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If you are paying $20 a lb for expresso beans you are probably not a coffee shop and definitely not buying the coffee that costs $6 at a chain coffee shop.

How did he mess up? His goal is to screw up the real economy and sell $Melania coins.

The EU needs to build arms to defend itself that the US can't interfere with and knows less about, and so does China.

Germany must be wondering why it is keeping enemy bases on its soil.

Not have less than $1500? The shell company could have employed them or purchased parts from them, or they could also be doing the same with their own shells and therefore often need to get to the head of a specific line and the DMV investigation probably wouldn't say much more than it has said, unless that was solid evidence of collusion by a DMV employee.

If Doge wouldn't pay out then Musk can't complain when Canada doesn't.

Putin spent a long time saber rattling before he invaded Ukraine. I guess they shouldn't have been concerned back then because nothing horrible started happening yet?

Copyright law has a long history ported from earlier media. People here want to say media is just some product but the US decided that is in no way true.

You are paying more for the DVD because copyright law and fair use apply to it including the right to backup. Companies prefer to sell you new online licensing as a scam.

The US didn't correctly defend the right to backup, but that leaves a funny grey zone where WB being bad at making DVDs means less ability to shame "piracy" tool makers because backups is normalized and in no way suspicious if the media isn't perfect like they said.

In the case of copyright you are not buying the media. You are buying a licensed right sent as media. If they wish to make no impediments to making a backup then maybe they have no fault.

Right, if it is unreasonable a bunch of climate change denying creationists who think Canada is responsible for the US' drug problems will feel totally ashamed. Maybe they will even go to area 51 to ask for safe passage away from their shame in this galaxy.

Apparently the delusion of exceptionalism affecting physics didn't die with the entirely equatable Afghanistan experiences or am I supposed to take something else from silent down votes?

Without Chelsea Clinton's endorsement, I don't think I could possibly use a 24 hour day trading tool. The US is a flim-flam nation now and you shouldn't buy all the crap they sell each other on TV.

Having a suitcase full of money has none of those problems.. And under performs because it does nothing.

QC might be impossible and some involved may view it as just an income scam, I simply doubt that they all do.. I don't really see a difference in bitcoins price. A large portion of crypto mercenaries are no doubt propping up even the more legitimate coin prices by utility in pig butchering, etc, in getting a mark into the right behaviors..

I don't know if the pricing of the champagne in the "champagne room" should be taken as reflecting market sentiment just because it has been globalized. In some sense any kind of scam that runs long enough is just the regular market, but if it has no legitimate revenue I think it must reach the plateau where it can't fulfill the fad function of investing in it. What is the market for currency as a casino, Forex is only half that illegitimate purpose and it doesn't command much respect.

AI winter means ChatGPT is a figure of our collective imagination or that past performance doesn't predict future returns or the rate of scientific developments?

Maybe you have a real thought on that instead of an arbitrary comparison of numbers that don't really relate.. I.e. Quantum research investment would be at least be a faith number that says something about the number of believers in something. What that has to do with the possibility that it falls apart I don't know.

Bitcoins price 1818: $0 Largest number factored with Shor's algorithm, 1818: 0 Bicoins price 1920: $0 Largest number factored with Shor's algorithm, 1920: 0

Point of numerology: 0

In something like transportation one is betting real returns come in before the asset is worthless. Bitcoin has no return so one is betting the asset goes up because it is scarce and you get out before it is worthless. Real estate at least has rents or personal use.

I find the scientific community that is either researching or confused by quantum phenomenon to be a lot more legitimate than the financial community who are either researching or confused by blockchain.

> Given that a wallet is basically a bank account except it cannot be seized by a government

All wallets could become worthless in a weekend if a government makes the wrong stride in quantum research..

El Salvador is not recommending Bitcoin and found low interest in actual use.

Madoff also had a fund that could return very well. Satoshi just has to show up and cash out to ruin his pyramid or push the pyramid entirely to the US tax payers right now. Seems improbable like the chairman of NASDAQ running a scam..

These bizarre scams have no place in a real economy and we have to get rid of 0% interest to kill this garbage.

That's certainly possible, but I think Russia has a TV war phenomenon similar to the US' and I'm not really sure that retaliatory bombing galvanizing the population is worse than a TV population in the longer term.. The TV population is in essence unable to tire in the same way as a galvanized one that achieves nothing for a long period of time.

(Also the countries you give as examples had no existence in defeat. I can't think of equatable examples, but I don't think the French were galvanized by attacks on what they saw as French Algiers, etc..)

(Realistic discussion about practical reality is in now, but only when arguments are pro superpower?)

If the Ukraine reacts by being less precise in its attacks they might make more progress demoralizing Russia since Russia has less capability of hiding civilian casualties than military ones.

But they should really focus on wooing China. China has never been as friendly with Russia as it appears and Europe might start ranking them over the US and Russia as the least distasteful if they play their hand well right now..

Its a total waste to try to quietly appease. If they want something out of the current administration they need to humiliate it and then barely give it enough to save face.

> Does this mean their nominal GDP grew by 15% in one month?

If they could keep selling in rubles without a fall in exports or prices then the month's contribution to GDP was 15% higher than the previous one. That doesn't seem very confusing.

It's popular to talk about unintended consequences, and site the most egregious, but everything has unintended consequences on top of its intended consequences. The world without all of the billionaire attempts to make a good legacy for themselves would in fact include a lot less interesting things.

These people should not expect to be alive in 10 years so if a trick for getting a few more months at the top means their country is nuked in 10-30 years, whatever.

Apologies to Mr Kurzweil, but I think the reality on the ground is that the cost of research into keeping an aging population alive is a raised risk of Armageddon. The political tendencies in older age demographics is bad, the politicians surviving so many decades after a first to leadership position is bad, the billionaires living long enough to find whacky ideas or even directly manipulate politics instead of gifting money to charities is catastrophic, etc.

Counteract might be the wrong word.. The ongoing dysfunction doesn't fall from the sky, it is largely a consequence of people prioritizing the goals they are assigned for the betterment of their group, etc.

I think everything is marked by law, pretty much throughout Europe, but there should be a standardized 2 letter code logo. It can be tiresome to separate Spanish almonds, fruit and vegetables from things that traveled farther distances than necessary or are likely to be flavorless and from a green house.

It depends what you mean by secure. Vulnerabilities is a market and if GOS happens to secure the vulnerabilities that are convenient and work on all standard Android releases, most of the market doesn't support putting the research into setting up additional vulnerabilities against it as they will until another iOS vulnerability is found and weaponized.