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by Arbalest 8y ago
Even with ublock origin+umatrix, so not many scripts were run. I was wondering whether that causes a script to fail and loop infinitely. IDK what conditions you guys were running your browser as.
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by Arbalest 8y ago
More like, young people have a good smart to self worth ratio, making them easier to exploit.
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by Arbalest 8y ago
I'm curious as to where this backup battery thing came from? Surely the likes of ifixit would notice extra batteries. If you're going to assert that such a thing is still hidden, then frankly, your mindset is such that there is no
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by Arbalest 8y ago
Well my point was that, the confidence of not having serious new competition encourages even further investment, beyond the alternative. This is because their future returns are more predictable.
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by Arbalest 8y ago
That sounds good in theory, but I can't help but wonder if this has actually contributed to the huge power draw. Sure they're more efficient, but due to their limited availability, it encourages the big players to consolidate, kno
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by Arbalest 8y ago
I use an app which wraps the website up. Helps to keep the cookies at bay. Maybe.
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by Arbalest 8y ago
fwiw, the github author has starred this repo https://github.com/kondrak/rust64 There also exists this header file: https://github.com/floooh/yakc/blob/master/src/yakc/syst
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by Arbalest 8y ago
I for one am pleased at the move away from RAID controllers here. This (I hope) sets a precedent calling out the vendor lock-in bullshit and performance FUD surrounding their use. It is also a curiosity they're using Rust in place of G
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by Arbalest 8y ago
This has occurred to me too. I am not sure (as I am not up to date with the stats) if abductions are up or down as a %, but if you think of it like supply and demand, the supply of easily abductable children is way down. What I would sugges
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by Arbalest 8y ago
Right, which means it is worth being spent. If spending is not worth it, then spending by and large dries up, resulting in a reduction of income to others, reducing the multiplier effect, and reducing the amount of actual trade that occurs.
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by Arbalest 8y ago
Built in deflation you say? That once again, favours the incumbents. Those starting out will be at a disadvantage even more than they are now, for not having held any tokens of value. It also means that anyone who does attempt to do anythin
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by Arbalest 8y ago
If you had a mechanism to price externalities, and it wasn't government, then sure ok. But while we have no effective externality accounting and enforcement, this notion of wastage still exists fairly. If we could price in externalitie
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by Arbalest 8y ago
I agree with all of that except the definition of usefulness. As you eluded to with your use of regardless, rationality is not assured. It is expected (or more likely, hope) usefulness, aka speculation. Even funding the status quo is still
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by Arbalest 8y ago
Sort of. It does create an opportunity cost, in diverting electricity away from other, arguably more useful causes. The whole matter there is complicated by economies of scale and baseload demand etc though. It could also be seen in terms o
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by Arbalest 8y ago
It could be argued that the trust could still be misplaced, but the idea that we can't trust governments for currency is barking up the wrong tree. The fundamental problems of inequality don't stem from Treasury, but rather from t
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by Arbalest 8y ago
Someone has already asked that, and the response was, such systems are still theoretical without a working proof of concept.
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by Arbalest 8y ago
Seems people here have missed the news that they are diversifying, and going public. Acorns is now called Raiz (a rubbish name). I use it myself, for lack of any other financial infrastructure with which to put my money. Low barrier to entr
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by Arbalest 8y ago
Not probably, explicitly. That's basically the thrust of Made in China 2025.
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by Arbalest 8y ago
I don't think that is a safe assumption. While good controllers do wear levelling, there are many that have less capable wear levelling. Also, even with reserve blocks, having a constantly full drive can make inferior controllers cause
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by Arbalest 8y ago
For someone who hates regulation... Something entertainment that isn't even a matter of psychological manipulation... needs regulation? Does that mean this guy only wants to regulate things which don't actively reinforce social st
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by Arbalest 8y ago
Good point, it makes me think any causal effect could easily be in the reverse direction, that married men are more likely required to exercise. This observation does not explicitly assess pre-marriage fitness. It does not do a before and a
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by Arbalest 9y ago
Maybe not so much easily, but easier in comparison. Having lots of agricultural land go bad due to changing rainfall patterns is going to have an impact.
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by Arbalest 9y ago
At birth, there is a slight bias towards males born. However that is something in the order of 51% male babies to 49% female babies. That is far less pronounced than what is being observed.
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by Arbalest 9y ago
My immediate thought is, even easier to install reversing cameras for older cars. Now my second thought is, spying devices, a wholly more troubling prospect.
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by Arbalest 9y ago
imo VDO makes sense where you deal with high speed, low capacity media. I've used BTRFS compression to hold huge disk images in RAM or an SSD while I fully strip/TRIM and repack them (say from RAW to qcow2 or similar). Of course t
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by Arbalest 9y ago
Depends. If you mean soft compression (not ATA level crypto) you may be able to back up the header externally and still decrypt it. The data will be scrambled where it would have been scrambled anyway, and unmodified regions will remain unm
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by Arbalest 9y ago
All three options failing? So basically the very premise of Facebook is broken if we wish to uphold this value.
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by Arbalest 9y ago
Unfortunately I just don't see this PSA as really having the wide reaching effect people want it to have. This is a classic case of a chilling effect. Unfortunately, most people are quite aware of what is possible, that when it becomes
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by Arbalest 9y ago
If you use a script blocker (like me) whitelisting to get the video is a pain. So here is the video embedded in the article https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ54GDm1eL0 . If you're very strict on scripts and won't
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by Arbalest 9y ago
Modern advertising is a bit of a pain to model in an economic setting. It acts as a subsidy, but also an expense to the company. Which sounds kind of like a tax. However, why is it that paying for services is performed by advertisements, so

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