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by DeRock 6y ago
While not world changing, it did allow for the paying for of illicit drugs over the internet. Silkroad was the peak of bitcoin usability IMO (regardless of my moral perspective on the matter). Ever since, its slowly transitioned into a Ponz
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by DeRock 6y ago
Canada is probably the most apt comparison here. They have about 4x less coronavirus cases per capita [source]( https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToS... ) IMO, a lot of this had to do with the federal r
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by DeRock 6y ago
> If you have the cellular version, yes No, you can use AirPods on a non-cellular watch just fine, it has bluetooth. Cellular only affects your ability to stream content (eg. Music or podcasts), but you are also able to download/cac
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by DeRock 6y ago
> Influenza typically has a mortality of around 0.8% The Wikipedia article has a graph, which I assume you're referring to with this figure, which shows the mortality rate of 0.8% only applies to those ages 65+. The blended rate for
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by DeRock 6y ago
> I don't see how Tether can influence the price of bitcoin when bitcoin's market cap is more than an order of magnitude greater than Tether Prices are set on the margin, and 80% of BTC trading volume is done using tether.
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by DeRock 6y ago
Borders (and airports) are already a constitutional twilight zone. Just to get into (or sometimes out of) one I have to go through an X-ray scanner or manual groping that on its face would violate the Fourth Amendment. But at the same time,
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by DeRock 6y ago
Whether a test is positive or not depends highly on what type of test it is, and when you are tested relative to symptom onset. You can absolutely be carrying the COVID virus but still test negative. Heres a paper with a handy chart: https
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by DeRock 6y ago
> Don’t forget the significantly lower tax burden Very dependent on where you work. High tech salaries are concentrated in California, where the tax burden at your numbers will be higher than most provinces. I remember doing a comparison
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by DeRock 6y ago
Something that doesn't often get brought up in these energy "storage" discussions is the potential for duty cycling existing generation to time shift the duck curve. Eg. California (large solar generation) shares a grid with
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by DeRock 6y ago
That quote is specifically referencing whether Trump actively participated in the efforts, which is not part of any of this discussion (though many of his close associates did).
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by DeRock 6y ago
This isn't hard to find. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_20... has over 500 references. The senate committee report was over 1300 pages. The evidence is readily available and as well docu
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by DeRock 6y ago
> zero public, supporting evidence The (GOP-led) senate released a comprehensive report. The head of the FBI gave long testimony. What more do you want? Read the report here: https://www.npr.org/2019/07/25/
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by DeRock 6y ago
Well, 6 miles sounds about right for a 30min bike commute to work. Do that each way and you’ll have a daily hour of exercise without having to step foot in a gym.
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by DeRock 6y ago
> the wealthy has been subsidizing more than 80% of the population CA does not tax wealth, they tax (predominately) income, and I wouldn't be so quick to equate the 2. Prop 13, for example, can mean that wealthy land owners pay almo
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by DeRock 6y ago
> I've noticed is it doesn't have the visual feedback Does it not have a power/intensity knob or setting that’s displayed? Even with gas ranges that’s what is used because the flame is blocked by the pot.
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by DeRock 6y ago
The solution already exists: induction. It heats the cooking appliance directly, and can provide varying power/heat settings without having to duty cycle (like an electric cooktop does).
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by DeRock 6y ago
> Putting a pet in the luggage compartment is not acceptable, and airlines basically don't give you any other option Well, whats your suggestion then? If there was a better option, it feels like the airlines would have taken advanta
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by DeRock 6y ago
> There really needs to be safe, affordable options for pet/dog owners to travel. Why? Are you suggesting some form of subsidy? Transporting live animals is expensive, and pet ownership (let alone flying with them) is not a human ri
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by DeRock 6y ago
It sounds like the word you’re looking for is ‘pedantic’.
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by DeRock 6y ago
The small difference in efficacy is less important than the difference in required transportation and storage temperatures: the Moderna vaccine can be kept in a fridge (2C) for a month, or a freezer (-20C) for 6. While the Pfizer vaccine re
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by DeRock 6y ago
Yes, I was going by memory, which thought “out of order buffer” was a thing. I meant ROB. Point still stands, in that scaling these blocks is very difficult with variable instruction size.
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by DeRock 6y ago
That, in part, comes from x86 vs arm. x86, with its variable length instructions, means your logic gets increasingly complex as you widen. Meanwhile with arm, you have constant instruction size (other than thumb, but that’s more straightfor
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by DeRock 6y ago
Technically the M1 can support 2 displays too, 1 @ 6k/60Hz and 1 @ 4k/60Hz. This is done eg. for the Mac mini. However, for the laptops, one of those is consumed by the built in screen.
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by DeRock 6y ago
No, it shows it performs better? Go look again at the numbers in the linked comparison. Also calling it low-end is misleading, the 1050Ti was solidly mid-tier, and also a dedicated graphics card used in desktop machines. This is comparing i
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by DeRock 6y ago
2/3 devices announced yesterday come with active cooling (MacBook Pro 13" and Mac mini).
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by DeRock 6y ago
What does “Biden only” votes mean to you? Is that where you see vote totals jump for Biden, but not for any other candidate? Because your conclusion from that, that it’s obviously fraud, seems incredibly naive. The simple answer is they upd
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by DeRock 6y ago
Not OP, but > Apple claims the M1 to be the fastest CPU in the world. Given our data on the A14, beating all of Intel’s designs, and just falling short of AMD’s newest 5950X Zen3 – a higher clocked Firestorm above 3GHz, the 50% larger L2
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by DeRock 6y ago
What are you using for your source for vote totals by vote method to make that determination? Again, there was a time component here, where battleground states were strategically targeted to delay when votes would be counted. Feel free to r
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by DeRock 6y ago
Because mail delays were strategic against the swing states. Florida, for example, where they're allowed to count mail in votes well before election day, did not see much shift in voting ratios as time went on. Have you done any search
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by DeRock 6y ago
Its not "lucky" at all, this was an orchestrated outcome. Theres 2 components to this: 1. Mail in ballots were heavily partisan. The president made a point to instruct Republican voters to vote in person, and not by mail. And many

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