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The Last Word on Bitcoin’s Energy Consumption(coindesk.com)
5 points by throwkeep 5y ago|0 comments
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Covid lab-leak theory shows the ‘fact wars’ are still raging(ft.com)
4 points by throwkeep 5y ago|0 comments
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Why Has the US Economy Recovered So Consistently from Every Recession for 70yrs?(frbsf.org)
5 points by throwkeep 5y ago|0 comments
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by throwkeep 5y ago
They're using Strike, which has no fees, nearly instant transfers, can send globally (again for free) and only need a name and phone number. Isn't that better than a bank aside from clawbacks? https://strike.me/
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Uttar Pradesh says early use of Ivermectin helped keep positivity, deaths low(indianexpress.com)
5 points by throwkeep 5y ago|2 comments
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El Salvador to Make Bitcoin Legal Tender: A Milestone in Monetary History(forbes.com)
2 points by throwkeep 5y ago|1 comments
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by throwkeep 5y ago
That's bizarre because we've known for a long time now that Covid doesn't really spread outside. Doubly bizarre if vaccinated.
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by throwkeep 5y ago
> Taxation always has been, and continues to be, a burden for the servile class to bear. How does that square with the fact that the top 50 percent pays 97% of taxes? The top 1% pays 40% of taxes.
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by throwkeep 5y ago
I don't understand. How that is a reasonable alternative to income? The degree to which your stock goes up or down is irrelevant for tax purposes, until you sell.
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Society wide experiment in ubiquitous porn has been run; what are the findings?(twitter.com)
1 points by throwkeep 5y ago|0 comments
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by throwkeep 5y ago
A good start would be: Remove the algorithmic feed Remove the Trending bar Increase character length Ban witch hunts
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by throwkeep 5y ago
> And the consequences for the accuser are nothing. That's a great point. Accusers are not only incentivized to whip up a mob, but have virtually no downside. No skin in the game if they're wrong. That asymmetry needs to be res
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by throwkeep 5y ago
Twitter is a particularly well refined mob machine. No room for nuance, distribution at the speed of light directly into your feed and/or Trending, participants immediately rewarded for generating and spreading outrage. I get that a lo
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by throwkeep 5y ago
Yes, the news media is a slower and more centralized outrage machine. The upside of social media is that it's harder to manufacture consent (h/t Noam Chomsky) as it consists of millions of voices. Though that's threatened by
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Approving Biogen's Alzheimer's Drug Is a Big Mistake(bloomberg.com)
5 points by throwkeep 5y ago|0 comments
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by throwkeep 5y ago
Yes, they're using the same naming tactic as demonstrated by the Patriot Act and the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea. Old school liberals and progressives recognize that our labels are being usurped by illiberal regres
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by throwkeep 5y ago
Thiel isn't at all the cartoon villain he's made out to be. That's just lazy partisan propaganda. Read his book "Zero to One" or watch a few of his interviews for a nuanced perspective.
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Switzerland must adjust to remain business-friendly after G7 tax, experts say(reuters.com)
1 points by throwkeep 5y ago|0 comments
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by throwkeep 5y ago
Did you read the comment? They have healthcare and said there's $500-$1000 leftover each month, which is a healthy amount for retirement investment. More than enough to max out a Roth IRA. That's on top of social security too.
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by throwkeep 5y ago
So true, it's really taken for granted. Especially these days with Github and package managers which make it so easy to end up incorporating a dozen or more 3rd party libraries. There's something impersonal about it, and trivializ
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by throwkeep 5y ago
Part of it may also be that people don't want to know. Take the ongoing Uyghur genocide right now, but most are ignoring it. Why isn't it an emergency and headline news every day? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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Removing the Bedrock of Liberalism(andrewsullivan.substack.com)
7 points by throwkeep 5y ago|6 comments
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Own the Internet(notboring.co)
2 points by throwkeep 5y ago|0 comments
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by throwkeep 5y ago
The corporate media is good at memory holing things, but here's a compilation of them calling it the "Wuhan Coronavirus", "Chinese Coronavirus" and "China's Coronavirus": https://www.youtub
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Is anyone interested in a Californian Reformation?(twitter.com)
1 points by throwkeep 5y ago|0 comments
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by throwkeep 5y ago
It's misinformation in the same way the lab leak hypothesis was "misinformation".
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Letting the Economy Create Jobs for Everyone Is (Sadly) Radical(nymag.com)
4 points by throwkeep 5y ago|1 comments
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by throwkeep 5y ago
> The deal announced on Saturday, between the US, the UK, France, Germany, Canada, Italy and Japan, plus the EU If all these nations can strike this kind of deal, won't they do the same with Bitcoin to render it useless?
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Latest peer-reviewed research: Global Ivermectin use will end Covid-19 pandemic(eurekalert.org)
5 points by throwkeep 5y ago|3 comments
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The new UFO craze and the failures of our public intellectuals(erikhoel.substack.com)
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