Shmebulock

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by Shmebulock 2y ago
Why not just use Substack. It's great
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by Shmebulock 5y ago
But that one is not directory-specific, right?
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by Shmebulock 5y ago
Because corporations die all the time. Governments don't
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by Shmebulock 5y ago
> If a zoned market solely accept Bitcoin and a good costs say 1 BTC The problem is that nobody selling regular goods WANTS to sell his goods with a fixed bitcoin price; the volatility of bitcoin would make it easy for buyers to buy the
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by Shmebulock 5y ago
What does "PAM" mean?
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by Shmebulock 5y ago
So how does it really work? What does the arrow actually mean? Is the point that the information on the DNA gets copied onto RNA while the DNA remains intact?
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by Shmebulock 5y ago
De Grey has always seemed overly eccentric to me. But maybe that is to be expected of someone that works on something as contrarian as anti-aging research. Sexual harassment is not okay. To give him the benefit of the doubt, perhaps it was
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by Shmebulock 5y ago
>for the first time since castles vs. troops without cannon, defense was stronger than offense In the seminal book "On War" which was published in 1832 and is still required reading in many military academies, Prussian general
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by Shmebulock 5y ago
This fits my personal experience very well. I was once a volunteer at the world championships of a team sport. At the podium sceremony my job was to lead the team to the spot where each player received their medal. The bronze medalists were
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by Shmebulock 5y ago
Is this generally how it works in most countries?
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by Shmebulock 5y ago
>One weird thing with rents Germany is that old contracts have very low rents that barely increase over the years Does it really work that way all over Germany or is it something specific to Berlin?
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by Shmebulock 5y ago
Would be interesting to compare this to the environmental impact of having human workers
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by Shmebulock 5y ago
There are potentially plausible reasons such as that a free economy system could take longer to achieve an efficient market equilibrium compared to a centrally planned system.
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by Shmebulock 5y ago
>Which is why privacy protection has to come from the top (i.e. regulators), because most people don't know and/or don't care. I think there should only be legislation about stuff people care about.
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by Shmebulock 5y ago
If users care about that, they'll go to a vendor that gives them access to the data. No need to legally mandate anything.
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by Shmebulock 6y ago
What about Figma to Angular?
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by Shmebulock 6y ago
I agree the article is confusing wrt state. Basic Auth is stateless on the client side but not on the server side. Token auth is stateless on server side; it does not need to store any more public/private key pairs as the number of aut
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by Shmebulock 6y ago
Reminds me of Peter Thiel's view that autism is useful because it leads to less herd-like thinking/peer-pressure succumb-tion/mimesis. This aspect might be more important than the one this article puts forward i.e. that autis
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by Shmebulock 6y ago
Huh, I didn't know that. Still, I think it says a lot that they picked these particular historical moments instead of the probably overwhelming history of Asian people doing samurai-ey things
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by Shmebulock 6y ago
The example I provided shows that people with actual skin in the game think that it impacts the market which to me is one of the best indicators that it actually does. The impression that I have of people that play such games makes it seem
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by Shmebulock 6y ago
I think most people that waste their lives with video games and "make you feel good" fantasies of this kind don't care about historical accuracy; it's not about understanding reality but about feeling good and "enga
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by Shmebulock 6y ago
Are they serious about pursuing the goal of ending the world? Or is this a joke? The response to 'How can I help?', namely 'You are surely helping already' seems like the biggest clue to me that this is a joke.
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by Shmebulock 6y ago
"The easiest way to see this, and this is always my challenge—people don’t agree with this—is challenge you to name me one science fiction film that Hollywood produced in the last 25 years in which technology is portrayed in a positive
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by Shmebulock 6y ago
What is meant by "SAS enterprise software, really overrated"? Does he mean SAAS as in Software-as-a-Service?
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by Shmebulock 6y ago
While having confidence that the data has not been altered after being added to the blockchain.
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by Shmebulock 7y ago
"This may explain why sexually-transmitted diseases get so much attention. They're probably the only kind of diseases that hit younger population much harder than senior citizens. THOSE are the diseases that make the rich earn les
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by Shmebulock 7y ago
These Talebian references got me thinking. Couldn't you argue that it shows a certain arrogance and non-results oriented "falling in love with ideals and tools" detachment from reality to use Clojure instead of good ol'
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by Shmebulock 8y ago
Because autism is a disability. Being a woman is not a disability.
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Why does Windows require a restart after installing updates?(quora.com)
3 points by Shmebulock 8y ago|3 comments
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by Shmebulock 8y ago
Is there a PDF of this?

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