Dalewyn

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by Dalewyn 2y ago
The vast majority of the world's electronics run on 1960s and 70s technology, it's not just ham radio. Bloody nobody cares about bleeding silicon from Intel (or TSMC for that matter), everyone cares whether Analog Devices is still
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
VPN users are either super nerds or Joe Average mandated by company policy.
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As a Trump supporter/Republican voter I support the free press, I don't support whatever the fuck "journalism" these days (read: at least the past ~10 years, and likely longer than anyone realizes) is. Whether it'
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
I say this sincerely: The userbase here actually isn't that different from Reddit. There's a slightly heavier technical leaning, but otherwise most political and social positions are essentially Reddit perhaps owing to Silicon Val
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Yeah, you really need to elaborate yourself. You can easily find me on Mysterious Twitter X, Reddit, and many other places looking up my username (might not necessarily be an exact match). Account age has nothing to do with this, many peopl
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Ah, you're misunderstanding me. In the course of preservation, the Rule That Shall Not Be Violated(tm) is that anything which would lead to significant and irreversible damage or destruction of the artifact is off limits. Especially
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
It's a throwaway account intended to be detached and hopefully untracable to whoever the owner/main account is. What I'm wondering is what point you're trying to make here; account age has no bearing on whether it's
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Be that as it may, he chose to call himself "throwaway<#>" instead of something more distinctive.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
https://x.com/fantia_jp/status/1792811477256343764 The following links are all NSFW because they are from Sankaku Complex, you have been warned: https://news.sankakucomplex.com/2024/11/10
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>Why? Something being legal for you doesn't make it compulsory for others. Money is legal tender for all debts public and private, money has value precisely because everyone can and should use and accept it. If banks or payment proc
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>DMM and DLSite end up offering a large variety of pornography What's really twisted is these same payment processors seemingly have no qualms about Steam's large variety of pornography[1], some of which are Japanese eroges[2]
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>a sizable portion of the 400,000 recordings are from disks that quite literally broke down after capture. Those disks are the last copies of those recordings. Ever. Somewhere, there was a critical failure of risk assessment and manageme
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>Japan is one of the richest nations in the world, they can (and do) run their own payments systems. Indeed. JCB and certain western credit cards contracted with them for access into Japan (namely AMEX and Discover) have no problems (and
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Your feelings as a non-Japanese have absolutely no bearing on what flies in Japan. Whether the content concerned is tentacle hentai, or goth lolis, or genderbent King Arthur and Leonardo Da Vinci, or whatever else, that stuff is legal under
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Also happening in Japan. Quite a number of big-name vendors like DMM, DLsite, and others are getting heavy pressure from Visa and Mastercard to censor certain merchandise for no justifiable reason (as in no legal basis) and in some cases ha
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>we are never going to be affected by this fact (since it's in a part of the universe from which information may never reach us). For curiosity's sake: Wouldn't something like quantum mechanics defy that argument?
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Unlike Intel, SpaceX and Tesla actually deliver (and then some) on government grants. I'm willing to give successful parties that hold their end of the deal more benefit of the doubt. All else being equal, nationalization is overall ba
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
TIPS are literally designed to track inflation, Treasury I-Bonds are also designed to track and surpass inflation. The US total stock market (ex-US stock market is a crapshoot) and its subset the S&P 500 index will generally do a be
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Fund managers are obligated to act according to their fund's prospectus[1], of which the specifics will vary with each fund. For a TDF (Target Date Fund), because that was brought up (Vanguard 2030): Both actively and passively managed
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It's not like most of the people making those decisions are doing any better than just throwing dice at a wall and seeing what sticks. In the immortal words of Warren Buffett and Jack Bogle respectively: "The stock market is a de
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>Then TSMC quietly reached parity with 7nm The true embarrassment was when SMIC (read: China) reached 7nm and thereby surpassed Intel last year (or was that 2022?). Intel then proceeded to waste CHIPS monies and other aid on five digit l
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>If you’re a passive investor, you vote in line with the two proxy powerhouses. As a passive investor in SWPPX, an S&P 500 index mutual fund from Charles Schwab, "my" Intel stock votes are whatever Charles Schwab deems appr
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The beauty and horror of the internet is that we can access all the information; the internet provides us information from everywhere . Meanwhile, there is scientific theory to suggest that our mental capacity to handle information is ul
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The difference between Nvidia and Intel is that Nvidia still has its founder at its head. A founder interested in seeing his company instead of just stonks go up up up. I have no doubt Nvidia will start losing its way when Huang retires
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>I feel like I'm seeing a lot about how Gelsinger's decisions were the wrong move for Intel The narrative machine for Intel is in full force given how much monies is in play, I wouldn't take anything that seriously. >Wh
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>An even better idea is simply nationalizing medicine, top to bottom. That's unlikely to happen, but would result in the biggest drop in healthcare costs. In the immortal words of President Ronald Reagan: "I'm from the go
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>Isn't lady gaga catholic? I honestly don't know since I am not interested in celebrities let alone what they do in their private times. I just rattled her off as the first thing to come to my mind for a recently popular wester
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When I was younger, I used to roll my eyes at older guys who would seemingly do the same and old thing everyday. Today, I am that older guy seemingly doing the same and old thing everyday as younger guys roll their eyes at me. I'm gett
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>But also horrifying that treatment costs so much. My mother underwent chemotherapy for her cancer. According to the statements from her insurance company, each round of chemotherapy cost as much as a new luxury car before hospital v
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>plants are not conscious beings. Is that founded on a basis of scientific fact, or Human Superiority Complex?

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