jkepler

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by jkepler 3y ago
If its an open secret (like the open mystery in Ephesians 3:9,10), can you provide some sources to substantiate your claim? Thanks!
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by jkepler 3y ago
Did you run generate this comment using social-comments-GPT? https://social-comments-gpt.com/ Just because someone's post is clear, well-structured, and includes a final recap doesn't mean it was AI-generated. The
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by jkepler 3y ago
Isn't the root of this problem bigger than Amazon? If we had a fixed money supply and the federal government wasn't printing money all the time, Amazon (and other mega corporations) wouldn't have such a compelling target for
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by jkepler 3y ago
> [1] Or, more specifically, the consumer dollar is impulsive. This exactly. When folks buy the idea that their primary identity is as consumers, they loose the ability to resist all the psych-ops marketing constantly thrown at them (at
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by jkepler 3y ago
Are you talking about drivers or riders using multiple platforms? Or both?
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by jkepler 3y ago
Also, assuming you're writing from a United States perspective, part of the reason so much of our manufacturing sector was outsourced to China (and other nations) is that since 1971 the US dollar has been our primary export, as the glo
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by jkepler 3y ago
My comment is regarding whether ideas fall in the same category as physical goods. Ideas are fundamentally different, in that they're non-scarce unless we make them scarce via intellectual property laws. And I question whether those la
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by jkepler 3y ago
Imagine we're a primitive people in a forest village. If I steal your ax, that's theft. However, if I see your ax, and make my own ax based on your idea, did I steal anything from you? In the 2nd scenarios above, you may have to w
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by jkepler 3y ago
Generally, technology is reduces prices, so if that were commercialized the prices would come down... provided the growing money supply doesn't negate tech deflation.
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by jkepler 4y ago
For basic office tasks and browsing the Internet, Debian stable won't waste your time: it should just work.
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by jkepler 4y ago
"J" = jour
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by jkepler 4y ago
The Fed printing money affects the whole world as long as the US dollar is the global reserve currency.
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by jkepler 4y ago
I'm not sure its fair to say inflation is falling. Across Europe at least, I keep hearing about rising inflation in food prices---and that affects the most poor among us the most. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35
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by jkepler 4y ago
But at least according to La-Croix.com, the supposed 14% increase in food thefts doesn't bear out in the data. https://www.la-croix.com/France/Inflation-vraiment-hausse-vo...
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by jkepler 4y ago
I really appreciate seat61.com when I need to book train travel. The site is full of info as to when and where to book to get the best price, as well as what level of service various trains in various countries provide.
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by jkepler 4y ago
Not disagreeing with your sequence of events, as reduced energy production and wars do send prices higher. But, there's another sequence to consider that I think is simultaneously happening: economic production makes a widget represent
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by jkepler 4y ago
Dropping your cynical take, and for reasons other than buying illegal services, bitcoin plus strong privacy tools provides a path towards eventually separating money payments from identity. Money is a form of speech, in that it communicates
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by jkepler 4y ago
Bitcoin isn't anonymous, its pseudonymous. Unless one is extremely careful and takes a number of secondary steps, bitcoin won't protect your identity.
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by jkepler 4y ago
About 509 years ago the Dutch invented common stock in companies, creating a new way for humans to work together. That had long-term sociological impact in society. Today, there are people who have created new ways of working together by bu
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by jkepler 4y ago
> A Ponzi scheme pays profits to earlier investors with funds from more recent investors. You just described how Social Security in the USA is funded. Its billed as government-run social insurance, but funded as a ponzi.
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by jkepler 4y ago
I agree. However, it can be tough finding documentation how to use plain TeX. I find that increasingly I'm using OpTeX, which is a much smaller set of macros than LaTeX, simpler this use, understand, and reason about. https:/&#x2
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by jkepler 4y ago
I heard a researcher speaking on how litigation against playground owners in the 1970s in the USA over injuries and in one case a child fatality drove the more stringent playground regulations. However, the unintended consequence was an inc
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by jkepler 4y ago
The difference I've seen between these in Paris (and elsewhere in France) and the few I saw in Berlin was that nearly all the French playgrounds have that spongy artificial ground, while the German playgrounds more often have a natural
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by jkepler 4y ago
Can anyone who's played with this let me know if its something a 7-year old who has ideas about game making could try out?
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by jkepler 4y ago
Biometric phone security is only secure until a judge or police officer compels you to unlock your phone; and legally you must comply, because your face or finger aren't speech. However, if you use a passphrase, (at least in the US and
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by jkepler 4y ago
No, SMS-based 2FA is the security problem due to SIM-swapping attacks. Loss of a phone with a 2FA authenticator app isn't a security problem, unless one failed to make backups of the 2FA secrets for restauring.
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by jkepler 4y ago
The fact that Coinbase offers 2FA via an app is already potentially more secure than most US banks. It would be far better if Coinbase defeated to TOTP for 2FA.
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by jkepler 4y ago
My bank still forces me to rely on 2FA via SMS. I would live to find a US bank that would let me use a OTP 2FA app. Any suggestions?
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by jkepler 4y ago
Keep your money in a bank and basicly they owe you a debt. If the bank goes belly-up, you stuck hoping FDIC insurance covers you. Not your keys, not your coins. If one has significant savings in bitcoin, one needs to hold the private keys o
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by jkepler 4y ago
Perhaps Indian author Vishal Mangalwadi's example of the mathematical theory behind the mechanical clock would illustrate the flow of ideas well. He wrote (I'm going my memory here, so I don't have his exact dates) that an In

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