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by CamTin 9y ago
bash/X11 equivalent: function mouse_around { while true; do sleep "$1" xdotool mousemove_relative 1 1 xdotool mousemove_relative -- -1 -1 done } mouse_around 60
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by CamTin 9y ago
You might think about embedding bounties in crypto blockchains. For example, create BTC wallets that can be unlocked using a secret sitting next to (or steganographically embedded in) the secret you're trying to protect. This gives the
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by CamTin 9y ago
You don't even need the ability to record metadata on-chain to encode arbitrary data. An agreed-upon method of encoding it into ordinary transactions is enough. Even if BTC-style transactions were just inputs/outputs (they're
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by CamTin 9y ago
So is he not planning on offering Internet access then? Just transit to other Starlink stations? Presumably even that would allow somebody to offer a "real" ISP on top of this service with a ground station and then peering to the
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by CamTin 9y ago
HTML email is supposed to be just another part alongside plain text as well. Anybody who uses a plain-text email client knows that nowhere near 100% of HTML emails are sent with a sane plaintext part. A fair portion of the time, there just
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by CamTin 9y ago
Can you explain why a tax cut would lead to a huge bill?
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by CamTin 9y ago
It's pretty fun that "leadership" is correlated with "vanity", "narcissism", and "entitlement". I'm not actually sure what these measure, precisely, but the graph is good for a laugh. http:
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by CamTin 9y ago
IME, they are used for the kind of meeting that isn't really a meeting at all. Nothing is discussed, and some idea is "presented" to a Powerful Person by the Presenting Person, plus some other people who are there to spectate
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by CamTin 9y ago
In a libertarian fantasyland? I guess nobody, or their family, or a private security force that they hire. In a functioning democracy? A police force that is held accountable by elected officials.
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by CamTin 9y ago
> Who even determines whether thr level threat rose to violence or who instigated? Certainly not police departments or unions. They shoot first, never ask questions, and cover up for officers regardless of the circumstances of a shooting
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by CamTin 9y ago
Yes, the org file format is only really powerful when combined with the Emacs extension. That said, for people who already DO use the Emacs extension, it's fantastically more convenient to use as a document markup format than anything
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by CamTin 9y ago
I'm not in the airline business so I'm just spitballing, but I would suspect you capture more business along routes like London-LA if you have a variety of departure times throughout the day. While the total volume might make sens
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by CamTin 9y ago
Your lease includes fuel? edit: Nevermind, the "e" in Fiat 500e stands for electric.
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by CamTin 9y ago
I'm suggesting your first scenario is the sane one for consumers. Kodak's value-add would be the tools to help you get the hash onto the immutable public record (and giving you control of the private keys that let you reassign own
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by CamTin 9y ago
Tracking ownership of some intangible set of rights is actually basically the one thing that BTC/ETH-esque tech is really useful for, so the Kodak thing is far from the craziest coin announced. A sane thing to do would be to piggyback
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by CamTin 9y ago
The only reason you and I can buy $200 used Thinkpads is because everyone else is clamoring to overspend for shiny new ones. If more people were OK with keeping their computers longer or buying used, then the price of used computers would g
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by CamTin 9y ago
I think you're 100% right, and there was even natural experiment confirming this when Uber (and Lyft) left Austin temporarily. Basically the city council wanted rideshare drivers to do City background checks. There was a public referen
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by CamTin 9y ago
While Lisp is usually associated with FP practices, the CLOS (Common Lisp Object System) really helped me with getting OOP to click as a concept. Part of it is that, CLOS is just Lisp, so all of the concepts of OO programming are there with
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by CamTin 9y ago
"4am every day until 1pm the next day" is 37 hours if you take it literally. Mathematically this obviously can't be true. Your interpretation of "4am until 1pm the same day" is only one of many possible ways we coul
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by CamTin 9y ago
Sure, it's business pocketing benefits and shirking costs. I'm not saying it's not bad, just that I'm not sure how this relates to "the US consumer economy [being] a massive hamster wheel". It was either a non-
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by CamTin 9y ago
That may be true, but I'm not sure how you glean it just from the observation that smart companies try to make it as easy as possible for customers to spend money with them. Every smart businessman since the stone age has tried to do t
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by CamTin 9y ago
He works 37 hours at a stretch 6 days a week?
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by CamTin 9y ago
Could use more ashtrays for authenticity :)
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by CamTin 9y ago
If you have the means to manage offshore funds, you'd want it in BTC so you can stash it somewhere outside China. If you're an ordinary Chinese dude, you'd want it in Yuan since that's the only thing you can spend.
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by CamTin 9y ago
But certainly somebody would weld for 10k an hour, and therefore the person willing to pay that will have as much welding labor as they need, and everybody else will have to match that price, bamboozle their workers into taking less, or fin
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by CamTin 9y ago
Most of the big hosts have exclusive agreements with certain CAs that prevent them from offering free SSLs through Letsencrypt. They will usually install a cert for you, sometimes for a fee, but never in an automated way, so even if you are
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by CamTin 9y ago
That's a decidedly less interesting headline.
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Does anyone know of any further reading about how "software capitalization" works, with the audience of either a layman or somebody who is only cursorily familiar with real double-entry accounting? Also, do these rules vary signif
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by CamTin 9y ago
It's definitely part of the charm. Also motivates you to work on your Polish so you aren't tongue-tied.
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by CamTin 9y ago
They could easily get them if we didn't prevent them from doing so.

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