The piece explicitly states that it is not sleepwalking:
>Not all nocturnal behaviors are RBD. Sleepwalking and sleep talking, which occur more often during childhood and adolescence, take place during non-REM sleep. This difference is clearly distinguishable in a sleep laboratory, where clinicians can monitor stages of sleep to see when a person moves.
While there might be overlap, the sims offered players status/career simulation, the option of mating and killing the sims, and a whole host of other things that represented departures from someone's actual life. I'd guess the appeal of the sims was more down to simulated optionality of lifestyles and relationships (+ obvious destructive fun through fires, grim reaper etc) than it was about doing one mundane task.
>Jean-Luc Melenchon, a far-left politician running for France's presidency next year has suggested that a jihadist's 2012 murder of Jews was part of an elections conspiracy.
I'm not sure either of your comments are productive here. You assert that it would be hard to find any crypto business that isn't 'rooted in some kind of scam'. But where's the evidence that coinbase for e.g is 'rooted in a scam, greater fool scheme or ponzi'? There are scammy activities in so much of crypto, but what is pointing to the most visible, normie-facing, publicly traded and regulated American crypto company, being 'rooted' in scamming or ponzi schemes? Because this post suggests a bad actor within or close to the company, or at worst the company knowingly associating with sketchy tokens, rather than the entire company's activities being fundamentally rotten. I know HN likes to be extremely skeptical of crypto, often rightly so, but your comment isn't exactly nuanced.
I did address this in a sibling comment - the exchanges are primarily used to buy and sell crypto to greater fools, and thus they are rooted in a greater fool scheme. The vast majority of use for crypto is speculation.
But you see, even if I did agree that that was the case that all exchanges are rotten, you originally said any crypto business. You think the various businesses that focus on staking, or cold wallet businesses for example, that focus on consolidation and/or security are 'rooted in scams, greater fool schemes, or ponzi'? How?
Perhaps my original formulation was insufficiently precise to get my point across - I mean that crypto is rooted in scams and pyramid schemes and whatnot in the sense that the nature of the industry makes it a magnet for those kinds of schemes and they are the primary driving force behind the money flooding the industry. That doesn't mean that the exchanges themselves are explicitly doing these things, or that all the businesses are either directly engaged in or materially supporting this behaviour (though I think the majority are), but that it's the driving force of the industry in that transportation drives the oil extraction industry.
HODLing is also speculation. I'm saying that crypto isn't driving useful economic activity like investing in startups or small businesses can do. It's all just people trying to make money by finding a greater fool. Even speculation in a normal market can drive /some/ innovation through capital allocation.
Defining a multi-year buy & hold strategy as speculation doesn’t sound like something I can get behind. I get what you’re saying, but I think you’re making sweeping generalizations here. There’s plenty of people that invest in useful economic activity, but also save some money in other assets like gold and bitcoin. You are just calling these people speculators hoping for a greater fool?
Or is it possible that these people have grown to trust bitcoin, seeing it as a savings vehicle outside of the usual currencies?
I'm glad you understand what I'm trying to say, even if "speculation" isn't quite the right term for it.
I think scams are an obvious harm, but the highly financialised and speculative nature of crypto is a more subtle harm: most investment produces positive material side effects like products or services, but because the main selling point of crypto is to continually pass it around in a circle, a lot of money, time, and expertise is wasted on something that is completely unproductive. To be fair, I think this criticism mostly applies to Wall Street too, but most people no longer try to argue that Wall Street is a source of meaningful innovation. To say nothing of the proof of work model leading to ever increasing energy consumption during climate change.
I just don't see much real upside to the crypto industry, and quite a lot of downside.
More nuance needed here. The UK has failed terribly when it comes to opening its borders to Ukrainians. But it has very much been world leading when it comes to other aspects of this crisis. Britain sent arms to Ukraine well before the war started, was training thousands of Ukrainian snipers back in January and February, and was the first country to send arms to Ukraine. Ukrainians on the ground therefore see Britain as their closest ally, regardless of its shameful stance on
immigration.
https://twitter.com/OzKaterji/status/1500927139570401283?s=2...
The British are very aware of the large Neo-Nazi supporting population in Ukraine. Over the years the BBC, SkyNews, Reuters, Guardian, and other British media companies have had extensive coverage and made a few documentaries about the topic. I expect they know precisely what they would be opening up their country and domestic population to in a mass migration scenario.
Do you care to list those sources? It sounds exactly like a successful work of Kremlin propaganda.
Please, ask anyone, any foreign citizen who lived in Ukraine, if they ever saw people like that in person and if it was anything but a short "demonstration"/provocation happening once a year.
Banderites (followers of Nazi Stepan Bandera) are all over Ukraine in significant numbers. The current President Zelenskyy constantly talked about them and their growing support over the last decade in his comedic performances and as a politician.
Western media is suddenly reluctant to discuss this history (possibly because of state objectives) but the articles and other news media produced from ~2014-2016 on this topic are easy to find.
Real Nazis are as close to Stephan Bandera's groups in 1940s as they are to IRA, for example. Don't mess these movements, motivation and historical context. It was more about getting rid of Red Russia then about anything else.
>The current President Zelenskyy constantly talked about them...
I was impressed about the way his silly rethoric has changed in the last 2 weeks (or really last one year). He is a different person now. Go and ask him about any of that nonsense now.
Most of the newer research on this topic suggests that it's neural connection complexity, and specifically frontal lobe volume, rather than overall brain size that determines intelligence or brain power.
>Luckily, there is much more to a brain when you look at it under a microscope, and most neuroscientists now believe that the complexity of cellular and molecular organization of neural connections, or synapses, is what truly determines a brain’s computational capacity. This view is supported by findings that intelligence is more correlated with frontal lobe volume and volume of gray matter, which is dense in neural cell bodies and synapses, than sheer brain size. Other research comparing proteins at synapses between different species suggests that what makes up synapses at the molecular level has had a huge impact on intelligence throughout evolutionary history. So, although having a big brain is somewhat predictive of having big smarts, intelligence probably depends much more on how efficiently different parts of your brain communicate with each other.
The piece explicitly states that it is not sleepwalking:
>Not all nocturnal behaviors are RBD. Sleepwalking and sleep talking, which occur more often during childhood and adolescence, take place during non-REM sleep. This difference is clearly distinguishable in a sleep laboratory, where clinicians can monitor stages of sleep to see when a person moves.