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by jack_pp 4y ago
They probably don't make the car from scratch every season. Pen and paper is perfectly fine for small tweaks and conceptual ideas for very specific parts
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by jack_pp 4y ago
The difference is the govt wasn't trying to force you to get a tattoo or pierce your ears
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by jack_pp 4y ago
I understand your point but Asmongold and Shroud are saying it isn't worth playing the game unless you plan to spend a couple thousand dollars on it so that's where I'm coming from.
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by jack_pp 4y ago
interesting, so if you can be no1 while free to play is every streamer lying? Edit: Or right now since it's early you can out-skill other people while they're figuring it out and soon the people who spend more will have both skill
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by jack_pp 4y ago
Not quite the same thing as heroin as you can easily drown your sorrows in any number of cheap video games and I'm of the belief that if you are prone to addictions the only way to evolve passed them is to go through them. I am against
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by jack_pp 4y ago
Children don't have access to a credit card unless you give it to them. If in 2022 you're giving a kid a device where he can make payments without your input then you're responsible for it. If you're addicted to spending
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by jack_pp 4y ago
I just started playing it after a long break. I remember you used to need to upgrade your cards to challenge level in order to be competitive in challenges but now they give you all cards in challenge mode at the standard level, even cards
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by jack_pp 4y ago
I've watched a lot of discussions about this from twitch streamers and I'm not sure where I stand.. On the one hand I'm amazed at how good this game looks on mobile and if you're just the type to casually play a game not
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by jack_pp 4y ago
This started from him telling me that we need to keep in mind RAM usage for a language model we were planning to use. I said that we shouldn't worry about RAM right now because RAM is cheap but apparently it isn't so cheap in the
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Ask HN: Cloud vs. Dedicated Hosting
52 points by jack_pp 4y ago|96 comments
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by jack_pp 4y ago
s/cryptocurrencies/encrypted communcation
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by jack_pp 4y ago
On Bitfinex it is trading at 0.02 (2 cents) it never dropped below 0.005. So if this is the top comment and there doesn't seem to be anyone correcting you it seems HN has no skin in the game but loves to talk about stuff they can'
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by jack_pp 4y ago
I said it teaches about science. From the very first chapter : > "Mum," Harry said. "If you want to win this argument with Dad, look in chapter two of the first book of the Feynman Lectures on Physics. There's a quo
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by jack_pp 4y ago
It is a very fun way to learn about science. It was written with the goal to introduce science / rationality ideas through fiction and I would say it does a pretty good job of it. I think the snark comes from "30000$" being s
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by jack_pp 4y ago
Samsung Note?
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by jack_pp 4y ago
It actually froze my thinkpad t490 on Firefox / debian. Had to do a button hard reset
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by jack_pp 4y ago
You sound like you have an inferiority complex, you probably were not blessed with a comparable IQ to the people you describe and resent them for it because in SV that's your most important asset. I'm not that smart compared to th
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by jack_pp 4y ago
I got "Fast Nasio Fox turned unknown dogs"
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by jack_pp 4y ago
It seems we need to have this discussion whenever an uber story is posted so here we go again. You must take into account that uber is global, you are not aware of markets that were very much improved by Uber and subsequently the competitor
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by jack_pp 4y ago
I'd say make it as bog-standard as possible, I'd probably go just with a loading bar or something but you get the idea. Another suggestion is to ask people if they want notifications to threads they've replied in. It's o
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by jack_pp 4y ago
I just signed up, will check it out. First bit of feedback is about the Loading text after sign-up : "Reticulating splines.." while it's cool and makes me smile inside I do believe it might not cause the same effect to the ma
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by jack_pp 4y ago
If you're not using suckless term you're not serious about your job /s
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by jack_pp 4y ago
python doesn't have the same packaging shitshow as JS does though
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by jack_pp 5y ago
> But now in the developed countries we live in an environment that is mostly cleaned from these obviously harmful things I don't agree, sugar is still as popular as ever and age old marketing scams like fruit smoothies being health
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by jack_pp 5y ago
It's about him defaulting on the loan which is not possible considering his shares in Tesla etc. not about him borrowing for investment purposes
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by jack_pp 5y ago
considering how small a % Norway is to apple they probably don't care about eating the cost
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by jack_pp 5y ago
I never stated that miners are doing this, only that crypto mining could enable this new opportunity that never existed before it. I did not check this but Michael Saylor claims that over 40% of mining is done using renewable energy. Consid
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by jack_pp 5y ago
Is buying solar panels and using them creating energy? If so you could do the same thing with your mining proceeds.
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by jack_pp 5y ago
You sell it for dollars and buy energy with it
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by jack_pp 5y ago
What's offensive about it? Today energy generation of any kind has to have a way to transport that energy to a consumer. Bitcoin is in a privileged position of being able to use energy to create value locally to the energy producer. Yo

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