Tao332

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by Tao332 4y ago
While this is sometimes true, I like to think the nastier elements are an emergent side effect of the medium, and not some "true self". Maybe it's an aspect that's suppressed in polite society, but not the whole personal
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by Tao332 4y ago
> skin in the game Literally. If people acted IRL the way they do online, there'd be a major uptick in face punches.
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by Tao332 4y ago
Those first couple paragraphs offer a good explanation for why I feel disgust every time someone refers to some part of the internet as a place. People stating that they feel unsafe on Twitter makes about as much sense to me as saying they
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by Tao332 4y ago
Not wanting to be will, so the numbers might be distorted from what ones true potential is.
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by Tao332 4y ago
Yeah, I feel like we were just starting to make some progress towards a generation of kids that might not bully its nerds, but everything kinda went to shit. Children make the selection. They have an impulse to inflict lasting psychological
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by Tao332 4y ago
Pizza coupons, beer bottles that can be deposited for a refund in California
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by Tao332 4y ago
The "moving to PoS" line is so worn out and repeated that it should be flagged as a bot post every time. It's like hearing "thank you for holding, please listen closely as our menu options have changed" to those of
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by Tao332 4y ago
Proof of doesn't work, amirite?
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by Tao332 4y ago
I get the feeling even that wouldn't have made much difference https://twitter.com/stablekwon/status/1464897977793728514?re...
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by Tao332 4y ago
> The very idea of an algorithmic stablecoin is beyond idiotic. This is key. It's either idiotic or malicious. The general structure of the relationship between Luna and USDT should be identified as a species of scam and criminalize
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by Tao332 4y ago
What, are you going to squeeze your bitcoins and get energy out of them? Get real.
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by Tao332 4y ago
> I hope that people who have been wiped out understand that they can jump in again someday and hopefully pick the next winner. The National Problem Gambling Helpline (1-800-522-4700)
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by Tao332 4y ago
Is that you Do Kwon? Is this me?
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by Tao332 4y ago
I guess it's like the 99.999% label effectiveness of hand sanitizer. We all know it's really 100%, but the best we can say is "we see no evidence of one that's not a scam". Or perhaps every single one has a core of
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by Tao332 4y ago
In my memory you had to craft it from two half-asses, but it looks like they were really called bum cheeks. I remember first encountering the term on b3ta around the same time.
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by Tao332 4y ago
Vintage xkcd from the grid paper days.
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by Tao332 4y ago
> No one was buying them. It doesn't help that Apple was pretty much hiding that they still sold them. They were not discoverable through the site or most Apple stores. You have to use the search or ask someone about it, respectivel
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by Tao332 4y ago
> Other websites had images that loaded interlaced - separated in 4 strata that you could watch being built up. That's called progressive JPEG, and it's still around.
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by Tao332 4y ago
> It does not target US citizens, so there isn't really any concern here. Ah, sorry I didn't catch the Socratic Irony you were employing until you served up this meatball. This is the part where the interlocutor points out &quo
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by Tao332 4y ago
Also the Disposition Matrix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposition_Matrix
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by Tao332 4y ago
It's pretty funny that they had to break through this insane cultural wall just to make yet another pair of headphones I don't want. I don't really think of "more headphones, but better somehow" as innovation.
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by Tao332 4y ago
Just one, and it was elective. Few enough to realize this stuff is tricky and I should tread with care. Not enough to know all the loopholes of what you can get away with and still be ethical.
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by Tao332 4y ago
Rinzai struck them both with his fly whisk.
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by Tao332 4y ago
Heh, I ran out of detergent not that long ago and had to improvise some with an Internet Recipe of baking soda and a few drops of dish soap. Some of plastics came out with a bit of chalky water marks, but the dishwasher itself was completel
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by Tao332 4y ago
It's also easy to tell how many pods/loads you have left. Switched to Finish pods after Cascade powder stopped working for me. They took out the phosphorus or whatever apocalyptic chemical du jour it was. Things are almost as clea
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by Tao332 4y ago
I used a double-edge for years. Then I tried Harry's and was amazed. However, the real trick is to get the eos brand sensitive shaving cream with shea butter and colloidal oatmeal. It might be marketed for ladies, but it's way b
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by Tao332 4y ago
Where did you punch this goose? I should think the head/bill area would be hard to hit and painful. The breast would be hard to get to on account of wings and neck. Punching a goose in the back doesn't seem sporting, but maybe it
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by Tao332 4y ago
Don't cherrypick it then. The rest of the piece explains it. He's not someone who just walks into a collaborative process with wholly self-completed works of natural brilliance. Instead, he's someone who knows how to facilita
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by Tao332 4y ago
> John is the fifth hammer. I didn't know what this meant. Apparently there is a legend that Pythagoras discovered harmony accidentally by overhearing four hammers working. Upon closer inspection of the forge, he also heard a fifth
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by Tao332 4y ago
The mistake is in pretending that 64K Eth has a USD value that means anything. It doesn't.

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