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by _carbyau_ 4mo ago
And increasing tunneling skills! And increasing car racing! (Though I still don't get oval racing.) Prohibition had some unintended consequences.
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by _carbyau_ 4mo ago
You want to see a significant fraction of society sad and angry?
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by _carbyau_ 4mo ago
> This is how every benevolent dictators start. Every dictator is benevolent for the people that agree with them.
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by _carbyau_ 4mo ago
It hurts anytime there is a subscription intermediary and people are being trained to think this should be the case. Iroh networking can't become a standard fast enough. https://www.iroh.computer/
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by _carbyau_ 4mo ago
> makes me wish my country was like China I admire their governance ability to have long term plans. The sheer scale of their production ambitions in so many fields and their energy build out is insane. The fact those plans also have sub
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by _carbyau_ 4mo ago
It still has a lot of detractors but it is hard to beat such a sheer market flex.
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by _carbyau_ 4mo ago
> Banks don't want the headache of supporting multiple weird phone OSes and it's understandable. Commercially, this makes sense. I am surprised that most nations of the whole world are fine with every citizen relying on one of
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by _carbyau_ 4mo ago
From the linked article it seems this is related to Entra accounts which are Azure cloud related.
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by _carbyau_ 4mo ago
So, is there an open source variant of Signal using Iroh? IE could I get an app on my phone, to talk to anyone on the planet with that app directly without having to trust any middlemen like Apple, Google, WhatsApp etc? Could people have
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by _carbyau_ 4mo ago
The article is about how to become a billionaire. Are you seriously saying you think Elon Musk falls into the "now it is" category? That's making up something to get angry about. He's been a billionaire for quite a while
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by _carbyau_ 4mo ago
I have that one linux friend who is always recompiling shaders every game update. It's only 5 minutes, but's it's every game update which can be lot. I'm waiting for that to go away before I consider the jump. I figure t
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by _carbyau_ 4mo ago
> Fortunately, my old pal Claude Code is always there for me Is this just a form of changing one subscription for another?
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by _carbyau_ 4mo ago
It does seem a lot like ransomware.
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by _carbyau_ 4mo ago
I didn't get that read. I agree with their "two parties interacting is a relationship". Hell, I have a "relationship" at the checkout as they scan my groceries. But it's not deep or long lasting, so as you&#x27
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by _carbyau_ 4mo ago
> very rarely touched or used drivers for obsolete hardware I guess end users can not upgrade but a definition of obsolete would be nice. To me, every HP printer ever is obsolete. But I assume someone else has an equally valid and differ
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by _carbyau_ 4mo ago
I can't speak for his other essays but this article was not great. He basically does some maths to show exponential growth. The definition of "earn" is not on the chopping block. Nor is what it means to "cheat" - wh
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by _carbyau_ 4mo ago
As a fellow australian but now former wood chopper: "Try" should be "prefer". IE when you get a load of firewood for the winter, you want it to be hardwood. The person you buy the wood from may mix in softwood depending
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by _carbyau_ 4mo ago
I thought that was where the phrasing: "John! Why can't you be more like your brother?!" comes from.
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by _carbyau_ 4mo ago
Things keep breaking - "What are we paying you for?" Nothing ever breaks. - "What are we paying you for?" Management can choose their burden.
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by _carbyau_ 4mo ago
I think the idea of offshore wind is nice. There is a lot of ocean out there and by putting the "ugly" (I don't mind them.) turbines out of sight we get the best of both worlds. But the realities of the idea - the engineering
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by _carbyau_ 4mo ago
Which is why so many people want to see the prompt that generated the text. Because the prompt is the quintessence of intent regarding the information to be conveyed.
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by _carbyau_ 4mo ago
Most F1 fans have an opinion on F1 regulations. I like your take. I want to see F1 car design be about function/performance above all. I want to see awesome gadgets using insanely clever design. Then ideally that design should influenc
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by _carbyau_ 4mo ago
So why do people keep pointing at an Amendment when it comes to gun control?
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by _carbyau_ 4mo ago
Motorcycle meant I went with quadlock case. But am now in the quadlock system of attaching my phone to anything else.... IE car mounts too. SO quadlock got a bunch of my money. Maybe I'm a buyer trying to justify my sunk costs, but to
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by _carbyau_ 5mo ago
> Halving the population in 50 years is not a realistic plan. Here are some projections to support that statement. Supposedly 2084 is peak population. https://population.gov.au/sites/population.gov.au/files&#x2F
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by _carbyau_ 5mo ago
Require all the cyberpunk billionaires to live together under the shadow of the surveillance shogunate.
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by _carbyau_ 5mo ago
> More generally we would probably require freedom from physical harm by non state actors In theory that is covered already by laws against physical violence in whatever form they take. > freedom from employment consequences This cros
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by _carbyau_ 5mo ago
Transference in this case can be otherwise known as economic rent. merriam-webster definition: "the return for the use of a factor in excess of the minimum required to bring forth its service" [0] Think of those companies that hav
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by _carbyau_ 5mo ago
Me giving you a dollar doesn't create. The rich extracting wealth from the poor doesn't create. Investors buying existing housing stock doesn't create. Mine it. Make it. Improve it. Brings wealth into existence. Note that fin
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by _carbyau_ 5mo ago
It is the answer to the next generation question: How did we get here?

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