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by ISL 4y ago
The awesome thing about Framework is that it is even possible to upgrade the main board without trashing the entire machine. Purchasers of the 11th gen system should still very much reap the benefits of the Framework ecosystem. Being abl
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by ISL 4y ago
The primary thought I have regarding pricing at grocery stores is, "Man, Safeway has these apples on sale for half the price they're selling for at QFC. I sure wish I could buy apples at Safeway and sell them to QFC." Unfortu
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by ISL 4y ago
I don't know, but I'd guess that the majority of hotel room-reservations (not necessarily guests) are for individual travelers.
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by ISL 4y ago
No -- it means that a single instance of illegal activity can potentially be charged-back by a government through a web of otherwise-legal transactions at any time. The immutable historical retention of all transactions has at least the c
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by ISL 4y ago
One can readily argue that it is simultaneously the most-important part to decentralize. Identity and personal-network are essential to a person's function in modern society.
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by ISL 4y ago
Yes, but that is after they seize it. If a criminal steals my bitcoin and spends it, everyone who accepts it and everyone who accepts it from them is taking delivery of stolen property, trivially traceable back to me. I'll want it back
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by ISL 4y ago
The potential value-density of crypto is unmatched, but I'm not sure it is "easy" to store in a manner like that. If another resident of Zhong's household had discarded the popcorn tin, he could have been out $1B. It&#x2
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by ISL 4y ago
That was the value at the time of seizure, which is most-likely the correct time at which to value it. It is true that the news would probably use the larger number if BTC had gone up in price since then, but I suspect that the official sta
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by ISL 4y ago
Pretty impressive that we've advanced technologically and as a society to the point where we can now store somewhere between much and all of the GDP of Belize " (a) in an underground floor safe; and (b) on a single-board computer
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by ISL 4y ago
With a public blockchain, it seems at least technically possible to seize any funds that were used in a transaction later shown to be illegal. If you thought KYC constraints were invasive today...
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by ISL 4y ago
Centralizing the decentralized... what's old is new again? Seems like the centralization of relationships and credentials ought to be client-side, or a portable protocol all its own, so we don't repeat the mistake of centralizing
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by ISL 4y ago
This idea was entirely new to me. Here's the top Google result on the subject: https://abovethelaw.com/2021/05/will-we-soon-see-an-american...
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by ISL 4y ago
If we're being pedantic, the "2k Km" is simply incorrect. See 6.1.5 here: https://www.nist.gov/pml/special-publication-811/nist-guide-... If it were Kelvin-meters, it would either be written "K
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by ISL 4y ago
I think GP's comment about reach runs in the other direction: If someone tweets about an issue, it is trivially discovered globally and readily embedded on news sites with arbitrary volumes of traffic (or shown on TV). Is the same true
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by ISL 4y ago
Yes, but if you don't have lead infrastructure in your water system, it is extremely difficult to have lead come out of your tap. If you do have lead pipes, however, it only takes a shift in pH to pull the lead into solution.
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by ISL 4y ago
The risk is very small for email when you own your own domain. One can switch "instances" at will with just a DNS update.
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by ISL 4y ago
And if the instance-administrator on the old account decides they don't like you and drops the account or points it to /dev/null?
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by ISL 4y ago
To attribution I would add license compliance.
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by ISL 4y ago
It makes sense that there should be a futures market for both big buyers and big sellers. Everyone wants at least a little predictability...
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by ISL 4y ago
When you move because you don't like the instance anymore, how do all of your connections follow you? This, to me, is the central problem in the Fediverse.
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by ISL 4y ago
Largely agreed. The normal way for shareholders to express their distaste for choices made by the board/executive is to vote them out. Shareholders here literally can't do so, but they've known that from the day they bought t
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by ISL 4y ago
It is possible to combine term-limits with a long share-vesting period in order to (potentially) reap the best of both strategies.
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by ISL 4y ago
Can anyone with Copilot access give a short summary of its response to the prompts: function force=Gmmr2Array(mass1, mass2) and function [force, torque]=pointMatrixGravity(array1,array2) ? I'd love to know if some of my
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by ISL 4y ago
Money isn't an illusion. It is a useful abstraction of human effort/potential. The workers will be fired because the boss has run out of societal-effort credits. The only "illusion" is the collective understanding that t
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by ISL 4y ago
Awesome -- Jira, for all of its complexity and oddities, has been the only tool full-featured enough to handle my task-management and collaboration needs. Thanks for innovating in a crowded space :)!
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by ISL 4y ago
It delays profitability relative to simply laying employees off with more-traditional severance.
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by ISL 4y ago
Is Jira integration planned? (I didn't see it on the list 'o sources above)
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by ISL 4y ago
Portability has become a challenge for me in darktable (which is my only choice in photo-editing). My archive is now large enough (~8 TB) that it is impractical to carry around. Keeping edits synchronized between home and remote is hard. Da
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by ISL 4y ago
The 14 weeks of severance alone is probably worth ~$60 M [1] Scrounging on the web suggests that Stripe may be EBITDA-profitable but not GAAP-profitable. $60M (perhaps double that with all the other benefits laid out here) is easily enough
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by ISL 4y ago
I think many of the ills of this type this can be traced, at least in part, to TeX's only-partial whitespace invariance. The shifts in behavior with an added newline (or absence thereof) or a comment, as above, simply wouldn't hap

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