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by kebman 5y ago
OTOH Star Trek has also doors that can read your mind. Notice how they never open until some character actually intends to go out. Now try that at your local mall! I fear that you'll be disappointed... But then considering when Star
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by kebman 5y ago
Assuming the Fed keeps printing more.
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by kebman 5y ago
By his own analysis, he won't lose much, but enough to get annoyed. Looking forward to it! Anyway, I'll give the post this, though. It prompted some good replies, to no credit to the original author.
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If it's so biased and opinionated, what is its value to HN readers? Is there any merit to his opinion? Is there any proof?
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by kebman 5y ago
You'd be surprised.
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by kebman 5y ago
IMHO it should be like this: Read QR code next to dish. It executes order for dish, and subtracts set amount of Bitcoin (perhaps with a confirmation so you're not scammed).
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by kebman 5y ago
A friend of mine already invented a similar filter with the Informed Individual app. It's a filter based app where you can make purchases with filters that align with your own philosophy. So let's say you've got Celiac diseas
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by kebman 5y ago
Ah, math rendering. The last bastion of HTML.
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Awesome work! Very inspiring! :D
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by kebman 5y ago
I spent quite some time researching this a few years ago. Then I finally programmed and generated my own fully working address. It's quite a satisfying journey. But I have to say, Python makes this somewhat less painful than it is in J
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by kebman 5y ago
> It's actually "hlyab" / "hleb", without the extra "k". Not to worry, it's just transliterated like that because it's a velar fricative, sort of like—but not completely similar to—the C
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by kebman 5y ago
Food for thought: Attending a diplomatic dinner where EU liaisons from various police forces were also present, the head investigator of that country—which I shall not name—told me that their country's biggest outflow of crime to other
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by kebman 5y ago
How would you construct a secure zero knowledge proof to do this kind of thing over an API?
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by kebman 5y ago
The Scandinavian usage of tun is akin to a courtyard, or the open space between a (small and fenced in) collection of houses. Again a courtyard can be traced to Middle Lower German hof, and even onwards to Proto-Germanic hufą, which i
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by kebman 5y ago
Just slap the колбаса on the bread instead of your face, and there's your sandwich!
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by kebman 5y ago
Bread in Russian means хлеб (khleb), and in Bulgarian хляб (khlyab). IMHO not so different from Old English hlaf. In Norwegian we use the word loff for white and soft bread, and as far as I know Brits call it a loaf of bread. But
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by kebman 5y ago
I don't buy that. If there's one party benefitting from such tax, it's big players who can afford tighter margins. It's a play that mostly favours monopolists, who can also afford to have "serious studies" made
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by kebman 5y ago
As a consequence of the tax, or because of the risk of rebuilding in a flood zone?
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by kebman 5y ago
This is not about fairness nor liberty. It's about control; incentives and subsidies, made to keep the big bosses in check, and also about making sure they don't get undue competition, since taxation like that makes it harder to c
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by kebman 5y ago
> At least with gold, you can make something with it. Well, no, you can't use Bitcoin for integrated circuitry. Since it's literally bits, it's not useful as jewellery either. So let's put that aside. There isn't
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by kebman 5y ago
Well if you saw it in March, then you're probably right. That's when smart money had already started selling off.
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by kebman 5y ago
Believe me, this drive also comes out of the bureaucratic left too, because dependent people give them far more power then a liberated people with means of their own. Panem et circenses!
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by kebman 5y ago
> You see this a lot in immigration policy. Why do we have so many uneducated and unskilled immigrants with no legal recognition whatsoever, and so little immigration of skilled workers, much of it hobbled by restrictions on labor mobili
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by kebman 5y ago
Well, if you're willing to look for it, there does exist research within political science that shows that "the elites" are systematically favoured in representational democracies, as far as policy implementation goes. In sho
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by kebman 5y ago
The laws are like that, because someone feels that it's not in their interest that people actually get out of poverty. The logic behind that interest is simple. You can't make people dependent on you if you simultaneously give the
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by kebman 5y ago
I'm not sure I understand what you mean. Do you consider the middleman banking system a sign of trust? How about the invasion of privacy required by the state in order to collect taxes? It used to be that humans could exchange value wi
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by kebman 5y ago
Haha. Arguably you got a really good entry after Elon Musk dumped Doge. ;)
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by kebman 5y ago
I didn't say we'd have hyper-inflation. I said we'd have inflation, and the banks are saying that too, btw. What we're seeing now isn't just some seasonal pump, but a huge across the board pump. Of course, if wages
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by kebman 5y ago
Well, since March 2020 the Euro has increased in value to the US Dollar.
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by kebman 5y ago
Well, the ECB is also printing, and the overseas cooperation is pretty good. But it's still visible on the currency charts that something is going on. Just go to Trading View and have a look. Also compare when money printing started

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