Khoth

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by Khoth 4y ago
Different experience how? > I've heard excuses, stalls, lies, promises and objections over 10,000 times. Sounds like you were also trying to guilt trip people who then struggled to find a socially acceptable way to disengage
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by Khoth 4y ago
It's definitely possible - the original LotR movies succeeded at this. Fans had big lists of criticisms but despite that largely loved them.
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by Khoth 4y ago
It definitely is an estimate. If you search for a rare enough term that there aren't 20 pages of results, it can still estimate thousands of results until you call its bluff by going to a later page, at which point the estimate is repl
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by Khoth 4y ago
Yeah, I'm also not a stripe customer, but it's not unusual for me to email a company, and get back a canned response to a tangentially related question I didn't ask. If I then reply and try to clarify what I meant, I get back
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by Khoth 4y ago
Not technically a podcast, but if you want to listen to them, someone has recorded themselves reading (most of) the posts: https://www.youtube.com/c/AGreatDivorce/videos
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by Khoth 4y ago
Isn't that precisely a ponzi scheme?
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by Khoth 4y ago
It's obfuscated by splitting the components into multiple cryptocurrencies with multiple actors, but that's what's going on. People were staking UST for 19.5% returns, and if you cut through the fluff, those returns came from
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by Khoth 4y ago
Why were people willing to pay a three digit APR yield to borrow assets then just keep those assets doing nothing at all?
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by Khoth 4y ago
It does when the poor decision is to run a ponzi scheme e: ah, only acting as the middlemen between the end user and a ponzi scheme. Probably that'll give them and their VC backers enough plausible deniability to avoid being arrested.
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by Khoth 4y ago
When the price drops, people on reddit start saying "buy the dip it's going to the moon!" to lure in some new marks. In the long run you're right though. Eventually you run out of people who believe them and you get the
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by Khoth 4y ago
That's just for the video showing it off, they say when people are playing it for real they'll arrange the screens facing away from each other
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by Khoth 4y ago
At the start of the post you were the person taking out the loan but by the time you got to the explanation at the bottom of the post you were the bank. If you've sold your $2/year income for $100 yesterday, why on earth do you wa
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by Khoth 4y ago
I don't want the global newest comment, but I do want the similar "comments newly added since I read the comments a few hours ago"
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by Khoth 5y ago
A modern CPU makes heavy use of out of order execution to do things quickly. Having the results of one operation depend on another makes it harder for the CPU to do this. If you have this: a = a + b b = a - b a = a - b /&#x2F
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by Khoth 5y ago
I'd guess it's either a flat-out lie, or they described a hypothetical perfect version of the system and counted someone as positive if they thought there was even one slightly good thing about it.
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by Khoth 5y ago
Yeah, you can see the downside in the demo video. When he shows off the search for pictures, there's a random mixture of actual photos and things like toolbar icons and whatnot. Sure, you could fix this by tagging everything and doing
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by Khoth 5y ago
Irrational numbers are involved in the problem, but not in the the size of the input, which is a list of natural numbers. There are a number of reasonable ways to encode such a list but they'll all scale in more or less the same way an
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by Khoth 5y ago
"I will prove to those anti-NFT people that.... errr... having an NFT doesn't mean you own the artwork"
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by Khoth 5y ago
I'd say a big factor is the lack of ability to just socialise. Forums, even those built around some specific topic, normally had a busy "offtopic" section for general chatter. Here, everything has to be at least vaguely about
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by Khoth 5y ago
"Pay back 90% or we'll direct the IRS's attention to you, and they might well ask about all your other crypto stuff that you didn't declare"
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by Khoth 5y ago
Much like how we can turn lead into gold but don't, this process isn't remotely cost-effective. There's plenty matter lying around that you can have for probably 20 orders of magnitude cheaper.
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by Khoth 5y ago
Consider Goldbach's Conjecture ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldbach%27s_conjecture ), which states that every even number greater than 2 is the sum of two prime numbers. You could write quite a short program t
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by Khoth 6y ago
> Why do we even allow people to sell borrowed things? Unlike cars, one share in a company is as good as another, and the whole reason you borrow a share is so that you can sell it. It's kind of like how if you borrow money, you&#x2
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by Khoth 6y ago
I mark marketing email as spam, and not because it's easier than unsubscribing. The vast majority of spam I receive is marketing emails from legitimate companies I bought something from, and who mistakenly think this means I want their
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by Khoth 7y ago
Friction basically. In a perfectly idealised version of the system with no friction/slack/materials being deformed/etc, if you started it off then let go then everything would keep spinning forever. You don't need to pum
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by Khoth 7y ago
I think GP is referring to stuff like "pro-vides" and "program-ming" which look like they were hyphenated to line-wrap, but depending on the width of your browser window probably don't actually split across lines
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by Khoth 7y ago
The actual short version is: diffuse reflection from the surface means that some of the light leaving the surface is at angles which makes it get totally internally reflected at the boundary between the water film and air, giving it another
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by Khoth 7y ago
Either the power or the number of homes in the article is completely wrong. 30MWH/year powering 400 homes is 8.6 watts per home. Implausibly low, unless "homes" is a typo for "phones".
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by Khoth 7y ago
Also not a lawyer, but check what country you're in before you try this. In countries like the UK, many more things are insider trading than in the US.
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by Khoth 7y ago
Yeah, they used to be really good at this. The 68k -> ppc transition was also seamless like that, old programs just ran.

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