GLGirty

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by GLGirty 4y ago
Believing that the data is recoverable seems to be as optimistic as believing that bitcoin will still have value by the time it's found. Did he recruit his financial backers at a TedTalk?
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by GLGirty 4y ago
In the linked article, Strong Towns doesn't say much about the nature of these deaths, but in other articles, (e.g. below) they explore how many of these killings are vehicle-on-pedestrian deaths, and how we've normalized blaming
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by GLGirty 4y ago
My vague recollection of the claim was that the owner of an influential newspaper was also an owner/steakholder of a cotton processing business. Urban legend as far as I can tell.
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by GLGirty 4y ago
This plausibly might not be sarcasm O_o
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by GLGirty 4y ago
> the enemy we are most likely to fight is the environment My first trip on a bird scooter confirmed this.
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by GLGirty 4y ago
Metric to imperial hours.
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by GLGirty 4y ago
US and Canada have issues with rapidly declining quality of life and social mobility. Drug use might be, quite literally, opiate for the masses.
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by GLGirty 4y ago
> Ann Reason "Anne Reardon" (autocorrect wah wah waaah)
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by GLGirty 4y ago
> "for many the worse the news is the more addictive their attention becomes. " That is both terrible, and so accurate that ad driven media builds the business model around it. I wonder what the underlying mechanism is... maybe
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by GLGirty 4y ago
How do you deal with the fact that the patch operations are not associative? This seems like a recipe for conflicting effects... you don't want the result to depend on the order you picked up items. Do you batch the effects? (e.g. dele
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by GLGirty 4y ago
I suspect that the geographical limits of pre-internet "social platforms" was what filtered out the toxicity we observe now. If your social club was a dance hall or book club or garden society or union pub, your interactions were
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by GLGirty 4y ago
Previously retired coal power plants are being brought back into service just to power bitcoin. https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/ameren-deploys-bi...
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by GLGirty 4y ago
You're right, but Netflix has been punished for taking risks. Look at the spike in churn rate with the release of 'cuties': https://thestreamable.com/news/report-netflix-saw-3-6-millio...
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by GLGirty 4y ago
Is that because the beaverton writers are getting better, or because the world is getting more ridiculous?
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by GLGirty 4y ago
Have you considered a low maintenance cover crop like no-mow grass or clover? They look like a good idea on paper, but are there side effects that are more trouble than the work of 'modern' lawn care?
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by GLGirty 4y ago
That experiment will be defunded just as fast as the rat park. http://utw10426.utweb.utexas.edu/quest/Q3/ratpark.html
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by GLGirty 5y ago
> They are busy attacking the oil industry What attack? Have they rolled back any of the billions of subsidies?
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by GLGirty 5y ago
Cheating God is one of my favorite things about science.
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by GLGirty 5y ago
Author has discovered a new method of torture. I tried to listen to the 2 minute sample, and rage quit after 30 seconds.
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by GLGirty 5y ago
What, with your bare hands?!
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by GLGirty 5y ago
I think inherent safety issues will keep ebikes classified as-is. A fast human humans can sprint 30km/h, and our skulls and skin can mostly survive a fall at that speed. Every ebike is limited to that speed because that's the safe
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by GLGirty 5y ago
It's solving the problem of, 'we want programmers to be a more powerful caste.'
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by GLGirty 5y ago
"Free lunch" was the same idiom that came to my mind when I read the parent comment about "no-loss lotteries," as if the electricity for hashing was clean and free. The responsibility and risk of maintaining wallet keys
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Mother sues Meta and Snap over tween daughter’s suicide(aljazeera.com)
2 points by GLGirty 5y ago|0 comments
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by GLGirty 5y ago
Great link, thank you, but now I have more questions: Bottom of that article shows his tombstone... is there another tombstone in the background with a triforce?
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by GLGirty 5y ago
I generally agree with his conclusions, but I found his argument about centralization very weak. Bitcoin on mars seems like an impractical thought experiment compared to the actual reality that 50 miners (maybe less) control enough of the n
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by GLGirty 5y ago
Maybe at levels of obesity where it affects mortality, the gender difference in fat composition is negligible?
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by GLGirty 5y ago
bullwhip + lightsabre hilt = ghostbuster proton wand
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by GLGirty 5y ago
My first task with a new system is to remap capslock. I like having it replace ijkl with arrows, but my muscle memory is now so dependent on this convenience I am impeded when I switch back to a vanilla keyboard.
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by GLGirty 5y ago
I found that php8 has brought numerous features that will formalize things I am currently doing as hacks and workarounds. Exceptions as expressions--I can stop writing, `$x = $context['x'] ?? ThrowWrapper::missingValue('x&#x

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