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idk but I keep most of my wealth in stablecoins or cryptocurrency. The yields are better than a bank and I can withdraw more from Coinbase in a day than my bank would let me wire per day anyway, so why not?

You're right about that but I prefer axioms with actual explanatory power.

Obviously, but the officer being more scared of a black person has nothing to do with institutional power, that's my point. I can be a penniless, poor homeless person and still be a racist piece of shit. I don't require power for that.

In my example, the fact that the person is a police officer has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that they are also discriminating. Certainly issues arise when the two intersect (having institutional power and discriminating) but don't conflate the two as the same.

Also this whole argument rests on the fact that power is some binary thing which isn't true at all. Power imbalances exist in every facet of life and sometimes, traditionally "oppressed" classes of people have more power than "oppressor classes" in some situation or another.

lmao the "discrimination is about power" is so played out and is used as a tool to justify "reverse" racism (which is just racism). What does a police officer being more afraid during a traffic stop of black people have to do with institutional power? What does people walking home at night and crossing the road when "certain" people are on their side have to do with institutional power? Nothing. This whole "racism = power + prejudice" thing is an intentional normalization of the ability for everyone to be racist to whites (or asians I guess) without having to be held to their same standards. I've rarely ever seen this argument used without a basically overtly racist/sexist comment either preceding or following it.

This is a huge problem in video games now IMO. Any card game everyone plays the same decks, in MOBAs everyone builds the same and prioritizes the same picks, in MMOs everyone wants only the BiS gear and specs the same way, etc. Basically so many games are "solved" and there are so many people who min-max the games become totally unfun.

Funny the author brings up the Olympics because I always complain that the most aesthetically pleasing figure skating runs never win because they aren't crammed wall to wall with "technical requirements". Also re: baseball, I wonder how many more ads there are today?

Lots of houses are liabilities. If you've ever been to a place like detroit, where they are abandoned, the roofs are half collapsed, there is water damage everywhere, etc. The cost to repair is higher than destroying it and building something new.

This just confirms what I've been trying to tell my friends for years, which is that "when you sleep matters just as much as how long" but they always seem to roll their eyes. Though it seems pretty obvious that one feels more well rested going to bed at 10 and waking at 7 as opposed to going to bed at 5am and waking at 2pm

Suppose that 0.00015% of all ammonia production goes to chemical weapons manufacturing.

Boom, analysis complete.

Uh, for most of these "obscure tokens" you can't get that kind of leverage. SHIB or SAFEMOON or w/e was worth billions before it was ever even listed on Binance.

The TV isn't 1000% more entertaining though

Ok, but you're not denying the fact that it's a use case. Why should I have to suffer because the US financial infrastructure is stuck in the 1930s?

All technology becomes outdated at some point, if cryptocurrency is useful to me right now to perform basic financial operations how is that not a use case?

I wasn't aware of this. What kind of collateralization ratio is required and what sort of assets are needed for this? Also signing up for an account from many countries sounds irritating and possibly illegal

What is freedom if not the ability to take advantage of opportunities?

Again, the correlation is obvious to anyone who actually uses this stuff. If I want to trade on margin on Fidelity, I need to sign some forms, go through a lengthy application process which may or may not actually be accepted to finally be able to trade with high interest rates and non-transparent margin requirements (my fidelity margin requirements change out from under me nearly every single day) routed through rent seeking, too-big-to-fail hedge funds and dark pools with T+2 order execution and restrictions on when during the day I can trade (only during day trading hours). Oh and don't accidentally trip up a "good faith" violation and have your account suspended from margin trading for a month even though you've done nothing wrong, and their antiquated systems simply aren't able to account for the fact that you weren't, in fact, trading money you didn't have.

Just let me do what I want with my money, it's pretty simple. Sure maybe there are negative externalities that come with that, but freedom isn't free.

I see your point but they are collateralized. Let's put it this way, my friend just bought his house and spent 2 weeks with mortgage agents and brokers. Meanwhile I deposit some ETH-USDC LP into maker and in 2 minutes get a no questions asked loan at 3.5%. Sure it's lower leverage when compared to most mortgages but I think my point still stands.

Strange because I intentionally matched the tone of the comment I replied to. Comparing cryptocurrency to religion is incredibly ignorant at best, and trolling or FUDing at worst.

This reads like a person who has never used cryptocurrency or defi in any manner whatsoever. If I want to right now, I can get a multimillion dollar loan, no questions asked, against most any crypto I own for an interest rate lower than credit cards or scammy payday loans will charge. I can be a market maker for trades without being an institution and with no barrier to entry, I can liquidated overleveraged loans, I can trade derivatives otherwise not allowed to me by my country, and I mint and trade synthetic assets, the list goes on and on.

You're the one who sounds like they are subscribing to a religion and haven't actually even attempted to understand what financial freedoms are suddenly afforded to you when you use cryptocurrency.

I always noticed that when I used the brita filters I would get stomach aches. This explains why perhaps

Save yourself the trouble. Unless you're immunodeficient or touching people for your job stop using this stuff.

"Financial Services are an entire industry. Lending, transactions, authorizations, contracts, accounting, risk management, asset allocation, it's a gigantic industry."

Right, this is all on ethereum

I know, I don't get it. People's laundry steam is pumped out of their basements and when I walk around the city in the wintertime you get an overwhelming scent of unpleasant laundry fragrance every now and then. Some friends of mine had their carpet replaced a month or two ago and there was incredible offgassing. I got an absolutely terrible headache accompanied with nausea after 2 hours but they all seemed to be sitting there inhaling it just fine. I couldn't believe it. I'm just saying "how can you guys handle this?"

Dishsoaps too, I find the Dawn dish soap scent absolutely repulsing, mostly because of poor associations with 3 month old sponges, freezing cold houses, and mildewy sinks from college. I don't know how anyone stomachs the stuff. The smells are so "artificial" in the sense that they are one note, they don't feel organic. They lack the nuance of something that contains 50 terpenes might have.

Some of the comments are from 2014. Looks like this was from well before the lockdown XD

I know HN is nitpicky, but whether you like it or not, "asian" refers to "east asian" in terms of US pop-culture racial discourse. It may not be right but it's the way it is.

They'll have to change their business model. Half an hour is a very long time for an extremely captive audience. I'm very certain they can figure out a way to make money off of that.

I can't understand the argument that Mumble is functionally better. I used Vent/TS/Mumble/Skype for years while playing WoW and within 2 minutes of downloading Discord it clearly blew all of them out of the water. Joining a new server was frictionless, channels and settings were clear and understandable. It combined everything from those 4 services into 1 and did it better. I wouldn't call that "frilly features" it's just a flat out superior product.

Something isn't right? Perhaps that nearly half of the elected officials present were either complicit or actively encouraging what happened?

It's an arms race. In theory advertising should give you an edge over non-advertising competitors, but if everyone is doing it demand remains unchanged and also you're wasting money

I was thinking the same thing. Certainly an American passport is becoming one of the worst in the world to own.

But the average household probably also isn't in 240k of debt unless they made very very poor financial choices.

I thought this too then I lived in a room without shades for months. Amazing how I started to wake up earlier and earlier and get tired earlier and earlier.

Already been said a number of ways here but: If the agency spies on it's own citizens, why wouldn't it spy on non-citizens?