big-green-man

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by big-green-man 2y ago
Simple desktop that works and isn't crazy: Linux mint with cinnamon desktop. Just use it, I promise you won't regret it. I don't use that, because I don't need the simplest thing, I'm a more complicated person. But
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by big-green-man 2y ago
If he could get the small kinks out of the design and modify it for a manufacturing process these things would sell like hot cakes. They'd be expensive but worth it to a lot of peoe.
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by big-green-man 2y ago
It's not the christian right. It's everybody. I don't know a single american who thinks our public school system is functioning adequately. Not a student, not a teacher, not a congressman, not a parent, nobody. We all have di
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by big-green-man 2y ago
I'm curious how you get an AI to give you the code you want rather than the code it thinks you want.
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by big-green-man 2y ago
The fact that he campaigned on it, brought Musk along and put him on stage to make speeches about it, and even named the "department" before the election and then won seems pretty compelling to me. Open and shut case I'd say.
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by big-green-man 2y ago
Don't listen and keep losing and pontificating as to why seems to be the chosen path for many people right now.
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by big-green-man 2y ago
> the liberals were ruining our country I think their grievances are more detailed than that. They didn't pretend not to listen. They genuinely want what is currently happening and are very happy about it.
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by big-green-man 2y ago
I read this here a few weeks ago https://aeon.co/essays/a-new-field-theory-reveals-the-hidden... It seems to imply that living systems (and possibly not simply limited to living systems, potentially including all syste
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by big-green-man 2y ago
Not much substance in the interview, I'd like to actually understand his reasoning. He's right about the simple concept, if nobody buys the bonds, the government eventually defaults. And if the borrower of last resort, the central
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by big-green-man 2y ago
It's obviously exactly that. Of course, it's not well thought out, its 100% legal from the language in the bill to jerk off with a condom, or pull out. Wouldn't want to tempt your opponents to actually make it the law to empr
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by big-green-man 2y ago
The US government is modeled after Cromwell's parliament, almost exactly. The prominent difference is that instead of lords there are senators elected by states. The design has existed for a very, very long time, and evolved organicall
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by big-green-man 2y ago
Don't forget the power accumulated by Franklin Roosevelt, which probably did more to make the president a king than any single president since.
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by big-green-man 2y ago
Well that's good to know, I was unaware.
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by big-green-man 2y ago
> Google’s search results are telling us to eat rocks I can ignore the summary chat bot. What makes google impossible to use for finding information is that all results are "official" sources, such as CNN. I wonder if CNN wants
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by big-green-man 2y ago
This is a paid propaganda article. There are people that are "anti science." These are people that say the earth is flat, that say the earth is 6000 years old or whatever else. Trying to paint all the rest of people with the same
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by big-green-man 2y ago
The government doesn't get to dictate what the word "engineer" means. An engineer does engineering. Some software developers carefully design very complex systems. That's engineering. That said, I am with you, the word i
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by big-green-man 2y ago
You create a better world by creating better people. My spawn will inherit the earth.
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by big-green-man 2y ago
What a wonderful article, well worth the long read, that's an understatement.
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by big-green-man 2y ago
Bitcoin has become harder to change the more people use it. This is true of all decentralized consensus systems that require consensus to modify. The only way this happens is if the majority see the impending outcome clearly, of course by t
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by big-green-man 2y ago
100%. And to hear it from you. I was just talking to someone yesterday about this and telling them about linear continuous debasement, mimblewimble and grin. Capped supply in PoW ends only in reduction of security which translates to reduct
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by big-green-man 2y ago
Bitcoin will fail because of it's capped supply. Holders are free riders, spenders subsidize the security benefit hilders get, and are therefore incentivized to also free ride. Ultimately bitcoin security will collapse and with that, v
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by big-green-man 2y ago
I'm not a high earner by any means, but I'll say that I've caught the underconsumption bug. I've always been of the mindset that I need less than I think I do, but I really took it to another level and I've got to s
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by big-green-man 2y ago
*learned Add that to your list.
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by big-green-man 2y ago
I don't necessarily disagree with you. But the word "communism" is synonymous with state directed production, and often it is in the name of state determined living standards for the sake of improvement of those standards. Th
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by big-green-man 2y ago
Not just that, but you can get health insurance not tied to your job in the US. It costs some money, unfortunately it is tied to income, but if you're planning on lowering your income to improve your quality of life, it should help qui
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by big-green-man 2y ago
I didn't make an argument. I simply made an observation. But I'll make one now: it's not possible with communism. This has been empirically tested, at the expense of millions of human lives. I'd say in light of that th
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by big-green-man 2y ago
Have you considered something less drastic, like leaving SV? There's a big big continent you live on, a ton of which you already have a right to be in, a diversity of biomes and landscapes I'm sure one of which would soothe your s
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by big-green-man 2y ago
The USSR tried it already. This is literal communism dressed up as science. > Strategies for development should not pursue capitalist growth and increased aggregate production as such, but should rather increase the specific forms of pro
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by big-green-man 2y ago
That's really cool. I had never heard of this. Shame it hasn't been worked on since. It would be a really interesting thing to use. There's also https://radicle.xyz/ for those interested in something like thi
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by big-green-man 2y ago
https://thequantuminsider.com/2024/12/27/northwestern-engine...

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