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by iwwr 11y ago
If the money is a precious metal (gold or silver) then there doesn't need any backing.
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Given the abysmal state of lower and middleschool historical education, merely teaching the kids some basics is hard enough.
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>Utility is a unit of accounting that works much better than money. It's actually called a "utility function"[...] That is just a sometimes useful abstraction and money does allow for quantizations of value. But utility is
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Lombok is also a non-standard dependency and there are costs with having to rely on it.
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Stupidity is not an excuse for being an asshole.
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This can also lead to some less desirable outcomes, such as calls to make voting mandatory.
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The moral being that, in these kinds of dealings, you are allowed to cripple a company, but not outright destroy it.
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We could argue that modern town planning is in fact infected with a Sim City spirit (or Sim City captured that existing spirit): artificial separation between "commercial" and "residential areas" with miles and miles of
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by iwwr 11y ago
There are several aspects to this. 1. Nuclear waste, even when not processed, is not that large in volume and it can be stored in a space on the order of a hectare (about 2.5 acres) for the entire US nuclear waste production over several de
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Because it's the lowest common denominator and most "portable" platform out there. It also allows client-to-client communication without an intermediary server.
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>This is about relying on the core values of the company I think you place too much emphasis on companies having moral values. Companies don't have values other than profits. The people in charge may have them, but they are relentle
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While that is somewhat in jest, there are potentials for fusion to first make it as a power source for spacecraft. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_rocket#Electricity_gene... This has the advantage of not needing a
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by iwwr 11y ago
This isn't the end of tracking, just the platform owners angling in on the market and setting up toll booths for advertisers. It does have the advantage of potentially less tracking overall, but personal data is still valuable and Appl
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It's more the fact that Github keeps their own code (server and client) as proprietary and so the service is not a free software offering.
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>It would have been nice if Microsoft had at least made the ribbon bar optional and allowed people to revert to the old interface. The whole debate would disappear if you could choose the UI you prefer and be done with it. Don't und
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Orbital solar starts to make sense when you need a collection area that's larger than what's feasible for Earth and currently Earth is not scarce as far as available surface area :)
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That is also the promise of nuclear breeder reactors, an ability to turn natural uranium into nuclear fuel, which will increase the availability of fuel by over 100 times. If you also consider thorium cycles, multiply by 4. Nuclear is a hug
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Dishonest advertising is big business and even gets featured on Tech Crunch as "legitimate business": http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/16/conduit-worth-1-4bn-acquire... https://en.wikipedia.
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by iwwr 11y ago
I'm not sure how successful it is in that regard. Just browser fingerprinting is enough to track most people; cookies and third party connections are not essential. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Fingerprinting
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I wonder if the audience for ad-blocking software is also not that "valuable" to begin with (from an advertiser's perspective). These are more sophisticated people that don't fall for blinking warnings, fake browser UI a
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For some reason Gattaca doesn't seem like that much of a dystopia. Poverty and disease are largely conquered. It's a harsh future that fosters alienation (or there wouldn't be much of a movie), yet the problems of that world
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The difference being that there are no network effects in restaurants and usually there is another one just around the corner.
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"They're both. They're a private company that offers a public service. As such, they can't do whatever they want." Strictly from being a company that pursues profits, they can't do "whatever they want&quot
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That's not the only reason people use Github. It's the Facebook of programmers in some sense and it's got a critical mass that switching to something else is not practicable (not without some serious momentum).
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This also engenders a "Sim City" kind of urban planning that keeps commercial spaces or jobs very far away from homes and makes it impractical to not own a car (simply necessary for survival).
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Vendors having to come up with an actually secure remote update procedure (rather than ad-hoc secret protocols and "factory passwords")? This is beyond the "greats" like Samsung or LG even.
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It's only an illusion when the central bank is unwilling to inject money into the system in the event of a bank run. The central bank has to maintain somewhat of an equivalence between money stored in banks and cash. It depends on if b
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The bigger problem is that money people have in banks, which is not borrowed and only belongs to private citizens is being plundered or destroyed. Second to that is an inability to access modern forms of transactions, which make running IT
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Now think how an average Greek person feels when their banking system no longer works, denied access to electronic transactions and when bank accounts hold mere numbers that may or may not be actually recognized (or downright confiscated).
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If anything causes people to get medical check-ups more often it's still beneficial, even if the reason for doing it may be irrational (fear of radiation leaked from a nuclear reactor). Such fears may even trigger a statistical increas

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