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by clavicat 5y ago
I’m reminded of a similar archeological controversy, that of child sacrifice in ancient Carthage. It was interesting because it demonstrated the way that the political concerns of our time shape our understanding of the ancient past. Beginn
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I ain’t giving up my Fruit Loops for nothing.
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Anyone feel like Big Tech outages are happening more frequently recently? In recent months, we’ve seen Amazon Web Services, Facebook, Gmail, and Twitter go down. Are we at the point where the people who maintain the infrastructure are now c
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Yeah, that’s why no one talked about Rittenhouse during his trial.
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You know what would be cool? If you could use driving mechanisms as the game controller, like those arcade racing machines but in a real car. Imagine playing Forza or Mario Kart in your Tesla. Given that it’s all electric, this should be do
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I hate the habitual cigarette, but I feel like there should be an exception for the occasional pipe or cigar.
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There is something pathologically dysfunctional about a trillion-dollar organization that thinks a few imperceptible improvements to decades-old programs that individual programmers have created far superior versions of for free are worth a
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This deluge of jungle music will turn your daughters into flappers and Gibson girls before you can say 23 skidoo.
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The abstraction of mining made concrete. When Bitcoin reaches a certain price, it will become economical to excavate the entire landfill to physically mine the trove of Bitcoin. The growing value forces the ore to surface.
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Many of the best and brightest minds of our time are being employed by megacorps that exist solely to devise new ways to trick grandmothers into clicking on an ad that claims “This one weird trick that doctors don’t want you to know”. How i
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Runinal Worriably Homenite I like these, especially the last.
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It would be interesting to see the likes and retweets they accrued. Just guessing, but I doubt many people saw them.
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That’s the rub, isn’t it? According to WP:RELIABLE, HuffPost is a reputable media source whereas the New York Post is not. Therefore, if the latter claims to be in possession of Hunter’s emails while the former claims that it’s an FSB forge
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Easily. >The Biden–Ukraine conspiracy theory is a series of unevidenced claims centered on the false allegation that while Joe Biden was vice president of the United States, he engaged in corrupt activities relating to the employment of
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It’s so simple but absolutely brilliant. The only thing the new tab page needs is a search box that searches programs and files. This one person single-handedly “solved” the windows UI paradigm. This is how it should’ve been from the start.
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Self-awareness. The ability to apprehend their own subjectivity and understand its limits is not just what separates the dumb from the smart but also man from animal. The dumb go through life never interrogating or understanding their own d
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I receive all of Mozilla’s newsletters and I seethe whenever I see them demanding that more be done to sanitize online expression, which is all the time. That said, Chrome is hardly an alternative given Google’s approach to moderating YouTu
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by clavicat 5y ago
If the permabubble option is so predictable, though, it should be easy to account for. Just empty your bank account and send all your funds to a stock brokerage and go all in on TQQQ (triple-leverage NASDAQ-100 ETF). Your gains should predi
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Seems like literally everything went up strongly.
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I leech the Wi-Fi connection of a nearby convenience store from my home and have noticed that it’s much harder to get a strong signal in the summer than in colder months.
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Worth noting that during the British election season in 2019, The Guardian was all too happy to report that Tory-imposed austerity had defunded the police and reduced patrols, exposing the working-class to criminal predation, and that Labou
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That was my thesis all summer long, but bond yields have remained stubbornly low and the stock market just had a blowout October even as inflationary pressures picked up amidst the Evergrande crisis and the debt-ceiling crisis. I’ve given u
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In all probability, you’re selling to a crypto trader or bot who then uses those funds to make more crypto trades, so the money is in a sense trapped in crypto markets until someone withdraws it from the exchange. The extent to which this m
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> When the internet came about, the initial vision for retail was that you would have these avatars that would go to a shelf for a sweater and then walk over to the cash register and buy it. It was just stupid and didn’t make any sense.
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I don’t doubt that. Oil was expensive in the seventies for geopolitical reasons. Production has since become much more predictable and secure.
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Fuel would be hard to game. It’s just fuel. Other components are trickier to calculate, like aggregate food prices or things involving hedonic regression. If there is gaming, you’d have to look at the tricky parts.
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Is [this]( https://www.thestar.com/business/2021/10/23/experts-say-stat... ) the article?
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ShadowStats is a crude derivative of CPI data so it’s gamed squared.
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>If house prices keep going up it just makes it impossible for young people to start families. Why would anyone want that? Because everyone wants to be a landed aristocrat sitting on a patch of land that effortlessly accumulates value.
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>the idea that nuclear is clean compared to coal is ridiculous as evidenced by Chernobyl and Fukushima and Three Mile Island and Windscale What kind of “evidence” is that? If you add up all the deaths that resulted from these disasters,

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