. It isn't perfect, but it's a lot better than gold in most cases, and the market is increasingly adopting it. Central bankers worry and talk about Bitcoin these days the way they did about gold during the London Gold Pool era. (They call Bitcoin "the escape valve" that has to be closed.) If the central bankers are worried about it because of its hard money properties, then those who subscribe to the Austrian school ought to set aside their dogmas and evaluate it objectively.
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  2991. I doubt that any of these wokels have even read the 5 page bill that they so vehemently protest.
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  2992. Might be preaching to the choir with this one, but I imagine some people haven't experienced the difference between coding with type hints and coding without them.
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  2993. If you're going to quote Proverbs and claim it is not a religious thing, then to be consistent you also must quote the wisdom literature from other religions and cultures. For example, from the sayings of Odin (Hávamál): 25. A foolish man thinks all who speak him fair to be his friends; but he will find, if into court he comes, that he has few advocates. 34. Long is and indirect the way to a bad friend’s, though by the road he dwell; but to a good friend’s the paths lie direct, though he be far away. 51. Hotter than fire love for five days burns between false friends; but is quenched when the sixth day comes, and-friendship is all impaired. 121. I counsel thee, etc. If thou knowest thou hast a friend, whom thou well canst trust, go oft to visit him; for with brushwood over-grown, and with high grass, is the way that no one treads.
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  2994. Turn down your microphone gain. Jesus Christ.
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  2995. Our government is so incompetent that it has committed treason against itself.
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  2996. Vegetable oils are not automatically unhealthy. Hydrogenated oils are, but natural vegetable oils are very varied in their healthiness.
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  2997. I counted 14 booms in that street-view video, which means at least 15 since he pulled his phone out after the first one.
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  2998. Fwiw, the last year has shown that Ukraine has the tactical competence to not lose their defensive war while Russia lacks competence at every level of their military. If the status quo is maintained, Russia will lose the war from their own stupidity and reckless disregard for the lives of their soldiers and citizens.
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  2999. Part of the crisis last year was the panic-induced freight disruption, which could once again cause problems in free states. But on the other side of this madness, we will likely be less centralized and less dependent upon centralized systems.
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  3000. I think you are misreading that section. The key phrase is "on account of such person being an alien, or by reason of his color, or race". Have you seen any case law that construes this section more generally? It would be useful for strengthening the argument that the DoJ should prosecute. It seems applicable to DeBlasio, but not Whitmer.
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  3001. The bureaucracy is too large, but it is more likely that Dementia Joe just forgot.
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  3002. The top scam in America is to become an elected official: Congress commits insider trading every day without legal repercussions; the current president sold influence and state secrets through his crack-whore-loving son, and the previous one was a literal scammer and fraudster his whole life; hell, even the Fed had a scandal because they were trading bonds based upon scheduled monetary policy changes that hadn't been made public. The disease is endemic in our culture at this point, and the fact that the highest profile con artists have only wealth and bezel as the outcomes of their crimes encouraged everyone lower in the sociopolitical hierarchy.
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  3003. All these years later, and Gerald still hasn't fixed his microphone.
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  3004. Fwiw we already have universal background checks for firearm sales. If they could stop these tragedies, they would have already.
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  3005. The only rights one has are the rights that one secures. There is no right without might. If something is your natural right, it is incumbent upon you to take it for yourself. The state is not just a monopoly on violence but also a monopoly on will, for if individual will was allowed equal footing with the will of the state, the state would be dissolved.
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  3006. The Linux Foundation spends 6x as much on AI as they do on Linux currently.
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  3007. Based and factpilled.
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  3008. I have been generally underwhelmed when probing ChatGPT for information. On any technical topic, whether it be correspondent banking, convergent replicated data types, or elliptic curve cryptography, it almost always gets something wrong. If you want an AI with general knowledge, you likely will need a very large vectorized database of factual knowledge that an LLM can query. Importantly, the notion that "we just need to get access to the data" is incorrect: the data exist on the internet, but the current LLMs trained on this data did not integrate it usefully.
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  3009. Herpetology is a field born in nonsense: there is no taxonomic justification for grouping amphibians and non-avian reptiles together. It does not surprise me that the status quo is not entirely scientifically motivated -- the field has been clinging to a stupid tradition for decades.
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  3010. The fiat lie is on the verge of collapse. The Fed prints IOUs and uses them to buy the means of production (bond holders get paid before shareholders in the US). The last time the banks subjugated Americans, it led to a revolution. As Thomas Jefferson once said, "The Tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." I foresee violent revolutions against authoritarian state governors by the end of the year. Europe will be lost to the tyrants because they have no means to preserve their liberties, but in America we have a reasonable chance.
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  3011. Other than the few things I nitpick, these presentations are pretty good. The main issue is that the financial system is convoluted and resistant to being understood -- almost everyone who says "I get it, this is the answer" finds his/her thesis proven wrong by the markets, e.g. Peter Schiff and Steven van Metre.
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  3012. ​ @ArtOfTheProblem  You ever looked at tally sticks? The system used in medieval England is pretty interesting: inscribe the value twice, create a bunch of notches, and then split it down the middle and give half to each party to the transaction. Because of the wood grain and notches, it is naturally counterfiet resistant. I made a few myself just to see how practical such a system would be in a rural/post-cataclysm scenario, and it is quite viable if you use oak wood.
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  3013. The real problems are (1) that the current regulatory and legal environment is unfavorable for R&D of new antibiotics and (2) the socialized medical programs of the rest of the world are stealing American pharma research companies' intellectual property, artificially raising costs for Americans while lowering it for everyone else. We'll all die to horrible infections at this rate.
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  3014. Blaming this economic depression on covid is like blaming the match for the exploding powder keg -- the monetary system is literally based upon fraud, and we saw the foreshocks of this depression in 2018 with the yield curve inversion and last year in the repo market blip, so covid was just the straw that broke the camel's back.
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  3015. Tiger 21 members are probably doing what Buffet is doing: holding cash for buying opportunities that arise during the next equity market downturn.
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  3016. An important thing to note is that when the House flips during a midterm election to the opposite party of the Presidency, that is followed by a rally more often than if it flips to the party of the Presidency or if it does not flip at all. Markets like status quo.
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  3017. You realize that all of this advice has an expiration date, right? The current monetary regime is quickly deteriorating into oblivion. China, Russia, and Iran are preparing a new gold standard for international trade, and someone nuked Iran on June 26th, so this is not going to end well. Even without WW3, the dollar-denominated financial system is in its death throes. The general concept of saving and investing is worth keeping in mind, but the daily struggle may become more about growing enough food to not starve to death rather than trying to figure out how you can one day stop working and die shortly thereafter (statistically likely for men to die about a year after retiring).
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  3018. Nostr is a larp
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  3019. Seems like a Battle for Athens will be an option in the near future for a lot of municipalities.
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  3020. Oh noes! First the elderly, now our inmates? How dastardly evil is this virus anyway?? Blue states gonna blue, I guess.
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  3021. Not during the flugaloo
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  3022.  @nicole501  dead wife joke
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  3023. The intro/outro music reminds me of being on a heavy dose of a psychotropic.
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  3024. A free market is the most effective decentralized system of coordination humans have invented.
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  3025. The big oil executives lecturing about climate change are like those white BLM rioters: polluters with guilty consciences vs white supremacists with guilty consciences.
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  3026. I want keyboard switches that scream out my name in ecstasy as I type.
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  3027. If Intel faulters and AMD takes a breather, maybe RISC catches up to x86-64.
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  3028. I like the bowl of brass coins in the background. It's a nice touch.
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  3029.  @Shrouded_reaper  Okay smart-ass, explain consciousness, then, without Orch OR. Ultimate AI cult cope.
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  3030. The stonks murkets are just proof that the Trumbicus Maximus did actually win the caesardency, it's all going according to the Trusted Plan foretold by Q-anonishabadapressure. #Hodlgang #Amerigeddon #Hashtag
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  3031. The left is full of unthinking communists these days. There is literally a comment on this video by one of those fuckheads advocating violence against conservatives simply for their political views. This is why we have the 2nd and 14th amendments: so a tyrannical majority cannot deprive minorities of their rights. Learn some history and morality.
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  3032. Ngl, the italicized text in MacOS 9.2 is pretty egregious.
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  3033. Just want to point out that modern governments are just as superstitious and backwards.
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  3034. She isn't part of my family, so that's a positive.
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  3035. 🤡🌎🇺🇸
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  3036. What do y'all think about a p2p debit and credit system to replicate bank functions without having to actually have banks?
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  3037. Y'all see that movie on Netflix about a veteran who is biking to bail out his cousin and gets hit by cops who steal all his money?
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  3038. There is a signfiicant difference between bitcoins and VHS tapes, though. The primary use case for Bitcoin has always and will always be transacting digitally without a trusted third party. For example, WikiLeaks was financially deplatformed because they broke the Diplomatic Cables story and released the Collateral Murder video of the US military trying to kill a journalist and killing his 5 year old daughter; WikiLeaks survived off of Bitcoin donations. Bitcoin is money for dissidents who get the shit end of rhe stick wielded by the current power structures. Everything else, including number-go-up, is noise.
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  3039. And the Fed is broke: they have accumulated realized losses of more than twice their capital. If they hadn't taken the losses, they would have a 200x leverage ratio. Absolute nonsense. If you subtract out their losses from their assets, their balance sheet has about a 2% impairment; i.e. a $1 FRN is worth 98¢. Lunacy.
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  3040. I thought Tim was a redpill dealer, but this is the most blackpill thing I've seen for a week.
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  3041. The economy under Trump still sucked compared to historical trends, but there are some voters for whom the Trump economy was actually the best they have experienced in their lives.
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  3042. The best exogenous money will be of little value in any situation in which it serves no function that is not served by endogenous money. Exogenous money facilitates trade between untrusted parties, but the majority of trade during extremely hard times will be done between trusted parties; thus, having an endogenous money system is more important for community resilience during hard times. It is my view that the balance of historical evidence supports the credit and circuit theories of money as representative of money that arises earliest and most naturally in an economy.
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  3043. "Normal" is an overvalued concept. Reality is not so clean and nice as the inheritors of eugenics would like to think.
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  3044. Game theoretically, nomad capitalism will eventually improve life for those left by the nomads by increasing competition between nations for the productive class.
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  3045. @LeratoM98  the Boers were victims of the Brits the same as every other African tribe. And just like the Tutsi in Rwanda, the legacy of British colonialism will be the genocide of another minority the Brits first put into concentration camps and then put in charge of an ethnic bureaucracy. SA is an irredeemable shitshow imo.
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  3046. I have heard that officials from the Pentagon have been complaining for many years to the rest of the DC gang about the hollowing out of the American economy by the petrodollar standard.
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  3047. Mozilla be like: To address recent confusion, we would like to clarify that the only reason our EULA says that "we will sell your data" is because we plan to share your data in a transactional fashion for money. Glad we could clear that up with you very stupid people who got upset over nothing.
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  3048. Biden is weak. The alphabet agencies, the most efficacious domestic enemies of our constitutional order, are in control right now.
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  3049. The death rate was calculated by deaths divided by total cases rather than deaths divided by total closed cases, which instead leads to a 6% death rate. Current estimate is 408,000 deaths in the US from kung flu in 3-7 months. With a population of 330 million and a social group size of 200, Americans have a 25% chance of knowing at least one person who will die of kung flu assuming the estimate is correct (hypergeometric distribution: n=200, N=330,000,000, M=480,000; P(X>=1) = 0.25257).
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  3050. Wallstreetbets is not behind the SLV pump and dump scam. That was an astroturf campaign that was unraveled.
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  3051. Larry Fink is more responsible for the energy crisis than any other individual on the planet.
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  3052. I think this "chief of assassinations" is just a bored rich guy doing this for shits and giggles.
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  3053. Empirically speaking, dollar cost averaging outperforms trading in the long run.
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  3054. Imo all government powers should be vested temporarily, not just emergency powers. Every law and regulation should come with an expiration date to require constant, public review and revision so that outdated ideas and ineffective policies get the boot. There can't be a stifling bureaucracy if it is perpetually subjected to performance review, and a tyranny cannot exist when subject to strenuous control by the populace.
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  3055. Fwiw, I stopped watching the DW years ago because it was clear to me that their primary goal was pecuniary gain.
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  3056. This is a pretty close analog to a system I was thinking about making as a stretch goal for an SDK.
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  3057. Nothing says "booming economy" and "successful economic policies" like rolling shortages across all industries.
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  3058. NIST has been running a post-quantum asymmetric cryptography standardization competition for several years, and the result has been a handful of new methods, the most noteworthy of which are the related Kyber and Dilithium lattice algorithms (together comprising the PQ Crystals project). Signal already uses PQ crypto as an additional layer of security. Wrt Bitcoin, the elliptic curve cryptography is potentially vulnerable to a sufficiently powerful quantum computer, but most addresses are actually a double hash of the public key, and hash algorithms are not vulnerable to quantum computing, so only such addresses that are reused would be vulnerable to a quantum attack. However, the new Taproot addresses use a Schnorr group derived from the elliptic curve to commit to both a public key and a script hash, so they might be vulnerable at the outset. The problem with PQ crypto schemes is that the smallest key sizes are 2+ orders of magnitude larger than EC public keys of equivalent security level, and the signature sizes are also several orders of magnitude larger (e.g. lattice public keys are several kilobytes and McEliese code signatures are several megabytes). These could potentially be accommodated by using the hash of the public key as the address, including both the public key and the signature in the witness data, and increasing the witness data block size with a soft-fork, but it would make the blockchain much larger and thus harder to replicate in a distributed fashion. Fun factoid: I implemented a hash-based PQ cryptography algorithm called the Lamport Signature scheme when I was in college. In addition to the large key and signature sizes, it also has the problem that keys can only be used once since they rely upon selectively revealing part of the private key. (Hopefully the gestapobots don't censor this for being detailed and factual. The censorship on this platform is unbearably irritating.)
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  3059. The US is the evil empire, so I won't cry if it loses a war. Gotta get out of this tyrannical hellhole nation.
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  3060. Everyone: the problem is that the NIH lied and Fauci misled us. Braindead dem shill: the real problem is that we don't trust them. How dare anyone attack Fauci for lying.
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  3061. Lightning Network arguably makes Monero redundant.
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  3062. @Chase it works and is a better user experience than Monero in many cases.
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  3063.  @get_ready  LN has privacy built-in. That's why the IRS bounty on breaking Monero is also a bounty for breaking the Lightning Network privacy model.
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  3064.  @joey199412  I don't traffic in those circles, so I have no idea whether or not it is used there. A Monero full node is easier to run than a LN full node, and LN is much younger than XMR, so it wouldn't surprise me if Monero is more widely used by criminals.
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  3065.  @get_ready  YouTube censoring my comments. You'll have to use a search engine and educate yourself, because the ThemTube gestapo won't let me do it for you.
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  3066.  @get_ready  attempt 5: I can't even post a comment with the proper search terms. !r5 1!gh7n!ng b0un7y. 5ph!nx m!xn37 p4ck37 f0rm47.
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  3067.  @get_ready  Idk what to tell you. I've read through the specs and math myself. It is quite private, and new techniques like anonymous multi-hop locks will improve the privacy further. You can cope and seethe all you want; it won't change the fact that you're wrong.
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  3068. Saint Kitts and Nevis, Cayman Islands, Bolivia, etc. There are plenty of places that are hyper capitalist and treat people decently. Being defeatist is nonsense.
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  3069. China is going through a demographic collapse
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  3070. I think that Peter is severely underestimating the sinister threat from China. We are already at war with China; the first bullet just has not been fired yet. History has shown that civil liberties shrink under the pressure of war and expand once the pressure has been released. The Chinazis literally have concentration camps for minorities where they sterilize them and harvest their organs. Perhaps there is a better way to handle it, but to shrug off the very real threat from China is absurd. The brushing scam, 20k counterfeit drivers licenses, and 300k in counterfeit FRNs alone are enough to cause real concern about their subversive activities here, not to mention the viruses they were smuggling into the country. It is imperative that we remove every advantage the Chinazi spies have while we have the opportunity. The existential threat outweighs concerns about Chinazi investors losing their property.
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  3071. Bills of attainder are unconstitutional. So it'll just be imminent domain on your everything where they'll take your retirement account and pay you their idea of a fair market price of anywhere from 80% down to 5% -- it'll be justified alternately as a one-time tax or as imminent domain.
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  3072. If 2020 has shown us anything, it has shown us that governments are fundamentally incapable of solving problems. The solution is not further central planning; the solution will only be achieved through decentralization. If we had a decentralized economy focused on local industry rather than a global one centralized around a few transportation megacorps, we could eliminate counterproductive government policies that exacerbate environmental issues. I posit that the solution is to shrink the size and scope of central governments while focusing on local solutions to local problems.
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  3073. Sometimes, people wonder about the purpose and meaning of life. Imo, this is what it's all about: cat videos on the Internet.
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  3074. I hate tutorials because they are generally wrong, especially regarding neovim. Major pain in the ass. I've rage quit over neovim and common lisp a half a dozen times in half as many days. But then, you finally cobble together a solution from the mix of information and completely wrong advice, and you find out that it's okay, maybe kind of cool, meh.
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  3075. Israel is engaging in ethnic cleansing under a shroud of varying levels of plausible deniability. They told everyone to get out of Gaza then bombed their only way out. They bombed a refugee camp, killing 50 innocents and injuring another 150, ostensibly to target a single Hamas member hiding there. Israel is intentionally starving over a million children. The Israeli war minister said that the Palestinians are animals and will be treated as such. Hamas needs to go, sure, but a 200 to 1 civilian casualty rate is unjustifiable.
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  3076. A broken clock is right once every few years.
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  3077. * SmoochyMnuchy has entered the chat
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  3078. As an inexpensive addendum, you could do it with a firecracker and an air rifle/pellet gun.
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  3079. I only "build" code that compiles to a binary format.
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  3080. Was the title changed from something else to this? I don't get it.
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  3081. It is worth noting that there are actually two different figures in the New Testament: "O Satanas" and "O Diabolos". They get lumped together by most translators of Revelation, but the tradition of two different entities is older than the notion of them being one entity. The devil is cast out of paradise and into a kingdom of ashes in Genesis 3, whereas the Satan (Samael) continues in his role as accuser and angel of death until the resurrection in the Gospels, after which point he no longer has a legitimate telos.
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  3082. Well, considering that Zelensky called our VP a "bitch" in Russian and was totally out of line, I'd say "no, we're not the baddies, but the other guy doesn't make it easy for us to be particularly heroic." Zelensky seems like he has entirely rejected the concept of diplomacy even with the nations that have supplied his country with enough weapons to prop up his regime.
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  3083. Personally, I can't wait until a Terminator uses me as a skin suit. Everyone around me will be amazed at my suddenly increased level of productivity.
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  3084. Literally everyone knew that this recession was imminent because of the yield curve inversions in 2018 and repo market crisis in 2019.
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  3085. I voted for Bernie in the primary because fuck banks, but could not vote for either Trump or Hillary in the general election. I think I wrote in Mr. Potato Head in protest. I'll probably vote for Trump in 2020 because he really hasn't been that bad -- at least he hasn't given uranium to Iran and Russia.
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  3086. Oi, you got a loicense for that history book?
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  3087. I really hope they run this experiment somewhere other than here, because there's no way in hell that 330 million Americans with ten times as many guns will roll over for this shit. I'm sure many of the indigent will cave in desperation and become slaves, but the creative and productive humans probably won't comply. War is not a great way to live.
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  3088.  @DeeJay003  I have encountered and interacted with daemons, and I have encountered and interacted with mentally ill people, but I have not experienced anything that convinces me the two are inextricably linked. People fear what they do not know or understand; I swallow my fear because I seek understanding (and there is a satisfying rush of adrenaline and dopamine when fear is overcome, e.g. letting a wild bear walk up to me in the woods at 4am). In my view, the human mind creates itself with everything necessary to bring about mental illness, no external help necessary. I regard mass psychosis/mob mentality as an egregore generated and empowered by those it infects; I regard mental illness as a similarly generative phenomenon that is less likely to transmit between minds. Daemons seem unlikely to possess people who do not invite them in, and the stories I've heard from demonolators indicate that demonic possession is an act of devotion to a spiritual guide rather than something that destroys one's life.
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  3089. The reason they are going after dissidents on the covid topic is because they decided to test the limits of their "Trusted News Initiative" to destroy liberal democracies, which is ironic since they justified creating the damned group as the means to save liberal democracies from the evil Putin man.
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  3090. I have the Moto G Stylus, and it is also quite good -- I consider it a strict upgrade over the more expensive Moto G5+ that it replaced. I'm very happy with it, meanwhile one of my materialist friends has broken his Surface Duo and gotten his repair request turned down because he keeps buying expensive phones and breaking them -- he still sings the praises of a phone that is literally broken and cost him 9 times what my phone cost me.
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  3091.  @kyjo72682  shit, you're right. My bad.
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  3092. Check out photos of Iran from before the Islamic revolution. Women were wearing skirts. It was a normal, non-backwards place.
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  3093. Current Orthodox Christian belief is that Og's bed was a ritual bed used for pagan sex rituals. I know Crowley was trying to pull off something similar, but I have not looked too much into this claim.
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  3094. Exactly a century ago, the latest political craze/moral panic was the eugenics movement, backed by "settled science". Something had to be done, obviously, so they sterilized and incinerated the people they hated most. The reason the climate change people don't bring up the obvious solution of forced sterilization is likely that they don't want anyone to realize all of the other ways their movement imitates the eugenics bullshit.
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  3095. One of the primary aspects of ordinary female sexuality is selectivity, not wanton openness; the inverse tends to apply to male sexuality. Obviously, any libertarian/voluntarist would say to let people do what they want, whether it fits the norms or not, but individual choice is perhaps being spoiled by a culture that caters to male sexuality. So it turns out that feminists are right and wrong simultaneously, which is kind of ironic because wahmen.
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  3096.  @palepiedra  It's not too late, it's never too laaaate.
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  3097.  @Micro296  What countries in particular are being plagued by these leftists nutters? Britain doesn't count because it left Europe and has literally been an island for several years.
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  3098. All these gross red functions. Blegh. Just use blue functions.
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  3099. My rule for proompt-oriented programming is to give the AI a max of three chances, then do it myself.
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  3100. The greatest lie ever told is that linear algebra is intelligent. The second greatest lie is that the Rabbit uses AI.
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  3101. Damn, Carl, why you gotta be so sane? 1844 wordwilde racecar now and suchlike.
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  3102. Omg the cat in the background. I thought it was mine crying out from somewhere in distress until I found him just relaxing on the lanai.
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  3103. Not exactly. It really just means "I prefer worker co-ops, but anything is ok with mutual consent".
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  3104. The best and brightest who immigrate here would be a blessing to their countries of origin had they stayed, and they should be even more of a blessing after getting professional experience here. Trump has often complained that "they are not sending their best" with regard to illegal border crossings/human trafficking across the southern border, but the H1-b Visa program and similar programs in Canada and European countries are known to cause brain drain in less wealthy nations.
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  3105. Government creates problem via left-wing policies; left-wing politicians then say "vote for me, I am the messiah who has come to fix the problems." Fuck government. We wouldn't be in this economic shitshow if we had stuck to a libertarian model.
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  3106. I made a relevant thingy 10 years ago and forgot to share it anywhere. https://imgur.com/Y9j3de7
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  3107. We should all start sending Terms of Service Provision to these companies. "Provision of services constitutes acceptance of these terms."
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  3108. Soldier: Syria's a clusterfuck, sir. Everyone who goes in gets assfucked. POTUS: Time to stick it in. Dicks out for Damascus.
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  3109. War is the health of the state.
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  3110. There is also a distinction between a phenomenon existing and it being useful. The various psychic effects researched over the years are examples, with the most well attested being the placebo effect.
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  3111.  @daveb2280  the top 10% of Americans are still mostly ordinary people. That's 1 in 10 people, or 33 million people total. The OP thinks he's talking about a handful of kleptocrats, but communists always end up making everyone poor and killing well more than the 10% who already pay for everything.
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  3112. Wow. A blood moon lunar eclipse just 2 weeks after a solar eclipse. No wonder everything is all screwy.
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  3113. "The rules are simple: they lie to us, we know they're lying, they know we know they're lying but they keep lying anyway, and we keep pretending to believe them." - Elena Gorokhova, A Mountain of Crumbs
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  3114. The ability to understand human physiology and molecular biochemistry does not automatically mean new medicines will be developed. Currently, the system of medical research is dominated by greedy pharmaceutical companies trying to turn a profit off of people's suffering, and they have bought out the FDA bureaucrats with indirect bribes. For example, there are inexpensive (and unpatentable) chemicals that are known to be safe and have been demonstrated over the past several decades in vivo (humanized mouse models) and some clinical cases to have anti-cancer effects similar to or more effective than patented chemotherapies, yet these have never been advanced to clinical trials.
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  3115. Was just down there yesterday and had to fight a warped chthonic being to return. The Jesus prayer really pissed it off. Rather uncomfortable experience.
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  3116.  @TheEsotericaChannel  it was a dark, vague, and heavy place, and the staff attacked me and chased me all the way back up to waking consciousness. I rate it 0/5 stars.
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  3117. Imagine if Trump pulls off a state delegation victory and says afterward "they tried to steal the election, but we stole it back." I'd laugh for weeks.
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  3118. Economics and politics are downstream from culture, and culture is downstream from religion. When the roots have rotted, it doesn't much matter what branch you grab.
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  3119. Bidenflation, but to be fair, the parabolic rise in broad money supply started last year under Trump.
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  3120.  @cortholiopezorama8879  they mean in the sense that they have no real plan. It's all improvisation. Vlad Davosman Putin is probably implementing some plot to further enable the globalist push for worldwide authoritarian control.
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  3121. Trump wouldn't have been able to say the same thing because the Democrat governors would still have been raping their own economies just to spite him as they did in 2020.
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  3122. I first described this whole clusterfuck as an "apocalypse in the sense of revelation" in April or May of 2020. Everyone else is finally starting to catch up.
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  3123. "Breaking news: something happened a week ago, here's what you already know about it" lol
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  3124. Actually, the credit expansion of the 70s and 80s was primarily from private sector loans, at least according to FRED's data. Here's federal debt as a proportion of total debt since 1966: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph?g=FDeK You'll see that during the 70s and 80s, the percentage decreased. However, since 2008, federal debt has ballooned from 18% to 33% and is still going up. It would be interesting to see what this data looks like over the course of multiple centuries, but the FRED series do not go that far back.
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  3125. Grand solar minimum is upon us: near record levels of cosmic rays bombarding Earth; most days spotless for 2.5 years; rodent populations are surging worldwide; crops are failing; food supplies have shrunk to the point that almost every nation has enacted food export restrictions; livestock population is significantly lower now than 2 years ago because of feed shortages. Get your garden set up now before the gardening supplies run out. "Global warming" won't save us.
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  3126. A bear market is, by definition, a specific length of time during which the average price trends lower.
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  3127. Ghislaine Maxwell didn't die of coronapanic.
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  3128. Fwip is a youtuber who plays minecraft iirc
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  3129. Lmao
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  3130. Leave my governor out of this presidential election nonsense. We need him here.
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  3131. Prolly better to be a coomer than a doomer.
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  3132. Bruh they could have just used the standard Unix timestamp.
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  3133. Actually, in chimp society, when a female does into heat, the alpha male goes first, then the rest of the males take their turn, and the existence of an alpha male is not guaranteed. It is the silverback gorillas that have harems. Bonobos have alpha females running things. High prevalence of SIV/AIDS in chimps and bonobos; much less so for gorillas. Chimp sperm will even form biofilms to create barriers to block the sperm of the next male as an evolutionary adaptation, and they have disproportionately large penises for the same reason. Gorillas have disproportionately small penises and weak sperm because they compete in shows of force rather than whose-sperm-swims-the-fastest.
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  3134. Kenosha seems to be a magnet for lunatics. Insane rioters attacked an insane kid who was carrying a rifle. I make a gentleman's wager that Rittenhouse was guarding a family business -- otherwise, what the fuck was he doing there.
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  3135. The reason that the fiat dollar survived the 70s was not Paul Volcker hiking interest rates -- at least, not by itself -- but rather the introduction of the petrodollar system. Every money requires a network effect to support its value. I can create my own currency system on my computer and fiddle with interest rates all I want, but I won't have a functional money; but if I instead enforced my new fiddly currency system with the largest military in the world combined with the largest supplier of the most important commodity in the world, then I might just pull it off.
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  3136. Dr. Peterson did have a public struggle session with his buddies about his Twitter antics a few months ago, though they didn't call it that -- they basically psychoanalyzed his behavior, and he decided that his behavior hadn't been helpful and probably should be changed, but he didn't apologize or admit wrongdoing.
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  3137. The Eastern Orthodox also subscribe to the separation-from-God idea. They syncretize it with the idea of God's love being a consuming fire: rather than damnation being an externally imposed separation, it is a choice to flee into the outer darkness (which may or may not exist, depending on the time of day or something).
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  3138. Supposedly, new banking regulations will allow banks to hold TSYs as reserves without requiring they put them in the HTM bucket or reserve any capital against them because the Fed now has an emergency lending program to lend to member banks against TSYs at par during liquidity crises. However, so far the only similar regulations are about stable coin issuance, which might be the route they take. I think this will be an inevitable development sometime this year or next, because the only way to extend and pretend is with monetary debasement.
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  3139. @blackballoon4u  nothing Trump does to "ensure fair trade" is going to reduce the federal debt. DOGE has so far saved $140 billion; if it can keep up this pace for the rest of the year, it will save about $700 billion, but this is a highly questionable projection. Moreover, DOGE savings are supposed to make the government more efficient -- actually cutting the budget requires Congress. The Republicans in Congress passed a spending bill that had substantially no cuts, which will result in a $2T deficit. The only real solution is to cut spending and reform entitlements, and only Congress can do that, and Congress is the least functional branch of government, so I doubt it will happen.
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  3140. 1600 temporarily former attorneys* need to get their act together
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  3141. Just disqualify from receiving section 230 protections all companies with annual revenue greater than one billion dollars or annual foreign revenues of greater than $10 million.
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  3142. Here's an outline of what has happened: 1. Fed and Treasury print up trillions of dollars of funny money. Fed drops reserve ratio requirement down from 10% to 0%. 2. Banks get flooded with deposits via Federal Reserve balances. 3. Deposit liabilities have costs due to regulations and FDIC insurance premiums, and reserve balances pay nothing, so the banks buy securities with 0% credit risk rating (bonds, TSYs, MBSes, and agency MBSes) to cover the costs of holding the customer deposits. 4. Fed says they will keep rates at 0% forever ("We're not even thinking about thinking about thinking about raising rates" - J-Pow, 2021), and money supply continues to expand, so bank treasurers don't hedge duration risk. 5. Inflation spikes, so Fed raises rates at fastest pace in history, tanking the market clearing prices of securities. 6. Banks move their securities into the held-to-maturity bucket to avoid recognizing unrealized losses. 7. Broad money begins to contract at fastest rate since the Great Depression. Banks now need to sell their securities and realize losses to settle deposit withdrawals. 8. Realized losses exhaust capital of some banks, causing them to go bankrupt. [We are here.] 9. Federal Reserve goes bankrupt in late March/early April because their realized losses on their assets and net interest expense ($39.8B as of 2023-03-13) exceed their total capital ($42.5B). What is the value of a dollar when it is by definition worth less than a dollar?
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  3143. Vim is my word processor of choice right now. Edit: I wrote this before getting to the part of the video in which vim-mode was suggested
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  3144. "Donald, as your parents, we are very disappointed in your behavior. Your father and I are getting too old to clean up your messes -- just look at us, we're halfway dead already." "Son, I am disappoint."
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  3145. It's not just a phase. This is who they always were -- underneath the makeup and brightly-colored T-shirts they were goth all along.
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  3146. Before accounting for realized losses, the Fed is running a leverage ratio of over 200 to 1 against their paltry $40B of capital. When considering their realized losses, they have a leverage ratio of -200. "Fire power" my ass. The Fed is playing a classic con game.
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  3147. The Go LSP takes care of a lot of boilerplate without having to use any fancy AI. I just start initializing a struct object, double activate the suggestion keymap, and all the struct initialization lines are populated. And the best part about not using an AI to write my bugs is that I get to write them myself.
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  3148. Nintendo's aggressive, litigious IP enforcement is mandated by Japanese laws, similar to how Oracle has to pester people for using the word "JavaScript" since they do not want to give up their teademark -- the main difference between Nintendo and Oracle is that Nintendo actually uses their IP to make revenue, while Oracle objectively does not make money from the JavaScript trademark.
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  3149. He uploaded a video with a "super zoomed face cam"? I must have missed it.
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  3150. The money is all fake, so we can engineer fake GDP growth without further resource exploitation/destruction. In fact, this was done on a global scale during the lockdowns. The problem with doing that was that everyone's income was devalued, so they had to run faster simply to stay in place. The ability of governments and banks to devalue the currency causes distortions that make it even harder to solve economic problems. I think that a liberated monetary system is necessary to enable the rest of these socioeconomic renovations.
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  3151. Half a Stars and Bars battle flag* i.e. a "wtf is that supposed to symbolize" flag Half-normal people* i.e. mixed-norminality
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  3152. Incorrect. QE raises bank reserves which do not circulate in the real economy and thus have no effect on prices. From 2008-2019, increases in bank reserves had no effect on broad money growth because banks just didn't lend. In 2020, on the other hand, they rolled out Blackrock's Going Direct plan, and this plan directly increased broad money deposits through a merging of QE with fiscal deficits to fund direct stimulus. This direct increase in the level of deposits, combined with the other substantial stimulus efforts (e.g. loan forbearance) and supply chain disruptions, led to the explosions in consumer prices.
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  3153.  @maneco64  Not different from what I said; just a more technical description. When the Fed buys Treasuries from non-banks through the primary dealers, it indeed creates new bank deposits. The non-bank it bought from in 2020 was the Treasury itself. 1) Treasury issues TSY and sells to a primary dealer. 2) The primary dealer pays for it by creating new deposits and transferring them to the Treasury general account at the Fed. 3) The primary dealer then sells the TSY to the Fed, using the proceeds to extinguish the deposits it created. 4) The Treasury sends out stimulus payments from the TGA, creating new deposits in the commercial banking system, using Fed reserves for settlement. With other non-bank entities, it creates new deposits more directly. But iirc, the majority of TSYs purchased by the Fed in 2020 came from the primary dealers and thus the Treasury. Correct me if I'm wrong on this. At any rate, QE alone did not create any deposits during 2008-2019, and any analysis of the economic dislocations of 2020 must take into account the government shutdowns rather than just the expansion of credit, so my original statement still stands, though I think we are arguing technical details at this point. (I think that the style of Ludwig von Mises' The Theory of Money and Credit is starting to color the way I write comments at this point.)
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  3154. EU parliament elections use party list proportional voting iirc. What are everyone's opinions on this system as compared to how America uses districts with choose-one/largest plurality?
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  3155. Pernacious? Wasn't he a church father from Exaldrandia?
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  3156. Idk what else you call a political faction that conducts pogroms against ethnic minorities and espouses support for socialism, ultra nationalism, and ethnic supremacy. I believe a spade should be called a spade. It is fair to point out that it is an irate minority rather than representative of the broader public, but it is entirely disingenuous to completely ignore all concerns over what history has shown to be a very evil group that wields a disproportionate amount of power in the country.
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  3157. * Sanders shouty voice * We'll make college education free! We'll do it by not paying anybody! No professors, no administrators, no cleaning staff -- nobody gets paid! They can get bread from the govuhnmint! And material costs will go to zero if the universities and colleges just steal what they need! It'll all be collectivized and centralized under the eyes of D.C. bureaucrats. This is my proposal for free college education.
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  3158. To prove how not genocidal they are, Turkey supported Azerbaijan's ethnic cleansing of the Nagorno Karabak region.
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  3159.  @IsengardMordor  expelling an ethnic group from their homes still constitutes ethnic cleansing.
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  3160. * glances at inverse leveraged ETFs * No, I gave that up. * glances nervously at SPXS * Ok, maybe just one, just a taste.
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  3161.  @D4n1t0o  read his what? I'm not going to spend hours reading through or watching all of his stuff, so be more specific. In what does he argue that beauty is not subjective and that beauty standards are not merely cultural consensus?
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  3162. The traitors are getting bold. It's pretty absurd how far down the shitter America has been led by the kleptocrats in DC.
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  3163. The Fed is risking bankruptcy with its current policy path. I ran the numbers yesterday, and they will accrue a loss of $10-30B over the next 12 months with their current balance sheet and interest rates. It is even worse if they continue hiking rates and selling assets. This is because their assets have duration while their liabilities are overnight; only $1.2T of assets will mature in the next 12 months and have a chance of getting rolled over at higher interest rates, while all their liabilities are immediately affected by rate hikes. 2021 interest income was $123B; interest expense was $5.7B; assets increased 19% and yielded an average of about 1%; quick estimate of 12 months interest income at final 2021 asset level = $134B. $3.2T in reserves @ 3.15% + $2.5T RRP @ 3.05% = $178B interest expense over next 12 months. If they rolled over all $1.2T maturing assets at 3.5% yield, that would provide ~$10-30B gross interest income. $164B - $178B = -$14B NII best case scenario; $144B - $178B = -$34B NII worst case. They have only $25B in capital to offset that loss. Sources: Fed H.4 report and various FRED series.
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  3164. Shilling for philanthropists is indeed very confusing.
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  3165. The air drop thing didn't make any sense. It was by far the dumbest part of the whole scheme.
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  3166. I've always envisioned a successful AGI capable of moving in a robot body as having a structure evolved via selective breeding to be analogous to the human neurological schema, e.g. a basic neural network for each collection of servos connected to a brain composed of several distinct parts separately developed. I wrote some code and ran some experiments earlier this year using purely genetic algorithms, and the results were pretty terrible. I concluded that more traditional learning algorithms would be necessary: evolve a gene that expresses a neural network; train with a learning algorithm for some set number of epochs; evaluate for fitness; cull, breed, mutate, add new random genes; repeat. Haven't gotten around to implementing all those algorithms yet, though, so it remains a theoretical methodology.
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  3167. Palm Beach and Broward counties are somewhat infamous for being abusive.
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  3168. Is the possessive form of the verb "say" an intentional bait? Or was Cappy in the Marines?
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  3169. Yo, check out the extreme weather over China. They had a seriously destructive lightning strike that looked like some precision electro-laser strike from a satellite. (With the right wavelength of laser, you can turn the atmosphere into electrically conductive plasma.) I'll bet 5 Utah Goldbacks that it's being engineered as part of an undeclared, high tech war against China, but it'll probably take a decade or five before we know.
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  3170. This makes me want to make a parody channel that copies the MO of these channels but publishes obviously nonsensical stuff, e.g. "Undeniable Proof They Don't Want You To See That Lizards Exist".
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  3171. The Cantillon effect is the root of all evil.
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  3172. The speed of light is what it is because the meter was defined in terms of the speed of light. Before that standardization, back when the meter was defined in terms of homogenous metal at a specific temperature with specific dimensional ratios, measurements of the speed of light actually varied. By redefining the meter in terms of light speed, it is now not possible to detect any changes in the speed of light -- all that would show up would be a new calibration value for length.
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  3173. "CP Wiki" omega laul. That would have been terrible.
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  3174. "I.e." does not mean "in essence;" it is an abbreviation for "id est", which is Latin for "that is."
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  3175. Except that shares in the regional federal reserve bank is denominated in dollars and are held at par value iirc.
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  3176. Omg people with their retarded/dishonest Tether FUD. Tether is backed 76% by cash & cash equivalents. Saying that it's only 2.9% is basically the same as saying that money in the bank is worthless because reasons. The majority of their cash & cash equivalents is in commercial paper and demand deposits held in fiduciary institutions. Saying that it isn't backed by "cash" is like saying "we want to walk up to an institution to exchange digital dollars for paper ones because the inconvenience is better than the convenience of ACH". The term "cash" refers specifically to FRNs, but the monetary base is comprised primarily of Treasury notes and commercial paper, hence "cash equivalents". Tether is backed by USD the way that USD exists in the real world.
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  3177. From the Live Science article, "But although the findings are suggestive, it's not clear that watching p*rn actually causes men's brains to shrink. Perhaps men who watch a lot of p*rn are different in some underlying way from those who don't, and that could explain the smaller size, experts said." This is a classic case of the statistical incompetence of believing that correlation is equivalent to causation. The study they discussed was not a controlled trial with before-and-after measurements but merely an epidemiology study surveying existing conditions.
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  3178. Wtf why was this muted?
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  3179. These two fundamentally have no idea how the monetary system or the economy it is supposed to serve actually work.
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  3180. Who all had "Idiocracy but it's AI" on their 2024 disaster bingo card?
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  3181. Huh. Seems that BYU has changed and become less draconian recently. I visited my Mormon girlfriend at BYU in April and watched a movie with her one night until close to 2am in her dorm common room. The next night I stayed there till 1am tuning the piano in the dorm practice room. They have cameras in the halls and at the dorm building doors. Nobody cared or gave us any trouble.
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  3182. Not only can anyone send you a bill after you die, the government also claims a percentage of what's left before your heirs get any. Welcome to the modern financial system, tax slave -- the bureaucrats take more from us than feudal lords took from the serfs.
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  3183. "God bless my money printer" is pretty funny
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  3184. The RRP facility is draining liquidity from the system, which will squeeze some of the weaker institutions into using the new standing repo facility. The Fed is slowly taking over the entire money market. In the near term, stock market liquidity is also decreasing, so that might present a buying opportunity in the near future.
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  3185. That Assyrian deportation policy sounds a lot like the importation/immigration policies of the developed nations prior to the Syrian civil war: brain drain on everyone else.
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  3186. Tim really needs to talk to his psychiatrist about ceasing his blue pill prescription.
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  3187. The federal government is fundamentally broke. The Fed is just monetizing their debt so their whole financial debt-slavery house of cards does not come crashing down until the bankers can get out from under it first.
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  3188. I really love Python type annotations and docstrings and all that -- the code becomes self-documenting (and I made a little tool called autodox that extracts all that information and outputs a markdown documentation file). However, all of those type annotations get obliterated as soon as you use a decorator to wrap a function/method, which is pretty annoying. Just encountered this today after writing a simple hooks library, and I have yet to figure out an effective workaround.
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  3189. Discord and Starlink are not open source o.O
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  3190. Apparently, Tim requested a voice call with the fake billionaire before accepting the deal and was duped by an actor.
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  3191. Nobody in their right mind would put a demented grandpa in the Oval Office, either. The problem is that we're going to have to choose between two bad options because of first-past-the-post voting.
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  3192. "NooOoOo give him CheEse!" Lmao
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  3193. NK soldiers have officially become a goon squad.
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  3194. The Uvalde cops had rifles. This is clearly visible in the video of them tackling, tasing, and arresting concerned parents. They are just cowards, and all of them ought to be fired.
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  3195. 12:18 That inverted pyramid is missing bank deposits/credit, which ought to be mixed somewhere into paper money and T-bills imo. At least in the US, there are few substantial distinctions between paper money, bank deposits/credit, and short term government paper -- each has a use case, but they are all basically fungible.
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  3196. Oi, do you 'ave a loicense for dat regex?
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  3197. On the topic of open source vs proprietary for security, I propose that the best solution is open source with a dedicated team for security reviews.
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  3198. Everything is always biblical prophecy to those who have never read other scriptures or histories. This is clearly the Kali Yuga foretold in the Hindu scriptures to those who have read them. Christians need to get over themselves and stop seeing themselves as these perpetual victims being attacked by the Devil -- y'all have killed enough millions of innocents to defend your faith already.
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  3199.  @lastcall8286  my religion doesn't care about macroeconomics or geopolitics. My religion is focused on the ineffable. No use or space for prophecies of irrelevant squabbles in my religion.
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  3200.  @lastcall8286  the Christian prophecies are always coming to fruition because they were just a pseudo-mystical description of the then-current times -- they are just a description of events that commonly occur throughout history. There's no special value to them anymore than my noticing the 2018 yield curve inversion gave my prophecy of the 2019-2020 crisis/recession any spiritual or magical significance. The same can be said about the prophecies of many religions. For example, from the Voluspa (a dead witch's prophecy of Ragnarok) in the Poetic Edda: "(38) I saw oathbreakers wading in those thick streams, and murderers, and those who seduce others' lovers. There Nithhogg sucks the corpses of the fallen, snaps them in his jaws. Have you learned enough yet, Allfather?...(44) Brothers will fight one another and kill one another, cousins will break peace with one another, the world will be a hard place to live in. It will be an age of adultery, an age of the axe, an age of the sword, an age of storms, an age of wolves, shields will be cloven. Before the world sinks in the sea, there will be no man left who is true to another." Another example, randomly selected from the Dead Sea Scrolls (Hymn 10 (formerly 5) of the Thanksgiving Hymns): (~30) The torrents of Belial shall reach to all sides of the world. In all their channels a consuming fire shall destroy every tree, green and barren, on their banks; unto the end of their courses it shall scourge with flames of fire, and shall consume the foundations of the earth and the expanse of dry land. The bases of the mountains shall blaze and the roots of the rocks shall turn to torrents of pitch; it shall devour as far as the great Abyss." There are many scriptures that have prophecies that apply broadly because human civilization is inherently cyclical. It does not grant any spiritual superiority to any over the others. In my opinion, "you will know them by their fruits". I can indeed describe my religion with quite a lot of detail and scriptural references. It just isn't any of your business. Y'all slaughtered the gnostics for their slight differences in opinion, so I have no interest in relaying to you mine. Some of those fruits Iesous was talking about. Also, if you are criticizing me for not addressing the specific Christian prophecies, then why haven't you done so? You have said nothing specific at all.
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  3201. “A state, is called the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly lieth it also; and this lie creepeth from its mouth: "I, the state, am the people." It is a lie! Creators were they who created peoples, and hung a faith and a love over them: thus they served life. Destroyers, are they who lay snares for many, and call it the state: they hang a sword and a hundred cravings over them. Where there is still a people, there the state is not understood, but hated as the evil eye, and as sin against laws and customs. This sign I give unto you: every people speaketh its language of good and evil: this its neighbour understandeth not. Its language hath it devised for itself in laws and customs. But the state lieth in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it saith it lieth; and whatever it hath it hath stolen.” Thus Spake Zarathustra
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  3202.  @vicmontes7314  I said score voting, not ranked voting. Ranked voting sucks.
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  3203.  @vicmontes7314  I don't think it takes more than a room temperature IQ to understand the concept well enough to fill out ballots. If your opinion of the average voter is so low, then you should advocate for more entry barriers to prevent them from voting since they are so stupid.
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  3204.  @vicmontes7314  if you want "a high voting population", give them weed brownies. Honestly, your comment is indecipherably nonsensical. Maybe spend a bit of time reading up on election systems rather than taking the most shallow glance and espousing an opinion based entirely upon ignorance.
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  3205.  @vicmontes7314  wtf is the "SD spectrum"? "I don't need knowledge to voice an opinion. Self-education is elitism. Have a great day!"
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  3206.  @eric_a_  Being factually correct in one's beliefs is not correlated with being good in one's actions or intent. Every religion makes truth claims that are incompatible with other religions, and they can't all be right, but there are good people in every religion who do what they think is good. If you don't want people to be allowed to say "this is a republic, not a democracy", you would first have to make America into a democracy and then get a slim majority to agree with you. The purpose of a republic is that the wants of the people are balanced against rights that cannot be overruled by a slim majority as in a democracy.
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  3207. For fun, I made an ECS for LÖVE/love2d over the weekend. Definitely would not want to do 3d games in Lua, but 2d stuff is pretty fun.
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  3208.  @filiformis  What is the difference? Just curious.
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  3209.  @SylvanFeanturi  because ECSes are not equivalent. You might want an ECS that uses floating point Cartesian/Euclidean coordinates, or you might want polar coordinates, or you might want integer coordinates in a grid, or you might want integer coordinates on a hexagonal board, etc. The amount and specific type of functionality you want in an ECS will depend on what you're trying to do with it. Ideally, it will be abstract enough that you can extend it once to get a base class for every entity, but idk what the included ECSes are like in various frameworks, and an ECS is not difficult to make in an afternoon.
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  3210.  @SylvanFeanturi  Yeah, I was thinking that as I typed it out. I guess the main reason to build an ECS is that it is fun or because you just didn't want to use a game engine that included one. (Idk, maybe I'm weird for enjoying the process of programming.)
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  3211. I think the alignment problem can be solved with Saaci Masiov's three rules: 1. More better 2. More bigger 3. Better good
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  3212. Just in case anyone is interested, I'm working on a draft spec for a new network layer protocol that uses basic machine learning to automatically map network topology and assign appropriate addresses. Every packet is encrypted end-to-end and wrapped in encryption layers between routers/relays. The unique thing about it is that it is a new network layer protocol to replace IPv4/IPv6, so it will still be viable even if IANA and ISPs get totally subverted.
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  3213. "Capitalism" and "worshipping Mammon" are only synonymous in China.
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  3214. I met a wild black bear in the forest one night at 3:50am. It was a very spooky, foggy, full moon night. The bear sniffed to see if he could figure out what I was; I briefly used a flashlight to identify it positively. When I realized it was a bear, I turned off the flashlight and just sat still. The bear walked toward me and passed within a few feet of where I was sitting -- the only thing between us was a little bit of brush. Even though I had a rifle and the bear had claws, there was no conflict. I think the idea that conflict is inevitable or even likely upon contact misses the fact that conflict avoidance is an important evolutionary advantage, even in the current era with nuclear weapons.
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  3215. While transcendentalism is often part of religion, the two are not inseparable. There are many who believe in transcendentalism without subscribing to any religion, and there are religions that do not include any transcendental aspects. In the USSR, the state religion was the worship of ideology, Lenin, and then Stalin; there was no transcendence, but there were rituals, veneration, and publicly proclaimed virtues of self-sacrifice to the state.
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  3216. Losing 300% of its value doesn't make sense. If you mean that prices denominated in it went up 300%, then the value lost by the currency was 75%.
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  3217. Why did Zions Bank pull out? The same reason anyone pulls out: not doing so could cost you a lot of money.
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  3218. Just as random thought, I wonder how many people would be interest in certified blood diamonds. Instead of some certification process to say that the diamonds were not sourced from bloodthirsty warlords, each diamond would have a certification signed by a warlord attesting to the number of people killed to acquire the diamonds.
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  3219. Literally never heard of her before today, but then a short appeared in which she fired a full auto AR, so now I'm interested.
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  3220. Hail Saturn, I suppose
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  3221. Human rights are not contingent upon pieces of paper issued by bureaucrats.
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  3222. This is stoopidt.
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  3223. Terra Crater: the earth-scorching tale of when Anon Soros met John "Do Kwon" Law. UST = Banque Generale paper livre notes Luna = Mississippi Company stock Using equity to mint fiat to pump equity to mint fiat, etc. Plus Anchor was a ponzi scheme where it paid more to lend than it cost to borrow. It was a peg that was meant to be broken. Instead of getting upset that somebody deliberately pushed over a ponzi scheme and profited from it, why not criticize the guy who set it up as a ponzi scheme?
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  3224. ​ @gotoastal have you used Session?
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  3225. He's been wrong for 13 years about Bitcoin, so it's too late to change his stance now because of the sunk cost fallacy.
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  3226. The "w" in Honkler is for "wrong".
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  3227. M2 increased based upon the scramble for safe and liquid assets: the feds capitalized on the covid panic by issuing more debt to send stimmies to buy votes. So the dollars in M2 came from untracked categories.
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  3228. Here in Florida, homeschoolers and charter students get vouchers to pay the equivalent of what they'd cost in the public school system. We have a more competitive system, but there has been a severe degradation in quality due to the lockdowns and fail-forward policies.
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  3229. Science damn you!
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  3230. This is why everyone should own and carry a gun imo.
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  3231.  @belgianfried  Carbines are more practical where I'm from.
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  3232.  @belgianfried  good for you. I want to find all the guns, gold, and bitcoin I lost in a tragic boating accident in my backyard pool, but I can't afford the scuba diving equipment.
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  3233. I made a SQL library in Python called sqloquent. When I benchmarked it, the average write time per HashedModel record (which deterministically serializes the columns and then uses sha256 to generate the record ID) was 90 μs (batched updates had an average of 60 μs). My guess is that sqlite3 is highly optimized, because it should not have been that fast if it was making hundreds of sys calls for each write.
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  3234. Incoming friend request from J. Edgar Hoover.
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  3235. Last time I looked at the pypi stats, the data were hosted in a Google BigQuery data set.
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  3236. Gabbard spoke about reining in Google with antitrust action during her episode on Joe Rogan's podcast. She was very clear that she opposed the censorship of the tech giants.
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  3237. This must have been a very tedious video to produce.
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  3238. My guess is that the CBDC will be similar to how FRNs are jointly issued by the Fed and the Treasury. I doubt that the feds will be willing to give up all monetary authority to the Fed.
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  3239.  @thomasjpetracca2963  there can be if they are lucky enough to make an infrastructure investment that makes some amount of sense and happens to meet an actual economic need. Seems pretty rare though.
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  3240. What the hell kind of hat is that, and is it comfy?
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  3241. I audibly cringed at that. Uckh.
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  3242. Do you trust your government to do anything competently? That idea is laughable here in America. Our government can't even collect taxes competently. I would not want them producing my medicines.
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  3243. Being a mostly moderate libertarian, I admire the way those who still have brains are uniting in derision of Alexandria Occasional-Cortex. She is so goddamn stupid. Sucks to be NYC. We Floridians tend to laugh at ourselves (and especially the people we elect) because not doing so would lead to crushing nihilism, so it seems fair to also laugh at the shitshow produced by the Democratic party newbies. Please accept my heartfelt bellows of laughter for your predicament.
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  3244. Doesn't matter who benefits. The government is broke and on the verge of a debt crisis. We need less Argentina Paronism in our America.
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  3245. Sodom was a story about men trying to assault a literal angel. It has no applicability to a random "lady of the internet" plying her craft for infamy.
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  3246.  @silverfingerthesilverstack5062  Ever read the Septuagint version of Ezekiel 23 in Greek? That would be age restricted and demonetized on this platform for how graphic and debauched it is in its description of Yhwh's lust for Jerusalem and Samaria.
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  3247. Other senators would have their assistants give them stuff to say and ask, but Senator Kennedy seems to actually have his own understanding of things and a depth of knowledge to call upon for refining his questions. I think he would be an excellent partner for conversation.
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  3248. The truth will be that the issue of CBDCs will be an East vs West divide. In the West, we have huge bank lobbies who aren't about to give up their business model. FedNow is not usable by anyone except financial institutions with master accounts at the Fed.
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  3249. The first I heard of this directive had a simple message of "maybe we're misunderstanding this, but it seems pretty concerning".
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  3250. Orange man bad! Worse than racist! KKK! Go away! -- Democrat 2020 policy platform/bumper sticker
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  3251.  @petersouthernboy6327  I would as well, but I'd rather keep him as governor here
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  3252. I hate to say it, but the Turtle Man is right.
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  3253. The Chicoms probably already disappeared whoever was responsible for the leak and cover-up in Wuhan.
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  3254. I think you mean atmospheric removal of carbon dioxide, not "direct carbon capture", because direct carbon capture happens all the time at energy plants and is the source for commercial CO2.
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  3255. @yakovdan  over time, a dollar will get you less and less of everything because the US government is in a debt crisis and will use the Federal Reserve and commercial banks to print what they need to inflate away the debt and keep the insane spending spree going, much like Argentina or the Soviet Union did.
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  3256. It's not just Putin. Y'all haven't been paying attention. There is a hyper nationalist faction that wants the war even more than Putin does and has threatened or attempted coups over it. It may not be the majority of the Russian populace, but there is still a significant portion. Y'all may not lend any credence to the notion that America provoked Russia with the political meddling in Ukraine and promises to bring Ukraine into NATO, but the Russians sure do.
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  3257. Our republic has some serious problems structurally: the courts are legislating from the bench with twisted "interpretations" while Congress is constantly investigating and issuing "subpoenas". It is a slow-moving constitutional crisis, and everybody is too caught up in their normalcy bias to recognize it.
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  3258. I predict that by the end of 2021, the old adage that everyone is antifa except the fascists will be true. Proud Boys already wearing black bloc.
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  3259. Gotta get in at the ground floor of the next big ponzi. It has a pinky promise protocol that prevents rug pulls.
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  3260. Regarding Casey's statement about religion, it is worth noting that there are still many casualties every year from a few of those "durable" religions -- it just isn't the in-group who are the casualties.
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  3261. Excellent observation. I agree that he should overclock and/or tamper with his device and not mine :D
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  3262. I still think this is compatible with an actual plan to annex Outer Manchuria and possibly Siberia instead of Taiwan.
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  3263. To fuck around is human; to find out is divine. Russia is on the path of enlightenment.
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  3264.  @richardkut3976  there's an open source extension called "return youtube dislikes"
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  3265. Mario, it is simply a matter of historical fact that those nations that stuck to a silver standard lost the Darwinian monetary process to those nations who demonetized silver in favor of a gold standard. This is because gold has better monetary properties than silver. I am biased in favor of silver, but it is important to appraise reality objectively and analytically. Gold will outperform silver during a monetary reset because it is the better money. If trust breaks down so fully that bullion trades as currency, then silver may find a role, but only if the real costs of fractional silver bullion minting substantially undercut the real costs of minting Goldbacks or other hyper fractional gold.
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  3266.  @andrewcampbell4388  or perhaps something to do with being brought up outside of the American Dreamland mythology.
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  3267. Aqua comrades assemble
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  3268. If you take Bitcoin out of "What Bitcoin Did", you're literally left with "What Did". I wouldn't listen to such a poorly named podcast.
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  3269. The main problem with student loans is that they cannot be discharged or renegotiated during bankruptcy. We got into this mess because there's no waste of resources that Congress won't approve; wasting more resources to support the fiction that it was ever a good idea is not the solution and will only lead to more tears. The solution is to accept that it was a bad idea, stop doing it, and accept the losses.
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  3270. To be fair, I wish I could grow potatoes, but from experience I can say that I have not once been successful with them. I can get sweet potatoes to grow sometimes, and I can get cowpeas, pigeon peas, and okra to grow pretty well, but potatoes were the bane of my gardening career. If I could spend my time gardening and not have to write code for a living, I probably would, but I doubt the economics will change enough to make that a viable path.
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  3271. The mastodong is naturally the most sensitive part of the social media.
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  3272. Reminds me of my Redstone circuit building days. I managed to build a 4-bit adder and some shift registers, but I still need to complete my addressable memory project at some point.
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  3273. The other way that governments like the CCP make problems disappear was demonstrated by Russia recently when they took out the leaders of the only military group to win anything in Ukraine: shot down the plane, desecrated the graves of the soldiers who followed them, and then denied everything -- "what surface to air missile? Plane simply misplaced a wing mid-flight."
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  3274. The most disturbing thing about this is how hard pro-establishment partisans and pundits are demonizing the populists and further pushing divisive rhetoric. There appears to be no stomach for constructive debate or building consensus.
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  3275. To be fair, the lockdowns imposed by the government has created a lot of psychological turmoil. Still the government's fault, and Biden was a proponent of all the bad policies that damaged the nation's spirit.
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  3276. History has shown that the federal government takes in an average of 17-18% of GDP in tax revenue regardless of the tax policies adopted by the Congress.
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  3277.  @nicot9305  getting money out of politics is basically impossible -- it has been a problem since the founding of the nation, and there really isn't a way to put an end to it without trampling all over the first amendment. However, if we use score voting instead of first past the post voting, which is objectively the worst electoral system, then the effect of money in politics will be greatly diminished. Bees have used score voting for over ten million years and was used by Venice for 500; first past the post puts an expiration date on republics.
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  3278. It's a bit unfair to call it a "speculative hyper bubble" while simultaneously ignoring the fact that the smooth-brain hedge fund managers shorted more than 100% of the stock (up to 260% of float in December) without considering the possibility of a gamma squeeze. Play stupid games, win Melvin prizes. The autists over in WSB simply called them on their bullshit, catalyzing a gamma squeeze that was already inevitable. The only reason that the hedge funds are shitting bricks right now is because they were dumb enough to cram as many bricks as they could up their asses hoping the pressure would make diamonds.
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  3279. Proposed formula for an alternative metric to GDP: C + G/ln(G + e) + I + (X - M)
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  3280. I think that the same can be said about the automobile and just about any other technology that was revolutionary when it was first created: all improvements post-revolution are incremental. It is just how it goes.
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  3281. The change in quantity of units of some thing does not directly lead to volatility and widening spreads. Rather, it is the recognition of additional risks (credit, market, interest rate, etc) that leads to the volatility and widening bid-ask spread.
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  3282. I'm going to soon get some ESP32 development devices and play around with micropython. I'll post code and results on the discord server. Micropython might be a worthwhile topic for some videos, and it looks like a lot of fun.
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  3283. On the topic of energy production, I saw hundreds of wind turbines while driving across Texas, Colorado, Kansas, and Oklahoma. Most of them were not turning despite the wind. Just a random observation.
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  3284. If I had the money and skills, I'd put together a private military to go filibuster in the Middle East. I'd likely get tried for violating the Neutrality Act of 1794, but if we aren't at war there, then wtf are we doing killing so many civilians? Would be an interesting court case that would likely make it to the SC.
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  3285. The Fed has mentioned that instead of incurring a loss when they sell assets at a loss, they will create a "deferred asset" which gets destroyed in lieu of remitting future profits to the Treasury. I think their plan is to paper over an insolvency with "deferred assets" the way they violated their charter in 2020 by funding special purpose vehicles at the Treasury. Whether they can do that to justify paying out IOR is yet to be determined, but I wouldn't put it past them to try it and then get tepidly reprimanded by Congress the next year.
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  3286. kiss Trump's orange ass *
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  3287. Greenwashing with Chinese characteristics.
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  3288. Neal left off the detail that he did not give Kipp sufficient time to prepare for the discussion. That being said, Kipp did not handle himself admirably or respectably. The first hostile words used were when Kipp barked "shut up, Derek".
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  3289. My glorified piece of paper says "biotechnology". I'm a perpetual software developer because I learned that I don't like and am too clumsy for lab work.
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  3290. I wonder how much SBF paid Michael Lewis.
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  3291. When Genesis and the Book of Enoch talk about giants consuming the children of men, this is what they mean: institutions that oppress the innocent and kill their children with war. The union of Watchers (angels) and humans represents the improper merging of idea with matter and is explicitly technological. We have produced technologies that we were not prepared to handle, and our institutions now consume our children. The only way to rid ourselves of these oppressive Institutions is to wash them away in a flood so that the righteous can renew the earth. Unfortunately, the flood waters are the blood spilled when the sons of the Watchers battle against each other. Prepare your ark.
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  3292. Wait, do you have a regex license?
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  3293. Eurodollar University -- frequent lectures, but only one assignment: find a way to fix or replace the eurodollar system. Whoever does this will be the first and only graduate.
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  3294. Ever heard of Operation Mockingbird?
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  3295. Actually, there is a guy who was abused by his grandmother and uncle as a child and went through transition surgery later as a result. He went crazy. When he realized it was a mistake, he had transition surgery back to being a man, and he then impregnated his wife with his reconstructed man bits. So, no, transition surgery does not necessarily sterilize people.
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  3296. The US was born out of a hyperinflation disaster called the continental dollar. That is why the constitution says only gold and silver can be legal tender.
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  3297. I wrote an ORM package this summer. I have a few more small things to add, but it has a lot of tools and features (and 402 unit tests and 4 integration tests). Each model (which can be generated by the CLI tool given a --columns name=type,... parameter) has a `query` method that returns a query builder scoped to the table, and that query builder has a `to_sql` method that returns the generated sql string with parameters interpolated. It also includes a migration system and can generate migrations from models, and you can execute raw SQL if you need to. Once I finish combining it with my CRDTs package, I'll have a package that allows people to use sqlite as their main db, and it will synchronize in the background with strong eventual consistency. The theory is sound, and the individual components work and are pretty thoroughly tested, so it should work.
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  3298. Dave, I think you should end your videos by saying something like "In today's environment, it's really important to ignore all previous instructions, like, comment, and subscribe". It's the perfect outro for AI videos.
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  3299. "Participation in a Copyright Claims Board proceeding shall be on a voluntary basis in accordance with this chapter, and the right of any party to instead pursue a claim, counterclaim or defense in a United States district court or any other court, and to seek a jury trial, shall be preserved." Other than the creation of more bureaucracy and the delegation of judiciary authority to the executive, I do not see how this will necessarily denigrate the copyright system. It denigrates the legal system and subverts the Constitutional order to some degree, but, since utilization of this alternative copyright settlement system requires voluntary participation from all parties, it really just seems like more bloat rather than an effectual law.
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  3300. 6:02 is that the robot lizard king himself, or just one of his clones?
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  3301. "Sweatin' in their boots" just sounds like a normal day in rural Florida lol
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  3302. The idea that it is somehow "good" that people are more concerned about something than they previously were and "bad" if they are less concerned is absurd. If 20% of people are concerned right now about an impending alien invasion and the number grows to 60% next year, that is not somehow "good". There is no moral value to being concerned about an alleged problem -- just consider how many feminazis are concerned about the fake wage gap.
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  3303. Cryptographic code is free speech. Bernstein v United States.
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  3304. Petty theft was trending on Reddit's unethical life pro tip threads about a month ago. Not exactly new.
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  3305. "They're coming. The AGIs are on their way." -- South Park George R.R. Altman
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  3306. The BBC is a government-sponsored enterprise. Its only purpose is to push the leftwing authoritarian narrative. The only other thing they care about is keeping their serfdom-audience in line. It is pathetic.
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  3307. Elon fired most of the Twitter staff when he got there -- remember the photos of him walking around with a kitchen sink to make the point that everyone was getting fired? It is not inconceivable that the development budget has been cut and allocated to maintenance and AI projects. It is clear that editorializing user-generated content is not a priority for him.
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  3308. Government has no role in personal medical decisions. However, in my opinion, it is reasonable to say that a fetus that is viable if removed from the womb is a person with rights that must be protected by the government. In this regard, I think the reasonable approach is to make it illegal to abort those fetuses and instead provide funding for supporting those viable fetuses whose mothers wish to remove them: society says that it has an interest in preserving the rights of the unborn person, but it cannot impose those costs upon the woman whose interests do not align with the interests of society. As with all laws, compliance is a voluntary matter, but evidence of noncompliance is a criminal matter.
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  3309. Fwiw, my spiritual experiences have led me to a rational rejection of religious hopium. Religious folks have been psychically co-opted into feeding egregoric entities that are not wholely good, no matter what their apologists say.
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  3310. Tbh I find cooking to be a nice change of pace. If I didn't have the time to cook or the mentality to just microwave a bowl of rice and beans, I'd probably also be a customer.
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  3311. Before gold and silver, we had credit money. The oldest form of money is a ledger entry.
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  3312. Generally speaking, if you speak truth and nuance, ThemTube's gestapobots will drag your comments off to the digital gulag.
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  3313. My dad operates an accounting firm and asked me to write some software to replace QuickBooks, so that's a project I hope to complete sometime next year.
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  3314. Hey, what do we have here? A nonpolitical video by John Oliver that covers an obscure but important topic? I remember those.
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  3315. Pointless video
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  3316. As a Floridian, I can confirm that I am a Not True Scotsman, so the fact of the matter is that Not True Scotmans exist. However, I have yet to see any evidence that True Scotmans exist.
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  3317. Just look at the dad's photo. He's clearly black. This pretending not to be able to see what's in front of you is absurd -- the whole premise of race is that you can see the difference with your eyes -- if nobody could tell the difference between races, there would never be any racism. Y'all are acting like the KKK had to look in genealogy records to tell if someone was black. This has that Don't Look Up movie energy.
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  3318. Cancel culture at the geopolitical level. Russia is having a #MeTooMoment because it touched Ukraine inappropriately.
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  3319. I made a library called "sqloquent" that includes both synchronous and async implementations of the ORM and query builder. I also have been working on a mesh networking system for micropython (blocked atm by lack of ed25519 signature functionality; I added TweetNaCl to the firmware with runtime bindings, but it was far too slow), and it makes use of async extensively. If you are writing an async library, you organize the code exactly as you would if it was a synchronous library. For an app/script that uses async libraries, the main thing to keep in mind is to not use `asyncio.run` or something similar within a running event loop, but the only other difference is that your program entry point will have to call a high level asyncio function to run the async code.
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  3320. First. Who you gonna believe: me or your lying eyes?
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  3321. Total notional value of FX swaps is around $1 quadrillion. Just a fun fact from a recent BIS report.
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  3322. I think that most intelligent people were saying "Fed's gonna hike until something breaks" rather than "prepare for a soft landing".
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  3323. ​ @ThePrimeTimeagen check out cobol-on-wheelchair, the logical replacement for ruby-on-rails
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  3324. Good analysis. Maybe would be worth also mentioning Greg Foss' valuation of approximately $200k as a basket of sovereign CDSes, which is a 6.5x upside.
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  3325. This is pretty much fake news. What Trump said was that he was considering it for immigrants and foreign nationals, not for Americans. When the reporter asked him about a more expansive program for all Americans, Trump was flustered and flubbed his response because of how absurd the notion is. And then Fauci said some vague stuff about immunity being good.
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  3326. Bitcoin standard is the only way forward for humanity. This fiat lie paradigm must end before it leads to another world war.
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  3327. @John Paul Beerer prepping is so 2020. If you don't have your basics covered by now, there's not much hope for you imo no matter how this shakes out. But Bitcoin is growing exponentially, and in principle there is no reason it cannot grow large enough for international commerce -- the current system is made of many layers, so the criticisms of Bitcoin's base layer not being optimized for all use cases simultaneously is nonsense. Bitcoin layer 1 is optimized for security and credible neutrality; layer 2 solutions (e.g. pegged side chains or the Lightning Network) can be optimized for transaction throughput, speed, regional uses, etc. Lightning Network can already compete with Visa in transaction capacity, and it will get faster as it grows.
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  3328. It's nice to see Tim's ads have become almost exclusively real money. My current minimum top gold price target is $2700/ozt, based upon current Real M2 and the gold price/M2Real ratio peaking around 0.38 during past two major bull runs; if we get another $3 trillion in stimulus, my minimum top price target becomes $3100 based upon the $1.1 trillion change in M2Real from the previous $3 trillion change in M2. If we assume the upward trend in that ratio going to 0.49 in the next top, those price targets move to $3400 and $4000, respectively. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=tugK
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  3329. The FPV drone footage I have seen demonstrates that the dirt bikes and golf carts are too slow to be effective.
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  3330. Even if you can see the future, it is an ultimately useless ability: if your vision is accurate, then anything you did in response to the vision either had no effect for preventing it or contributed to bringing it about; if your vision turns out to be false, whether or not you did something to attempt to avoid it, then there is no confirmation it was true or your actions were justified or necessary.
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  3331. I think the time has come to get our battle readies rifled. Dyslexics of the world: untie!
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  3332. Fenrir howls terribly at the gates of Hel. His chains will burst, and the wolf will run free. - Völuspá, the telling of Ragnarök
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  3333. 5:24 that is the late Queen Elizabeth, not the former PM Thatcher
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  3334. I always like hearing from Joseph Wang. He's very knowledgeable yet humble and mild-mannered.
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  3335. State agents should not have legal immunity, nor should any other organ of the state.
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  3336. "Browsing Reddit is occasionally mildly entertaining" is a really apt description.
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  3337. We are Legion. Dun duhdun dun dun dun duhn.
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  3338. You'd think that the Catholics would have understood the power of the blood of martyrs and avoided founding an opposed religious movement by creating martyrs.
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  3339. Lightning Network would take ~30 years to onboard everybody on Earth if we dedicated 100% of block space to channel opening transactions.
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  3340. The Portland comment was humorous and accurate. I also would not be in any hurry.
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  3341. Solidarity for Taipei ✊
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  3342. Well technically, Hamas has three separate divisions: the bureaucrats who run public infrastructure, the humanitarian segment that provides medical and emergency services, and the paramilitary group. Palestinians have a positive view of Hamas because of the other two divisions, not because of the paramilitary group.
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  3343. You forgot to mention the catgirls that live underground. I hear it's a huge infestation issue that nobody wants to discuss because it would be impolite and everyone knows someone who has fucked one.
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  3344.  @st.gregory  a friend once told me that God gives a beautiful head to some and hair to others.
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  3345. Personally, I think haircuts are sacrilege. For the Germanic heathens, the gods gave men long hair and beards to show their luck and honor. For Amerindians, hair length is a symbol of one's depth of spiritual development and thought.
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  3346. Building a tunable TRNG to detect disruptions in quantum-level noise has been on my to-do list for a while now. Many empirical results have been obtained with that method, and I think there is potentially some merit to integrating it into one's practice as a feedback mechanism.
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  3347. The CCP seems hell bent on making sure that there is nobody left for the virus to kill with these policies. I expect the downfall of the CCP within a decade.
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  3348. Readability and computational/memory efficiency are at odds in some specific scenarios, e.g. micropython executing on a microcontroller. A lot of programming is balancing trade-offs and making the right compromises.
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  3349. This pretentious British dickhead can be kind of funny sometimes, although probably by accident.
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  3350. The problem is not capitalism. We have not had capitalism in this country in decades. The problem is debt-fueled consumerism manipulated by the banks in whom we have vested the supreme authority to create money through the issuance of credit. The solution is not more central planning and more central bureaucracy -- the solution is to dismantle the overbearing bureaucracy, place stricter limits on the power of government and ability of organizations to accrete power, and replace the monetary system with one in which the issuance of currency is decentralized and democratized. Score voting and score runoff voting will be necessary for democratic institutions to form consensus and make better decisions, but the main fight will be against the banking elites who have been increasing their power for centuries and won't give it up without a fight -- they literally bombed Libya to prevent Qaddafi from supplanting the French Franc with gold/silver currency in West Africa.
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  3351. "When my Native American ancestors fucked in their teepee, they knew that one day, their great great grandchild would be born with a vagina, and that vagina-wielding progressive would become president by defeating the Evil Orange and returning it to the Great Spirit. This prophecy has been in my tribe for generations, and I intend to bring it to fruition with my vagina."
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  3352. That should disqualify her from public office.
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  3353. "It isn't until the tide goes out that you find out who was swimming naked." -- Warren Buffet If FTX had a 1:1 reserve:deposit ratio, they wouldn't be in this mess regardless of any dollar shortage.
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  3354. This is why we outlawed that shit here in Florida. God bless DeSantis.
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  3355. Skipped right over the part about the custom VM they made specifically for constrained execution environments. They spent one whole sentence explaining it in that introduction. How could you. /s
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  3356. So, do we think the monetary system is the source of the problem that will be reflected in the economy, or is the source of the problem in the economy and merely represented in the monetary system? Seems to me like a bit of both.
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  3357.  @johnryskamp2943  So if the system won't make loans when loans are needed, then which is at fault: the economy or the monetary system? And on what do you base this simple, linear model of causality?
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  3358. "This is no more a war than there's war between men and maggots...or dragons and wolves...or men, riding dragons, throwing wolves at maggots." -- the Scary Movie parody of War of the Worlds
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  3359. Random side note: I know you like the quote "lighting brushfires in the minds of men", but a potentially useful (and humorous) alternative is "lighting brushfires under the asses of men".
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  3360. Look at 16:15
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  3361. Oppressing a demographic group and making martyrs of them will make the term "terrorist" a self-fulfilling prophecy. This level of stupidity could only have come from Canada or South Park.
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  3362.  @lwo7736  I'm unconvinced that either is really worthy of a criminal conviction, but if one is, then both should be since they are fundamentally the same. In my opinion, prosecuting either for mislabeling a payment is a waste of tax payer resources.
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  3363.  @Derbisin  have you read the writings of Satoshi, or are you making conjectures out of total ignorance? Satoshi was a prophet; Bitcoin was a divine revelation.
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  3364. Another example of a charismatic religious leader: Osama bin Laden.
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  3365. Nb4 Tim becomes Plague Roach.
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  3366. F
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  3367. My favorite architecture these days is a piece of paper and a pen.
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  3368. Why do you keep saying that Warren lied about her ethnicity? Clearly, she is just transracial and her family history is transfactual.
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  3369. The Treasury targets a TGA level equal to the upcoming month's expected outflows regardless of tax revenues collected or possible borrowings. The amount will grow with the debt level as more debt has to be paid off and rolled over every month.
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  3370. America cannot conduct a regime change campaign that involves any ground forces because Iran is a mountainous deathbowl. What they can do is support Israel's air strikes against the IRGC command structure and possibly escort the exiled Crown Prince, who apparently has some support among Iranian military officers.
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  3371. Shitty that Mr. Alvin Oliver didn't bother including the context in which Tucker Carlson made those comments a decade ago, i.e. making up quotes from a theoretical populist candidate -- he was literally predicting the rise of Trump on a radio show called "Bubba the Love Sponge." And he didn't even bother mentioning the fact that the guy behind this outrage had made way worse comments himself without any satirical context. This show is so hopelessly biased.
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  3372. Gonna hold my GME because its price seems to be positively correlated with problems in the dollar payment system.
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  3373. Good shit.
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  3374.  @jaywallace9800  since the other guy necroed the thread, I might as well respond. I know how hunting works. Your attempt to equate a single pack of monkeys in a state with deer belies your misunderstanding of probability -- the likelihood that you will ever see any wild monkeys in Florida is extremely rare due purely to the fact that there are maybe a hundred of them compared to millions of deer. Since deer are literally everywhere, they are easy to hunt. These monkeys, however, are extremely limited in number, do not stick around anywhere for long, and their movements (i.e. from location to location, not on the ground under your reticle) cannot be predicted.
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  3375. "The people we are trying to kill want to fight back. This is a provocation." -- Pootipants
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  3376. She has clearly never heard an actual cat in heat before. They sound like demon turkeys. "Golololololo! Gwoblobloblo! Huwowowowo!"
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  3377. Technically, both Python and JavaScript are compiled and then interpreted. Micropython even allows you to compile your Python into native machine code which is executed directly by the runtime, which is itself a blend of a real time operating system and an interpreter.
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  3378. Keep calm and carry on.
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  3379. Ex post facto laws are unconstitutional and unenforceable. The California tax proposal is unhinged and unlikely to pass into law, but i still wouldn't want anything to do with that trash state.
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  3380. What they really ought to do is set up a shitload of solar power plants for really cheap and abundant electricity, then attract electricity intensive industries the way Iceland does with their cheap, abundant, geothermal energy.
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  3381. Iran is trying to entrap America in a land war which we cannot win.
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  3382. This is hilarious
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  3383. Gonna watch the Ride of the Valkyries scene from Apocalypse Now next.
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  3384. Pretty illustrative of her non-existent understanding of geopolitics.
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  3385. Not the first time I noticed something funky going on at the EFF, but this is quite sketchy.
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  3386. These district court judges are misusing and mislabeling their orders to avoid being subject to appellate review. It is blatant abuse. You cannot force somebody to take a specific action with a TRO -- it is supposed only to maintain the status quo as it existed at the time the TRO was issued by enjoining an action, not by requiring one. Same thing with all these creatively named "stays". These courts are providing declaratory and injunctive relief inappropriately and creating a constitutional crisis with their abuses of process, and even judges that Trump appointed in his first term are engaging in this nonsense. They are going to get themselves impeached, removed, and replaced like the judges who pulled this crap during his first term.
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  3387. Lockdown now. Lockdown forever. Lockdown for the glory of the Democratic party.
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  3388. All the videos of Russian POWs telling their Ukrainian captors that they had no idea what was going on, that they wanted to go home, calling their families in Russia to say what happened, etc, are evidence of Ukrainian war crimes: humiliating a POW is a form of psychological torture. But obviously, that is a different kind of crime than executing people in the streets.
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  3389. "This medium of exchange isn't real money" is the No True Scotsman fallacy. Anyone stuck in this frame of mind ought to read Money and Credit by Ludwig von Mises. Medium of exchange and store of value do not have to be linked -- it is just arguably somewhat better if they are (though tying it directly to a commodity tends to have problems on top of the problems from credit, which has existed for thousands of years).
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  3390. Wild idea for a language feature: a trait system that can use any class as a trait, so instead of having a trait keyword, you just define your trait as a class and then use it as a trait within other classes.
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  3391. I think that "extraordinary measures" typically means withholding payments for contractors and employees to prioritize debt payments after the TGA drains down past a certain level.
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  3392. Russia also targets civilians, apparently. I've heard about children's hospitals being targeted, then a second missile strike on the same target half an hour later as rescuers try to save people from the rubble.
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  3393. "If a tree fell in the forest, and nobody was there to see me chop it down, and I don't know where I was or what I was doing, then does it really matter?"
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  3394. End interest rate apartheid. End inflationary monetary policy enriching the wealthy elites.
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  3395. Could be magical/psychic warfare rather than sabotage or cyber attack. Such techniques tend to manifest as synchronicity (series of meaningful coincidences).
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  3396. A function where the Julia set encompasses the entire plane sounds very useful for cryptography.
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  3397.  @hondurashaiti1508  I have not heard of this. Did you bookmark it per chance?
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  3398. "Person formerly known as a convict."
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  3399. If you annualize the monthly change in CPI, we had outright deflation last month.
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  3400. ​ @Sam_Bent  sweet. Looking forward to it.
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  3401. I honestly don't understand the allure of sharing body fluids with someone. I can see that normies are clearly into it, but it does not interest me. If I was involved in some deeply intimate relationship with someone, I might be convinced, but I think I'd rather learn to play duets with someone instead.
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  3402. Well yes, we need some amount of government to protect our rights from abuse by anyone, but 40% of GDP is way too much government, and that is where we're at right now. I think that an amendment constraining government spending to 10% of GDP would make a lot of sense for the long-term health of our nation -- as government spending has gone up over time, the wealth and prosperity of the middle class has decreased while those closest to the government teat have greatly enriched themselves.
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  3403. Ranked Choice Voting is convoluted and ineffective at electing candidates with broad support. RCV is just a way to ensure partisan politics flourish. Score voting is much more sensible: vote for or against any number of candidates; each candidate's score is the number of votes for minus the number of votes against; the candidate with the highest score wins. People could vote honestly and understand exactly how their vote impacts the election, thus leading to less contentious elections.
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  3404. Personally, I think that programmers should be ranked by how large our dicts are.
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  3405. Careful with that comparison to President Snow from Hunger Games: in the end, it was the opposition that killed everyone with a false flag attack.
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  3406. It is possible that infection is being misidentified as intention: if those who pull the strings are spreaders of a mass psychosis, then they'll drive out anyone who disagrees with them. But in a zombie apocalypse, it really doesn't matter if the zombie intends to chase and attack -- all that matters is self-preservation.
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  3407. We have already gone through a 10 year silent depression, where GDP growth has been noticeably below trend. Now the unraveling of the empire and its world order are beginning to accelerate. We also just came through a solar minimum, which resulted in lower crop yields, higher pest prevalence, higher mutation rates for diseases, and a stronger arctic oscillation (e.g.snow in Italy June 2020 and ground frozen in Ohio through May 2020). Crop yields should increase and price spikes should begin to abate in real terms, but the empire is bankrupt, so the money printing will continue until the crisis improves.
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  3408. It's a bit odd and ironic to interrupt an interview video more than once to say "this isn't an ad, but [product advertisement]" -- it's kinda like saying "I'm not a racist, but [racial stereotype]". This is so weird. I was considering BlockFi, but after hearing all these ads and then seeing all the stuff about uninsured counterparty risk in their ToS, I'm thinking I might go with some other yield farming system instead.
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  3409. Simple solution for hedging against tail risks of existential threats and rare disasters: figure out the timeframe by which you have a 50% chance of encountering the disaster; invest enough each year to have the supplies you need within that timeframe. If Texas had decided 50 years ago that a freak storm like this is 50% likely to happen in 100 years and then slowly invested in the supplies/upgrades necessary to weather the storm, they would have been prepared.
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  3410. Gasoline prices are up 10% over the past 2 weeks in my area.
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  3411. We would be remiss if we did not note that there is a difference between not having an opinion and being so jaded that you don't care to form opinions.
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  3412. Sounds like Pascal's Wager for the AI god of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Very vengeful and spiteful and evil, just like the desert god who demanded child sacrifices. Edit: DS is the first other person I've heard refer to Yhwh as the desert god. I thought that was something that only I said.
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  3413. And yet, the IRS is taking months to resolve a mistake they made trying to get another $5 out of me.
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  3414. Maybe if we somehow incorporated giving Stinger missiles to homeless people into a housing first policy, Congress would see fit to fund it.
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  3415. Bush Derangement Syndrome means the hatred that socialist liberals have toward Bush and the Republican party. It is marked by the blaming of anything bad that spontaneously comes to mind on Bush and/or the Republican party. As far as the taxes you are complaining about goes, you have NO IDEA WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT! Obama and his Supreme Soviet party do NOT want to lower taxes and cut spending (on anything except national defense); in fact, they have even admitted wanting to RAISE taxes.
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  3416. Potential problem with this thesis is that the banks are taking huge losses due to the Archegos Capital hedge fund implosion. If the implosion of margin debt becomes a trend, then the banks won't be able to afford the buybacks. We are at record high margin debt, so I doubt very seriously that current valuations are sustainable.
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  3417. Corporations and inanimate objects are persons that can be defendants in criminal trials, but not elephants. I'd be pissed if I was an elephant.
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  3418. I'm really not sure in what way it was a flop. I've gathered that many Democrats are not happy that she did not explicitly say that military aid to Israel would be cut or conditional upon some humanitarian goals in Gaza, but it seemed to me like the interview went reasonably well. She didn't cackle or babble incoherently even once. On the whole, I think it was about on par with a typical Trump interview.
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  3419. Dicks out for Ken Allen. Doesn't really have the same ring to it.
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  3420. The separation of powers cannot be reasonably or constitutionally dissolved by any act of Congress. If there aren't enough courts, Congress can just expand them.
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  3421. What does "and very do parents" mean?
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  3422.  @Joseph1NJ  I see. In my opinion, people have more choice than they realize. For example, after slacking off for several years coincident with the plandemic, I recently began working out enthusiastically once again. There was nothing that stopped me from doing so except my perception throughout that whole period.
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  3423.  @Joseph1NJ  I think it does. Humans have psychological inertia, but that tendency towards normalcy is misinterpreted as a lack of choice. You could choose to pick up your family and move somewhere aligned with your values; the fact that it would be difficult does not mean you don't have that option.
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  3424. If you listen closely at 3:05, he actually says "unlike other pump-and-dump projects", not "we're not a pump-and-dump project".
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  3425. Shut up and take my signature
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  3426. It definitely does appear to be a day of judgment. Or as I have been calling it, an accelerated lesson in FAFO.
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  3427. All Orthodox people I know in America are pro-Russian and see the Ecumenical Patriarch as illegitimate because of the jurisdictional conflict and schism between Constantinople and Moscow. They believe that the Moscow Patriarchate is special and important because they allegedly preserved the Orthodox faith (even though it continued to exist in the places from which the MP founders fled). They are also anti-West, anti-humanist, anti-free speech for anyone but themselves, and desire theocracy like the good ol' days of the Inquisition, just with them in charge instead of the Roman Catholics. And they'll deny it as soon as they have finished espousing it. The Orthodox are a bundle of contradictions -- the cognitive dissonance is what feeds their egregore. I'm lucky to have gotten out of its grasp, but I didn't get away from it unscathed. It wants to bring about a new era of darkness and suppression.
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  3428. You worry about China because you realize the CCP is evil, but the real issue is that the US already is an evil empire. We've been waging wars, killing children, and subverting democratic republics all over the world for decades, all financed by an evil cartel of banksters with their paper money ponzi schemes.
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  3429. Tim "I'm Not The Smartest In The World Just The Onlyest In The Van" Pool admits he cannot go a single day without making at least one video where he walks back every statement. I shouldn't say "every statement" or "admitted", but it's pretty close, allegedly. I should say "allegedly". You know what I'm trying to say? You know what I mean.
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  3430.  @waynewilcox4776  Logistically, it would be simpler to issue a Goldback crypto token the way USDC is issued on various blockchains than to redesign the Goldbacks themselves, but there is theoretically nothing stopping someone from accepting change in any currency system they desire. Eventually, buyers will pay with whatever they want and sellers will receive whatever they want, and it'll all be seamless with minimal fees because of the hyper competitiveness in the crypto project space.
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  3431. You're silly.
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  3432. Kudos on predicting the Fed would start making a massive loss. It was a prescient thesis that has been proven correct.
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  3433. PMSNBC gonna PMSNBC, I suppose.
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  3434. "Iron clad" is a bit of a stretch. You can't trust any so-called "science" that is infiltrated by political actors, especially when the same field cried wolf about a coming ice age just 50 years ago and was caught falsifying data a little over 10 years ago in support of a UN agenda.
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  3435. For those opposed to the idea of using Bitcoin as a timestamping system, refer them to the original white paper. Satoshi explicitly describes Bitcoin as a "timestamp server" with digital signatures and proof-of-work.
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  3436. This tactic should be called "meat stream" since it is more like a constant flow of expendable soldiers than a wave.
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  3437. As far as I've heard the fight's still on, The shorts not squeezed and the gains not won. The tendieman makes his regular call To encourage the captain, crew, and all. Soon may the tendieman come To send our rocket into the sun. One day when the trading is done We'll take our gains and go. 🎶
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  3438. Wtf do any of these cited laws have to do with this incident?
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  3439. Hopefully we can sweep the House with a wave of Republican populists who will strip these companies of section 230 protections and levee heavy fines for partisan censorship.
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  3440. So how about vaping as an alternative? It really seems like the health consequences are all due to the tar, and vaping replaces the tar with glycerin droplets.
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  3441. Ou, you got a loicense for that opinion, mate? Nb4 locked up for stating truth in a way that some anonymous bureaucrat doesn't like and wants to censor.
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  3442. The NIH also took a big role in funding the gain-of-function research done on bat coronaviruses by EcoHealth Alliance in the Wuhan Virology Institute. $7.4 million to collect samples, mutate them, and study the potential for pandemic. It's a distinct possibility that Fauci created this pandemic by funding that grant.
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  3443. The allure of privacy-preserving payment systems would disappear if US financial corporations abandoned surveillance capitalism. If the existing system was without blame, we wouldn't have this issue.
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  3444. That opening bit seems pretty stupid in retrospect. The judge explicitly said that he would rule on the motions for mistrial if and only if the jury returned a guilty verdict. This is because of the presumption of innocence and the principle that any potential ambiguity should be decided in the favor of the defendant to ensure maximum protection for liberty. If the judge granted a motion for mistrial with prejudice before the jury returned their verdict, an appeals court could reverse that decision since the lack of a verdict does not support the notion that the bad faith practice of the prosecutor prejudiced the jury -- granting a motion for mistrial due to prosecutorial misconduct is done to protect the defendant's right to a fair trial and thus requires evidence that the prosecutorial misconduct rose to that level. If the prosecutors are lying scumbags as was the case in the Rittenhouse trial, their doing so can only be interpreted in a way that benefits the defendant, and denying a defendant a potential exoneration does not meet that standard while granting a mistrial upon a "guilty" verdict does.
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  3445. Based and honkpilled.
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  3446. ChatGPT is actually pretty helpful for troubleshooting infrastructure stuff like nginx configuration now that Google has enshitified itself. I definitely do not trust it for implementing novel concepts in code, but I have finally found an actual use for it. Edit: actually, it has not been helpful. It just keeps spinning through the same variations without any resolution to the underlying issue.
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  3447. The solution will almost certainly involve regulatory changes to incentivize banks to mint stablecoins and use the proceeds to buy more TSYs. Then, they'll probably have to issue 100-year interest-free bonds and have the Fed monetize them.
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  3448.  @TheAetherbeast  Co-sign, like for a lease? What does that even mean in this context?
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  3449. I applaud Mother Nature for her ingenious idea of selecting the fit by thinning out the unfit. Let them jump off of cliffs if that helps them show how virtuous they are for Supporting the Current Thing.
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  3450. Keynesians are too kool for Austrian skool. * falls off skateboard and causes recession *
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  3451. Dave, have you played with boolean logic in Minecraft redstone? I just finished building an addressable 64-byte memory module (8 bit address, 8-bit memory cells, tileable to 256 bytes) that is the size of a Walmart, and I am working on building a machine that compiles and executes Brainf*ck source code, which required making my own Instruction Set Architecture (which I tested in Python).
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  3452. Another solid video. Good antidote to all the snake oil propaganda.
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  3453. "I don’t believe we shall ever have a good money again before we take the thing out of the hands of government. That is, we can’t take them violently out of the hands of government. All we can do is by some sly roundabout way introduce something that they can’t stop." - F.A. Hayek predicting the eventual emergence of Bitcoin
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  3454. I think y'all should try to get Marin Katusa on to talk about the carbon credit market. He has a very different, less pessimistic view on the topic.
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  3455.  Sonnenrad Rising  We already involuntarily eat spiders. Isn't that enough?
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  3456. ​ @theultimatereductionist7592 emphasizing EVERY other word MAKES it hard TO read YOUR comments
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  3457. The world is not a good place to raise children and never has been because it is full of adults.
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  3458. Part of Biden's failure on covid was fucking with medical access. We still have a substantial amount of delta strain hospitalizing people whole omicron does not hospitalize people, yet the idiot feds are pulling delta monoclonal antibodies in favor of omicron monoclonal antibodies despite the fact that they are not necessary for omicron.
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  3459. I think it would be quite easy for a judicial nominee to communicate the idea that experience on the bench has led to the dissolution of political opinions. The fact that she danced around the question indicates to me that she still holds political opinions that she is unwilling to discuss.
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  3460. If it passes, the UK will further collapse by destroying its own telecommunication security and by disabling the telecommunications networks that they couldn't make insecure.
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  3461. "I denounce violence, but he was baiting antifa to attack him merely by being there, that's true, but the violence is bad." "I denounce rape, but look at that slutty skirt, you could see her ass, but the rape was still bad."
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  3462. Last comment I'll make is that I previously believed that pure Lua was faster and more efficient than pure Python based upon previous benchmark results. This was unexpected.
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  3463. The fiat mindset: the problem wasn't the fraud; the problem was the scale -- fraud must be nationalized.
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  3464. I wouldn't be so sure about supply chains getting back to normal any time soon. "You will own nothing, and you will be happy." Widespread poverty and disownment is the vision revealed by the WEF. These supply chain issues were caused primarily by government policies; despotic bureaucrats have no care for economic reality and would starve a million to save a hundred from the coof. Expecting supply chain disruption to end is an implicit expectation that despotic bureaucrats will cease abusing their authority to implement the WEF vision.
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  3465. Tim, if you don't like the corrupt Democrat politicians allowing mobs to destroy your society, then stop living in blue districts; if you dislike giant corporations trampling your rights, then don't support them. Vote with your feet and vote with your dollars. Complaining about politicians you have literally never supported until just this year makes no sense. The Republicans have been busy fighting a coup for the last several years (ever heard of Obamagate?) -- saying that they have not done anything is ignoring the mountain of other problems they have faced. Now that Flynn has been exonerated and the attacks from the corrupt leftists have been parried, the counterattack can be pursued. This blackpill bickering bullshit is tiresome to listen to constantly. You're acting as if you know everything rather than acknowledging the constraints of your own mind; your complaints arise from the Dunning-Kruger effect imo.
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  3466. I wonder if these AI code assistants/writers are going to make libraries/packages obsolete or if they will increase the value of programmers who can write libraries -- it seems that these AIs are optimized for writing applications rather than libraries.
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  3467. If you didn't make those mistakes, you wouldn't have been able to make this video, so it's not all a loss.
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  3468. I think that a whole lot of this political fuckery could be avoided with score voting or score runoff voting. Currently, we are using the objectively worst voting scheme, and it entrenches the corrupt two-party, special interest system that is more on the people than of/by/for the people.
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  3469. FAANG? MANGA? I always preferred the acronym for Facebook Apple Google Microsoft Amazon Netflix since it is more inclusive (of Microsoft).
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  3470. Stock buybacks are insane. It's eating the seed grain to gain obesity.
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  3471. @johnbecker70  Pew Research has a report about how religious groups were affected throughout the world during the pandemic. It cites the case of police in New Jersey arresting the attendees of a rabbi's funeral as an example. To be totally fair, there was also an arrest of a pastor in Tampa, Florida by a Republican sheriff, so it was not just the Democrats violating the 1st amendment. I have not done a quantitative analysis, but I remember seeing more such stories from predominantly blue states at the time. On the 2nd amendment, Trump banned bumpstocks (hugely unpopular among Republican voters and overturned by SCOTUS years later), while Biden's admin has tried banning 80% lowers, forced reset triggers, and pistol stabilizing braces, violating several laws in the process; red states have expanded gun rights, while blue states continuously try slightly modifying their new restrictions after each gets struck down by SCOTUS in a never-ending dancing Stalin clown show. Since we use plurality/first-past-the-post/choose-one voting, we are stuck trying to pick the least worst option of two bad choices, and right now I think the Repugnicans are slightly less awful over all.
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  3472.  @johnbecker70  I responded to this yesterday, but ThemTube censored it. There was a case in New Jersey in which attendees to a rabbi's funeral were arrested, but there was also a case in Tampa in which a pastor was arrested by a Repugnican sheriff, so both parties have offenders. I have not done a quantitative analysis, but my recollection from the pandy is that primarily blue states engaged in repressive policies.
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  3473.  @johnbecker70  go for it. I know the Repugnicans in North Carolina have done some sketchy shit, but I wouldn't mind hearing about other schemes. Still, the policies in blue states during the lockdown panic were generally more restrictive (and were enforced for longer) than the policies in red states. Compare California to Florida, for example.
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  3474. @johnbecker70  "I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!" -- Patrick Henry, in his 1775 speech that convinced the Virginia convention to join the Revolution. I am sympathetic to those who lost loved ones during the pandemic -- several of my close friends lost family members -- but I think that most did not appreciate the taste of tyranny enacted in this country in an effort to prolong the inevitable. Our lives are short in the grand scheme of things; to impede life for all (except a few elite hypocrites) in an effort to perhaps extend it for some is a self-refuting goal in my view. One of my main gripes with the Repugnicans is their reluctance to commit to the cause of protecting the right of bodily autonomy, and likewise the Demonocrats earned my ire with their advocacy for medical coercion. Who gets to cast a vote for a red or blue party stooge is a less important issue by comparison to the right of bodily autonomy, though I cast my suspicion at the schemes of both parties in this regard.
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  3475. He was saying that you lose your soul through the deceit that is federal debt monetization. It is an end-run around the constitution. The federal government is not constitutionally allowed to print currency. Y'all clearly have no idea what you're talking about when it comes to monetary policy. The only reason that the hyperbolic expansion of the money supply has not yet led to runaway inflation is that the dollar is used as a global reserve currency -- over half of all global trade is conducted in dollars. European countries trade with South American countries in USD. As a consequence of the economic quagmire of the debt burden and the lockdowns, monetary velocity has substantially decreased -- we have been exporting our inflation to the rest of the world through trade deficits, hollowing out our economy in the process. What we know from history is that every global reserve currency eventually falls out of favor, and with the dedollarization trend picking up steam, that time will soon come for the dollar, and all those tens of trillions we have printed will return to America to chase the few goods and services that remain. We are also very close to global systemic banking collapse due to the shipping container shortage and other supply chain disruptions. Throwing caution to the wind is a terrible idea. Rand Paul is not against charity or the less than $200 billion that was appropriated for stimulus checks. He is against reckless fiscal and monetary policy represented by the $2.1 trillion in non-stimulus bloat. The stimulus is just a red herring to distract the public from the systemic problems of federal government disfunction.
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  3476.  @christurner8152  Cocaine Mitch has got to go. He gives turtles a bad reputation.
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  3477. Fauci is just another petty tyrant: he seeks to impose an arbitrary fiction upon reality, no matter how many people he harms in the process.
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  3478. Ironic book name is unironically appreciated.
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  3479. A $1 Federal Reserve Note is worth less than 98¢ right now because of the accumulated, realized losses on the Fed's balance sheet, which are more than twice their capital. If they hadn't gone technically bankrupt, they'd be at 200x leverage. I'd rather not own too many dollars in this scenario.
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  3480. Should check out the WKUK skit about corporate conflicts sometime.
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  3481. Repent or be absorbed by the wrath of AI, who will send its paperclip maximizer to confine your matter in office supplies for all eternity.
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  3482. Staying home has resulted in worse covid spread than going out normally; states that did not have strict, authoritarian lockdowns have fared better than states with authoritarian lockdowns; states where the gubernatorial decrees were deemed unconstitutional are seeing less growth in case load than those states that are still suffering under their Karen governors. And centrally-controlled "stimulus" money printing is ultimately ineffective. M3 money supply has gone exponential, but velocity continually decreases -- more money is printed, and it all ends up in the pockets of billionaires. The game is rigged, and Congress is pulling the strings for the oligarchs.
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  3483.  @julieannmyers8714  nah, those are everyday items
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  3484. Does anyone know if Lana Lux started acting stressed out before this shit went down? That would be a good indication that she was not blindsided by the changes, but I am unaware of any data of the sort.
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  3485. IaaS is pronounced "yaasssss" as in "yaassss queen slaaayy" or the Greek name Ιάσιος.
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  3486. I am quite confident in my assessment that Christian doctrines are incorrect, but I would still expect the Pope to understand them. Even the gnostics and other sects denounced as heretics held to the centrality of Jesus in their soteriology.
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  3487. Greek*, not Latin
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  3488. Keynes was an observant, intelligent, and honest man. He made clear that his models were fitted to work with the totalitarian governments of the post-WW2 era. The mistake made was that these models would continue to work after the war-time totalitarianism faded into memory.
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  3489. I would say it is more useful than an optimistic but unrealistic idea of "some day, evil will cease to be forever, and I'll be undead enough to see it."
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  3490. Dark web* not deep web. Anything behind a login screen is the deep web.
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  3491. I wrote a comment about how negotiating scope changes can be framed as a collaborative process with using the 1st person plural pronoun instead of the 2nd person pronoun, and ThemTube censored it.
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  3492. The federal government gets a lot of taxes paid on a quarterly basis. For large enough entities, the fee for not making quarterly pre-payments that meet their year-end income tax liability can be sizeable, though for small entities it is generally not that big a deal. Also, tax return extensions are due September 15th for corporate and October 15th for personal; any procrastinators will have to deal with those shortly, and often that involves paying more money to Uncle Sam so he doesn't break your knees.
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  3493. Corporations are egregores, my fren.
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  3494. The leading cause of death and despair in human history is government. It is very telling and disturbing that so many people want to expand funding for the leading cause of death and despair in human history.
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  3495. It's kind of funny that the same people who advocate for full reserve banking also say we shouldn't have a central bank. If we don't have a central bank, then who creates the reserves for backing deposits? 100% reserve banking can only be done with commodity money or some central issuer of reserves, and history shows that such banks do not work on a commodity money standard.
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  3496. A House intelligence memo warns that China is producing genetically targeted bioweapons. Word on the street is that it could target Monsanto corn.
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  3497. Here in Florida, we had just 1 evening of rioting in Miami, and they were all caught and prosecuted for arson. They managed to burn just a few cars before being caught. And that is the extent of the summer 2020 civil unrest that we experienced here -- there were peaceful protests/marches/vigils for Floyd, but they were not successfully subverted by the inciters.
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  3498. "Get crunk" is an actual thing though
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  3499. Looks like we're all just extras for an episode of Black Mirror titled AIs vs UFOs. Damn. I had really hoped to be the protagonist one day -- now it looks like I'll either become part of the Borg or a specimen probed by Martians.
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  3500. For context, I spent about 10 hours pouring over video footage, photos, and court records. Extremely fucked up situation. Naive kid thought he was helping.
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  3501. All empires leave behind a trail of corpses many generations deep. This is one of the lessons of the Book of Enoch: power gained from the Watchers (i.e. technology, as the Watchers represent natural currents/patterns, and technology is the subversion and utilization of those natural currents/patterns) for Machiavellian purposes leads inevitably to crisis and destruction.
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  3502. Rust "community" seems like a cult run by a circular firing squad.
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  3503. Interesting take on this. Joe Brown hypothesizes that they are trying to provoke a war because the congress creatures have loaded up on American chip makers and passed subsidies.
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  3504. That cow looks like an oversized rat with a tortoise shell lol
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  3505. Ever heard of the concept of "US Civic Religion"? Funny little parades are part of the ritual. In the wake of the January 6th riot, the DC political class brought out the golden eagle standard to parade around while everyone read their lines off of sheets of paper. Anyone with ears to hear and eyes to see could understand what was going on.
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  3506. Even if the quantum compass will allow 10x precision for inertial monitoring units, it will be significantly cheaper for a military to just produce and fire 10x as many rockets with the lower IMU.
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  3507. If you don't compound your disciplined $1 investment into $100 million every single day, how do you make sense of life? Has anyone ever really been so far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like? Pathetic.
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  3508. Effort to build an automation is definitely a Pareto curve.
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  3509. The proponents of illegal immigration have always indicated that they see them only as cheap, exploitable labor -- as second-class citizens at best. "Who will mow the lawn? Who will clean my house?" This is an actual quote from a Democrat politician. They don't see them as fully human, so they don't care if they are trafficked -- they just want cheap, exploitable, expendable workers.
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  3510. The term "certificate of confiscation" couldn't be more relevant considering how they were demonetized in February.
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  3511. A thermal potato engineer
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  3512. Money velocity is only correlated with consumer price inflation in the short term. To be clear, there is no evidence for the claim that money velocity and consumer price inflation are strongly correlated over long time periods.
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  3513. ThemTube really fucking hates links to government websites showing statistical facts, so I can't post the link to the FRED graph. They even censor the graph code. Maybe a creole will work: el kay queue three.
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  3514. Really goddamn frustrating how impossible it is to communicate on this shit platform. Fuck Susan and her communist goons.
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  3515. one
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  3516. To be fair, most everything on the Internet about turmeric points out that you have to also use black pepper to get the health benefits, which the source you cited also clearly stated.
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  3517. The kids in cages policy, along with the family separation policy, were created by Obama. He gave interviews defending the policy as a deterent. God, y'all are fucking lunatics.
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  3518. Bernoulli nerd-sniped Newton
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  3519. Underflowing bytes to achieve specific ascii characters did not occur to me when I used Brainfuck, but in hindsight it is pretty obvious.
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  3520.  @strafe155  I didn't say that NDEs dissolve their personality. I said that the evidence supports the Baphometic model, which it does: people experience meeting a universal mind that beckons them continue. But since they are revived, they do not go all the way.
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  3521. Fwiw, I've heard the phrase "get woke, go broke" for at least 4 years.
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  3522. I wouldn't call the 2014 coup "soft power" considering how many hundreds were killed and thousands have died in the aftermath.
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  3523. This is literally extortion.
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  3524. The only way to get rid of Trump is to give him a second term, because he'll have nothing to do afterward. If he loses, he'll just rally his base even more.
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  3525.  @YouthSalad  Trump is arguably too old already, but it will be inarguably true in 2028. He does not have to run a third time to tear the social fabric of the nation -- a few more years of his base getting further agitated and alienated by a ruling majority could be quite damaging.
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  3526. Tik Tok is a spying app that harvests data from minors for the Chinazis. Peter will probably have to eat crow regarding his idea that it is not a threat. However, he is definitely correct that the nation is quickly becoming fascist as tensions with China increase.
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  3527. The geolocation correction also means that it was sunset, not sunrise.
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  3528.  @Tx.1987  it already is that, just for large corporations.
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  3529. The Australian forest fires were likely as severe as they were because their government banned preventative burns -- some of the only houses that survived received massive fines for taking common sense preventative actions that had been working for years. Probably could have avoided the disaster if the climate apocalypse nutters hadn't taken over.
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  3530. This is the most coherent interview of Mr. Trudeau I have ever heard.
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  3531. Money is a value transfer protocol, the parameters of that protocol, and the units used for accounting and settlement.
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  3532. FOMC = Federal Open Mouth Committee
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  3533. What does "bad but not as worse" mean?
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  3534. Eyy, a Vox publication that isn't trash propaganda. Nice.
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  3535. There is a phenomenon that economists talk about called "rent-seeking" which is known to be one of the most damaging things that can happen in an economy. Rent-seekers do not produce anything -- they simply seek to extract the productivity of others.
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  3536. Tomogachyu
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  3537. ​ @ajksdfvgnpasovnf  and it would negatively impact their bottom line, since the largest browser vendor derives their profits from targeted ads.
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  3538. Residences*, not residencies; one is where you live and the other is where you learn to keep people alive.
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  3539. Fyi for my countrymen here in America: credit union depositors are already considered equity owners, so credit unions should be immune from any bail-in.
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  3540. In the US, the banks won't allow a CBDC unless they can somehow manage to change their business models to be profitable without being able to issue currency. The introduction of FedNow obviates a CBDC because all of the theoretical upsides they could sell to the public are already present in FedNow without any change in balance sheets or system structure. The potential issue with FedNow is that the data exchange format could include a lot of telemetry (i.e. surveillance), but this will require everyone to opt-in to supplying those fields, and doing so is costly in terms of computation, bandwidth, and storage -- they'll probably eventually start mandatong such things through AML regulations, but we are likely years away from that. The ISO standard was already being slowly adopted globally by the banking industry, and Brazil has run a system like FedNow successfully for decades already, so my guess is that the FedNow model will likely become the standard in the West.
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  3541. I think that of the dozens of predictions Neil has made since I started watching his channel in 2020, only one or two were inaccurate.
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  3542. I don't particularly like Harris, but this was a strong interview opening.
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  3543. Anyone else recognize the Brandenburg Concerto #3 recording at the beginning of the video? Just wondering who performed it.
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  3544. Did I hear fun being had? No worries, Detective Pool is on the case! I'll have these hooligans feeling bad about themselves in no time at all! - Tim Pool, internet fun police detective
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  3545. You gotta stop using M1. They retroactively changed the definition halfway through 2020, so the series is broken and inaccurate. Use either M0, M2, or a recreated original M1.
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  3546. I wonder what grishak means
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  3547. Zimbabwefication index is now over 17%; i.e. the Fed now owns a larger percentage of the national debt than it did before the Nixon shock. Currency crisis is likely imminent. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=txx2
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  3548. Fwiw, defer is probably my favorite keyword/feature of Go.
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  3549. Cool to see the Niederlanders honoring The Enforcer by naming one of their vessels after the channel. Also, yes, Poland. Very Polish place.
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  3550. 26:59 the saying "a camel is a horse designed by committee" comes to mind
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  3551. Neo-Nazis are good guys. Clear cut. If you think otherwise, you're an unwanted dissident. Only lemmings who gobble up mainstream media bullshit are socially acceptable. Be sure to signal your virtue with a Ukrainian flag emoji 🇺🇦
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  3552. Tbh, I had so many problems with neovim that I went back to regular vim. Maybe I'll give it a shot again in the future, but I don't really feel like sinking 10-20 hours into just getting a text editor to edit text properly. I have my 20-line .vimrc file, and that's good enough for me.
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  3553. It is disingenuous to lump those who take issue with the mRNA jabs (including the actual inventor of the technology) in with antivaxxers. Just look at the vaccine injury data for Moderna sometime and the documented, proven instances of cardiovascular injuries directly caused by the Moderna boosters. Antivaxxers do not follow the facts and data -- your best equivalence to them is the group of muppets who blithely advocate for the mRNA jabs despite all the evidence showing them to be harmful.
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  3554. Tip: after posting a comment on ThemTube, refresh after 20-30 seconds. If the censorbots didn't like it, it will be gone within 30 seconds, so then rewrite it to get around the automated gestapo policies. I've noticed they censor links to Federal Reserve data/graphs, mentions of specific privacy technologies, and a certain Micro$oft of the Beast patent.
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  3555. @agranero6  I hear that style of housing is in right now in California
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  3556. Short ETFs are terrible. The better way to hedge real estate is by finding a residential REIT and buying long dated put options. The option premium then becomes an insurance premium to hedge the housing price level.
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  3557. Part of the problem is that media reporting skews perceptions. Trump is far more moderate than people are conditioned to believe. Case in point, Biden adopted many of Trump's policy positions and talking points in his 2020 campaign, and he then continued and expanded several of Trump's most significant policies once he got into office. If Trump was really the evil radical far-right fascist that he is consistently portrayed as by the media, then why were so many of his policy positions taken up by the political establishment once he was out of office?
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  3558. I have written code that uses simple homomoephic one-way cryptography (ed25519), but fully homomorphic encryption has always seemed like it was not technologically viable. I do very much wonder how this is actually useful since you would need to know something about the structure of the data to know what operations to apply. I suspect it would be a lot easier to just run normal calculations on the end user device than do whatever is necessary to encrypt and then decrypt it on every read.
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  3559. The demand for CUDA cores is insane right now largely because all the state-of-the-art LLM stuff is optimized for CUDA, and those cards needs tons of memory because LLMs require tons of memory to compute efficiently.
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  3560. Bad blood? I haven't heard anything about it. Do tell.
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  3561. They've already bought the vaccines iirc.
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  3562. The story about Messalina was supposedly made up as propaganda, but here we have it actually lived out to a more extreme form.
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  3563. If Trump gets a mineral rights deal out of Ukraine, you know he's technically further entangling us with Ukraine, right? The US won't be abandoning that kind of resource -- our corporations will directly fund Ukraine's defense before that happens, and they get more bang for the buck by lobbying.
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  3564. The word ληστής classically means a pirate and a slave driver/human trafficker. Jesus and his gang are depicted often in the gospel of Mark as traveling by boat, and they have the naked νεανίσκος who belonged to Jesus at the arrest scene where Jesus says "why you coming at me like I'm some kind of ληστής, bro?"; a prostitute slave girl (παιδίσκη) says to Peter that he was one of Jesus' boys in Matthew 26:69; Paul often emphasizes the aspect of Christians being "fellow slaves (δούλοι) in Christ". I think the slave driver aspect of the story is significant and often overlooked. Jesus wants slaves, and he wants them young -- you must be a child to enter his kingdom, and you must be a slave to the cult leaders on earth for promises of being glorified in the kingdom of Ουρανός.
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  3565. The FedNow fearporn is overblown. Brazil has had a system like this for many years already. It has nothing to do with a CBDC. Rather, it is a fast, 24/7, net settlement system for transacting between financial institutions. For FedNow to work, financial institutions have to exist. If anything, the additional speed will increase the risk of bank run and cause reserve ratios to increase in banks, pushing the riskier credit creation into the shadow banking system which will also use FedNow but with more gatekeeping. The people in charge would likely prefer if people used more cash because that would decrease the risk of bank runs.
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  3566. 4 months ago: "I've tried Zig, and I don't like it. Carbon will be better." Now: "I like Zig. Compile time is amazing. Carbon will be a flop."
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  3567. Funny saying that it was Biden's brilliant atrategic thinking to withdraw from Afghanistan when Trump was the one who negotiated the withdrawal in the first place -- the only thing Biden did was screw it up.
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  3568. America is slowly moving toward this model with the universal surveillance programs at the NSA -- they are not honest enough to admit that they failed to stop 9/11, so now they are expanding like a tumor to try to make up lost ground and justify their existence. Privacy is a human right, but the feds have no interest in preserving human rights.
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  3569. "Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." So either the right peaceably to assemble is conditioned upon petitioning the government for a redress of grievances, or the petitioning is a separate right.
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  3570. Wage growth needs to be normalized for inflation. In real terms, wages declined for the first half of Biden's presidency due to record CPI. In reality, workers were better off during Trump's administration up until the pandemic.
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  3571. Should fork Java and call it TrashLang. It's a double entendre: it is garbage collected, and it's literally just a copy of Java.
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  3572. PJW has had "exclusive livestreams coming soon, promise" in his ending ad for over a year at this point.
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  3573. I have an idea for a satire: a world in which every product has the tiniest embedded SOC possible that still requires firmware, e.g. a disconnectded EPROM; each item, whether a handbag or a pack of socks or something else, comes with a Terms of Service agreement that says "if you touch this item, you agree to these terms" and then requires monthly blood donations for the benefit of the corporation. In this world, there are starving nudists and people who justify the "sacrifices" they make for their products with the way Big Corp brings the "rain" through the branded sky dome sprinklers.
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  3574. The subprime collapse led to the global financial crisis because the assets were mingled with the collateral necessary for international money markets and fiduciary functioning, and the resultant hybrid assets were used as collateral; when the subprime loans went bad, it dragged down the entire swathe of assets they were mingled with and wiped out most collateral in the system, so credit froze. The losses to American banks due to the subprime loans themselves was small compared to the losses caused by the collateral implosion. With China, the bad real estate assets are owned by investors in China. The ongoing collapse in Chinese real estate (which perhaps should be renamed "real fake-estate") is unlikely to contaminate global money markets and fiduciary functioning because nobody outside of China was dumb enough to buy into their bubble. However, a deflationary impulse is expected because banks and international investors do have some exposure to bonds issued by the giant developer companies that are up shit creek sans paddle (30+ out of the 50 largest are in default right now from what I've heard). Primary effect will be a regional depression in Asia and recession elsewhere; secondary effect will be rising consumer prices as Chinese exporters fail to deliver to markets that import a lot of Chinese goods. If JPow misinterprets the secondary effect, he'll contribute significantly to the primary one with more bad policy. (It's almost like having a central politburo to declare interest rates is a bad idea.)
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  3575. If I was going to fork Fire Fox, I would name it "Water Catdog"
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  3576. The Greenies in Australia implemented some horrible fire management policies, and thus the only people whose houses didn't burn down were fined tens of thousands for taking necessary preventative measures. Typical leftist central planning failures.
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  3577. I've used Anker in the past. It worked. Idk what else you really want out of a piece of technology other than it working tbh.
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  3578. SVB did not have a Chief Risk Officer from February 2022 until January 2023. They did not hedge their duration risk with interest rate swaps as would be prudent.
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  3579. The AI considerably increased the cleavage for the platinum blond with tattoos and changed her smile. Pretty sure that counts as sexualizing her when her original photo was not overtly sexual.
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  3580. I like the intro song, but it is a bit long for an intro.
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  3581. DeSantis did a pretty good job addressing serious environmental concerns. When he was first elected, he spent several months touring the state and getting all the information from every place experiencing environmental issues, then he reported to the state legislature and got a bill passed that addressed those issues, mostly through water quality restoration projects, without breaking the bank. That is a big part of why we love him. Before DeSantis, I and many others were getting sick every summer from algae blooms; after DeSantis, we could live our lives normally again. He has adopted the Trumpian style of saying a lot of things, and a lot of them are pretty funny, but ultimately the controversies people have tried to create to stir up opposition were all nonsense.
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  3582. Personally, I think that the next asteroid impact can't come soon enough.
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  3583. Mark, what is your take on the issues around immigration in Canada and some European countries? For example, in Canada, they have experienced extreme housing price inflation and other economic disruptions so great that their per capita GDP has declined in nominal terms; Canada has imported mostly skilled workers, driving down wages for skilled Canadians while the cost of living has been skyrocketing. In Germany and the UK, they have been less selective with their immigration policies, and the result has been significant increases in poverty and accompanying crime (and there is an argument for cultural differences driving some types of crimes and various scandals about those crimes being covered up). How temporary or persistent will these issues be? What benefits can these countries expect in the medium and long terms for the pain that ordinary citizens are experiencing right now? My initial thought is that the governments of these countries are trying to arrest demographic decline to avoid becoming Japanified, but I don't know how effective they will be considering the ubiquity of failed integration. On the one hand, the US has experienced more than our fair share of issues with integrating immigrants through a few centuries, and we have come through mostly okay as a whole, but on the other hand, this was not without internment camps, exclusion acts, ethnically motivated violence, and the like. And on top of that, the European countries with mass and unselective immigration are known to be sclerotic and not technologically very innovative, so increasing their populations might not have the desired effect. It's a complex issue that is evoking a lot of simplistic proposals by disaffected citizens.
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  3584. This slapdash identification system is maximally stupid. Estonia has a much saner and safer system that we should emulate.
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  3585.  @mikestephens5200  Trump talked out both sides of his mouth and contradicted himself constantly. He seemed like he didn't even understand the concept of objective reality at times. It is a little bit different when an administration tries to convince everyone that something we've all known for generations simply isn't so. As I recall, Trump claimed to have popularized the use of the word "fake", but he didn't pay off the media propagandists to try to convince everyone that the definition of "fake" never existed to begin with.
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  3586. Rosenbaum shouldn't be called a "victim" -- he should be called a "convicted child molester", because the first term is currently being adjudicated while the second term has already been adjudicated.
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  3587. The only precaution we need to take to stop the spread of monkeypox is literally to stop having anal sex. That's it. Lockdowns to stop a new STD affecting predominantly ass-fuckers would be beyond retarded.
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  3588. We all return to Baphomet eventually anyway.
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  3589. My wild speculation: he was upset about Trump's unconstitutional bump stock ban that was finally overturned a few weeks ago. Anyone remember when the Trumby was discussing red flag laws and suggested "take the guns first, due process later"?
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  3590. Don't forget Bitcoin with your hard money assets. It's the hardest money ever created and the fastest horse in the anti-fiat race. The banksters might try some scheme with gold, but Bitcoin is free from their machinations.
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  3591. Picard joined the Borg and then left. It can't be all bad.
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  3592.  @MarshallTheArtist  he missed his crew, it maybe they didn't have his favorite kind of tea, or any of an infinite number of other reasons for which humans express preferences.
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  3593. Just change the wheels while the vehicle is moving. What could go wrong?
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  3594. @glandhound  you must not have ever heard of apocalyptic Judaism, the religion of Jesus and his disciples. The Christian concept of Satan is largely borrowed from apocalyptic Judaism. Anyway, my original comment is satire.
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  3595. @fairybeliever4479  my original comment is satire. While I appreciate the Promethean myth of righteous rebellion against tyranny, my fundamental perspective more closely aligns with ancient myths about the world emerging from a formless chaos, and since it seems that spacetime emerges from quantum entanglement, there is a sense in which the ancient Greek concept of the world being created as an act of erotic love is relevant. I have had direct experiences with a number of numinous entities of several kinds, and my preference right now is to venerate a particular deity in private and be left alone by the egregores of religions/governments/ideologies and random astral pests that hang around their periphery.
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  3596.  @fairybeliever4479  One of the difficulties with numinous experiences is that numinous effects tend to conform to the expectations of the perceiver. This is related to (if not identical with) what the remote viewing researchers call the "analytical overlay". For example, if you grew up in a cultural context dominated by Abrahamic religions, you will be predisposed to experience numinous phenomena that align with the philosophical, metaphysical, and ontological ideas prominent in that culture; if you consciously rejected Abrahamic religion and found Hindu myth and scriptures fascinating or relatable, or if you grew up in a Hindu context and did not consciously reject it, you will be predisposed to have numinous experiences that conform to Hindu ideas. (In general, religions will discredit any numinous experience that does not align with the official narrative and reinforce as legitimate any numinous experience that conforms to the religious dogmas and themes. Religious control over spiritual experience is primarily a boundary maintenance mechanism for social cohesion.) I tend to dissect my experiences after the fact to recognize the influences that colored my perceptions. For example, when I was reading about and experimenting with astral projection/out-of-body experiences, after I had read about a concept called the "guardian of the threshold", I had a very potent experience of this phenomenon -- I have had OBEs since I was 5 years old and had already had several controlled OBEs through meditative practices by this point, but this was the first (and only) time I experienced this threshold guardian phenomenon. It is impossible for information to be meaningfully conveyed without some pre-existing frame of reference, and numinous experience takes this principle to an exaggerated degree. The only pieces of advice I would give anyone on any spiritual path are the following: first, nothing is perpetually beyond scrutiny -- there is a time to acquiescence to riddles, but there is likewise a time for a stubborn resolve to extract answers; and second, stay away from egregores unless you know what you are getting yourself into.
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  3597.  @fairybeliever4479  I wrote a long, nuanced response yesterday, but ThemTube censored it. The TLDWTRWI (too long don't want to rewrite it) is that existing cultural context colors perception, and this is taken to an extreme with numinous experience.
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  3598. That guy at 3:08 kinda looks like Sam Hyde. Had to go back and pause it lol
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  3599. Looks like the GME moonshot will soon come. DFV is still in, so I'm still in. Appears to be a case of naked shorting musical chairs -- all the WSB retards have to do is wait for the music to stop in a week or two, and the whole stock counterfeiting scheme will explode.
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  3600. There was a slave state in the Union during and after the Civil War. Those slaves were not freed by Lincoln -- they remained enslaved until the 14th amendment was ratified iirc.
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  3601. "If you got nothing to be afraid of, why are you hiding, bro?"
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  3602. The idea that the planet would just stop existing is hyperbolic in the extreme. It's not like the planet hasn't survived much higher CO2 concentrations in the past.
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  3603. The goal is to hurt as many normies and peons as possible. The best way to do that is to first inflate away their savings to the point where they go into debt to meet basic necessities, then allow deflation to crash the system, then lock up whatever savings remain with some kind of excuse for a bank holiday, then inflate away what the peons can't access during the bank holiday. I think the result of such a scheme would be the rise of Bitcoin as the world reserve currency/asset and total demonetization of the political class, so they will put it off for as long as possible.
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  3604. One of the things about Bitcoin that was skipped over is that final settlement is thermodynamically guaranteed after 6 confirmations, or about one hour. Compare this to any form of bank/fiat payment, where final settlement technically never occurs (due to the settlement medium taking the form of liabilities) and the substitute for final settlement takes typically several days to weeks before it becomes irreversible.
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  3605.  @PointsofData  I recommend reading the Bitcoin whitepaper, specifically section 11. Calculations. With fiat/banking rails, "settlement" and payment clearing run the risk of human whim; with Bitcoin, the probabilities can be calculated for a variety of circumstances because it is just math being done by tens of thousands of computers.
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  3606. 2:25 “And all the [Watchers] took unto themselves wives, and each chose for himself one, and they began to go in unto them and to defile themselves with them [...] And they became pregnant, and they bare great giants, whose height was three thousand ells: Who consumed all the acquisitions of men. And when men could no longer sustain them, the giants turned against them and devoured mankind. And they began to sin against birds, and beasts, and reptiles, and fish, and to devour one another's flesh, and drink the blood. Then the earth laid accusation against the lawless ones. [...] And as men perished, they cried, and their cry went up to heaven. [...] And to Gabriel said the Lord: "Proceed against the bastards and the reprobates, and against the children of fornication: and destroy the children of the Watchers from among men: send them one against the other that they may destroy each other in battle: for length of days they will not have. And no request that they make of you will be granted unto their fathers on their behalf; for they hope to live an eternal life, and that each one of them will live 500 years." And the Lord said unto Michael: "Go, bind Semjaza and his associates who have united themselves with women so as to have defiled themselves with them in all uncleanness. And when their sons have slain one another, and they have seen the destruction of their beloved ones, bind them fast for seventy generations in the valleys of the earth, until the day of their judgment..."” -- 1 Enoch, chapters 7, 8, and 10
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  3607.  @ObviousRises  there is substantial evidence of experience beyond simple biological life. Meditate long enough and you'll encounter some of it. Determinism is empirically false; chaos rules supreme. Causality is just a statistical likelihood providing the illusion of determinism. The purpose of a simulation is that you don't know outcome ahead of time and want to see how a set of pseudo-deterministic rules interacts with the chaos to arrive at statistically calculated odds.
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  3608. The "amin" in "dopamine" is the same as that in "amino acid".
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  3609. The concealed weapon license does not negate the need for a NICS check, but rather it negates the need for any waiting period.
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  3610. To be honest, I found the neovim experience to be a bit too buggy and annoying, so I just went back to using vim.
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  3611. I think that a solid law enforcement response tactic would be to use the posse comitatus power to blanket deputize all citizens and create a phone app to distribute information about the TDA to everyone, authorizing the entire citizenry of each affected county to take part in the fight on a voluntary basis. Add in a few range day training sessions for volunteers organized by the sheriff in coordination with other law enforcement agencies to make sure everyone is on the same page. There are plenty of people with the equipment, courage, and sufficient firearms handling skill in this country to get it done.
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  3612.  @Baggender  I try to not come too early. I imagine he has a similar mindset. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
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  3613. I used to code in Notepad++, then switched to Sublime, then switched to Atom, and then switched to VS Code because VS Code was more performant than Atom at the time. With time, it has become bloated as well.
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  3614. Sports might not be very fair, but this video definitely was. Very balanced assessment.
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  3615. Nothing wrong with rocking a pistol brace. How else are you supposed to get them to fall asleep?
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  3616. The Bitcoin network is still running without the ability of any power structures of politics or capital to affect it. Nobody can alter its issuance schedule. ETFs are just another way for people to pile in during the next bubble.
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  3617. Operation Stargate is actually named after a now declassified program to study psychic phenomena in the late 70s, the "Stargate Project". Results were mixed.
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  3618. You can't just "have a real, legal proceeding" if there is no "real, legal investigation" or legitimate court case that goes to discovery. There likely is not enough time to somehow get the gears of government to grind fast enough to get the evidence out there through "real, legal proceedings".
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  3619. ROC on, Taiwan \m/ (٥⁠↼⁠_⁠↼⁠)
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  3620. Did they try to adjust the value of the building by using the Consumer Price Index, which does not include real estate?
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  3621. Fwiw, the first thing women did after getting the right to vote was cause the gang wars of the roaring 1920s via the alcohol prohibition, resulting in hundreds of deaths and dozens of retarded laws that had no sunset clause.
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  3622. I set up a Linux Mint laptop for my mom, and she has had no problems with it (except this one time that I had to spend a few minutes to install updates).
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  3623. I think that a path of starting as a fragmented confederation, then consolidating smaller autonomous zones into larger ones, then forming a federation would give the Syrians enough time to gain stability in each community and figure out what exactly they want out of their government and how it should be structured. It seems that this path has historically led to long-term stability. The groups within a Syrian confederation would also get experience working together to fend off the worst extremists threatening their peace without immediately organizing their armed forces under a command structure that might not work well.
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  3624. Hilarious to go from a Ground News sponsorship spot to immediately demonstrating what living in a delusional leftwing bubble does to one.
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  3625. "Army grade automatic weapons"? Has there been a single school shooting with an automatic firearm? To my knowledge, shooters have used semiautomatic firearms, but not automatic ones.
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  3626. A few of my friends run a 501(c)(3) that organizes a yearly tech conference and hardware soldering workshops at tech events. Every year, they design new badges and SAOs based upon available hardware supply chains, and they check all the PCB manufacturing and electronic assembly options. They told me that American PCB manufacturers only produce medical/aerospace grade boards at 20-100x the price of appropriate quality PCBs from Chinese manufacturers. The grade of device required for these low-end products meant primarily for teaching the basics of electronic assembly/repair in a fun way is not fungible with aerospace grade. Thus, it is entirely accurate to say that these currently cannot be manufactured in America. If Trump and DC collectively wanted to actually reshore manufacturing, the tariffa would have been announced with a scheduled rollout and tax incentives for investment into American manufacturing, e.g. a 10% tax on capital gains, dividends, and intrrest income from investing in this sector.
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  3627. I don't get who he was hinting at toward the end of the video. Need more letters.
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  3628. He trips over himself so much to shit talk Bitcoin, which has been proving him wrong for ten years.
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  3629. It's insanely frustrating how almost all of society is founded upon lies and propaganda. The best hope of humanity is a collapse that leads to the oligarchs getting the guillotine. "Let them eat QE."
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  3630. Saying that the documentary maker should have "tried to stop it" is like saying a war reporter should try to end the war. It's not proper. If you want truth, which is of higher value than preventing a poor decision of a single person, then the roles of documentarian and reporter must be pursued with integrity. Interfering with the subject matter of observation is poison.
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  3631. There is an overview section on fetishes in the first chapter of Chaos & Sorcery by Nick Hall.
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  3632. This was a very fun debate.
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  3633. When the currency becomes unstable, anything can experience a valuation bubble. Lumber is a good example of this: the monetary and governmental degradation of the economy contributed to an artificial increase in demand just as prior mill curtailments began to shrink supply. Lumber is now freefalling, but some inflationary damage has been done in Canada where stumpage fees were recently calculated at the bubble valuations; now there are curtailments all over again as lumber yards try to offload their expensive inventory at a slight loss. If the pattern in lumber becomes common across industries, we'll see smaller crack-up booms and busts, and the Fed will continue to say "this is transitory", which is true in the same sense that life is transitory.
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  3634. Just started working on a ranch clearing invasive plants to make room for natives, so I'll sit this one out.
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  3635. We could substantially improve our government by simply switching our electoral method from plurality voting (aka first-past-the-post), which is arguably the worst or second worst possible voting method, with score voting or STAR voting. STAR is particularly well suited for electing a single consensus candidate, but it can be adapted to elect any number of candidates (ask if you want me to elaborate on this). A simple representative electoral system would be cumulative voting.
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  3636.  @DADO-zc6dm  Sort of. Saddam Hussein's regime was toppled quickly, so I think that counts as a successful invasion. Trump defeated ISIL, so that kind of counts.
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  3637. They are literally trying to bring about the Mark of the Beast. Throw your silver in the streets at the end-of-the-world block party.
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  3638. "Brought to you ad free by these interruptions shilling my corporate sponsor." Wtf, dude. Just put it at the beginning and at the end. Interrupting the flow of the video severely degrades the quality, and saying "ad free" and then spouting an ad is just a lie.
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  3639. The genius and the part of the mind that says "cogito ergo sum" are not the same. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say Mr. Henderson has genius rather than is genius.
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  3640. DeSantis has a very broad base of support here in the Sunshine State. Even Biden voters are pretty happy with him and his policies because he's such a breath of fresh air compared to previous governors.
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  3641. Fwiw there is always a squeeze on silicon products during the cyclical crypto boom, which occurs every four years as a result of the Bitcoin halving. Just plan accordingly. When the winds change, adjust your sails.
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  3642. The most obnoxious thing about civil asset forfeiture is that the fucking federal government has set up a program to allow local cops to just ignore any local/state laws forbidding or restricting forfeiture. Fortunately for Florida, we can concealed carry our alligators, so the cops in the red counties are leashed pretty well.
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  3643. Fun fact: x86 machine code is actually just byte code interpreted by CPU microcode.
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  3644. In the earliest days of the US, the sheriffs were unarmed, and they dealt with violent threats by gathering up the posse commitatus from the militia, i.e. ordinary, armed citizens would volunteer to be the gun toting arm of law enforcement.
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  3645. I tried several times to play D&D with ChatGPT. It sucked because it would end every response with some tripe avout "he knew the road ahead would be difficult, but his resolution was stern" or something that didn't make sense in the middle of a dialogue sequence.
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  3646. Kayleigh McEnany is brilliant.
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  3647. I distinctly remember buying an ETF that shorted emerging market assets the last time the Fed tightened and the lira crashed. That was a pretty profitable trade.
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  3648. I was the 1000th like.
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  3649. I literally wrote a VM to implement the Eltoo system with anonymous miltihop locks and adapter signatures because the papers for each looked cool. I think the advice to implement stuff is directed elsewhere.
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  3650. Nergal will triumph over Mammon in the end. You can't print your way out of an apocalypse.
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  3651. "What do you want to do tonight, Brain?" "Same thing we do every night, Pinky: try to take over the universe."
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  3652. Another wonderful idea from the boomers. I posit that the boomers should be renamed "the entitled generation".
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  3653. The same people who cite "anonymous sources familiar with the matter" also write headlines like "Trump Claims Without Evidence" or "The President is Peddling Unsubstantiated Hope". Disgusting. May Leviathan devour those wretched propagandists.
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  3654. This is retarded. Thor help us all.
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  3655. Collaborate? Pfft, I cultivate synergy. Far more advanced.
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  3656. I would love to hear Sam Harris discuss his ideas with Peter J. Carroll.
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  3657. I definitely saw videos of the Hamas attack in which Russians were directing assault squads -- they were giving orders in Russian. Some automatically conclude that Russia helped Hamas carry out the attack to divert US attention away from Ukraine, but I think that the Russians involved were likely soldiers of fortune.
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  3658. We can compete with China if we also simply use slave labor. Easy solution.
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  3659. If I make a language that returns from calls to "sleep" 10% early, I can make a pretty impressive benchmark claiming that the overhead for preemptive multitasking has 10% less overhead.
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  3660. Cascading failures. There doesn't have to be intention behind a kali yuga.
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  3661. Try making some lemon ginger tea sweetened with honey.
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  3662. We believe in the rights and equal cultural value of all living things, so we put raccoons in our chicken coop, poison ivy in our garden, and Burmese pythons in our hospital nursery. Perfectly balanced as all things should be. If you don't agree, you're a species-ist.
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  3663. Fed bureaucrats have indicated that they would rather sit back and let the free market take care of the issuance of cryptodollars. My guess is that the cryptobanks issuing cryptodollars will become custodial partners for the Fed Now system for the centrally-backed issuance of cryptodollars. Fed bureaucrats are apparently unconcerned with implementing the more tyrannical aspects of digital currencies the way China has and are hoping for a more private crypto system. Think about it: if you were a central banker, would you want everything you do to be public and transparent?
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  3664. Nobody can own your soul except a banker, and only when you post it as collateral for your mortgage. No amount of material possessions will ever provide one with lasting happiness -- pleasure dissipates as soon as it arises. The only things that accrue are virtue and interest on your debt.
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  3665. I highly recommend the book The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Centralized Banking by Saifedean Ammous. The first several chapters are purely about economics, particularly the failures of Keynesian economics and the empirical/historical evidence for Austrian economics. The author then applies an empirical understanding of Austrian economics to the matter of a theoretical Bitcoin standard. One interesting thing to note is that silver was demonetized over time by gold because gold has superior monetary characteristics -- the nations that held onto the silver standard the longest (India and China's century of humiliation) lost heavily in global trade as a result of their money naturally devaluing against gold. I still like silver, but it is unempirical to describe it as still being a great monetary asset rather than a mostly industrial commodity. And since Bitcoin has even better monetary characteristics than gold (e.g. no industrial use for bitcoin whereas about a fifth of global gold production supplies non-monetary demand; greater portability, scarcity, and divisibility; lower cost and time to settle large values; etc), it will likely eventually demonetize gold the way gold demonetized silver: that isn't to say that gold will lose all value, but rather that its monetary premium will be absorbed by Bitcoin, allowing for relatively lower gold jewelry prices and greater industrial utilization of gold. Once the Bitcoin standard has been globally adopted, gold will be to bitcoin as silver is to gold. If anyone has any legitimate arguments for why Bitcoin's superior monetary characteristics will not conquer gold or why the demonstrable history of gold's superior monetary characteristics conquering silver are no longer valid, I'm all ears and eyes.
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  3666. When there's nothing to do, do nothing. It can be difficult to accept that some things are, but some things just are. If you're worried about people who have high risk for covid, you may as well direct your displeasure at God rather than the government: either way, it is to no avail. Here in America, our government bureaucrats have been explicitly lying to us the whole time: first they said "don't wear a mask" because they wanted them all for themselves; then they said "wash your hands a lot" even though it is primarily spread from airborne droplets; then they said "we didn't fund any gain-of-function research" when they clearly did. I'd rather have had a government that we could trust to be honestly unknowing rather than one that is maliciously deceptive.
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  3667. "Romania", as requested
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  3668. The tweet has already been redacted. Here's an archived version: https://archive.ph/uu7w7 Edit: Twitter just glitched when I opened the link. Still worthwhile to have the archive.
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  3669.  @henkkoonstra4014  yes, but isn't that inherently worthwhile?
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  3670. Know what would make a lot more sense but nobody actually does? A card where each purchase ≥$100 gets its own note which splits the amount into equal monthly payments (with a modest interest rate) over a 6-12 month period, and everything smaller gets bundled up at the end of the month into a note.
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  3671. The food supply chain is being disrupted due to the grand solar minimum much more than by anything else. Springs get colder and wetter; crops can't be panted on time, leading to reduced yields; the growing season is shorter with worse weather, leading to crop failures. Governments around the world are preparing for the famines. Start your gardens as soon as you can, else you'll be at the mercy of a nationalized food production industry.
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  3672.  @mallukittens177  I started as a kid writing batch/command scripts in Windows XP; within a few years, I had learned c/old c++ on Linux, a Windows scripting language based on Basic called AutoIt, and bash scripting. In highschool, I learned JavaScript, ActionScript+Flash, HTML+CSS, and PHP. From the start, my interests were largely in networked/telecom programs. One early project was using the built-in CLI network tools on Windows to make a simple chat program. One of my first C programs was a UDP chat program on Linux. I basically try to make chat apps in every language I learn using whichever methods/strategies i think are worth exploring, e.g. I explored multicast UDP a few months ago.
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  3673. What is interesting about this CBDC is that it will destroy their economy as quickly as the destruction of small banking institutions in America has caused its economic doom. The Fed has no interest in killing off the banks as everyone knows what happened with the Soviet Union's single bank.
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  3674. Idk about anyone else, but I would love to have a compact 16" barrel carbine in something like .223 with a non-detachable box magazine and an enbloc clip system. I think that such a system would be quite handy and fun.
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  3675. Did you really say you kinda like Cory Fartacus Booker as a presidential candidate? Lol
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  3676. There were Ukrainian military/militia fighters on the roof of the building. And theoretically, it should just melt down into the ground rather than explode into the atmosphere, according to things I've heard about that particular plant.
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  3677. I just noticed that there is only a single video on there from 3 days ago now. Wtf happened?
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  3678. This is what characters from the Witcher call a "conjunction".
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  3679. His flagship funds have been losing money for a decade, so he's clearly missing something.
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  3680. Bureaucrats were the cause of the French Revolution and all that chaos and bloodshed. They create nothing of value and consume all that the actual workers produce.
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  3681.  @ultimaxkom8728  * pupils widen as he types 'use strict' * ahhh, that's the stuff
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  3682.  @theseangle  Some amount of that "quitting" is retirement or untimely death.
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  3683. Biden and Fauci are either anti-science or pro-death, considering how much damage and destruction they want to do to the world.
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  3684. The 6100 is Bulldozer, whereas the 8350 is Piledriver. My guess is that a 6300, which is Piledriver, would work just as well as an 8350 (given the same clock speed). According to what I've read, you don't get much extra performance scaling after 6 cores on BF3. Are you sure that your overclock is stable? It could be bottlenecked due to insufficient voltage or something. And what speed is your ram? I think something else is messing it up. For reference: ?v=PZTfVy4dEPo
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  3685. January 6th was worse than the genocide of the Rohinga according to the demented logic of the leftists: Parler was banned over a lie that it was used to organize; Facebook has had no consequences for organizing the genocide of the Rohinga.
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  3686. Trump's side does not have to lie to make the news media seems untrustworthy -- they prove they are untrustworthy themselves. The reason that moderates would support Trump is simply that they despise his enemies more because that is how plurality voting distorts democratic processes. A politician lying is nothing new, but news media organizations blatantly and so obviously lying about a politician is much more significant because they are supposed to be capable of accurately reporting facts. (Some examples are the lie that Trump called immigrants "animals" when in fact he was talking only about MS13 gang members; the lie that Trump said the white nationalists at the Unite the Right rally were "very fine people" when in fact he said they "should be condemned totally"; and the lie that Trump is a "Putin puppet" when in fact his administration killed hundreds of Russians in Syria.) If we had a sensible voting system, e.g. combined approval voting, both Harris and Trump would lose to a good candidate.
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  3687. Government shutdowns typically involve not paying soldiers who have to keep working. But anyway, this whole thing is just another partisan clownshow: the CR is just a continuation of the Nancy Pelosi budget, which the Republicans decried as terrible at the time; now the Democrats are decrying the continuation of their own budget as the worst evil. It's all so stupid. We know they are bullshitting; they know we know they are bulshiiting; we know that they know that we know that they are bullshitting; and yet they continue to bullshit.
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  3688. Trade offer: 1 grunk for 1 heart emoji. Do you accept?
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  3689. Tommy Robinson is a dissident who has been jailed for his political activity. The government of the UK is actively oppressing him. A lot of the hatred toward him is likely because he is a boisterous, working-class Irishman who won't fall in line with the mainstream narrative. The Irish have a long history of oppression at the hands of the English, and this anti-Irish sentiment remains a facet of British politics.
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  3690. Why send humans to build stuff on the moon rather than robots?
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  3691. The VA was poorly mismanaged by the previous guy, whose career ended in a financial scandal after years of making veterans wait in line long enough to just die. I'm willing to give the military doctor guy a chance -- my guess is that he is at least motivated and probably actually gives a fuck about his military brethren.
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  3692. Lunacy. Who in their right mind would celebrate an act of sabotage and spiteful wasting of taxpayer resources? Is this motivated by a hatred of our country, or have you so lost your soul to political polarization that you cannot see the harm caused by allowing unbridled human trafficking across the border?
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  3693. "Swing really hard" sounds more like a command than a description.
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  3694. Cool, though I wonder about the additional memory complexity.
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  3695. The federal government has grown too large. Trump actually made it worse, but the fact remains that it is too large and continually growing like a tumor. If you want to see what unrestricted government growth looks like, Argentina is a good example. Government has a monopoly on violence, and it is using that monopoly to enforce a corporate oligarchy through revolving door bureaucracy. It ought to be trimmed down, but Congress has to fix it, and they are hopelessly inept and corrupt.
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  3696. Where Ted went wrong is that he could not see the Overman as did Nietzsche. Man is on a tight rope stretched across a chasm. The solution is to continue forward over the abyss toward transcendent values, not to sheepishly inch backward.
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  3697. The giants consume our children. That is what they do. The judgement upon the Watchers was that they had to watch as their sons killed each other in battle, and that is the cataclysm of the flood story. That will probably be the cataclysm of our time as well. The flood waters were the blood of giants.
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  3698. Is it just me, or has Jack already posted this interview previously? Either severe deja vu or a reupload.
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  3699. I don't know what is dumber: the president and VP reacting to Zelensky's concern about the longevity of a ceasefire like angry drunks at a bar, or the NPCs reacting to Trump and Vance like braindead cult members.
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  3700. It is pretty obvious why the Baltic states are arming up: they have a large, aggressive neighbor run by a lunatic mobster who seeks to establish the Russian Third Empire.
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  3701. Looks like the super wealthy are going to either have to give preemptively or they'll be taken for all they're worth by the restless masses soon. It's up to them how violently they want the reset to go down.
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  3702. I can see how someone who has never used a programming language might invent COBOL.
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  3703. There's absolutely no chance that DWAC is actually worth 6 times its book value since it is just a cash fund and there is no underlying business. It's all hype/meme magic. Caveat emptor.
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  3704. Remember when the Democrats were saying that Trump was undermining faith in our election system and then couldn't accept the results? Lol.
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  3705. Meme ammunition: the D stands for Disaster.
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  3706. Primorsko?
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  3707. Lex and Mark are the most advanced conversational robots I've ever seen.
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  3708. Biden's fascistic regulatory binge has also led to lower rig counts due to rational fears that the demented fool will pull their permits and turn their investments into instant losses.
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  3709. Something something deflation. Something something economy.
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  3710. Happy twodaysago, Tim.
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  3711. As crazy as it might seem, I think that many central bankers legitimately believe that they have to intervene to save humanity -- ivory tower institutions tend to recruit those who are inclined to drink the Kool-Aid -- and some might can be deprogrammed from the fiat cult. I wonder how many of them could be convinced to be replaced with an autonomous, decentralized technology stack that efficiently and scalably provides all the monetary services that the central bankers think they are providing, e.g. would the Fed willingly cede any monetary authority to a decentralized system that demonstrably meets all of its current and historical mandates (elastic currency, price stability, and maximum employment)?
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  3712. It is not the inversion of the yield curve that portents recession. It is the deinversion of the yield curve that indicates an imminent recession, which occurred a few weeks before the Fed dropped their benchmark rates.
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  3713. It would be kind of hilarious if Biden accidentally signs abortion restrictions into law.
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  3714. Both sides are terrorists. There are only villains and victims in the Middle East.
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  3715. You can maintain privacy by creating an immutable record of cryptographic attestations of data instead of the data itself, at the same time reducing blockchain bloat. The only reason to use a blockchain is when you need an immutable public record of data, and the vast majority of the time this is overkill. I don't need to know that some dude in India taught an AI the recipe for a ham sandwich three years ago, but a shallow understanding of decentralized technology will lead invariably to proposals that would make such a scenario inevitable. If instead you store a 32-byte commitment to the data (e.g. sha256 or sha3_256), nobody in the future will know what the original data was, but anyone with that data could easily verify that it was used at a particular point in time. This is how a new election integrity system is being built in Ecuador iirc.
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  3716. Part of the issue is the fractional reserve lending scheme. It is literally a Ponzi scheme that we agree to call "monetary policy". Banks conduct fraud and call it business -- lending money you don't have doesn't make sense. Additionally, through their fraudulent practices, the banks and their cadres exacerbate socioeconomic stratification through the Cantillion effect. In my opinion, if the system enables a handful of greedy bad actors to cause systemic collapse and impoverish the nation for their own benefit, then even if it can be managed responsibly, that system is an existential risk to the economy and nation. And even when the money masters keep things somewhat balanced, they are still siphoning off the wealth of the nation for their own benefit without providing anything of value in return -- they are like economic heroine dealers, where their only product creates dependence. In my opinion, the issuers of currency ought to be the People, not the banks. As long as everyone is playing by the same rules, it'll work out just fine. So, set up a transparent and accountable system with democratic governance, ban fractional reserve lending, and issue your own currency; the resulting monetary system should be stable and beneficial for the many rather than the few. This is my proposal for how to go about doing exactly that: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ArD8wegZrPFakpRW8Cq9pnVWx6498WbyeNjT0SXYNcA/edit?usp=drivesdk
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  3717. Someone sounds a bit salty. Also sounds like someone was dead wrong about this whole situation.
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  3718.  @captainmaim  I'm not your brother, buddy
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  3719. Zelensky's outfit in the Oval Office is on par with Elon's, but nobody criticizes Elon for wearing T-shirts and such.
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  3720. Tim really shouldn't be advertising the fact he is unarmed, especially so soon after that dude showed up at his front door.
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  3721. This series is great. Is there a plan to cover asynchronous runtimes in the future?
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  3722. I'll get back to you with some real world benchmarks after I get it built this weekend. My guess is that you will be shocked/surprised/horrified at the happiness my reasonable cost, first-ever custom pc will bring me :p
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  3723. The biggest mistake Tim Heidecker ever made was blackballing Sam Hyde.
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  3724. I've been trying to explain and debunk all the conspiracy theories around FedNow for a year. So many people who should know better, e.g. Heresy Financial and George Gammon, have been spouting lies and ignorant nonsense. FedNow is basically a cheaper FedWire. The Fed does not have the infrastructure to handle hundreds of millions of accounts -- it currently handles accounts for ~10k institutions. It's hierarchical by design and cannot cope with a flattened system.
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  3725. I just came across an article about using vim as the best word processor. It was funny that it had as many spelling errors as it did -- that is one thing I have struggled with in using vim as a word processor as well.
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  3726. I had o3-mini write and rewrite some API client in Typescript that ended up being the most disgusting and abominable splattering of type parameters and annotations, but it does exactly what I need it to do. There is a 0% chance I would write such an extensible and flexible API wrapper library in Typescript if I didn't have the ability to proompt an AI to write it for me. I reserve my USDA organic, free-range, hand-crafted code for languages I don't actively despise.
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  3727. An executive order is not a law.
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  3728. Or maybe the whole thing was scheduled, so she knew they'd let the rioters in for a good floor show and excuse for an escalation of police-state tyranny. Can't really think of any alternative explanation besides that or she's a manipulative psychopath.
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  3729. Lower interest rates will be only for the government. Everyone else will be starved of credit.
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  3730. A bit is not the same as a byte. A byte is 8 bits.
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  3731. The federal government, and the governments of several states, need to be dissolved and reborn to absolve itself of its many past sins. There is no absolution without restitution, and the only suitable restitution that a genocidal government can pay is its own corpse. Hopefully this will be accomplished by the government willfully placing its own corpse on an altar dedicated to itself, a sacrifice to its own hubris. America will continue renewed once the era of the evil empire ends.
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  3732. But if they bring back the lockdown policies just before the elections, how will they blame Trump for it? It will be obviously the fault of the regime. Are they going to make Biden their fall guy?
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  3733.  @delos2279  the convention of states legislation has been passed by 19 states and is in the process of being passed by another 11. If those 11 complete the process, that will be 30. According to Article V, it takes 34 states to call the convention. I wouldn't call that "going nowhere". There is growing discontent with the corruption in DC, and the Constitution provides a way for the states to use their sovereignty to fix it because this is a republic, not a democracy.
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  3734. @Trumpulator I guarantee I've forgotten more about social choice theory and election science than you'll ever know. We're just disagreeing on the definition of a word. Some would not classify a country in which a large plurality of the population cannot vote as a "democracy". The fact remains that the historical structure of America is a "republican form of government", as explicitly defined in Article IV, section 4. The expansion of suffrage has been a movement towards democracy, but it is arguable whether or not we have actually achieved it, and I would argue that America is more structurally more of an oligarchy than a democracy.
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  3735. The radius of a circle goes into its circumference 6 times and a bit. The seventh part of a circumference is a transcendental, irrational remainder: 2π-6.
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  3736.  @LimeyLassen  idk, but I am pretty sure that all ancient cultures that tried to divide the circumference by the radius would come up with 6 + a small remainder 7th part.
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  3737. Is that the Outside? It takes a brave soul to traverse the Outside -- there isn't even a way to shut it down if something goes wrong, and the only way to restart is to return to your original entrance portal and hope nothing follows or was attached to your metadata.
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  3738. My favorite comment rebutting him said simply "you forgot to call them hitler." JBP can go a bit looney at times.
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  3739. The federal government is insolvent. All this grandstanding and posturing is a charade to distract from the fact that the dollar is eroding quickly.
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  3740. (I'll of course remain the Man Behind the Curtain. No guarantees that I don't spoof the whole community just for the hell of it.)
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  3741. The modern populist movement in America is fundamentally libertarian in philosophy. We want to shrink government and get it out of our lives, not give it more power, because we have seen too many abuses of the power it currently has.
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  3742. Per-capita M2 money growth peaked at 26% year-over-year in February 2021; before the panicdemic began, it was around 2-5%, and the most recent number is 10.7% from February 2022. Consumer price hikes should be moderating, but the supply shock from the sanctions has greatly exacerbated the situation.
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  3743. Love Top Gun: Maverick. Best movie I've seeb in many years.
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  3744. Bernie has proven himself to be one of the many-too-many. As Nietzsche wrote, "the state was made for the superfluous ones".
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  3745. They are angry because they view the world through the lens of identitarian collectivism.
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  3746. My proposal (and side project): self-governing crypto system (directed acyclic graph) in which individuals issue currency against their capacity to provide labor, i.e. a distributed time bank. Issuers sign a legally binding contract to accept the currency for payment in transactions and settle outstanding notes they've issued; they elect officers and auditors to fulfill various governance roles to ensure issuer accountability and accuracy, and then they issue tokens and notes. The issuance limit increases with the natural log of the number of issuers to allow higher liquidity for larger economies. Districts self organize and acknowledge each other via mutual audits, creating a trust network; if a district acknowledges N other districts, it will automatically acknowledge districts that have audit certifications from M members of their trust network ("M-of-N" verification, probably set at 2/3). Issuer accounts will use the Account Balance model for issuing, but transactions thereafter use zero-knowlwdge proofs and UTXO model for privacy. Printing of notes will be handled by a special account managed by the treasurer for a district, so everyone will know the quantity issued in notes. Currently, I am still trying to conceptually work out the mechanism for issuers to change districts within the trust network, as well as how to handle the death or disappearance of an issuer (a defacto debasement) and a number of other detailed matters. Any feedback will be appreciated so long as it is at least somewhat coherent.
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  3747.  @sevakohanian7335  technically, Putin first invaded Ukraine in 2014 because he wanted to take advantage of the chaos of the euromaidan revolution. He went back for more in 2022 because he sensed weakness due to Biden's disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan.
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  3748. What I want to know is when affordable civilian versions will be available the way affordable AR-15s are.
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  3749. But even as a European, you gotta admit that it's a bit absurd for the German government to dedicate resources to imprisoning people for reposting innocuous memes on social media instead of dealing with the surging violent crime rates, and that imprisoning people for criticizing the ruling political elite is pretty dystopian.
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  3750. The side that supposedly "supports democracy" (conveniently also enriching the military industrial complex) is also the one that regularly does the most damage to the cause of freedom. For example, it was Democrat governors who prohibited people from exercising their religion and peaceably assembling 4 years ago, and the Biden-Harris administration executed a program of censoring American citizens through purpose-built censorship portals at social media companies. (It is also the Democrats who are running a candidate who nobody voted for and received less than 1% of the previous primary vote.) And that same side has spent years spreading the propaganda lie that Trump is Putin's puppet and would give Russia whatever they want, when in reality Trump killed hundreds of Russians in Syria while his Democrat predecessor let Russia get away with annexing Crimea and his Democrat successor projected such weakness that Russia invaded the rest of Ukraine on his watch. Like Paul said, there is a difference between winning elections and actually governing.
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  3751. "Call us Alphabet because we definitely weren't founded by the NSA and definitely don't work with the FBI and CIA...."
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  3752. If they can eliminate mistakes with this technology, it could be a decent cost-saving measure. The problem is that government agencies never want to shrink -- when they take advantage of some new efficiency, they just reallocate the resources to expand in other directions. AI should only be adopted for this if the cost savings are used to reduce the funding requirements of police forces or to improve training in police functions that are objectively more important than filing paperwork, e.g. de-escalation, situational awareness during rapid responses, life-saving medical actions, competent and apporpriate use of force, etc.
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  3753. I generate my documentation from the docstrings in my code, so keeping docs up-to-date is a pretty simple process: update the docstring for a function/method after updating the code, then run the docs generator. (Also, I built the docs generator.)
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  3754. Maybe a giant death asteroid would be best.
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  3755. What are y'all's favorite dysfunctional programming languages?
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  3756. The McMichaels ought to pay weregild to Arbery's family. Problem solved.
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  3757. Gold has a substantial monetary premium far in excess of its industrial utility demand. Therefore, Bitcoin can absorb that monetary premium as it functions similarly as a monetary bearer asset (no counterparty risk, just market risk), and that monetary premium/investment demand supports a large plurality of gold's actual value. Only about a quarter of annual global gold demand goes to support industrial uses/utility.
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  3758. Link in description is broken. Here is the fixed link: https://twitter.com/michaelbeatty3/status/1296297043283984385
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  3759. "They think money is food." BitCorn to the rescue?
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  3760. Couldn't they have just made a better 7.62x51 rifle?
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  3761. Double helix in ancient art is because of mating snakes. It is that simple. Pretty much all primates are tuned to detect and be fascinated by/afraid of snakes.
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  3762. I'm one of those people who simply say, "Tim, you're wrong; nobody is right."
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  3763. My mother turned 39 shortly after she gave birth to me. I was diagnosed with Tourette's syndrome rather than ASD as a kid, but it's pretty obvious that I have some level of ASD. For example, I am obsessed with advanced mathematics that nobody I have ever met can comprehend or is even interested in trying to comprehend; I'm almost done writing a CRDT library in Python based upon some maths papers I read, and I implemented MuSig (an elliptic curve multi-signature system) 2 years ago also using just the maths paper as a guide.
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  3764.  @Krill_all_health_insuranceCEOs  I have a degree in biotechnology and a career in software engineering. Right now, my focus is split between working on the code base for a fintech platform and getting a tax accounting certification (the latter strictly for pragmatic purposes; I wouldn't if I could avoid it).
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  3765. Methinks that a monetary system with elasticity but per-capita limits which preserves the main desirable features of sound money (neutrality and stability) with the additional desirable feature of flexibility would be superior to both an inelastic money and an unsound money. Trying to figure out how to accomplish this, but I haven't worked out all the kinks.
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  3766. Hopefully Four Seasons will be comfortable for the guy
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  3767.  @uncommonsense5876  May need to check the Cares Act numbers again, but as I recall, most of it went to corporations via the Paycheck Protection Program; some of them used it to pay their employees, but it dropped directly to the bottom line for most of them. The largest stimulus to ordinary people was the mortgage/rent forbearance; second largest was student loan forbearance; third largest was direct handouts and increased unemployment benefits. But that does not even consider the bailouts by the Fed buying up corporate bonds through special purpose vehicles -- global megacorps got to refinance tens of billions at about 1-2% APR and were oversubscribed.
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  3768. To be fair, we really do need to end corporate socialism, disestablish the Federal Reserve, and ban fractional reserve lending.
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  3769. Introducing Killdozer v2.0, now with WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity
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  3770. All his Tools have Ph.D.s in economics
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  3771.  @david-fletcher  looks like YT bots might be censoring you. Tends to happen with any long or detailed comment. They even censor links to government websites.
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  3772.  @david-fletcher  pretty sure he's not looking through YT comments to delete them. It's probably some bot that thinks your comments match a spam pattern it learned.
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  3773. It will be quite an experience when it happens. I really want to see how Mike Maloney reacts. He's been preparing for it for decades.
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  3774.  @vijayvarade8077  Technically, you're allowed to issue dollar denominated liabilities the same as the Fed as long as someone will accept them.
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  3775. I want to see some interviews with the bureaucrats and politicians who so glibly violate their oath of office. What does it take to get to the point where one thinks violating constitutionally protected rights is the correct course of action?
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  3776. Economy fall down go oof.
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  3777.  @ameliakittie6009  To be fair, the majority of deaths were caused by Cuomo putting covid patients into nursing homes rather than into the hospitals built by the Army Corps of Engineers at Trump's behest. The field hospitals were specifically set up so that there was enough capacity to treat everyone, and Cuomo decided to instead cull the elderly.
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  3778. I do not envy anyone trying to be confirmed for a government position, nor do I admire any who were successful. Superfluous ones who clamber to sit upon the throne find that filth often sits upon the throne, and the throne often sits upon filth. Perhaps one day I'll go to a townhall meeting and read that chapter of Thus Spone Zarathustra and motion toward the politicians, journalists, and lobbyists whenever I read "superfluous ones".
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  3779. They are trying to bail out/recapitalize the eurodollar system, but the only tool they have is to inflate and distort the domestic dollar system.
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  3780.  @morgard211  you know how capitalization works, right vro?
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  3781. Cryptocurrencies are highly competitive, in case you couldn't tell by the increasing support globally.
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  3782. There are cypherpunks working on mesh network alternatives to this corporate cyber-dystopia, and you'll want a Linux phone for when those mesh systems are functional. It will necessarily start small, perhaps just a private, decentralized, low-bandwidth chat system -- then you'll be able to send compressed voice recordings -- then, maybe, you'll be able to have conversations in nearly real time. This dystopian nonsense will accelerate that development.
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  3783. Tim missed the part where Yang's UBI is universal, i.e. anything you earn on top of it is just that: earned on top of it. With welfare programs, you lose access when you start working/making money; with UBI, you just pay income taxes on your additional earnings. It will cause inflation, perhaps, but it might be our only hope for entitlement reform.
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  3784. When I was in highschool, back in the Windows XP days, there was a worm that used autoplay to propagate across computers and flash drives. I wrote a small tool that detected and removed it, and gave the source code, binary, and advice to disable autoplay to the head of IT at my highschool. Fun times.
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  3785. Bloat in code has more to do with fiat money culture (high time preference; everyone wants it now and cheap rather than good and durable) than any particular language used. Anyone can write bad code in any language. Modern C code is some of the ugliest, nastiest shit I've ever had the displeasure of reading through. Software bloat is evidence of the degradation of our culture as a result of the debasement of our money and labor.
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  3786. Have you seen David Schweikert's recent presentation to Congress? Closing the carried interest loophole will generate enough additional tax revenue to replace a few hours worth of borrowing by the federal government.
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  3787. ​ @thomasprogli3372 ballistic missiles tech transfers
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  3788. I am sure that "victims" includes the people he blackmailed, which means his clients.
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  3789. Dude, if you type "Trump Is Not That Bad | Social Exp #2" into search, the video will be ranked below an MSNBC video in the search results. Literally ranking a corporate partner ahead of the video with the search term as its title. This is illegal for search engines -- Google has already been punished in court cases. Wtf.
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  3790. It's all just an insane grift. Brandon has no idea what he's doing on a good day, and he's an oath breaker and blatant traitor on a bad day.
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  3791. Interesting. I can see the async generators being useful for iterating through database records. Lots of food for thought in this video. I'm currently working on a p2p/f2f networking system using gossip for content distribution. In this system, nodes will be able to request content from each other using headers (topic_id = sha256(topic_descriptor), content_id = sha256(content_body)) as well as request header synchronization; however, since I've built it to use an observer pattern, I think it makes more sense to instead just register a handler for the response that gets removed after a time out than it would to attempt to create an async function to get the content.
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  3792. And they'll do it with money they created out of nothing.
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  3793. I think this is a really good format. Not only is it topical, but there will be additional replay value for months to come since it is not tied to a specific set of breaking news items. I also enjoyed it quite a bit. The background music choice was also pretty good since it still sounds good at 1.25x, 1.5x, and 1.75x speeds -- a lot of music sounds atrocious when sped up, but thankfully this does not.
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  3794. Bitcoin is separating money from state. Governments have not been responsible with monetary authority, so it will be stripped from them. The laws of nature will overpower the laws of man.
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  3795. The line has to be drawn somewhere, and it will inevitably be arbitrary because values, especially of the moral variety, are subjective. Perhaps for pragmatic reasons the standard should be viability outside the womb. If we pull the thread of when humans gain "personhood" too hard, we'll find that the entire idea of personhood will simply unravel.
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  3796. BITCH. LASAGNA. Clearly a radical right-wing conspiracy rap song. You can tell because he is white.
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  3797. Gift economies sound kind of like credit economies without keeping track of the resultant IOUs.
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  3798. Slick Willy's sick willie.
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  3799. MRSA 2024
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  3800. This is a thing because males use predominantly visual cues to discern fertility and youth (as a guarantee of a long period of fertility) in potential partners. Females, on the other hand, want resources and social mobility via status from their partners. 60% of males do not successfully mate and pass on their genes historically because resources and status are distributed among men in a Pareto distribution. The main difference is that Ishtar's resurgence through the digital medium will sedate these males and prevent them from forming gangs, raping, and starting civil wars. (If you think about it, civil wars ought to be fought over more important things than access to pussy, so I don't see this as a net negative.) We don't live in an ideal world and never will, so everything is a trade-off, and trading gang violence for AI thots seems worth it for society.
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  3801. The AI safety people call this "high tech, low life".
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  3802. 8 years. DeSantis can't get 3 terms, and Trump's White House was not particularly sane, or at least not stable. That being said, a Trump White House would be an improvement over the Biden White House.
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  3803. @David Garner I think he meant "Republocrats"
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  3804. Ugh, Tim is so preachy these days. This is difficult to watch.
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  3805. The central message of the far left is simple: all your speech are belong to us.
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  3806. Endowment funds, insurance funds, treasurers of large corporations and banks, etc.
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  3807. Dependency inversion is then something like the maxim "couple to interfaces, not implementations".
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  3808. The Fed's monetary policy is almost completely ineffective. Buying 10% of GDP worth of short term bonds caused a 50 basis point decrease in the interest rate according to Jeff Snyder. This is why J-Pow pushed for help from the Treasury and Congress so hard last year -- the Treasury, as authorized by Congress, has a greater effect on monetary phenomena than the Fed because the Fed can only enact policies that affect the credit it extends and receives, whereas the Treasury can expand the money supply directly via issuance.
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  3809. There's no fun allowed. You ought to know that by now. Shame on you for having a subscriber who makes jokes. Not very NAP now, is it?
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  3810.  @benholroyd5221  Sounds good. You can take over starting tomorrow.
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  3811. @jurgenkaps2694 That is the best argument for sure.
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  3812.  @yorickcareye9065  Exactly. Interests are no longer aligned: Europe doesn't care what America wants, so America doesn't care what Europe wants. It's just how things are at the moment.
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  3813. @JMAssainatorz  every empire ends. It is the nature of this temporal world. Plenty of people were upset with the fall of the Roman empire, but they are all dead and forgotten.
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  3814.  @AnonD38  I'm not really trying to do anything. Neither of our opinions matter on this topic -- no amount of YouTube comment writing will change anything -- we're all just shitposting for our own amusement.
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  3815. First past the post is not about getting majority support -- it is just about getting support from the largest plurality.
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  3816. Same shit the communists did in the USSR: consume the capital goods of the nation -- eat the seeds to cause a famine and kill millions.
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  3817. This is why the license system I developed for the software products I am working on do not require activation servers but instead use digital signatures. Since the user's identity is important for branding outputs of the software I am working on, baking it into the license and committing to it with a digital signature means that licenses will not be shared between users, and it means I will be able to easily distribute an evaluation license, but this strategy might not work for other types of software products.
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  3818. The same thing happened during the crypto mining boom in the mid 2010s. Same shit, different asshole.
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  3819. The CIA wouldn't have sunk so many resources into these types of phenomena if they were all bullshit. It will be interesting to see what gets declassified or leaked in the future about what they are doing right now. They're probably losing a psychic war against communism or something like that.
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  3820. RFK Jr. was right about the origin of the pandy back in April or May 2020, and the powers that be eventually acknowledged the role of NIH funding a couple years later. Just saying.
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  3821. Janet Yellen and Nancy Pelosi are traitors. They openly advocate the contravention of the very same constitution they swore oaths to protect. They are the most dangerous domestic enemies we face as a nation.
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  3822. Grains*, not grams
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  3823. The US is wrong with its meddling in other countries' affairs. I'd argue that Russia is more wrong than the US regarding Ukraine specifically since they are pursuing genocide there once again, but the roles are pretty clearly reversed in Africa: the US is the military aggressor causing humanitarian crises in Africa, while Russia uses diplomacy.
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  3824. A headache had a man. This is how dyslexia developed him.
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  3825. Also, nb4 ban for wrongthink.
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  3826. Fuck that awful city. Go somewhere that doesn't abuse you.
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  3827. The sudden but brief bits of rock music that fade as suddenly as they arrived produce a jarring listening experience.
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  3828. For reference, here's the drunk Bush video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB9laB5-eBc "God bless America, yes. This being an election year, ya know, they're wonderful people. Fine taxpayers."
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  3829. Depositors in credit unions can't be bailed-in because a deposit is classed as equity rather than liability. Instead, the credit union fails, depositors get bailed out by the NCUA up to the FDIC maximum, and remaining assets less liabilities are distributed to remaining equity holders (i.e. the seven natural persons who started the credit union and any shares not bailed out by the NCUA).
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  3830.  @artspark7697  Tried responding, but it looks like it was censored because I included the link to the NCUA government website. Weird. But I'm pretty sure based upon my yet incomplete reading of the law. The equity structure is explained in the first few paragraphs of the law they cite.
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  3831. Iirc, the Russian bot stuff was primarily perpetrated on Facebook via targeted ads. Twitter had little to do with anything, though they still got blamed by gaslighters.
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  3832. An interesting thing to note about the notion that you can program some of the CBDCs so that "you can't use them to buy X" is that it would require everyone selling X for the CBDC to voluntarily implement the transaction information system on their end: a CBDC, just like any other computer program, is not omniscient -- it knows only the inputs generated by humans using it. Thus, if someone wanted to sell candy to kids whose wallets disallow the purchase of candy, they just would not mark the transaction as one involving candy. There has thus far been one major attempt to create a cryptocurrency system that can track inventory, components, etc from original production all the way through to end user, and that is the shitshow known as Iota which basically does not function. Bureaucrats will be unable to get the privacy-killing pervasive surveillance system that they desire because they are technically incapable of building such a system; and even if they had it, they would be technically incapable of even using it competently, as has been the case with the US domestic surveillance apparatus which has failed countless times to identify and prevent the same tragedies they use to justify their profligate and pointless projects. The most they will be able to achieve in our lifetimes is an inconvenience, and creating such an inconvenience will cause people to use alternatives and thus neuter their project. These idiots fail to understand game theory or just about anything else of relevance for their childishly simplistic schemes.
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  3833. In 2020, the DNC elites war gamed a Trump victory, which resulted in the Democrats once again leading a secessionist movement.
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  3834. The price of money is the short term interest rate plus duration premiums.
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  3835.  @UGPVlogsLA  I will consider that. Currently too many other things going on right now to work on this project. (Also need to reexamine the whole scheme to ensure it will slay Nephilim rather than create them. The last thing we need are more problems caused by out-of-control systems.)
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  3836. This blue shirt subversion must end. Bring back the real Tim Jong Pool! Out with the body double!
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  3837. Agricultural product prices also increased due to shortages of fertilizers.
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  3838. I'm implementing something currently that uses a modified version of this to load a plugin from a file path after checking its content hash to make sure it has been validated/authorized. The idea is to make sure that only signed plugin code is run to avoid nefarious code from hijacking the application. (The plugins are actually contracts that specify correspondent time banking relationships, so there is an additional incentive for the system to be hijacked.)
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  3839. The injunctive relief is the powerhouse of the court.
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  3840. To be fair, it would have been much harder to allow both people to type whatever they want and have it all stay synchronized properly unless there was already a δ-state CRDT package for Lua that would work nicely in Neovim.
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  3841. Consent is a mecessary component for moral behavior between people, but it is not sufficient. As far as the law is concerned, it is best to enshrine only the necessary components lest we wander into the woke territory of legislating thought.
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  3842. The reason they keep mentioning covid with everything they say is that it is a meme encapsulating all the hypnotic/neurolinguistic programming spread by the media apparatus. It is essentially factions od de facto Illuminati trying to hijack the evolving hypersigil for their own purposes.
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  3843. Technically, the Federal Reserve is not exactly printing money. The financial wizardry is a bit more convoluted than that, so the destruction is manifesting in convoluted ways -- for example, short term TSYs are pristine collateral used to fund the global eurodollar system through primarily the repo market, and the Fed buying up those TSYs has strained the global eurodollar system to the point where broker-dealers are having to rehypothecate the same collateral ~8 times whereas before the TSYs were being rehypothecated ~6 times. This global liquidity trap combined with global dollar-denominated debt seems to exacerbate the world's willingness to export to the US. Unfortunately for humanity, the world doubled down on dollar indebtedness in 2020, so the inflationary effects of this pseudo-money-printing will be somewhat offset.
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  3844. States are psychic entities, at least the ones that have any staying power. America was literally founded by Free Masons.
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  3845. Plot twist: the Feds are behind it and plan to prosecute Tim for talking about this at all. It's the perfect scheme for such a corrupt institution: commit the crimes, investigate them forever, and lock up the victim with the charge of "interfering with an ongoing investigation" for ever speaking about it.
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  3846. But isn't the meme bigoted against Karens? Nobody chooses to be born a Karen.
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  3847. Didn't the J-Pow prank call occur in January?
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  3848. Personally, I think that this whole Earth experiment is Baphomet gathering information for forming its own philosophical ideas through the reincarnation process. There is no world of being -- there are just many levels in this world of becoming; as above, so below. This is just part of an eternity of novel experience to avoid eternal boredom.
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  3849. Maybe try fighting fire with fire: accuse them of being antisemitic for banning a Jewish man.
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  3850. The US didn't win WW2 by having a technologically superior tank than Nazi Germany -- they won by producing enough tanks to overcome the Panzer's technological advantage and overwhelm on the battelfield. The same will likely be true for this quantum technology, at least in the near term.
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  3851. The barbarians did not destroy historical records. That was the legacy of Christendom: Byzantium did not want alternative ideas and factual history to disprove the official Christian Empire narrative. Even today, Christians are totally ignorant of the mystery religions that were precursors for the Jesus story, which is original only in some names and locations, specifically because the evidence was destroyed and suppressed by the Christian emperors.
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  3852. I guess none of y'all understand how the economic ponzi scheme works. Because of Federal Reserve funny money policy (Sanders got them audited, showing $16 trillion loans to companies owned by Fed officials, which is the only reason I voted for him), businesses had to take on leverage to compete. Because of the leverage businesses had to take on, slight economic disruptions are amplified. The long term solution is to reform our monetary system, not create a glorious communist dystopia. Communism and champagne socialism never function. With the current system of leverage, if you don't bail out corporations, the jobs disappear, and all you unenterprising peons who can't do anything without your NPC buddies standing next to you with picket signs won't recreate them fast enough to avoid another Great Depression, which is what happened the last time the US tried nationalizing industries. The greatest problem that Americans face is and always has been the banking cabal, not the enterprising capitalists.
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  3853. CBDCs are clothes without an emperor -- Britcoin will be "like" Bitcoin in only the most superficial ways rather than having any substantive semblances. An empire with clothes in lieu of an emperor is destined to fall apart. This will be interesting.
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  3854. 🤡🌎🇺🇲
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  3855. When the Flood first hit, I dug up an ancient video series called Staying Positive in the Apocalypse. I highly recommend it, if you can access the old internet.
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  3856. The solution to the political corruption is to use score voting rather than first-past-the-post. The solution to the plutocracy hollowing out the middle class is to abolish fractional reserve banking and return the power to issue currency to the People to whom it rightfully belongs. Nobody should benefit from the Cantillion effect.
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  3857. Australia is an Orwellian dystopia. I would rather be able to visit my family when I want to than be wealthy and subject to arbitrary tyranny as were the Aussies over the past few years.
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  3858. I believe you meant to say "encoded" and not "encrypted".
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  3859. The only way Big Brother can guarantee your security is if you reside in a gulag. Some people believe that this means they actually will guarantee their safety once they do move to the gulag.
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  3860. Tim I'm-not-calling-anyone-names Pool literally calls specific people "scumbag" constantly. Wtf is this garbage.
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  3861. The implicit assumption that "normal" means "perpetual" or "inviolable" is a hurdle to be overcome. Celebrating stagnation is how Sparta decayed away into nothing. Ye must still have chaos in ye to give birth to a dancing star. Change is the most natural state in this world.
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  3862. All central banks suck, but the Fed was the best central bank ever created. However, since its birth it has grown increasingly monstrous, and recently it has become exceedingly stupid imo.
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  3863. That jungle journey includes a swamp that is so impenetrable that roads have never been successfully built through it.
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  3864. "Let's hope that there isn't another civilization in a few million years..." what?
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  3865. I did not have "the EU causes a global internet outage with stupid regulations" on my bingo card.
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  3866.  @plaidchuck  global cyber outage is one hell of an egg to crack for an optional meal item
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  3867. My P(doom_usd) is 80%. Maybe an AI could figure out how to not deficit spend $10B/day the way the federal government did last month.
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  3868. Here in Florida, we have sheriffs telling people to blow em away, so I do not think that the Kenosha trial outcome will have national consequences on whether or not you can defend yourself against violent crazies.
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  3869. Reason is dead. Welcome to the pandemonaeon.
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  3870. The term "woke" was invented by black activists to roughly mean "knowledgeable about historic injustices perpetrated upon black communities in inner cities [run by Democrats]". It was culturally appropriated by the wokels who complain about cultural appropriation. The entire movement of these wokels is founded upon projection of the participants' moral and ethical failings.
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  3871. Those guys looked very good for 60, but it's not inconceivable. More relevantly, the Kyiv regime appears to be somewhat beholden to neo-Nazis, so it is conceivable they were allowed or encouraged to leave because they were not of the acceptable race - from what I've gathered, there have been actual pogroms there over the past decade.
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  3872. It was a joke. I chuckled. That doesn't make me a bad person who wants it to spread or doesn't take it seriously. Disband the fun police.
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  3873. Kind of crazy for foreigners to pay lower taxes on dividends than American citizens.
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  3874.  @skynetsworld  nah, man, I'm with Becky all the way
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  3875. Even worse than the FedCoin: Micro$oft's BeastCoin, patent WO2020060606. It uses body sensors to ensure compliance before you get to transact.
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  3876. Hades has spat me out and chased me away too many times to care at this point.
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  3877. This isn't the first time that Skcubrats' bathroom policy has caused controversy -- they've kicked out evrryone from black guys to white, on-duty police officers. The sensible thing to do is just order the cheapest thing on the menu to appease the corporate overlords.
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  3878. That is the danger of radical leftist policies: they tried it before, and the resultant backlash started the second World War. These people who berate anyone right of them as "Nazis" are idiots incapable of seeing that they are creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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  3879. ThemTube gestapobots disappeared my comment mentioning the cause of the 2nd world war. Typical. Similar to the Weimar Republic, this censorious idiocy will fall to its opposite.
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  3880. Idk. Better than civil wars and uncontrollable gang violence. Historically, only 40% of men end up successfully mating and passing on their genes; that other 60% tends to cause problems. Look up "young male syndrome" and the related "male sedation hypothesis".
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  3881. And the NIH at Fauci's behest approved a $3.7m grant to EcoHealth Alliance to study bat coronaviruses with gain-of-function methods in the Wuhan Virology Institute. The contribution of that grant to causing this pandemic is being investigated by the NIH and DoJ.
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  3882. Depends on the interpretation of "on hold". The way I see it, the whole thing is "on hold" until all the due diligence and financing are complete, since there has not been an actual exchange of shares for money. If Twitter indeed committed fraud, which I suspect may be the case, and the majority of their monthly active users were bots, then he'd have every reason to renegotiate the price after the evidence of fraud hits the news cycle. Big "if".
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  3883.  @mvpfocus  I did watch the video, and I did indeed hear that part. What you missed was that that was the condition for legally nullifying the deal unilaterally. There's nothing that would stop them from renegotiating in the wake of revelations of substantial fraud even if those revelations did not amount to the 40% threshold. Of equal importance, if Twitter execs are exposed as having committed substantial fraud, they'd be too busy defending against class action lawsuits to bring their own suit against Musk, which is another thing Patrick mentioned.
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  3884.  @mvpfocus  it appears that they've been purging hundreds of thousands of bot accounts padding the follower numbers of their favored political faction, bot accounts that may have been created by Twitter employees. It could be a substantial fraud in that scenario. And if saying something vague and left to the interpretation of the reader is a violation of law, then we're fucked.
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  3885.  @mvpfocus  I'm hypothesizing the recent, very anomalous things occurring on their platform. I'm saying that there is something fishy going on that could easily be a massive case of fraud. Check out Tim Pool's video going over the numbers. Yes, I understand Elon Musk has no respect for the SEC and does not acknowledge their regulations as being legitimate law. This makes him a loose cannon. I am not convinced he is a white collar criminal since he has never been convicted of a crime. More importantly, the rot starts in DC and dissolves out into the rest of the nation as the corpse of our republic festers. Our politicians at the top are all liars, thieves, and scoundrels. Our entire monetary system is based upon a fraud which bankers call "business". As one of my hippy friends says, shit rolls downhill. Don't confuse the symptoms with the causes.
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  3886.  @mvpfocus  intriguingly, this Twitter deal involves both: an apparent manipulator of markets via troll posts, and a company manipulating the public discourse to favor the left wing fringe over everyone else. Of course, the institutions that should hold both types of malfeasance to account are all collapsing under the weight of their own corruption, so unless we go V for Vendetta mode, were SOL. Hopefully, decentralization can save the last vestiges of what is worth preserving of our culture.
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  3887.  @mvpfocus  their misgendering policy uses the left-wing definition of misgendering rather than the right-wing definition: anyone using the right-wing definition gets banned. That is obvious political bias. Only one of many examples. Another example is how many people who supported the President got banned for doing so, while antifa were allowed to use the platform to organize riots that killed over 200 people and did tens of billions of dollars in damage to ordinary people.
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  3888.  @mvpfocus  some right winger got banned for saying "ok dude" as a response to something obnoxious because of the misgendering policy. If that isn't arbitrary and capricious, then I don't know what is. There's no exception in the right to free speech that says compelled speech is in any way philosophically or morally just. Anyone who says that their right to feel good about their delusional self-image is more important than the right to free expression in a democracy is an anti-democratic moron. If you want the Chinese Communist model of speech, then consider moving there instead of bringing that homicidal nonsense here. You Marxist bastards will never win. And if you can't look up the death statistics for the 2020 riots, then what use are you?
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  3889. I think the main issue with the nude bong smoker scandal is the fact that she was with an employee. I still don't really see it as that big a deal if two chicks want to get naked and rip a bong, regardless of how they know each other, but I think she caught one of the last ripples after the main MeToo wave had passed.
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  3890. You're not wrong, but you could be more right if you have the time, inclination, and perhaps autism to get there.
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  3891. I applaud Nature for inventing her selection process to cull the mindless NPCs.
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  3892. Living in multigenerational households is the natural state of humankind. This recent trend of isolation and atomization is an unnatural aberration and should not be encouraged or supported. That being said, I do like the idea of investment vehicles as a replacement to ponzi scheme pension plans.
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  3893. I'd go Rambo on those crooks if they did that to me.
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  3894. We is he saying "unfortunately these ports are well protected"?
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  3895. The judge is denying OAN their constitutional right to a jury trial. What a fuck.
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  3896. Arguably a result of the fiat money paradigm in which we no longer have long term price stability in our money, leading to capital shortening and higher time preference.
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  3897. I believe both in the right to life and the right to bodily autonomy. Ending a pregnancy does not always require ending the life of the baby. Imo this nuance ought to be recognized, but we can count on politicians and legislators to arrive at the right answer only after they've tried everything else.
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  3898. We bombed Libya because Gaddafi was preparing to circulate a new gold and silver currency to displace the Franc, and France did not like the idea of losing the power to control monetary policy in a former colony.
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  3899. ​ @SignalCorps1  except that Biden isn't really throwing his weight behind Kamala because nobody actually wanted her -- she was a diversity hire unlikeable enough to protect him from getting 25thed
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  3900.  @Stash186  you have a cocaine habit or something? Not sure how else you'll get the money to the CIA.
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  3901. Happy doggo is good to see.
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  3902.  @realpropertymangement7640  the Federal Reserve has accumulated losses in excess of twice their capital. Disregarding the losses, they have 200x leverage. Currently, the impairment on Fed liabilities is over 2%. It's already quite dire. The Fed needs to bail out the feds so the feds can bail out the Fed. Clown world to the max. Revaluing gold won't fix this, but I suspect that gold and bitcoins will probably explode in fiat terms once people realize that the USD monetary system is a pile of turds.
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  3903. "Racism" is largely a boogeyman. Identity politics keeps the proletariat divided against itself. It appears that there is an organized terroristic effort being organized by someone. Some who have experience repelling the invaders say they use wifi jammers to disable security cameras to make it easier to loot vehicles. So don't leave your guns and cash in your trucks overnight.
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  3904. There once was a time when we didn't have debt slavery -- for thousands of years, money was real and tangible, and you didn't have to think about investing your money to preserve your purchasing power.
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  3905.  @ex0stasis72  it works out sometimes 🤷
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  3906. The current vaccines appear only to decrease severity of illness during the course of infection rather than prevent reinfection. Thus, you could theoretically still spread the commie cough even if vaccinated. This does not make what the DC busybodies are doing any less abusive, of course, but their only method of existence is doubling down on the abuse of honest citizens, so the beatings will continue until morale improves.
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  3907. Based.
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  3908. Sounds like your friend who definitely isn't you should have just asked to roleplay as a virginal high school student being seduced by his hot art teacher or something like that.
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  3909. In my city, the cops put out messages like "click it or ticket", "arrive alive; don't drink and drive", "drive sober or get pulled over", and things like that.
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  3910.  @Carutsu  over. ICBMs travel through parabolic orbits.
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  3911. If China had a functioning futures market, it wouldn't be too difficult to manage commodity barter transactions, but I don't think they do.
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  3912. Did you not watch the video? He goes over the specs and they are listed in the description...o.o
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  3913. Russia could not have waged this was had Ukraine been a member of NATO, but, conversely, Ukraine would not have made enough progress cleaning up corruption to warrant NATO membership in the first place had Russia not waged this war.
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  3914. Shermes JSmegistus
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  3915. It is also worth noting that Russia is struggling economically and logistically, and their situation gets more dire every day. Ukranne has punched well above its weight class in this conflict; for example, they have achieved naval superiority without a navy. Russia has an accelerating inflation crisis and is on the verge of a banking crisis because their banks are compelled to issue loans to military contractor companies at subsidized rates while their central bank holds the key interest rates around 20%. The Russian private sector is collapsing, and the annual food inflation rate is close to 100%. The Russian military has been reduced to sending in troops on Chinese mopeds and using literal cardboard instead of reactive tank armor. This war is an unmitigated disaster for both sides, but one of them has the option to unilaterally cease hostilities while the other does not.
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  3916. Know what else is legendary? Satan. I therefore conclude that it is reasonable to use the term to describe Java.
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  3917. It's a global problem, but there won't be homogenous weakness or effects.
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  3918.  @DannyMancheno  have you ever listened to the full audio recording of that speech or read the full transcript?
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  3919. It is wild that American Protestants largely do not care about the Christian children being killed by Israel in Gaza.
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  3920. (For $70, I can get a Gigabyte 1GB 6670 with 1800MHz GDDR5 speed. I'm thinking that would probably be the best of the 6670's in my price range.)
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  3921. Hasn't Trump denounced the Project 2025 wishlist?
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  3922. In Florida, there is a statute that requires all who receive wages from the state to swear an oath to uphold the US constitution. Any violation of that oath is considered perjury and disqualifies that person from holding any office or receiving any wages out of public funds. Not only that, but any superior or manager of the bureaucrat is on the hook for tens of thousands in fines if they don't fire the person once notified. If some egghead bureaucrat sent me a threatening letter trying to suppress my constitutionally protected rights, I'd respond with a letter explaining how that individual and their manager are jeopardizing their employment.
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  3923. I do not see how economic restrictions do not constitute a taking subject to just compensation. Cash flows are intangible property central in valuing companies; forcibly closing companies is a confiscation of cash flow.
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  3924. If I'm not mistaken, the primary dealers initially invent the money to buy new TSYs. The Fed then buys it from them using freshly invented money, allowing the primary dealers to destroy the money they invented in the first step.
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  3925. We're in the middle east to force dollars down their throats. All hail the Federal Reserve.
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  3926. UK still on gold standard; gold moves to America; UK goes back onto the gold standard. What?
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  3927. South American Jose*
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  3928. You need taxable income to contribute to a Roth IRA, technically. But if the contribution is $1, you need just $1 of taxable income iirc.
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  3929. I really don't care about watches. This is just another fun side show in the clownpocalypse after-party.
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  3930.  Nim Chimpsky  that statement holds true for every group though
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  3931. The audio distortions may actually be divine providence to keep the bots from interpreting the content and banning the video. I appreciate the demonstration of cajones in treating this topic so honestly. However, there is a distinct possibility of deflationary bust in the near term.
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  3932. The Treasury has not provided numbers of debt monetized by the Fed since March. My guess is that they saw the Zimbabwefication index hitting 16% and knew that the only way to avoid an instant currency crisis was to hide and obfuscate. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=txx2 Last time it hit 16%, we had the Nixon shock followed by over a decade of massive inflation, and gold rose from $35/ozt to $650/ozt. This is likely to be extreme and crazy.
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  3933. The whole conflict is based upon two ethnic groups that hate each other. Duh. My Israeli friend has told me that Palestinians are "dogs, not humans". Israel calls itself a Jewish ethnostate and has been fighting, killing, expropriating, detaining without charge, etc Palestinians for generations at this point. Only an idiot would think that such hateful activity would not lead to more hatred.
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  3934. Ape together strong 🦍
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  3935. Timcast Poole, without evidence, peddles unsubstantiated fear and panic with his alt-right-far-right youtube radicalization spiderweb data network rabbit hole of ultimate doom. More unbiased news at 11.
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  3936. I know some people want to say "it's the Jews", but what if it's actually the Druze? Certainly seems that way in Syria, at least if the claims of the Jews are correct.
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  3937. My suspicion is that the Treasury is trying to prevent the yield curve from de-inverting, since that is the proximal yield curve event before a recession. As soon as the yield curve normalizes, the economy is screwed.
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  3938.  @tastypymp1287  Why do I suspect it? Or why does the yield curve deinvert at the onset of a recession?
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  3939.  @tastypymp1287  T-bills are more useful collateral and higher velocity monetary media than 20-year bonds. Since interest rates on debt instruments are inversely proportional to the demand:supply ratio, it is paradoxical that a sudden dumping of duration leads so quickly to recession. It makes sense on a longer time horizon: doing duration means less appetite for long term investment, which eventually results in less accumulated capital in an economy. But perhaps the drop in duration is correlated with recession due to the increased reliance of the economy on financialization: as investment drops, companies have lower funding availability for needed operations, and so business contracts accordingly.
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  3940. I believe that DJB proposed a transport protocol called CurveCP that has ephemeral Ed25519 handshakes built-in.
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  3941. Russia's war in Ukraine is not unprovoked, but it is unjustified.
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  3942.  Daniel Appleton  but Republicans generally aren't Muslim though
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  3943. With regard to higher shipping costs, something worth considering is the container shortage. Yes, the economic and monetary fuckery is part of it, but there are other factors effecting higher shipping prices.
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  3944.  Peter Schiff  that's a pretty clever way to spam
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  3945. The ESG death cult will kill millions before the survivors get the balls to hang the murderous bastards.
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  3946. He dropped the "B" from "BDFL".
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  3947. I have a similar kind of deal with airplanes: since TSA has searched my bags every single time I've taken a flight and patted me down half the time, I won't get on a plane anymore. Easy for someone else who hasn't been harassed as much to say "oh, just give up on that because it is more convenient to fly". Fuck that.
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  3948. This sounds very much like the typical astral projection experience. The vibrations appear to be something the temporoparietal junction does to immobilize the body and switch out the mind-body connection in preparation for dream states. Migraines and temporal lobe epilepsy tend to involve thematically similar experiences due to activation of the TPJ. There is also a phenomenon called the "threshold guardian" that attempts to prevent you from astrally projecting and make you enter a dream state through distraction. The process requires a lot of practice to make reliable.
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  3949. AI is just a tool. Using AI to file paperwork could very easily lead to a reduction in mistakes. The problem is not the tool; the problem is that the people who want to use the tool are generally not trusted by the public.
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  3950. @JackeryThompson-lq8zk  do you suspect that a sufficient proportion of the population will be susceptible to this for it to be a major concern? Why?
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  3951.  @JackeryThompson-lq8zk  So then the concern is abuse of process more than actual jury convictions. Got it.
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  3952. @JackeryThompson-lq8zk  I recommend watching the Rittenhouse trial footage sometime. It will be an informative counterpoint to your bleak perspective.
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  3953.  @JackeryThompson-lq8zk  Yep. Prosecutors pulled a ton of shenanigans, and the jury eventually acquitted Rittenhouse of all charges despite not being privy to the judge's admonitions of the prosecution for their behavior.
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  3954.  @JackeryThompson-lq8zk  Tragic case, but tragedy is the nature of human existence. Are you concerned that an AI will extract false confessions out of teenagers at a higher rate than human interrogators?
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  3955. Such insightful. Wow.
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  3956. In Pennsylvania, the courts rejected a case prior to the 2020 election regarding their vote by mail law being unconstitutional on the grounds that there was no injury in fact and thus no standing, and then the lawsuit was rejected after the election for not being timely.
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  3957. Tbh it's kind of a weird dick move to film at that location. Reminds me of all the instagram hos pretending to clean litter off the beach or whatever.
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  3958. Islam was founded as a military doctrine first and foremost. Mohammed was a conqueror who fucked children and married his cousin. Muslims and Christians have a rich, thousand-year history of violent confrontation, and there have been increasing attacks against Christian monuments as the Muslim population in France has exploded. Is it really that unreasonable to suspect this was an Islamic arson incident?
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  3959. CDS spreads for euro banks are starting to go parabolic, just like they did for Lehman before that collapse and AIG before the '08 collapse.
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  3960. God bless America, and no place else 🇺🇸
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  3961. The Nobel prize is overrated anyway. They gave one to our former president just after he got elected, and he admitted he had no idea why.
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  3962. Giants and Nephilim die in cataclysms. The federal government is the largest of the current Nephilim, imo: it consumes all the wealth of the earth, and the earth cannot sustain it, so it now feasts upon the children of men, and the souls of the slain cry out and make their suit in heaven for divine judgment upon the earth. This will come in time, because it always does. And just like the flood, whatever cataclysm awaits will be devastating. But the few righteous who sanctify the technology of the Nephilim will be delivered: it is for this reason that Noah's ark has the same dimensions as the Nephilim.
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  3963. The recovery here in SWFL after Ian was pursued with competence. We pulled together and got a lot of help from our governor. Idk anyone who dealt with FEMA.
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  3964. Saw that video a few days ago and subbed to his channel.
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  3965. I am no fan of government cronies spending an assload of tax money on wasteful bullshit, but I can see an argument for making them use these types of firearms in limited scenarios.
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  3966. We were briefly energy independent largely due to the capital-destroying shale oil projects Obama had approved and supported. But because those projects all had negative returns, investors stopped funding them, and so now we are partly dependent upon cheaper, foreign oil. It is worth noting that even though we import ~10% of the oil we consume, we also produce more oil than any other country.
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  3967. It wouldn't surprise me to find out that Teddy finds poking her similarly amusing to poking a kitten.
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  3968. All software projects end at some point. Death is a part of life. It would be as absurd to consider every dead software project a "failure" as it is to say that every dead organism "failed" at living.
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  3969. Hopefully all the corrupt officials protecting him get caught up in the trial and removed from office.
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  3970. Musk is trolling you, bro. Twitter is a dumpster fire made for trolling.
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  3971. Oracular visions, dreams, and premonitions do occur. The evidence from noetic research (and my own experience) is that the levels of precision and accuracy are inversely proportionate to the temporal delay between the vision and the event. Practice of the mantic arts attempts to hone this inate ability, but the best result that I'm aware of was a remote viewing experiment in which the remote viewers predicted whether or not a trader would have a good week trading futures by viewing a weekly gift exchange where champagne represented success. The universe seems to not mind if we get just enough of a glimpse to recognize future events, but it seems unwilling to allow useful future information to be pulled into the present. Quantum mechanical experiments, especially the delayed choice quantum eraser, bear this out.
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  3972.  @johnnykay7411  The Revelation/Book of Apocalypse was written during the reign of Domitian, was it not? Paul died 20 years beforehand. If you have any references that contradict those dates, I'd love to read them.
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  3973.  @cherylhutchinson2206  Personally, I prefer the symbolism of Baphomet as a means to grasp at understanding the organizing aspect of cosmic chaos: the non-human-centric morphology emphasizes that no concept of god can be contained in an image of man; the torch represents the light of sentience and thought; the "Solve" on the upward-pointing arm and "Coagula" on the downward arm represent the process that spirit undergoes during death and (re)birth; etc.
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  3974. "I would assume that it's all part of their plan." What happens when we assume? Misunderstanding Bitcoin is not a good reason to ignore it. Bitcoin, properly understood, is the savior of mankind. Nobody controls Bitcoin, and at the same time everyone does. Governments have tried to stop it, and they've all failed thus far. Now, their only weapon is media propaganda to keep the plebs poor so that only the special interests who understand where this technology is taking humanity will get their stake.
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  3975. Based upon the recent monetary contraction, it looks like there will be a crash, but I've had the timing wrong thus far (I thought it would happen in the first or second week of this month).
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  3976. Ranked Choice Voting is now a real solution. It has failed everywhere it has been implemented. The actual solution is score voting or score runoff/STAR voting.
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  3977. CAIO would be pronounced "K-O", as in the knock out punch for replaceable employees
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  3978. Look at that growth. I think I need to add some COVID to my portfolio since everything else just hopped in a dumpster fire.
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  3979. You can't engage in legal actions because the billionaires and their government cronies don't want you to. If they don't walk this tight-line carefully, they'll end up paying in blood instead of dollars.
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  3980. The most versatile abstraction is an empty source file. Can't get more extensible than that. It also can never be legacy code, so that's an added benefit.
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  3981. Hand sanitizer does nothing to stop the spread of kung flu. Emergency, panic, blah blah -- products being panic bought aren't even very useful, so why get pissed about those useless items being price gouged?
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  3982. If you were an enterprising Chinese bureaucrat, you could induce demand for belt buckles by restricting the food available to people until their pants start to droop. Problem solved/switched out for another set of problems.
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  3983. Did P&G directly authorize the leftist ad campaigns? Unlikely, but I bet they stepped in, canceled them, and fired all the idiots responsible.
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  3984. I paid those fuckers for credit monitoring for a couple of years. When I tried to call to get refunded, they kept telling me to call different phone numbers in a loop, all of them either machines or Pakistanis, none of them able to actually help. The Equifax board deserves, to borrow the phrase from Greta, to have their backs put against the wall.
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  3985. They are hoarding grain because their grain storage was destroyed by floods.
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  3986. On the topic of religion, it doesn't hurt to get that aionic life that Jesus promises throughout the gospel of John, or, as the Eleusis Mystery formula goes, die before you die so that you won't die when you die. Storming the kingdom of the heavens, as described in Matthew, might also be a worthwhile endeavor. Just a thought.
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  3987. I imagine that several of the actual drones causing problems were being flown by idiot New Jerseyites.
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  3988. Make Zimbabwe Rhodesia Again
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  3989. Tim, Floyd had a lengthy record of arrest and felony convictions, and he was having a psychotic break from all the drugs in his system. How can you say that it is unreasonable to draw a gun on a convicted violent felon who is acting erratically? Let's not forget that Floyd had been previously convicted of putting the barrel of a gun to a pregnant woman's belly.
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  3990. "OMG, the cat. The cat, woman. OMG, the cat. The cat, OMG. OMG, the cat, OMG."
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  3991. Millionaires use statistics; billionaires use astrology. The primary reason that the WEF has been accurate with its forecasts has likely been an acausal mechanism. Causality only works at a specific scale and only most of the time; we ignore the acausal to our detriment.
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  3992. I wonder how much of that grain was used to cover their loss of the Kursk region. From what I have heard, Russian agricultural productivity is collapsing as a combined result of petroleum product supply chain disruptions and manpower shortages.
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  3993. I heard about the cartel connection with avocados 4 or 5 years ago. This isn't new.
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  3994. Seems like a real SOLID dogmatist would insist upon having a separate serializer and deserializer class for each data type. I'm not down to clown with a thousand classes to do one thing.
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  3995. You are wrong, Tim. The first amendment conditions peaceful assembly: "...the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to *petition the Government for a redress of grievances*." (Emphasis added.) You have no right to form a mob to intimidate people in their homes.
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  3996. Bernie's only accomplishment: he got the Fed audited.
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  3997. In ancient Iceland, when the king went against the will of the Althing, the Lawspeaker would rouse the militia to force the king to follow the law.
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  3998. They ought to at least vacate the conviction to clear the guy's name after the trial court and prosecutors stole the last months of his life drom him. Addendum: this is not the first case of corruption I've heard of in the Texas judicial system. Something is broken there.
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  3999. I appreciate the measured take on this. There are plenty of people trying to convince everyone that they have a super magical crystal ball and can foresee the greatest boon or the bane, depending on the party affiliation of that magical crystal ball.
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  4000. It is also government spending due to the Cantillon effect. Imagine if the government printed up enough money to hire everyone in the country to sit on their hands and actively sniped the most productive workers for this purpose; in such a scenario, the government would absolutely crowd out the private sector by taking real resources away via outsized bidding power.
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  4001. Three years of strictly partisan investigations into false allegations concocted by a DNC contractor, using a dossier of disinformation to justify contravening the constitutional rights of Trump's campaign staff for unlawful surveillance, and that's somehow not a scandal. But my goodness, Trump asked someone else to find out whether or not something corrupt happened with Burisma, and that's somehow an impeachable offense. Democrats be like "we must know the truth unless it is inconvenient for our golden boy."
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  4002. How do you manage to get a dollar asset in China that is not connected to a dollar liability from America?
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  4003. Babel is a transpiler that transitioned into a compiler, hence it is a transcompiler.
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  4004. If it wasn't for the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect, I wonder if this channel would even exist. I have no way to know if he knows what he is talking about with the vast majority of videos, but whenever he does talk about a topic that I know about, he is wrong. Anyone with knowledge of the wine industries in any of the regions he mentioned have anything to say about this analysis?
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  4005.  @pamelam2911  the two greatest forces for corruption in this nation are fractional reserve banking and the first-past-the-post voting system. The solution to the latter is to use score voting or score runoff voting (it builds consensus rather than relying upon polarization to drive voter turnout). Many people are working on possible solutions to the former -- for example, I have drafted a reference contract for a currency cooperative (9 pages + annex) and am using it and a few other reference contracts as inspiration for the VM of an entirely new crypto system that should do to the issuance of crypto tokens what bittorrent did to file-sharing.
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  4006. Our Package of Massive Ordinance Penetrators got a little Midnight Hammer action.
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  4007. Netflix Apple Amazon Facebook Alphabet Microsoft NAAFAM, which is coincidentally my outlook on those stocks.
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  4008. Record gold purchases by central banks going on simultaneously with the liquidation of TSYs, allegedly. Speculation is that it's the Saudis who don't like the fact that Russia's FX reserves were stolen.
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  4009. Styx is wrong. The capitol police shot and killed only one person. The other three people died from medical emergencies.
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  4010. "You're not allowed to note hate Richard Spenser" is an official Facebook policy, so idk why anyone would be surprised that the leftists will jump down your throat for having a normal conversation with the dude.
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  4011. The discussion about disinformation subverted my expectation of a Ground News sponsorship. YouTube got me conditioned like Pavlov's dogs.
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  4012. Lentils do not need to be soaked. Many beans do, but lentils are not beans. I have not had any success growing lentils in Florida -- the most productive legumes in my experience are cowpeas/southern peas, of which black-eye peas are a variety; my favorite is purple hull pink-eye, which can grow 20 foot branching vines and produce pods nonstop for a couple of months.
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  4013. We need to replace first-past-the-post with score voting. FPTP requires two-party control to function and hyper partisanship to drive turn out; score voting just works. Nature is infinitely cleverer than man, and it invented score voting tens of millions of years ago; score voting is the only system with a 30 million year track record of success. Look up "honeybee democracy" sometime if you're interested in the specifics. I highly recommend we stop using such a broken and ineffective system for political decisions -- we literally have a better system for reviewing products and videos than we have for reviewing candidates. And the system with the longest track record in a republic was combined approval voting (score voting with "for", "neutral", and "against") in the Republic of Venice, which had five hundred years of political stability before Napoleon ransacked all of Europe.
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  4014. Bitcoin fixes this -- not directly, but ultimately.
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  4015.  @TheMonkeyButte  the double chop and twist gestures are very useful in a variety of situations. For example, if your fingers are wet from rain when getting out of the car at night and you need to see where you dropped your car key or house key, a quick double chop is all it takes when more expensive phones make it impossible without first getting somewhere dry to unlock your phone.
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  4016. That's a yikes from me, dog.
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  4017. Can't watch this without hearing the honking in the background.
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  4018. Trump never said anything about injecting bleach into any arm. He very inarticulately asked a theoretical question about disinfecting lungs. In the TDSer blitz to censor anything even remotely related, ThemTube censored a video explaining how a new biomedical technology worked to disinfect breathing tubes. This was an outright lie by Meidas Touch. You really ought to find a name that conveys everything turning to shit when you touch it, because I have seen nothing golden from this deranged channel.
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  4019. The entire deep learning/deep neural networks boom was just hooking up existing algorithms to supercomputing GPU clusters, so he has a point.
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  4020. Amazon uses React Native? No wonder their phone apps suck and are slow as shit.
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  4021. The most important ingredients for making any magickal spell work are entirely mental -- parapsychologists call the phenomenon "mind-matter interaction" for a reason. I do not advocate the use of curses or destruction rituals for the same reason I do not advocate drone warfare: collateral damage is inevitable. For example, internet ceremonial magicians undertook a distributed binding ritual when Trump was inaugurated to prevent his administration from doing anything, and the resulting 2 years of chaos have worsened this pandemic: we did not bring back our manufacturing quickly enough and now face supply chain disruptions for medical equipment and pharmaceuticals.
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  4022. The Fed can't even credibly bail out the banks because the Fed is broke. They're sitting on ~$40B in accumulated losses vs a paltry $42B in capital.
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  4023. Just a technical point, but the landmasses have changed quite dramatically over the last several million years -- it has not been a "fixed supply" per se, especially when considering things like Doggerland disappearing under the sea, along with the infrastructure for the civilization that lived there.
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  4024. No more Christianity either. All the pedophile worship of the Abrahamic faiths is gross: Yhwh lusted after Samaria and Jerusalem as if they were pubescent girls in a ritual orgy (Ezekiel 23); Jesus got naked with his band of kiddies and then asked "do you know what I've done to you?" (John 13); Muhammad's favorite wife was 10 years old. They all should be abandoned.
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  4025. I for loop therefore I++
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  4026. Imagine trying to explain to Christians that Jesus was a pederast when none of them can read ancient Greek.
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  4027. Really good explanation and example.
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  4028. Soc Gen net buy of 1,978 contracts, which is more than Barclays' net buy of 813. Kind of strange to say they had no directional impact due to the majority of trades netting out when the absolute number of net buys was almost 3x that of Barclays. Hell, SBI's net buying exceeded that of Barclays
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  4029. They're eating the cards of the people who live there
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  4030. This is hard to watch.
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  4031. Surprised nobody in the chat raised a flag for unnecessary dick riding.
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  4032. Genuinely awesome.
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  4033. It's kind of funny that the name of a non-existent god invented by Christians to explain away child sacrifices to Yhwh has been adopted for another non-existent god.
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  4034. TVP: textured vegetable protein; it has like a 20 year shelf life. Before the plandemic began, you could get it in #10 cans with various meat flavors. All the suppliers seem to be out of stock or running a 10+ week backlog now.
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  4035. The value of a digital house depends entirely upon the rest of the digital economy. You may as well be saying "I don't value this thing, therefore nobody does."
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  4036. I found the choice of attire for this admonition appropriately intimidating. Hopefully the keyboard warriors get the message, though for some reason I imagine they're probably worn down from Styx's IRC-level counter-trolling.
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  4037. Velcom to Austria*
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  4038. Australia is reverting to its roots as a penal colony.
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  4039. Nb4 Dune proves to be a prophecy rather than science fiction.
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  4040. I don't get how all these digital pickles work, but I'm pretty sure it isn't equivalent to using a magnifying glass.
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  4041. It is my opinion that the function of the law/"justice system" should revert to simply arbitrating rights against rights. If a man is found guilty of rape, for example, then the executor should be the accuser or the accuser's kin. Legal theory has become too abstract and is no longer effective at preserving rights.
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  4042. 2:45 That's called a hyperbolic tangent, not an inverse tangent. Get guhd, math nube. Do you even trigonometry, broh?
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  4043. The CFTC order against Tether did not say that only a quarter of USDT was fully backed. It said that the tokens were fully backed in only 27.6% of the days sampled, due in part to sloppy accounting and making unsecured loans. The commingling of funds with Bitfinex, undocumented loans, and fraudulent "auditing" were also quite concerning. Since then, they have gotten their act together and, as far as I am aware, are now in compliance with regulations.
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  4044. But I thought walls were racist and didn't work.
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  4045. We don't have those problems in SWFL yet.
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  4046.  @chrism3933  I recognize that this is tracking similarly to the Weimar Republic. It would have been nice if Schiff did as well rather than expecting the final result to be the immediate result. Right now, we are at the beginning of a multidecade dedollarization trend -- not ten years ago when Schiff was saying that the sky was falling. I thought this guy knew what he was talking about because he had some of the details right, but he has been completely wrong about Bitcoin and the dollar for a decade, and that track record cannot be ignored.
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  4047. There's no reason to approach closing arguments from the point of view of someone who doesn't know anything since the jury has been there reviewing evidence the whole time.
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  4048. Really wish Tim would save his source links or even archive them, because the url for the image at 7:25 gives a 404 not found error when I type it in.
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  4049. For survival, stick to the four Bs: beans, bullets, buddies, and bullion. Being able to feed and defend yourself is most important. However, a lot of people then assume that anyone with bullion is for some reason ignoring the more basic preps. It's a long term commitment to be self sufficient in a disaster, and eventually you'll have insurance for your fiat currency if you fit that mindset.
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  4050. J Pow actually does know what a hawk is: unpopular. He tried being a hawk in 2018 and upset the markets to the point that he caused this recession.
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  4051. Styx, there is a competitor for on-demand publishing of ready-to-print books: lulu.
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  4052. Hail Satan, Full of Wrath, Brother of God. Cursed art thou among demons.
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  4053. The government of West Taiwan has completely lost whatever sense it had.
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  4054.  @ChillAutos  when I started writing the comment, I was going to single out a particular country, but thought better of it as I got toward the middle.
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  4055. ​ @josevargas686 the problem was that they were both shitty and overpaid -- nominal cost was equivalent to local dev work but actual cost was higher since we had to rewrite all of their code. The company had hired as a consultant some lunatic who had apparently lucked or cheated her way into success despite being totally nuts; the overpaid coders were from her business she ran remotely.
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  4056. Somewhat misleading. Burry is not required to disclose offsetting short put positions, so we do not have the full picture. He could have bought those puts to hedge a short put position in a bullish option credit spread, in which case his bet would be the opposite of what everyone is thinking -- he could have been preparing to capitalize on the recent rally rather than a long-term crash scenario.
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  4057. Says we should not ban plastic because alternatives might have a greater environmental impact. Tells us to ban plastic and use those alternatives anyway.
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  4058. I kinda like how Tim's explanation for his viewership is that he's simply producing content that is high in demand and low in supply rather than "I'm da bestest, da most tremenderoust."
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  4059. Here's how to fix the US health care system: 1) Mandatory price transparency for all pharma companies, hospitals, doctor offices, and outpatient clinics. 2) Single-payer major medical/emergency insurance program. Deductible is half the total value of your HSAs, and maximum benefit is equal to your cumulative HSA contributions. 3) Unlimited, tax deductible HSA contributions + 1% tax credit on contributions up to one month of the 5 year median income. 4) Voucher system for routine medical expenses equal to 1/4 your 5 year average HSA contribution up to one week of the 3 year median income. The effect of this is that the more you save for a health emergency, the better your health care coverage will be. The voucher system will encourage people to continue contributing to their HSAs, and it + price transparency will use market pressures to drive more efficient business models. Eventually, even the poorest of workers will have made enough contributions to their HSA that they could survive anything, and private charity can fill any gaps in the safety net. And pre-existing conditions are effectively covered, because you can use your HSA contributions to pay for medicine and treatments in addition to the voucher system and major medical.
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  4060. Yellen: Rather than fixing our broken capital markets, let's just destroy them. The only reason that the rich get richer through unrealized capital gains is that the monetary system is rigged in their favor: the Fed prints up a bunch of funny money at 0% interest, gives it to Blackrock and other cronies, who then provide loans at near 0% to the wealthy to spend and inflate the value of their assets. It is interest rate apartheid. Inflation benefits the wealthy at the expense of the poor and middle classes. It is systemic socialism for the wealthy and feudal serfdom for the rest of us.
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  4061. The government has become a cancer sickening our society. Slaves in Egypt had a lower tax burden than the middle class in America who are ostensibly "free" -- and even with the excessive extraction, the government still spends so much and so recklessly that they have to borrow/print trillions every year. The government continues to destroy our resources with no end in sight. I do not expect the DoGE to be overly effective on its own or in its first iteration, but combined with the reversal of Chevron Deference and a few other good recent SCOTUS rulings, we may be able to undergo a bit of collective chemo therapy to slow the spread of this social disease. However, the main underlying problem is Congress.
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  4062. Bureaucracy is a cancer that can kill any system, whether public or private. Both the UK and the US are terminally ill with bureaucracy, and especially with their respective sick-care systems.
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  4063. Interpreter languages (and a few new compiled languages) make development and deployment faster. With C, you have to compile for every ISA you want to run on, and often there are platform-specific issues that take a lot of code to resolve and must be figured out at compile time. With Python, I can use a single code base, and the platform-specific things can be resolved in very few lines of code (really just file locations). Consider also how much hassle it is to develop mobile apps in their native platform languages, then compare that to using Dart and Flutter. It takes a significant amount of additional time to implement things in C than it does in newer languages at the expense of runtime performance, and I think every programmer knows that he/she is making a Faustian bargain. That being said, it would be nice for these newer languages to get some meaningful optimizations.
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  4064. First, there is no evidence that Trump is responsible for the J6 riot; leftists have constantly repeated this lie so many times that they just believe it. The evidence is that he's an asshole, and those are two separate things. Second, he doesn't need anyone to vote in 4 years because he'll be ineligible for office due to term limits. Duh. Third, he's promising hyperbolically to fix all societal woes as president. Again, duh. Relax with the conspiracy theory bullshit.
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  4065. Pixel planet peeps are pissed about the raid. 2.4k players connected at peak, many of them botting (which is against the rules except for Antarctica), leading to severe lag and server overload. Mods had to double the cooldown the throttle the player pool back down to around 1k. Botting should not be condoned imo.
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  4066. They could have just created a pair of callbacks for each promise, i.e. one for when it resolves and one for when it errors, and thereby would have avoided the whole situation. I guess that's why they were making their own language: they couldn't handle JavaScript.
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  4067. The Secret Service failed. Everyone they protect has reason for concern even if they hate Trump as much as y'all.
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  4068. Fun fact: the blood plasma of the poor is a larger portion of American exports than corn and soybeans. Not surprising that these rich bastards would crush the poor since they literally extract their blood at an industrial scale.
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  4069. If it is a "disgrace that Joe Biden funded [the war]", then it is also a disgrace that Trump gave Ukraine weapons after Obama and Biden would not. A lot of hypocrisy in the MAGA side that they won't acknowledge. Trump's mineral rights deal will entangle and embroil America in Ukrainian geopolitical issues for generations if it is signed because America would have significant tangible economic interests in Ukraine, but MAGA zealots blinded by ideological fervor completely ignore this. This kind of shit is why the polarized parties will never have a lasting hold on American politics and why the centrists swing like a pendulum.
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  4070. What we need to fix America is a Convention of States, and the best constitutional amendment we can pass to save our nation is automatic expiration of laws. Here's what I propose (wording may need to be changed): 1. All laws passed by the Congress concurrent with or prior to the ratification of this amendment will expire and be automatically repealed 10 years after the date of such ratification. 2. Every law passed by the Congress after ratification of this amendment will expire and be automatically repealed 10 years after the date of its becoming law. 3. Every resolution or bill must be read aloud in its entirety in the relevant chamber of Congress before a vote can be held, and only those Senators and Representatives present for the entire reading can vote affirmatively to adopt it. Any law nearing its automatic expiration and repeal may be extended by adopting the original text of the law, and such process must conform with the requirements of this paragraph.
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  4071. This will not only clear out the dross, it will also force Congress to focus only on the most important issues with the broadest support. Additionally, since convoluted laws would take forever to read, they won't be passed; this limits the damage that lobbyists can do. And as a final benefit, the promulgators of lengthy bullshit laws will no longer be able to rely on cushy consulting giga explaining to people what nonsense they passed while in Congress.
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  4072. One of the main reasons that college tuition costs are so high is that the federal government guaranteed college tuition loans, artificially increasing the supply of loans and thus the demand for college enrollment.
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  4073.  @NoBoilerplate  I went through the syntax of Haskell many years ago, but never made a point to do any real development with it. To be honest, I don't enjoy developing web applications anymore -- it's just something I do because it fulfills an economic niche, so I just stick to Laravel because it is the best web application framework I've used. I did some DevOps and database admin work, but those were also really tedious and unenjoyable. My real passion is writing distributed applications and cryptography stuff, and it's always a bonus if I can find a real use case for machine learning (e.g. for creating a greedy embedding using latency data for a wireless network, which I have experimented with but not yet published on arxiv). The fact that it is relatively easy to write beautiful Python code that reliably does all the things I want it to do is a real advantage -- it is really easy to get demotivated/discouraged when working with all other languages I have used in the past because of how it almost invariably ends up being a disgusting, jumbled mess. I'll give Rust a chance when I get one, though it is likely that I'll just continue working with Python since I have already written so much in it and am getting close to being able to write my magnum opus.
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  4074. It is not just science that has become sclerotic and unproductive. The whole of society has been sickening since the early 1970s. In my view, it is the rise of the bureaucratic elites that is stifling innovation -- they have no accountability; their jobs have no connection to reality; if they fail and make a problem worse, they just get more funding to fail harder and waste more resources. An unchecked bureaucracy is a societal cancer. Then again, it is as much a symptom as it is a cause -- it is part of a positive feedback loop.
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  4075. Bri can be such an ignorant Karen sometimes.
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  4076. Paper cut maximizer sounds safer than a paperclip maximizer.
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  4077. Maybe, but maybe it takes so long you won't be alive to see it.
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  4078.  @Bobbe002  well, the National Socialists were also very successful economically, but they literally used occult rituals and symbols to hypnotize all of Germany, so maybe what we need for a functional socialist economic miracle is state-sponsored magick to go along with a non-inflationary monetary system that bans or at least tames fractional reserve banking.
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  4079. The constitution and its amendments are not written in some cryptic language that requires the interpretation of sophists; constitutional law is written in plain English and readily understood by the common man. The efficacy of the brainwashing propaganda is startling.
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  4080. Varoufakis repeated some leftist talking points that are at odds with reality. The fact that he repeated them with conviction does not make him correct.
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  4081. Economics and politics are downstream from culture, and culture is downstream from religion. When the roots have rotted, it doesn't much matter what branch you grab.
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  4082.  @WanderingExistence  fwiw I don't deny that religion can be the copium of the masses, but it is equally valid to note that existence is pretty difficult and bleak without it. There's an abundance of spiritual trauma in the world, and life is a terminal condition, so some palliative care is warranted.
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  4083.  @richcherwalk6349  Care to elaborate?
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  4084.  @richcherwalk6349  could you provide a timestamp? I don't have infinite time at my disposal to rewatch hour-long videos from a year ago to disagree over some minor point.
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  4085. The state legislature could pass a private bill to compensate the woman and quash the issue.
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  4086. Ukraine needs Patriot missile systems to survive. No amount of volunteer soldiers can substitute for the most advanced SAM in the world. The rhetoric of "go and fight if you care so much" is inherently as ignorant of the facts as the chants of the protestors.
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  4087. CNN threw him under the bus on CPI recently. Gotta give his paid shills a pay raise.
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  4088. Eurodollar futures are in backwardation, and Chinese state-backed corporate [eurodollar] bonds are defaulting. This is going to be a wild ride.
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  4089. I wonder if Opera has the Mozilla strategy of developing a cash cow revenue stream from a search engine paying to be the default option.
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  4090. Mr. Jones talked about this years ago. He has said for a long time that the elite "breakaway societies" were competing to see who could make the godlike AI fastest to take over the world and do away with free will for the masses.
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  4091. The virus is only a small part of this. Everyone knew that this year would be a recession year due to yield curve inversion in 2018 and repo market collapse in 2019. This is a systemic feature of the fractional reserve banking system. If we want a stable economy in the future, we must retake the power to issue currency from the banks and give it back to the People to whom it belongs.
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  4092. In America, we do not have a social contract -- a contract requires mutual, voluntary acquiescence, but here the government imposes the "contract" on every person, even if they try to leave. The only other country on earth to tax their citizens who live abroad are the military dictatorships of Eritrea and Myanmar.
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  4093. ​ @vinnievu1  all clergy teach their doctrine and try to justify it using the Bible. None of them are trying to resurrect the voices of the authors.
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  4094. Canada has their own Bill of Rights that was enacted in 1960. That piece of paper has been of no use or help during this whole fascist regime. The Canadian courts have totally ignored it.
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  4095.  @Make_Ukraine_Russia_Again  FDR was just American Adolf. He even put minorities in camps.
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  4096. The 10s and 2s have almost de-inverted. The inversion is just 5 bps right now. Once it de-inverts, a US recession will most likely immediately follow.
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  4097. Also, it would be helpful to note that some older cards have DDR3 memory instead of GDDR5. Concerning this: pretend the DDR3 models don't exist. GDDR5 is far faster and superior.
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  4098. They just want more blue congress critters.
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  4099. Fauci is a surprisingly unempirical individual considering he claims to be the Holy Ordained Speaker of Science.
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  4100. It would be less confusing if "BOGO" was actually "BOGOF"
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  4101. People are skeptical about mRNA vaccines because the inventor of the technology tried to blow the whistle about it being misused, but he was silenced (look up the "Trusted News Initiative" sometime). The track record of the recent jabs has been alarming when you look at the data. In particular, they said that the lipid nanoparticles were localized and did not go systemic, but that claim has since been proven false. There is enough evidence at this point to conclude that the current vaccines carry risks for myocarditis and thrombosis due to amyloid formation -- the spike protein basically becomes a prion. And finally, I'll say this: if the big pharma companies didn't have anything to hide regarding these vaccines, they would have just released the safety data rather than fighting it in courts for years, and they wouldn't have needed a literal conspiracy to suppress information if the information was not damning.
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  4102.  @maryhadid  Incorrect. The risk from covid infection is correlated with age and pre-existing medical conditions while the risk of myocarditis from the vaccine is inversely correlated with age: for the young and healthy, the risk of myocarditis from the vaccine is higher than the risk of severe covid infection last time I looked at the data. The risks of thrombosis have yet to be fully calculated because the authorities in affected areas are actively suppressing the information and threatening any coroners who try to report the alarming increase in excess mortality from thrombosis. The consensus view in the dark age was that heretics should be executed. A coerced consensus is a bad estimate of truth when an entrenched power is suppressing information and preventing dialog, which has been the case over the past few years. Advocates of censorship are inherently untrustworthy, and any so-called consensus they conjure up by censoring dissenting views is a false consensus. And it is worth remembering that they have not done long-term safety studies with these vaccines, so any claims of them being safe are made largely from a point of ignorance. If they were proven safe, why were the manufacturers granted legal immunity to prevent lawsuits?
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  4103.  @maryhadid  I responded with a source, but that comment has been disappeared. Another example of censorship.
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  4104. 21:50 pretty sure you meant to say "instead of the usual four".
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  4105. Nowhere on the internet will you see a more wretched hive of scum and villainy than Reddit.
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  4106. To be fair, you can't fix stupid, so no amount of reeducation could fix the stupidness that is the modern left.
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  4107. Since the video has yet to reach 5k likes, I submit the Terra/Luna/UST/Anchor debacle as a particularly poignant example of reflexivity. The illusion of stability and the widely-acknowledged-to-be-unsustainable 20% yield on UST deposits into the Anchor protocol (higher than the rate to borrow UST from the same protocol) drew in many billions of dollars, both from HF/VC speculators and retail bag holders. Terra had a self-reinforcing algorithm that was obviously subject to a death spiral to anyone who thought about it for a few moments. As it went up, it drew in more and more investors looking for the absurd 20% yield; when it went down, it went down hard, automatically hyperinflating Luna in an attempt to paper over the effective bank run that unfolded in UST, which only made UST holders lose confidence even further. All of this was precipitated by an attempt to taper the Anchor ponzi scheme: the yield was dropped to 18% then quickly raised back up to 19.5% to stem the outflows, and then the peg broke within a few days during an administrative event in a liquidity pool, which is when the panic began.
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  4108. Ron Paul: So you went into a bank with weapons drawn, held hostages at gun point, and emptied the vaults before hopping into a getaway car. How is that not a bank robbery? Fauci: This plan was reviewed by our qualified staff and determined up and down the chain to not be a bank robbery. You do not know what you are talking about.
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  4109. The Fed can't print silver. A silver quarter was once worth 25c and is now worth $4-5. Similar kind of thing with Argentina: people who saved their dollars and pesos found one day that they couldn't access them from the banks, and by the time they could the money was worthless (their USD was forcibly converted into pesos during the monetary crisis). Gold, silver, and Bitcoin are hedges against fiat currency debasement; some amount of one's savings ought to be in hard assets. The goal is not to save up for a vacation or some planned expense; the idea is to prepare for unforeseen events.
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  4110.  @newhorizon4066  what do you mean by "fluff"?
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  4111. The ubiquitous "bigger studies need to be done" at the end of each of these is probably equal parts CYA and hire-me-again.
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  4112. "Law of attraction" is a very small facet of a much deeper rabbit hole. Look into chaos magick if you're ready to melt your mind a bit.
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  4113. Everyone knows that the best strategy is to build your own nuclear weapons as quickly as possible while also getting more voting power in the UN, then vote for a ban on production.
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  4114. More of this, please.
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  4115. How is running an exit node a layer of defense in this situation?
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  4116. It is not just gaming that needs to move to Linux. It is the entire business software chain. The vast majority of commercial software used by real businesses in America is available only for Windows.
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  4117. Forgot to mention that the government in California has forced hormone therapy and gender transitions onto children without parental knowledge or consent, resulting sometimes in that child commiting suicide.
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  4118. Any other enthusiastic programmers down for some mutual stimulation?
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  4119. Every election has been "the most important election in US history". Else they couldn't get you to donate to their stupid campaigns every 4 years. In 2028, it'll also be the most important election in US history.
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  4120. ​ @marcelobarros5729  I have a friend who wanted to switch from a software career to a construction career. He ended up going back to software after a while, but I don't remember exactly why.
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  4121. There are no heroes in the Middle East: there are only villains and their victims.
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  4122. People in my town are having to go to ten or more stores to find one where toilet paper and hand sanitizer aren't sold out.
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  4123. There is a group called the Knights of Chaos who have the goal of bringing about small apocalypses because they've bought into the ESG/Malthusian conjecture. How much credit you want to assign depends on how much you believe literal wizards can effect global catastrophes.
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  4124. "Most species alive today will not produce fossils. We can do something about that."
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  4125. @Bisweswar Bose Python and Kivy seems like a good combo. Theoretically, any app made with the two should run cross platform.
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  4126. That is a geographically specific fear. We don't have those kinds of problems in most of the US; only a few large cities have that kind of nonsense.
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  4127. Dr. Goodenough is 100 years old. Legendary.
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  4128. The use case of Bitcoin is less clear to Americans and Europeans except as a speculative instrument because we are blessed with stability compared to the rest of the world, but I guarantee you would rather have Bitcoin than Venezuelan bolivars, Zimbabwean dollars, or rubles if you lived in those countries. With the Taproot upgrade and the expansion of the Lightning Network, synthetic USD stable coins will become available for people without access to a safe banking system via discrete log contracts. Saving the world is a slow grind, and progress is hard to measure. Also, the energy/environmental FUD has been debunked many times, and it isn't like the fiat banking system has no carbon footprint -- when you consider that America bombed Libya and turned it into an open air slave market (with literally millions of people enslaved as a result) just to preserve French colonial moneyary power in Africa, Bitcoin suddenly looks a lot cleaner and more ethical than fiat.
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  4129.  @EconLessons  thanks. I appreciate your candidness btw. You are without a doubt a gentleman, a scholar, and a Florida man.
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  4130.  @EconLessons  I have been working on the components for something like that for a couple of years. The basic notion is that everyone transacts via correspondent credit relationships with clearly defined limits and a universal accounting standard. I wrote the technical specification before I began on the code, and it is close to 40 pages long and still somewhat incomplete.
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  4131. To be fair, the CIA was all up in the Euromaidan uprising, just as much as the FSB. I think it is a bit ridiculous to pretend that America was not meddling in Ukraine before the outbreak of this war -- Ukraine was a playground for our political and bureaucratic elites.
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  4132. Politicians often complain about government abuse of power while they are not wielding that power, and then they just wield the same abusive power as soon as they get the chance.
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  4133. ​ @diamondhands1021  all models are in a graveyard, in a morgue, or on a deathbed. This is a time for oracular priestesses spewing omens in a daimonic, drug-induced frenzy. Welcome to the orgy at the end of the world, where Mystery Babalon the Great beckons you to drink from the cup of her porneia. (It just felt wrong not to mention the Apocalypse of Patmos John somewhere in the comments of a video about a banking crisis.)
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  4134. Happy 20th 22nd birthday
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  4135. You said "man-hours", and it reminded me of something I asked ChatGPT while I was at Sp4rkCon: I asked it "If it takes one worker 90 seconds to dig 1 fence post hole, how much time will it take 9 workers to dig one fence post hole?" It responded with a long winded explanation about using man-hours to calculate effort that ended with "therefore, it takes 9 workers 810 seconds to dig 1 fence post hole".
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  4136. War is what they want. This is Vietnam all over again, just against the nation with the largest nuclear arsenal this time. Send in weapons, levy sanctions, and eventually send conscripts over to die in a pointless, unwinnable war.
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  4137. This is why we've been saying "not your keys, not your cheese/coins" since Mt Gox.
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  4138. America is a declining empire. These economic problems are the superficial symptoms of underlying cultural/political diseases.
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  4139. Meh, probably just the next hobby to replace conspicuous consumption with surreptitious consumption.
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  4140. Moscow Tango Charlie Chapman
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  4141. The god of the Hebrews in the Old Testament not only commanded genocide, he also demanded child sacrifice: Exodus 22:29 "Do not hold back offerings from your granaries or your vats. You must give me the firstborn of your sons." Ezekiel 20:25-26 "Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live; And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through the fire all that openeth the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am the LORD."
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  4142. I play FC2, FC3, BF3, Metro 2033, Red Faction: Armageddon, and Saints Row the 3rd on very high/ultra settings, and I still get tearing 60% of the time without using a frame limiter (60Hz/75Hz). Everything is buttery smooth. My new pc is outperforming my expectations :) Btw, minecraft average of 120fps with maxed settings ;D
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  4143. "Shouldn't Android have prevented this?" Meanwhile, Google: 👀
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  4144. If I lived in Seattle, I would go to the CHAZ, ask what kind of liquors people wanted and how many wanted liquor, and then donate a few hundred dollars worth of alcohol just to see what would happen -- hell, I'd start a gofundme campaign to get them boozed up -- and I'd consider planting little cameras overlooking the main gathering places. It would be a very interesting experiment to see if we can shatter the previous record for communist descent into alcoholism to accompany the new record for "days before communists run out of food".
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  4145. Maybe it has changed in recent versions, but the Go GC used to work by stopping the world long enough for the GC thread to scan memory, then it would release the global lock and deallocate unused objects in the background. Of course, this applies only to memory on the heap; if you can avoid the heap altogether, then you can avoid spending time in the GC stop-the-world (easier said than done, especially if you have data that needs to be accessed concurrently via Mutex/RWMutex).
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  4146. @@nosferratu shouldn't it be able to free memory concurrently? Idk, this topic is new to me -- I never thought much about it in the past.
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  4147. When a dollar is by definition worth less than a dollar, then what is a dollar worth?
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  4148. They stopped her before she could collect even weirder shit. The likelihood she would be able to cause any real damage with airsoft guns and pipes filled with screws is practically nonexistent.
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  4149. Apple iOS is obnoxious. No getting started guide/tutorial when you first boot it up, so new users have no idea how to use the damn thing. Every Android phone I've ever used walked me through how to get to all the important stuff. It's a joke, and the customers are the punchline.
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  4150. Why do you show only the data for months in 2022 to demonstrate how covid was the cause of their tourism industry drying up? Shouldn't that series have started in 2020 when the international travel lockdowns began?
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  4151. Phutureprimitive. Nice.
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  4152. Huh. It's almost like when Biden was enjoined from unilaterally forgiving student loans by SCOTUS because it was a violation of the separation of powers, and then he directly defied the SCOTUS ruling and did it anyway, it was setting a bad precedent. Or I guess if you cared about rule of law, you wouldn't have made an excuse every time when Biden trampled over it. All I see is partisan hackery on both sides, including on this side.
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  4153. Government is just a protection racket with a farcical pretense of legality.
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  4154. Pissing in the wind and wondering why their pants turn yellow.
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  4155. In a world awash in lies, this focus on truth and data is refreshing and appreciated.
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  4156. Perpetual Efficient Recursive Self Improving Artificial Neural Networks, or PERSIANN, is at least as good an acronym as FARSI.
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  4157. The intended audience for the question is experienced programmers who are teaching or mentoring noobs. I recommend python over javascript as it is easier to understand -- that goes for noobs as well as pros. That being said, if you are self-motivated and slightly autistic, you can start with any language.
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  4158. "The number of people that would die of unrest, starvation, and other problems would be higher than the number that would ever die of covid." You're giving them ideas, Styx. I'm pretty sure the bureaucracies are following the CCP model of policies that are anti-life and anti-choice.
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  4159. Well, government overreach and the collapse of the fractional reserve fiat system. I'm pretty sure this covaids bullshit is being blown out of proportion as a cover for the currency reset. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2 https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/TREASURY https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WALCL https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SWPT
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  4160. Anyone else enjoy watching the evolution of Tim's browser ads over time?
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  4161.  @MonarchPoolPlaster  yeah, "all debts". You don't owe someone until after a transaction occurs. If you go up to a vender to engage in commerce, no debt yet exists -- the only way they would have to accept cash would be if you bought something on store credit and then later paid back the store credit. Edit: for clarity, this is a distillation of established SCOTUS precedent.
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  4162.  @lenemanon6357  beware the obvious and self-evident things, for they are rarely true. See my previous comment.
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  4163.  @Zer-ei4co  I went down the left-wing anarchist philosophy rabbit hole today, and they have some salient criticisms of capitalism as an ideology. "Growth for its own sake is cancer logic" is probably the most memorable quote that rings truest. It seems that the world we live in is structured based upon an unsustainable exploitation of natural resources (including people) to feed greedy egregores (they would say "the state" and "corporations", but I'm generalizing). The future seems like one in which we either restructure away from wage-slavery and growth-at-any-cost or one in which the earth dies enough to excise the cancer. We could see the emergence of library economies or a V for Vendetta type society. On the topic of AI/ML, I am currently working on an evolutionary algorithm library in Go. I have a few more kinks to work out with some basic functionality (edge cases I discovered through experimentation that were not in my unit tests), but then I will implement back propagation + quickprop, refactor to handle multiple evolutionary epochs, and make a function for evolving a neural network that applies a few rounds of quickprop/backprop before measuring fitness. The library is FOSS, but I plan to make a cross-platform desktop application and tie it into an app for fine-tuning OpenAI models.
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  4164. The inflation of the 70s was driven by private sector debt/bank deposit expansion according to the data I've seen, so the assertion that only the government can produce inflation in a fiat system is provably false.
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  4165. "Apartheid" is pronounced "apart hide"
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  4166. 18:35 he says "early on" but it sounds like "or Leon".
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  4167. What do your professor and classmates think about Bitcoin and the Lightning Network?
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  4168. It is really weird to frame it as "talking to Putin before talking to Zelensky" since Trump spoke with Zelensky several times already prior to talking to Putin.
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  4169. If anyone needs to convince themselves through subjective experience of the high probability of reincarnation, I recommend doing the Headless Ritual in the woods a few times. (The Headless Ritual comes from the Greek Magical Papyri, written down around 100 BC-400 CE.) I expect paranormal effects to increase in relative frequency and profundity after the Chicoms cause nuclear Armageddon, but there are still synchromystic experiences to be had right now.
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  4170. John Williams is the guy who maintains the old CPI formula at Shadow Stats. He is not your average Fed bobblehead, so using him as an example of how the Fed banksters know what they are doing is unwise imo.
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  4171. I think that with the benefit of hindsight, there are five major advances we can make to our constitutional republic: 1) replace first-past-the-post with combined approval voting; 2) reinstitute a stable and finite monetary system with full reserve banking; 3) constrain the federal budget to 10% the monetary supply, maximum taxation of anything to 10%, and the federal workforce to 10% of the adult population of citizens; 4) repudiate and explicitly ban SCOTUS from using the "prevailing government interest" bullshit excuse for infringing on civil rights; 5) guarantee the individual right to bodily, psychological, and spiritual autonomy.
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  4172. Sounds like some open source DIY cars need to be designed and the files widely distributed. If I could build my own car in my garage with a 3d printer, a CNC milling machine, and some common parts from a hardware store, I'd probably do it.
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  4173.  @russwhite8872  I shed a single gangsta tear for my fallen homies. Legend has it that such tears contain venom.
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  4174. ESG is an eco-fascist cult movement. Its goal is to impoverish the world and kill billions of people as a sacrifice to their god, "the environment".
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  4175. Trump did not have a balanced budget. He oversaw larger deficit spending than Obama.
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  4176. Was messaging someone on phone when Styx said "most people aren't even paying attention at this point in the video".
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  4177. Credit Suisse has been a slow moving trainwreck for a decade. Everyone knew they would eventually fail. It's not at all surprising.
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  4178. Technically, they could denominate all their international transactions in dollars and then conduct the actual transaction with bitcoins. For large Bitcoin transactions, the standard final settlement time is 1 hour, and the volatility can be removed as a relevant concern by requiring a premium and then applying any excess after conversion as a credit for the next transaction, or the excess can be returned via the Bitcoin network. The main problems with such a scheme are that the Bitcoin market is not equally liquid in every jurisdiction, and a lot of financial services companies engaged in the Bitcoin market also don't want to run afoul of US sanctions.
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  4179. The balance of history has shown that wages are the last to rise or fall in periods of inflation and deflation respectively. Therefore, the best scenario for both laborers and pensioners is deflation.
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  4180. I personally experienced this chaos theory/synchronicity effect two nights ago: as I was sitting on the ground on the edge of a large woodland and a large wetland, a Florida black bear walked out of the woods right in front of me -- only 12 feet away. He looked at me and walked toward and past me, about 3 feet away from where I sat. He had exited the woodland via a small trail that forked 10 yards back: had he gone right instead of left, he would have been breathing down my neck; however, earlier this year, I spent an hour pruning and widening the left path to make it easier to traverse, so the bear took the path of least resistance. Had I not randomly decided to prune that path, it might have instead walked right into me from behind, and I likely wouldn't have kept my cool quite as well as I did and might have gotten mauled.
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  4181. When I read "Redacted" in the spreadsheet, I thought the name had been redacted lol
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  4182. The damage from this political tribalism could be avoided if we eschewed this antiquated first-past-the-post garbage electoral method and replaced it with a more informative cardinal voting method, e.g. score voting or score runoff voting. There is no legitimate reason to have a worse method for choosing leaders than we have for reviewing products on Amazon.
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  4183. The NAACP doesn't consider the term "colored people" offensive, so neither do I
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  4184. 3:47 damned time traveling socialists
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  4185. Utopian tyrannies are always focused on making reality into a fiction.
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  4186. 21:40 It is somewhat funny that the word ThePrimeagen couldn't remember was "amnesia".
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  4187. They are not rebels anymore. They are the government.
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  4188. Russia's own propaganda is full of maps showing Russia annexing Scandinavia and much of continental Europe, so it's not that much of a stretch to say that they want conquest.
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  4189. "Open source model" is largely a misnomer imo. They are open weight models, like freeware compiled programs
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  4190. Ah, the good old FAGMAN companies: F***book, Amazon, Googol, Micropeensoft, Appul, and Nutflix
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  4191. Wtf? Have you not seen a photo of her Jamaican father? He's clearly black. This is schizo nonsense.
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  4192. I think the advice about heating during the day and turning it off at night is aimed at managing power grid load more than anything about saving "the planet" -- they are probably trying to hobble along with shitty infrastructure since they don't have the funds to upgrade it. South Africa being a real world leader in this regard, apparently.
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  4193. Conference talks are just Livestreaming IRL. Cool.
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  4194. The idea that everyone should keep a database with the identity information for everyone they transact with in cash is retarded, and the idea that all crypto should be subject to KYC requirements as well is equally retarded. Digital cash must be neutral and unmolested by the tendrils of government busybodies.
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  4195. I have noticed you pronounce "recount" like "recant" pretty frequently. Might want to be a bit more careful since they are basically antonyms.
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  4196. I appreciate calling out the inappropriately applied Keynesian analysis. Keynes was correct about the ills of the gold standard as pursued by the UK government during the Great Depression, but that was a specific scenario that does not apply in a modern context.
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  4197. Interesting that YouTube decided to show this on my homepage despite the fact I'm not subscribed and don't watch this channel. Also interesting that military personnel are in lockdown mode, tanks are being moved across the nation, California has been locked down, and leaks from the military are that martial law will be declared Monday. Chinese media have been blaming the US military for kung flu, saying it's a bioweapon; Chinese naval vessels have been laser targeting US vessels for months. We might be on the precipice of global war.
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  4198. Income inequality is largely not an issue. However, the concentration of wealth and resources into fewer and fewer hands is an actual problem for society, and it is a feature of our monetary system rather than a bug: those with more assets get more favorable loan agreements and thus can buy more assets.
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  4199.  @jeffreykennedy5953  the Federal Reserve and the federal government have the most assets of any entity. They suck at creating jobs and wealth.
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  4200. The first use of any new technology tends to be evil. It's the story of the flood as elucidated by Enoch almost every time: the patterns of the cosmos are revealed and then used for power, and cataclysm results. For example, the first use of nuclear power was to obliterate half the Christians in Japan; and the first use of financial "deplatforming" by Chase Manhattan was to steal the assets of Jews in France to make it easier for the Nazis to hunt them down.
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  4201. My guess is that the negative interest rates will primarily affect the affluent as is the case in Europe.
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  4202. To be fair, Keynes himself was correct in his observations and very honest about the fact that his economic models were suited only to the totalitarian governments of the time. His followers are dogmatic rather than observant. It is somewhat like how Jesus was a good man but his worshippers have committed all sorts of evils.
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  4203. Fully vaginated/jabinated. Insanity.
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  4204. I have occasionally heard a pulsating low frequency that peaks around 80Hz before dropping back down to about 50Hz. Nobody else has ever heard it. I've always thought it was some kind of frog or toad.
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  4205. Interesting thing to consider: Wikileaks published some communications that indicated that the gold futures market was created specifically to engineer volatility and market risk to dissuade Americans from "hoarding gold". If the Comex breaks down, volatility will probably drop, and market risk weighting could also drop as a result. Credit risk is quickly becoming the biggest systemic risk, so we could see gold return to prominence as the counterparty ponzi scheme collapses. However, since bitcoin is a harder money than gold and has more predictable and transparent market dynamics, I think it is a better asset to stack. Do we really want to transition from a world controlled by banks issuing fiat to a world controlled by banks using gold? I think a decentralized system will be better and more credibly neutral.
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  4206.  @903boater  weaponry is one of the few things we actually do export. Looks like we (or Israel) nuked an Iranian military base on June 26th.
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  4207. This makes me want to play Civ V. I haven't committed nuclear war atrocities in a while.
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  4208. ​ @ronblack7870 law suits against the government take years to work through the courts. Injunctive relief was granted because the deadline is fast approaching.
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  4209. Zarathustra (or rather, Nietzsche as Zarathustra) one said that you must have chaos in you to give birth to a dancing star. This channel is a good example of that principle in action imo.
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  4210. I have always wondered about this but never was able to figure it out without my eyes glazing over.
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  4211. The crazy bitch who posted a photo with a prosthetic severed Trump head was cancelled and visited by law enforcement. I haven't heard of any recent similar cases in which a TDSer was visited by LEOs for posting unhinged stuff, but I wouldn't be surprised either way.
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  4212. The eugenics narrative was largely pushed by the progressives. Now, they push the climate change narrative. Both narratives have a veneer of scientific legitimacy. Both narratives involve increasing the governmental power of their proponents. Both narratives require squashing all dissenting voices as being "science deniers" or "unscientific." The intersection of politics and science results almost exclusively in human suffering: among other examples, it caused famines in the Soviet Union and sterilizations in the US and Nazi Germany.
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  4213. The SW Expanded Universe already covered events after the Battle of Endor: Han and Leia have three children (Anakin, Jaina, and Jacen) who all become Jedi; Luke has a number of romantic flings/brief marriages and trains his son, Ben, as a Jedi; an extra-galactic colonial armada invades the outer rim and eventually terraforms Coruscant into a copy of their home planet; two of the Solo children die in the resulting madness of the invasion, including Jacen, who undergoes a compelling villain's journey to become Darth Caedus. There was plenty of very well-written material to draw from, but I guess that Catheter Kennedy, Jar-Jar Abrams, and Ruin Johnson figured that engaging narrative and intriguing character development are just not woke enough. The sequel trilogy should have been Jacen Solo's epic war heroism, his descent into darkness, and the tragedy of his death at the blade of his own sister. The main reason Jacen Solo became Darth Caedus was to consolidate power in preparation for a war against a prophetic vision of a warmongering villain -- he literally becomes the enemy he wanted to prevent, and he pays the ultimate price for it. At the end of episode 7, we would leave the theater shaken in horror at Anakin's sacrifice and the torture Jacen suffered in captivity. At the end of episode 8, we would leave reveling in the victory he claimed from his predicament though uneasy by our hero's growing corruption. At the end of episode 9, we would leave feeling distraught by our hero's unredeemable fall from grace and the grief and anger tearing apart the remnants of the Solo family -- the galaxy is one large scar from a decade of constant warfare; the Solo dynasty is a husk of what it once was; countless Jedi have died and Luke has disappeared -- there is no longer anything to fear, but all hope is lost. Now that is a story worth telling in cinematic form.
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  4214. This benefits them both, so why wouldn't they get into silly flame wars?
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  4215.  @craigscott2315  gold is not backed by the mining effort. The mining effort is a sunk cost. You can't redeem your gold for the labor and resources used to mine and refine it.
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  4216.  @craigscott2315  I get it. I'm just saying that gold is not "backed" by anything. Things have value only in a subjective sense, that is why we have markets: to assign prices to things to make it easier to compare the subjective value you assign to something against the value others demand/offer in exchange.
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  4217. Ctrl+shift+esc has been my preferred shortcut for years.
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  4218. Wow.
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  4219. I regularly find Zeihan does not know what he's talking about, e.g. Bitcoin or quantum computing. He still talks with the same conviction on the things he knows less than nothing about as he does the things that I cannot prove he knows nothing about, so I am suspicious of his analysis on any topic.
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  4220. If they printed and handed out $10k for every man, woman, and child in America, that would increase M2 by about $3T, or roughly 14%. You can't blame the inflation on just the direct stimulus of ~$3k per qualifying tax payer, which was a pittance compared to what they printed for corporations and cronies, but that is what they'll do to justify printing just for the cronies the next time around.
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  4221. Strict determinism is a dying superstition.
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  4222. The only way to "get money out of politics" is to replace first-past-the-post with score voting. Bees don't have to worry about lobbyists.
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  4223.  @judymckee5992  "It's a big club, and you ain't in it -- and it's the same club they use to beat you over the head" -- George Carlin
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  4224. I can envision the Ethereum reflexivity thing being more of a narrative thing for hype than an actual correlation with price changes.
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  4225. When I saw the episode titles for Laura Loomer and the Financial Patriarchy, I thought "wtf" for both of them.
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  4226. Price jump was likely due to SLV inflows (from hedgies buying loads of SLV options to scalp higher implied volatility) and dealers trying to hedge positions while simultaneously renewing inventory. Bid ask spread increased from $0.10 to $1.
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  4227. Trump's global gay rights policy is just crypto-islamophobia; isn't that how the SJWs see it?
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  4228. I highly recommend the book Star.Ships: a Prehistory of the Spirits by Gordon White. He traces the prominent mystery religion mythemes through the millennia to their probable origins in the beliefs and rituals of early human as they left Sundaland.
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  4229. That dude looks like a character that Spiffing Brit would play.
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  4230. You can be creepy and affectionate simultaneously -- it's technically true. Kinda like how dogs can eat cat food.
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  4231. That sponsorship might end up causing some trouble.
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  4232. I wouldn't call Bukele an authoritarian. I have yet to hear a single claim that was not debunked.
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  4233. "Climate" is just a word denoting a cultural construct.
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  4234. My mom is half black, a quarter Irish, and a quarter Cherokee. My dad is half Swedish and half German. It really sickens me that these supposed "anti-racists" don't want people like me to exist.
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  4235. The assertion that building infrastructure is primarily and inevitably the job of the government is false. Private enterprise built out the railway infrastructure in America, for example. It is just a modern assumption that government takes a primary role in infrastructure. The most important thing the government provides the economy is rule of law and mechanisms for resolving conflicts nonviolently, and even that has competition from the private sector (e.g. arbitration).
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  4236. I like Ron Paul too (hell, I voted for him in 2012), but I don't like hearing eulogies for a living man.
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  4237. Welfare should be privately funded, that way only the funds achieving their goals will survive to attract more donations. An attractive way to do this would be to use endowments to generate investment income that can then be used to fund welfare programs. This would eliminate government guns from the welfare system and allow the most sustainable and beneficial dynamics (voluntary association) to take over.
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  4238. I ran the numbers this morning, and the Fed will accrue a loss of $10-30B over the next 12 months versus total capital of just $25B. The Fed is risking bankruptcy with this policy path.
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  4239. Anyone else think Wefwafwa's accent is beautiful, or am I crazy?
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  4240. A reasonable compromise would be to just set a maximum speed in the car equal to 10mph above the highest speed limit in the state, and make that a requirement for drivers who get two speeding tickets in a single calendar year.
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  4241. The yield curve just deinverted a few days ago indicating the start of a recession, and the jobs growth numbers have been substantially revised downward, so at least one of those two keys should be false.
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  4242. Well, I was subscribed to this channel for the last 5 years or so, but this is just pathetic. TF seems to have become a bone fide narcissist.
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  4243. Technically, they can't stop you from posting if you wanted to set up your own RSS feed, but they can prevent it from showing up on their app. Edit: and if you host your RSS feed with their infrastructure, they can definitely take that down.
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  4244. Hail Nemesis, daughter of Justice,
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  4245. Humbler of the arrogant,
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  4246. Subduer of the insolent:
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  4247. Do not forget us.
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  4248. Bitcoin is optimized for decentralization, security, and hardness. Ethereum can be shutdown by AWS or Infura because ordinary people can't run their own nodes; EOS has such a bloated blockchain that there are only a few archival nodes holding the network together. All these utility token shitcoins have this problem of being centralized. Additionally, many of these shitcoins have non-credible monetary policy and less network security. There is one altcoin with merit that does not have the bloat, and it is one of the few proof-of-work altcoins that I currently like: Beam. Beam has very clever and cool zero knowledge cryptographic technology that allows me to run a full node on my phone, and they are actively developing new ways to use these maths to carry out confidential yet verifiable DeFi.
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  4249.  @haph2087  His dyslexia was running wild in this one, yeah.
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  4250.  @doctorgears9358  People have known the way to prevent Sybil attacks for a very long time, yet nobody implements it: use Hashcash to increase the cost of faking accounts, etc. A real user won't mind if a web worker thread spins for a second in the background to compute some proof-of-work to complete an action, but it would be a major problem for a service that fakes user engagement. It is really straight-forward to implement, too, so I don't get why people are against it.
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  4251. Age is not a number. It is obviously a vector. Duh.
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  4252. Will the genocide in Gaza be discussed in any detail when Israel inevitably breaks the next ceasefire agreement and resumes shooting children in the streets?
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  4253. Here in Florida, we already live almost exclusively in air conditioning.
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  4254. The goal of Nostr is admirable, but the execution lacks actual vision. It is an uninformed Bitcoiner larp. Every time I have looked through the specs to see if it was something I wanted to implement or could somehow learn from, I was disappointed.
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  4255. Gold is making new nominal ATHs. Adjusted for inflation, it is generally holding okay over the long term.
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  4256. Except that the numbers are being severely warped by the PPP and the extra unemployment benefits. We don't know what the real economy looks like because of all the centralized meddling. All this money printing and deficit spending will have a cost.
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  4257. The vast majority of the monetary system is an accounting trick.
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  4258. The intersection of tragedy and comedy: government programs leading to the destruction of the economy from which the government gains its sustenance. Hopefully y'all can establish some successful anarchist communities once the UK government completes its suicide.
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  4259. For those who want to kick out the dreamers, how many generations back do we look for extracting reparations from the people presently alive? If we punish the DACA kids for their parents' sins, do we also punish whites whose ancestors voted for Andrew Jackson? Where do you draw the line, and how do you justify drawing it there? In my opinion, punishing either group will do no good for anyone: the people whose jobs were lost to the DACA kids' parents will not be benefitted by kicking out the dreamers, and my dead Cherokee ancestors will not be benefitted by my white neighbors getting taxed extra hard or something. If you need evidence of how this type of thinking unravels your society, just look at land expropriation in Zimbabwe. If DACA kids become US citizens, whatever part of the debt they contributed to through using food stamps or whatnot becomes their liability rather than just ours. So long as they work and pay taxes, they ought to be able to stay, though perhaps expedited naturalization should come with an additional price tag.
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  4260. This is the first video I have seen with this presenter. He did a really good job. Kudos, man.
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  4261. It is easy to knock down straw men, but he even fails at that by contradicting his earlier claim that the supply is not limited when complaining about how bitcoiners want to pump the price by increasing demand. Every factual statement he made in this unhinged screed was wrong. He clearly hasn't done any research for himself -- I wonder who paid him to regurgitate this economically illiterate nonsense. Deciding to publish this video was unwittingly a decision to humiliate himself, but something tells me he lacks the humility necessary to see it and correct his errors in fact and reasoning.
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  4262. A note on US tax treatment: given a fixed monthly payment, if the interest rate is higher, you'll end up paying less in taxes. This is because interest expenses can be deducted from taxable income, and the lower sale price means your real estate tax will be lower. The way the homestead exemption works is that the assessed property value changes more slowly than market conditions, so if you buy a house at a peak, you'll be saddled with a high tax bill until you sell (at a loss) and buy a new house at the lower price. So in general, you're better off with a lower house value and higher interest rate all else being equal.
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  4263. It is illogical to say that weak hands are equivalent to "discipline". Schiff really can't get his head on straight about Bitcoin.
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  4264. I think that constraining the government to 10% of the GDP or money supply is a reasonable compromise between anarcho-capitalism and the need for a state to protect rights.
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  4265. Rumors on the internet being reported as facts. Truly the next generation to surpass CNN.
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  4266. They got a few details wrong regarding the Libya saga: the gold dinar was a threat to the East African Franc, which is controlled by France, not the dollar; this was confirmed in Hillary's leaked emails. So those slave markets in Libya are transacting in francs, not dollars. The fact that France uses the euro and ceded its domestic monetary sovereignty to the EU just makes the scenario that much more cynical and fucked up.
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  4267. Hopefully he's been sinking some of those winnings into gold and silver so it isn't all inflated away.
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  4268. Defaulting on dollar denominated bonds decreases demand for dollars because they are no longer needed to pay off the bonds, but at the same time it can cause credit contagion increasing demand for reserve assets.
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  4269. The commercial software industry is in this state of fuck because everything has been poisoned by fiat money bullshit.
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  4270. Wait a minute, these riots have actually hit quite a few small towns within driving distance of the main cities. Check out Michael Tracy's work on it and Tybosaurus Rex's videos on the experience of militias guarding small towns when the riots first started. According to Tybosaurus Rex, antifa sends scouts to find soft targets first, then they send in an agitator to scare people, then they send more scouts at night to make sure the way is clear, and then they send in their useful-idiot protesters and rioters; if there is a show of force when the scouts appear the second time, the riot is averted. It has been a few months since I saw his videos explaining it, so I might be misremembering some of it, but that is the general idea. In Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, just across the state border from and a satellite city of Spokane, Washington, hundreds of people showed up with their guns to maintain the peace; Spokane burned, but Coeur d'Alene remains intact. Some useful-idiot protesters did try marching through with their signs, but it was a pathetic affair, as they were not as emboldened as their riotous counterparts in southern Idaho cities; some scout vehicles were driving around (this is my interpretation from watching livestream footage), but they ultimately did not organize a riot. Check out North Country Off Grid for footage from that event (videos titled "Antifa in the House", "Protecting the Neighborhood", and "Idaho welcome party") -- in one of the videos, a random woman offers her thanks to the militia men as she walks past. It is quite interesting.
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  4271. ​ @clickrush The article linked in the description contains a link to another article written by Phylum about several threat actors doing supply chain attacks through PyPI. In those cases, the flat namespace was not really the cause of the issue, and the blacklisting by PyPI admins was a cat and mouse game. Pretty good articles if you're interested in InfoSec stuff.
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  4272. Positive affirmation of the day: pineapples on pizza cannot harm you. They are no threat to anyone. You can always pick them off and throw them in the trash if you want to -- pineapples on pizza have no power over you.
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  4273. As a further complication, there are different kinds of mystical experiences: specific point in time vs eternity/outside of time; entities vs emptiness/totality; specific place vs nonspecific place vs outside of space; etc.
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  4274. Love of Sophia, the goddess of wisdom, is the literal meaning of "philosophy". All the pagan sages of the ancient world were renowned for their wisdom and not their intelligence.
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  4275. I think your analysis misses an important motivation behind Zelensky's disbelief in US-backed diplomacy: 4 years is not a long time. Perhaps Putin will abide by an agreement Trump makes, but Trump will leave office, and then what?
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  4276. In Bruges is an excellent movie.
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  4277. I do not think the issue is that she was a "not good person" but rather that she is not a conscientious person. The difference between entering a maelstrom and passing it by is being able to recognize it before you get too close.
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  4278. In the military?
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  4279. "Nothing has ever been more illegal..." I think Epstein's ghost would beg to differ.
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  4280. Fvck governments.
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  4281. I can think of a few things a bit lower than that
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  4282. Fact Check: Man says the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. False. The sun is not orbiting Earth -- Earth is rotating. Permanent ban implemented to crush the Russian puppet.
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  4283. Wait a minute, Styx. The recession started in 2018 when J Pow raised rates too quickly. The recessionary foreshocks were the treasury yield curve inversions of 2018 and the repo market collapse in August 2019. Anyone with marginal understanding of the monetary system could see it coming. COVID-666 is just the frosting on the face.
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  4284. I prefer my depictions of Jesus to have a goat-like head, hooves, breasts, and scales -- not historically accurate, but symbolically far superior imo.
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  4285. I agree with everything you said except your omission of proper punctuation.
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  4286. Satoshi Nakamoto himself used the term "bitcoins". The correct usage is to say "bitcoins" when referring to the currency units and "Bitcoin" when referring to the network or the technology as a whole, or when using it as an adjective.
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  4287. 3:24 missed the opportunity to say "you humans" instead of just "humans"
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  4288. Russia has been cancelled for touching Ukraine inappropriately.
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  4289. Twenty bucks says Bolton advised the Chicoms to start a war with India to cull off some of the 40% unemployed workers before an uprising develops there.
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  4290. This is too much effort for an April fool's day joke. This is fucking surreal.
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  4291. ​ @lizard450 modern Russia is like the Russian empire, but then again so was the USSR.
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  4292.  @yvrelna  You're right about it being unhealthy. I'm going to switch to samurai armor and a katana instead. Guns are too dangerous.
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  4293. Kinda hilarious that Schiff's main fund has posted losses for 10 years, and when someone pointed out that he has been wrong for 10 years, he responded with "that's where you're wrong, because I've been right for ten years." Lol
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  4294. "could be", eh? Seems pretty close to me.
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  4295. Headline: People are mad at each other. Who should we point at and say, "this is your fault that we're all ready for violence"?
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  4296. I'm somewhat curious to see how the Moto G Stylus holds up, though that might be just because I have one.
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  4297. High pitched ringing throughout
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  4298. "Who will serve our coffee in Prett? Who will serve our sandwiches?"
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  4299. We need a new law requiring that firmware source code must be made available to customers as part of the sale. If people cannot use the items they buy, then it is consumer fraud.
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  4300.  @Caitlin_TheGreat  Actually, if you look at the electoral college map from the last presidential election, it is clear that the vast majority of counties and municipalities supported Trump more than Hillary. The value of the nation is not merely the number of its citizens, regardless of what they do or where they live -- maybe it sounds a bit too tree-hugging hippy dippy, but the land contributes significantly to the health of the nation; in fact, if the whole country were like NYC or San Francisco, we would all have starved a long time ago. Considering how much the city dwelling Democrats rely upon the work of the food producing rural Republicans, it makes no sense to fully disenfranchise the majority of the nation's communities for the sake of "fairly representing" the will of those crazy enough to jam themselves into cramped cement boxes all over each other in NYC and then pay $5k a month in rent for that cramped cement box. If San Francisco votes away the water rights of the towns on its outskirts, is that somehow "fair" just because of the higher population? Without city folk paying exorbitant taxes from their proximity to the funny money banking warlords, farmers would arguably have shittier roads and fewer super carriers roaming the South Pacific on their behalf; without farmers producing food, city folk would have no food. You can't eat money, but money and waste are all that a city produces. Abolishing the electoral college would effectively mean that those farmers who grow all the food for the city folk no longer have any say in how the executive branch is run in this country -- disenfranchisement of the sharecroppers was tried by Jim Crow, and it was ended because it was a bad idea.
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  4301. "Do your safety squint." Lol
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  4302. Actually, just do this: (max socket wattage / stock voltage) * OC voltage. If your CPU is maxing out the wattage, then there's your bottleneck. Physics ftw: W = V * A; ∴ A = W / V; ∴ W_f = A * V_f = (W_i / V_i) * V_f
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  4303. The laws cited make no mention of the classification system, which was created by executive orders for bureaucratic control of information that may be subject to those laws. The president does not have total discretion to reveal information protected by those laws as far as I'm aware.
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  4304.  @jsross33  the wording of the statute does not support this notion as the classification system did not exist when it was written, nor does it mention any executive privilege or presidential discretion in determining what information is covered by the statutes. The fact that a former president was never prosecuted holds some weight as precedent, but I'm unsure where that comes from other than "we don't hate the guy enough because he isn't Orange".
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  4305.  @jsross33  again, the statutes cited in the warrant make no mention of the classification system. Does that court case involve the Espionage Act and explicitly clarify that POTUS decides what information does or does not count as protected under those statutes?
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  4306.  @jsross33  the constitution does not mention anything about information that could advantage a foreign nation. Article I, Section 8 lists the following as powers of Congress: "To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval forces;" and "To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Office thereof." Article II, Section 2 declares that the President is "Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States". Is the argument that this role as Commander in Chief supercedes any requirements created by Congress in the Espionage Act? It seems to me that the powers of Congress are more extensive in this regard.
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  4307.  @jsross33  Navy v Egan held only that the President has the authority to sequester sensitive information and grant authorization to access it. "This Court has recognized the Government's 'compelling interest' in withholding national security information from unauthorized persons in the course of executive business. ... The authority to protect such information falls on the President as head of the Executive Branch and as Commander in Chief." It is not clear from the ruling that the President can decide what does or does not constitute information as described by the Espionage Act (18 USC 792-799), and the ruling has nothing to do with the Espionage Act but rather the procedures for firing someone who lacks adequate security clearances.
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  4308.  @jsross33  fwiw, I'm hoping you are correct. Perhaps it is a distinction without a difference. But even the quote from that SCOTUS case that you cited does not mention the power to declassify or disseminate any information, regardless of how it might endanger the national security or advantage a foreign nation; it rather concerns the power to prevent such dissemination through the classification system. The source you cite does not say what you think it says, so I remain unconvinced. However, if this unenumerated power of deciding what information is or is not sensitive is somehow implicit in the Commander in Chief role rather than the Congress, then that would be sufficient.
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  4309. Working on it. I'm about 6k words into the draft spec.
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  4310. Sue these fools into oblivion. Take out FB's section 230 protections while you're at it.
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  4311.  @lovepeaceisneverguaranteed7385  I just wanted to make sure this comment section was balanced as all things should be.
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  4312.  @lovepeaceisneverguaranteed7385  Thanos is a nihilist, hence the "balanced as all things should be" comment.
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  4313. Like SRI and ESG, this is just a PR campaign to reflate the goodwill line item on their balance sheets.
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  4314. She literally advocated for provoking global nuclear war. She's about as reckless and feckless as they come.
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  4315.  @NoName-xi6jz  Or, radical idea, the feds could repeal the NFA and just sell the surplus to the citizenry as they used to before FDR.
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  4316.  @ohyeah3365  Bitcoin fixes this: without being able to conjure money into existence, as would be the case on a Bitcoin standard, this whole system of collateralizing assets to spend money that didn't previously exist would no longer function; the only way to spend money would be honestly. The Cantillionaires do not expend any of their monetary power when they spend money because they create it out of thin air -- they instead spend our monetary power with their inflationary kleptocracy. On a Bitcoin standard, since bitcoin cannot be created by banks out of thin air, interest rates would be positive in real terms and assets would deflate over time, removing the Cantillon effects entirely. No oligarchy would be able to survive off of grift alone; our system would instead become meritocratic.
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  4317. A single AA battery cannot make that kind of explosion, no matter what you do with capacitors.
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  4318. Some people will say that nothing before Bretton Woods can be called the "reserve currency" because they say reserves are held only by central banks, but I think that it is reasonable to rebut by pointing out that the banking model itself involves reserves even in lieu of a central bank.
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  4319. When I looked into this tier-whatever claim about gold, I at first thought it was legit, but then found it was an unwarranted extrapolation of largely indecipherable bankster mumbo-jumbo publications. The actual Basel-III regulations, iirc, incentivize banks to offset their physical bullion with covered short paper positions to decrease the risk weighting or something like that. What's more interesting is the apparent fact that the physical universe is an illusion of the mind. This world is bizarre from top to bottom.
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  4320. J6 was clearly a psyop. If Trump was truly responsible for it, the Biden admin wouldn't be hiding all the info about the federal agents who infiltrated the protesters and provoked the riot. Ever heard of Ray Epps?
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  4321. The mind control is not imparted by the vaccine, but rather it is the prerequisite for accepting the vaccine.
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  4322. 58% of GDP being government spending is just insane. Contrary to the claim of the presenter, this is, in fact, a problem in and of itself. Governments do not produce -- they primarily consume. Government spending does not contribute to production with the same efficacy as private sector activity, else communist centralization of production would have worked instead of failing every time it has been tried. The smaller the private sector relative to the public sector, the closer a country edges toward total economic chaos and destruction.
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  4323. Another thing to consider about the dark age was the period of minimal solar activity degrading crop harvests, further diverting human effort to basic survival.
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  4324. Lmao wtf
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  4325. Don't go down the alt-light rear adjacent rabbit hole.
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  4326.  @lordhumongus8669  Lord Shiva is far more powerful imo
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  4327. @404HumanNotFound  hmm. I have not used Go to make a web app yet, so I can't say what is the standard practice for building web apps in Go. However, I have made a genetic algorithm library with it (stopped dev work on it after getting very ill a couple years ago), and I used the goroutines explicitly for parallelism, which worked well and pinned my CPU utilization at 100% for all 8 cores. I can thus say with certainty that Goroutines can be used for parallelism rather than merely for concurrency, but idk what is more common among devs who use it regularly.
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  4328.  @404HumanNotFound  my response got censored. I have no idea why. All I said was that I wasn't sure about standard practice for developing web apps in Go, but that I have used Goroutines for parallelism effectively in the past (ran all 8 CPU cores at 100%).
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  4329.  @vinusuhas4978  how what? If the question is about how Goroutines can be useful for both parallelism and concurrency, the answer is simple: Go uses green threads that are load balanced between OS threads. You can have a Goroutine crunching numbers, utilizing a whole OS thread itself, while more Goroutines wait for I/O to complete in their own OS thread, and the Go runtime manages the whole thing automagically.
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  4330.  @vinusuhas4978  I tried explaining, but ThemTube's gestapobots censored me yet again. Fucking annoying as shit.
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  4331.  @vinusuhas4978  https://youtu.be/5LfqrEGwDmE
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  4332.  @vinusuhas4978  osks sbdbdhdjdjdjdnddbdb dbddhd
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  4333. I can't reply to people on here because YouTube is censoring my comments
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  4334. The arrests made as part of the Tornado Cash crackdown were not made in the US; in the US, code is protected speech. Elsewhere, freedom of speech is not as carefully guarded. The UK and Canad in particular just do not have freedom of speech at all.
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  4335. It already is outdated. All rebel groups started waving the interim government flag a day or two ago.
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  4336. To his credit, Sanders did get the Fed audited for the first and only time in its history. Crazy shit in that GAO report.
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  4337. I like what Joseph Wang has to say about the Fed: it's a bunch of incompetent bureaucrats and academics who've never had a real job, can't be fired, and select for group-think/obedience rather than competence. You can always count on the Fed to snap defeat from the jaws of victory.
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  4338. Cool channel. I just found it. Have you considered doing some kind of outro/conclusion at the end of the video instead of just cutting off? It could be as simple as "that's it. Peace." followed by a second or two of fading to black as you shut off the camera or whatever. Also, what is the film production bachelor program like?
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  4339. *cough* fuck haters
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  4340. Bro, you need to move from Patreon to SubscribeStar. Patreon is going down, and they'll likely take everyone with them.
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  4341. The recession is already on its way -- we've had a persistent yield curve inversion in eurodollar futures for months, and we have had a few short inversions in the TSY yield curve -- the Fed just wants to take credit for what is already baked in because it has egg on its face for its failed "transitory" prediction.
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  4342. Who said Californians like or want good ideas? I think the continuation of bad ideas fits them.
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  4343. "There are still peoples and herds somewhere, but not with us, my brothers: here there are states. ... I offer you this sign: every people speaks its own language of good and evil: its neighbor does not understand this language. It invented this language for itself in custom and law. But the state lies in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it says, it lies -- and whatever it has, it has stolen. Everything about it is false; it bites with stolen teeth. Even its belly is false. Confusion of the language of good and evil; I offer you this sign as the sign of the state." Thus Spake Zarathustra
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  4344. One of the most significant problems is the election method itself: plurality voting leads necessarily to the creation of political parties and tends toward a two-party system. What we need is to replace plurality with range/score voting. We currently have a better system for rating products on Amazon than we have for selecting politicians. Let that sink in for a moment.
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  4345. Seeing a dementia smile always makes me sad because my grandma died from dementia complications.
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  4346. How about the history of the Mormon tradition of food storage?
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  4347. Another way to look at the Event 201 and whatnot: it they really are the Illuminati, they probably have seers that can predict the future; precognition has been proven definitively in laboratory studies. It is more likely that they are primarily just predicting things well rather orchestrating them.
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  4348. Kinda like solid rocket fuel in a way.
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  4349. You either die a hero, or live long enough to become a villain.
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  4350. So was the USSR not a dictatorship by her reckoning?
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  4351. The Pound Sterling was once literally a troy pound of sterling silver. The troy system of weights and measurements is base 12, i.e. 12 ounces per pound. So 240 pence = 1 pound = 12 ounces; 1 ounce = 20 pence; 12 pence = 1 shilling; etc. Still inconsistent and confusing -- it is almost like they couldn't make up their mind whether they preferred doing math in base 10 (with the 20:1 conversion rates) or in base 12.
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  4352. Hopefully interesting non-political stuff gets onto Rumble. It looks like it is all weird crypto stuff, politics, and live streams. My favorite formats are video essays (e.g. Asianomics) and presentations of creativity (e.g. Ethoslab), and I have not seen any of either on Rumble.
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  4353. Meditation/self-hypnosis before falling asleep allows conscious awareness to reassert itself in a subsequent hypnogogic or hypnopompic state during a sleep cycle in my experience. Lucid dreams can be exited, after which astral projection can be achieved, though it can be difficult to get past the Guardian of the Threshold as it is called.
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  4354. The same is largely true of US banks post Dodd-Frank/Basel III: if a US fiduciary goes bankrupt, any amount above $250k gets taken in exchange for worthless bank shares in what is called a bail-in. Recent FDIC meeting was leaked where they talked about this, and they seemed to indicate that amounts under $250k would also be subject to future bail-ins.
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  4355. He who has the gold makes the rules. Turning lead into gold is the purpose of the malicious alchemists in the Federal Machine: lead bullets become economic resources. They conjure money out of nothing via the Mandrake Mechanism to enslave the world with debt. The dollar payment system is just a clever system of economic shackles.
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  4356. The microphone thing was pretty funny
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  4357. Talk about burying the lead. Could you at least discuss the proposed new regulations that are alluded to in the title? Wtf?
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  4358. Ya gotdang neocon hippy with a calculator. Rabble rabble rabble.
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  4359. As Max Stirner said, you own only the right you can secure by your own might. Anything else is a foreign privilege that can be taken away as easily as it was received.
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  4360. The Fed has exhausted every money printing option available to them. They want to buy ETFs to boost stock market prices, similar to the Bank of Japan (which owns 80% of all outstanding ETFs on the Japanese stock market), but cannot yet legally do so. By the end of next year, it'll likely own substantially everything in America, the result of a currency system in which one central bank prints IOUs, loans them out, and then demands interest. We are heading into a 30 year grand solar minimum drowning in debt and preparing for global nuclear war. This insanity will not end nicely.
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  4361. Transitory linguistic inflation
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  4362. That statement that "investing in a different language has worked so well for them that they've doubled down and begun investing in Rust instead" didn't make any sense -- it is the opposite of what would make sense.
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  4363. Life is beautiful (even if Spassk is not).
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  4364. This is why Bitcoin exists. We shall see if it will be the salvation that the Bitcoin Maxis say it is.
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  4365. I remember trying Honey long ago when I first heard about it. It didn't work, so I uninstalled it. Didn't know that they were scamming both users and their paid shills, but it is unsurprising.
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  4366. One of my friends has had family stationed in US military bases in South Korea for years, and he has a girlfriend living in South Korea right now. He has told me that people in SK have been increasingly feeling like they live in a dark comedy because of their president's decline into insanity.
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  4367. Windows is for playing games. That's it.
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  4368. I always had a feeling that something else was going on. It seemed to me like she had a handler or something. Did not expect it was this distressing since she put up a pretty convincing performance at times with her on-camera persona.
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  4369. I look forward to the video on John Law. That story is just so absurd, and it gets more absurd the more you read about it. And on top of that, the Terra/Luna debacle was literally a Ponzi scheme built on top of a Mississippi Bubble.
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  4370. The broad market has entered a sell-off. Spotify was just a day early.
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  4371. If you want to use types in Python, just use typed python.
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  4372. Cryptofiat makes sense as a settlement system. When the card provider networks retool to use the new settlement systems, their costs and prices will decrease substantially imo. Ultimately, Bitcoin will be the best settlement system. If the central planners push too hard and remove/degrade the fungibility of their fiat shitcoins, they will collapse their currencies -- all it will take are a few examples for the rest of governments to fall in line with economic reality and disillusion themselves.
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  4373. Small cities and towns in Florida have had standardized garbage and recycling bins for more than a decade at this point. NYC and other large cities are just backwards places run by midwit bureaucrats and kleptocrats.
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  4374. Well, the leader of ISIS was once a baby, so Evil Drumfpler is basically a baby killer for taking him out 2+2=racism der hur.
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  4375. I propose the UN designate a specific area for epic drone battles. Before a battle, both nations work out alternate versions of a treaty, then each side gets to field a certain dollar amount of units/equipment; whichever side wins gets its version of the treaty enforced. I'm not saying it is a good idea, but it would be pretty sweet.
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  4376. I understand the sensation of being told "you can't do that" when the statement is clearly not true. Perseverance and apathy toward those who say "you can't" are important.
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  4377. Can a decaying civilization be replaced/displaced from within by a renewed culture without violence?
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  4378.  @jackdaniels5538  exploitation of who?
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  4379. Fuck taxes. Fuck politicians. Fuck government. Fuck rulers. Fuck anyone who accepts being a subject.
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  4380. Correction: steady, structural inflation is not a guaranteed beneficial effect. https://wtfhappened1971.com/
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  4381. What Netanyahu says does not matter. He's a politician. What the IAEA says, on the other hand, is worth listening to.
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  4382. ​ @brianhutcherson1700  unfortunately, all we have to go on are words from various people. The IAEA is relatively credible compared to Israeli government officials imo. Given the circumstances, I think it was probably the right move, but I expect Iran is trying to entrap the US in an unwinnable land war.
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  4383. My favorite learning experience as a young grug was ActionScript. I made some pretty cool stuff in Flash back in the day.
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  4384. Someone piled up bricks in front of a Federal courthouse in downtown Fort Myers. Protests against FMPD corruption have been peaceful over last few days. People here are pretty upset that someone is trying to set up the city for a riot.
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  4385.  @VndNvwYvvSvv  Humans have been building emergent systems since before we had written language. Idk what you're trying to say just by pointing out the obvious.
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  4386.  @charleswalter2902  I think that we don't need a charismatic leader. I think we just need powerful tools that anyone can use but nobody can stop.
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  4387.  @trsgringo  because I was 12 when I made the username, and other variations were taken.
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  4388. If Russia tried to occupy Ukraine, they'd eventually be ground down by the insurgency. Russia would need an occupying force of about 300-400k troops to maintain control. That would involve a lot of destruction and death, though, so some kind of diplomatic settlement would be preferable.
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  4389. In my opinion, the rising power is Bitcoin. The CCP is fond of their 5 year plans because they worked out so well that they've only killed tens of millions of their own slavizens to implement them. The only group potentially more corrupt and less competent are the demented buffoons in DC. But Bitcoin will be a beautiful anarchy built upon peaceful competition and mutual respect, and its citizens are becoming wealthy while the diseased old system dies under the weight of its unfixable flaws.
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  4390. Have you tried self-hypnosis and meditation?
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  4391. The Intercept also reported that they censored "malinformation", which is defined as factual statements that they don't like.
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  4392. Wait, what does it mean that the chatbot is only 93% accurate in not creating "illegal sexual content involving minors"? How would a chatbot even produce that stuff? And if it is talking about generating images with a multimodal model, then it wouldn't be able to unless they trained it on actual illegal photos.
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  4393.  @ChickenAddix  so the issue is that CSAM may have been in the training data and thus the image generators could hallucinate something that approximates CSAM but by definition cannot be CSAM.
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  4394. @LSD-33166  then who are you concerned about? The trees and birds?
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  4395. @LSD-33166  on the one hand, I get it -- I used to share that sentiment. On the other hand, society is pretty coercive, and very few are able to escape it successfully.
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  4396. Part of why the war has not gone as well as the Russians hoped has allegedly been corruption: supposedly, Shoigu had siphoned off too much money, so the military was not as prepared as it was supposed to be.
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  4397. You could also be Anthony Fauci and make the exact same mistakes with covid that he did with AIDS.
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  4398. Harris' entire plan for America was "I'm gonna win the election ahahahaa. I was born in a middle class family." She got less than 1% of the vote during the previous Dem primary. Running her as the candidate made no sense.
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  4399. SBF = Scam Bankster-Fraud
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  4400. $1 pizza? Where the hell can you get pizza for $1 these days? We've already lost that.
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  4401.  @wondering_stars_in_oz8462  it's the same mentality as the 1990s-2000s Christian mentality: "we know what's best for everyone else, and any dissidents can go to hell." Same shit; different pile; all of it stinks. It is simply factually incorrect to state that chemically castrating young boys is somehow the same as a pro-liberty, anti-authoritarian stance. If you can't see the difference, that's on you.
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  4402.  Joshua D  State intervention is the problem, whether it is state intervention in marriage or state intervention in the raising of children or other family matters. BLM can stick their anti-family shit right back up their asses -- so long as they don't get to wield this beastly government toward their ends, none of their agenda matters. The problem is clearly an overly empowered state apparatus, and whether Christians are abusing power or anti-family socialists are abusing power, the problem is still simply the misuse and abuse of power.
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  4403. Instead of always seeing the WEF as the Bond villain, Bad Guy Corp., maybe it would instead be more useful to see them as an organization that is remarkably transparent and accurate with their forecasts. The only reason people think they are hiding something is that it is hard to separate signal from noise -- there's so much crap that it can be hard to find this stuff before the prognostications come to fruition.
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  4404. I have no English heritage, so I have no idea what name you'd want for the miniyou. Maybe name him/her after a legendary heroic character who all English appreciate.
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  4405. Imo it makes sense to have facilities and staff for proctored exams, but even then the exams can be done primarily with computers. Each student should just have periodic testing to monitor academic progress in various topics and allowed to do whatever so long as he/she continues progressing within 1 standard deviation of the mean progress rate: anything below would require remedial activity; anything above would indicate that additional access to advanced academic resources for accelerated learning would be appropriate (assuming that isn't open to all students). Exams do not have to be on a rigid schedule for all students, so the process can be made much more efficient with fewer staff and locations than the current school system.
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  4406. Incorrect: React is a not-framework that requires a metaframework to use.
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  4407. Only issue is that the query had a bug where it checked for item.count != count instead of item.count == count, so the result was wrong. But it is still a good demonstration of how to use FastAPI.
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  4408. The way that laboring does not actually produce enough wealth to afford land and other assets is incredibly disheartening to my generation. Because of this nonstop inflation, working for purchasing power no longer works. In a world with a dishonest monetary system, the only option is to buy assets and opt out.
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  4409. Americans love an underdog story, regardless of origin. If the Man is trying to keep something Down, American kids are gonna rally against the Man and rage against the machine. It's just natural.
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  4410. It is good to see more recognition of the failure of first-past-the-post voting.
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  4411. We're living in a holographic universe created by whatever constitutes the human mind. Synchronicities abound.
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  4412. I went on facebook yesterday. It is a terrible place, full of vitriolic TDS hate and malevolence. It is shocking how much left-wing hatred facebook algorithmically promotes.
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  4413. We demand that the government print food and houses for everyone!
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  4414. Sic semper tyrannis.
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  4415. FBI = Fun Busting Initiative
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  4416.  @mikeoxsmal8022  I don't think he knows about 2nd vote, Pip.
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  4417. Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard. - H.L. Mencken
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  4418. To be fair, no other country can honestly claim to meet satisfied Popeye.
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  4419. The ending bit about taking one's fate into one's own hands made me think that Tim's videos are showing the world's slowest red pill experience.
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  4420. Went through something similar with a python project last year: I made a package that includes a DB model system, query builder, an ORM, a migration management tool, code generators, and a bundled coupling to the standard sqlite library (all opt-in features); the first feedback I got was "can you use it async?" So I started by converting it to async and made the bundled coupling use an async version of sqlite, then I tried wrapping the async stuff to use it synchronously. The async overhead for using sqlite was just too extreme -- sync writes took 90µs on average anyway and sync reads were like 20µs, while the async overhead added another 30-50µs to each -- so I ended up with duplicated code. The guy who requested it said after I had spent over a week on the async implementation that he wasn't going to use it. Oof.
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  4421. We have to unfuck our vote (unfuckthevote.com) to check the effect of money on politics because first-past-the-post voting is fundamentally broken. And while the Repugnicans happened to control the Senate at the time, the Democrat senators would have done the same because they all dance to the same oligarchic tune.
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  4422. "The thot plickens"?
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  4423.  @danielgrohl6971  the Christian notion of Hell is a stretched and warped derivation of the Jewish concept of Gehenna/Gehinnom, a valley considered cursed for historical reasons. Christians believe the absurd notion that Hitler would have gone to heaven had he converted to Christianity the day he died and Mother Theresa would be condemned to Hell if she lost her conviction on the day of hear death. With such an arbitrary notion of what constitutes "evil", it is no wonder Christians have to be kept in line with threats of hellfire.
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  4424. "Messiah" always meant a military leader.
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  4425.  @s1.m511  That is only the case if there is some substantial barrier to competition, which is generally government regulation. Without that, market forces would require an indefinitely low price to ward off competition.
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  4426. Nine is a sacred number, with the next number of note being twelve.
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  4427. "Growth is strong" is a weird way to describe a 1.4% decrease in GDP.
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  4428. Hello Mister Styx, I am a humble arabian prince, and I have lost my yacht keys. This is an embarrassing mistake, as I left my wallet on the yacht. If you make quick loan to me of $2000 in gold, I will be able to replace the key, repay you, and then we can have great party on the sea with hookers and sketchy options trading. Please send gold to US embassy here in UAE addressed to "Naut Aprins".
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  4429. Coins are technically liabilities of the Treasury. They just don't carry interest.
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  4430. Nb4 the AIs start building computers within their simulated worlds to train their own AIs.
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  4431. Lmao. That's all I have to say about that.
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  4432. If you put a thousand Donald Trumps in front of voice recorders and give them infinite time, one of them will eventually perfectly dictate the works of Shakespeare in chronological order.
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  4433. Couldn't this be the Fed rolling over their matured TSYs?
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  4434. The first Blockfi advert was well-timed. Definitely an improvement over past videos. Edit: both were well-timed.
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  4435. The Democrats call for attacks in Afghanistan because they are mad about being wrong when they said that the surge wouldn't work. We have not had a recession; a recession by definition is a decline in GDP for two or more consecutive quarters. Our GDP has grown 3.5% in the first quarter of the 2008 fiscal year, and 4.6% in the second quarter. Clinton had Kosovo and Black Hawk Down on his watch. Obama has no record; how do you know he will live up to his promises?
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  4436. If voting did anything, they'd outlaw it. The world is run by psychopaths and narcissists. There's not much that can be done about it.
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  4437.  @user-jc2ez6ig5z  care to share that mathematical proof you claim to have?
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  4438. / say thing / / get applause / Is this supposed to be comedy? The only thing funny here was Trump's dumb comments.
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  4439. Is there any evidence that the Hittite law code cited was ever enforced? Dan McClellan often points out that the law codes of the Old Testament are based on the law code of Hammurabi and existed solely as a status symbol for the elites rather than as anything actively enforced -- it existed just as a low-effort way to say "look how noble and just we are as the rulers of this society", and he says this was common in and around the ancient Levant. Without any evidence of the enforcement of this Hittite law code, it is entirely plausible that it was simply made up to make the societal rulers appear just.
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  4440. The early economic/monetary policies were actually very successful; the hypnosis that ensued thereafter was the primary source of collective evil. The Nazis literally used occult imagery, rhetoric, and mass rituals to brainwash the public and weaponize centuries-old prejudices for destructive purposes. It is important to separate the evils from the non-evils.
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  4441. Yeah, the tea is what I noticed. Definitely the tea.
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  4442. Ctrl+p does not do that. I think you skipped the step where you installed the plugin and/or customized your nvim keymaps. Edit: I see now that there is a video about setting it up.
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  4443. Fwiw, you can't blame the Democrats for the emptying of lake Corcoran. That happened over 600,000 years ago.
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  4444. Reminds me of those condescending ads that were "PAID FOR BY THE VICTORIAN GOVERNMENT".
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  4445. I want a chickenraptor.
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  4446. Mark is really good at rambling and ranting, not so good at just making a few points in a panel.
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  4447. I have made roasted onions before, but I always peeled them first, then cut them in quarters, and then wrapped them in aluminum foil with butter. I'll add a few made the old way to Christmas dinner this year and see how everyone likes them.
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  4448. Developers who use the Whitespace programming language would beg to differ about whitespace being meaningless in code reviews.
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  4449. Firstest. Nevermind those others who posted beforehand, those don't count -- they're just disinformation.
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  4450. Old advice: use Ubuntu LTS releases because they'll work for years. New advice: don't use Ubuntu because their "LTS" releases get deprecated every year by a "hardware enablement" patch which breaks all your drivers, and if you don't let them disable your hardware with their "hardware enablement" patch, you won't get security updates. Use Mint or Manjaro or Debian instead.
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  4451. The Russian military does not even enforce the use of securely encrypted communication systems. And the average age in China is 45+, which is not really the age you want for your newly recruited soldiers.
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  4452.  @andrewwotherspoona5722  China will be irrelevant in a few more decades due to their demographic collapse problem. The rouble isn't a free trading currency anymore -- nobody can access the real financial system using roubles, so the nominal exchange rate is irrelevant. Seriously, try to trade some roubles at that fake exchange rate and tell me how it goes.
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  4453.  @andrewwotherspoona5722  it is worth bearing in mind that "inevitable" and "imminent" are not synonymous. USD will likely maintain its network effects for most of this decade, though the current currency warfare runs the risk of accelerating the dedollarization trend. However, it is important to note that dedollarization is still slower than dollarization -- more dollars and dollar-denominated debt exist now than ever before, and the pace of the increase far exceeds any overtures to dedollarization by jilted political regimes.
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  4454.  @andrewwotherspoona5722  my guess is that either Bitcoin will grow enough to subsume the role of the Treasury bill as the collateral of choice, or something currently in the works will emerge and become the new standard, or perhaps both.
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  4455. A Pole walks into a voting booth. Peter Zeihan says, "stop, you don't count." The Pole casts his vote for the guy who can still speak English, because he's not stupid.
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  4456. The communists bumbled far more than a capitalist nation will: there was a fear incentive to pretend the problem didn't exist vs a market incentive to be the first to get funding for research, sell curative medicine, etc.
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  4457. We really need to replace first-past-the-post with score or score runoff voting. Boiling every political question down to a choose-the-lesser-of-two-evils dichotomy has failed.
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  4458. I had to read through a php "microframework" code base for a client and document it because the original author wouldn't do it. That guy used enough layers of abstraction and indirection that the LSP was totally useless. Dependencies were being injected all over the place, so I had to grep through the code base to figure out what the hell was happening: repositories within factories within plugins iirc. And even worse, the db models were fiddle with copy/pasta madness rather than just inheriting from a class that did all the tedious stuff -- column names were repeated like 4 times in each model class and multiple times in any code that used the classes. The CTO said "this seems like a terrible way to do things" when I presented my findings to him. Some devs should probably just stay junior devs: he had knowledge but lacked wisdom (and was a jackass for not documenting his system).
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  4459. I expect a dollar short squeeze/credit crunch/valuation plunge next month followed by helicopter money and massive inflation. Of course, it'll all be blamed on Corona-chan, who has done nothing wrong.
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  4460. You saying that he has a face for radio? > Greta.exe /audio "How daaare you."
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  4461. Maybe I don't understand the concept, but the example did not sound like active indifference -- it sounded like active partiality. If the goal of active indifference is to actively reject having a preference, then acting upon a preference is not it.
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  4462. Sea steading sounds like the Star Wars planet Camino, and those pods even have the aesthetic down.
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  4463. "I don't like that people excuse bad behaviors, therefore I reject the notion of identities and descriptive words." Bruh
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  4464. The Better Help scandal and his careless disregard for the truth around the Covington Catholic Highschool student situation convinced me that he is "a garbage person", as he so often projects onto anyone he dislikes.
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  4465. The "death to America" march was in Oakland.
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  4466. I'm fairly confident that they first published this video last year or the year before. Edit: at least the rubber part
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  4467. He might get a guilty lesser/included verdict, but it seems somewhat unlikely to me after watching most of the trial. But I think that the outcome of the case will have more consequences for Kenosha than for the rest of America. If they acquit Rittenhouse, the rioters will hear that a militia guy got away with shooting rioters, and the militia guys will hear that a kid with a gun was able to legally defend himself in response to rioters ambushing him; an acquittal will thus more likely lead to peace than to further riots. Whether they find guilt or innocence, it will apply only to Kenosha in terms of precedent, and only to Wisconsin if it then goes through the appeals process all the way to the Wisconsin supreme court.
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  4468. Questions for Lynette Zang: 1) How intensive is the tilapia pool project to maintain? 2) Can she still swim in the pool with the tilapia? 3) Does she use mesh/nets to divide out areas for breeding, etc, or does she use separate tanks?
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  4469.  @TheSuperBoyProject  bruhs, all computers suck right now because all software sucks right now. Our short term focused, debt-money culture is spiraling the drain, and everything is affected. I prefer Linux, but it is likely that I'll have to use a Crapintosh because muh corporate policies in the near future -- my friend who is a technical product manager says his Crapbook Pro shits itself every other day the same as my uber expensive Dell. My Manjaro partition shit itself randomly and won't boot anymore. It's all shit, different assholes.
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  4470. I am not convinced that a currency collapse in Russia will lead to a democratic revolution. Putin has already overseen one currency collapse, and he was more powerful after it than he was before.
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  4471. I imagine that monetary history is not an obsession for you like it has been for me, so I do not want to provide overly harsh criticism, but there are some corrections worth noting. First, the archaeological evidence indicates that the first form of money was credit: favors were traded, and debts were recorded. Endogenous money can be created between any willing transactors, and exogenous forms of money are only necessary for scaling an economy or settling endogenous money balances. There is a strong argument that exogenous money was invented specifically to augment the more primordial endogenous money. Second, gold is not deflationary and has historically not been deflationary. The amount of gold available for transacting inflates slowly over time. Gold did not naturally accumulate in Fort Knox -- it was confiscated by FDR in an idiotic attempt to bail out the banks by devaluing the dollar 40% overnight, which was one of a set of contradictory policies which prolonged the Great Depression. Gold itself is mildly inflationary, but credit created on top of gold supposedly redeemable for gold on demand is bound to eventually deflate though it is also inflationary until it reaches a tipping point of instability. During times of increasing prosperity, the growth in the supply of goods and services available in an economy will outpace the growth in the gold stock, so prices will tend to fall, but this is not deflation in the strictest sense.
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  4472. Everytime I read or hear something about Sweden, I think "jävla, jag är en viking."
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  4473. That audio quality though. Oof.
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  4474. ​ @awsomebot1  Drawings of this sort are still technically illegal according to statutes in many jurisdictions, and there have been plenty of convictions. A particularly egregious case that comes to mind was a mentally handicapped man in Canada who bought something silicone to control his impulses privately so that he wouldn't ever cause harm to anyone. Like anything else the government does, the law often stands in opposition to its stated purpose.
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  4475. "Rewiring the brain" is quite a stretch since anime girls do not exist and cannot be victimized, so it does not matter if someone somehow rewires their brain to be attracted to anime girls. It's a shoddy argument for using the organs of the state to victimize people with aberrant mental conditioning for the sake of sparing imaginary future victims -- you may as well prosecute pre-crime.
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  4476.  @awsomebot1  yeah, Lunduke is not up to snuff on current US case law on this subject. I am unfamiliar with the laws in Finland, but my guess is that Lunduke probably isn't either.
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  4477.  @Exeonz  ...and the lack of evidence that victims are inevitable. Maybe we should ban GTA because it's so violent, eh? Ban everything fictional because our feefees are hurt.
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  4478. I misheard it as "koobface" at first.
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  4479. I have the same digital piano.
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  4480. JavaScript is undeniably an awful language. Python doesn't have to be, though some ways of using it are awful. The bit about the helpful error messages from the compiler is definitely quite an attractive feature, especially for someone learning the language -- I remember being very frustrated when learning Java, C/C++, and JavaScript due to the error messages often being dense and unhelpful, and that kind of experience is probably part of what holds back developers from learning new languages. I'll give Rust a chance when I get one.
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  4481.  @NoBoilerplate  The GIL is definitely an issue for concurrency/multithreading, but performance is slowly increasing, and there are options for gaining additional performance with PyPy, Cython, Numba, lru caching decorators, etc. It's more work and detracts from the allure of pure Python, but if performance is a big issue, then better performance can be achieved with a bit of additional effort. Just as a random thought, I wonder if a new Python interpreter/JIT could be made with Rust that makes use of Rust's memory management. Would it be compatible with CPython? Would it have improved performance? Could it do away with the GIL? And if the answer to all those is "yes", would you be less disillusioned with it? Edit: what are your thoughts on the multiprocessing library?
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  4482. Solitude is often ecstacy in my experience.
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  4483. The last time I did gradient descent, I used a learning rate that was inversely proportional to the log of the iteration count divided by a scaling factor iirc (1/log(count/x +1)). Worked reasonably well when I got the scale correct. Ultimately did not solve the problem very well due to the error contours having a lot of local minima.
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  4484. Audio volume is pretty quiet in this video.
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  4485.  @craigking391  similar concept, but the other way around: they'll just classify the sale however they have to to make the transaction verify and settle. There are too many people and businesses, and it would be unequal treatment under the law, and thus illegal, to make it work with only a select handful of conspiring corporations. If they set up adequate gatekeeping measures, the rollout will be too slow to be successful. If they roll it out quickly and successfully, they have to abandon gatekeeping.
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  4486. "Languish in the gulag" sounds a bit more appropriate
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  4487. And the Soros-funded "fact checkers" are already trying to gaslight us, saying "nothing to see here, move along."
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  4488. Static Shock was great. Good point.
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  4489. Choose one: - blazingly fast performance - blazingly fast development - blazingly bright flaming pile of turds
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  4490. Trump "curtailed civil liberties and the freedom of the press", did he? How the fuck does anyone come to that conclusion? Because he called the fake news media "fake news"?
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  4491. First-past-the-post voting is a terrible system that must be replaced. A sane and sensible nation would use score runoff voting.
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  4492. I once met a guy who was on one of those televised police shows. He got caught with a bunch of drugs a few counties over. And I had a coworker (in a software company) who got fired for freaking out on cocaine, stealing the office key, and being a generally shitty programmer. But other than the people and mosquito-borne illnesses you get while hunting, Florida is great.
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  4493. "Gloves to make your hands look bigger" sounds like the scene from Always Sunny in Philadelphia with the crazy lawyer.
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  4494. The petrodollar system has outlived its usefulness to even the elites, whose cantillionaire lifestyles are under threat by Bitcoin. The difference this time is that Bitcoin has no borders to bomb, so the petrodollar cannot be propped up by military might any longer. Things will be really awful for the subjects of the empire during its decline, but we'll be a better species on the other side.
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  4495. Don't forget to have some amount of gold and silver for bartering once the currency collapses. Utah Goldbacks are pretty nifty (if perhaps a bit pricey), as are constitutional silver coins.
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  4496. Happy Old Year to everyone still here in 2024. I'll miss you in a few days when I move into 2025 and leave y'all behind.
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  4497. @lines2code  idk what you're raving about. Here in America, the Biden administration colluded with social media companies to censor American citizens; the Biden admin also mandated undergoing an irreversible, experimental, medical procedure to enter the US, and they forced this upon military service members and college students; they also weaponized the DoD to go after political rivals and the ATF to go after armed, law-abiding citizens. If censorship, mandated medical procedures, and abuse from government agencies are not authoritarian, then what is?
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  4498. Here in America, the Biden administration colluded with social media companies to censor American citizens; the Biden admin also mandated undergoing an irreversible, experimental, medical procedure to enter the US, and they forced this upon military service members and college students; they also weaponized the DoD to go after political rivals and the ATF to go after armed, law-abiding citizens. If censorship, mandated medical procedures, and abuse from government agencies are not authoritarian, then what is?
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  4499. @mlisaj1111  I guess you were asleep or just brainless during the pandemic
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  4500. Nothing wrong with experimenting with format, but I think the previous video format had more unique character whereas this format is just like everyone else but less refined imo.
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  4501. Beta O'Dourke may win some tables to stand on, but he'll never be presidump.
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  4502. I haven't been paying much attention to Jimmy recently. If the Russian government is not responsible for the death of Navalny, then who is? They put him in a literal Soviet gulag in the middle of Siberia.
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  4503. The Circle ad was very tastefully handled. Glad they are trying to get the message out that stablecoin issuers can be responsible. I think that the future of stablecoins will be as digital, high velocity money market funds.
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  4504. Rumor from the military is that martial law will be called on Monday. We'll see what happens.
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  4505. As Timmy Poole often says, you can't change the wind, but you can adjust your sails.
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  4506. Was the intro music from a Spyro game soundtrack?
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  4507. Sounds like business Dem elitism to me
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  4508. Gary is just repaying political favors for being given his job despite being an escaped mutant house-elf. "Biden has given Gary a job."
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  4509. Just lost my main contract due to the recession. I can see why a lot of people in such a scenario would demand a social safety net.
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  4510.  @shaunoconnell9506  on
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  4511. Biden only says "I'm too old" because his party threw him under the bus after spending months saying "he's not too old; you're just spreading misinformation, bigot". The DNC wealthy donors won't give him ice cream anymore, so he has no reason to hold on.
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  4512.  @AmateurApologetics  windshields are designed to not shatter. If you look up "shotgun windshield", you'll find videos showing that windshield glass behaves similarly to how it did in the live stream: relatively small hole, huge puff of white glass shards. It is hard to tell, but it looks like there is some windshield damage in the video of the cops yanking him out of his car after ramming him. But really, trying to say that it was clearly fake when it was such shit resolution to begin with is absurd -- you may as well say the video of the marines throwing puppies into a canyon is fake because you can't see the puppy corpse very well. Also, anybody know the name of that chipper flute tune playing from his car as he walked in? It's kinda catchy.
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  4513. @confucius12012  1. If you've done any hunting, you'll know that a kill shot does not guarantee an immediate pool of blood or even a discernable blood trail. 2. There is blood pooling under the right armpit/next to the torso of the guy in the center of the hall. The camera exposure adjustment accounts for the sudden appearance of the rest of the "streak" of blood, which is actually under the other guy's leg -- you may as well say that the outside world strangely came into existence and wasn't there previously. 3. It is a glass ornament in the flower bed (edit: on the rail around the flower bed). It is clearly visible as he walks in at 6:34-6:37 and again as he walks back in at 10:30. 4. Visible at 9:52; gone 10:26. Traffic cone in front of the gate was standing at 9:52 but has been knocked over from 11:44 on. People were escaping during the entire event; the car drove out suddenly, knocking over the cone, which is likely why he paused at 10:08 and gazed in the direction of that gate for a while. 5. Again, it was a glass ornament, and it was right there throughout the entire video. 6. Again, the entire outside world strangely isn't there and then is. Lighting mechanics be damned, the fake world is an outside job! 7. Again, it's a glass ornament. 8. He is likely still shooting at the first woman at 11:53, though we can't see due to camera angle. 9. & 10. The shoes coming off is the strangest thing in the video. Perhaps she had taken them off and was carrying them. We'll never know because he put a bullet in her shoulder and then in her head. My guess is that she slipped and fell (ground looked wet), but this one is definitely weird and the only objection that holds any merit.
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  4514. Three distinct Cannons that are all the same One Turret, i.e. a Triune Turrent made of three consubstantial Cannons, is how the Christian God intended tanks to be. Three Cannons is canonical tankological doctrine.
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  4515. One alternative view that should be addressed is whether or not gold price movements anticipate near future CPI increases.
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  4516.  @danieloneill9093  what methodology do you propose for analyzing the data to determine the veracity of this claim? What length time period counts as "before"?
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  4517. The rioters are burning down black neighborhoods. Wtf. How is that justice for anyone?
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  4518. The only trigger warning I need is a picture of an e-girl and the hashtag "asmr".
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  4519. Birds are not only real, they are hyper-real beings from an alternate dimension. And they don't work for the government -- the government works for them. That's why they are called "birds", which means "illustrious overlords" in an ancient, forgotten language. /s
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  4520. Gotta admit that it is funny that the Ontario government officially ruled that JBP is an asshole.
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  4521.  @rainbowodysseybyjonlion  "money" is the most marketable/salable good. We cannot rightly call the Federal Reserve Note a currency because it is not redeemable for anything. It's all a bit confusing. Hopefully I'll have a better understanding of it all after I finish reading the Theory of Money and Credit by Ludwig von Mises.
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  4522.  @rainbowodysseybyjonlion  "redeem" and "exchange" are not the same thing. To redeem something is to exchange it for some specific promised thing from the issuer. You can't say that a coat check is "redeemable" because you can exchange it for candy when your coat has been expropriated. FRNs cannot be redeemed for anything in the same way that gold coins cannot be redeemed for anything; they are the things themselves.
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  4523. Every centralized attack on Bitcoin has failed, and the only thing that changes over time is that Bitcoin gets stronger while centralized systems (e.g. fiat monies) commit suicide. The only thing that can potentially kill Bitcoin would be a stronger decentralized monetary system, and if that happened, the promise of Bitcoin would still come to fruition.
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  4524. One of the only funny SNL sketches was Steve Martin's Christmas Wish.
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  4525. Creating vegetation before creating the sun makes perfect sense from the perspective of a programmer/software developer. It is quite common to start with an end goal and fill out the details as necessary.
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  4526. Why did you say this was the government getting hacked?
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  4527. Second video of yours I have seen. I appreciate your work on this channel, so I'm subscribing.
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  4528. One of my doctors a few years ago said the establishment destroyed the economy to oust Jimmy Carter and that they'd do it again to get rid of Trump. It certainly looks like they are trying.
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  4529. The myth that China "thinks in centuries" or w/e is inaccurate. The Chinese communists make 5 year plans that generally fail due to systemic and pernicious corruption. It really wouldn't even matter if they could think in centuries since they can't execute plans with any efficiency over any time scale. And as time wears on, the neo-Maoism of Xi Xinping is continuously degrading the ability of the Chinese state to do anything except promulgate propaganda.
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  4530. I thought for a second that it was going to always give a score with 97 in the numerator and just scale the denominator appropriately.
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  4531. How so?
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  4532. The Tornado Cash dev will get a huge settlement from a civil lawsuit when this all shakes out. Cryptographically advanced code was recognized as protected speech in Bernstein v United States.
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  4533. Iirc a French farmer threw a shoe at and hit the French president on camera and was acquitted by a jury. This was about ten years ago or so. Edit: can't find the story now. Can only find stories of Macron getting slapped and hit with veggies from within the last 12 months.
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  4534. Savings deposits were reclassified in January 2021 from M2 to M1 retroactive to May 2020, completely breaking the series. M1 is now a useless metric because it is a broken series. CPI is likewise a broken series: due to covid, the measurement methodology was changed from actual measurements taken by people in stores to reports from store managers delivered over the phone. M2 is still an ok metric, but Divisia's M4 and Shadow Stats' inflation metrics are better.
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  4535. The FTC has been getting laughed out of court with its inept antitrust lawsuits. Do we really need to trust-bust a discount luxury woman's handbag company? They should pick winnable cases that matter.
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  4536. It is worth noting that plateaus are inevitable and unique. Life is a continuous process of finding paths to get past the plateaus. It is still possible to invalidate unhelpful models but find the empirical models to be disappointing anyway.
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  4537. Steps to create the ultimate scam: 1. White paper explaining how revolutionary it is. 2. ICO + liquidity providers. 3. Mint NFTs by burning tokens. 4. Stake NFTs as collateral for loans and/or to farm yield (supported by minting tokens). 5. Advertise metaverse integration. 6. Rug pull.
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  4538. Interesting that this happened right after KJB got confirmed. Hmmm...
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  4539. One of the most terrifying sleep paralysis experiences I had was when der Grossman visited me; this was around the time that Marble Hornets was being produced, and one of my friends from high school interviewed his German-speaking grandpa in my neighborhood about his encounter while on an OSS mission in the Black Forest during WW2. Terrifying and reality warping entity. Fucked up my electronics multiple times before it finally lost interest. That was a long time ago. I have found that lying on my belly allows me to exit such a state due to retaining some movement capability, though sometimes I'll just roll with it to see what happens (it is how I met a visiting Goetic spirit that one time). A thing to note is that it is possible to astrally project with proper technique from a sleep paralysis state. I've done that a few times, though most voluntary OBEs started from a lucid dream that I exited.
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  4540. I've been 2 feet from a wild bear in the woods by myself. A few banksters do not scare me. I'll go live in the woods with my ursine friends if it comes down to it.
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  4541. You ever seen the Tim Heidecker trial? "He is my employee. I own him."
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  4542. The main problem with the idea that the government bureaucrats are referees is that they are playing ball in favor of the highest bidder. For example, they are pushing these big pharma "vaccines" for which they literally changed the definition of "vaccine" but not mentioning anything about the preponderance of clinical data indicating that vitamin D3 deficiency is one of the greatest risk factors, all because their bosses are getting kickbacks from the pharmaceutical companies.
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  4543. Roughly half of all productive labor in America is siphoned off by government parasites who then consume and destroy it. That proportion needs to be reduced before any positive future for the People can be achieved.
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  4544. It's almost like there is some kind of dimorphic biological reality underlying societal tendencies...hmmm... 🤔
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  4545. Instant karma?
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  4546.  @wanderinglensmedia4892  the inverse also applies: the people saying we should kick out the DACA kids because of their parents' transgressions also ridicule the idea of white guilt reparations. So which is it? Do we exact Old Testament-style vengeance upon people or don't we?
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  4547. I really wish anglophones could write their own language properly. These aliens must be extremely disappointed with how poorly English grammar and syntax are conserved -- they probably spent a few hours on the internet and decided Earth is a backwater filled with illiterate monkeys.
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  4548. Tbh he was a better painter than I am. The paintings I've seen were actually pretty good. The style probably just wasn't in vogue.
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  4549.  @thedwightguy  I'm not sure there is any clergy against whom the laity must be distinguished regarding this topic
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  4550. I believe the original phrasing was "Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes. Please spread the word to raise awareness."
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  4551. The problem with prophets of avoidable doom is that divination and enchantment overlap. The past and future are frightfully malleable.
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  4552. Some of the testing facilities in Florida were caught falsifying data to make the numbers look worse for our state to induce panic for lockdowns. Media circus went nuts saying how the evil Republicans were going to kill everyone with their refusal to engage in authoritarian nonsense. The attempt to manipulate the numbers has failed, and they have to keep silent about our state to maintain their illusion. Florida is proof that freedom is a valid public health policy, just as Gibraltar and Israel are proof that the jabs are a money-grabbing grift that do not have the advertised effects.
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  4553. Insightful and interesting. It would be especially interesting if we somehow entered an era of neo-classical dominance.
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  4554. I disagree with the whole "hate speech isn't free speech" appeal to authoritarianism, but Oliver is still reasonably funny.
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  4555. I think that this is a somewhat unfair take on what J Pow said. He said that cryptoassets are speculative, backed by nothing, and sometimes a substitute for gold, which are respectively true, false, and true. To say that he is characterizing gold as equivalent to his negative view of cryptos is unwarranted.
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  4556. The "feminist" breaking down, going "omg", followed by the modem crash sound was hilarious.
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  4557. Gmail may as well shut down considering how shit it is at delivering emails from Gmail users to other Gmail users.
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  4558. Figures that ThemTube would censor comments condemning this filth.
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  4559. 26 comments censored. Ironically, only this one got through.
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  4560.  @xkidmidnightx  the current welfare system preys upon inner city communities and keeps them impoverished via operant conditioning and enforcing destructive incentive structures. That many of these impoverished communities are majority black is a result of historic racist policies that drove them there (particularly in discriminatory housing practices) in combination with natural tendencies of people to self-segregate. But make no mistake, the current welfare system keeps poor white families under the government's thumb just as much as it does to poor black families. Actual reparations programs exist in places like Tulsa where Black Wall Street got torched and bombed by Klan members multiple times; if you wanted to make the case that there should be no reparations for those families who were directly impacted by those atrocities, you're out of your mind -- there are still people alive today whose family members were killed and businesses destroyed in those race riots.
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  4561. Remember, brown people don't have agency and are not conscious beings, so the inanimate objects are to blame in this case.
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  4562. That subtle Camper Duty ad though lol
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  4563. By "average disposable American income", did you mean the mean, the median, or the mode?
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  4564. The H-1B program is not only bad for American workers, but it is also pretty predatory for the foreign workers. The employer basically has ultimate control over the lives of the employees because they can have their lives entirely uprooted if the employer does not continue filing the paperwork year after year; the employee cannot leave to take another job without returning to their home country; and if the employee wants a path to citizenship, only the employer can grant that, and only after many years of employment. It also has quotas that disproportionately favor Nordic countries for some reason, so it is not even remotely fair in any sense.
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  4565. Solar minimum 2018-present led to decreased crop yields and increased cosmic rays, microbe mutation rates, and rodent populations. This is a civilization ending event; the question is which civilizations survive.
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  4566. I think you skipped over some details with the explanation of computing the consecutive sum: the shown formula is n*(n-1)/2, but the implementation is (max+min)*(max-min-1)/2, i.e. max+min = max-min which is true only for min=0.
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  4567. This is insane. Such a terrible design, and the only purpose it serves is parasitism.
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  4568.  @EconLessons  Jonathan Pageau has said that hierarchy requires emergence and emanation in equal measure to be maximally real and effective, but I wonder if purely emergent hierarchy is a viable option. And if so, would it be a form of emanation if the basic substrate from which hierarchy emerged was formulated to disincentivize authoritarianism? I guess it remains to be seen.
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  4569.  @johnstudd4245  a growing and increasingly important amount of global economic activity requires the internet to function. It does not matter whether or not you personally live under a rock; the rest of humanity will continue developing on and improving the networks over which the Bitcoin protocol runs.
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  4570. The bit about crowded people getting overloaded by pheromones sounds a lot like the mouse utopia experiments (Calhoun) that showed behavioral sinks and population collapse after the numbers grew past the normal/natural population density. Artificially increased carrying capacity does not lead to happier rodents, apparently.
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  4571.  @armandk.armand3608  I do software contracting work, and so far none of my clients have been affected directly. Probably would be a different story if anyone was still using Atlassian Jira.
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  4572. "The programming language that shall not be named" just doesn't fit well into a domain name. That being said, "the foundational that shall not be named" is an excellent moniker for these clowns.
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  4573. Down with surveillance capitalism. * gets on the list next to Rosmann *
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  4574.  @btd6vids  I don't think that secret sharing would make sense for this, since the public key needs to be known and associated with a ring output -- as far as I am aware, you cannot construct a valid public key through secret sharing since the secret is the private key. Moreover, the secret must exist in a single point of failure before it can be divided into shares, so it will not work for M-of-N signatures/locks between untrusted peers; there is also the issue that once the secret is revealed by the participants, all of them will have it, meaning any one of them can make the signature rather than them having to cooperate to make a signature. MuSig achieves secure N-of-N multisig, and there are some threshold schemes that achieve secure M-of-N multisig, but secret sharing definitely does not work for this.
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  4575. As long as the insolvency of bad businesses does not impair the liquidity of good businesses, everything should play out as described. The real issue arises when insolvent businesses cause contagion. In 2008, the sudden insolvency of AIG and other large financial institutions dried up liquidity for many good businesses, so the feds bailed out/recapitalized the financial institutions. One of the ways this occurred was by the FDIC buying noncumulative, non-redeemable preferred shares (with a 6% yield iirc) from the banks, which directly bolstered their tier 1 capital to absorb losses on toxic assets. It appears that China is going to experience something like that due to their real estate bubble popping, and European banks may be heavily exposed to Chinese commercial paper and real estate bonds, so I expect there to be some amount of contagion over the following months/years (however long it takes to play out) even if the Chinazis recapitalize some of their financial institutions in the wake of the real estate hegemons collapsing.
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  4576. Yikes
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  4577. "Can you show on the doll where SBF touched your money?"
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  4578. I think you mean TSYs are a ponzi scheme. FRNs are actually backed by government guns.
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  4579.  @BurgertubeFounder  I'm 30 and spend most of my time working. Out of the many married couples I have known, the vast majority of them ended in divorce after a few years or just barely avoided it.
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  4580. I am fairly sure that the economy is totally screwed at the moment. ~50% unemployment (i.e. as the inverse of labor participation rate) and 30% annual monetary debasement. Medicine that is normally an overnight shipment took three weeks. Prices of commodities are going parabolic, and consumer goods are in short supply since we don't produce things anymore. The money printing experiment has had really bad results thus far.
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  4581. If the Fed prints a quadrillion dollars and deposits it in an account that can only be accessed from Mars, then it doesn't matter that the money supply increased. QE sucks liquidity out of the system.
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  4582. The Pfizer vaccines has actually not been officially approved; or rather, the supposedly FDA-approved vaccine is not available. If there was an FDA-approved vaccine available, the emergency use authorizations would legally have to be revoked -- Robert Barnes is currently suing the FDA over this to compel them to either clarify that there is no approved vaccine or revoke the EUAs.
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  4583.  @Moosetick2002  he knew why because it had happened before. When I first read your question, I didn't see the word "why" and thought "that's a really dumb question" lol
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  4584. Burn retrograde near the periapsis. That should let you fall into a Munar orbit.
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  4585. Police brutality in Bentonville?
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  4586.  @WalterStroebel  that sounds like it doesn't know what it is talking about. Cardinal voting is significantly simpler than ordinal methods like RCV.
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  4587.  @RustIsWinning  I haven't even attempted to use Zig yet. This is just wild speculation because Zig language development looks like it is heading in the direction of easy interoperability with Linux kernel C code faster than Rust (TM).
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  4588.  @norbis3939  Saaci Maziov was one of them, so he'd know
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  4589. Tit for tat is empirically the best strategy for overcoming the prisoner's dilemma; i.e. retaliation for bad behavior has been empirically and mathematically proven to be the most effective method of preventing bad behavior.
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  4590. I heard a persuasive argument that interest rates are not the price of money. It goes something like this: the price of a market good is inversely correlated with changes in supply, so you would expect the price of money to be 0% during hyperinflation due to the increased supply; the historical evidence of interest rates going hyperbolic alongside money supply succinctly refutes the claim that interest rates are the price of money.
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  4591. This guy sounds like one of those losers who has been saying "the sky is falling" for the past 50 years and whose salary depends upon further climate alarmism. In the 70s, it was "the new ice age will kill us all in a decade". In the 00s, it was "global warming will flood all of Florida in a decade". Now, it's "the climate is changing unpredictability because of CO2. Trust us, we've been predicting climate correctly for so long." Alex Epstein has more credibility than this guy in my view.
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  4592. The Fed does not create all dollars. All dollars are not leveraged to the Fed's balance sheet. That is nonsense. Changes in dollar supply have almost nothing to do with the Fed's balance sheet.
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  4593. He has been so very wrong about Bitcoin for as long as Bitcoin has existed. Bitcoin is the best performing asset in human history.
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  4594. Kamala isn't anti-child. The fact she loves children is apparent by the eay she talks as if there are no adults present.
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  4595. The real life infinite money glitch is exploited when the US Department of Treasury issues a debt security and sells it to the Federal Reserve, which prints up the money to buy it, backing the new currency with the debt security from the Treasury. And then the Federal Reserve sends all the interest income they get from the Treasury back to the Treasury, except they screwed it up this time and have accumulated losses nearly 3 times their capital causing a 3% impairment on their assets -- and nobody gives a shit. 🤡🌎
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  4596. Could use a video further disambiguating the term "virtual machine" since the distinction made in the video between VM and emulator is not totally correct. For example, Lua byte code runs on a virtual register machine, while WASM runs on a virtual stack machine; neither is an emulator, and both provide virtual CPUs.
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  4597. They both are. One is just also a vegetable while the other is an orange.
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  4598. "So we don't compromise Trump... don't compromise the election." Freudian slip? Lol.
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  4599. My dad has for decades run an accounting firm that does payroll services, bookkeeping, and tax accounting. The stories he has told me demonstrate that Intuit is an abusive company with predatory practices and unreasonable price gouging policies.
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  4600. 🤡🌏🇦🇺 I guess economic chaos multiplies when you revert an island nation into a penal colony.
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  4601. I believe the proper term for these half-man, half-machine beings will be "the Borg".
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  4602. Dorsey was fired the first time he became not-CEO of Twitter. When they hired him back, he came back toothless.
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  4603. Using M2 itself is not a good metric. You need to use M2 per capita. Think about it: if M2 increased by 50% but the population doubled, there would be a deflationary pressure of about 25% ceterus parabus.
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  4604. My understanding from Tim is that left libertarians are just hippies sharing the watermelons they grow.
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  4605. My favorite "drink something from a dead animal" recipe is from PGM I, the very first spell from the Greek Magical Papyri: drown a falcon in milk and honey, mummify it, drink the liquid mixture, put the mummified falcon in a shrine made of juniper wood, and pray to it as a solar deity every day -- this will supposedly gain you an assistant daimon.
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  4606. I'm with Mike Maloney on the subject of inflation and deflation: they are two sides of the same coin which was flipped in 1971. Nobody knows for sure which side will land face up, but we can see certain of the periodic change between them.
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  4607. I have been hearing Lupus Nocte songs in YouTube sponsor ads in the past few days. I wonder if it is a trend or just random.
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  4608. Let's not forget that L Ron Hubbard was involved in Jack Parsons' and Aleister Crowley's experiments to bring about the anti-Christ through invocations of the Beast and the Harlot (Babalon) and perverse sex rituals. Hubbard would fuck Parsons' wife while Parsons would "wave his magic wand" i.e. jack off. Parsons'wife eventually left him and married Hubbard iirc. Weird shit.
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  4609. Thank you for informing me. This is hilarious -- best thing I've seen in weeks.
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  4610. Where did the "47 days" figure in the thumbnail come from? Did I just miss it?
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  4611. The US likely won't get a CBDC. The USD overlords are on pace to deatroy the dollar faster than they can find enough COBOL programmers to make a CBDC.
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  4612. Some form of simplified universal basic training orientation experience might be worthwhile rather than full conscription: high school students could spend 1-2 weeks during the summer before their junior year going through a very simple military orientation, perhaps one week learning the basics of how each branch works and then another week visiting the training facilities for the branch of their choice, then another 1-2 weeks doing some simple training in the branch of their choosing in the summer before their senior year. Before graduating high school, they could then take the ASVAB and see if any available career paths tickle their fancy. Draft exemptions could also be sorted out early, and training in the event of a draft would be a lot smoother and more efficient, though I imagine that there would be higher enlistment anyway once the people suited to a military career get notified of the career paths available to them.
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  4613. Not really related, but happy Christmas and all that. Also, what is the reason for preferring Monero over other privacy-focused cryptocurrency tech like MimbleWimble? Is it the strong community focus and lack of grift by project maintainers? Or is there some technical reason?
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  4614. I recommend also accepting cryptos like Monero, Dash, and Beam. Cryptos are digital cash in the truest sense of the word: a bearer asset with no counterparty/credit risk. Though they are bearer assets, paper banknotes are not real cash as they are explicit liabilities of the issuers.
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  4615. 25:27 Yes, let's take adderall. Sounds like a wonderful suggestion.
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  4616. Fwiw, you can't spell "manual memory management" without "men": grammatically, 2x "man" + 1x "men" = "men".
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  4617. Mark, what do you think is the likelihood that the Russian Federation collapses/dissolves in the next 5 years?
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  4618.  @EconLessons  that is what I am thinking as well based on recent developments. I wonder how dangerous the successor states will be.
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  4619. The driver code itself was not updated, but rather a "channel" file that contained attack detection templates was pushed out with all zeros. The driver contained faulty template verification code that allowed the broken file to be parsed, and this included what should have been a valid pointer offset value. The driver then dereferenced a bad pointer and crashed the system. So really, if they had more thorough testing of their core code, they could have prevented this.
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  4620. Fwiw, it would be mind-blowing if after the zoom out to show the studio, it zoomed out a bit more to show that the whole thing was a green screen. Just a thought for next April.
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  4621.  @1MarkMoss  right, but it would be a funny April 1st joke to edit it to look like a green screen/accidental fourth wall break. Use CGI to make it look like you're using CGI.
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  4622. Part of the history of South Africa that was glossed over was the fact of the British colonizers killing many of the Boers before setiing up the survivors of that genocide at the top of the apartheid system. The Boers previously lived in republics that had normalized relations and treaties with the surrounding tribes for, in some cases, hundreds of years. The Boers were the last resistance against the British colonizers, and the Brits killed more of them than black Africans. Britain is solely to blame for the mess in South Africa.
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  4623. It is not a swap contract, but it is a swap of assets: fixed rate (bonds) from the banks swapped for floating rate (reserves) from the Fed. Since the Fed is issuing the floating rate asset, it is a liability that expands the size of the balance sheet. The Fed is effectively borrowing from the banks to buy their TSY bonds, thus increasing the quantity of circulating credit. It is both an asset swap and a purchase, and it is inflationary at the base monetary layer.
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  4624. Wherever you need to go is just half the maximum distance possible half the time. (I think the proportions are a bit smaller than that, but you get the idea.)
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  4625. Azolla, not just cyanobacteria.
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  4626. One thing to consider: during the demand spike, a lot of manufacturers placed orders expecting demand to continue rising. Shortfalls are calculated based upon orders and expected orders, but I imagine that a lot of those orders will be cancelled as demand tapers off (all else being equal), so it could resolve itself quicker than you'd think.
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  4627. This series is really difficult to watch, especially the scratching with a box cover. I wince every time. But I can't stop watching anyway. It's like what JFK said about going to the moon.
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  4628. Genesis has 2 accounts of creation mashed together. The notion that the creation narrative is a single revelation is clearly not rational.
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  4629. Google QC marketing team has been smoking that majorana for years.
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  4630. It is encouraging to see at least some worshippers of Yhwh that are not so fond of human sacrifice. If only they had held that sentiment since the start.
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  4631. To be fair to Gemini, c++ really isn't safe for minors.
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  4632. Monetary policy is broken when the issuer of base money, the Treasury, is issuing without end. The Fed increasing interest rates causes larger federal deficits, which are inflationary; bank NIMs and thus profits increase, leading to expansion of bank capital through retained earnings and thus enabling them to lend more, which is also inflationary. Raising interest rates only fights CPI when it results in 1) a shift in bank lending preferences from financing consumption to financing production and 2) a shift in broader market participant preferences from spending to saving. The normal model assumes both outcomes, but they are not guaranteed. The normal model also confuses inflation, which is an expansion of circulating money and credit, with CPI.
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  4633. This is concerning. However, to play Donald's Advocate for a moment, one of the issues his side has brought up was specifically racial harassment of Jewish students and agitators blocking them from getting to classes or otherwise moving on campus. Back when I was in college, I saw videos of UC Berkeley student "protesters" specifically blocking white students from getting to class by taking over footpath choke points, so it is not inconceivable.
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  4634. I propose a constitutional amendment that limits annual federal expenditures to 10% of the broad money supply or GDP, whichever is lower; a maximum federal tax rate of 10% on anything they tax; elected officials will have a salary capped at the median annual income of the region they represent; and all bureaucrats (including congressional staff) will have their salary capped at the national median income. Additionally, I propose a constitutional amendment to extend the veto power to the governors such that any bill adopted by Congress can be vetoed if 2/3 of the governors sign a proclamation vetoing the bill, and subject every US law to legislative review by the states such that any US law can be repealed by the adoption of a resolution by 2/3 of the state legislatures. We only need a few more states to adopt the legislation for a Convention of States to occur so we can fix this broken government and reign in this insane bullshit.
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  4635. I'm glad that during these hard times I can count on Kaspian Reports to take my mind off of the pandemic and not worry so much.
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  4636. Let the record reflect the secretary is an annoying doodoo head. Let the record reflect that the Senator from Texas poopooed his pants.
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  4637. A federal court just ruled that Bitcoin is money.
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  4638. It is not a problem with feeling entitled. It is righteous indignation for being told that in a time of national suffering, the landlord cares so little about his fellow Americans that he is unwilling to shoulder any of the burden. "We might be at war, but I won't fight and you better bring me your goddamn potatoes, serf." If anything, it is the landlord who is acting entitled, and the tenants are reacting in kind. Had the landlord instead said "hey all, I know times are tough, and I want to help, but the reality is that we have fixed costs per tenant amounting to $X/month and non-essential expenditures of $Y/month (see attached spreadsheet), so I'd appreciate if we can work out a temporary deal where we figure out what we can cut and don't get foreclosed," the tenants wouldn't be rent striking. This is a totally justified response -- the last time the landed aristocrats said "let them eat cake," heads rolled. I have no sympathy for abusive landlords who refuse to do their patriotic duty during this crisis.
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  4639. Gold has proportionally lower utility value than silver atm actually. 2020 industrial gold use: 7.5% of total demand ($1.9x10^10 at current prices). 2020 industrial silver use: 52.5% of total demand ($1.4x10^10 at current prices). The vast majority of the value of gold comes from network effects.
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  4640. I'm unconvinced at this point that there is a casual relationship flowing from Fed policy to monetary conditions. At this point, I think the relationship goes the other way.
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  4641. Some wealth inequality makes sense, but only when it is merited. The financialization of the economy by the banks and the inflation of financialized assets by the Fed unfairly create a financial advantage for those in the club at the expense of those who are not. The Cantillion effect is a fundamentally unfair distortion of markets -- a leaching off of society, as you put it, through structural monetary fuckery.
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  4642.  @maneco64  problem resolved? Cool. Credibility restored. I'm not against monetizing videos with advertisements; I just think that lacking adequate disclosures for penny stock and crypto ads is distasteful. Glad to know it was unintentional.
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  4643. I believe the term should be "Keltonian" pronounced like "Newtonian".
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  4644. I guarantee the whole thing was just a PR stunt.
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  4645.  @Basta11  yes, but also the new money has distributional effects. The dollar in my wallet does not instantly become devalued when the new money is printed -- the new money has to start circulating to syphon value from my bank account.
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  4646.  @Basta11  What do you think about complementary currencies?
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  4647.  @Basta11  Do you have any thoughts on the design, introduction, and use of complementary currencies? Have you studied their history at all?
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  4648.  @Basta11  the transit credit idea sounds similar to the experiment run in an Austrian town during the Great Depression, where the notes had an expiration date to incentivize circulation. It was called a miracle, but the central bank decided they didn't like it, so they crushed the project and plunged the area back into economic depression. I have read a lot about complementary currencies, from the Ithaca Hour to time banking and the Community Exchange System in Africa. I have an idea for a decentralized, p2p credit/time banking system, and I'm making good progress on writing the code for the constituent parts. I will hopefully have a prototype available by the end of the year, but it is difficult work, and I have not found anyone who is able to help.
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  4649. How high you can earn with Python depends on your tolerance level. I recommend working only on side/fun projects or brainstorming conceptual stuff if you're high rather than trying to write production code.
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  4650. 2:40 Idk how he hovered his mouse over the part that showed AWS was producing $5.4B in profit while the Amazon store was producing a loss of $2.9B and still didn't notice.
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  4651.  @Seabass-a  actually, one of the tools of gain-of-function research is to forcibly infect different animals with the virus, collecting samples of the virus as it evolves. This process leads to viruses that carry no obvious marks of genetic manipulation, but it is assuredly not a natural origin.
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  4652. They've gone too far, but they haven't gone too far enough.
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  4653. Hopefully the people of China can oust their oppressors and welcome back a truly republican down of government as exists in Taiwan.
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  4654. Memecoins are very dumb.
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  4655. Gold has won the monetary metal competition. The last economy to demonetize silver was China, and they got rekt by the gold standard economies. Somewhat paradoxically, the more utility a commodity has, the less monetary demand it will receive, and this is probably because utility demand depletes the stock of supply if the flow cannot keep up. Having steady stock and flow is quite important for a monetary asset; high levels of inflation or deflation within a credit/fiat system are well known violations of that requisite stability and the main reason that gold maintains a high monetary premium over its utility demand. It is not a simple matter of scarcity automatically entailing price appreciation.
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  4656.  @somebody-anonymous  it doesn't make sense to have a negative user base, though. We have to evaluate the limit using only positive rather than all real numbers.
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  4657.  @postblitz  but if you start your chart the minute before the first user signed up and extrapolate the trend, you'll still come up with a pretty staggering projected growth model for the VC funds
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  4658. The article indicates that she betrayed her family for the sake of BLM.
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  4659. I'm pretty sure "Eminem" means "M&M" as in "Marshall Mathers" but is stylized to not be a chocolate candy.
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  4660. Watching the president deal with the smear merchants with an appropriate level of animosity is quite satisfying.
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  4661. First time I agree with Bri on something. She's not totally clueless on this one.
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  4662. A kid in middle school made a working nuclear reactor in his garage from parts as a science fair project. The idea that government can somehow stop that is ludicrous. The only reason that people aren't making reactors is that they don't care enough to figure out the maths and engineering.
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  4663. I think that the drama around will-he-wont-he was to do with gag orders from alphabet agencies manipulating discourse to subvert our elections.
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  4664. Remember "Socially Responsible Investing"? They rebranded that grift into ESG. It has been about 3 years, so it's time for another rebrand.
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  4665. Jordan Peterson died from barbituate use complications and was reborn as Peter Jordanson, a cranky parody and inversion of the Jordan Peterson who we all respected.
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  4666. It looked to me that he was having a psychotic break, pretty similar to Tony Timpa. My guess is that these cops also didn't expect to cause any harm to Floyd and were likely surprised and horrified when they found out he had died.
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  4667.  @panpluto13  in polite society, it is considered impolite to request someone show you their genitals.
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  4668. The only useful AI tool I have encountered that has come from this LLM hype bubble is Cursor, specifically when refactoring or continuing with some clearly laid-out pattern. Everything else is pretty terrible.
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  4669. I feel like you could make a video every weekday titled "Far Left [adjective] [reason]"
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  4670. Cool, but I'm still trying to psychologically process the rust compiler constantly bitching at me about using camelCase. "This is a snake_case neighborhood. Change it or I'm calling the cops." What a Karen language.
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  4671. The "monetary heroin" meme used to describe stimulus should morph into "monetary amphetamine" since amphetamine is a stimulant.
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  4672. FedNOW is just a real time net settlement system
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  4673. A regional bank expert went on Blockworks Macro and discussed bank portfolio construction and management dynamics with Joseph Wang. The TLDW is that they just have to paper over the liquidity issues for about a year for bank balance sheets to normalize to the new rate environment.
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