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sekai··on “Women are wonderful” effect
> "Benevolent" is describing the context of the sexism, not judging that the sexism itself is morally good.

> The context of the term still heavily implies that "benevolent sexism" is a moral/social failure.

So...let's just call it sexism?

sekai··on Notice of termination of Twitter merger agreement
> Tesla and SpaceX success is depending on the public opinion of Musk

No it does not, SpaceX results speak for themselves, they have no competition. Same with Tesla, just check their vehicles sold charts.

sekai··on Kazakhstan president proposes reforms to limit his powers
Uhh, wrong? Baltics are stable like any western counterpart.
sekai··on Jeff Bezos’ Space Joyride Emitted a Lifetime’s Worth of Carbon Pollution
> the commercialization of space travel is not.

You'd have to be naive to expect that capitalism will not bring in innovation and improvement to Space exploration / solutions. I'm all for it.

sekai··on MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch
It's not useless, remember that full-screen is thing?
sekai··on Lizardman’s Constant Is 4% (2013)
No matter how stupid a suggestion is a certain percentage of any group polled will agree with it anyway
sekai··on YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking all anti-vaccine content
> experimental drug

When do drugs stop being experimental?

sekai··on Valve Steam Deck
What? Have you seen Nintendo Switch sales numbers?
sekai··on $100M xPrize for Carbon Removal
And it's futile if we don't start removing C02 from the atmosphere. I'd rather bet on C02 removal than anything else.
sekai··on Nvidia cripples cryptocurrency mining on RTX 3080 and 3070 cards
Same could be said for anything, it's all subjective
sekai··on Nvidia cripples cryptocurrency mining on RTX 3080 and 3070 cards
Nonsense for you maybe, would you call flight travel, cruises crimes against humanity?
sekai··on Turkey bans use of cryptocurrencies for payments
Crypto clearly has a use in this scenario, Lira is plummeting.
sekai··on $7.5B In Stolen Bitcoin from 2016 Bitfinex Hack has just been moved
It's possible to swap into monero without using any KYC exchange, but that requires liquidity. So it could take years.
sekai··on Coinbase from YC to DPO
oh boy, wait until you hear about Tesla
sekai··on Bitfinex and Tether required to end all trading activity with New Yorkers
Let's not ignore major funds and companies investing in BTC like crazy, that's what is propping up the price not the "Tether scam" that's being going on for 5 years unproven.
sekai··on Bitfinex and Tether required to end all trading activity with New Yorkers
You can easily withdraw USD/EUR you got from trading in USDT.
sekai··on Bitfinex and Tether required to end all trading activity with New Yorkers
> Considering the meteoric rise of BTC is tied so deeply to Tether issuances

Got evidence for that? Because printing USDT after BTC went up is not a manipulation, but a liquidity boost.

Let's not forget that USDT isn't the only stablecoin in town, it's ratio is actually decreasing, all the way from 3k to 50k.

sekai··on Bitfinex and Tether required to end all trading activity with New Yorkers
> but it's certainly no more a fraud than Beanie Babies or tulip bulbs

Did their bubbles also last 12 years, went through multiple bear/bull markets?

sekai··on Bitfinex and Tether required to end all trading activity with New Yorkers
No it would not, plenty of stablecoins to take it's place, or just crypto/crypto ratios.
sekai··on Mt. Gox demise as told by a Bitcoin insider
It won't. People were screaming about Tether back in 2017, 4 years, still going strong. Keep in mind, they aren't the only stablecoin in the market now, so even less relevant to the crypto space.
sekai··on Hedge fund Melvin sustains 53% loss after Reddit onslaught
Not really, few percentage points of that sub are actually investing. Loud minority.
sekai··on Hedge fund Melvin sustains 53% loss after Reddit onslaught
> WSB has 7.6 million users

I keep seeing this metric everywhere, it's irrelevant, $GME became a meme stock, people are joining the sub to check out the fun, not to invest. Max 1% of them are really investing anything of value.

sekai··on Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay online is 'embarrassing'
You missed one key difference, moderation, Parler straight up refused to remove these kinds of posts.
sekai··on Tether price manipulation
> For anyone who disagrees with the above - please show me market where I can go sell my USDT directly for USD.

Kraken, Bitstamp, did so for 3 years+

sekai··on Tether price manipulation
> but when I take cash out of my bank account I get a cash dollar 1:1 with what they debit my account; they don’t prorate it for the amount of reserve they have.

Now try taking out 50 million or more, you'll face same difficulties.

This tether nonsense comes up every few months, still adamantly holding the 1:1.

Not mentioning that it's not the single dollar peg option in crypto space anymore, plenty of other options USDC, Dai.

sekai··on Crypto Market Tops $1T as Bitcoin Breaches $37,000
I'd say the current BTC state in this cycle is similar to the beginning of 2017. Regular people are still sleeping on this, not minding it too much. ALTS are barely pumping, compared to the 100x's they did in 2017. BTC will simmer down and correct, but when, that's the question.
sekai··on Pfizer submits Covid vaccine to FDA for approval, to distribute in December
Few key facts:

• In the entire history of vaccines, only one has been recalled because the vaccine itself caused long term side effects (a rotavirus vaccine that had rare complications and no deaths for those under 1yr). If you can't find any papers about it, that's why. It's like finding a paper on death by lava lamp explosions. It's happened (https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-dec-01-na-brief....), but not enough to study it.

• Much of the speed was gained by relaxing enrollment rules, which are for study participant safety. The majority of normal study participants join in the last year or two anyways.

• These studies were larger than usual to make up for the decreased time. 30,000 people is a lot, and plenty to check for rare side effects.

• Then compare the odds that there's a common reaction that didn't show up in 30,000 participants against the ~5-10% chance of serious health complications from COVID. It's a no-brainer.

You can read the list of recalled vaccines and why they were recalled straight from the FDA (https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/concerns-history....).

sekai··on Covid vaccine: First ‘milestone’ vaccine offers 90% protection
> Ebola was localized. COVID-19 is not

You could easily localize COVID-19, just make a vaccination passport. No entry to a country if you're not vaccinated.

> How many locations globally have this level of refrigeration

Almost all developer countries, urban centres, where majority of people live anyway.

sekai··on Neuralink Progress Update [video]
> Tesla auto-pilot

Huh? It's being improved constantly. Nothing like it in the car industry.

sekai··on SpaceX test flight of Starship SN-5 [video]
Because it's not the end? I think we strive to continue on into the unknown.
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