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by croon 5y ago
> Local mainstream “fact checkers” have even called Covid-19 a “right-wing conspiracy theory” in early 2020. Would love a citation or two. I remember the right-wing administration saying it would disappear as if by magic and Fox News say
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by croon 5y ago
But one says "opt-out".
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by croon 5y ago
Have they blocked or removed any studies on its origin?
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by croon 5y ago
You say "Exactly", and then proceed to contradict what they said. What are the other aspects of NFTs (in the art world or elsewhere)?
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by croon 5y ago
My 3 year old is very interested in playing video games, but her hands are too small to hold a standard controller and reach everything. We've been playing Carto a bit on gamepass (no enemies, moving around, no timing constraints). Jus
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by croon 5y ago
Is there any github repo or article or something with a collection of every ip list, filter snippet, configurations one could/should want in their browser extensions (UBO, umatrix, etc)? I want pretty stringent defaults, but I understa
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by croon 5y ago
The charitable assumption is that people use the (best) tools they're aware of. Discovery can be really hard today.
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by croon 5y ago
I would assume the phrase originates from "sight" as a noun.
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by croon 5y ago
There are different answers to this, depending on what "without the internet" means. Pre-internet it was phone or fax, but early internet it was intermittent/dial-up internet, meaning you could do offline work that you upload
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by croon 5y ago
"More likely than not" is not a "miniscule probability".
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by croon 5y ago
Yes, we don't know whether ours specifically is a good sample planet or not, but statistically it is, and out of all the universe's planets' statisticians, most postulating this theory are.
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by croon 5y ago
There shouldn't be an I in statistics.
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by croon 5y ago
> We are almost certainly not in the most likely possible world. But we are probably in 9/10 of those likeliest assumptions, even if we don't know which 9.
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by croon 5y ago
> The fallacy lies in assuming anything connected w/ authority. If we didn't take shortcuts in generalizations no generation would get further than the previous. Of course you can generally assume an authority on a subject is
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by croon 5y ago
> Seriously, why do so many people on HN have to act like the entire world of software developers is busy making the next Facebook? I'm sure many (most?) people are making tiny things meant for tiny audiences. I agree generally, but
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by croon 5y ago
502 for anyone else? Unexpected for Fortune.
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by croon 5y ago
1) I trust them when they say they don't sell it, technically. However they probably do sell information/meta data they themselves have mined from my data, which they probably claim is harmless and de-personalized.
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by croon 5y ago
10 transactions/sec means you are trading somewhere off-chain, meaning you entrust someone else with verification on your transaction until all those transactions are cleared on-chain. Meaning you are just trusting a bank (or non-bank)
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by croon 5y ago
I can give my opinion/guess to your question, and I still have no idea how it relates to NFTs.
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by croon 5y ago
Well, they force all data stores that refer to the embassy as well as every person visiting it, and all correspondence to it to mention something they'd rather bury. But you might be right.
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by croon 5y ago
Ok, yeah I understand your issue now. I haven't been bit by this particularily since I seem to just use it a bit differently and don't jump a lot between servers at the same time. I could definitely see a usecase for creating your
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by croon 5y ago
People can't use bitcoin without offloading transactions outside of the blockchain, which means entrusting an exchange, which could and probably has the same issues as Klarna.
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by croon 5y ago
I think you missed for the third time the point that almost all Switch games that aren't Mario, Zelda and the likes are specifically "obscure indie games". And there are multitudes more that aren't ported to Switch. And
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by croon 5y ago
> I regularly max out my 1gbps connection Regularly in frequency, sure, but how much on average? Would you notice if your backups took 1 hour instead of 10 minutes? A watercooler regularly maxes out its water input, but no one getting a
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by croon 5y ago
I certainly wouldn't mind faster, but I honestly don't notice much benefit from 250/250 over the 100/100 Mbps I had before. But things certainly change and increasing capability always leads to someone using it for somet
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by croon 5y ago
Dance Dance Recursion
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by croon 5y ago
"Honey, it's easy, just go [there] and download a torrent, then wait for it to finish, then copy it to the right folder, oh, you don't see it? you have to mount the NAS on your computer, you can't on your phone, then reo
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by croon 5y ago
You are blind to the amount of time you spend finding torrents, manage disk space, cleanups, feeding your TV-box, replacing broken/fake media, versus just opening an app and clicking play. I say this as someone who's setup sonarr,
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by croon 5y ago
I mute most things I'm not interested in. I admit it's less manouverable by keyboard only (or I haven't dug around enough), but maybe the likeness to self-hosted IRC servers is still to broad and every Discord server is more
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by croon 5y ago
> Most games are made for consoles first, rarely other way around. Except in the actual case I mentioned with the list, where almost all of the cross-platform ones are made for PC first, from Divinity to Hades to Undertale to Inside, Ste

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