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Who cares?

you might be overthinking this

Crypto/cryptography is perfect nerd bait. Easy way to listen to yourself talk while being technically correct about something.

What about the “context” of, say, Japanese American internment camps makes them something we should excuse Roosevelt for, if you don’t mind me asking?

The historical significance of it is a hell of a lot more than that

Must feel amazing to have so much faith that the justice system will hold those in power accountable for anything

In what universe is capitalism not an emphatically right wing economic system?

PyCharm/intellij display the “code” part of f-strings similar to how a variable declaration or function call would be. I’m sure it’s possible for any other editors out there to apply some nicer formatting to f-strings as well.

what?

Totally agree except that onion flavored pancakes can be delicious.

Scallion pancake with pork belly is one of my favorite combos :-)

As Keynes famously said, "Past performance is a guarantee of future results"

Elastic search now recommends using “search_after” instead of scrolling for deep pagination, although mechanically they’re pretty similar to use

the jq manual has tons of examples https://stedolan.github.io/jq/manual/

in order to actually make money, you'd still need a third step of "sell" (or you could spend the BTC directly, i guess)

Well luckily we _do_ know what happens with a great deal of certainty when you get actually infected with covid, and it turns out it sucks pretty hard.

i find this "better the devil you know" mindset really weird when the "devil you know" is an extremely infectious virus that has killed _three hundred thousand_ americans (not to mention more worldwide), and thousands more by the day.

these hypothetical vaccine side effects that have not come up during any of the trials that have been going on for _months_, across thousands and thousands of participants, would have to be pretty insanely bad in order to outweigh the negatives of millions more people contracting the actual virus.

> The vaccine is not field tested

what exactly would you call phase 3 trials for the various vaccines that were done on thousands/tens of thousands of people?

very scientific

> Personally I fail to see what benefits non-vulnerable people have from immediately being vaccinated.

covid can do/does plenty of nasty things to "non vulnerable" people besides kill them

yeah unlike us hackers who are saving the world with targeted ads and food delivery

the first part feels standard to me.

can anyone clue me in on whether that second part is as batshit crazy as it sounds?

you literally can't possibly know that. nobody does

> people say the same thing about quants and fund managers in centralized finance

both are true

> Because the government hasn't been able to do anything right for 270 years, why do you think they're suddenly gonna wake up a figure out mass manufacturing?

worked just fine for penicillin during world war 2

that's not how people tend to approach most things in life. humans aren't calculators.

even very intelligent people tend to suck at estimating/weighting risks

homebuying is probably near a worst-case scenario for this because it's

1. one of the biggest purchases most people can ever make

2. loaded with emotion, cultural norms, and other things that make it very easy to make bad/risky choices

this doesn't really track with the rock bottom interest rates we have right now

> even shaving 10 years off that time frame will net you a lot back in your pocket to invest and make money on it

what about just investing it in the first place instead of paying down extra on the mortgage?

why pay extra on 3% (or less!) debt to free up cash flow to use for some ~6-10% investment when you can just take the extra from step 1 and skip right to step 2

there are a lot of visually/technically impressive movies and tv shows that are (subjectively) awful-mediocre in terms of their substance (see: Avatar)

i don't see how the OP's take on the mandalorian is at odds with the idea that the people who make it are probably pretty good at their jobs

> killing Allende in cold blood

people unfamiliar with the story might find it interesting that the exact manner of his death is somewhat disputed. obviously he wouldn't have died then if it weren't for the coup, so it's not like what you wrote is really a stretch.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Salvador_Allende

> or is it a one-off being used to spread fud

you replied to this with a one-off anecdote to spread fud

you don't think one of the most prolific athletes in modern human history ticks a few peoples' "culture" boxes here?