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- I don't think you'll ever find a battery pack using cells with integrated low-voltage protection, if that's what you're referring to. All that stuff is managed by the BMS. What you should be on the look-out for is the cell's operating range, continuous and max power. Personally I use buy VT6's in bulk and never think about any of that.
- France has a long standing program for artists and entertainment technicians and while the niceties can get complex the big idea is that the State guarantees a minimum level of income if you work a minimum amount of hours per year for artistic purposes (507 I think), including teaching and rehearsals.
- The Wikipedia article links to the IAEA recovery video where you can more or less see everything : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE5T0GkoKG8
- It's a reflection of the lack of money. Those substances are comparatively cheap, not habit forming and don't build up long term tolerance. A lot of them are pretty easy to DIY (though not LSD-25). The typical LSD user will buy a $10 blotter once in a while. The money flow is not worth mentioning in the broader scope of illegal substances trafficking.
- My personal experience is that anything that forces you to focus on details and anchors you runs counter to what you're getting out of psychedelics. Not just precise logical thinking but even things like focusing on letters. Writing becomes challenging when the letters are fractals flying everywhere.
- > You might argue that the EU is a sprawling, wasteful bureaucracy and you would not be wrong, per se, but they made a lot of useful laws that just simply make the world a better place.
The EU bureaucracy itself is significantly lighter and more purposeful than any of the underlying individual states' bureaucracy, though that might simply be a function of youth and restricted scope.
- You're not that special. While the American special snowflake syndrome has been useful in giving its citizens a sense of purpose, freeing them of apprehension and bringing it where it is, it's ultimately baseless. Things get dangerous when people start believing in their own bullshit. The same is true for Europeans as well. There's a lot of navel gazing going on and I'm very annoyed at European leaders sweeping increasing authoritarian behaviour under the rug or proclaiming with great confidence, as did von der Leyen, that we don't have oligarchs.
- > Krebs, through CISA, falsely and baselessly denied that the 2020 election was rigged and stolen, including by inappropriately and categorically dismissing widespread election malfeasance and serious vulnerabilities with voting machines.
Being purged is one thing, but being purged by bumbling morons must bring another level of ire.
- Note that those tariffs are related to earlier US tariffs from March, not the recent universal tariffs.
The European MO in that respect is very consistent : take time to deliberate, reach consensus and apply pressure in kind. It's at odds with the news cycle but I prefer that over instant gratification.
- Nobody can. There's far too much overlap regionally between Britain and North-Western France.
And nobody in Britain has just Brittonic ancestry, or Frankish ancestry in France. For the most part the populations in Europe have been stable since a time that predates the expansions of the Celtic and Germanic linguistic groups.
- > ..and that's why these Western European welfare states are collapsing.
No, it's not. The weight of illegals on the welfare system is a rounding error compared to the effects of an aging population. And if you were familiar with people in this situation rather than spitting out far-right talking points you'd know that's it's not an enviable situation and not one they yearn to stay in.
- Compliance has a centralizing effect, for example the American OFAC sanctions list. You can do business outside of it but you're cutting yourself out of a lot of institutional money. In the end while there's a lot of money being made in sanctions-evasion, money-laundering and whatnot, at the macro level the industry prefers trying to cozy up to Blackrock and Vanguard than to narcos.
- Being in the thick of it, I can tell you the compliance side is pushing towards what exists in traditional finance, be IT, money laundering, accounting practices etc. At least in Europe and to a lesser extent the US. If you go working at new banks (say Revolut or N26) or at growing asset-managing crypto companies in Europe you'll find the landscape to be extremely similar.
As far as I'm concerned, if you're parking money with a company based in an area that has lax regulation you're holding the gun that'll shoot your foot. I have a hard time seeing something like this happen at Bitpanda or Kraken, though you never know.
Using the same master a CD would always sound better than a vinyl record, but I and many people would always take vinyl over a CD because of the praxis. Set and setting is important, in the end. Vinyl is more demanding in every aspects, it imposes more care and respect for what you're listening to.