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by cubano 7y ago
Yes...except when you forget the password on your wallet after someone, as an incredible charity offering, sent you 0.75BTC, and that wallet turns out to be "ultra-secure and distributed", which means you can't recover the
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by cubano 7y ago
So I work on real estate websites that typically consume 50-80GB for images so articles such as this are really interesting to me. I am using PHP7 BTW... Currently, I'm converting all the jpegs to webp at 55 compression at the time of
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by cubano 7y ago
Wouldn't the correct buzzphrase be "Food as a Service" not "Food as Software"? They certainly make bold claims and some cites sure would help to convince me as to their claims.
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by cubano 7y ago
Does anyone here have any experience with the Psych On Demand-type services that promise professional therapy like LARKR or Talkspace and the like? $85 for 50 minutes seems quite reasonable and I have been wanting to try it but wanted to h
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by cubano 7y ago
Hey everyone...my bad...no I did not go past the first page, so my apologies about that. Thanks to all for the intense reprimands.
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by cubano 7y ago
I've stopped fearing losing a job because, frankly, it happens so often as a remote webdev I basically never stop looking. In fact, I am currently unemployed after I rather unwisely completed a 20-week job in 11, and I was literally gi
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by cubano 7y ago
> Opium wasn't really the reason they went to war, it was mostly just economic bullying by Britian's part... Well, that's an interesting spin on the Opium Wars. You say "tea" could have been exchanged for opium?
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by cubano 7y ago
Actually, it's not irrational for non-rich smart people to gamble ie poker is a game where skill almost always wins the day, and betting baseball parlays can, with a good deal of study, land in a positive expectation. Furthermore, the
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by cubano 7y ago
Don't plants require carbon dioxide to grow? I am not sure it was immediately obvious to people 120 years ago (the Mariner 2 spacecraft, which flew past Venus in 1962, was the first to take detailed pictures showing its heat-trapping
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by cubano 7y ago
So, you are giving up what seems like your 2 most important apps (Evernote and VMs) just so you can run X operating system on a laptop? Excuse me, but this just doesn't make any sense. Applications are the reason we use computers, not
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by cubano 7y ago
I worked as a summer hire at KSC in 1987, and one of the things that stuck out most in that experience was when they took all of us summer hires on a full tour of the facility. We got to walk besides the Crawler-Transporter 2 as it was movi
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by cubano 7y ago
Please review Norway's current program of doing just that before you "guarantee" any such thing... https://www.foxnews.com/world/norway-to-test-free-heroin-pro...
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by cubano 7y ago
I urge you to research the Portuguese model Also, don't forget to mention that Norway is currently running a test program to give free heroin to its addicts.[0] [0] https://www.foxnews.com/world/norway-to-test-fr
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by cubano 7y ago
Learning chess is a very time consuming skill. I don't think there is any other way besides playing lots of games against players better then you, or to endlessly drill problems, to get any better. I am not sure how this fact lines up
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by cubano 7y ago
you could sell water as a cancer cure. That would be very bad for health outcomes. Well, if all you have to do is compare the patient's health outcome of, say, 3 days with water vs. 3 days without, I am sure you could find a very pos
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by cubano 7y ago
Hypercard...just that name brings back a flood of almost forgotten memories that harken back to the 1990-1991. At that time, unless your parents were rich or you sold drugs or something, you couldn't afford to pay the $5/hr that
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by cubano 7y ago
> To get around this problem, Devoret and colleagues employ a clever trick involving a second excited state. The system can reach this second state from the ground state by absorbing a photon of a different energy. The researchers probe
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by cubano 7y ago
Ok..yes I'll admit I never even knew that Digg did that. I thought Digg's vote system was simply being gamed by bad actors. The idea that someone at Digg thought it would be even a reasonably good thing to have the system you des
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by cubano 7y ago
I always marvel that Reddit has seemed not have learned even one lesson from Digg. They are literally making the same exact mistakes, and its leading to the same exact results...karma whoring, piling on, ingroup/outgroup ete etc. It se
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by cubano 7y ago
I am pretty sure he was describing the metaphorical "we", and is postulating that even the "experts" have a misplaced confidence in controlling these systems. Furthermore, I feel this this could be an ideal application f
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by cubano 7y ago
For sure it is. In fact, it's as good as it's ever been. One caveat though...you gotta know your shit. The days of babysitting websites and charging fairly outrageous fees are mostly over, and good riddance. I've found that
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by cubano 7y ago
I'm 53yo and worked in tech (as corporate wage slave, consultant, 1099, and self-employed remote) for 30 years now, and I do believe you have found the true path to how to handle working in tech. I consider myself lucky that during my
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by cubano 7y ago
IDK...Is it just me or do I give the individual adult more credit then, it would seem, most others do? Russian troll farms...influencers..BFuckingD. People are responsible for their behavior, and just because some good looking tool on Soci
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by cubano 7y ago
Uber is totally banking on driverless cars to lower to cost per mile to near nothing.
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by cubano 7y ago
According to Vanguard, over 85% of actively traded funds don't beat the S&P 500, and it's quite possible the one's that do are simply lucky, as in any random distribution there will be a small percentage, of course, that
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by cubano 7y ago
Big time congrats on dropping the weight, and it's great to hear how it seems to be "noticeably" changing the way people perceive you. It's a very difficult thing to do, and ever since my younger son started battling (an
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by cubano 7y ago
I could never go back to a regular 8 to 4:30, with a timed lunch break and all that inflexibility. I actually recoil in horror at the thought. Just the time wasted in traffic and associated costs is too much to bear. However, hardly anyone
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by cubano 7y ago
This is so obviously old-school flame bait that I can't understand why we are even discussing it, unless the idea is to go meta with its discussion.
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by cubano 8y ago
Wow...I've heard PowerPoint called many things in my 30 years in corporate trenches, but never something as poetic as "a tool for employee theater"
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by cubano 8y ago
On a side note, he wouldn't be a friend for very long if I knew the tool didn't tip.

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