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by chx 3y ago
Don't worry, existing entrenched tech giants will kill this idea before it could take root: this week Facebook started offering a subscription in the EU instead of using your data for ads. They however ask for 10 EUR (and 5000 HUF in H
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by chx 3y ago
Ah yes, Alex Stamos advising legislation. No wonder they tried to keep this secret.
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by chx 3y ago
Actually, I looked this up for you. https://derekfranksmusings.substack.com/p/theres-no-such-thi... > You see, covid is NOT really a respiratory illness. Researchers at Oxford University call it a “Serious Vascular
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by chx 3y ago
I am done with people. I wear a Cleanspace Halo and hate the world for making me do so. Everyone is free to cough on me, ain't gonna do much. As an aside: even pre covid I was eagerly waiting for a (somewhat) affordable exoskeleton.
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by chx 3y ago
because of long covid
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by chx 3y ago
Dying is no longer that much of a concern indeed thanks for the jabs (got my 6th this week) but long covid very much is.
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by chx 3y ago
> we are living in a golden age I would've agreed pre-covid.
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by chx 3y ago
yet that makes it 5.9" instead of 6.1" clever marketing gimmick to fit into the below 6" bracket
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by chx 3y ago
The smallest current vaguely mainstream phone IMO is the Asus Zenfone 10 at 146.5 x 68.1 x 9.4 mm. The iPhone 13 mini is 131.5 x 64.2 x 7.65mm. Then you have weird stuff: https://www.gsmarena.com/results.php3?nYearMin=2022&a
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by chx 3y ago
> College will not prepare you for the job no, it will not, it has a completely different role, the other name "University" gives you a very strong hint about it: what you learn in university is a universal way of thinking, of
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by chx 3y ago
About those printers... Most people will tell you ISO 216 and DIN 476 are the same. this is not so The DIN 476 standard has very slightly tighter tolerances than the ISO 216 and in the mid 90s I had the good fortune to meet one of those f
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by chx 3y ago
You need to apply this sensibly: if a subject matter expect challenges a source that needs to carry more weight than a rando dragging any random crap into wikipedia. Have a process etc. I am not asking for experts to be given free reign --
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by chx 3y ago
> Points 3, 4, & 5 apply similarly to any investments made in commodities (gold, silver, copper). https://bsalert.com/fallacies/tu_quoque.html > Again, as stated above, the gold itself doesn't have inher
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by chx 3y ago
This is not the issue. It was near impossible to create convincing fake videos of people speaking ( https://youtu.be/X17yrEV5sl4 ) and so even those who would not take an altered screenshot at face value might be more incli
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by chx 3y ago
> This is great because points 3 and 5 are trivially proved false for Bitcoin #3 is trivially proven true. If there were no transaction fees and you rolled back all Bitcoin transactions ever made , you would end up with a zero. This is i
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by chx 3y ago
Linux has a very nice and super informative way to do this too: https://github.com/Rajaram-Regupathy/libtypec/wiki/lstypec-:... It relies /sys/class/typec: https://www.kernel.org&#x2
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by chx 3y ago
We just discussed this on the occasion of SBF being convicted as a fraudster: all crypto is a scam. Them being negative sum games makes them so. Whether the scam is a ponzi, a pyramid scheme or something novel is a matter of debate. That
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by chx 3y ago
Whether the DEC Alpha development stopped because of Merced (as it was called then) or because of the 1997 legal mess https://www.wired.com/1997/10/intel-dec-settle-alpha-chip-di... is quite hard to say. The DEC A
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by chx 3y ago
2009 summary https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2339629,00.asp > The failure of this chip to do anything more than exist as a niche processor sealed the fate of Intel—and perhaps the entire industry, since from 1
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by chx 3y ago
The little club derisively called "crypto antagonists", I guess.
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by chx 3y ago
> as it is to conclude all crypto is a ponzi Yet we didn't conclude only from this all crypto is a ponzi. That all crypto is a scam clearly comes from the fact it is a negative sum game . When you have a game where you can tell w
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by chx 3y ago
> If you put in $10K when WaPo told you it was a Ponzi, you'd have $1.6M today. In 1999 Harry Markopolos had informed the SEC Madoff was running a fraud. Yet it took until the 2008 financial crisis for Madoff to be exposed. I am sur
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by chx 3y ago
Y'all really should read Stolfi because he carefully addresses all these, gold stock etc > gold has a source of revenue besides the investors; namely, the purchases by consumers like jewelers and industry, who take gold out of the m
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by chx 3y ago
Investment into a corporation becomes capital . It is used to buy resources which when combined properly can be sold for more than the raw cost. You are entitled to a share of these profits in the form of dividends . On the other hand,
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by chx 3y ago
The article was not predicting the future, though. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/06/08/bitco... > The thing is, I don't actually use it. I just hoard it. I'm wa
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by chx 3y ago
Try the /r/buttcoin sub for a more informed opinion.
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by chx 3y ago
It's not an investment. You are gambling. And even worse, you are gambling by robbing the less informed. Make no mistake: every cent you made is a cent someone else lost -- even if they haven't realized their loss yet, it's t
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by chx 3y ago
Maybe the rubes can be exonerated for falling to the incessant hyping of crypto but a smart person should know all crypto is a scam because the Washington Post, the bloody Washington Post told you it's either a Ponzi or a pyramid schem
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by chx 3y ago
I ... do not know. The Amiga 500 didn't make people stick to the m68k. They went IBM PC as did everyone else.
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by chx 3y ago
the beauty of bref is you work with the same php engine as before. I am a (very) long time PHP developer, my primary work is still Drupal so the ability to make a small serverless app in PHP was very handy for me. My app implements a webhoo

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