MrGuts

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by MrGuts 4y ago
Blockchains are accounting procedures, not money. The only use I've ever figured out for blockchain is to support a hawala among untrusted partners. But real value (goods/services) must eventually be transferred in the network. Bl
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by MrGuts 4y ago
Sounds like Stoicism. Read the "Enchiridion" http://classics.mit.edu/Epictetus/epicench.html A lot of ancient knowledge got recorded in the past, but they used papyrus or stone tablets. They didn't quite
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by MrGuts 5y ago
"Russia has “drastically” reduced its military activity near Kiev and Chernigov..." Until reliable reporting bears this out, it's likely a lie.
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by MrGuts 5y ago
1. Take a shovel, dig a trench. 2. Throw a door over the trench. 3. Shovel dirt over the door. 4. Crawl into the trench and under the door. 5. Stay in the trench for two weeks. You'll be fine. 6. IRS and USPS have plans to resume servi
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by MrGuts 5y ago
Is bitcoin an alternative to cash? No. Its value is too volatile, its transaction fees are too high, its clearance speed is too slow, and if anyone rips you off you are reduced to begging. What's a good replacement for fiat cash? Easy:
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by MrGuts 5y ago
Are the words "climate change" anywhere in the pretext of this question?
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by MrGuts 5y ago
I always thought the Treventus ScanRobot was an elegant way to scan books: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdipuAuWsEs It looks like it's sucking data right out of the book. Look for other videos of the process.
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by MrGuts 5y ago
I for one totally trust the New York Post to reliably report biomedical news.
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by MrGuts 5y ago
If you want to talk about what's important, talk about what you're trying to sell. Trying to overthrow a democratic election doesn't sound like a good way to win the Eldorado.
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by MrGuts 5y ago
UV can go through clouds. Wear sunscreen, or stay out of the sun. https://www.dignityhealth.org/articles/can-you-get-a-sunburn...
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by MrGuts 5y ago
Good question! Maybe they are trying to show due diligence to a supervisor? Or maybe they are working from a script? Or, maybe they are "passing you through" to another agency? They take the $5 off as part of their cut, then re-re
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by MrGuts 5y ago
Your brain on JavaScript, I'm sure it was bound to happen one day.
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by MrGuts 5y ago
Motion sickness isn't caused by the shaking and vibration, at least not directly. The problem arises because your inner ear and eyeballs are sending contradictory signals to your brain. The solution: sit near a window where you have an
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by MrGuts 5y ago
Humanity is trending toward the extraction of as much work as possible from any available differences of temperature. In our wake, we will leave unavailable energy and chaos, every mountain leveled and every hole filled in. This goal has dr
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by MrGuts 5y ago
"Is There a Mars Constitution?" Why, yes there is... One of its provisions says, "If you happen to grow a third nipple, expect to have your air supply cut off."
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by MrGuts 5y ago
HR: "Oh, let's start passing out free Ritalin pills."
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by MrGuts 5y ago
If we had an infinite space constructed in a finite time, then surely there would be a history of the sky getting hotter as more radiating matter is included in our causal horizon (light cone). Instead we see a sky at a near homogeneous tem
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by MrGuts 5y ago
Olber's Paradox covers this case also. Obscuring matter would not make the sky dark. Any matter in your line of sight would also itself "observe" a hot sky, just as you do. Any such "observing matter" would reach eq
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by MrGuts 5y ago
Check out Olber's Paradox. Basically, if the Universe were infinite, any line of sight would eventually intersect a star. Since radiation decreases in intensity with the square of the distance, but the area of "shells" of the
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by MrGuts 5y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/1985/05/14/us/police-drop-bomb-on-ra...
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by MrGuts 6y ago
If you have not already, try to get the vaccine. It might help. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/03/31/9827994...
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SDR Recording of WWFD-Am Radio, Frederick MD?
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