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by johnyzee 6y ago
FWIW, during the (first) IMF default in Argentina, when the local economy and monetary system was in total collapse, gold was the most sought after item for trade and barter. People consistently said afterwards that they wished they had kep
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by johnyzee 6y ago
What kind of storage? A safe deposit box in a bank runs like $20 a month around here.
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by johnyzee 6y ago
> regular people aren’t equipped to store gold in their homes I don't see why not? I have never had a break-in, but if I did I'm sure I could hide a few kilos well enough that a regular burglar would never find it. Either way,
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by johnyzee 6y ago
I partly base the 'most' part on seeing how widespread the idea is here on HN, which I generally consider to consist of reasonable, and mostly liberal leaning, white people. Honestly, though the BLM movement is a nice gesture, it
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by johnyzee 6y ago
> Financial reparations to African American communities are key, argues Prof Baradaran This seems obvious and fair. Blacks have never been given a fair chance in America. > In 1863, when President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Procl
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by johnyzee 6y ago
That's insane. When I saw the stream, I thought those were official vessels. The SpaceX commentators were cool and didn't make a big deal about it. To think that random people would have so little self awareness is mindboggling.
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by johnyzee 6y ago
> maybe take a break or try and fix the world That's kind of what I was thinking. You have full control over one of the world's largest corporations and war chests, what better chance will anyone ever get to try to fix the worl
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by johnyzee 6y ago
For those curious, there was never an 'Amiga ST'. The headline is just a play on the competition between Amiga and the Atari ST.
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by johnyzee 6y ago
So have Larry and Sergei completely checked out? It seems a little weird that they would just turn their back completely on the company they created with their own hands. Particularly since they still have the controlling interest, and coul
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by johnyzee 6y ago
Thanks, was looking for non-paywall version.
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by johnyzee 6y ago
Pure political news. Get this off HN.
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by johnyzee 6y ago
Related to these mysterious federal agents in unmarked cars, I've often wondered how private citizens are supposed to protect themselves against someone impersonating law enforcement. In this case, the 'officers' were not eve
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by johnyzee 6y ago
Surveillance, information security, close enough, I'll allow it.
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by johnyzee 6y ago
I believe the images are quite aggressively recolored and cleaned up. The narrator states that the original images would be reddish and hazy.
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by johnyzee 6y ago
They 'may be', but they're not. They are on opposing sides of a huge regional political divide, and pretty much in cold war against eachother.
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by johnyzee 6y ago
The EU zone as a whole just adjusted their projection for the year to contract 8.3%, FWIW. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/07/eu-cuts-economic-forecasts-f...
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You Can Now Buy Bitcoin at CVS, 7-Eleven(forbes.com)
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by johnyzee 6y ago
You can buy bitcoin at 7-11 and CVS now, with only a $5 fee: https://www.forbes.com/sites/colinharper/2020/06/23/you-can-...
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by johnyzee 6y ago
These electric cargo bikes are a hazard. They have a lot of mass and drive really fast, using infrastructure intended for human-powered vehicles. Getting hit by one of these would be not much different than getting hit by a small car, yet t
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by johnyzee 7y ago
Yes.
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by johnyzee 7y ago
The history of 'paper gold', in all its forms, including many national currencies until they floated in the 70s, is one of 'detachment' from the actual gold by the issue of more paper than what was backed by actual goods
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by johnyzee 7y ago
Don't use URL shorteners.
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by johnyzee 7y ago
Cixin Liu's book Ball Lightning brilliantly incorporates this phenomenon into the plot, for anyone interested in a sci-fi book recommendation. (Of course, his Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy is amazing too and required reading
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by johnyzee 7y ago
Google just lost a top percentile developer over their open floor plan. Literally irreplaceable. But they saved a few dollars on space. That is being penny wise and pound foolish, particularly for a company like Google who is not capital co
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by johnyzee 7y ago
> the social networking site everyone you know is on As for Facebook the site, this is less and less true. I have kids cross different age ranges, and Facebook is not a thing at all for any of them or their social groups. And whenever so
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by johnyzee 7y ago
Funny. PG is right on every point (and most of his criticisms hold true today), yet Java still became one of the most succesful programming languages ever.
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by johnyzee 7y ago
I'm fascinated by heliostats. Living in an apartment, I have always wanted to put up 'suncatchers' outside my windows and lead sunlight in through fibre optics to all the corridors and darker rooms. Something like this [1][2]
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by johnyzee 8y ago
How does it improve latency? The device it is connected to is already internet connected and there is no meaningful latency between the controller and the device. So how does the on-board wifi help? Adding wifi to a device for no reason is
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by johnyzee 8y ago
Google is also launching a new Stadia Controller that [...] will work with the Stadia service by connecting directly through Wi-Fi to link it to a game session in the cloud. This will presumably help with latency and moving a game from one
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by johnyzee 8y ago
"It doesn't work." <-- "It's still in development! Be patient!" "It will never work." <-- "It's already in production! You can use it right now!"

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