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by ckastner 5y ago
> From a simple sniff test, if this were true, then athletes wouldn't need a lot of calories. That was my first thought as well. It's even more evident with certain types of sports. Take cycling for example. Lifting mass up a
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by ckastner 5y ago
> Eh. It depends on the kid and their circumstances. Absolutely, hence why I phrased it as "unlikely". The wrong environment will kill anything.
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by ckastner 5y ago
> Point is geniuses learn way faster by themselves than going to a class. It's a huge waste of time to sit in a lecture of someone speaking at turtle pace, I would fall asleep. Sorry if you went through that. You're generaliz
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by ckastner 5y ago
> It's way faster to learn by yourself than from someone teaching you because you can go directly to what you need to understand etc. That is a pretty weak conjecture, I think. I can think of a ton of issues where the fastest way
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by ckastner 5y ago
It depends on who you are targeting. For users willing to donate at all, the difference between (say) $2 and $5 might not be that much. Asking for more might therefore actually maximize the return. All other users probably wouldn't don
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by ckastner 5y ago
That already happened, though. I'd really, really like to support Signal, but unless they distance themselves from MobileCoin again, I can only assume they are in on it to a certain degree.
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I'd do this in a heartbeat if they would get rid of MobileCoin first.
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> given enough time the entire crypto space will have reinvented every regulation they tried to get rid of and understood why they existed in the first place And the hilarious thing is that they see the absence of this regulation as a
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AMD Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2021 Financial Results(ir.amd.com)
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I also have a CS degree and felt the same black magic during my studies, but then I took some microcontroller classes, and they were eye-opening. In the sense that all of the CS operating system stuff suddenly made so much more sense. For e
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Fed flags rate hike 'soon,' plans for 'significantly reducing' balance sheet(reuters.com)
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Not everyone supports FIDO2 server-side, though. GitHub only added support in last May, for example.
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Microsoft Earnings Release FY22 Q2(microsoft.com)
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Fair enough regarding the first sentence, but why would the direction be one-way anyway? Lots of interactions go both ways.
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I understand that, and fully share his view that "tiny bits of connective tissue-rich meat, fat, and gristle stuck to the bone to be the tastiest part of the steak". I can also easily admit that it's possible that the "b
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by ckastner 5y ago
> Also it's not entirely insane to believe bones impart flavour Brown stock is made from roasted bones, among other things, so I too feel somewhat skeptical about the claim that bones cannot import at least some sort of flavor.
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How often do you seen an intellectual debate regarding Jan 6, rather than an emotional one in which the other side is vehemently attacked?
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> Myth 2: Social media makes people hateful > No, research suggests that online hate reflects offline frustrations that make them hateful both online & offline. That's just a sleight of hand. Sure, people may have been ha
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Not at all. I'm just saying that the other process is much, much worse than that.
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> People who haven't worked in financial markets have a hard time appreciating how deep the muck can get. That's the main reason why I find the battle cry of "decentralization" so comically ironic. No government can
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by ckastner 5y ago
Indeed, this is an important point that I missed. So if I get this right, this isn't about actually AML activity, but a civil claim under something like ToS. So I looked up the AUP, and indeed: they claim $2,500(!) liquidated damages p
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by ckastner 5y ago
I meant on what official authority. I understand what you meant to say, but realize that this is like some random bully stopping cars on the highway and issuing speeding tickets. Victims might play along for a while, but when actual law enf
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by ckastner 5y ago
At the risk of arm-chairing this too much: did you contact the CSSF, who seems to be the supervisory authority responsible for AML enforcement in Luxembourg? To highlight how insane this sounds: let's assume, for the sake of argument,
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by ckastner 5y ago
> Lena Evans, one of the plaintiffs who'd been a PayPal user for 22 years, said the website seized $26,984 from her account six months after it got frozen without ever telling her why. Wait, what? They're actually taking th
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by ckastner 5y ago
Max Schrems is just incredible. Just look at his Wikipedia page [1] and see how many EU-US data transfers he's challenged successfully. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Schrems At this point, I wonder why the
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by ckastner 5y ago
It's not just about your own server sending and receiving mail. If you've ever gotten loads of mailer-daemon bounces for emails that you didn't send, then a spammer has been using your address(es) in the "From" head
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Memorable Quotes from Alt.Sysadmin.Recovery (1999)(banana.fish)
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That's because the title was editorialized. The original title "The Thinner Book: Atomic Habits by James Clear" is explicit on its nature: > The most important ideas in your typical 300-page book can usually be distilled
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> began to notice some time ago that Google basically disregards my query, and fixates on the lowest common denominator. Same here. I was perplexed to see undisputed leader of search engines (which nobody managed to successfully rival,
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I think it's possible construct to construct a (very weak) argument for the random user agent rotation, but why split the spring if not to avoid being flagged. On the other hand, I find it hard to believe that Telegram would risk a Pla

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