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by cosmojg 5y ago
> I understand why people use clickbait titles, but I feel it ill-serves them by attracting the wrong kind of audience. That assumes they have an interest in attracting the "right kind" of audience. Most publications just want
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by cosmojg 5y ago
Someone else ought to also claim to be Satoshi and sue Craig for fraud. That'd be fun to watch.
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by cosmojg 5y ago
> I won't ever be paying capital gains tax again if I can write it off at current value. I'm in a similar boat. I honestly can't wait until the tax rules around cryptocurrencies are finally fully hashed out, clarified, and
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by cosmojg 5y ago
Same here! I was pleasantly surprised when they set me up and it was already there.
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by cosmojg 5y ago
What are the odds that the client has a verifiable private key?
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> Am I really so out of touch with the general public? Well, for starters, you did just post a comment on "Hacker News."
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by cosmojg 5y ago
How's the experience so far? Does everything work?
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by cosmojg 5y ago
If Bitcoin is the new Pets.com, what's the new Chewy? How long will it be until we find out?
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by cosmojg 5y ago
I really hope it's a bowling-ball-sized black hole so we can start slingshotting rockets off into deep space.
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by cosmojg 5y ago
He's the guy who made Lobsters[1]! [1] https://lobste.rs/
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by cosmojg 5y ago
All I see is a spinning three-quarter circle.
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1. 20s 2. Yes 3. 5 years 4. Every other day 5. Yes, every now and then 6. 9/10 usability 7. The interface and the community are better than those found anywhere else (except maybe Lobste.rs) 8. I want to entertain myself and hopefully
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by cosmojg 5y ago
> We briefly discussed my anxiety, but his immediate solution was the anti-anxiety drug. I made it clear that I was worried about the procedure and wanted to know more details about it. He didn’t want to explain the procedure beyond “we’
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by cosmojg 5y ago
A Georgist[1] land value tax, perhaps paired with a citizen's dividend (i.e. UBI), has long been the economically optimal solution to this problem. I've yet to see any proposal with better math behind it. [1] https://as
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by cosmojg 5y ago
I wonder why we don't implement a Georgist tax on 80%-100% of the value of a patent to discourage patent hoarding and incentivize building on top of patents held. The intellectual property market would become a lot more efficient and p
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The Pizza Effect(en.wikipedia.org)
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For those without a sense of humor, this is sarcasm.
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by cosmojg 5y ago
I can imagine a system where students are graded relative to the median performance on each exam and assignment, and if what the article is saying is true, we can expect this median to rise on its own as the semester progresses. Naturally,
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e.g. custom firmware
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> I'm definitely seeing a worrying trend of moving away from the conviction that data, numbers, science, logic are valuable and desirable tools to interpret the world. My favorite example of some of the fallout resulting from this t
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by cosmojg 5y ago
It's not mentioned in the linked tweet, but does anyone here know whether they have plans to do something similar with the Rift/CV1?
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Cross Entropy and Kullback-Leibler(aimless-agents.github.io)
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Not to mention, alcohol is a far more physiologically addictive substance.
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Can't you just lie?
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Just a heads up, you're the only one who can open your chests in Genshin Impact. The most that other players can do to your detriment is pick flowers.
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by cosmojg 5y ago
Holding beats timing in nearly all investable asset classes. If it's not FOMO, then what's stopping people in these risk-averse demographics from investing in bonds instead? Or some other asset with low volatility and positive exp
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by cosmojg 5y ago
This is definitely the best advice offered thus far. If you haven't sought out professional help yet, give it a whirl and see what happens. For many, it's surprisingly effective and often life-changing.
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by cosmojg 5y ago
How does the built-in adblocker compare to Qutebrowser's?
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by cosmojg 5y ago
Have you heard of Bitwarden/Vaultwarden? It facilitates exactly what you want.
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by cosmojg 5y ago
To my knowledge, GrapheneOS has become the leader of the mobile security space while CalyxOS remains more-or-less on par with iOS. This all depends on your security model, though. There are tradeoffs everywhere.

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