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by RagnarD 3y ago
They'd probably be happy to refund the current gold price. :D
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Very understated, so probably driven from government deliberate statistical/interpretational manipulations. Also: inflation is NOT fundamentally about price changes. Inflation is purely the result of arbitrary expansion of government f
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by RagnarD 3y ago
National Socialism is a type of socialism and the National Socialist party platform is overtly socialist in every way if you want to look it up in historical documents. The ludicrous idea that they were "right" was a crude smear f
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Plenty of countries do it. It's a misnomer to call it capitalism. It's fascism: nominal private ownership with defacto government control in different potential ways (e.g. force backed barriers to competition, regulation boosting
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by RagnarD 3y ago
Many companies manufacture insulin. There's also not just one kind. Two pervasive types are fast acting and slow acting, the latter typically used to provide a low level continuous boost throughout a day. Manufacturing high quality pro
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by RagnarD 3y ago
Open source or not, apparently the no cost version is limited to 100 contacts, making that version a toy at best. At $29/seat/mo, it's not far away from far more mature all-employee Zoho One at $37/seat/mo (paid ann
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by RagnarD 3y ago
A movie that had a strong influence on me when I saw it as a kid, creating a deep interest in computers. I also made up a quip long ago from it: Don't let your AIs control nuclear weapons.
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by RagnarD 3y ago
Sure, agreed. But a few hundred bucks in cash (maybe) is extremely unlikely to be CAFed, exactly because everyone would see it for naked armed robbery by cops. But the cops count on the unusual individual carrying thousands or tens of thous
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by RagnarD 3y ago
Nope. Being able to write in C# using a vast array of C# libraries in the browser is orders of magnitude better than writing in JS or even TS. C# is enormously superior to JS and superior to TS.
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by RagnarD 3y ago
There are two major flavors of Blazor: Server and WASM. Server is considerably easier to program with because it removes the complexity of making REST calls to a server component. It creates an illusion of seamless coupling between browser
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by RagnarD 3y ago
Blazor Server is completely inappropriate for an internet facing site. The same is not true for Blazor Webassembly, which operates as combination of client and server projects, typically communicating via standard REST calls.
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by RagnarD 3y ago
If functionally complete means that any logic circuit can be constructed, doesn't this imply that IEEE-754 floating point subtraction is effectively Turing complete? (Or not?)
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I shut down my PayPal account after many years because of their increasingly questionable business practices and apparent general software incompetence. I strongly advise not carrying around lots of cash, especially within the U.S. Legal
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by RagnarD 3y ago
Although a definite minority in New Zealand, Maori culture has a huge influence at this point, particularly in all government operations. I've brought up this genocide of the Moriori by the Maori (and in 1835, not an ancient memory) to
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by RagnarD 3y ago
I have to wonder if some eager LEO would try to find some illegality in this, especially given all of the federal laws around aircraft. Obviously it's innocuous, but I'd think twice about writing about this kind of tinkering for t
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by RagnarD 3y ago
Did Facebook (er, Meta) completely overlook the extreme backlash to the same concept 10 years ago with Google Glasses? Just look up articles from that time, e.g. https://nypost.com/2014/07/14/is-google-glass-c
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by RagnarD 3y ago
It's perceivable as long as a consciousness exists with sense organs. Existence doesn't depend on that perception. Existence existed long before any minds existed and will it exist long after. ("Long" is a euphemism here
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by RagnarD 3y ago
You might as well ask "Are ideas real?" in the broader philosophic sense. Yes, they (with math as a subset) are real existents within consciousness. The question of mathematical ideas' connection to reality is epistemologica
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by RagnarD 3y ago
It may be in there somewhere but I don't see a mechanism for talking to banks using standard protocols to at least retrieve bank transactions. Without that, an accounting system is an unusable toy.
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by RagnarD 3y ago
Question for Tony (trungdq88) - did you develop difficulties with your Twitter app(s) due to changes in the platform? If so, how hard were they to fix?
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by RagnarD 3y ago
Any thoughts on pros and cons of usung Brave browser on iOS?
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The NuGet packages are zip files containing compiled binary and possibly other resources. They're referenced in the source code and included at compile time. Since they become integrated into the overall compile, there's no need t
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by RagnarD 3y ago
I'm cheered by ongoing progress in adoption of WebAssembly. While Microsoft is often given minimal notice here, I urge anyone interested in WASM to experiment with Blazor WebAssembly. It's an incredibly powerful framework that let
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by RagnarD 3y ago
Another reason to do this is because it's very easy to back up the entire VM using backup methods that are going to be considerably faster because they're backing up one big file rather than thousands/millions of individual f
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It's an indication that someone can be a good programmer while still lapping up Putin's propaganda. On a related note, I somewhat recently posted just the link to the very religious SQLite ethics page on Facebook - which immediate
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Given the age of the earth - 4.543 billion years - the roughly 200 years of human recordkeeping, even assuming a true statement, makes that 4.4e-6 percent of the age of the earth. Or put another way, the record doesn't account for the
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by RagnarD 3y ago
An important takeaway is to consider what's considered forbidden to discuss in supposedly enlightened 2023. The sad fact is that there are many more such topics now than in 1945 - but for the same reasons. These are topics which threat
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by RagnarD 3y ago
Curious where you're seeing that?
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It gets "better": https://marionrecord.com/ "Illegal raids contribute to death of newspaper co-owner" "Stressed beyond her limits and overwhelmed by hours of shock and grief after illegal police rai
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"Scientific dissident" is just another way of saying "Actual scientist".

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