elipsey

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by elipsey 5y ago
If you think "crypto" is short for cryptocurrency, you're probably exactly the kind of person who should stay away from cryptocurrency.
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by elipsey 5y ago
Interestingly, I think I recognize the background tile on the page as a member (or slight modification of a member) of my favorite wallpaper package propaganda-debian. In any case, author is clearly a connoisseur of textures.
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by elipsey 5y ago
We're not _all_ unsuccessful entrepreneurs, I for one am an unemployed programmer!
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by elipsey 5y ago
When I was an intern there was this old dude who had an ancient computer with the same Debian on it for like 7 years. He never got excited about new stuff, and just didn't want to break anything. I thought that was kind of funny and un
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by elipsey 5y ago
Are plumbers licensed? Should I assume that just anyone can become a plumber? Licensed trades have gatekeepers, e.g., my high-school friend couldn't be an electrician because he couldn't get a union internship. They were full and
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by elipsey 5y ago
Are cryptocurrency trades/flows balanced with cash? Are there likely solutions that approach this problem as one of money laundering?
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by elipsey 5y ago
thanks. thought they meant "server message block" at first and i'm like do i have to?
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by elipsey 5y ago
I wish they would unpack their buisiness jargon acronyms. What are SOHO, ROBO and SMB in this context?
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by elipsey 5y ago
hypothesis: security failure by a service provider is evidence of winning at externalizing costs. strategy: find SaaS corps responsible for catastrophic cyber-attacks and buy them on the the dip?
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by elipsey 5y ago
Climate change is a collective action problem; the fact that people don't want to solve it with voluntary donations doesn't imply that they think the problem is unimportant. It would be equally reasonable to propose that roads or
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by elipsey 5y ago
This comment almost seems to willfully satirize libertarianism. Does it follow that if a goal hasn't been accomplished without a state mandate, it must be impossible? It might be in this particular case, but to be convincing we would n
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by elipsey 5y ago
Nvidia graphics driver perhaps? Linux with proprietary drivers tends to suck (and Nvidia has been especially unfriendly to FOSS drivers). Intel and AMD support open GPU drivers, which tend to be be better. This might be why you're hear
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by elipsey 5y ago
cool, but am i like a complete grandpa if i'm a bit alarmed by how everyone these days seems to think curl bashing with stranges is totally normal and fine?
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by elipsey 5y ago
land value tax is not assessed on the basis of who is presumed able to afford it. it's assessed against the use of a public good --- the ability of more people to live and work in the city that perhaps makes the land more valuable than
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by elipsey 6y ago
haha, it was much more exotic in my imagination. as usual. :)
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by elipsey 6y ago
ikr? it seems like if we can figure out what to do with a big wad of ASII armoured data, we don't need animated gifs to be made easier than they already are. i wonder if poster just expects this to show up as an embedded image because
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by elipsey 6y ago
Neat, but why?
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by elipsey 6y ago
My problem is with the anonymouse hearsay. "America is a bad country" Who said this? Why can't the author quote them directly? Why should I believe this even happened? Edit: Not that I have a dog in this fight, but while we&#
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by elipsey 6y ago
>> I know for a fact this ideology is being pushed hard right now And yet you have ironically failed to furnish evidence. OP rightly observes that the article is riddled with anonymous hearsay, and published by a tax exempt lobbying g
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by elipsey 6y ago
One of my professors also taught an undergrad intro AI class. He told me a story about a student who got some of their goal conditions wrong, and later returned to find that they had trained an agent to lose at several board games with ast
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by elipsey 6y ago
This. It's a pernicious temptation to infer motive, or make hostile generalizations about groups we disagree with, but this makes it impossible to cooperate or engage in good faith debate.
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by elipsey 6y ago
I don't know. My goal is to establish some baseline of fact and perspective before I start opining on causal relationships. Thank you for the link. I'm having trouble locating the national rate for 2020 -- Most reports seem to be
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by elipsey 6y ago
Good question! It seemed to me that we were discussing something like the last 4-5 years at minimum, because the author identified a prior and continuing decline in surveyed trust of government and institutions, with especially low reported
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by elipsey 6y ago
Six independent scholarly sources are cited within the first several paragraphs, whom the author claims arrived at similar conclusions. Your table doesn't include information prior to the current period of supposed political instabilit
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by elipsey 6y ago
i have simply assumed that the purpose of this requirement generally is for the platform owner to establish your real identity for monetization and/or indemnification, and that any benefit to the user is incidental. who ever said that
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by elipsey 6y ago
Anyone know what DE is used in the picture of the pinebook pro? some of the other screenshots look like gnome, but that one has miraculously not giant widgets/windowbars. also, does anyone know what those earbuds are?
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by elipsey 6y ago
the urban heat island is real, and austin is hot enough already, so thanks for the very humane suggestion! the screen on my phone used to turn black if i forgot it in my car at work. sometimes i left frozen tamales on my dashboard and came
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by elipsey 6y ago
That fact that we need to prepare in advance to defend learning a new-ish language and then using to build something interesting or useful is a depressing. Oh well, the PM will make you re-write it in that k8s thingy anyway, because everyon
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by elipsey 6y ago
Probe GT turbo was baller. How dare you? :) Also, it weighed about 1000 pounds less the current ICE Mustang.
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by elipsey 6y ago
>> My understanding is that if a little guy evades taxes, but then cooperates with the IRS when caught, and agrees to pay all taxes and interest and penalties, then they generally don't get thrown in jail Where in the world did y

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