Doubt China learn from Russia's mistake in their invasion of Ukraine. Worse, it could give China a case to study how the whole world is very fractured and divided. Sure, Ukraine got the support from US and Nato allies but only in non-direct ways like weapons, tanks, ammos,... but no troops whatsoever. This might be a lesson for China if they want to invade Taiwan since Taiwan is an island, if China could surround the Taiwan island and blockable all the incoming supplies from the US and its allies, stall enough time, you know.

Of course, if US and allies are willing to commit their troops to protect Taiwan island then this plan of China is not working, not enough in any way. A lot of things need to be considered here.

I think some people got way over their heads after Barcelona have some wins recently with its new lineup, Lewandowski, and media sensation news. They think Barcelona is untouchable now even tho Real Madrid is also strong in the La Liga this season. Tho I root for Barcelona cause of the way Xavi coach doing things to improve Barcelona, I still think the match between Barcelona and Real Madrid is even for both. Yes, Real Madrid's scoring ability is better than Barcelona but Barcelona's defense is better than Real.

Yeah, I agree with you about no matter how good a CS pro player is, he can't carry his whole team all time. This is also what I loved about CS. It was more about the team vs team, especially in the top-tier team. Shame that xantares back when he was at his peak, no Türkiye organization can form and keep a team around him to kick start the Türkiye CS scene. Have to let him go with BIG.

Past is the past. Glad to see both xantares and woxic in the same team now. Someone mentioned woxic makes me remember I dig woxic too back then for his very unique high sens setting even though he was an awper. Thanks to that high sens, he got some really insane highlights with 'no way you can pull that flick' by typical low sens setting from the other tier 1 awper. paz and major are ex-space soldier too.

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Have a great hope on Eternal Fire here, guys. I want to ask, what's the average reception for the Eternal Fire team on the Türkiye side?

Link where CZ said that Layer 2 isn't needed yet, timestamp of the video too. Cause I don't trust or think CZ would say something like that. It's up to the users to decide when the dev had to push for Layer 2 or not since the increase in demand or the overall goal and planning for that coin. Heck, I think I remember CZ BNB has something like zkBNB that is also Layer 2 as well.

What I want to say is you have to have some plan for Layer 2 in the future. Cause right now, the number of transactions is only a fracture of later where thousand of thousand people have to use the chain on the daily basis. From small value to big value transactions. If your coin truly wants to be the main currency for the future, you ought to have high TPS and scaling for a low fee.

Manchester United lost 4-0 against Brentford was like a month ago, dude. It was early of the season and the lowest point for Manchester United with a lot of confusion around the main lineup. Eventually, the old coach of Manchester United left and ten Hag came in. Some shuffle and transfer then hola, Manchester United slowly improve and undo its old past, keep playing better and better each game.

That's why I think you're wrong for your asset on Brentford. That you made it like the Brentford team was something big and Arsenal was still able to take a win against it.

Although we hate it, the real truth is there was no real decentralization or privacy practice either from exchanges or online wallet services like coinbase. Yes, there are full of regulations on the crypto space and it was the same in real life. Anyone of you here, can you buy alcohol without giving your driver's license in the US? Small details like that showed that both on-chain or off-chain, are still full of regulations and at some parts, we have to show our ID or KYC to get anywhere over the process.
When I saw Tornado Cash got sanctioned by the US, no surprise here.

You know, usually, countries try to get the right to host international events like World Cup as a way to boost their tourism. But for Qatar, they get it just to flex their power cause they have the money and FIFA, as I said, is in the 'money talk' mode right now.

I tried to make a point here so people would stop ridding on FIFA's c*ck and condemn Chile's case. I saw Chile have every right to take this to the higher count, to push and punish (or you could say to taint the FIFA name). A good way to remainder FIFA that they're built on people's trust, on the international value for football around the world. If they want to be a 'money whore' and cant keep their value and principle anymore. Their reputation might take a downturn and things like European Super League will pop up.

I don't have any problem with Qatar being Islamic country. Their country, their rule, I understand that. But if strangers and tourists come to their country for an international event, there should be some leech way here. Because this is a chance to promote your country's tourism industry, not being an arse and flexing your power. Sort of "Yeah my country has a ban on this or that but since you're strangers come from far away, different ideology, religion and such, we'll be lax on you".

^^ Hah, I was wrong again.
Heroic strike back 1-1 with their win at inferno map, beat Astralis 16-12. This is the moment of truth for Astralis. As you said, Complexity did its part. 2-0 over ENCE, they're now maybe in the 3rd spot if Heroic wins the Bo3 over Astralis.

Astralis have to decide its fate and spot for the playoff rounds in the map3, Nuke. Seems like there was a huge pressure at Astralis right now. While for Heroic, even if they lose to Astralis, as long as their round difference isn't behind Complexity, they still have a spot. All Astralis, Heroic and Complexity will have 3 wins and 2 losses but the round difference, Complexity has at the lowest so the other two take 2nd and 3rd spots, Complexity got bumped out.

Ah btw, Eternal Fire won 1-0 against Entropiq in Bo3 Final of ESL Challenger. Eternal Fire is right now completely destroying Entropiq 13-2 in the first half on Entropiq map pick, Overpass. No one can foresee that. The odd is 12 to 14 for Entropiq right now. Does anyone remember the odd for this map at the start?

^ Damn, Astralis beat Heroic on the Heroic map pick, Overpass. Tho they have to drag it to the OT rounds, Astralis still come out better and ended it with 19-17, securing the first 1-0 win on the Bo3. Next is inferno, I think Astralis can take this map easily because as everyone has know, Astralis is the king of the banana for ct sider in inferno map.

This is like the core of Astralis back in the Astralis era. If inferno is selected after the map ban/pick, a free win for Astralis there. Heroic aint doing great at inferno too. Maybe 2-0 and Astralis take the 2nd spot for the playoff after MOUZ 1st spot. Cant say anything about 3rd spot for this group stage, Complexity might have a chance here if they beat ENCE at a wide gap and Heroic loses but the rounds difference between Heroic and Complexity is still safe.

Like many have said here. You approach it from the wrong angle. $10 isnt much so you see no point in it. But low odd bets have their charm cause it is considered to be a 'safe bet' that even though you won't earn much from 1.0x (x is a single digit), you are guaranteed to win it. A huge boon for people with a lot of money to bet, from $1,000 or up cause 1.05 of it is like ~5% or $50 free right there.

Some sportsbooks didn't like people to do it so they even close the betting if odds come to that low. Or games passed certain criteria for a comeback.

"Clean energy" isn't that clean and one-for-all solution to reduce fossil fuel if you know how tricky to make it work with the national power grid. For example, Solar energy only provides power on a sunny day and even its power load isn't fixed, very varies. Carry a risk of spiking your power grid hence you have to spend a lot of money on power stations and electric lines aka putting a burden on the grid.

Wind energy main concern is its wind blade waste which cannot be recycled. Mean you can only bury it under some landfill aka waste of land resource. Talking about land, both Solar energy and Wind energy require a lot of space for their solar panel and wind turbine to work. Basically, the trade-off for renewable energy isn't that great to push for a massive switch from fossil fuel source energy.

But Atletico Madrid has an average of 0.8 conceded per match while Real Madrid has 1 conceded per match. All stats for this season. Sure Atletico Madrid doesn't score as much as Real Madrid but on the other hand, Atletico Madrid has a strong defensive line.
Tho Real Madrid is not in their ideal lineup but both clubs are in their top form now, I expect it'll be an interesting Madrid derby overall and the chances are even for both.

I say because of the confusion from covid that a lot of clubs earning isn't at they were before covid. This creates top league clubs' quality is a bit step back and some don't seem at their level for Premier League yet. We may need one or two seasons for clubs to back on their feet and finally get the right direction in finance to become decent for Premier League again.

It's so weird that a country with many restrictions on basic human rights gets to host the World Cup. Heck, Qatar even enforce its rule on the foreigners and tourists, people come to Qatar for the World Cup. Should a World Cup host country be a place of tolerant, natives willing to set aside their traditions, laws, and such for a good host?

"No, my country, my rules. If you have complaints, take it to FIFA". "Who care about international value or being a good host? I pay good money for FIFA to grant me this event and I can flex whatever power I've" Many of you here defend FIFA but the organization has become so shit nowadays.

Not just in war. After it too. It's always the common folks who become poorer under dramatic changes both in and after the war. Especially on the revenue since the business isn't like it was before the fight broke out. I don't know what you guy think about the fate of Ukraine after all of this war end. But for me, I feel a bit sad that a lot of things have been lost, lives have been lost, kids lack opportunities to go to school in and after the war. Time to rebuild everything all together, the money behind it. All under a country war-torn under bombs and mines.

There was a line in a song: "Even though we love rose, the enemy forces us to embrace gun". I know the sacrifice has to be made in war, to give up a lot of things to make it. Worth it or not, it's up to the Ukrainian to say. But you can't help to see the amount of burden it has done on the people.

Tonight's match between Astralis and ENCE will be interesting. Two of the old camp, used to stand at their pinnacle at the top #1 HLTV but now fighting for spots to the playoff rounds. konfig and Valde used to be a teammate and played under the North banner, always under Astralis thumb back in the Astralis era. Now both will meet each other under a different banner, konfig under Astralis and Valde under ENCE. So far, this group C seems on nearly the same level between teams.

Map pool wise, ENCE has a smaller map pool compared to Astralis. The odds for both teams are kinda even, 1.8 or around that. I think Astralis is a bit better here so weird that sportsbooks give such odds.

Sorry, re-correct my post. It's not like I didn't appreciate random blog posts from the OG club since it's kinda interesting to see things from that 30s boomer's perception (which I guess are the majority of the early adopter of Bitcoin) other than just crypto/stock/economic trends. A nice change away from just the red and green chart.

Xavi is playing the long game here, had to agree with you on that. I dig your idea where Barcelona can't just turn to the top dog, invincible, every stone is ready in just a few seasons with Xavi leading. For now, we did see how Xavi's planning for Barcelona is going in a good direction. I say the winning mentality is there, just nothing proud to brag about it. If you fail, it'll come back and bite you so no need for that, yet.

Everyone's expectations for this season have to be readjusted. Your dream team winning easy matches, stepping-stone team lay down without a fight, underperformance for a top team,...
We've seen how in the early of the season where Arsenal has exceeded everyone's expectations for them to drop out a couple of matches. While teams like Manchester United, Liverpool, and Chelsea seem like the top dog slowly degrade their status. Maybe because of the covid and line-up shuffle, some players aint reliable like they were before. Too much time off-season so they ain't feel the ball like it was before.

If you have general outlines of why it going to increase the price then I advise you should do future trade instead of just buying low and selling high. Honestly, if you can manage your risk of liquidating, go for lower than 5x leverage and never more, your return of profit from future trade will be much better.
Buying low and selling high only when you don't know if it will bound back in the short term. Basically, you're holding on the long term.