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by beefield 8y ago
It has been tried in the world history many times and is currently being tried in some parts of Somalia. Most of people do not prefer that, so if you do, maybe you should move there? My guess is that we are about to see "No True Scotsm
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by beefield 8y ago
> It will leave 17m people in an absolute rage, and they have already murdered one MP. It'll get worse. So, the decision making is kept as hostage by 17m angry people who won't accept that their side winning was based on prett
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by beefield 8y ago
I think the issue is that once you have had a referendum with outright dishonest arguments and likely manipulated by foreign states and one side wins by a couple of perentage points, the outcome is ironclad will of the people and even if th
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by beefield 8y ago
Real problems like how to get people click more ads and how to create useless cryptocurrencies that lots of great (and arguably not so great) minds seem to be nowadays primarily occupied with? (Yep, loads of sarcasm here)
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by beefield 8y ago
Just thinking that a success in that might be more likely if the plan did not include giving seigniorage from the state (i.e. people) to a bunch of cryptonerds. Also, a monetary policy not from medieval times might help.
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by beefield 8y ago
> Sweden’s too egalitarian society Any examples of societies that are unequal[1] enough for you? [1] Not sure about a proper antonym here.
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by beefield 8y ago
I'd like to have an app that creates virtual android environments that I can run my apps in. And the possibility to spoof the sensor data for the environment with configurable profiles. Like "rich geek in Silicon Valley traveling
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by beefield 8y ago
Sorry, I am confused. In your comment you said that in case of ssh there are several EXAMPLES or USAGES sections. Well, in my case I find exactly zero instances regardless what kind of key combo from your comment I use. If you instead mean
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by beefield 8y ago
Sorry, in my Ubuntu 18.04 "man ssh" produces output that does not have either EXAMPLES or USAGE. /^E takes me to ENVIRONMENT instrad of EXAMPLES.
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by beefield 8y ago
My usage of manpages would increase by orders of magnitude if I knew there were examples of actual working commands in the first page. Most of the time I am not looking for an obscure parameter, but my brain just has failed to take a note o
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by beefield 8y ago
> I wonder if you have to a certain level of insanity for doing something like this. My assumption is that people want and need some level of "excitement"[1] to feel like living a meaningful life. Say, in scale 1-10, if you onl
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by beefield 8y ago
Well, my personal rule is to never touch csv with excel, because depending on the locales, most of the time excel breaks something in the file. (Of course, in theory I might make a flawless data type mapping when importing the file to exc
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by beefield 8y ago
> Even if there were no safety or environmental regulations at all, you still couldn't get there I am not so sure. I mean, if you really do not have to care about safety and waste, how expensive it can be to dig up uranium, centrifu
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The fight to keep ideas open to all(economist.com)
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by beefield 8y ago
> I think everyone can agree that cryptocurrency got way ahead of itself but HN almost seems Luddite in it's treatment of the underlying technology to the point that we are going to have our own "No wireless. Less space than a
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by beefield 8y ago
Funny. I have been able to send money cross-border relatively cheaply and relatively fast for quite some time. So yes, obviously I see value in that. But actually it has never been any kind of issue that would have even crossed my mind tha
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by beefield 8y ago
How about the types of products that can't be stored in a secure package from producer to consumer through the supply chain but need somehow be processed within the supply chain? You know, at least something like 99.9999% of the produc
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by beefield 8y ago
Sorry, should have made it clear that my comment was sarcastic.
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by beefield 8y ago
But... all these gallons are much more easy to relate to than a standard metric liter, thus making all of them superior. If you do not believe me, ask Nassim Nicholas Taleb[1]. [1] https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=m
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by beefield 8y ago
I have this hypothesis - which admittably is very weak on evidence and very weak on political correctness - that it is kind of a self-enforcing process. First, people with less cognitive capabilities seem to be inclined into conservatism an
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by beefield 8y ago
> I do have a Thinkpad (running NixOS), however the battery life sucks. Do you have tlp set up? https://linrunner.de/en/tlp/docs/tlp-linux-advanced-power-ma...
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by beefield 8y ago
Did I understand correctly that basically air speed sensor was faulty and because of that the autopilot decided that we need more speed to avoid stall and put the nose down all the way to the ground/sea?
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by beefield 8y ago
> why the fuck are you bothering me with this? Handling cash is a hassle in many ways: 1. It's slow. Obviously it is not slow in the best case when the customer throws in the exact change, but it is _really_ slow in the probably mor
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by beefield 8y ago
Do I calculate right that plain water stores energy around 0.2 MJ/kg when heated by 50 degrees celsius? (Specific heat is 4 J/gK) If I am right, ot feels like it would likely be cheaper to just make seasonal heat storages with wat
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by beefield 8y ago
Government intervention. Not good. Much better would be letting free markets to allocate more resources to figure out how to get people clicking more ads and development of cryptocurrencies. (This was sarcasm.)
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by beefield 8y ago
I already accepted that blockchain offers value in criminal money transfers. Obviously censorship resistance is criminal in repressive regimes. It just is a bit difficult in western world to sell a product whose only actual value propositio
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by beefield 8y ago
>if you want me to enumerate all the use cases that aren't criminal I can. Could you start with one? And I mean one that is obviously superior to centralized solutions? What are the measures that make blockchain superior in this use
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by beefield 8y ago
> Keeping track of an asset without a centralized authority? Question was: "And in what applications are blockchains superior to centralized applications?" You really did not answer the question. What is the application where i
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by beefield 8y ago
> It’s sad that there is a vocal group, especially on HN, that knee-jerk hates everything blockchain related and wishes with their entire being for it to fail. Given the generally high level of comments here at HN, I wonder if it has eve
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by beefield 8y ago
To me, biggest issue with cash is that it prohibits central banks making sound monetary policy (i.e. negative interest rates) in certain situations where that would be needed.

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