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by 1996 6y ago
> I don't want records or identifiers embedded in my body, full stop. I don't want medical records stored in a place I can't control. I've already read here that whatever you disclose with a request to be off the reco
362.
by 1996 6y ago
Does it require 5G? /s
363.
by 1996 6y ago
> you'd have to reinvent the world to do them It reminds me of how MIPS branching is wasted on nops: https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/28444/mips-p... "The trick in writing efficient cod
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by 1996 6y ago
So, what's the current take? Brain is hardware, and sex is software driven by hormones?
365.
by 1996 6y ago
Just consuming more than 4g on one day may be enough to start the liver failure, especially if using alcohol or other drugs. Protip: have some N acetyl cysteine handy. It's freely available on amazon, and it protects your liver from ac
366.
by 1996 6y ago
The lack of easy access to strong painkillers kills people, driven to extreme by the madness of pain. Yet we only talk about the evil of drugs, and the opioids epidemic.
367.
by 1996 6y ago
The spoiler format is perfectly adapted to the content :)
368.
by 1996 6y ago
> That said, I recently moved to North America and have lived in Pakistan most of my life. Welcome here! I hope you'll like it! Is it your first winter? It's a special experience! My favorite thing in the winter is a hot Tim Ho
369.
by 1996 6y ago
I would prefer it if I didn't have to trust paypal word, and could cryptographically verify their fractional ratio - because in case of a boom, if everybody wanted to get their promises riches, that could also bankrupt paypal overnight
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by 1996 6y ago
> The only reason I didn’t buy Bitcoin when it was $1 was because of the HN comments. I try to do the opposite of what people are commenting here now. You and me both. Fortunately, I've learned most hackers have an extreme risk avoi
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by 1996 6y ago
> > so what's going to stop someone coming along and saying "Hey, $X a share, I'll liquidate the BTC and hand it back to investors" when BTC has it's next dip? > Maybe the fact that he has 72% of the voting
372.
by 1996 6y ago
Attackers look for the easiest and most easily available prey: hordes of wolves will go after cattle, not pets
373.
by 1996 6y ago
> a broken storefront not everybody cares about the selling part more than the building part...
374.
by 1996 6y ago
Simply use a cellphone or phablet battery; samsung galaxy batteries are flat and cheap, so if they don't provide enough mAh, use more than one
375.
by 1996 6y ago
> I'll take it but only later in the year when it is more widely available. Same. Just like first generation Apple hardware, even if looks as good as the M1, I'd rather have other people take the plunge before I do. In about a
376.
by 1996 6y ago
Are their guidelines on what should and what shouldn't be made into a poll question?
377.
by 1996 6y ago
> being scammed while watching it happen and thinking "this is a scam" and still going along with it would be infuriating. Thanks, I understand much better: it's a fear of the risk of partaking into something you may disap
378.
by 1996 6y ago
> Growth in resource consumption and energy usage in the past 80 years tracked extremely closely to economic growth Growth in power consumption of laptops, is falling. Growth in total material consumption for say cars will fall too, as l
379.
by 1996 6y ago
> This cat is catching downvotes but that Club of Rome thing and (Limits of Growth, which is a paper this group published) is interesting economic stuff I'm used to downvotes here since facts are not popular (bitcoin ...) The "
380.
by 1996 6y ago
Some manufacturer selectively implement ACPI (ex: no S3 or S4, only S0 for connected standby) making things worse
381.
by 1996 6y ago
> This hasn't been my experience with Windows in the last 5 years. Truth be told it's pretty stable by now and for me, issues like that are rare. Good sleep on windows has only returned recently. After years of great sleep on W
382.
by 1996 6y ago
> I find it mind boggling that people can still believe so deeply that infinite growth is possible on a finite planet. I find it mind boggling that people still can't believe infinite growth is possible when all it takes is combinat
383.
by 1996 6y ago
Extremely interesting: it's the equivalent of a formalized grammar for bash aliases However, it uses json instead of PS hashes
384.
by 1996 6y ago
But there is little content. For speed, also check cryptomarketplot.com - essentially the same techniques
385.
by 1996 6y ago
For people who do not care so much about the privacy, you should consider a "simpler" mode. This would also let you work around the network effect: simply send a text (for people without dataplans but infinite text) or an email wi
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by 1996 6y ago
> You tell me "it's not about riches" then say I should invest for a speculative 50x-100x return. I don't think it's dangerous, I think it's dumb. I think gambling on it paid off, and gamblers think that&#x2
387.
by 1996 6y ago
My terminal is solarized light, and I had to battle with Windows to let me use a very light-grey as an accent color (not the off-white I wanted, but good enough) Everything matches, even notepad. At night, if I find the glaring brightness h
388.
by 1996 6y ago
Sticking to light mode in everything is more optimal: - light mode is often the default, so you don't have to work around it - more readable: in the daytime, in text editors, for people with astigmatism - using screen inverters like h
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by 1996 6y ago
> never completed their end of the bargain. Without consequence, of course That's exactly why they need more money!! Because, maybe, this time they will? If not, give them a bit more!! Government subsidies at their finest! /s
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by 1996 6y ago
> no reason to expect it to turn back up necessarily. Except that looking at the Fred graphs, now that the worst of Covid seems behind us, it's starting to. Even if it doesn't go back to 2000 levels, it's certainly going t

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