clarkmoody

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by clarkmoody 5y ago
That's the trick: do something so horrendous that the natural response of normal people is to think, "There's no way it's actually that bad." So then nobody asks questions.
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Or we can get away from the dollar. Oil as an energy source has lifted billions of people out of poverty, so its value goes far beyond the industry insiders. However, this is where nuclear power comes in: vast quantities of energy, with fue
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by clarkmoody 5y ago
I've found that searching for a subreddit related to whatever hobby is a fine way to go. People are showing off their creations & results and chatting about recommendations for equipment & techniques. The "front door"
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by clarkmoody 5y ago
> underfunded Per-student spending has more than tripled since the 1960s and stands at over $15k/yr on average[1]. New York spends more than $38k/yr (!) per student, which boggles the mind. Of course, much of that money is abso
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by clarkmoody 5y ago
Obligatory link to WTF Happened in 1971? [0] TL;DR: many of these economic problems are tied to disconnecting the currency from gold, which screws up interest rates and incentives throughout the economy. [0]: https://wtfhappene
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The SpinLaunch[1] folks are betting on being able to do it. [1]: https://www.spinlaunch.com/
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by clarkmoody 5y ago
The Gemini protocol is an interesting re-imagining of Gopher: extremely simple text-only content, with client-side styling. Identification via client-side certs.
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by clarkmoody 5y ago
The Bitcoin wallet world is using Tor to tunnel from mobile apps back to full node software operating on home servers. Not necessarily an example of your first question, but definitely in the spirit of the HTTP server on phone.
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by clarkmoody 5y ago
Well the idea originates with John Locke and other European Enlightenment thinkers... Locke himself was English, so it's a real shame to see the state of human rights in the UK in 2021.
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by clarkmoody 5y ago
Hopefully some remnant of humanity will cast out among the stars with ultra-high density storage holding archives of most of human knowledge.
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The intent of the Bill of Rights is that all humans have those rights, and the document restrains the federal government concerning them. So the people in the UK have the right against self-incrimination, but the state systematically violat
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Usually a heat wave isn't accompanied by thick cloud cover that shades your solar panels.
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If you take quick stock, you'll notice that everything called a "system" is corrupt and absurdly dysfunctional. Then think about other areas of life that don't fall under a "system" and notice how they're
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by clarkmoody 5y ago
One shining light in the healthcare world is the Surgery Center of Oklahoma. It's a multi-specialty operation with all prices posted on their website. Pricing is clear and known up-front. The surgeons involved make a profit, and the pa
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A Legacy of Corruption in the FDA and Big Pharma(mises.org)
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by clarkmoody 5y ago
Luckily large refactors are relatively painless in Rust.
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Iced can compile to WASM and be run in a browser, but that's just a single target. There is no concept of DOM in Iced itself.
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That's right. Accessibility is one of the last things to figure out after all of the other tricky things: proper event handling for sane keyboard navigation, efficient layer clipping / redraw, advanced text layout / style, an
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by clarkmoody 5y ago
There is no DOM, since this is not Web tech. GUI state mutations are triggered by messages passed around the system. Messages can be generated from user interactions for by asynchronous subscriptions (network socket, etc).
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From my experience, compressed binary bundle is < 10 Mb and memory usage is < 100 Mb for a generic app. Of course memory usage will vary wildly between application domains. With Iced, it's fairly constant, since Rust offers prett
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by clarkmoody 5y ago
We're building a cross-platform commercial application[0] in Rust (with Iced[1]), and it's deployed for Windows, MacOS, and Linux. We get blazing-fast speed and cross-platform operation without Electron or Web tech bloating the bu
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by clarkmoody 5y ago
Need a few more major leaks of private information of politicians and regulators. And of course we have the nightmare scenario in Afghanistan with a US database falling into the hands of the Taliban. Hoping that only "the right people&
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The Bitcoin Energy Debate Is a Modern Reprise of the Gold Resource Cost Debate(bitcoinmagazine.com)
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Great thing for people to be aware of, but NPR didn't mention the Fed and the policy of targeting inflation a single time, which is a shame. For fans of shrinkflation, you should also enjoy /r/shrinkflation on Reddit.
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You are correct. There is not a political solution to this problem.
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The basic premise of the state is that it exists to protect life & property. The past 18 months have shown that the state will do neither if it doesn't feel like it. But you had better keep paying those taxes, because reasons.
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Imagine the dirt the tech giants have on all government officials on the planet. Imagine if the tech giants went on a human rights offensive against the state.
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Bitcoin mining strives for as much efficiency as any other electronic process: ASIC chips are hitting the smallest process size available. Miners are extremely sensitive to electricity cost, so they must be efficient there. They do not comp
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by clarkmoody 5y ago
Bitcoin miners use hashpower not only to find the next block but to secure the entire chain to that point. So each block secures over 650 million transactions right now, and that number only increases. Your word "waste" implies
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Education and schooling are different things. There is a lot of schooling going on. I can't say the same for education.

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