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by garmaine 5y ago
“How I bought a house: first I cut out my $5 Starbucks habit. That gave me the money, and more importantly the courage I needed to ask my parents to pay for my house. Which they did. Never underestimate what you can achieve!”
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by garmaine 5y ago
> Students also have lots of debt over the past decade (15k on average) Those are amateur numbers. -USA
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by garmaine 5y ago
Markus Persson?
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by garmaine 5y ago
There is a world of difference between a network connected device that happens to have a microphone that could be hacked by a three letter agency, albeit not without draining your battery, and a plugged in device whose entire purpose is to
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by garmaine 5y ago
Probably because it’s a friend’s house he just couch surfs at?
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by garmaine 5y ago
Neither. Why would you want a surveillance device willingly planted in your home? Return them both.
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by garmaine 5y ago
And, as noted at the end of the article, Lake Victoria isn’t even the real beginning. 4,100 miles from start to finish.
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by garmaine 5y ago
If I had to be logged in to view HN the very first time I arrived here, I wouldn’t have bothered.
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by garmaine 5y ago
> Stand in a doorway? (Is that a thing? Does it depend on wood Vs brick Vs concrete?) In earthquake country we don't have brick or unreinforced concrete doorways, for this exact reason. Visiting brits tend to make fun of our flimsy
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by garmaine 5y ago
Once the control rods are in, the reactor is losing more energy than it is producing and will eventually cool down. However in many old (e.g. 60's era) designs including Chernobyl and Fukushima, the reactor is losing that heat via acti
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by garmaine 5y ago
Magnitude 2: you literally can't feel one of these. Also, they happen every day. You're not going to get an alert for this. Magnitude 4: maybe stop leaning over the balcony? Otherwise, nothing. Magnitude 5+: get under the table or
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by garmaine 5y ago
> In the case of earthquakes, their very unpredictability, the brief period of time avialable in which to make an alert (often only a few seconds, in cases a few minutes) means that manual cross-validation is all but impossible. For the
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by garmaine 5y ago
It's not clear who should be blamed for the Hawaii event, except for general government incompetence. It was a planned drill, but the exact time of the drill was purposefully not communicated to the team which handles the alert, to see
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by garmaine 5y ago
Yes, but they won't literally break your legs over an unpaid debt anymore. These aren't run by crime syndicates AFAIK.
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by garmaine 5y ago
> I’ve just looked at the internet archive and it shows rates of up to 1825% APR. These loans are definitely predatory and so could have been done directly from the capital. Not surprised they got shut down, similar companies operating i
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by garmaine 5y ago
Not when your building's central heating is done by a natural gas furnace. Not without expensive retrofitting. (Which should be done. But it'll take time.)
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by garmaine 5y ago
NFTs aren't rights to photos, or any other kind of tangible or intangible property right. That would be an actual property. But that's not what NFTs are.
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by garmaine 5y ago
Grammar is/ought to be descriptive, not prescriptive. This is how people use the word 'myself' and has been for years. Ergo it is correct.
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by garmaine 5y ago
They have value because people think they will have a bigger future value. People think they will have more value in the future because there will be a bigger sucker willing to buy it from them. That's it. There's no step along th
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by garmaine 5y ago
Heating is largely natural gas based, so it's not substitutive. I don't think Germany should be shutting down its nuclear reactors, but that has nothing to do with Russian gas. (Unless perhaps they started making synthetic methane
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by garmaine 5y ago
And "market pay" being HR's idea of the going rate, not what a good engineer with niche knowledge and startup experience could command at a big tech company.
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by garmaine 5y ago
I really doubt he saw a large compensation increase with the acquisition.
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by garmaine 5y ago
Because there are institutions that rely on them. Things like air traffic control, the stock market, etc. run on mainframe environments. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
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by garmaine 5y ago
We’ll according to the article the “CE” was NOT one of the options that came out of the focus group. Management looked at what the study reported, and then said “nah.”
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by garmaine 5y ago
That’s reversing hashes. Finding the private key for a given public key would be basically instant if your quantum computer was large enough.
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by garmaine 5y ago
This is no longer the case with Taproot, btw.
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by garmaine 5y ago
Not anymore. With taproot the key used is published on the blockchain when the output is created.
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by garmaine 5y ago
Astronomical. You could convert every computer into existence into hunting for used private keys, and run them for the lifetime of the universe, and you’d be unlikely to find even one used key.
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by garmaine 5y ago
Why don’t you get the jab? It would be strictly better to have both.
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by garmaine 5y ago
Doesn’t matter. The redemption cost is paid by the consumer when they buy the can—it is literally added to the bill, like a sales tax. Any recyclable value is extra.

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