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pmchem
Jan 22, 2010



Was gonna post this, happy you beat me to it

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pmchem
Jan 22, 2010


CommieGIR posted:

https://twitter.com/towersight/status/1411935986817306625?s=20

Man, I can see places I stood and worked in this video and it gets me. But its good we're gone.

man there's a lot of expensive stuff still there. someone's gonna have a really bad time with their hand receipt later this year

pmchem
Jan 22, 2010


https://twitter.com/AuroraIntel/status/1412865526691414016?s=20

oh, UAE, you hosed up the entire slate of OPEC+ talks last week and wasted everyone's time?

nice oil tanker you got there, be a shame if something happened to it

pmchem
Jan 22, 2010


RFC2324 posted:

do people think you can just call the kremlin without the nsa being notified?

11th dimensional chess, he did it because he knew it would be picked up on, so he could do a story about it, to get himself more clicks and views

pmchem
Jan 22, 2010



https://twitter.com/dril/status/247222360309121024?s=20

pmchem
Jan 22, 2010


bulletsponge13 posted:

I'm still not sure how Crypto isn't the exact loving thing as fiat currency. No one's backing it with gently caress all- at least if the USD plummets, we can throw some bombs around and make everyone miserable on our way out

I mean, there are so many differences, where to start

For one, the value of a fiat currency is tied in part to the economic health of a country because the goods and services a country produces are largely paid for in its native currency.

Taking “crypto” to mean btc/eth, governments of developed countries also demand payment of taxes in their native currency, not crypto. Kind of adds a utility to the currency if your taxes are due.

Transactions are far more efficient in time, volume, power, and marginal cost with fiat payment processing systems.

The entire global debt system is tied to a reserve currency, and it’s ever gonna be crypto.

You can’t 51% proof of work attack a bank account.

etc etc

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pmchem
Jan 22, 2010


RFC2324 posted:

Yeah, they have to have enough on hand so that if everyone suddenly decides they need to pull all their cash out, they have enough to keep handing out money til a new truck from the fed shows up.

history shows that when banks have to tell customers that they don't actually have cash to fill their account, bad things happen in a cascading effect, so they took steps to avoid that

regulations for primary dealer and global systemically important banks are absurdly complicated for non finance experts to follow. suffice to say, there is NOT a big pile of cash sitting around somewhere to cover all of a bank’s liabilities.

anyone who wants to spend several weeks learning about this can start here:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basel_III

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