dyauspitr

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by dyauspitr 3mo ago
Why cassettes besides the nostalgia though? I still remember that hiss and how crap they sounded. Almost as bad as those 480p DVDs.
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by dyauspitr 3mo ago
I kind of just stopped listening to music once I got past my early 30s unless it’s incidental. I just don’t have the desire to seek it out and listen to it anymore but I still enjoy music. Is this common?
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by dyauspitr 3mo ago
The one pirate site I miss more than anything is demonoid. I could find just about anything on there. Is there anything similar now? What happened to all their archives once they were taken offline.
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by dyauspitr 3mo ago
It depends. In a ridiculously cheap country like India where food prices are hilariously low you can get quite far on $200/month. Fresh vegetables (tomatoes, potatoes, onion, garlic, spinach, squashes, gourds, eggplants etc) are litera
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by dyauspitr 3mo ago
It is something to aim for though. The kid feels good about themselves and the parents can enjoy their hard earned money to have a banging retirement. My parents won’t stop traveling. They’ve been to something like 50 countries over the las
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by dyauspitr 3mo ago
I have never asked my parents for money. They have had to resort to trickery (asking for bank details for some passport stuff) to send me money. I hope to be able to do the same for my kid.
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by dyauspitr 3mo ago
I have never heard the phrase 480p is good enough. 480p is not good enough, 720p might be good enough.
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by dyauspitr 3mo ago
But so can everyone else. What’s the moat for spending all those billions. I understand the Chinese angle, they need to undermine American models as a matter of statecraft, but what is the business model here? It just seems like VC charity.
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by dyauspitr 3mo ago
None of the other things except the sound bothers me. It’s just so goddamn loud, like unbelievably loud.
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by dyauspitr 3mo ago
Fracking is not like nuclear
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by dyauspitr 3mo ago
It’s not that rosy? Especially compared to literally every country in Western Europe.
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by dyauspitr 3mo ago
White immigrants. Don’t act naive.
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by dyauspitr 3mo ago
It doesn’t have immigrants so the right wing tries extra hard to paint it as rosy.
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by dyauspitr 3mo ago
The ad business will never die. It’s capitalisms air and water.
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by dyauspitr 3mo ago
It honestly still looks like this. The afghans look the same, the Sikhs still dress this way.
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by dyauspitr 3mo ago
Every casino game is asymmetric. I believe the casinos are trying to encode the Charlatan/Chump dynamic.
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by dyauspitr 3mo ago
> A partial description in cuneiform of the rules of the Game of Ur as played in the second century BC has been preserved on a Babylonian clay tablet written by the scribe Itti-Marduk-balāṭu. This is much more palatable and cool since th
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by dyauspitr 3mo ago
This seems impossible. If you started with chess pieces and a chessboard or even a go board and go pieces, it is absolutely impossible to reconstruct the game as they’re currently played.
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by dyauspitr 3mo ago
Doesn’t picking the variable rate plan mean your day time costs are priced higher? It does where I am. It’s 10c/kWh on the regular plan but on variable it’s 14c during the day and 7c off hours.
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by dyauspitr 3mo ago
You pay $0.05/kWh? That’s insanely low and I though I had it good at $0.1/kWh.
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by dyauspitr 3mo ago
Good, force the world to build more energy production and mandate all data centers have to be powered by solar+batteries.
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by dyauspitr 3mo ago
So stupid. 19 mph top speed. Might as well buy one of those lime electric scooters. $14,000 is bonkers for this toy.
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by dyauspitr 3mo ago
With this much memery he would probably win the presidential election in the US.
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by dyauspitr 3mo ago
This seems ridiculous. People wouldn’t tolerate getting “taxed” like this unless the thieves union also had a lot of muscle like a modern extorting criminal organization.
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by dyauspitr 3mo ago
People might not do it for a $15k loan (accounting for inflation back then), but they definitely will for $100k today. School was much cheaper back then.
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by dyauspitr 3mo ago
They are not precedents. Infact PIX heavily borrowed from UPI.
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by dyauspitr 3mo ago
That’s absolutely huge. All your subscriptions in one place that you can just turn off from there directly. It’s one of my favorite things about payments going through the apple App Store.
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by dyauspitr 3mo ago
I don’t think a high trust society is compatible with modernity. In my opinion, a high trust society comes from a relative naivety in most of the population that just sort of did what their grandparents did without thinking too much about i
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by dyauspitr 3mo ago
What’s pejorative about the term trade school? Also the difference is a bachelors degree is conferred to people that have had a well rounded education, not a 6 month course on a highly specific niche.
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by dyauspitr 3mo ago
Because then the normal thing to do would be to graduate, declare bankruptcy when you have nothing to lose in life because you are just starting out, work for 7 years and you’re in the clear by your late 20s. Everyone would do it.

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