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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @cointastical 22 Feb \ parent \ on: BDMD #1 - Bitcoin was hacked / will be hacked bitcoin_beginners
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=152348.0;all
https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0050.mediawiki
More and more countries are joining the list. By 2100, just 12 countries — 11 in Africa and the tiny Pacific island state of Vanuatu — are expected to have fertility rates above the crucial level of 2.1 births per woman. Not a single country is expected to have a rate above 2.3 by the end of the century.
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A McKinsey report in January suggested many of the world’s richest economies, such as the UK, US and Japan, would need to at least double productivity growth to maintain historical improvements in living standards amid sharp falls in their birth rates.
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Women with low levels of education delay having children because of concerns about the stability of their relationships and the need to live near their parents. By contrast, those with a university education worry about dropping down the career ladder and want a hands-on partner, her research has suggested.
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A Danish travel company even ran an ad campaign to “Do it for Denmark”.
Just saw this RealLifeLore video a couple hours ago, prior to seeing this SN post:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8j2uWw3WfU
And saw this Peter Zeihan video a couple weeks ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=At74k92vS10&t=342s
I already knew of a couple immediate benefits of U.S. getting Greenland as 51st state:
Offshore gas (and oil?) ... just sitting there,
New channels for running fiber optic,
Extend continental shelf claims,
- https://www.state.gov/continental-shelf/
- https://geusbulletin.org/index.php/geusb/article/view/4786/10425
- https://www.heritage.org/global-politics/report/the-us-should-issue-extended-continental-shelf-proclamation
But long term snagging Greenland is probably a bad idea:
https://www.heritage.org/global-politics/commentary/buy-greenland-and-you-may-get-more-you-bargained
This might be better:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_of_Free_Association
Yet after only a few years in power they become the wealthy elite. Almost like they are enriching themselves through other means than just their salaries.
This concept of economic nodes was proven out over a decade ago:
You can see the moment at which there was no further debate as to what to do:23:45 DBordello What chain is Mt. Gox on 23:45 gavinandresen Eleuthria: if you can cleanly get us back on the 0.7 chain, ACK from here, too 23:45 MagicalTux DBordello: we stopped import before the fork 23:45 Eleuthria alrightWhich is further evidence that it is economic nodes and not miners who control Bitcoin. In this case, there was mt. Gox with like 80% (educated guess) of the economic activity of Bitcoin at the time. So a miner (pool) switches to follow the will of the economic nodes (i.e., whichever side Mt. Gox was on), even when that one pool alone had majority hashrate (both sides combined).
I somehow assumed he bailed himself out and was fighting this from the outside.
Regardless of the harm he caused Bitcoin, I truly wish him freedom, and will sign the petition as I know Roger would do that for any one of us if we were the ones targeted to this degree.
My car, built in the past 5 years, can't figure out that I forgot to turn off the headlights So if I do that, I might return to a car that has a dead battery.
But this ancient tech device knew how to avoid a sudden permanent and frozen death and then phoned home with what little juice it had available yet? Amazing!
The way the UX has three buttons (back, home, recent apps) on my android pisses me off when it is hidden, default. Tactile controls are never hidden, so I'ld prefer those navigation buttons to be physical.
At the same time, had to change the time on the lcd display on my car -- was hoping we were done with this twice-a-year change for daylight savings, but not yet. Anyway, it took under 20 seconds thanks to good design, with clear labels. I can't tell how many years prior I'ld have to try to remember ... is it that I press the Volume UP and the Tune dial at the same time to get the clock to change? Or was it both the Seek next and Seek previous buttons? Crap like that because there isn't the room to justify dedicated tactile buttons for the clock.
Leased a vehicle twice in my life, ... both ended badly.
The first vehicle because of the mileage overage. When i got the lease I was driving way under the 12,000 miles / year allocated mileage. But in the last year of the lease I had a long commute and went way over. Cash-flow wise, it was a better option to accrue the per-mile overage expense, versus getting a second car for commuting, especially because I didn't have to pay for excess miles until the lease ended (i.e., a deferrable expense). It still stung though.
The second vehicle was where I got rear-ended, and for the repair I had to first drive a good distance to bring it to their estimator, and then for the repairs I had to drive a distance to bit it to a shop that was approved. It was just under two months between the accident date and when I finally had my (repaired) leased vehicle back --though I knew that them getting the parts would take a while, especially since they had ordered them just before the Christmas holidays.
"In one instance" for $230M
and then
"[...] with conspiracy to steal and launder over $230 million in cryptocurrency from a victim in Washington, D.C."
That doesn't read "victims".
Is the one instance the only instance?
If so, then unlikely they rented the houses, procured the vehicles, etc, within the 30 days since. Or they have the interns and/or AI writing the Press Releases.
Lots of larger exchanges have their own "OTC Desks" now, ... but for only $10K or $20K buys, you don't want to (and wouldn't want to, ... or likely be able to even) use an OTC Desk.