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841.
by dools 3y ago
> The main safeguard is to buy your wallet directly from the official vendor and choose models with special versions of protected microcontrollers (even original Trezors aren’t ideal in this sense: there are other brands’ wallets with be
842.
by dools 3y ago
Funnily enough the way he describes musical instruction is actually a good idea in my opinion. I think it’s weird that we don’t teach people to read music effectively as a regular part of musical instruction. Playing music is boring and mun
843.
by dools 3y ago
I don’t see what additional attacks this enables.
844.
by dools 3y ago
Why would you want to?! If I could go back in time and play BotW again for the first time I would
845.
by dools 3y ago
I curse both sans serif fonts and the modern day proclivity for omitting proper capitalisation every time someone starts an email to me with “Hi Lain”
846.
by dools 4y ago
Yeah I think that's basically what I'm saying. The concept is an elephant. You look at the elephant and know immediately what it is and all it's attributes, but if you were to describe that elephant to someone you'd have
847.
by dools 4y ago
I wonder if your being bi-lingual has anything to do with the different ways we experience language (I'm not bi-lingual ... )
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by dools 4y ago
The concept is always fully formed (or at least SOME concept is fully formed) before I start typing. Like I read your comment. I had thoughts during that process, but I read until the end, then I made a decision about what I thought, an
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by dools 4y ago
That’s not how it feels to me. The way it feels to me is that I have a fully formed concept almost immediately upon hearing or reading something then I employ language to try and convey the same concept into to someone else’s brain. During
850.
by dools 4y ago
The HN headline rule being applied to this headline make the article sound so stupidly obvious that I didn’t even click it at first.
851.
by dools 4y ago
We are a long, long way from the end of work. Work is simply what we do for others. All we need is a just transition and an end to involuntary unemployment which is best achieved through a federal job guarantee: http://www.jobgua
852.
by dools 4y ago
And yet my Twitter feed was always so boring. Reminds me of the Sirius Cybernetics Nutri-matic drinks machine.
853.
by dools 4y ago
Inkl is news aggregation like this but then inkl would know what you’re reading
854.
by dools 4y ago
Monetising content happens in a handful of ways: 1) ads on the site or via email 2) subscriptions 3) build a rep via the blog then sell high value consulting and/or build an agency around it 4) affiliate links or lead generation I thin
855.
by dools 4y ago
Ronald!? Leonard... now I can't edit it and forever I will look like an idiot.
856.
by dools 4y ago
Ronald Susskind uses a white board and calls it a black board
857.
by dools 4y ago
Because if they made a mistake what evidence would I have to prove otherwise? Sounds like a nightmare waiting to happen, especially given how arcane AWS billing and Amazon account management is in general. What if they billed you for $1,000
858.
by dools 4y ago
There’s no way I would have Amazon automatically bill me 2 days after I left the store
859.
by dools 4y ago
"The most extreme growth occurred in September 2001, January 2009, and January 2012, when the rate of M2 expansion topped 10%. These accelerated periods coincided with recessions and economic weakness, during which expansionary monetar
860.
by dools 4y ago
That's a graph that shows M2, not inflation. QE does have an impact on M2, but bank lending behaviour is not directly reserve constrained, so it has little impact on inflation.
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by dools 4y ago
No, by the non-orthodox definition of inflation espoused by Austrian economists, QE is inflation. Most people are referring to price level increases when they refer to inflation, and a more correct definition of inflation is sustained real
862.
by dools 4y ago
A government can never run out of a currency it issues
863.
by dools 4y ago
QE has no impact on inflation because loan origination is not reserve constrained, because banks can always use their government securities as collateral
864.
by dools 4y ago
Okay sure but those are vestiges of systems that developed during a huge population explosion, and that have huge retrofit costs. We could turn off all crypto today and it would have no consequences except for people who would lose all thei
865.
by dools 4y ago
The financial system has put a lot of effort into automation obliviously because it means they make more money. So to the extent that they could be automated, they are automated and will continue to increase the level of automation. It’s al
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by dools 4y ago
Fucking hell crypto is such a colossal waste of resources
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by dools 4y ago
Spooky action at an instance
868.
by dools 4y ago
I always say this to my kids when they don’t feel like doing some habit: just half arse it. Another phrase I use is: if something is worth doing, it’s worth doing poorly. I run 12km every day, but some days I don’t get out until the afterno
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Latitude Financial hit by cyber attack, more than 300k identity documents stolen(abc.net.au)
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by dools 4y ago
Anyone with knowledge of how government finances work knows that the central bank will never allow a bond auction to fail, and the central bank will never bounce a treasury cheque.

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