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by jfk13 4y ago
I would say it's a nice joke, except that the entire field is so rife with ridiculous claims and pseudo-mathematical claptrap that it's beyond satire... > ZeroStableCoin is the first multi-peg stablecoin: > 1 ZERC = 1$ = 1£
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by jfk13 4y ago
Interesting; maybe it's doing geolocation based on your IP address? It comes up in English for me (connecting from the UK).
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by jfk13 4y ago
While that picture doesn't belong with the article (it's not the Katy freeway mentioned, if indeed it's a genuine photo at all and not a photoshop job), the real thing in Texas seems dystopian enough in its own right: https:
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by jfk13 4y ago
You appear to hold a strongly mechanistic view of humanity (and perhaps of the world as a whole?). Not everyone shares that view. So if you're going to argue from that as a basis, you must expect we won't all share your conclusion
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by jfk13 4y ago
> and you don't control your environment Surely you do control your environment, at least to some degree. E.g. when we were house-hunting, one of the factors that weighed pretty heavily was the environment (neighbourhood, schools,
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> There is a vast amount of legitimate use on the Bitcoin blockchain What kind of legitimate use? If the answer primarily boils down to "cryptocurrency speculation, wash trading, and attempts at get-rich-quick schemes", I won&#
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by jfk13 4y ago
I think you may be misunderstanding how @font-face rules and font-family names work. (Or else I'm not understanding how you're stating it.) See https://www.w3.org/TR/css-fonts-3/#font-family-desc : > I
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by jfk13 4y ago
> Browsers have always loaded a font from the system over a web font if it has a font of that name. This isn't actually accurate. It's possible for a CSS author to write @font-face rules that behave in this way (by including lo
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by jfk13 4y ago
In my experience, if you're reading something that involves constantly clicking a NEXT button, you're generally reading garbage anyhow.
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by jfk13 4y ago
Ah, Hindi. That's not strictly about age, though, is it? It's as much about relative social status (though age may be one factor in that). So you'd potentially say आप to a younger person than yourself in order to show proper
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> a tax break (even if it is only a few cents per resident) is a better use than some programs Very likely so, but which programs exactly? (Are you uniquely well-qualified to make that determination? If not, who is, and how can we know
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by jfk13 4y ago
Are you suggesting that Tesla's FSD bears any relation to AGI?
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by jfk13 4y ago
> 90% of business, social, and civic activity is in London And that imbalance is what we really should be trying to fix. Will HS2 make any difference? I don't know... [edit to add: speaking as one who lives less than 60 miles from c
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by jfk13 4y ago
Or for Chinese, Japanese, Hindi, Greek, Ethiopic, Thai, Korean, etc., etc. ... basically, for any text that uses characters other than the Latin and Cyrillic character sets that the Flow Circular font covers. (Simple example: try https:&#x
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by jfk13 4y ago
Well, partly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Turkey
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by jfk13 4y ago
Weirdly, using Safari on macOS, clicking on the first of the "The Round Table" examples causes the page to unexpectedly reload, "because a problem occurred". Clicking on other examples doesn't do this. Any other Mac
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by jfk13 4y ago
Finally, a comment that makes sense. :)
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> a place one can park money ...that can collapse in value at any time, without regard to real-world economics. Should I really park my retirement savings in Bitcoin, to ensure they don't get inflated away?
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by jfk13 4y ago
> verified users can redeem USDT for USD 1:1 Or maybe not, who knows: "Tether reserves the right to delay the redemption or withdrawal of Tether Tokens if such delay is necessitated by the illiquidity or unavailability or loss of an
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> ecosystem of stablecoins "stable" coins... yes, that's been an interesting ecosystem lately. > access to DeFi yield opportunities with much better "passive" interest than bank deposits or treasuries Not to m
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> it's still rational that it will keep rising to a point that it reaches its true value (whatever that is) Don't ignore the possibility that its "true value" is (or becomes) zero.
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> no use cases besides making money And by "making money", we really mean transferring money from gullible and/or desperate fools to unscrupulous insiders.
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by jfk13 4y ago
Yes! Freshly gathered before breakfast, they're one of the joys of Swedish summer. OK, they're not as convenient to cultivate at scale as the American blueberry, but they easily win on taste!
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Though why you would leave it that close is something of a mystery to me. After all, you might have connectivity problems or an unexpected personal emergency or something. It's not like you didn't know the deadline was coming up..
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My (96 year old) father is quite sure that every such system worked far better before computers got involved. In some cases, perhaps he's right.
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Perseverance: NASA rover begins key drive to find life on Mars(bbc.co.uk)
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by jfk13 4y ago
The greatest design can be undermined by careless content. Spell-check. Proofread. If writing isn't your strength, get a competent editor and proof-reader to help. A big, bold title with a grammatical error such as "create a great
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by jfk13 4y ago
> I imagine in Europe, it's probably Paris and London that draws both French/British and foreigners. For some people, I'm sure, but don't assume everyone wants the same kind of life. I could live in London if I chos
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And even more tons of junk. Consume with care.
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by jfk13 4y ago
Or transmute base metals into gold.

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