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by Dalewyn 2y ago
I despise "OMGWTFBBQBOEINGBAD" sensationalist clickbait just as much if not more than you, it's an exemplary example of why journalism is a cancer upon humanity. But just like a broken clock is right twice a day, the sensatio
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
I mean, you're still bitching strictly because you didn't win.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
You are demonstrating what I joked(?) in another comment ("It ain't democracy if you ain't won.") perfectly . Thanks.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Might be refresh rate, have you tried a faster monitor/screen? I know some people despise 60Hz screens because they're too slow and they notice the flickering.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
It ain't democracy if you ain't won. -Vocal Minority, Intellectual Minority, Minorities et al.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>Time to create something modern. The track record of "modern" would suggest Wordpress is the second coming of Jesus, so no thanks. Wordpress is fine compared to "modern" software.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>Charlie Munger's observation The more I've read about finances the more I've realized it can also be applied to many other things in the world due to its sheer objectivity. On the other hand, I've also noticed most i
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
You greatly underestimate the sheer effort undertaken by most people to not pay Social Security tax.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>and now I'm here ruining it further! Come on, let's finish it all the way. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DontExplainTheJo...
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Here is a proper explanation in order to exorcise this unholy comment. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TooAwesomeToUse
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>Chargebacks for instance are a key protection which I have made use of multiple times. There’s no such option available with bank transfers. In case someone doesn't understand why this is the case: Banks don't really care abou
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Index investing isn't really gambling in the generally understood sense though, you just buy the whole haystack (or at least a haystack that's big enough) and ride it.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
There are two reasons, one virtuous and one sinful: * People hate saving money, money in our hand now must be spent now. Buying High and Selling Low is in our DNA, quite literally. Nobody wants to save a buck a day for a potential externa
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
The Great Recession 3.11 For Workgroups? (v2 was covid.)
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Or to put it another way: Social problems and regressions cannot be resolved with ever more esoteric technological or draconian political solutions.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
I'm more intrigued at the increased green of the landscape at large, did the water supply actually improve to encourage more plant growth?
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Ruthless? Sure. Hateful? No. Kindly stop furthering the societal division in our country.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
HN suffers from a real bad case of MDS (Musk Derangement Syndrome).
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
My only takeaway from this exchange is you're jealous the man had the money to just go and buy Mysterious Twitter X and do with it as he wants, instead of complaining about it like the rest of us.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
If I can read the code, it's open source. What you're complaining about is free source code, which this probably is not.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Wasting metal instead of time is the difference between Dragon and Starliner. I will listen to the guy who's actually getting things done, thanks.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
As Musk would say: Waste metal, not time.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Much like how widening the I-405 does not improve Los Angeles's legendary traffic jams, slabnus do not improve the bottleneck. Namely, restaurants who move to slabnus simply get rid of the waiters who would have taken the order. You&#x
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
I would implore you to look closer at motherboards. Most if not all have discrete components for the audio, NIC, USB, et al. on them. The integration of those functions into the motherboard merely did away with the bulky physical connectors
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Between most metals tasting "sweet" and the mouth being a baby's foremost sensitive way of accruing information about something, babies and small kids are instinctively driven to put anything and everything in their mouth if
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
What part of discrete components do you not understand?
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>you would probably very quickly be hit (and lose?) a lawsuit right? A lawsuit from a private individual or business entity is very different from the federal, state, or municipal government attempting to silence you, the latter is pro
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
I use my Hotmail for all my important emails, my Gmail is my catch-all for everything else. Why Hotmail? Because if the name isn't enough indication it's because I've had it for well over 25 years at this point and I like Mic
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
If you are working for someone, you are selling your time for money. Time is money. If you use your time to make and sell something, you made money. Time is money. If you have money, you can spend it to buy someone's time and have him
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
They were always called Dynabooks by Toshiba[1] and still continue to be sold today, but they retreated to only selling in Japan a long time ago and Toshiba ultimately sold the Dynabook brand off to Sharp in 2018 as part of selling off most

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