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by izzydata 4y ago
Stock prices are back around where they were before the pandemic. It may have already been overvalued at that time, but perhaps it is a level of overvalue that people are comfortable with as we were already there before the system got flood
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by izzydata 4y ago
Right, I don't mean worse on a per case basis. Just worse overall number of cases if they respond the same way as the US. Instead they are basically forced to do these harsh lockdowns or else it would be way too devastating. If covid c
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by izzydata 4y ago
It seems like Omicron is way worse in China because their initial lockdown response had them living in a covid bubble while the rest of the world got infected. Unless they managed to never have another case forever this seemed like an inevi
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by izzydata 4y ago
I don't care at all about corporations or what they spend money on. No corporation exists to make the world a better place. If that happens it is just a side effect of them filling some market. It feels weird for anyone to be a fan of
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by izzydata 4y ago
Over a long enough time frame the stock market and even the whole economy behaves like a pyramid scheme as it is dependent on new generations to be more people than the previous one.
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by izzydata 4y ago
Technology was advancing more rapidly so there were actually new and exciting things to show you. We seem to be hitting diminishing returns and most of the low hanging fruit and almost all the high hanging fruit problems that we have in our
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by izzydata 4y ago
I think Apple, Samsung and Google should give up on this whole iPhone 13 and Pixel 6 naming and numbering scheme and stop pretending like it is going to be an exciting brand new product every single year. They should name them more like car
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by izzydata 4y ago
The amp in them is slightly better than a smartphones assuming you are using wired headphones. Other than that I like having dedicated devices that do a thing as good as the thing can be done. It feels like it will never become outdated so
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by izzydata 4y ago
"are we millennials really going to bemoan gen-Z the way people bemoaned us when we were their ages?" Yes absolutely. It is the circle of life.
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by izzydata 4y ago
Not to mention that most older folks can navigate in places they are semi-familiar without a need for a device at all. Most Gen Z drivers are basically incapable of conceptualizing a map of an area in their head and completely dependent on
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by izzydata 4y ago
I have been using Google maps for years to drive from my place to my parents place which takes roughly 7 hours traveling across the midwest of the US. It used to take a rather minimal number of different highways. Recently though it decided
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by izzydata 4y ago
What would happen if Coinbase went bankrupt? That would be rather catastrophic to the Crypto market wouldn't it? Do they have any obligation to give people access to "their" crypto wallets?
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by izzydata 4y ago
You can analyze any single part of a modern large piece of software, but I think the point is that you can no longer remember the entirety of the software or hardware. Even a single function is going to get compiled through multiple layers
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by izzydata 4y ago
That seems far more expensive than an iPod.
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by izzydata 4y ago
Sony is still making modern variants of the Walkman. I'm not a big fan of their Android powered versions, but I like the slightly earlier versions that can only play music.
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by izzydata 4y ago
I don't think that works for newly created videos. You can bring up the count for old videos, but I don't believe you can add new dislikes.
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by izzydata 4y ago
I recently discovered a nice Youtube extension that replaces all thumbnails with a screenshot from somewhere within the video. I feel it gives a better insight into the content of the video compared to the clickbait cover photo they everyon
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by izzydata 4y ago
Random thought, but it makes me think that it could potentially be possible to hack into someone's light switches and burn their house down by setting the motor to leave the switch in the exact middle of on and off position so it arcs
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by izzydata 4y ago
It seems like their proposed solution is decentralized blockchain identities which in theory should be impossible to revoke. I don't know what that would look like in practice, but if every web service needs to support it then I doubt
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by izzydata 4y ago
It amazes me that this isn't considered a full blown emergency. This feels as bad as a nuke slowly descending onto a city of millions. Yet everyone continues to consume water like nothing is happening. The time for extreme water ration
621.
by izzydata 4y ago
I met someone early on in college so all of my friends were really "our" friends. They were friends of us as a couple and not individuals. Once we eventually split up 3 years later they never spoke to me again. It's probably
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by izzydata 4y ago
This is the one aspect of the show "Last Week Tonight" that always irked me. He makes fun of peoples appearances too much. It's just not good comedy or even a good insult in my opinion.
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by izzydata 5y ago
I think I'd prefer a website that is decentralized by being hosted in multiple places, but still a single instance. No single entity would control it, but everyone would go to a single location to view it.
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by izzydata 5y ago
I login to my old Mastadon account on some specific server then try to reply to someone on another one. It asks me for the domain I want to act from so I type it in. Click Proceed to reply and am greeted with an error screen saying somethin
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by izzydata 5y ago
How does one find the bigger Mastadon instances? They aren't even listed on this joinmastodon website. I know it is intentionally decentralized, but it seems like it can never catch on because it feels like 100s of separate websites. Y
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by izzydata 5y ago
That is not possible as it will always find an equilibrium of miners that find it less worthwhile vs the supply. Less miners means less supply means higher price means more miners etc.. You'd have to kill bitcoin completely somehow by
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by izzydata 5y ago
Bitcoin kills hundreds of thousands of people annually? Makes me wonder about the industries that use orders of magnitudes more energy. The production of phones must kill millions. Cars must kill tens of millions. Trying to kill energy cons
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by izzydata 5y ago
I feel like the general response to things like this in the recent past were "A fool and his money are soon parted". What happened to make this particular method of losing money or making a bad investment get regarded as such an e
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by izzydata 5y ago
I remember seeing a website here that let you create prepaid cards that you could use for things like this. I'm not sure if you were able to refill the balance on them though, but it would be convenient to be able to just let them atte
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by izzydata 5y ago
Their margins must have been very high to begin with. Your margins decreasing from 700% to 680% probably doesn't matter too much as long as you aren't strapped with corporate debt from trying to expand relentlessly year over year.

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