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by alexb_ 5y ago
Luckily for me, I'm really good at contributing absolutely nothing relevant or helpful to threads on both Reddit and HN, opting instead to post comments that help nobody. Glad to know I've been doing the right thing all along!
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by alexb_ 5y ago
...do you understand how money works, you can't just "use the money printer" to fund wars what are you talking about
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by alexb_ 5y ago
Did the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis completely go out of the consciousness of everyone? Private companies doing "audits" on securities that they have an incentive to say are better than they actually are is not going to give any
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by alexb_ 5y ago
What proof is there exactly that USDC is different?
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by alexb_ 5y ago
When taxi drivers give out investment advice...
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by alexb_ 5y ago
The term "too big to fail" means "gonna get bailed out by the govt". This does not apply to any decentralized system.
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by alexb_ 5y ago
The day that tether, and all of the other "stablecoins" die, is going to be absolutely brutal. Makes me glad to not be a crypto speculator. This is the type of stuff that they write books, movies, and papers about.
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by alexb_ 5y ago
That has literally nothing to do with what I'm saying. Nobody except for weird techno-idealists actually value crypto in any terms other than it's equivalency to actual money.
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by alexb_ 5y ago
Don't kid yourself. Bitcoin does not have any place as a real currency (at least for legal purchases) - it is solely a speculative asset. People buy cryptocurrencies in hopes it will become worth more USD, or to buy drugs.
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by alexb_ 5y ago
Wasteful, frivolous, and "fashionable" is exactly who Apple is marketing towards. You aren't the target audience here.
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by alexb_ 5y ago
Having decent relationships with other people != having a large number of superficial friends
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by alexb_ 5y ago
Most information, especially anything about video games, is tucked away in a discord nowadays. I'm in many that literally act as storage of information - a large number of channels that only the admin can post in where they post info.
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by alexb_ 5y ago
https://theoptionselect.com/2020/02/12/tutorial-just-check-t... "With the release of Granblue Fantasy Versus, many players are getting into fighting games for the first time ever. But often for new playe
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by alexb_ 5y ago
Everyone always brings this patent up while forgetting that large companies will literally patent every single idea that comes up just in case. Doesn't mean it's ever going to actually happen. See also: Amazon's Wage Cage (th
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by alexb_ 5y ago
Euros are always complaining about tipping and acting like servers don't prefer it because they make way more money...
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by alexb_ 5y ago
There's probably a good reason for it but I don't work for the FCC so I couldn't tell you. Iirc TV stations have to do the same thing every hour by showing the station name briefly.
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by alexb_ 5y ago
Your conclusion is correct, but I really don't think treating scientific communities as the sole arbiters of truth is a good idea. Science is all about being continually wrong (that's what progress is), and the experts are wrong a
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by alexb_ 5y ago
It probably has to do with the US requirement to announce the call sign at least once an hour. Regular listeners will associate it with the station due to this.
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by alexb_ 5y ago
I could see it benefiting all of the websites that duplicate SO and fill it with SEO to push it up the search results.
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by alexb_ 5y ago
I would be careful with this type of stuff. AI Dungeon had to implement extraordinarily strict filtering because people were using it for the same purpose - most likely due to pressure from OpenAI. Given that your entire site is built aroun
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by alexb_ 5y ago
Really exciting times for those in the illegal DDOS-attack industry. IoT firmware is either updated frequently, which makes it unreliable and bad, or it's updated never, which makes it insanely insecure.
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by alexb_ 5y ago
IBM has been doing massive investments into this space. There are still lots of problems and you can't completely replace things such as specialists. >refill via e-prescription No, no, no, absolutely not. This is a horrible idea. IM
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by alexb_ 5y ago
The FCC mandates that stations have either a 4 or 3 letter call sign. Ones on the west coast start with K, east of that is W. Since they all have to identify themselves to the FCC with these call signs, it's convenient to advertise the
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by alexb_ 5y ago
Telegram makes it insanely easy to have a non-encrypted message, so the NSA definitely wants terrorists to use that. It also has central mass data collection. Of course the NSA wants people to use Telegram.
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by alexb_ 5y ago
God, that notarization issue on Mac sounds horrendous to deal with. Why does Apple need to see every single build of everything that runs on their devices...
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by alexb_ 5y ago
I wonder if it would be possible to not only single scenes in a movie out, but also use imdb data to help detect which actor/actress is in said scenes for categorization. Could be an extremely useful tool.
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by alexb_ 5y ago
If "fine" means "answering a new captcha every time you blink" then yeah, every other website works fine on Tor.
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by alexb_ 5y ago
You couldn't write a more Vice headline
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by alexb_ 5y ago
Steam is a money printing machine, I don't think they have a money problem
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by alexb_ 5y ago
Valve is probably only able to do all this stuff BECAUSE it is private. Public companies are concerned more with what pushes up numbers for 1 quarter and keeps shareholders happy than anything else.

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