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I think it's wise to only fly on commercial airlines.
Only the capitalist division of labor in large, profit-seeking companies creates enough eyeballs to make safety procedures reliably immune to mistakes, idiots, part failures, language barriers, and weather.
Basem Aggad باسم العقاد retweeted
Happy birthday, hmm, to... The Balfour declaration. 67 WORDS. 90% OF THE POPULATION LEFT UNNAMED.
109 years ago yesterday, Britain issued the Balfour Declaration. Six extraordinary facts:
1. The 67-word pledge was not a treaty but a letter to Lord Rothschild, a zoologist who famously travelled in a zebra-drawn carriage.
2. Britain did not control Palestine. It was still Ottoman territory; British troops captured Jerusalem five weeks later.
3. Britain backed "a national home for the Jewish people"—not explicitly a Jewish state.
4. Roughly 90% of Palestine's inhabitants were Arabs. The words "Arab" and "Palestinian" never appeared. They became "existing non-Jewish communities."
5. Their civil and religious rights were mentioned. Their political or national rights were not.
6. The only Jewish member of Britain's cabinet, Edwin Montagu, fiercely opposed the declaration, warning that it could encourage antisemitism.
The people whose homeland was being discussed had no voice in the letter.
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Years ago, before 9/11, two Qantas pilots had the privilege to have Patrick in the flight deck during their takeoff.
Sir Patrick sat between and behind the two pilots. At their request, lined up, after takeoff clearance was confirmed, Sir Patrick paused then called,
“Engage”
Basem Aggad باسم العقاد retweeted
AI cannot print more Bitcoin. The 21M hard cap is enforced by network consensus rules that nodes reject any violation of. Changing issuance requires voluntary agreement across the ecosystem, which would erase the scarcity that gives BTC value. No amount of recursive self-improvement invents free coins out of thin air.
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O Saifedean Ammous publicou hoje uma resposta ao Lawrence White, um dos pais da escola moderna de free banking, e usou o meu gráfico de volatilidade como uma das provas. Obrigado pela citação, @saifedean.
A tese do White é que a oferta fixa deixa o Bitcoin volátil demais pra ser dinheiro, porque o ouro pelo menos aumenta a produção quando a demanda sobe. O Saif devolve com uma pergunta simples - se oferta elástica fosse virtude, o cobre e o ferro teriam vencido, só que o ouro venceu justamente por ser o metal que menos responde ao preço. Nos anos 70 o ouro foi de $35 pra $800 e o estoque cresceu 1,34% ao ano, nos anos 80 caiu mais da metade e o estoque cresceu 1,39%, praticamente o mesmo ritmo.
O White também escreveu que a volatilidade do Bitcoin não caiu conforme o market cap cresceu, e é aí que entra o meu gráfico. Em março de 2018 o Bitcoin oscilava 9,4x mais que o ouro, hoje oscila 1,5x, enquanto a volatilidade do próprio ouro quase triplicou com toda a oferta elástica que ele defende.
Mises já chamava em 1912 a demanda industrial e as oscilações da mineração de “desvantagens consideráveis” do dinheiro metálico, que o ouro só tolerava por serem pequenas. O Bitcoin tirou as duas da equação.
A lógica do Dr. Ammous é implacável, quem estabiliza o dinheiro é quem guarda, não quem minera.
Basem Aggad باسم العقاد retweeted
📌إعادة طائرة الإثيوبية بسبب جنسية أحد طياريها!
🔸بعد ساعة من إقلاع طائرة من أديس أبابا لتل الربيع رفض السماح لها بالهبوط بسبب وجود طيار اندونيسي على متنها.
🔹عادت طائرة الشحن B737 لأديس أبابا، حيث استبدل الطيار
🔸الشركة لم ترسل بيانات الطيارين الا بعد إقلاعها
Basem Aggad باسم العقاد retweeted
Following recent supply-chain incidents, we decided to reduce the number of resellers so we can more effectively check those we work with.
Let us be very clear: there is not a single piece of evidence that Trezor devices have been compromised.
This is a preventive step, taken out of an abundance of caution. We also want to thank everyone involved for the cooperation, and for the years of work putting Trezor in people’s hands.
Basem Aggad باسم العقاد retweeted
Zionism is the art of traveling thousands of miles to murder a family that doesn't know you exist, steal the home they've owned for centuries, and shout: "that'll teach them to pick a fight with me."
Basem Aggad باسم العقاد retweeted
📌بطولات عيال البلد أبطال المطار!
🔸الاعتداء كان وقت بدء تبديل نوبه فكان فيه عدد موظفي كبير وبعضهم كان يستطيع العودة لكن فزعوا لمساعدة المسافرين
🔹موظفي الخدمات الأرضية ومطارات الرياض والعمليات الأرضية للسعودية وأديل وناس دور كبير بالمساعدة، وعمالة عربيات ذوي الاحتياجات الخاصة
قصص من عشرات القصص التي سطرها أبناء الوطن بالمطار
Basem Aggad باسم العقاد retweeted
Seven years later and I'm still waiting
Basem Aggad باسم العقاد retweeted
عن فوبيا اللقاحات وكيف تم اختلاق خرافة تسببها بالتوحد
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