SamPatt

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by SamPatt 6y ago
"Enjoy the time we have left" Please. What a joke. Read the IPCC reports. They are projecting massive increases in the wealth and health of the whole world in all future emissions scenarios. Some scenarios are just worse than othe
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by SamPatt 6y ago
OnionShare also makes it easy to host websites over Tor.
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by SamPatt 6y ago
Or maybe they've found walking alone in nature has helped with their own depression. It's certainly helped me. Stop with with "you aren't qualified" crap. This is an internet forum where anyone can contribute their
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by SamPatt 6y ago
I believe this is how Qubes OS is supposed to operate.
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by SamPatt 6y ago
Replace caffeine with the name of many other drugs and in this thread you'd hardly notice a difference. Caffeine is a highly socially acceptable drug. Doesn't mean it's all that different from them.
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by SamPatt 6y ago
I'm a Bitcoin early adopter and anarchist and it wasn't about destabilizing the state. It was (and remains to be, for many of the OGs) about making a space for peaceful people which was outside of the manipulation of large institu
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by SamPatt 6y ago
But the honest truth is that young, healthy people _can_ discount the risks of COVID-19. The number of young healthy people killed by COVID-19 is very, very low.
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by SamPatt 6y ago
There are various "privacy coins" which aim to be used anonymously. Monero and Zcash (using shielded transactions) are the two most popular.
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by SamPatt 6y ago
Another anti-Bitcoin article focusing on energy consumption, how original. HN has discussed this to death.
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by SamPatt 6y ago
Crime is defined by governments, many of which care more about maintaining or expanding their power than they do protecting individual's rights. When governments become oppressive crime can be a good thing. Bitcoin can enable both bad
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by SamPatt 6y ago
Maybe we shouldn't be expecting the government to solve every problem in society, and the fact that we have this expectation might actually be making the problems worse by not allowing other non-governmental forces to play out?
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by SamPatt 6y ago
Bitcoin exists because electronic banking requires trust in centralized financial institutions. When you see the entire stock market move because the Fed chairperson makes an offhand comment about when they'll start or stop doing xyz p
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by SamPatt 6y ago
I know several people personally that did. Among people who have worked in the cryptocurrency industry it's not unusual that they've cashed out small portions of their stash in each bubble but still hold some today.
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by SamPatt 6y ago
Transaction fees are high regardless of using Segwit or not and the Lightning Network is not widely adopted or user friendly at all.
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by SamPatt 6y ago
The difference from being obese to being fit has been night and day for me. Self confidence plays a role so it's a sort of self fulfilling prophecy, but there's no question others treat you differently.
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by SamPatt 6y ago
My doctor told me to lose weight. I wasn't offended, I'm not stupid. It wasn't my doctor's advice that led to my weight loss though, it was my father dying prematurely. He wasn't even obese, he just had a poor diet
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by SamPatt 6y ago
Nice job making adversity work for you. Hard to do.
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by SamPatt 6y ago
Here's a tip: Other people don't have life all figured out yet. They might think they do, but life never unfolds itself according to our plans. Never compare to others. You don't know what they're going through, or what
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by SamPatt 6y ago
Casablanca is also my favorite. Half the lines in the film are quotable. Love the ending. It's just excellent.
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by SamPatt 6y ago
"Not much scares me ... fucking shock" The language is literally fear mongering. It's not an objective anecdote.
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by SamPatt 6y ago
Is it poor social behavior to not want to sit still for hours on end doing incredibly boring things which are only being taught so that you can pass a test? Most of school is a waste of time, and kids aren't stupid, they value their ti
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by SamPatt 6y ago
How is that comment relevant to him being called a Nazi?
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by SamPatt 6y ago
Those clubs still exist. I'm in a table tennis league and ham radio club, or at least I was before COVID when my state effectively outlawed them.
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by SamPatt 6y ago
Why did learning new information which updated your (previously inaccurate) level of risk cause you to slap yourself?
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by SamPatt 6y ago
Let me just be the one to say that anyone who denies most men are sexual creatures who enjoy looking at naked women and tries to shame someone for stating that truth is incredibly cringeworthy, no matter the year. Use some common sense next
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by SamPatt 6y ago
Parenting is about using our experience to avoid catastrophic outcomes for our children until they've developed enough experience to avoid those outcomes themselves. It's more than that, but that's at the core. Love them, mod
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by SamPatt 6y ago
A 9000 page law from Congress is inevitable. They literally survive by using their power to placate whoever they need to, voters in their district broadly or special interests specifically. They will never not choose to carve out as much be
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by SamPatt 6y ago
>"direct access to the Blender team for strategical discussions. Roadmaps and priorities will be aligned with your requirements as good as possible." Call me a language snob but this writing is so poor. "Strategical"
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Tens of millions of armed citizens is absolutely an effective counter to any threat. Imagine keeping supply lines moving across a country this large if you knew millions of armed people would try to shut you down.
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>Rainforests and biodiversity, deforestation etc are history. Already dead. No they aren't dead. The world has literally gotten greener in recent decades. Look up "dematerialization." Because of increased technology and we

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