RuggedPineapple

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by RuggedPineapple 4y ago
Oh man, would it ever. 205k tonnes. Jewelry is the largest share too at about half, 96k tonnes of gold is currently jewelry.
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by RuggedPineapple 4y ago
>If you cut the supply of gold tonight This is very much a tangent, but my favorite fun fact is that if you got all the gold humans have ever mined and put it in one place, its smaller then you'd think. It would be a cube about 70 f
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by RuggedPineapple 4y ago
Bitcoin/blockchain brings nothing new to the table. It's a waste on nearly every facet.
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by RuggedPineapple 4y ago
Final version number where it can still be confused with the old Red Hat Linux.
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by RuggedPineapple 4y ago
Then don't use their app. They're entitled to do what they want with that under the law. If you don't like their choices then don't use it. I for one am appreciative they can get information that helps them plan the futu
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by RuggedPineapple 4y ago
>Can you roll a fair die a thousand times and only get 6s? Well yes of course. It'll never happen though. Somewhat related, but humans are also REALLY bad at generating randomness and one of our big tells is an aversion to repeats.
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by RuggedPineapple 5y ago
I really don't see how you can argue with a straight face that Google is a net negative for society. There's more of an argument for Meta, but even then its mostly about social media in general then Facebook in particular.
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by RuggedPineapple 5y ago
512×342 actually, at least for the compact macs with the built in screen.
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by RuggedPineapple 5y ago
That makes sense why it's passed me by then. I do find it fascinating how different systems still take hold in different places even in the age of the global web tying us all together. Just from following the war in Ukraine and seeing
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by RuggedPineapple 5y ago
I hear this all the time, but I have never in my life met a single whatsapp user. Is this one of those things thats huge outside the US?
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by RuggedPineapple 5y ago
Or they just have different tastes then you do, which is a far cry from having 'no taste'. People consistently prefer and rate headphones with more bass as more appealing, for example. That's why consumer brands are bass-heav
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by RuggedPineapple 5y ago
I got engaged to my girlfriend this year. Our christmas is going to be just us and my best friend whose decided she just can't with her antivax family during a covid-era family gathering. Not what I was expecting from the holidays, but
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by RuggedPineapple 5y ago
I want to know how much kool-aid you need to drink before you get to inflation is theft.
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by RuggedPineapple 5y ago
This sounds like we're going to learn about macro and VB viruses all over again.
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by RuggedPineapple 5y ago
But Firefox was derived from mozilla, where the URL bar would search if what you entered wasn't a URL.
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by RuggedPineapple 5y ago
Absolutely. The German constitution mandates students be able to obtain religious education in public school as part of regular curriculum, prohibits the government from interfering in any religious organization and mandates that the govern
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by RuggedPineapple 5y ago
How? That's been the understanding for hundreds of years and derives farther back then even our own country. It has its roots in English constitutional law and the principle of Parliamentary Sovereignty, one of the main tenets of which
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by RuggedPineapple 5y ago
I actually think of FF VII as one of the PS1 games that have aged the most, and far more to my eye then MGS. The 3d battle models are fantastic, but the overworld models are, like, laughably bad. It wasn't a hardware limitation either,
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by RuggedPineapple 5y ago
Im not sure when it started, but I do know back in the early 90's copiers and printers were already currency aware. The copier in my elementary school wouldn't copy a dollar bill at anything close to full size, had to be at least
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by RuggedPineapple 5y ago
>Years ago, as a kid, when the only computers I had access to were cobbled together hand-me-downs and machines people would throw away I used to do this kind of thing. Like the author, I settled on IceWM after trying Fluxbox/JWM&#x2
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by RuggedPineapple 5y ago
Not only not really a name, but also used by other countries in the area, like the United Mexican States (full name to this day) of the Republic of the United States of Brazil (full name in the First Republic era, 1880s to 1930)
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by RuggedPineapple 6y ago
There is such a thing, actually. Not explicitly, but international copyright law has been largely harmonized through the Berne Convention. With 179 signatories its a pretty universal 'floor' for copyright protections. The only big
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by RuggedPineapple 6y ago
As mentioned by others, in the regulated markets they're required to factor in these contingencies, amortized over the expected length of time between events of this scale.
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by RuggedPineapple 6y ago
A large portion of tech audiences fall into major Dunning-Kreuger traps. Because they understand something to an expert level they feel they can apply that to other ares ignoring the experts already in that field and their current findings.
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by RuggedPineapple 6y ago
Which lawsuit? The mid-late 2000's one after all this history? Or the 1991 one that was about intel seeking ways to squeeze out AMD from it's license? The first one isn't really relevant to this and the second one could have
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by RuggedPineapple 6y ago
The history is actually pretty simple. Originally it was because the US government requires a second source for any components and so Intel had to license it to somebody to supply the US government. Then later AMD's 64 bit instructions
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by RuggedPineapple 6y ago
The solarwinds hack gets more expansive every time we find out more. This really doesn't bode well.
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by RuggedPineapple 6y ago
wouldn't disagree with that much.
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by RuggedPineapple 6y ago
Its not really a hot take, but an express intent. Slaves had their culture and traditions aggressively stamped out in order to further the disconnect and reinforce their place as property. Their original tribes and homelands that they could
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by RuggedPineapple 6y ago
Washington is always the one that gets me. His will freed his slaves not when he died but when his wife died. So he knew what was right but intentionally allowed that only after he could be assured it wouldn't cause any hardship to him

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