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by hkt 4y ago
Charmingly small numbers. I've been thinking for a while: how about governments fine in voting equity rather than cash? Hand the relevant voting equity over to a coop of users. It is probably the only fair way to deal with these things
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by hkt 4y ago
I'm guessing 12b is a relevant financial number
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by hkt 4y ago
Renewable energy is energy independence. We need to wean ourselves off any dependence on countries like the ones in OPEC(+).
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by hkt 4y ago
> Real estate prices are not being artificially elevated Alas, they are. Supply and demand for housing is measured in units of currency, not people. Ask yourself, how many multiples of income can you borrow, with what kind of deposit? Th
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by hkt 4y ago
Imagine the scene: deep faked irises making bot armies that crypto nerds refuse to acknowledge aren't people. In fairness, identity is hard, and the idea put forward is ambitious, but the scheme is unlikely to achieve what it purports
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by hkt 4y ago
As I've been reading this (and lobbing remarks in the comments) I've tried to get to the bottom of why this makes me uneasy. I think I've worked it out well enough to express it now. In biology, the more successful a species
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by hkt 4y ago
Yep. Stick to emailing people you already know, human moderators etc. Ban anyone confirmed to be using AI.
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by hkt 4y ago
> creating 1,000 bot accounts would require finding 1,000 human users willing to consistently verify their authenticity. New mechanical turk-alike in 3, 2, 1. Really though. This would barely dent the budgets of disinformation campaigns.
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by hkt 4y ago
..why do we suppose an iris scan can't be faked by an AI?
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by hkt 4y ago
It is a crazy world when digging up PGP's web of trust model seems like a simpler safer solution, but here we are.
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by hkt 4y ago
> One big problem is that over the decades the economy has shifted more to services and less to sales of physical goods, so sales tax revenue has declined disproportionately. This is also the reason why the rich won't leave places w
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by hkt 4y ago
There's an overview here that references the (many) standards involved: https://www.bpf.co.uk/packaging/plastic-packaging-safety.asp... To the best of my knowledge it is less about leaching chemicals out of plasti
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by hkt 4y ago
Moving away from these kinds of farming methods is really not as hard as people suppose. For a start, composting food waste would produce a carbon neutral source of fertiliser that would cover fairly large amounts of domestic need. Measures
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by hkt 4y ago
Substantial numbers of YNH devs are French, I'm wondering if they're just more likely to think in terms of associations etc. It is a good idea, to be fair: non-techy people don't get anything but big companies if people won&#
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by hkt 4y ago
IP reputation matters. If you self host, for the love of god don't use DO/AWS/Linode/etc. Small, established hosts are best, in my experience - shoutout to Mythic Beasts and (in times gone by) Bytemark for that.
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by hkt 4y ago
It makes much more sense to form a little co-op, pay some pros to look after it (managed hosting) and contribute to the core, imo. Extract an SLA from the managed service that will cover restoring service. It doesn't feel as cool, bu
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by hkt 4y ago
I switched over to YNH from a self-rolled stack a few months ago. I've sent the odd patch (dovecot configs, a couple of apps) which tend to be accepted. Anyone who is bored of the rugged individualism of self hosting might find some we
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by hkt 4y ago
Yet another sector where investment is low and prices are high. Over winter tomatoes were in short supply, not because we couldn't grow them, but because the methods of heating greenhouses were too expensive. CO2 heaters use gas in lar
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by hkt 4y ago
I suspect the government will use it to drive down standards and unilaterally accept US imports tariff-free, rather than taking on domestic suppliers.
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by hkt 4y ago
Regrettably, calories are not the only concern. Modelling the cost of a good diet is hard.
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by hkt 4y ago
> You cannot code on a 13-inch display When I was young and poor, I used to code on an Asus EeePC with a 9" screen and half sized keyboard. It wasn't ideal but actually, it was fine.
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by hkt 4y ago
> CBDC: If you want safe custody of your money. > Bank: If you want to lend your money in return for a yield. And as with any lending, you take the risk of a borrower defaulting. Ideally, depositors in a CBDC would also get at minimum
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by hkt 4y ago
The name is a bit unfortunate, to say the least: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/spack
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by hkt 4y ago
I've used it to parallelise updating hundreds of helm releases whose CI pipelines had ceased to exist. It is a neat tool.
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by hkt 4y ago
> Programmers who think ChatGPT is going to replace their job must have a very low opinion of their own skill set. As a devops guy I live in fear of anything that can copy and paste from stackoverflow faster than I can.
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by hkt 4y ago
A better comparison with Kafka is redis streams. Similar semantics, a fraction of the operational overhead.
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by hkt 4y ago
There's also the small matter of fuel. France sources most of its uranium from Niger. You can bet nobody is getting French standards of pay, healthcare, holiday, or pensions in those mines.
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by hkt 4y ago
Leaving aside the bizarre arguments in the article, it blows my mind that we are doing this but onshore wind has been dumped on for a decade and there's no subsidy for rooftop solar.
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by hkt 4y ago
TIL, that's an intriguing difference. Like I say, CPIH adjusts for this somewhat. It is a problem here because our 2% inflation target doesn't include housing. It also doesn't include the stock market etc, so we push inflatio
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by hkt 4y ago
It is worth noting that while that's true, inflation as officially measured tends not to include things like housing costs - in the UK over the last 30 years or so we've seen wages flatline while house prices and rents rose. In &q

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