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by jsjohnst 6y ago
> Why don't you think they communicate? Probably because it’s the law that there’s barriers put in place, that’s why? Like some communication will inevitably happen, but there are compliance teams who’s job it is to ensure it’s at a
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by jsjohnst 6y ago
> If you don't mind me asking, do you interface with these kind of people? Yes, I do, multiple people in fact (which I refuse to name drop). That’s why I replied to you the way I did in my other sibling comment. Him tweeting it mean
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by jsjohnst 6y ago
> Justin Kan, founder of Twitch and Atrium(net worth over 9 figures) tweeted that he got a tip that Citadel So rich people are never lied to by people they trust? I get it, you trust him, but thinking just because he “has a source” sayin
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by jsjohnst 6y ago
There is no “end of day” only requirement on margin calls. A brokerage firm could margin call you 2min after the market opened, as an example. The trigger is when your account is out of balance with the established risks the brokerage is wi
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by jsjohnst 6y ago
> You really shouldn't trust articles that use metrics like CO2/tx or that claim to have "proven" Bitcoin's environmental impact. So instead I should trust a random person on the internet whose account was create
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by jsjohnst 6y ago
> which is why Bitcoin mining scoops up energy that is either very cheap, renewable or would be wasted otherwise (e.g. remote hydro power plants) You should’ve stopped at cheap, because the second too are conclusively wrong and well prov
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by jsjohnst 6y ago
> Talk about missing the forest for the trees. Exactly. I’d need to do some homework to prove it, but my theory is more power is used every second for Bitcoin than an hour’s worth of videoconferencing worldwide. That said, we have to sta
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by jsjohnst 6y ago
> isn’t applied to the first amendment There are quite a few limits on the first amendment, especially in the context of the current discussion and they’ve been covered both in the media and in comments here on HN at length.
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by jsjohnst 6y ago
> I am old enough to have used NCSA Navigator Not to detract from your core point, but also old enough for the memory of NCSA Mosaic and Netscape Navigator to have merged, it seems. Been happening to me too lately.
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by jsjohnst 6y ago
Yeah, I agree that usually it wouldn’t matter as impeachment trials are not held to the same standards, but a senator could argue a similar angle though. It only takes one charge to convict, so I don’t understand why one wouldn’t one more o
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by jsjohnst 6y ago
“Everyone” collectively knowing someone incited violence unequivocally is very different than proving, in a court of law, that said person incited violence. As another commented, it’s actually really difficult to do because you must prove i
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by jsjohnst 6y ago
> They worked happily with their reps at Apple, Google, and AWS right up until the Friday Night Massacre. Source? That’s the exact opposite of everything I’ve seen, including the CEO’s own public messages.
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by jsjohnst 6y ago
Exactly, it was open source before Apple came along. Guess GP didn’t realize that WebKit is a fork of KHTML from KDE which was LGPL licensed (if memory serves).
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by jsjohnst 6y ago
I wish we could narrow down why some have this experience and others don’t. I’ve connected 8 external monitors (all at once) to three different 16” MBP and still couldn’t produce a similar issue as some have with just one.
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by jsjohnst 6y ago
I was just about to reply the same. I own a handful of Samsung T5 and T7 SSD drives (the new T7 being twice as fast, but also more expensive) and they are great. 1-2TB is sufficient as the internal HD for me (aka make no representation of
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by jsjohnst 6y ago
> excessive intake of HFCS is a lot more harmful to health than excessive intake of sugar is That's mostly an inaccurate myth that has persisted for decades. Despite the "High Fructose" part of the name HFCS, the balance o
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by jsjohnst 6y ago
> Shooting a center of mass is not at all about being "less fatal" Did I say it was? I believe I used the word "potentially" in the reply you are commenting to. The officer was shooting from ~6ft away and had a firm g
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by jsjohnst 6y ago
I agree with you, these folks charging through the Capital and expecting to get away with it were completely deranged.
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by jsjohnst 6y ago
> You betray your ignorance about firearms. You cannot shoot to immobilize. Every shot taken is practically and legally a shot intending to kill. Real life is not a hollywood movie. Someone knowledgeable of the subject, which you imply I
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by jsjohnst 6y ago
Pence would not have been in the House Lobby area, he would've been taken directly from the Senate to a secure area.
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by jsjohnst 6y ago
> And you assume that's everything that happened? There's multiple camera angles which captured the minutes leading up to her death, posted on major news sites like The Washington Post, so no assumption needed. I still don&#x27
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by jsjohnst 6y ago
The video footage from inside the chambers at the time of the shooting showed people were still in chambers, mostly up in the second floor gallery, but a few on the floor.
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by jsjohnst 6y ago
Not siding which way on the terrorism debate, but have to comment on the: > the images I've seen don't seem to demonstrate much violence and very little intimidation on the part of the insurrectionists And say you must not have
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by jsjohnst 6y ago
While it was never my primary bank, I’ve been a Simple customer since it was in beta and still known as Bank Simple. I’ve searched my email, checked the announcements in the app, and checked the website, but there’s no mention of them closi
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by jsjohnst 6y ago
> AFAIK, iSH only runs in TestFlight right? Nope, it’s still in the AppStore[0]. So far, Apple hasn’t followed through on it’s threat. [0] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ish-shell/id1436902243
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by jsjohnst 6y ago
> In the EU, there are lower charges for the merchant when a debit card is used. This is definitely the case in the US. The fees vary between different acquiring banks, merchant gateways and cards, but generally they follow a pattern sim
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by jsjohnst 6y ago
> That's not the way it's been for years If it’s a Visa or MC backed card, it’s always been against their merchant policies to surcharge a CC and merchants can lose their ability to process cards if they do. It definitely hasn’
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by jsjohnst 6y ago
> Is this even real, or just another "build a landing page to see if there is interest"? My guess is somewhere in the middle, but leaning closer to the latter. The reason the backing bank isn’t disclosed is likely it’s not full
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by jsjohnst 6y ago
It depends on what you are needing to optimize for, industrial use is a very broad category. If you’re caring about the SD card’s endurance for reads/writes, I recommend trying the “high endurance SD” cards. I’ve had good luck with the
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by jsjohnst 6y ago
> radically inferior products they feed us in the consumer market I think you need to try to a bit less hyperbolic and stop and apply logic. Out of your own social graph, how many besides yourself would be willing to pay 10-100x the pric

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