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by croon 5y ago
> I've caught my self falling into this trap my self recently. It's hard not to knee-jerk react when someone mentions something like ivermectin and then make wild generalisations on that persons political opinions, mental abili
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by croon 5y ago
I actually have an issue with my Windows 11 right now where I have 7 (seven!) keyboard layouts to choose from, but according to windows settings only one language installed, with one keyboard layout. It's gotten so bad that what they&#
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by croon 5y ago
So in the real world when using a regulated crypto exchange, what's the point of a blockchain other than asset speculation (which can also be done through traditional trading instruments at this point)?
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by croon 5y ago
X% of people are obese, Y% of people are vaccinated. An extremely outsized portion of hospitalizations are unvaccinated. Are you saying that obese people are more or less likely to be vaccinated? Otherwise, it's irrelevant. Yes, hospit
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by croon 5y ago
I would've written that as <blink> though, but outside of that it would make more sense, yeah.
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by croon 5y ago
From my post: > , but those parts cut out, usually leaving a grindy mess with no shortcuts (paid or otherwise).
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by croon 5y ago
Yes, exactly, but you'd have a higher chance of taking up a hospital bed if you weren't vaccinated, thus your status does something for hospital staff, which is what I was replying to. Even if that wasn't your motivation, get
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by croon 5y ago
In this case I could alter that to: "You will know what nostalgia truly is, when you see a younger generations representation of nostalgia and you can point out all the anachronisms in it." Netscape 3 and websites that looked like
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by croon 5y ago
I think the point wasn't that jquery was old, but it was way too new for the rest of the page. Everything on it screams mid 90s, and then jquery which is a good 10 years later.
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by croon 5y ago
A lot of people have comorbitives, yet unvaccinated are vastly overrepresented in hospitalizations. You changed nothing. You raised a variable that's independent of vaccinations. The trolley problem is unchanged.
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by croon 5y ago
> Not because that wouldn't be worth it but because at this point my vaccination status doesn't change anything for those. Who do you think is in the hospital with covid? I'm glad you came to the right conclusion even with
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by croon 5y ago
I can blame two people for two separate problems.
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by croon 5y ago
I don't wish ill on anyone, but it's hard not to note hospitals being filled with unvaccinated people, pushing out operations, cancer treatments, other appointments for people who actually have no choice. If that's a trolle
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by croon 5y ago
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-18/xbox-chie...
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by croon 5y ago
Netflix as a service is better than every other service out there (IMO), but that doesn't matter if they don't have anything I want to watch.
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by croon 5y ago
They are games designed for ads/microtransactions, but those parts cut out, usually leaving a grindy mess with no shortcuts (paid or otherwise). I won't say every, but most games that aren't designed as pay-once are just elab
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by croon 5y ago
Yes, it's called Mastermind [0]. Just fewer colors than letters. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastermind_(board_game)
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by croon 5y ago
You kid, but the dystopia of 1984 is probably pretty close to the utopia where everyones rights are protected while also being held accountable by a benevolent technocracy. I just understand that the latter won't last a day before it&#
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by croon 5y ago
> If the asset hosting is both immutable then you're guaranteed to always get the thing that you bought from the url your NFT points too. You are not answering the question posed. What do you think you are "getting"? Sure,
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by croon 5y ago
And what will be at the IPFS URI? A copy of keyboardcat.gif? At some junction in this chain (as far as I know as an NFT skeptic, to put it mildly), you (want to) pay for ownership of something non-fungible, be it meatspace or digital. So su
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by croon 5y ago
If that was the case Bitcoins would sell for 2 cents, charitably.
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by croon 5y ago
Can't imagine being prepared 24/7 waiting for some unnamed enemy to strike, over just going about my day in the most pleasant way (including foot health) possible.
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by croon 5y ago
I was a heavy IRC user, and that does sound familiar, so that's very likely, but I don't really remember. It might as well have been from sourceforge or the (then) newly released Bittorrent.
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by croon 5y ago
Maybe unpopular, but US drivers are in general really bad because the drivers tests are too easy and taken when you're younger. It's driven (no pun intended) by a culture around cars and driving being a right, without consideratio
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by croon 5y ago
> I've been using Kodi since first release on original xbox, when it was XBMC. It wouldn't be HN if I didn't correct you in that it was originally XBMP on the old Xbox, before it graduated to a media center. It was a revel
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by croon 5y ago
> No need to pick lanes, I have both today. No you don't. You have a speculative asset no longer bounded by the designed limit of BTCs, where banks, i mean exchanges, can create volume out of thin air outside of the ledger, as long
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by croon 5y ago
> Again, that's your mistake. That most transactions happen off-chain doesn't mean all or the important ones do. And it also doesn't mean there aren't cross off-chain network transactions - e.g. VisaBTC to MCBTC needs
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by croon 5y ago
How is that different from just settling between banks? There's an end record of transactions with traditional banks already. You just trust the end result to be accurate. The only selling point of bitcoin was that everything was recor
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by croon 5y ago
I always have a dimmed light behind my monitor to reduce contrast strain from monitor backlight. I have no idea if this is actually rooted in science or something I just adopted and post-rationalized, but I guess I know what to research nex
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by croon 5y ago
> the only difference is that changes are synced later. Says who? You've just ignored the trustless part of cryptocurrency, what are you left with? I get the hypothetical of why [cryptocurrency of choice] could be useful, even if I

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