Erlich_Bachman

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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
> the banks eat up the loss They don't, they pass it on to the merchant. This is why working with credit cards or paypal is a pain for a lot of merchants and that's why you as a user have to sometimes jump through hoops to just
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
It sounds like you are describing Groovy (which was mature even before Kotlin BTW).
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
> you can go through courts and banks to get it back That's something you read on the internet and that people keep repeating without having any understanding of. In reality it's quite far from the truth, because most fraudster
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
"I would choose a volatile 200% increase over a year than a stable predictable 10% decrease." Michael J. Saylor
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
> "bitcoin" What does using quotes mean? Why not just write Bitcoin?
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
Because the US monetary policy and inflation, and USD not being backed by anything, and because people don't want this power in corruptable governments. This is not even some dispited facts (that this is one of major reasons for why so
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
Made a transaction last week, paid 0.50 $. Transaction went through just fine. What am I doing wrong?
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
> Set this chart to "all" and tell me that this price movement is not a bubble. If all that was necessary to reliably predict a price was looking at a chart, we would all live in a very different world. Oh and BTW, phrase `why
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
It is a really low form of argument to simply use the word "triggering". Implying that the original poster doesn't have any real reasoning behind what they are writing, no original thoughts or responsible viewpoints that they
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
Again, reading the original comment, you can apply your very same line of reasoning to " Playing video games?" or the rest of the examples. Should all the people who don't play videogames also get together and ban gaming beca
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
This is the most concise and crystallized attempt at putting this (certainly popular and in some ways inevitable) argument into relatable words. Kudos.
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
I feel like this is why we're on HN for :P Where do you find the button for viewing the history of street view? Is it on the normal street view interface, or do you have to use an additional service/hackery?
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
> as much as locals prefer their traditional diet Which is still meat. It might be prepared differently but it's still meat. Which tells you exactly that - meat consumption is not only about forced customs, it's about people le
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
It would work if you completely disregard people's enjoyment and overall experience of eating the foods. (And only think of nutritional composition.)
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
Do you have any links to sources or further reading material regarding this current state of affairs? It seems not entirely obvious, nor easily checked for a casual reader. (Maybe that's part of the issue of why this is not a more popu
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
> I have a tendency to feel these tools only negatively impact people who use them in stress-creating ways I came to the same conclusion. It is much easier to blame some internet website (which is basically just some pixels on a screen)
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
This is far from ideal, but someone attending FOSDEM is surely able to download an .apk from official site of Element and install it?
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
> seem to blame hedgefunds for every inequality problem in society. Ah, if that is your core question, that one is easy. Because most people can't think about so complex questions properly (or are unwilling, lazy, or haven't be
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
Are you confusing it with the word "citizen"?
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
Your views are 5-10 years obsolete. Keep up, please.
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
> Mastercard doesn't have a monopoly Are we living in the same world? Visa+MC are a duopoly borderlining being a de facto cartel organization and handle the vast majority of all retail transactions in the world.
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
Yeah, that whole car's tech didn't rely on expensive highdef maps. > fully driverless Don't they have safety drivers that closely monitor through wireless connection and often take over? While it might look driverless, it
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
If these are uncommon enough, a Tesla could just stop on the side of the road and alert the driver. There will be a driver inside anyway. And there is a huge difference between "no L5, you have to keep an eye of the road every 10 secon
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
Natural history is full of examples of "lets kill things that were here before us". So your argument can't be a reference and a call to a natural state of being. What is it about then?
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
> Also, the human brain can use focus information and stereo phase to deduce 3D structur Current AI tech can do this too, from multiple images. Karpathy even talked about how they do use that in Teslas.
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
> Often it says "the camera is blinded" It could very well theoretically be a software issuse.
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
> driverless paid service Which works in one small limited area of the earth because of high-def maps, which is not what you would normally call "scalable".
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
Photoshop has existed for decades. Is it really that big of a problem for photo news?
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
It's a shame that it has turned out to be necessary to externally re-make and re-train a model that has come out of company called `OPEN`AI. Wasn't one of the founding principles of it that all of the research would be available t
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
Protection against bitrot and other data corruption in backups and other storage of important information that is too expensive to get corrupted.

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