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by cykros 3y ago
Whether it's their goal or not, they're succeeding at it well. The number of people I know that gave up and never looked back after they blocked third party clients is quite a bit above zero. Even inspired one group I interact wi
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The first day of winter very much depends on where you are. I hear that in Ireland it is considered to start around the first of November. The old norse celebrated 3 days of "Winter Nights to usher in its beginning, and the English c
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by cykros 3y ago
If you want your Yule to be a bit closer to then, just observe at a time when the Norse often were more likely to do so: the first full moon, following the first new moon, following the winter solstice. That happens to fall on January 25 th
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by cykros 3y ago
Considering that the Big Bang theory came from a Catholic monk (who wasn't even burnt at the stake for theorizing about it!) I'd say you're probably right there. Sometimes folks are quick to paint religious people with the br
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Honestly, this site has been up for at least 20 years. I suspect the breaking into small files made a lot more sense when they first launched than it does now, given the costs of bandwidth. Because really, when was the last time you heard
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by cykros 3y ago
Sugar's big issue is that it's empty calories that doesn't go toward building muscle, and consumed prior to a work out, is going to make the workout itself harder without any real benefit. Arguably sugar is more of an issue f
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That's fantastic to hear, because no amount of fiber seems to combat the gastrointestinal distress caused by ingesting over 100g of whey protein a day. I really don't get how anyone actually keeps up with such a regimen for any se
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Price is determined by supply AND demand.
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I have an electric stove, and the emissions just from the amount of swearing I do for how obnoxious it is to cook with have got to be approaching a small dairy farm. Electric stoves may at least help us solve the obesity crisis by avoiding
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by cykros 3y ago
If you saw what sorts of stocks people put in their IRA's, putting Bitcoin in there would be the least of your concern. Remember GME, AMC?
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by cykros 3y ago
You can't just put BTC into your Roth IRA. You can, however, buy a Bitcoin ETF in your Roth IRA. Or SEP, SIMPLE, many 401(k)'s, Traditional IRA, or any other number of accounts that actually ARE covered by SIPC insurance (which y
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by cykros 3y ago
Retail? Try Blackrock. There's Bitcoin ETF's whose approval is imminent. Never mind the fact that it's been able to be held in 401(k)'s for over a year now. And while that sounds sort of nuts, consider that in the 70s,
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Indeed. It'd be curious if someone started publishing a CPI basket priced in BTC just so we got to see the in/(de)flationary metrics alongside USD terms just to have a fair comparison. Shouldn't be hard as it's just a
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by cykros 3y ago
Had to open this up just to see what year it was from, as it's been true so many times in the past. I guess every cycle brings with it people who weren't around for the last one though. And to think I was told I'd "misse
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Just watched Trading Places again on Christmas Eve. While I wouldn't say it's aged terribly, I will say this: nobody does blackface like Dan Akroyd.
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Even then, it's often not fresh. Real wasabi should be generally consumed within 30 minutes of being ground/grated, before it loses its flavor. You can absolutely buy some wasabi powder that is made with up to 50% real wasabi on
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No, only someone so narcissistic and divorced from reality could have come up with the Fisher-Price computers they make.
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They can also change initial margin requirements (Reg T), but this hasn't been done in decades. Neither have reserve requirements been changed since they were dropped to zero in the wake of the GFC. They do have a few numbers though.
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by cykros 3y ago
Save it from what? The only desktop I've used recently that seems to be getting less and less usable by the day is Windows. My slackware i3 system runs smoothly, my wife's Macbook runs smoothly; it's my kid's Windows 1
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Voight-Kampff.
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Two solutions for you: 1. Don't lock anything. 2. Don't have kids. They ALWAYS find a way. These days, even not giving them a device at all doesn't cut it, because they're so cheaply available, with wifi everywhere, that
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by cykros 3y ago
You just witnessed a significant crime. Someone's chasing you to mop up loose ends. It's a somewhat contrived case, but being chased happens. A car that automatically tickets you would be one where this would perhaps be the only
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by cykros 3y ago
I'd be much more okay with a car that monitors and tickets for speeding directly than one that simply doesn't do what I tell it to. We put people behind physical barriers AFTER they're charged with, and convicted of, a crime,
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It's also one where the US government and military has been itself in opposition to Assad's forces. What then would be accomplished by rallying over it? People tend to get up in arms and out in the streets when their concerns are
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I think things changed a lot after 9/11. At all the anti-war rallies it was common to hear "From Iraq to Palestine, Occupation is a Crime." Also, in the 90s, being globally aware was a LOT harder than even 10 years later, ev
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The removal of SD cards always just felt petty, but at the end of the day, you can either plug in external media, use a wireless hard drive/SD reader, or just access your content remotely on self hosted servers (or use "the cloud&
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Indeed -- never mind that a brand new Pixel or high end Samsung phone costs MORE than the equivalently new iPhone in many cases. In the 90s, kids rebelled against the system. In the '20s, kids just want the approval of it. When I was
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by cykros 3y ago
People who've worked in the service industry in general seem less likely to be prone to leaving negative reviews. In some populations this probably equates to more men than women, depending on socioeconomic demographics, but as others
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by cykros 3y ago
Buying a car that drives itself, only to decide to drive it yourself, badly. That just makes it even more frustrating.
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Or just plain parking literally in the middle of intersections. But yes, the one time I was nearly run down in a crosswalk, you can bet it was a BMW. From Quebec.

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