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Sorry I was harsh before, I would delete my last comment if I knew how.

I used to be fat too and the only thing that worked for me was calorie counting. I hope you find some way to achieve your goals one way or the other.

I agree with this statement. Cutting people off from the internet in today's world is akin to cutting them off electricity.

I also worry that while the West seems to be in complete agreement that harsh punishment on Russia is fair, it may or may not be the case in the future that such punishment is reserved to those who "deserve" it.

If you read your own dubious source, you will see that your method has no way of working.

We are going to see a lot of these "AI-generated" products. This one in particular looks like 100% hype.

Your theory is quite illogical. Your premise is wrong - where did you get that estimate? -, but more importantly your fat cells aren't going to start dissolving if your blood has slightly higher oxygenation.

Title is very confusing. And there is no benchmark whatsoever to back up those claims.

This seems like a more proper comparison to the M1 Ultra that was announced today. Looking forward to independent benchmarks.

Very sad case, glad he is somehow getting his life back together. Should get reparation from the government for this fuck up too.

> Black children were twice as likely to have lost a parent to COVID than white ones, and Indigenous children, five times as likely. Older, sicker, poorer, Blacker or browner, the people killed by COVID were treated as marginally in death as they were in life. Accepting their losses comes easily to “a society that places a hierarchy on the value of human life, which is absolutely what America is built on,” Debra Furr-Holden, an epidemiologist at the Michigan State University, told me.

This is just silly. Of course older and sicker people died more often, this just simply could not be avoided. And black vaccination rate was very low in the US [1]. The article tries to make the case that the US is somehow neglecting COVID due to prejudice, but most countries in the world are going in the same direction as them, removing mask mandates and generally returning to normalcy.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-glo...

> Are there scenarios where a bank (or other financial institution) can steal/withhold funds from you, or where they can censor your ability to transact with your own money? What is the recourse you have in those situations. What if the L1 itself uses its “right” to take your money through civil forfeiture or eminent domain?

Eminent domain is about land use. Civil forfeiture and eminent domain are well described in the laws of all developed countries. And they exist for very good reasons, we don't want to get rid of this at all.

The aim of the article is a critique of the potential for cryptocurrencies to be a true exchange medium equivalent to currencies as we have today. That is the illusion that feeds speculation and big dreams. If you are proposing that the use case for cryptos is individuals that have a reason to fear their own government, that leaves us criminals, political dissidents and wealthy oligarchs in third world countries. And it's still unclear whether they would be better served by storing their wealth in such a volatile and fraud-prone medium, versus actually digging a hole in the backyard as you describe. Or, you know, trusting another government/banking system like Switzerland like they all do.

Your statement about US agricultural output appears to be incorrect; at least, it hit record export rates in 2021 [1]. And what you are saying about tourism is irrelevant, as the article clearly states that rice production fell by 20%, and tea production recorded a loss of 450 million USD. Farmers themselves are demanding that they be allowed to import fertilizers again. While it's true that we cannot know whether the organic switch was the sole cause of this disaster, it is both logical and plausible that it was a major factor.

Can you point to a single country that switched to organic farming and had increased agricultural output (ie, "better for farmers" as the comment above implies)?

[1] https://www.usda.gov/media/press-releases/2022/02/08/america...

Sure, but if you want to qualify the "trust" to such minute detail, you can also do the same with traditional banking. I don't have to "trust" the banks, I have legal guarantees and transparency mandates enforced by governments. Why should I believe that the quasi-experimental procedure you describe operates smoothly, rather than believe that the traditional banking system will uphold its obligations, as it has for decades?

Did you not read the article? The lack of pesticides led to a disastrous collapse of yields for the farmers. It's also unclear how bad synthetic pesticides are, at least those scrutinized and commonly used in the EU for example.

What a mess. Reminds me of Lysenkoism in the Soviet Union. There is a lot of garbage science in the organic movement, this just shows the incredible trade-offs this ideology can have.

Yes. NATO started as an alliance with an existential purpose, meaning that each and every member felt that an attack on any of them would threaten their very existence. Its expansion after the fall of the Soviet Union was paradoxical, because the threat was vastly reduced. And now we have a situation where a Russian attack on, say, North Macedonia would immediately trigger World War. I don't see how that is beneficial to anyone except of course people from countries such as these. But it's unclear that we should risk world stability for the sake of the safety of ex-Soviet republics.

I found it excellent. It summarizes the main paradox of crypto: if you make it truly decentralized, it costs too much and is useless as a mass medium of exchange, while also being a haven for fraud and theft. If you rely on any sort of ledger/layer 2 system, you are back to trusting a third party, in which case you would be better off with traditional banking.

This is also happening with ads, and it's crazy annoying.

The tech aspect of the sanctions deserve to be more scrutinized. The average Russian company certainly can pirate Windows (now legally), but now they have to worry about all sorts of backdoors and vulnerabilities that will expose them to their competitors. It would seem that the logical solution would be to adopt FOSS rather than pirate, at least for any serious professional work.

That's a bad way to see it. First of all, proportionally they pay quite a lot of taxes because all their money goes into consumption. Depending on where you live, VAT can be up to 25% for example. Also, they are subjected to payroll taxes and other things, so it's wrong to focus solely on income tax here.

But more importantly, it absolutely makes sense to have the poorest be subsidized by the richest. That's what Europe does, and they are doing great. I would much rather be taxed highly in Europe and know that the money is making sure everyone around me has healthcare and a roof above their head than thinking that my productivity is some God-given ability that supersedes a compassionate and rational way to structure society.

An interesting perspective. Based on this and other sources, it seems there is no way Ukraine's resistance lasts more than a few weeks at best. On the other hand, it's totally unclear what Russia thinks it will achieve in the long run. This can turn into a scenario like Afghanistan, with the difference that Russia's GDP is over 10x smaller than the US, and crumbling under sanctions.

When these things come up I always wonder, why do we believe what these services promise? For example, Duckduckgo is listed here and pretty much everywhere else as the best search engine for privacy, because they have a stated no-log policy. But there are no audits, and as far as I know we have no independent confirmation of this at all.

I find it odd because when it comes to VPNs, there are independent audits and other measures, such as hosting in non-compliant countries such as Switzerland, that at least add some level of evidence behind a company's claims.

Never thought I would see "3090" and "most cost-effective" in the same sentence, and I own one.

You are correct about Trump pushing for the pledge. But what I meant is that in a broader sense, both his presidency and Brexit showed that mutual commitments can change according to short-term political will. If the UK can leave the EU, then why can't it also leave NATO? It doesn't even need a referendum for that. Likewise, Trump or a similar figure might not follow what a treaty demands, or what their military commanders advise.

This is just posturing. There is no way that he will start WW3 over being blocked out of SWIFT. And no way that the military top command lets him do that either.

Do you have a source?

Actually, Israel did exactly that last year: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/15/give-us-10-minutes-...

Actually quite a bit, leading Europe by a comfortable margin[1][2]. Note that its two foremost European competitors (UK and France) were spending proportionally more into military in this period.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03320-2 [2] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03318-w

Ok, but by that logic refineries would also show the same pattern. I'm not aware that they do, although I'm having a hard time finding data to back this up.

This smelled like a hoax from day one. Embarrassing that it was so widely reported actually, people on Reddit were having orgasms about it for a day or two.

Germans have to pay more for gas because of Putin, not because of this investment. And I'm not saying there are no other issues, I'm saying that this should be a high priority right now.

Germany is a very rich country. It can walk and chew gum at the same time.