Xorakios

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by Xorakios 3y ago
It's a tough slope. Should ISP's be required to screen all their clients? Then what about datacenters? Then what about utility providers to the datacenters? Then what about roads or food service to people who work at datacenters t
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by Xorakios 3y ago
FORTRAN, COBOL and BASIC all used all caps in the 70s when I started to learn programming. People thought I was a nutcase for abandoning cursive in high school! And don't get me started on punch card programming in college in 1980 :)
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by Xorakios 3y ago
Laughing at myself for ignorance but I thought "port" was east because sailing south from Europe meant that the ports were on the left, and the stars were on the right and most cargo ships didn't make it back. Sigh
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by Xorakios 3y ago
Also unclear why you were downvoted, but so it goes. With chatGPT 3.5 when I correct inaccuracies in subsequent prompts it responds "I apologize" and updates responses. Switching to 4 in the dropdown menu and repeating the same pr
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by Xorakios 4y ago
"Tolling" is a controversial theory from 17th century English common law when rebels fled to France or the colonies. It will be very much tested this year when Trump is prosecuted under the theory that being in Washington DC count
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by Xorakios 4y ago
Most famous right now? Breonna Taylor (2020) - Louisville, Kentucky: Police officers entered the wrong apartment using a no-knock warrant, which led to the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor, an emergency medical technician. Eurie Stamps Sr.
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by Xorakios 4y ago
I don't think anybody is investing in Tesla stock about the cars. That's huge right now, but the future for Tesla as company is in power generation and batteries. The cars are just getting them there. (though I thought that about
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by Xorakios 4y ago
Awesome point. Write pi in ancient Roman numerals, Greek, Japanese, Han Mandarin. Business and science didn't adopt Indo/Arabic numerals just for fun. They just work.
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by Xorakios 4y ago
grin
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by Xorakios 4y ago
Until you get to the turtles...
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by Xorakios 4y ago
In the cases mentioned in the Reason article, all 3 mothers had hair tests showing zero opiate use.
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by Xorakios 4y ago
The economic definition of "legal tender" is sometimes obscured in casual conversation. It isn't "issued by a sovereign state" - that's "fiat" but rather "used for paying taxes." And sometim
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by Xorakios 4y ago
In the US the taxable event generally occurs when one currency is converted back to USD, not when a non-USD currency is spent. Real-time conversions do occur and you are absolutely correct it can turn into a tax nightmare when traveling :(
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by Xorakios 4y ago
That is not accurate. If a US citizen buys, for example, an extra $1000 in euros that are not spent, and the exchange rate changes, it is a taxable event. The specific line item is on Form 8949, to report gains from foreign currency exchang
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by Xorakios 4y ago
Only Deep Thought can do that. And the answer is still 42.
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by Xorakios 4y ago
Agree with you on generational difference. 40 years ago I walked to school, played in parks, rode my bike with friends. Now my grandchildren would be confiscated by Child Protective Services and their parents face prison if anyone under 13
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by Xorakios 4y ago
It is generally illegally to freelance in California unless you're a journalist or an actor
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by Xorakios 4y ago
semantic quibbling is critical in science! I don't care about "who" vs "whom" but I care a lot about "=" vs "--"
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by Xorakios 4y ago
grrrr. the origin of this was joking about sex
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by Xorakios 4y ago
So no... "refrigerate after opening" "don't eat grapefruit when taking this medication" "please use seatbelts" "keep your passwords safe" or "use password managers" There is a joke, wel
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by Xorakios 4y ago
or rather, over-regulation, union focus on maximizing employment numbers instead of total compensation and quality of life, and similar short-term thinking (edited to reflect that I believe private sector unions are generally good, but focu
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by Xorakios 4y ago
When the name is public-facing rather than internal, cute is better because it's better suited for trademarking.
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by Xorakios 4y ago
You are incorrect. It is "crab people, crab people." Just ask South Park
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by Xorakios 4y ago
https://www.businessinsider.com/caroline-ellison-ftx-alameda...
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by Xorakios 4y ago
Perfect :)
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by Xorakios 4y ago
What bewilders me is that an FCC commissioner is weighing in on this at all. FCC's mandate is to regulate telecom infrastructure - devices, bandwidth allocation, licensing, etc. Nothing at fcc.gov mentions anything about a mandate to r
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by Xorakios 4y ago
https://nypost.com/2021/05/27/state-dept-investigator-ridicu... And not Shi Zhengli, that is not the wet market worker, but people are blaming her for just questioning official narrative.
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by Xorakios 4y ago
One thing missing in this otherwise awesome discussion among peers is that except for the interregnum for Covid lockdowns, iPhone users are able to walk into Apple stores and get support pretty much on demand and free for any Apple software
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by Xorakios 4y ago
That is an excellent article and, as the authors say in the first paragraph, lengthy and informative. The combination of Chinese secrecy and Trump demanding that they pay reparations have poisoned a lot of discussions. But come on, a novel
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by Xorakios 4y ago
perhaps reading the actual post might be informative. He said that if people with physical jobs have to be in person, then people with information jobs should be in person as well

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