bluGill

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by bluGill 2mo ago
They don't give up the advantages of central banking at all. What they give up is political control of their bank. There are advantages to having political control, but often political control is abused - which is why failed states ha
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by bluGill 2mo ago
> no textures, alpha blending, transparency, bilinear filtering Gimmicks that are even today way overused. The world would be better off without them. Note that I am not into 3d games, and while someday I mean to learn CAD that day is f
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by bluGill 2mo ago
That is the base, the software on top can be different
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by bluGill 2mo ago
Who is behind this? I've been burned once with nas, and I watched the long Plex to Jellyfin saga. What assurance do I have that this will continue to be developed and will become good?
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by bluGill 2mo ago
They don't need to join the EU to use the euro. There are countries that use the U.S. dollar even though they're not the U.S. Sometimes it's just de facto use the dollar. There is technically a local currency and people use i
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by bluGill 2mo ago
I would expect that the defendant would already have stopped shipping anything that violates the license by the time it gets to court. However there is still the question of what the court will do about the part non compliance. By contrast
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by bluGill 2mo ago
I generally think of it as when we find a treatment that works for a specific group but not others then we need a more specific name and diagnosis to get the right treatment. So long as we don't have anything that says this specific tr
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by bluGill 2mo ago
The latest AI is a lot better at not being over confident. There is still an issue but not as good as it used to be
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by bluGill 2mo ago
For this discussion it makes no difference.
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by bluGill 2mo ago
Generally, when you ask people who have any understanding of law, they respond, well, of course not. No one with any sanity at all would try and test the GPL in court. They know what's going to hold up. I do believe that the GPL will e
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by bluGill 2mo ago
For me no, but for a few thousand people it isn't to hard. Which is why I look for defined benefit plans that are not scams, and in frustrated that I can't fibd them
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by bluGill 2mo ago
You need it to dig deeper. I have a pension which I can get at 65. I have options to collect social security. What if I draw my 401k first and wait until 72 to start as? Or I can get take as at 62 and the 401k grows more... Edit point is yo
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by bluGill 2mo ago
This doesn't know the important part. Will I live to 62 as the earliest of my ancestors died, or 98 as the latest? My family history is about average for lifespan but that is a big difference. If I live to 62 I should retire at 50 - or
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by bluGill 2mo ago
Every state has their own gas. Well, you might find the same gas in, say, North Dakota and Minnesota or something, but those are right next to each other and have very similar environment situations. On the other hand, I wouldn't be su
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by bluGill 2mo ago
Nobody is signing a national contract for gasoline. It all comes from the local refinery, or in some cases a pipeline to a slightly more distant refinery. The final shipping is by truck and it's almost never the case that you can find
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by bluGill 2mo ago
If you don't do the accounting, it appears that the fees on a credit card are greater than the cost of cash and so restaurants that haven't done their accounting closely often think they're getting themselves something by not
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by bluGill 2mo ago
It lacks one inventive. There are many incentives. Many developers love making things faster. Many developers get feedback from users which is itself incentive. Many projects track performance and that provides incentive. Many develope
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by bluGill 2mo ago
Mathematically you are right. However those interest free payments are generally setup in such a way as to make it highly likely you won't pay it off by the end of the interest free period. The bills they send contain the minimum paym
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by bluGill 2mo ago
Cycles tend to be 5-10 years long not 25. Without knowing anything else I would expect a fab you seriously start planning today will be at full capacity in about 5 years. Nobody serious likes delays - in particular the banks don't li
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by bluGill 2mo ago
None of this is your problem: you are not a merchant. What is wrong is the analysis of various people who think cash is cheaper and thus get mad at not getting a cash discount. It is also wrong that a number of merchants are bad at accoun
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by bluGill 2mo ago
That is one type of delivery. I know someone who specializes in cross US deliveries. There are some niches where only the original counts and they don't trust it to a standard delivery, so it gets driven in a car. truck drivers also
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by bluGill 2mo ago
However a dev on fast hardware can still run profiles, and the fast hardware decreases the change/build/test cycle by more than enough to make it worthwhile. The only use of a slow machine is it gives a point where you can say mor
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by bluGill 2mo ago
There is one other consideration. Sure we can charge some batteries at C rates of 10 - but should we. Often the cell will take it, but you damage the cell and so you lower your lifespan. If you are on a road trip once in a while this isn
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by bluGill 2mo ago
> Merchants pay the transaction cost. This applies to cash as well. It takes a lot of time to count change for everyone. Plus all the ways there are to steal cash. Your fun fact is wrong. Credit cards were always profitable. They wer
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by bluGill 2mo ago
Once in a while. However the truth is the large people who collect the 1% and pay off their card every month are the people who don't. These people are customers year after year, and often spend more on their cards (they tend to be h
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by bluGill 2mo ago
There is one other rub - because I use my bank's card I get better interest rates. How does a .25-.5 % on my various loans and checking account compare to 2% on groceries - this is a complex question that it not easy to answer.
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by bluGill 2mo ago
Credit cards are cheaper than cash for most merchants. Most people forget about all the costs of cash because they are hidden, but they add up to more than the couple % credit cards cost.
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by bluGill 2mo ago
You shouldn't get a cash discount - cash costs the merchant MORE than credit card fees. You have to count all the costs of cash that credit cards don't have: counting, and recounting the cash and change. Then the manager counts
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by bluGill 2mo ago
city where I live does have that. And there are also homeless shelters that you're allowed to use for three months of the year. And the homeless spend every November/December trying to figure out when are you going to check into t
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by bluGill 2mo ago
People do chose fast food by the neighborhood. When I was at McDonald's - 30 years ago so this may have changed - corporate policy was you would clean your parking lot and everyone for one block. We were encouraged to paint any abandon

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