bluecalm

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691.
by bluecalm 3y ago
Why do you apply this standard to cheating at games and not for example stealing? I find the view ridiculous. "If not a crime if you didn't catch me red handed" kind of ridiculous.
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by bluecalm 3y ago
I don't agree. I think it should be legal (as long as going business offering gambling games is legal which is another thing to consider) to offer a deal: "Let's play a game where you have 0.98$ ROI for every dollar staked. I
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by bluecalm 3y ago
I think the debt limit is a good idea as it forces some consensus about spendings. Without it people currently in power can spend as much as they please on their electorate needs and leave the next government in a difficult situation. It&#x
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by bluecalm 3y ago
I mean it's completely wrong though as you still have shares in the company after getting paid. A very good rule of thumb is: if someone's mentions dividends when discussing valuation they are clueless. It doesn't always work
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by bluecalm 3y ago
Idk man, some good soul corrected a common language error on a site where many authors are not even native English speakers. I am happy there are people willing to do the work for free and that Wikipedia is now better. Hopefully he corrects
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by bluecalm 3y ago
It's very easy to make it reliable even if limited. For example detecting if you're within city borders and limiting your speed to 50km/h would improve things immensely. Add to that a complete no-brainer of limiting the top s
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by bluecalm 3y ago
I was answering to a comment any collectibles. There multi-accounting is rampant and little can be done about it. When it comes to non-physical goods then a lot more can be done about enforcement.
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by bluecalm 3y ago
When it comes to limiting speed zero situational awareness is great. Somehow we all accept it for light benign vehicles like e-bikes and e-scooters - 1500+kg metal boxes with limited visibility though? - can't have that!
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by bluecalm 3y ago
This happens for material things all the time (collectibles, snickers, limited edition of anything) but in case of experiences (concerts, access to trails) the id verification at entry is a good mechanism to defend against it.
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by bluecalm 3y ago
It's not like raffle solves the problem. Instead of bots you can multi accounters/users. The logistics is more complicated but doable if the item is desirable enough.
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by bluecalm 4y ago
Also regulation to automatically limit speed of cars - the biggest low hanging fruit when it comes to safety and quality of life in cities keeps getting delayed and crippled because of car manufacturers want to sell fast cars.
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by bluecalm 4y ago
Crypto is the same as introducing your own currency and printing your own notes. "But it's on the computer" doesn't change the nature of it.
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by bluecalm 4y ago
Permissive license open source is going to be fine, for now anyway. The problem is that the arguments cited in the OP also apply to small devs who can't afford an army of lawyers. Such regulation will spell doom for software start-ups
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by bluecalm 4y ago
More victim blaming from car obsesses culture. Problems with e-scooters come from them being forced to narrow and unusable infrastructure. Allow them on the road, let them park in places cars park and it will be better. As usual it's e
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by bluecalm 4y ago
Wait till you see how parked cars litter sidewalks and streets. Every one of them takes as much space as tens of e-scooters as well. It's really annoying cars have that free-for-all start anywhere - leave it anywhere model.
706.
by bluecalm 4y ago
Just ban cars first. They are big, dangerous, smelly, loud, driven too fast and they actually kill thousands of people per year, not just cause dangerous situations. Any problem e-scooters have is multiple times worse with cars and they ac
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by bluecalm 4y ago
Then ban or severely limit cars there. You can turn a 2-way street into one way one and turn the other lane into bike/e-mobility one. If not that make it 30km/h zone, allow bikes and allow other mobility devices to take the middle
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by bluecalm 4y ago
UB is a better option though. When your signed integer overflows it's a bug nevertheless. Why force the compiler to generate code for a pointless case instead of letting it optimize the intended one? If you value never having bugs over
709.
by bluecalm 4y ago
No surprise there. Public school experience varies from traumatic to just a gigantic waste of time during the best development years. Once you go through that you don't want your children to have the same experience.
710.
by bluecalm 4y ago
Quick Google search tells me there are currently 65 million GM vehicles on the roads in US. Let's say that can add 25 million new ones till 2030 which sounds very optimistic for them. To have their forecast of the subscription revenue
711.
by bluecalm 4y ago
Very little Tether (if any these days) is bought with USD. Tether admits themselves they don't hold USD reserves to cover it if it wasn't obvious already from other sources (there is much more Tether being printed than the whole i
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by bluecalm 4y ago
Tether is printed and given out at will to buddies of scammers who run it. "Hey Paolo, can you help me with 100M as my exchange is in trouble?", " Sure thing, just write an IOU and I got you". Now Tether is "backed
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by bluecalm 4y ago
Most Bitcoins are not bought with USD but with Tether and other stable coins. Tether is printed at the pace of billions per week recently so no wonder it lifts all the boats in crypto world.
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by bluecalm 4y ago
It's very likely because Visa and MasterCard forced them to. Porn is an industry with high chargeback rate and thus problematic for credit card companies. Instead of fixing their system to verify transactions (like forcing 3d secure li
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by bluecalm 4y ago
Gambling is easier to understand than investments. That being said I agree there should be more regulation. You should be required to state excatly what expected value and variance is when you offer gambling games. Same with fees. "Thi
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by bluecalm 4y ago
I don't think there is any basis to say too much money printing caused inflation. There were many countries with even lower rates for many years and no inflation to speak of to the point of it becaming problematic. What caused this wav
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by bluecalm 4y ago
One problem is huge swatch of premium land being dedicated to cars (parking lots, wasted whole floors of residential building for parking, huge highways through the city etc.
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by bluecalm 4y ago
I assume you can store your e-bike somewhere safe when commuting. Imo theft and complete unwillingness shown almost universally shown by police to do anything about it is a major obstacle in wider bike/e-bike adoption. If it wasn'
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by bluecalm 4y ago
Pretty scary that our financial system can't take a few weeks of deliberation and the deal needs to rushed during the weekend. Instead of general ranting I would like to learn who exactly goes bust if we allow the uncertainty for a few
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by bluecalm 4y ago
Deposits - ok. Bond holders though? Why would you do that? The whole deal with buying bonds is that you get 0 if the issuer goes bust.

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