kafkaIncarnate

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by kafkaIncarnate 5y ago
Does Jack Dorsey know this? Or does he just think hyperinflation is just like saying gigamegaultrainflation++?
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by kafkaIncarnate 5y ago
This piece strikes me as very similar to the concepts outlined in the book "Deaths of Despair" by Anne Case and Angus Deaton. This was a fantastic read. The callous indifference to society at large is kind of sickening in about h
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by kafkaIncarnate 5y ago
Who said they "cared"? I said intercepted. They basically intercept everything, and specifically will capture everything they monitor of terrorists. > In the years since 9/11, police raids of terrorist cells in the Unite
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by kafkaIncarnate 5y ago
There was a messaging system before Frost. You can go look that up, I'm not doing this for you because you are calling me a troll, which is a great way to end civilized discourse and end any attempt at reasonable conversation. I never
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by kafkaIncarnate 5y ago
The principle remains, which makes it possible for anyone to do on any blockchain really. Encoding an image into the message of a transaction (or spanned over multiple transactions) should be fairly straightforward even with a simple bitco
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by kafkaIncarnate 5y ago
Freenet requires your hard drive to allocate ~2GB of raw space of encrypted unknown data that basically makes your machine a "node" in the network. Whatever is in that cache you will never be able to know, as it's encrypted
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by kafkaIncarnate 5y ago
No I did not mean that. I meant what I said, not whatever you read. Which one of us is on drugs is up for debate. I do not believe the NSA is sitting around studying X-Files. They largely are analyzing and investigating large quantities
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by kafkaIncarnate 5y ago
More like pictures of modern child abuse, child slavery (IE: ownership, sale, etc), and brutal torturous murder. Basically anything you've thought of the NSA or other intelligence agencies intercepting, it was wide out in the open ther
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by kafkaIncarnate 5y ago
Okay I understand what you're saying, but I'm not sure why this is being used as an argument against teaching personal finance... Academic vs. real life is a strange debate to me. It seems that to some people that academics itsel
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by kafkaIncarnate 5y ago
That's literally what my personal finance class taught in high school as a part of the government mandated financial literacy class. How to budget. Why to budget. How to write a check. What is a bank account? How to open a bank acc
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by kafkaIncarnate 5y ago
Or maybe because when you start to educate someone, they throw a textbook at another student and they have to interrupt the class to deal with disciplinary measures and EMTs. At that point, sure it becomes babysitting for the rest of the s
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by kafkaIncarnate 5y ago
> You probably don't remember learning much about money or finance in high school. I do. > A 2014 meta-analysis of 169 papers and 201 studies, however, found that "interventions to improve financial literacy explain only 0.1
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by kafkaIncarnate 5y ago
I've personally noticed a lot of phone text spam being FROM email addresses recently. I think they are just abusing some feature in MMS, though, not SMS. It's weird seeing a list of phone numbers (usually SMS two-factor), some c
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by kafkaIncarnate 5y ago
> The DMCA notice itself only contains the repo name and the DMCA submitter. https://docs.github.com/en/github/site-policy/guide-to-submi... > Provide your contact information. Include your email addres
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by kafkaIncarnate 5y ago
I think this is a reference to Subproject 54. Take this information as you wish (pg. 40): https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/hear... > Senator SCHWEIKER. Subproject 54, MKULTRA, which
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by kafkaIncarnate 5y ago
I'm not sure what Biden's booster plan is, but if it's a blanket booster mandate it's against the concepts of science. In addition to the letter that they gave: https://www.thelancet.com/pb-assets/La
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by kafkaIncarnate 5y ago
I never said anything about not trying new tools, I'm talking about obsession, and it's become an addiction in some people. This is younger people than me AND older people than me. To the point that they aren't USING the to
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by kafkaIncarnate 5y ago
> Would be interesting to have an entire website like this where you can tune to any day and hear the news. And eventually more than just media. When you mix archive.org Wayback Machine and the back footage of many of the news networks h
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by kafkaIncarnate 5y ago
> I spend a fair amount of time on Zoom calls (who doesn't?) I'm way more productive with email and just a couple phone calls a week as needed.
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by kafkaIncarnate 5y ago
Most likely energy drinks + Adderall + financial insecurity. Adderall, Meth, same thing.
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by kafkaIncarnate 5y ago
I'm one of those 20 year VIM guys. After about 2 years I had a config that I haven't touched since. I could easily go without it, too, and frequently find myself on servers that I forgot to copy it over and didn't even noti
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by kafkaIncarnate 5y ago
I think those exposed to the Bible and heavy handed religion at a young age are predisposed to doomsday like tendencies due to the brutality of the old testament, and how it is frequently taught in American churches. Some are not exposed to
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by kafkaIncarnate 5y ago
It's decades of antivirus style mindsets (we'll just clean up after), mixed with formerly being in law "enforcement" (we can't do anything until AFTER the law is broken), mixed with decades of "security by obsc
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by kafkaIncarnate 5y ago
"You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain." -Harvey Dent
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by kafkaIncarnate 5y ago
They won't. You'll have lists and lists and lists, and they'll just say "you live in a society, you have no reasonable expectation of privacy", and then expect you replace your walls with glass on your house. They&
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by kafkaIncarnate 5y ago
"It fell within the acceptable matrix risk parameters."
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by kafkaIncarnate 5y ago
REALLY misleading. They created this feature for Mr. Robot, the TV show, too: https://protonmail.com/blog/protonmail-mr-robot-secure-email... Scroll down to comment: > Liam, October 14, 2015 at 10:30 PM > But h
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by kafkaIncarnate 5y ago
I agree with most of this, but recommending using computer repair shops is a bit sketchy... The smaller ones would have staff that would need the money more than GeekSquad, too, so it's probably all on lock now. https://www
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by kafkaIncarnate 5y ago
But all the lost internet points...
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by kafkaIncarnate 5y ago
CryptoPunks are just an individual art group of Pog designers that don't issue Pogs, so it's Pogs minus the plastic waste of Pogs plus the energy waste of the ETH blockchain. Is it really that valuable? Kinda. There are a lot of

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