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by cedilla 4y ago
There are sprinter trains with only one or two stops early in the morning and in the evening.
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by cedilla 4y ago
It's not insane at all. Every additional stop takes about 20 minutes - but there are a lot of people who actually use the stations between, say, Berlin and Cologne. Germany is much less centralised than France. 20% of the population is
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by cedilla 4y ago
Laymen are mentioned for a reason. In any case, "personality tests" is not the same as psychometrics. Just like astrology being fraudulent doesn't imply astronomy being unscientific, Myers Briggs being bullshit says nothing a
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by cedilla 4y ago
I think that quote says the opposite of what you seem to imply it does. It says that bullshit like Myers Briggs is misused by laymen. That implies that actual psychometric tests done by experts can be correctly used. The real headscratcher
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by cedilla 4y ago
I'm not convinced by the pseudocontext critique. For one, I think the egg experiment is already sufficiently fantastical and its rules follow logically. Ignoring common sense reasoning is an important skill. We need rigorous answers wh
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by cedilla 4y ago
The one system is providing sustenance for billions of people, the other is used by tens of thousands of people. As is always forgotten to mention when this argument is made. But this is an even worse argument than usual - the people specul
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by cedilla 4y ago
This is a very good example of the typical argument that shows the critical flaw. The flaw is that there is never any way to actually tie the real world to the Blockchain. It's literally impossible. You can have all the fancy mathemati
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by cedilla 4y ago
Prepayment fraud is somewhat prevelant, so most transactions are post paid or direct debit. Neither form has that problem. Even when fraud occurs, the recipient is a known actual person. Know your costumer rules successfully prevent these k
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by cedilla 4y ago
I was also there. I belonged to the group of people who begged the reddit admins to do something about all the hate posts, because I didn't want to read about Donald Trump and how bad fat people and Ellen Pao are all day. I wanted to g
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by cedilla 4y ago
I don't know if and when reddit stopped being reddit, but I can guarantee that the "techy userbase", whoever that was, did not leave because a few thousand people where told to fantasize about mass-murdering minorities elsew
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by cedilla 4y ago
It's a question of scale. In the old internet, I subscribed to a few news groups that got tens to hundreds of posts a day. You could easily plonk the few people you didn't like. It's also bullshit. In the old days people used
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by cedilla 4y ago
It's not completely independent - after Reddit started banning subreddits like "Fat People Hate" and anti-trans hategroups, the amount of hate posts decreased on the whole platform, even in completely unrelated groups. This m
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by cedilla 4y ago
The 4chan model didn't even work for 4chan, but I wish Twitter the best of luck should that be the new strategy.
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by cedilla 5y ago
Maybe some value a wider taskbar over one crammed to the side, even at the expense of 3.7% of their vertical space. Or they value their horizontal space more than you do, because they like have a few windows side by side. Or any other numbe
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by cedilla 5y ago
What would be a better choice?
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by cedilla 5y ago
That's a good maxim for dealing with people you meet in real life. It's a useless maxim for dealing with trillion dollar multinationals.
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by cedilla 5y ago
Which is spectacularly inefficient. (If you wonder how that could be, here's a hint: your home is not an isolated system)
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by cedilla 5y ago
They could, but it might be a pain to identify what's actually bloat.
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by cedilla 5y ago
Is it still? I thought the ability to produce semi-custom APUs for game consoles more or less saved AMD when they were unable to compete in the CPU market.
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by cedilla 5y ago
...or they just do what was always historically done and use a neighbour's stable currency, or simply USD or EUR. Switching from an inflationary currency to a stable one is already tough, switching to a volatile deflationary currency w
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by cedilla 5y ago
Well, I can understand being enthusiastic about storing a 2-4GB blockchain, but today we're already at 390GB, growing by about 60 GB a year. And that's just bitcoin, Ethereum is another 350 GB (up 100 GB last year). Just the cost
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by cedilla 5y ago
It is possible, but with benchmarks like "head -n 1000000 wikidata.xml" I doubt it. A comment in that PR says "the difference to GNU head is mostly in user time, not in system time. I suspect this is due to GNU head not using
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by cedilla 5y ago
The "fiat system" doesn't even compete with crypto currencies.
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by cedilla 5y ago
The problem is that NFTs and cryptocurrencies don't even try to solve the problems of art ownership or everyday currencies, respectively.
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by cedilla 5y ago
I'm sorry but I can only answer that by saying that it's complete nonsense. It's not even wrong because all its assumptions are historically incorrect.
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by cedilla 5y ago
Some currencies have survived for centuries. But that's hardly a concern. When currencies fail, it's usually just another symptom of a deeper problem. Imagine Germany in the late 1920s with Bitcoin. There would still be mass unemp
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by cedilla 5y ago
The point of contention is your claim that bans are "fascist". You have not substantiated that claim, so I don't really know why I even try to refute it, but I tried with a simple illustration that sometimes, banning things i
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by cedilla 5y ago
That is true. However, market forces guarantee that the difficulty will go up to the point where it's infeasible to add more hashrate, e.g. because it becomes uneconomical or there's simply no more hardware available. PoW workchai
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by cedilla 5y ago
Your use of words like "bullying" and "pushing" suggests you frame this as some kind of antagonistic battle instead of arguing on the merits. People don't get upset when we outlaw things because the rule of law is a
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by cedilla 5y ago
I thought that was a simple story. No one is banned from drinking poisoned water. What is banned is poisoning other people's water. Really, this isn't that difficult. If you want to make a point about supply, please make a point a

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