kadoban

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by kadoban 3y ago
Tor was created to allow contacting people securely from within restrictive regimes, wasn't it? Doesn't seem like the same thing to me. The US has a history of free speech advocacy, not of encouraging others to be able to spend mo
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by kadoban 3y ago
As far as the US government is concerned, this primary effect of Bitcoin and other crypto is a weakening of their ability to enforce sanctions and prevent money laundering. If Bitcoin was a government program, it probably wasn't the US
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by kadoban 3y ago
Yeah there's a lot of that even in the first Dune book. The Fremen's leader is an ecologist and they're explicitly collecting water and preparing to change the entire world to be greener and more livable.
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by kadoban 3y ago
Nit just because it's interesting (to me at least): carbon dating is never useful on things this old. The halflife of carbon-14 is so short that by about 50k years you're pushing it to about its limit. But yeah there's all ki
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by kadoban 3y ago
> Ok here’s the problem. What hubris does it take to assume the fundamental constants could be changed? Just because they appear in math equations doesn’t mean they can be twiddled and tweaked like programming variables. We have no prior
606.
by kadoban 3y ago
A couple of the constants it's easy (for a real physicist, not for me) to prove there's no interesting structure to the universe anymore if they vary even a little. Like, no molecules are possible. So there's a question there
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by kadoban 3y ago
For most people, "wherever you want" is going to be with the outside edges a bit wider than your shoulders and vaguely parallel to a little diagonal. That's not possible with really any pair of full keyboards I've ever h
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by kadoban 3y ago
It's different if you're just trying to get what you're obviously owed (especially if small-claims covers it) vs trying to stop the employer from pulling the same shit over and over.
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by kadoban 3y ago
You can't trivially move pieces with magnets, what about ones that are surrounded? It also just feels cooler to have a robot arm do it.
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by kadoban 3y ago
It's not _completely_ wrong necessarily. As having a giant office for every worker, every day stops being necessary, more flexible work spaces could make sense.
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by kadoban 3y ago
I would 100% pick the company laptop. I don't like installing random crap on my own machines, which there'd be no non-awkward way to avoid otherwise.
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by kadoban 3y ago
> Ok... and why is it possible to charge a minor as an adult? In short: because laws were written to allow or require it in certain circumstances (combination of age and alleged crime).
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by kadoban 3y ago
Nobody goes there, it's too crowded.
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by kadoban 3y ago
My editor, I press tab once and it inserts the correct number of spaces (on a new line it also starts at the previous indentation level as appropriate). I press backspace once and it deletes the correct number of spaces. Any editor used for
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by kadoban 3y ago
I make no representation either way on that part, I have no idea. I only wanted to discuss the other part.
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by kadoban 3y ago
> I love how the general tone is "information is free!" unless of course when the one benefitting from it is China, in which case everyone suddenly gets out their magnifying glasses and GPL licenses. I have _never_ gotten the &
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by kadoban 3y ago
This is not true in a correctly configured editor.
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by kadoban 3y ago
> And forbidding it makes a one-keystroke action a two or four one. This isn't a tabs or spaces issue. This is a "your editor is bad or configured wrong" issue.
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by kadoban 3y ago
Interestingly it seems to say you have to agree to all of that, and that if you break it your agreement to use shredded currency may be revoked, but it doesn't make any reference to laws or "we'll come arrest your ass" l
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by kadoban 3y ago
Why not just tell them honestly? I can't really imagine what law you'd be breaking, I doubt anybody thought to make one against this.
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by kadoban 3y ago
I couldn't find any other reason for that article to be referenced mostly. Seems like you're probably right though.
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by kadoban 3y ago
Yes. Freeze/thaw cycles are _remarkably_ destructive though. Water expands with insane pressure if it gets caught in any little cavities or grooves. You're very likely to destroy it over time, if not immediately.
623.
by kadoban 3y ago
Plus even if you use distilled water, it'll probably find something to disolve a bit of if you keep in on your electronics for long and then it'll conduct a lot better.
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by kadoban 3y ago
It's a quote from the first link, about the crater. I believe the meaning is that the crater was named after the actress, and presumably copied the spelling of her name.
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by kadoban 3y ago
Lithium isn't found as a pure element, if that's what you mean. It's part of minerals bound up into stable molecules. So it won't blow up. It's very hard to find anything volatile in nature, pretty much by definitio
626.
by kadoban 3y ago
Doesn't sound likely to me. I looked it up and what happens is that over long time periods in sunlight, CFCs lose a chlorine radical, and that chlorine radical lives for a long time and catalyzes ozone to turn into normal oxygen molecu
627.
by kadoban 3y ago
That's very interesting, I've never heard of that. Of course that couldn't do really anything about typical airbourne diseases, but it should help "clean" surfaces somewhat. I wonder if anyone has studied the effect
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by kadoban 3y ago
Speakers and a certain kind of microphone are exactly the same thing at the basic level. Sound hitting the diaphram (the bit that moves to produce sound) of a speaker will cause a voltage to be produced on the speaker wires that can be reco
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by kadoban 3y ago
Timing is important. D was like year 2000, Rust 2015 or something? A lot had changed in the meantime.
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by kadoban 3y ago
> there was a defund the police movement in 2020 There was a decent amount of _talk_ for some time by mostly fringe figures. What major police departments were in _any_ way defunded by any stretch? None. Not one. > along with decrimin

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