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by cubano 6y ago
Your straw-man argument hardly settles our debate. If I decided that I could profitably use toxic-waste laden land, then yes of course I would still buy it and, yes of course, still not care because that's what due diligence is about.
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by cubano 6y ago
Are you really comparing baby lobsters to key-pairs? Private property right go back to the Magna Carta and form the basis of the US Constitution and it's Bill of Rights. If you believe it's governments duty to control all proper
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by cubano 6y ago
> If you consider that the government is always the enemy and it can't be fixed and should instead be thoroughly destroyed, then and only then do cryptocurrencies make sense. It's not about good vs. bad government, it's ab
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by cubano 6y ago
So in a way...who cares who mines it? Do you care who owns your real estate before you buy it? Or who mines your gold before you wear it? Probably not. Yes I suppose there is some political aspect to that side of it, but the crypto itself
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by cubano 6y ago
BTC has already been legally ruled as property, not currency, I believe if I read the ruling correctly. Not digital gold, but pharmaceutical grade gold as Saylor put it in a recent Odd Lots pod, and it's hard to argue that...also quo
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by cubano 6y ago
Did you really just say that one frame can be in the TB range?? Didn't you guys get the memo from B. Gates that no one will ever need more than 640k?
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by cubano 6y ago
Even though I know I must be violating like half the conversational bylaws here on HN I gotta throw in... "It's not a bug, it's a feature" I've heard since the late 80's and still works magic if you ask me.
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by cubano 6y ago
I really like this comment because your calling this exactly what it is...fascism. Cancel culture should be perhaps be renamed cancer culture, because history has shown that these things never end well.
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by cubano 6y ago
So true. I just yesterday, on a lark, took a win10 SSD from a new Dell and stuck it in a 10 year old HP, and within about a minute it booted much to my surprise. It didn't even need to connect to the internet.
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by cubano 6y ago
Maybe there should just be a movement to "cancel" cancel culture? Sometimes you just have to fight fire with fire.
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by cubano 6y ago
A heartfelt thanks for your kind words... Yeah the more I think about it, it's probably just a cultural thing and not a "whole humanity" thing. As it's been discussed here, in some cultures crickets are sold as a snack o
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by cubano 6y ago
I can't help wondering when reading this...just how many "free brain cycles" do people have in the world? By "free brain cycles", I mean like one's not used for work and your family and perhaps one hobby... I c
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by cubano 6y ago
If your idea of "privilege" is fighting heroin addiction [and currently very much winning that battle, thankfully] and living on the streets of West Palm Beach because due to felony drug possession charges over 15 years ago I can&
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by cubano 6y ago
You mean like this article from the UN World Food Programme[0] that states due to overzealous lockdowns, that up to 80 children "elsewhere" are at very high risk of starvation for every over-70 US citizen it perhaps saves? Yes...m
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by cubano 6y ago
Corewars is a great introduction to getting your ass kicked by other programmers who are both way smarter and way more into the game than you are. Reminds me of when I tried dipping my toes into the online Starcraft world many years ago...
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by cubano 6y ago
I can't help but think of this line from "The Joy of Clojure"... Go to any open source project hosting site, and perform a search for the term Lisp Interpreter. You'll likely get a cyclopean mountain of results from th
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by cubano 6y ago
So I made the huge mistake of replying after only reading a few panels, so all your criticisms are totally valid and I feel kind of silly now. I think an alternate reading of the well-written story perhaps is how much of what we do is drive
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by cubano 6y ago
So wouldn't the obvious thing be that this asteroids composition would be almost identical to the earth's since, of course, our planet was formed by billions of these things crashing into it? Now maybe that makes them incredibly v
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by cubano 6y ago
So your saying that I have to decide that all of a sudden I can't wait to eat crickets because they are more efficient? That just seems to me like a choice that very few humans are actually going to make.
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by cubano 6y ago
So in some ways, I feel that maybe the youngster in the comic wasn't totally wrong. Well, our cars didn't shoot around the world in hamster-tubes, but our thoughts and ideas sure did and you know, I think in the end that was proba
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by cubano 6y ago
I really love the pushback here. Yes how awesome it is you are privileged enough to always be able to acquire the best of the best and look down on other "inferior" devices. But 99% of the rest of us just need things that work an
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by cubano 6y ago
Check out La Villa Strangiato next...it contains, in my quite humble opinion, the best solo Alex ever composed and performed.
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by cubano 6y ago
I immediately jumped to the Rush Hemispheres [ my favorite album by the boys, btw ] Cygnus-X1 reference, and I feel my instincts were correct when I noticed the guitar amps in the background of the thrust-vectoring video. https:/&#x2F
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by cubano 6y ago
If only. I'd love more, judge less. Laugh more, perhaps even cry more, but yell less. I'd listen more, speak less. And finally, I'd be so much less selfish , and so much more giving. If I could do it all over.
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by cubano 6y ago
Thank you for this...your outstanding example has finally cleared the air for me with this issue. And even more than that...I am seeing how old assumptions I've made don't hold up the way I've always thought they did.
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by cubano 6y ago
Which is why exactly I call his writing brillant...he seems to be able to express a consevatism that also has a soul.
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by cubano 6y ago
Don't we use statistics exactly like that in, say, sports to prove one team has a better offense or defense than another? Or even statistics like that to show what cloud hosting company overall has the best uptime? I guess your saying
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by cubano 6y ago
> Yes, things like "Asians are good at math" is racist, even if it's a positive stereotype. So what would be the proper way to describe an ethnic group that, when examined purely statistically, really has performed well ab
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by cubano 6y ago
The brillant writings of F.A. Hayak could very well interest those with an open mind to such things.
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by cubano 6y ago
Like what in life that's worth a shit don't take some effort? Being lonely sucks yeah...but take at least a bit of responsibility for it and realize that people make major changes in their lives every-damn-day. Heroin addicts get

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