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> Crypto may well be the biggest solution looking for a problem I've ever seen.

Truth. And I have not idea why people think Crypto is a hedge against anything. It pretty much follows the stock market and gold, albeit in much higher gamma.
> You can also make a very reasoned argument that Apple isn't a (pure) tech company.

I cannot envision what this argument could be and be congruent with my working definition of “tech company”.

> When people say Berkshire diversifies you away from tech, they mean that you are diversifying away from the dozens of tech companies in SPY of varying quality.

I can see that as a possibility. I did, possibly erroneously, assume in the original post I replied to that tech was shorthand mostly for MAMAA, so I guess we would need voidfunc to weigh in on what they meant.
A shovel. I couldn't get past 1m because of the rocks were too difficult to shatter.
I agree. From what I understand the Russian people mostly don't want this war. It's Putin's war, not Russia's.

There's a point to be made "if the Russian people feel this, they might revolt against Putin since this is his fault.", although that could easily backfire in the opposite direction "if the Russian people feel this, then that means Putin was right, the west IS out to get us".

Bricking devices remotely sounds terrible for this reason already, let alone the damages regular civilians will feel.
Except the most important evidence by far wasn't from talking heads. Moderna and Pfizer both produced clinical trials that showed high effectiveness.

To discredit that evidence, you have to believe that both of these companies were willing to completely throw away their reputations with the public and regulators just to make a few bucks on some snake oil vaccines.

Or you have to believe that these companies trusted there would be no need to protect their reputations, because there would be a massive conspiracy to fudge the numbers and make the vaccines look effective.

Either of these beliefs is QAnon-tier conspiracism.
Hard to fight a war in bitter cold although that is less of a problem when the entire force has vehicles than it was during Napolean's invasion.

I am curious why he didn't wait longer. Maybe he chose now to make the crossing of rivers easier. Also, ISTR that when the snow melts the roads there get so muddy they are almost unusable.
This link reads to me like Putin propaganda justifying an unprovoked invasion by claiming Russia as the supposed victim of western aggression.
> know of a bunch of people who'd be pretty mad about how a corporation can remotely cut off an entire country's digital access

Of course. Same with SWIFT cut-off.

Doing it in a way that is not arbitrary would be key. (I don't know how one would do that. There is no precedent for that type of action, and it is not being seriously considered by senior policymakers.)
If you are considering investing keep in mind that Berkshire is trading at 1.5 price-to-book ratio. Is there an actual reason to buy the stock instead of roughly replicating their portfolio and maybe periodically rebalancing? You might get slightly different returns but you are not paying a massive 50% premium + fees.

Also Buffet and Munger are in their 90s and I am not sure how the stock will react when the inevitable happens. Personally I would stay away
And then there was GoFundMe and GiveSendGo. I am not arguing the politics here. I am responding to the critique that crypto is a solution in search of a problem.
And if you touch it, your evil doppelganger will spawn.

(Stargate SG-1 and Atlantis reference fyi)
AI-powered oracles visually capable of reading balance sheets and spotting frauds with 99.999% accuracy. Now that's brilliant!
On the contrary, this continues to be the time to hold your beliefs, and to express them. We should probably be more mindful about throwing such one-liners, anything can be twisted out of context.
I think you just proved my point better than I could have ever done: Those most vocal about energy are generally the least informed.

Let me guess, you have no formal engineering training, do you?

EDIT: to make this comment more constructive, here is a link to an excellent book on energy processes: https://www.amazon.com/Fundamentals-Renewable-Energy-Process...

I took a class with da Rosa and at the time this book was still in draft form, but nonetheless, excellent and easy to read. There appear to be new editions, don't know the differences.
> Bankrupting European and US comapnies that sold to Russia (and now wait for money) won't help

Why? They're culpable. I'm going to lose money on my investments in Russia. Shame on me.
"SWIFT does not facilitate funds transfer: rather, it sends payment orders, which must be settled by correspondent accounts that the institutions have with each other."[...] While SWIFT transports financial messages in a secure manner, it does not hold accounts for its members; nor does it perform any form of clearing or settlement.[1]

Both Bitcoin and Ethereum can perform the settlement of transactions. Ethereum currently has support for complex financial transactions with Smart Contracts. A SWIFT replacement could include settlement on chain, but on-chain transactions for SWIFT type co-ordination is probably too expensive with Bitcoin and Ethereum without the use of L2 and Lightning Network support for the co-ordination feature of SWIFT.

If this were done, it would only succeed if the smart contracts are open source, formally verified and audited by a third party. While Taproot adds tapscript support[2] to bitcoin, there still remains the development of sophisticated financial products.

As a net exporter of Energy products, Russia would probably lean more towards Bitcoin or other PoW protocols, as their customers could run mining operations with the energy they are buying. This would exclude Ethereum when the PoS merge occurs.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWIFT
[2]: https://bitcoinops.org/en/topics/tapscript/
While I agree it's amazing and inspiring, I'd also emphasize that we have pictures [1] and even sounds [2] from the surface of Venus and it's 91 atmospheres of surface pressure alongside 900F degree surface temperature. Those are from 40+ years ago. 20 years before that, we'd never sent a single object into space.

And so if you asked people from that time first consuming that media what they imagine the world (in terms of space) would look like 40 years later, us looking at somewhat higher resolution pictures from Mars would sound skeptical to the point of absurdity.

[1] - https://www.planetary.org/articles/every-picture-from-venus-...

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jZDW53U8qQ
Just use Github Autopilot AI to audit the code!
Who suggested an entire country? We are talking about small-ish areas.
This isn’t the first time I’ve seen something billed as “post quantum” that is completely broken on conventional computers. I wish I could say more about that.
It also carries a danger. My grandmother lived through WWII in a very conscious way, and to her death many decades later she would not so much as look at anybody from Germany, that ran extremely deep. And she was the most gentle person you can imagine, but not on that front. By exposing the whole world to what is happening here in real time you pretty much guarantee that Russia as a country will be isolated for years to come, which in and of itself carries risks.
You could set it so that some of the mirrors formed a parabolic collector and heated a molten salt column, etc on the surface.

That'd have the same net effect as the giant heat sink (energy production from a heat engine, net negative flow of energy to the surface).

Wasn't there a city builder that'd let you build such a thing, where it would sometimes lose calibration and burn a swath of the city to the ground?
Beware selective reductionism!
If you want to be reductionist, you can do that about anything. Humans are ultimately quarks, there’s no free will, and we have imperatives and rules governing our behavior on every scale. There’s more nuanced discussion to be had but I think it should start with ‘and why doesn’t that reductionism also apply to humans (with a slight twist)?’
As i said EU is not worried about Russians. What else?
I don't know how much this will influence possibilities of Russia buying military equipment from China, but China officially stated today that they don't support this invasion.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-26/china-dis...
And how do you feel about economic sanctions for Russia, Putin, etc? (And crypto being a way to evade them)

Do you think a cryptocurrency is any less susceptible to civil forfeiture than cash?
Can sympathize with the intent. However, remember an isolated country whose president loves playing with rockets every now and then? Now imagine a slightly bigger country with slightly madder and older dictator joining in on that game. I can see we may well be headed towards that world. (Edit: replaced 'nukes' with 'rockets', I cannot remember what North Korea has exactly.)
Odin's Declaration Syntax
The majority of it is written in Go. Not a good or a bad thing per se, just some info I looked up.
to be fair, these studies aren't the whole truth. they show an effect, but don't eliminate the possibility of unconsidered long-term consequences. but we do make those kinds of 'close enough' tradeoffs in medicine all the time and it seems to work out pretty well.
You should read the actual letter, you can't replicate their portfolio, much of it is privately held assets.
And all three of those parts are why the crypto dream of decentralized payments for all will never come to fruition. It is simply not possible for a decentralized system to have the same convenience and low cost as a centralized system. In the end, any decentralized system will tend to have a centralized layer built on top of it that eventually makes the underlying decentralized system obsolete.

We see this everywhere: in Web 2.0, in Apple's walled garden, in Canonical's dominance in the desktop Linux space, and in the political history of basically any country you can name. Even most people who in theory support decentralization end up in practice choosing the centralized system every time.
But was the rest of the world almost unanimously against Desert Storm?

I simply cannot see a scenario where a 30+ day slog in Ukraine, with attrition and mounting casualties, has any positive outcome for Putin.

(I struggle to see any positive outcome for Putin anyway and cannot understand what his endgame is, to be honest. Even success at toppling Ukraine's government, if achieved at all, may prove to be short-lived)
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Thanks!

Seems all pretty manageable on the humongous scale of 'this could be our main source of energy'.

Eg burning coal or oil kills a lot more people directly and indirectly.
The transition plan has been in place for years. At the risk of sounding like a wsb meme, it's priced in.
So the demoralization process was complete many times over already in 1984 and the other steps only took a year at most? I wonder whatever became of the United States. I guess we’ll never know.
No, the Monarchy does use its power. It has in Canada multiple times.

Anyway, not going to keep debating this. Wealth is something that can be reasoned about when an individual doesn't have serious security concerns and when an individual doesn't have meaningful coercive power through use of force.

But a billionaire in a new communist state isn't really a billionaire any more than a despotic dictator is since they can't really retain the wealth absent ongoing action and so much of the assets under their command belong to the state.

I'll put it another way, if Russia has a democratic uprising like Ukraine did, who will own Putin's giant mansion. It's obviously not Putin.

Real billionaires can move the vast majority of their assets out of a country without anyone seriously putting up a fight.
You might look through the Keras examples https://keras.io/examples/

Find Somerville to your application.
This really is a very low level of discourse.
This article is written by Mitsubishi engineers but in the style of a news report with a sensationalized headline ("At last" ...). I'm noticing more of these - seems like a new (?) marketing trend. Nothing wrong with that objective, but does throw me off - I typically expect hard tech from the Spectrum.
Do birds have language? It depends on how you define it
Not really, remotely disabling the mobile phones of ~every medical doctor, firefighter, and EMS in a country of a hundred and fifty million people with no warning would likely cause on the order of 10k deaths.

It would be more deaths in 24h than the entire Ukraine invasion so far.

You can pretend such would be nonviolent, but it's basically a terror attack on civillian medical infrastructure.
It all makes me wonder, what is to be done? Is there any way to cut through this instinct to believe tribal bullshit? Are there examples of people doing it successfully in the past? What was their playbook? Can the same tricks work in today's information environment?
Estonia is much more integrated to Finland these days...
short term treasuries - that's almost always the answer when a company says cash. Sometimes it's other things, with almost exactly the same characteristics.
That is most certainly BS. There is no doubt, no question.

For the past several months Russia’s stated efforts at diplomacy have been an utter farce, the saying “pissing on you and saying it’s rain” does not go far enough.

Now all of a sudden Russia says they paused for negotiations… “fool me once shame on you; fool me 100 times with the same ruse, I should stop taking drugs”
Not sure what parent poster meant but eastern Europe countries are doing it. Also not sure if it's considered West by you.
Germany blocked RT as well months ago and Russia retaliated by banning Deutche Welle.
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> It does not understand in the way humans understand.

And?

If it can match to a point where it knows exactly what everything is, and presumably is capable of (or eventually will be able to) making decisions based on that information well enough to obey the rules of the road, then it doesn't really matter if it's using trillions of simple logic gates or a human brain.
> these 2 points have been on my mind unrelated to your argument.

Same here. Could the issue be morale? I heard isolated reports that the lower-rung soldiers appeared to have very low fighting morale, and apparently many had not believed that the invasion would actually go ahead. Allegedly, some hadn't been told they were actually doing an invasion.

What if this problem exists from the top down? It only takes a few disillusioned generals so they fail to deploy 70% of their forces, and the troops that do make it to the battlegrounds are not being properly coordinated. The only other reason I can think of besides internal sabotage is that they're worried about the optics of a too brutal assault, but then again they have not really worried about optics in the past.
Definitely seems like the attempts are still being made. The overly spooky picture being told in this interview seems a bit off since he’s claiming the process had been completed many times over already by the time of the interview in the 80s.
Carlos was not really a part of Bitconnect. IIRC he just showed up to some event and did such a good job riling up the crowd that they started making him part of the show.
It could be the cost of also publishing - you are required to be part of some number of other's peer review.
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When you start a war of aggression you calculate in that there will be sanctions against your own people. This is first and foremost on Putin. Not that he cares, and probably not that this will be a popular sentiment in Russia.

The alternative to sanctions is a shooting war, it is probably a good idea to put as many steps in between that point and now as we can, who knows, there might be someone with a change of heart high enough up in the Russian ranks that it makes a difference.
Unfortunately no details were given about what makes 50% of all bitcoin transactions “fraudulent” ?

What does that even mean?

* did someone try to send something other then bitcoin to a ₿ address?

* did a client claim he payed and did the payment seem to fail on his end?

* did a client not realise that you as payee also pay for the network fee?

Nowadays these kind of problems would be easily prevented by using bitcoin lightning payments, because they work in a fraction of a second and specify the exact amount that has to be payed.
Also they are almost free of transaction costs.
"AI". Wow this looks bad, worse than just taking a screenshot of the background and subtracting from video feed.
There is a video of Kamala Harris declining to get a vaccine if it is developed under Trump administration. I’ll try to find it in a bit. Good morning folks!

Edit: Actually she said she would take it if doctors say so, but not if Trump tells her to get one:

https://youtu.be/-dAjCeMuXR0
It's written plainly in the report:

"Of this sum, $120 billion is held in U.S. Treasury bills, all maturing in less than a year."

So, T-bills.
I looked at those trials and it did not appear to include people with prior exposure to sars-cov-2. What is a person who already had it supposed to make of it? That's great that it has high effectiveness for people without a history of exposure but its not some conspiracy to doubt its effectiveness if you already had the disease and its turned out that intuition was largely correct.
The guy that made it posts here you can ask him.

I think his numbers on that quote probably come from counting M3 money or something similar. Which isn’t that wild of an idea.
I was wondering about this.

My conclusion was that “the Ukraine” refers to the geography and territory (it would read as The Borderland in East Slavic, between the steppe and the Carpathians) whereas Ukraine is the republic and nation that resides in the territory.

Since this war directly involves the population and the government, it is Ukraine the nation, not ‘the Ukraine’ the land.
>https://news.ycombinator.com/ is fine on both.

I would imagine that the russian government is careful in picking their fights right now. Provoking the it-security-crowd (both locally and abroad) is a game-theoretical no-no :-)
Sanctions are a form of economic warfare: they are intended to make broad swaths of the population suffer, with the goal of producing general discontent. A discontented civilian population means an unpopular war, and unpopular wars are harder to wage. Or so the theory goes.
> Russia supposedly stopped the offensive yesterday for negotiations and it's now back on.

An important caveat is that this is according to Russia.

Ukraine's version is quite different (it was Russia's attempt to lure Ukraine's top officials to Minsk, which is the only place where Russia is prepared to conduct the talks).

In any event, it seems pretty clear that there was no actual ceasefire yesterday or today.
They got people to trade good money ($2.4B) for monopoly money and then ran off with the real money.
A well regulated social network being necessary for a free state, the right to keep and bear phones shall not be infringed.

What isn't clear about that :)
Yep. It comes down to information asymmetry. Harder to trick and scam accredited investors

Most token sales make good money with very low effort scams
Twitter posts are sometimes segmented, here’s better context for reference (when started from the top): https://twitter.com/googleeurope/status/1497312445303513094?...
Agreed entirely. "Conflict with" implies equivalent circumstances between Russia and Ukraine, which is an inappropriate implication for an unprovoked war of aggression.
I suspect this is short tandem repeats - not full genome data.

https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/what-str-analysis

> Among the 3 million or so DNA bases that do not code for proteins are regions with multiple copies of short repeating sequences of these bases, which make up the DNA backbone (for example, TATT). These sequences repeat a variable number of times in different individuals. Such regions are called "variable number short tandem repeats," and they are the basis of STR analysis. A collection of these can give nearly irrefutable evidence statistically of a person's identity because the likelihood of two unrelated people having the same number of repeated sequences in these regions becomes increasingly small as more regions are analyzed.

http://www.biology.arizona.edu/human_bio/activities/blackett...

https://forensicsdigest.com/short-tandem-repeats-or-strs/

https://youtu.be/9bEAJYnVVBA

This isn't data that you could reconstruct a genetic disease from. It is more akin to a hash function for an individual's genome. The data would be 13 pairs of numbers (13 STR loci and the number of repeats on each chromosome at that location).

This would be PII, but likely not HIPAA.
Am I the only one which is surprised that Putin actually invaided Ukraine? It is true that majority of people in Ukraine are very much against Putin but they are very much connected with Russia so this looks like killing your own people.

So when Lukasenko dies then Russia will invaide Belarus and kill bunch of people who they don’t like Putin?
Probably, but this would hurt Russia immensely. Currently there is not much infrastructure to support delivery of that much more gas to China, so it would need to be built and that would probably take years.

At the same time, it would hurt Europe more than Russia in the short-term. (But it might be really worth it in long term)
I specifically stated and made the case that Wikipedia will only allow what Wikipedia wants published to their site. To conclude some measure of criticism exists without competing claims against the criticism is a naive position. This applies to what you are linking to.

Your points do not acknowledgement this central thesis. Wikipedia is garbage, using it as a base of aggregated links is ignorant or naive.

To put it more bluntly: I don't care about the opinions you express regarding this topic, as you are demonstrating very arrogant behavior, particularly in linking to a dictionary dot com article on a common English phrase, as if I've demonstrated some lack of understanding in English require some assistance there. Then completely ignoring my points. You are terrible at discussion.

We are done.
The potholer54 channel on YouTube has a lot of content by a conservative science journalist, trying to get through to more science skeptical conservatives.

He has a playlist on COVID. I watched more of his climate related stuff, but that was really good in terms of looking at the reality of things, reading citations on papers and such:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL82yk73N8eoWneZjR0wiidhGk...

The final video in particular, titled "Do you get it now? Why scientific reality doesn't care about your politics" is a good summary.
The EU is not worried about Russia? From where on earth did you get this bizarre and obviously false view? Every Eastern EU country is extremely worried about Russia right now and NATO has sent reinforcements to them.
I do thousands of transactions with thousands of people every day without committing financial crimes and without paying any fees. It's extremely valuable to my businesses.

Wrenches can be used as weapons but they are also essential for plumbers.
It's different. North Koreans never had the modern life in the first place, but Russians do. When you're used to that, when you take it for granted and it's suddenly taken away from you - that is the one thing that can cause unprecedented mass protests that Russia badly needs now. Want to get your tech back? Stop the war in Ukraine.
Exactly. And ban re entry for a decade. When oligarch kids start showing up in mother Russia and bitching to their parents, it might help the privileged oligarchs realize they don’t have impunity outside their bubble and nobody outside Russia cares about their influence whatsoever.