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by beaner 6y ago
That's the one. It would be cool if they took all that content and started from the beginning and re-released it all as a podcast again over time.
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by beaner 6y ago
I remember there used to be this old AM late night coast-to-coast radio show that had the strangest topics sometimes. I only occasionally tuned in by accident on the hours-long drive back to college from home. It was always when it was dark
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by beaner 6y ago
I'm not necessarily against this but I don't think it goes deep enough. I think a better societal/psychological explanation can be found in the first third of Industrial Society and its Future. [0] [0] Free read: https:&#x2F
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by beaner 6y ago
The most popular fiat currency, the US dollar, was tied to gold until 1971. It's still not clear that breaking that link was a good move. Also this: https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
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by beaner 6y ago
Your comment is wrong all around. Volatility doesn't prevent layer 2 from working, and it is growing. [0] [0] https://defipulse.com/lightning-network
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by beaner 6y ago
Layer 2 will solve this.
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by beaner 6y ago
> your example is incorrect. Evading police retribution is one of the few exploits explicitly forbidden by game rules But his example was not about evading police retribution. It was about mechanics related to self-protection from suicid
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by beaner 6y ago
Edit: for context, this comment was originally in response to a larger comment that I see has been pared down. > it's unclear why medical misinfo should get a free pass in the US system Because it's an arbitrary category. What
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by beaner 6y ago
Twitter has a policy stating that you can't post things contradicting the CDC. The CDC originally said that masks don't do anything. A very obvious layperson assumption would be that masks do do something, because if it comes from
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by beaner 6y ago
I think we might be talking past each other. When I say that Epic and the founder have leverage, I do not mean against Apple in a lawsuit. I mean that they have leverage in the community because they make great products and have been making
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by beaner 6y ago
I think we're pretty far off on our interpretations here, and you don't explain why you think the tactic isn't good. Epic is not asking for free money. And they wouldn't be asking for free help, either. This is clearly a
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by beaner 6y ago
> Many a company is upset that they have no leverage in a business deal and want to courts to hand it to them. I think Epic does actually have a lot of leverage. They have clout. They're a popular, widely respected company and found
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by beaner 6y ago
It is effectively immutable, that's how Bitcoin continues to exist.
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by beaner 6y ago
"destroying themselves" is certainly a characterization, and I don't mean to imply that I think cities will go away. What I'm saying is that for what purpose would the government be secretly spying on people if not to do
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by beaner 6y ago
You can deduce that cash on hand harms nobody by doing a thought experiment. If there were a company sitting on $100 trillion in cash - enough to make everyone else's money just a small fraction of the total - how would that hurt anybo
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by beaner 6y ago
Yeah, I think it wasn't clear to me as being the point said in the line in question. Guess I can see it now.
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by beaner 6y ago
Yes, that makes more sense and I think that's a valid point, thanks. To be fair I thought you meant that it couldn't be kept secret from a global view - that anyone who wanted could look at the blockchain and attach votes to ident
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by beaner 6y ago
I mean, you could say the same thing about current electronic voting or even about how aggregate paper voting is counted behind the scenes. Those things involve some level of trust. I don’t think what I wrote is that difficult to understand
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by beaner 6y ago
Yes, not sure how it's related.
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by beaner 6y ago
> If you can verify that your vote was correctly counted, your vote can't be kept secret This is false. Votes (transactions) in Bitcoin are pseudonymous, meaning everyone can see what votes were placed, but nobody knows who was r
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by beaner 6y ago
Well that doesn't really help. If the reason is coastal erosion and not sea level rise, then you're not saying something that's relevant to the point.
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by beaner 6y ago
I think it's a tricky question, because the provided link seems to distinguish liberal arts schools from other non-technology, non-business schools, and I don't know how that distinction is being made. It could be that their subje
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by beaner 6y ago
I agree in the distinction you're making, I just think that many of the degree programs for these older subjects are effectively acting as "diploma mills" today because their result for the student is about the same.
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by beaner 6y ago
I agree. And the market is telling us that more jobs in these fields are not needed, while STEM has endless technological problems to address and high salaries for the taking.
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by beaner 6y ago
> At least, these tend to be real subjects that students are actually interested in. I don't think that whether real students are interested in a topic is related to how well that choice of study does for them in the real world. Int
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by beaner 6y ago
I guess I meant that even ignoring breaks entirely, there must be some wear ("dust") inside of a generator resulting from the rub of physical parts, but I take it to be a very tiny amount.
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by beaner 6y ago
I'm not surprised! It seems like a reasonable option for those who have no initial capital to pay for their lease. But for those who come with capital ready, it can be a horrible deal. Being made to accept that option when you don&#x27
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by beaner 6y ago
So in a way you could say that the friction resulting from engaging the generator has byproducts of both electricity and dust, rather than just dust produced by disc brakes? And that since the energy required to stop in both cases should be
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by beaner 6y ago
I guess I wasn't sure how regeneration could occur through a process that is not frictive & therefore clean. And if there is a clean friction, why there wouldn't be one for disc breaks as well.
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by beaner 6y ago
The game is free to users but that doesn't mean Apple can't charge the developer for installs, especially if the developer is making a profit through in-app sales.

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