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901.
by danuker 4y ago
Your girlfriend won't resell it or share it with insurance or government agencies as easily.
902.
by danuker 4y ago
My not very technically apt parents have been using Manjaro with the RedmondXP theme for a few years, with much fewer problems than Windows. 2022 - Year of the Linux Desktop?
903.
by danuker 4y ago
Also, the inflationary block reward will go down exponentially.
904.
by danuker 4y ago
Which hard forks have disadvantaged the poor? One that pops to mind is Ethereum's expensive staking requirement, but Bitcoin is apparently more in touch with the community. Which exchange failures have disadvantaged the poor?
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by danuker 4y ago
It could have died out, and the volatility was extreme in those times. The risk varies with how much you invest. If you invest sensibly, then the risk is low. If you buy on leverage, you end up bankrupt.
906.
by danuker 4y ago
Right now, there is a wasteful amount of security, because the rate of adoption (and price growth) could not be predicted. Almost $800k is burnt hourly. Very few people need to transfer that much, and those who do, can wait for extra confir
907.
by danuker 4y ago
The user-agent not doing what the user wants is not a user-agent. I recently wanted to edit a Firefox theme to highlight the active tab more strongly. Surprise! To install extensions not signed by Mozilla, you need Firefox Developer Edition
908.
by danuker 4y ago
I was surprised to find out that Kill-sticky works with this method. It was recently featured on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32998091
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Use Bookmarklets on Chrome on Android (2020)(paul.kinlan.me)
38 points by danuker 4y ago|19 comments
910.
by danuker 4y ago
Short of reproducible builds, you can't even check that what you're being served is, in fact, the OSS version.
911.
by danuker 4y ago
If you have enough money and time, it might still be useful (and satisfying) to serve society in this way. You would confuse models currently shooting fish in a barrel. You would still pick the cheapest insurer (probably one that does not l
912.
by danuker 4y ago
Reminds me of https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html
913.
by danuker 4y ago
Shameless plug: use `fn` in Hy. https://docs.hylang.org/en/stable/api.html#fn Still no currying, though. But an anonymous function can be `fn` instead of `lambda`.
914.
by danuker 4y ago
Perhaps only companies of Cisco size are useful to the NSA, otherwise they have too many errands to run in order to manage companies' PRISM hooks.
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by danuker 4y ago
Thanks. I was using AltDrag, but I found it a bit sluggish.
916.
by danuker 4y ago
Add enough penalties for using fossil fuels, and the market will switch to renewable or synthetic fuels.
917.
by danuker 4y ago
The reason I never bought a smart watch: no software freedom. Also, ever since a phone failed and warranty claimed it broke because of my LineageOS installation, I don't buy new phones either.
918.
by danuker 4y ago
Of course, there are diminishing returns, and hard caps set by physics. As the low-hanging fruit is picked, it will become harder to grow. But we could expand outside our current planet, initially just for mining for precious resources, but
919.
by danuker 4y ago
There is still a diversification benefit, if you distrust the national currency, and use cryptocurrency similarly to gold. That has been my main (only?) use case.
920.
by danuker 4y ago
Each "mouth" has a chance of yielding infinitely scalable innovation. For example, the Haber-Bosch process supplies 50% of the nitrogen found in human tissues. Check out the book "Abundance" by Peter Diamandis and Steven
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by danuker 4y ago
Populations can adjust. When there are too many people, and food is expensive or hard to get, people make fewer kids, or invest in making it cheaper (agriculture innovations - nearly 50% of the nitrogen found in human tissues originated fro
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by danuker 4y ago
Indeed. I was thinking it's from some other holes of a non-airtight case. But actually, the mass conservation happens through air around the anemometer (i.e. air not getting measured, but still moving).
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by danuker 4y ago
Coandă effects might drag air from somewhere else, not just from the intake. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coand%C4%83_effect Edit: I see the tester used an anemometer, which measures just the air moving THROUGH the an
924.
by danuker 4y ago
What would you see as a "fair" benchmark? Here's another, for the server use case: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r21&tes... I am stunned that a JS tool came out on top.
925.
by danuker 4y ago
I also do. And Yandex, and sometimes Baidu. And when I'm particularly desperate, https://haveibeentrained.com/ Google is resting on its laurels - the perfect recipe for losing hegemony.
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by danuker 4y ago
Of course it affects what you see. Search engines are a form of soft power that states can't afford NOT to influence. As a user of them, I make sure to use multiple engines (preferably with distinct indices and jurisdictions) when I re
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by danuker 4y ago
What is SPL? "Sound Pressure Level"? Of the cooling fan?
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by danuker 4y ago
If it is commons-harming, it should be addressed by the commons - through politics. I should be free to use energy as I wish, just that the cost of externalities should be internalized (i.e. taxes for greenhouse emissions should be baked in
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by danuker 4y ago
Well, the reputation I now perceive is "abysmal", because everything is served through Cloudflare. That means Cloudflare can capture or sell the advantage also, unnecessarily.
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by danuker 4y ago
Also a lot of energy in avoided video transmission and playback.

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