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by chx 3y ago
The scam nature is explained in the links in my thread opener: https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=37368544
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Undocumented features of GitHub(buttondown.email)
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by chx 3y ago
> is censorship resistance through genuine self-custody. https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2018/04/05/debunking-bu... > Ordinary person: “Your weird Internet money sucks to use. It’s slow and e
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by chx 3y ago
> scalability has been the critical handicap of public blockchains to date. Also, the blatant scam nature of them is a bit of a problem. While there's a lot of hype, the Washington Post already printed the truth in 2015 https:&#x2F
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by chx 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32689423
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by chx 3y ago
This is an Intel Atom renamed those have been used for tablets before and Gracemont is supposedly even better?
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by chx 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37171823
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by chx 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37171823
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by chx 3y ago
Click the big plus on https://us.starlabs.systems/pages/starlite-specification next to connectivity to see > USB-C Interface: Display Port (DP Alt Mode)
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by chx 3y ago
It has DP alt mode support you need to click the big + on https://us.starlabs.systems/pages/starlite-specification next to connectivity
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by chx 3y ago
DisplayPort has MST.
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by chx 3y ago
Sometimes it's not even particularly covert just hard to see the big picture as the events unfold. https://wwnorton.com/books/Invisible-Hands/
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by chx 3y ago
tale it is https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/railroad-gauge-chariots/
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by chx 3y ago
Time to die.
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by chx 3y ago
I think even Sun buying MySQL already hurt MySQL and helped PostgreSQL. Back in 2006, the startup I was with moved from PostgreSQL to MySQL because the support we were able to find was both expensive (300 USD/hr) and not satisfactory.
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by chx 3y ago
That is up to leadership and media. Both of which, needless to say, have by and large failed the more vulnerable members of our society. Not for the first time. Today we consider what happened around AIDS in the 80s shameful and wasteful. D
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by chx 3y ago
> Proposing government mandated mask wearing for everyone for the rest of our lives is absolutely insane. why ? We have gotten accustomed to seatbelts despite cries about restricting freedoms, wrinkling clothes etc. "no shirt, no s
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by chx 3y ago
You are missing on the current rate of covid infections which is very hard to know because there's no systemic testing any more and many people are asymptomatic. Last time the UK published this data in March, approximately 1 in 40 in t
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by chx 3y ago
Because this one is novel, we do not yet know how to cure the severe disability it causes and the disease is currently very widespread. And we have a really simple way to severely restricts its spread: wear an N95/FFP2 mask. That simpl
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by chx 3y ago
o_O People should become disabled and some even die just so you can see the other person's mug on the bus? Is this what you are saying?
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by chx 3y ago
By and large, by now, mask mandates were dropped everywhere. There never was a reason to do this. Aside from politics, of course. This, as this study shows has massive costs in the quality of life for many and affects the economy but no. We
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by chx 3y ago
This is the thing: the corporate nuke as a tool is available in most jurisdictions -- how could it not be? -- but at place like Norway I can very well see it being used. There was talk California should've used it on Uber for Greyball.
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by chx 3y ago
Oh I needed vega-lite badly in my life, thanks so much!
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by chx 3y ago
You can't transmit data through DisplayPort, so no. The blog post I linked has a list of cables which you can plug into a DisplayPort host and a USB C monitor and it'll transmit the video data. Some might add power and even data f
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by chx 3y ago
My English sentence parser gave up. Could you please reword your question?
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by chx 3y ago
I faintly remember when around the turn of the century the Irish equivalent, HEANET put in an Intel Itanic server for a similar purpose (or was it two?). I hope someone will correct me if I remember wrong but it had an absurd amount of memo
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by chx 3y ago
> apparently, the protocol allows for building bidirectional DP devices, which is certainly idea-provoking https://dancharblog.wordpress.com/2020/05/10/bi-directional-...
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by chx 3y ago
No, he as not been "tarred and feathered". The free software community, at long last, finally have decided humans are more important than bits and have excised people from their midst who treated bits as more important than humans
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by chx 3y ago
So > a TBP of 175W. The RTX 3060 was 170 Watt, the RX 7600 is 165 W. So it's on par efficiency wise as well, it would seem.
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by chx 3y ago
Yes. Creating a self driving car which can navigate a dark, rainy parking lot is something we do not know how. Not even in theory. You can't just throw more compute at it. You can't go from a Vickers Type 464 bomb -- one of the mo

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