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by 35fbe7d3d5b9 5y ago
I'd agree – there are real advantages in maintaining a friends group outside of work: you spend far less time griping about your day to day, and the connections you make are far more stable. Get a beer once a month with coworkers, su
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by 35fbe7d3d5b9 5y ago
> But addressing the situation where Google can render your phone, thermostat, etc, useless because you made a comment on YouTube is worthwhile. That's a noble goal, but this is a clear culture war law that will crumble under any re
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by 35fbe7d3d5b9 5y ago
> The legislation includes a clause that exempts a company "that owns and operates a theme park or entertainment complex". Amazing.
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by 35fbe7d3d5b9 5y ago
Is there evidence that criminalizing drugs decreases the incidence of addiction/overdose?
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by 35fbe7d3d5b9 5y ago
I don't even know where to start: backwards compatibility to 90s era crypto, no forward secrecy, a web of trust model that encourages you to have a long-lived key – because with short-lived keys your trust has to be rebuilt after expir
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by 35fbe7d3d5b9 5y ago
Separating UX and "security" from a cryptosystem is impossible. Poor UX leads directly to security vulnerabilities. Heck, we've seen that in library code : your AES implementation may be sound, but if the library interfaces
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by 35fbe7d3d5b9 5y ago
PGP is possibly the only workflow worse than SMS based 2FA for humans.
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by 35fbe7d3d5b9 5y ago
The concept of "U English" vs. "non-U English" was written about in the '50s. Don't say "pardon?", say "what?" or you'll be marked as a commoner ;) https://en.wikipedia.org
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by 35fbe7d3d5b9 5y ago
> IMO it's Bitcoin in combination with Tether that's the actual Ponzi. Bingo. The problem is, the big players have no interest in unwinding the scheme. As long as exchanges can wash trade USDT:BTC to drive the inflow of retail
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by 35fbe7d3d5b9 5y ago
Gardening is a fun hobby my wife & I have taken up over the past several years. You probably will never grow an entire meal, and that's fine. You'll still feel satisfaction in going outside with a bowl and coming inside with
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by 35fbe7d3d5b9 5y ago
> It's over 130 diplomats and spies reporting it If you wanted to bootstrap a mass psychogenic illness, it'd be harder to come up with a better scenario. You have civilian employees of the US government living out of their com
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by 35fbe7d3d5b9 5y ago
As seen in The Abyss (1989), where a real rat was submerged in a similar liquid. Of course, its respiration was not rectal, but normal – or as normal as "breathing via liquid" can be. https://www.youtube.com/watch
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by 35fbe7d3d5b9 5y ago
> What is the externalized cost of this crisis on the entire country? If a business externalizes the cost, does it matter to them? Civil penalties levied by regulators will drive the change that matters.
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by 35fbe7d3d5b9 5y ago
When you encounter a pump and dump the worst thing you can do is go long. The next worst thing you can do is go short .
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by 35fbe7d3d5b9 5y ago
> It's incredibly important for this mechanism (and the public record of assets in the basket it relies on) to be built in to the process if the price is to be truly tethered. Otherwise the tether is just an illusion and in the ETF
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by 35fbe7d3d5b9 5y ago
> Real fiat currencies come with much heavier regulation if you want to get money in and out of the traditional banking system. This is the biggest reason, really: the moment you touch USD you have to comply with know your customer laws
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by 35fbe7d3d5b9 5y ago
> Money works purely on belief. If we all suddenly disbelieved in the dollar, the value would be zero. Is this true? Yes. Are you wildly underselling what "disbelieving in the dollar" means in practice? Also yes. I believe in
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by 35fbe7d3d5b9 5y ago
Which then reminds me of a classic: > I was once working with a customer who was producing on-board software for a missile. In my analysis of the code, I pointed out that they had a number of problems with storage leaks. Imagine my s
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by 35fbe7d3d5b9 5y ago
> Do you have a source to cite for "the approach that the vast majority of purchasers prefer"? I mean, gestures at every consumer-targeted product made since at least the early 'oughts . People want things that are some c
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by 35fbe7d3d5b9 5y ago
It's weird how you read me describing the decisions of the market and attribute them to my opinion/preferences.
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by 35fbe7d3d5b9 5y ago
> Your approach will always be a valid choice, for those who want it This isn't "my approach" – it's the approach that the vast majority of purchasers prefer. And pining for the good ol' days of technical datash
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by 35fbe7d3d5b9 5y ago
> We should demand that any device and any component in any device be second source-able Devices aren't built around discrete components anymore. That ship has sailed, we waved goodbye, partied on the dock, and took an Uber home.
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by 35fbe7d3d5b9 5y ago
> Avoid becoming entirely dependent on this single client, though. I watched a friend grow his business over the course of 10+ years from a sole proprietorship to a small LLC to a great digital agency which employed dozens. One of his fi
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by 35fbe7d3d5b9 5y ago
Having worked phone support for a dial-up ISP in high school, I can confirm that tons of people will assume and skip steps for any number of reasons - faulty mental models, misunderstanding the reasons we wanted to check things, who knows.
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by 35fbe7d3d5b9 5y ago
> It is certainly a goal that some people strive for and we certainly have realized this goal now I'm not so sure we can compare the impact of temporary changes to the goals that proponents of UBI have set out. I suspect there'
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by 35fbe7d3d5b9 6y ago
Audiophiles are a different breed.
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by 35fbe7d3d5b9 6y ago
Government procurement projects, especially international ones, aren't a great way to compare things on merit. Take Belgium: Boeing and Saab didn't even bid. Boeing hinted that the program wasn't truly a "level playin
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by 35fbe7d3d5b9 6y ago
A very concrete example, from the federal level: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marihuana_Tax_Act_of_1937 > Shortly after the 1937 Marihuana Tax Act went into effect on October 1, 1937, the Federal Bureau of Narcotic
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by 35fbe7d3d5b9 6y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20160111041010/https://www.foia.... Pardon the archive link, the State Department seems to be having some server issues today. It's hard to be certain of the accuracy of
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by 35fbe7d3d5b9 6y ago
I mean, I don't have direct knowledge of what world leaders believe, so I can't really answer that. But the US consistently presents a carrot/stick model for the dollar: if you're a country and you play ball – price your

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