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by dehrmann 1y ago
Isn't an issue with Bitcoin that it's actually controlled by the miners, so they could collude to change some of the issuance rules?
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by dehrmann 1y ago
Kagi just passed 50k users: https://kagi.com/stats?stat=members They claim to be profitable, but the TAM for services people are used to thinking of as "free" is small.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
> if you cannot craft a unique story or thesis...about your company, you will not succeed. Halfway true. There's a famous quote: > In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run, it is a weighing machine. A
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by dehrmann 1y ago
I try to play guitar. For simple songs, I can play them without thinking about it. My fingers just find the next chord, almost like driving a car and not remembering the last minute of driving. For more complex things, I have to think. So m
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by dehrmann 1y ago
With time being limited, I wonder if using a second language, playing an instrument, solving puzzles, physical activity, or some other activity is "better" brain stimulus.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
Hay is often bound up into bales with plastic twine. Cattle happily eat bits on accident. They used to use wire, but that caused a much more serious problem for the cattle.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
> motivated enough https://xkcd.com/538/
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by dehrmann 1y ago
Politics is complicated and often has competing goals, but this seems at odds with the equally loud MAHA movement.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
Back when IE was king and IE6 was still 10% of users, I did frontend web work. I remember sitting next to our designer with multiple browsers open playing with pixel offsets to get the design as close as practically possible to the mockups
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by dehrmann 1y ago
Jelly Belly doesn't use gelatin. They do use confectioners glaze, but that's closer to honey than to cochineal.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
I briefly looked into this, but I wasn't convinced the juice was worth the squeeze. My cash is automatically getting ~4%, but there's too much fine print to make sure the BNPL rate really is 0%, I'm sacrificing 2% cash back,
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by dehrmann 1y ago
> Cochineal extract for coloring 95% of people wouldn't realize that's code for "insect juice," and they might prefer the artificial color.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
Guessing it's to ramp-up suppliers, change equipment over, and stockpile enough for the transition.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
> 3. Highly enriched U-235 is only for weapons - Modern medical, propulsion and research reactors use HEU If you genuinely have no interest in uranium for weapons, it makes more sense to buy it from a country known to supply it at puriti
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by dehrmann 1y ago
Also browser extensions.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
> Nobody sits down in an office and does work on a smartphone Now that we have USB-C monitors, phones have USB-C, and high-end phones have CPU performance similar to low-end desktop CPUs (A18 vs Intel 14100), we could actually start repl
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by dehrmann 1y ago
Paramount also used to have a presence there.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
When I visited Sydney, it felt like NYC with LA weather and cars on the wrong side of the road. I knew it was filmed there, but hadn't put together that it was filmed around the corner from where I stayed, and I walked by multiple film
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by dehrmann 1y ago
It looks more like information is valuable in aggregate.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
Can you serve cached data to logged-out users?
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by dehrmann 1y ago
Who's doing this at such a high volume? Most of the data is static enough that there isn't value in frequent crawls, crawls are (probably) more expensive than caching, and small shops and hobbyists don't have the resources to
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by dehrmann 1y ago
The farming quote is interesting, but one of the Jevons paradox requirements is a highly elastic demand curve, and food is inelastic . The open questions right now are how much of a demand is there for more software, and where do AI capabi
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by dehrmann 1y ago
> Makes you wonder how easy or difficult it will be in 30 years to 'recover' data from today. The challenges will be different. Flash loses its charge in 30 years, most disks are encrypted, and on-site physical backups are most
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by dehrmann 1y ago
This one's a classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vzuDkjtDOY
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by dehrmann 1y ago
> Barnum effect As in P. T. Barnum of circus fame.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
The thing with art is that there's always more of it getting created by people who either do it as a hobby or will accept low prices out of desperation to "follow their dreams," they're competing with all the existing ar
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by dehrmann 1y ago
I'd pay a decent amount of some of his darker paintings.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
The part that is useful is there's strategic benefit to surplus food production, and it's an outlet for surplus food.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
First class effectively has guaranteed overhead space, and you still see them boarding first so they can get champagne.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
I recently started as a GCP SRE. I don't have insider knowledge about this, and my views on it are my own. The most important thing to look at is how much had to go wrong for this to surface. It had to be a bug without test coverage th

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