Joeboy

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by Joeboy 5y ago
The expression itself is fine, but the original (something like "Free software isn't worth the hassle of forking over") was a confusing collision of terms. It took me a while to work out what meaning they intended. I'm g
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by Joeboy 5y ago
I think ripgrep is better, in most or maybe all ways?
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by Joeboy 5y ago
Home prices have risen similarly here in the UK, which has largely been attributed to a temporary cessation of Stamp Duty (tax you pay on the value of a home you buy). It's interesting that the same has happened in the US, without that
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by Joeboy 5y ago
The expression "fork over" was very confusing in this context. I think you're using it in the sense of "hand over money" here.
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by Joeboy 5y ago
I wouldn't disagree with the former interpretation, but publicly offering thousands of dollars for something carries a real risk somebody will take you up on the offer.
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by Joeboy 5y ago
I think "I anticipate downvotes" is fine. "If you downvote me I will lean harder into my position" is basically blackmail (admittedly lame and ineffective blackmail), which is why I downvoted it.
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by Joeboy 5y ago
> I don’t think so But the fact you don't disagree with yourself doesn't mean other people don't disagree with you.
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by Joeboy 5y ago
> But I think at this point we know that all cryptocurrencies are ‘greater fool’ “investments” It seems to me to be very apparent that we do not all know that. It is in fact a point of significant controversy.
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by Joeboy 5y ago
I want to give her stuff a chance, and I concede that she has some great moments, but her bad stuff is so bad, and is so much more abundant. What a Bastard the World Is starts very well, but then goes frustratingly off the rails. Walkin
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by Joeboy 5y ago
I think the "official" history is that the Elevators and Jefferson Airplane independently and simultaneously invented psychedelic rock. I'm impressed you played with (a couple of) the Elevators.
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by Joeboy 5y ago
For some of that period, they were living in Mike Leonard's house. Leonard was a lecturer at Hornsey Art College, specializing in light shows. To some extent, Pink Floyd's early career was an offshoot of his need for a musical com
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by Joeboy 5y ago
Maybe it's an age difference thing (I'm old), but to me MKULTRA feels like the absolute archetype of "conspiracy theory" material. I'm fairly sure that's how it was regarded before the Church Committee investi
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by Joeboy 5y ago
I guess my go-to ideas of "conspiracy theories" are things like MKULTRA, Gladio, COINTELPRO, Stargate Project, ECHELON etc. Which seem extremely interesting, to me anyway, and I think we can say those things are "real".
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by Joeboy 5y ago
I just wasn't sure if they were saying fake conspiracies are more boring or real ones are more boring. I could imagine it being either. I suppose the ordering of the sentence implies it's the former that are more boring.
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by Joeboy 5y ago
Which are the more boring ones?
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by Joeboy 5y ago
I'm not in a position to make a comparison, but I think a big drawback of cycles is it's very noisy. It's one of those things where you maybe get an OK looking render in 30s, but it takes >5m to get a render that's ac
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by Joeboy 5y ago
"Elect Gaius Julius Polybius to the office of aedile. He provides good bread" - graffiti found at Pompeii
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by Joeboy 5y ago
You and she probably have some points of heated disagreement, but I'm fairly sure she doesn't hate your existence.
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by Joeboy 5y ago
A great, but awkward, feature of the film is that it starts off feeling like a rather earnest documentary about urban poverty, and then gets bigger and more sensational throughout the movie. It doesn't surprise me that some people get
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by Joeboy 5y ago
I'm confused. Are you saying the text you quoted is literally the text of the tweet I linked to? That is not the case on my internet. Edit: The text I quoted is from the tweet at the end of the thread that starts with the text you quot
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by Joeboy 5y ago
The most glaring question this raises for me is, why is somebody allowed to say something like this on twitter? > I trust that there are other people who will pick up machetes to protect us from the harm transphobes like Adichie & Ro
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by Joeboy 5y ago
Interviewing sometimes involves using an unfamiliar platform, which involves things like not being sure which variant of mic icon means you're muted.
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by Joeboy 5y ago
There's nothing technical stopping you creating further NFTs for the same work, and there's nothing legal stopping you selling them, unless you enter into a separate legal agreement that makes the NFT irrelevant. It occurs to me t
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by Joeboy 5y ago
Because, as I understand it, the idea of an NFT is to demonstrate some sort of "ownership" of a work of art. The issue I have is that they don't do that. An ownership document that can legally be duplicated and distributed ad
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by Joeboy 5y ago
I guess so? Not sure where you're going with that.
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by Joeboy 5y ago
And if somebody has an entry in a blockchain saying they own Star Wars, how much weight would you expect the courts to give that?
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by Joeboy 5y ago
But if you sold a hundred notes saying "the bearer of this paper owns the Mona Lisa", they're going to lose value pretty quickly once people catch on. That seems more like the right metaphor to me. I don't know about clo
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by Joeboy 5y ago
But, it's at best an source of alternative truth, to the one that's recognised by the courts.
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by Joeboy 5y ago
It still is!
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by Joeboy 5y ago
AIUI rich people have a lot of spare money with nowhere to go at the moment, leading to the emergence of weird markets like this.

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