i don't even have google play serices installed, let alone the play store...
pieces of paper is certainly better than bank database entries, but it's still fundamentally the same game: you need to work for something that they can print.
also, it's been on the books for decades... when cameras arrived to phones, they added a sentence.
well, i say it's high time to ridicule the people who try to ridicule others by labeling them as a conspiracy theorist. i'm a proud conspiracy researcher, and when someone throws this thought terminating cliche on me,…
consumer control begins by chosing what you give your money for.
then look for alternatives to banking itself! that impulse will shape the world even more.
splitting a canvas in two is a perfect "art form" that anyone can do to launder some millions into "honestly earned" money...
i agree with your sentiment, but what you disagree in is crucial here. there's a class of topics where disagreement means the death and dispair of one side. hoping to live and let live, with a disagreeing party that…
closed is never secure. it's just open only for a smaller circle.
i used to work for a rich one like that ~20 years ago. we were walking through the border without a word, boarding his private jet, and crossing the Schengen border.
such documents are worth only as much as the population wants to, is willing to, and is able to enforce them.
right, it's just Hungary... in Germany you must ask for permission from the military to leave the country for more than 3 months.
i think it's just that the American population is the last bunch who gives a damn about it, and the pockets of resistance still makes the news... the same happens mostly everywhere else, just without much complaints.…
/me shakes head in disbelief and closes the tab
heh, touché! :)
no, no, no... i don't even want to know! :)
no, we don't, far from it. (which doesn't mean there's not a lot farther from here).
it's been long ago when banks last provided credit using the savings of other people... honest banking is long gone.
that is how you can maximize the "income": max inflation (printing) until people complain... max taxes until people complain... max fees, until people complain... IOW, introduce multiple names for the same thing to hide…
> Africa is fine in Mercator here's a reality check: https://licensing.visualcapitalist.com/product/how-many-coun... or just find a globe, or zoom out in google maps. also, what you write doesn't make much sense. the…
i didn't spend much time with it beyond noticing that africa was tiny.
another modelling problem with it: ceiling effect https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38416412 How much can your top performers overestimate their performance? The opposite problem happens for the worst performers. A…
publishing auto-correlation is not a 'data artefact', but a mistake. and a rather ironic one at that. The #Dunning-Kruger Effect is #Autocorrelation https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2022/04/08/the-dunning-k...
the fact that the useless left/right divide is still so widely used shows that manipulation is working well even pre LLMs... when it comes to the important question, then both "sides" are the same team. or if you want…
re TB: you think i wouldn't know? and it was found because it was active. re eradicating measles: the terrain is much more complicated than presented. first, because the vaccine fades away, and without measles spreading…
i don't even have google play serices installed, let alone the play store...
pieces of paper is certainly better than bank database entries, but it's still fundamentally the same game: you need to work for something that they can print.
also, it's been on the books for decades... when cameras arrived to phones, they added a sentence.
well, i say it's high time to ridicule the people who try to ridicule others by labeling them as a conspiracy theorist. i'm a proud conspiracy researcher, and when someone throws this thought terminating cliche on me,…
consumer control begins by chosing what you give your money for.
then look for alternatives to banking itself! that impulse will shape the world even more.
splitting a canvas in two is a perfect "art form" that anyone can do to launder some millions into "honestly earned" money...
i agree with your sentiment, but what you disagree in is crucial here. there's a class of topics where disagreement means the death and dispair of one side. hoping to live and let live, with a disagreeing party that…
closed is never secure. it's just open only for a smaller circle.
i used to work for a rich one like that ~20 years ago. we were walking through the border without a word, boarding his private jet, and crossing the Schengen border.
such documents are worth only as much as the population wants to, is willing to, and is able to enforce them.
right, it's just Hungary... in Germany you must ask for permission from the military to leave the country for more than 3 months.
i think it's just that the American population is the last bunch who gives a damn about it, and the pockets of resistance still makes the news... the same happens mostly everywhere else, just without much complaints.…
/me shakes head in disbelief and closes the tab
heh, touché! :)
no, no, no... i don't even want to know! :)
no, we don't, far from it. (which doesn't mean there's not a lot farther from here).
it's been long ago when banks last provided credit using the savings of other people... honest banking is long gone.
that is how you can maximize the "income": max inflation (printing) until people complain... max taxes until people complain... max fees, until people complain... IOW, introduce multiple names for the same thing to hide…
> Africa is fine in Mercator here's a reality check: https://licensing.visualcapitalist.com/product/how-many-coun... or just find a globe, or zoom out in google maps. also, what you write doesn't make much sense. the…
i didn't spend much time with it beyond noticing that africa was tiny.
another modelling problem with it: ceiling effect https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38416412 How much can your top performers overestimate their performance? The opposite problem happens for the worst performers. A…
publishing auto-correlation is not a 'data artefact', but a mistake. and a rather ironic one at that. The #Dunning-Kruger Effect is #Autocorrelation https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2022/04/08/the-dunning-k...
the fact that the useless left/right divide is still so widely used shows that manipulation is working well even pre LLMs... when it comes to the important question, then both "sides" are the same team. or if you want…
re TB: you think i wouldn't know? and it was found because it was active. re eradicating measles: the terrain is much more complicated than presented. first, because the vaccine fades away, and without measles spreading…