danuker

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by danuker 4y ago
I pay my ISP. That should ensure I can communicate with anyone else paying their ISP. As for content monetization, I host my own site without ads, solely to spread my own views. I take enjoyment in that. I watch YouTube with uBlock Origin o
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by danuker 4y ago
It has a 73-liter (~2.58ft³) freezer and a 237-liter (~8.37ft³) fridge. Its factory rating when it was brand new was 237 kWh/year. Instead, it's around 683 actually (~1.87kWh/day)
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by danuker 4y ago
No. "Maximum income" is different from "maximum income per hour". One implies income at the cost of free time. The other maximizes free time spent while having sufficient money.
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by danuker 4y ago
When demand goes down (in this case due to rising rates) Rates are rising because of inflation. Inflation is rising because people are spending. Why are people spending all at once? It could be because of the pandemic restrictions lifting,
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by danuker 4y ago
Warranty in the EU says it should last at least 2 years. But it typically lasts 10 before it needs repairs (neighbors replaced the compressor).
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by danuker 4y ago
My parents' ancient fridge consumes 2kWh a day. They refuse to buy a new one because it hasn't broken down yet.
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by danuker 4y ago
Indeed. In popular languages, I always add parens, because I'm second-guessing the parser. Lisps just embrace the parens :D
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by danuker 4y ago
I suppose the "Eureka" moments were more impressive when Lisp started getting adopted (when the alternatives were to manage your own memory and even routines were not an object). But it still has better compactness than Python, in
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by danuker 4y ago
Money is freely convertible to speech. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckley_v._Valeo
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by danuker 4y ago
I suspect the nonzero interest rates are making capital actuallly prioritize returns. Therefore pie-in-the-sky projects not making money are scrapped.
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by danuker 4y ago
The floor denominated in dollars can still go to zero. The utility of Bitcoin is its global payment network.
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by danuker 4y ago
Not the previous commenter, but yes, they'll need to remember to rotate it towards magnetic North. And also to compensate for any ground movements that may shift the building or the sensors.
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by danuker 4y ago
You are making a lot of interesting arguments. Thanks! > In nature you can't retire because you can't save up labor That is true. What I can do, I guess, is ensure that I will have what I want in the future. If I don't kno
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by danuker 4y ago
> Spam is typically easily identified due to the repetitious nature of the posting frequency, and simplistic nature of the content (low symbol pattern complexity). Now that we have cheap language models, you could create endless variatio
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by danuker 4y ago
For discovery, there's also GitHub, GitLab, Hacker News and so on.
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by danuker 4y ago
I'm 30, from Romania, and I didn't get the joke. Care to explain?
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by danuker 4y ago
Burning Man attendees are large crowds of people. Sewage will be a problem.
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by danuker 4y ago
The way I broke out of addiction to the Kittens game is by using save game editors, which I warmly recommend. Before that, I have spent days with it piggybacking on my brainwaves. But after that, I lost interest, feeling overwhelmed with th
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by danuker 4y ago
> The point of money is to be spent, not to hold it. Why? Why prioritize spending now rather than later? If I can't defer consumption, I will always need to work, and I can't retire. That would be financial oppression. > You
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by danuker 4y ago
> crypto-tainted If the government did its job and we had sound money, and taxation were explicit instead of this wacky adjustable-and-unpredictable-devaluation that is inflation, there would be no need for cryptocurrency.
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by danuker 4y ago
Navigating through Romania using Google Maps, I can't see the names of towns. I have switched to OsmAnd, and the only thing I miss now and then is a good geocoder.
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by danuker 4y ago
Companies that exist only to enter such risky markets. The upside is turned into dividends. But if a law gets passed to make the owners clean up, poof, bankruptcy. The very definiion of "Limited Liability".
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by danuker 4y ago
"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails."
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by danuker 4y ago
I agree that cross-instance communication is very difficult. There should be a special URL scheme that points you to your instance which is installed as a handler. Perhaps something like activitypub://another-instance.rocks/c
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by danuker 4y ago
> I can’t think of a single thing normal people use. The Internet is federated. You can become the customer of any number of ISPs, and each can take you to any website with an IP address, in a distributed fashion, by just asking routers
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by danuker 4y ago
As long as the VR that Zuck is building is just another walled garden, I am not at all interested. Why wouldn't I play Minetest, OpenTTD, or whatever other social videogame for which I can host a server myself? I see little value in ar
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by danuker 4y ago
Perhaps the devices are worth fixing. I trust Rossmann Repair because of their YouTube videos.
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by danuker 4y ago
It is not. https://www.marieclaire.com/politics/bumble-now-unsolicited-... > This sending of unsolicited nudes, or cyberflashing, is not only violent and pernicious, it’s entirely without consequences in 49 states.
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by danuker 4y ago
Maybe try Medium or Substack, or for control over your server, Mastodon/Pleroma.
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by danuker 4y ago
In the past few years, the Google experience has been devolving. GMail loads a ton of JS, app sizes are larger and apps are slower, and Maps won't even show me the name of the town I'm currently in, while navigating (and the UI is

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