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by _nalply 5y ago
> planet destroying at scale This has been repeated often. I usually think everytime I read this: what if the price of electric power included the price of destroying the planet? For me this looks like a market failure that proof of work
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Probably not, I am afraid. After all, you are human, and we humans aren't good at exhaustive covering of all bases. Sometimes when I am reading a rust compiler error message about erroneous borrowing I really wonder that I never could
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You say that some issues of The Economist are propagandist. I am inclined to take this opinion seriously. This said I wonder how you got to this conclusion. What exactly ticked you off? I am asking this because I myself fell for some propag
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The line between "You are an expert. If you pay for something useless, it's your problem, not mine" and an outright scam is blurry. If someone says that the industry scams their customers, I wouldn't say he is wrong. But
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Why? Probably this makes advertisement more successful.
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It's ante meridiem and post meridiem. Let me explain. "dies" is the Latin word for day. It is in the e-declension. Not many words in Latin have the e-declension. Another one is "res", the Latin word for thing. I don
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The registrar didn't send me a reminder to renew the domain. Lesson learned: If a domain is important to you, set up your own reminder to renew.
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When idling an internal combustion engine burns fuel just for not stopping. This needlessly wastes fuel, causes CO2 emissions, stinks and spreads unhealthy soot blackening lungs and walls of nearby people and houses. An EV engine just stand
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It's covered by their terms of service.
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This was fifteen years ago. I realized that something was coming up and decided to sell fonds titles. I opened the online banking system and sent the order. Two days later the crash happened. Have I been lucky? No. The bank patiently waited
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I had ti.cm but lost it.
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Depends where you live and what stuff you have. In Switzerland I would call the local «Werkhof» and ask what to do. Probably just bring them and declare as electronic waste. Perhaps try to discharge them first by putting them into electroni
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Perhaps this is someone trying to find out whether people can detect fakes they generate?
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> Case in point - we're talking about this. Are you really sure? There are things people in the West don't talk about.
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> So to give more than is reasonable is a crime against humanity. Yes, I thought about it. I tried to estimate the salary of the police officer and wanted to give him enough, but not too much. It was a difficult decision and I took some
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> At the lower levels, however, the system contains an element of grace and humanity, and this lower lever is all that most people will ever encounter. Hah. Now I stopped wondering about the friendliness of the officer.
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Sorry, thanks for the correction!
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Interesting. Your example shows that bribery can be executed even without cooperation by the bribers.
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I experienced corruption and had to bribe an officer. This was more than 20 years ago. I hope you find my tale interesting as an example how bribery is executed exactly, even if you are clueless like me. I was in Romania to watch the solar
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Maybe. It's Swiss law that records must be kept at least for 10 years. Two months ago I threw away the bookkeeping and the tax declaration of my sole proprietorship of the year 2011.
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I understand. It's unfair and hard. Business. I have been thinking about business being business for a long time. Let me tell you a vision of a better future. I am not explaining how to get there, just what is in this future. Business
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https://therealnews.com/putin-has-launched-the-most-senseles... > The conquest of Russia by NATO, by contrast, is the personal fear [...] It doesn't matter what people do, it matters what people think what people do
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Infosperber is an independent Swiss online news platform where I can read about strange things (in German). To be clear, I don't know whether the things they tell are true, but often I find these things interesting and plausible. One o
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A vendor could display a nag screen at inopportune moments to connect the TV. As far as I know Samsung does this.
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An alternative to have a company fix your expensive gadget is to do it yourself. I think about the Framework laptop. In your situation even if the company declined payment (then I wold be disappointed), I would have sucked it up and ordered
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Buy a dumb screen. For example a big computer monitor. I know it's not the same but this is the only solution I know.
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The Right-To-Left Override (U+202E) does not obscure nor overwrite existing characters. It is an instruction to switch the text direction to right-to-left like for Arabic and Hebrew. In the article it is shown how this can be misused to sho
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Being Deaf I am unfit for conscription. Thirty years ago I would have needed to pay that tax (in French: Taxe d’exemption de l’obligation de servir) [0]. However I was allowed to serve in a different service: civil protection [1]. In case o
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When I was bored, I thought about a minimal six-bit computer with a three-byte address bus (18 bit). I went ahead and tried to design a machine language for that computer. There are three registers: the three-byte accumulator, the two-byte
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But the colors! Back then you had black, white, blue, yellow, green and red. And today? You even have two different shades of light blue.

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