jkepler

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by jkepler 4y ago
One can generate one's private keys by physically rolling dice and choosing words, thus avoiding the problem of rigged random number generators. The government still doesn't control physics (or economic laws, come to think of it!)
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by jkepler 4y ago
Wouldn't a digital pound give the government direct view of people's financial transactions? Right now they don't they at least need a court order (i.e. they'd have to prove probably cause) to compel a bank to give them
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by jkepler 4y ago
Wasn't it just the day before yesterday that Bill Gates famously said nobody would ever need more than 64 KB storage? It /is/ amazing the progress we've seen in our lifetimes. I remember life before the web (http) was in
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by jkepler 4y ago
Classic Thinkpad repairability/hackability.
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by jkepler 4y ago
Helpful thought process, as I've defaulted for a while to older machines I have around, but now I question how much power they're drawing. I've never really considered power more than how long do my laptop batteries last. Do
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by jkepler 4y ago
I heartily agree. I have an old Asus netbook (castoff from a family member who switched to computing nearly exclusively on her smartphone; the machine originally ran MeeGo Linux on a 8GB internal disk) that runs Debian stable, slowly, but I
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by jkepler 4y ago
Do you mean your laptop runs Devuan? I get that is nearly the same as Debian, but does it include the Debian social contract and community? Isn't it a separate project? https://www.debian.org/social_contract
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by jkepler 4y ago
My first website, which I started in 1999, was first crawled by archive.org in 2005. I think that it was a few years late the computer science department decided to no longer allow alumni to have free home pages, and I lost access to the si
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by jkepler 4y ago
Art is more necessary to survival than one might think. Consider the "Quartet for the End of Time,[1] an eight-movement piece of chamber music by the French composer Olivier Messiaen, written and first performed while he was a Nazi pri
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by jkepler 4y ago
Yes, indeed! Children have a huge capacity for stories that engage their imaginations, creativity, and open sense of wonder. And, I think if we're honest, kids are often more honest critics than adults. Author of "A Wrinkle in Tim
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by jkepler 4y ago
Isn't there load and loads more government regulation and control on nuclear reactors compared with semiconductors?
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by jkepler 4y ago
Or Syncthing
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by jkepler 4y ago
Do you have evidence of this claim? One Protestant ministry I find helpful equips protestants to understand the Christian gospel and contemporary paganism by drawing on the rich heritage of Irenaeus's apologetic defense against the pag
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by jkepler 4y ago
> They all share the same god ... Except that they don't share the same god. The Christian God is triune, one God existing in the three distinct persons of Father, Son, and Spirit, which the Jews and Muslims both reject. Further, th
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by jkepler 4y ago
Could they dig or melt a tunnel to the wood? If the snow were melted and then refroze as ice at the bottom of the tunnel, one could then slid the wood back to the tunnel entrance... Hardship breeds creativity. Necessity is the mother of inv
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by jkepler 4y ago
Bus fare, then a homeless shelter until you find work in your new city?
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by jkepler 4y ago
Doesn't credit score also incorporate depth of payment (not sure if that's the term, but a history of paying back a large debt)? A financial adviser once told me, when I was three years out of university and had finished paying of
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by jkepler 4y ago
Do you have a more elegant solution to share?
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by jkepler 4y ago
Yeah, exactly. I'm all for caring well for the planet---people working to promote the flourishing of all life---yet we can't get there with anti-human deep green philosophical commitments. And strong anti-nuclear rhetoric is exact
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by jkepler 4y ago
Or beanie caps that use a IR laser to target and blind surveillance cameras like in Doctorow's "Pirate Cinema" novel.
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by jkepler 4y ago
I have a Brother color inkjet, since 2015. The first few years were great but now its been a royal hastle to get it to print more than a page or two at a time. I've been considering switching to B&W laser. Thanks for the model reco
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by jkepler 4y ago
Is the color toner super-expensive?
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by jkepler 4y ago
Large unaccountable international institutions like the IMF and World Bank need to stop their economic colonialist patterns of extracting resources from poor countries if we're going to build an equitable world and be able to face envi
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by jkepler 4y ago
I think squat pots are anatomically better than simply sitting.
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by jkepler 4y ago
In France, I generally don't see lids on public toilets. In fact, its pretty common to see toilets without seats---vandalized or perhaps removed for maintenance, I'm not sure. (Maybe someone French has an idea why the seats are of
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by jkepler 4y ago
Or eat straight from the pan/bag/fridge/dumpster, whatever.
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by jkepler 4y ago
Yes, but they also didn't study how this affects people---their work was all /in vivo/, and they call for more study at the end.
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by jkepler 4y ago
Use Guinness - it does a great job rinsing the mouth and throat after any meal. After all, Guinness---its not just a breakfast drink.
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by jkepler 4y ago
They call for further study at the end, acknowledging that their data was all /in vivo/ in a lab, and not direct data in humans. Thus, while they claim to have demonstrated a mechanism, they make no claims that it works the same w
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by jkepler 4y ago
That because media coverage is generally anti-bitcoin mining. What many don't understand is that bitcoin mining at industrial scale incentivizes energy production, because the miners seek out cheap, otherwise underutilized energy (ot

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