kemotep

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by kemotep 3y ago
I’m fairly certain Microsoft and Sony both take a 30% cut too.
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by kemotep 3y ago
2 years ago I got a letter to take my 2018 RAV4 to the dealer to see if we had a battery mounting issue. Ours did not but still got a free replacement battery and “was confirmed to be secured properly” by the dealership. I guess enough vehi
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by kemotep 3y ago
Is there a solution to trying to limit money laundering that would not be incredibly authoritarian in your opinion?
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by kemotep 3y ago
That’s the thing. Cryptocurrency and blockchains (at least thr way the Bitcoin protocol works) provides for an “easy” way to verify transactions in a low trust or even no trust environment. However most if not all transactions you engage in
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by kemotep 3y ago
I understand. Here in the US 70% of my electricity comes from coal and gas. My county literally passed a law banning solar projects a few years ago because of fear mongering about renewables. The alternative to solar is the status quo of co
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by kemotep 3y ago
Currently the alternative to solar and wind, is coal and gas. Your argument that solar panels cost more in electricity to build and deploy could also be made about nuclear. I agree that we should build more nuclear power plants but do you h
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by kemotep 3y ago
Are you saying that if we don’t build solar panels, we won’t have to use electricity generated by gas and coal?
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by kemotep 3y ago
If Microsoft isn’t wanting to increase their monetization of me after I bought their software why are they 1) inserting ads across all aspects of their OS and products, 2) switching to a subscription based model when one time purchase model
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by kemotep 3y ago
If these changes can 4x the average amount of money each user earns Microsoft but half their users quit because of them, they still have doubled revenue.
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Not sure if you are American or not, but at least from my prospective experience as someone in the US there seems to be a never ending glee from the media in predicting an imminent economic downturn and there were/are constant articles
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by kemotep 3y ago
Really? Only people who do not understand how bitcoin works do not like it and are just not smart enough? This comment being repeated half a dozen times does not make it true or productive to conversation.
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by kemotep 3y ago
They run rsync.net. You would need to pay to backup data to their servers. And you can use more than just rsync to do so.
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by kemotep 3y ago
Codec plays a huge role here. By your calculations the 4k blu-ray box set for Lord of the Rings, Return of the King would take 5 triple layered disks (for both the extended and theatrical versions it comes with) for just the video and no au
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by kemotep 3y ago
Even storing everything in 100 Gigabyte “8k Blu-ray quality chunks”, you would have to be storing 10 Million Movies and TV shows to reach 1 exabyte worth of storage. At an average of 30 minutes each, that would take something like 500 years
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by kemotep 3y ago
Unlike metric, all the different imperial measurements are just combinations of different kinds of initially unrelated measurement systems. So a gallon has absolutely nothing to do with foot, miles are a completely different measurement sys
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by kemotep 3y ago
I can imagine several security issues with accepting any kind of input in your program.
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Bitcoin has a hyper deflationary monetary policy hard coded in.
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by kemotep 3y ago
This year on our local ballot there is a tax levy to approve an increase to the property tax by 5 mills per 100,000 dollars of assessed property value. Allegedly allowing them to raise a few million over the next 10 years to pay off an addi
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by kemotep 3y ago
I am interested in hearing your opinion about Abortion. Specifically this November in Ohio, they are voting on an amendment to the state constitution that would add the right to reproductive health care including but not limited to abortion
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by kemotep 3y ago
I still think that you need to manage some security things even if you are using AWS.
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Sure specific legislation and court rulings that have passed that target LGBT people include things like: * Bans on teaching about the existence of LGBT people[0]. * Bathroom bills[1] that could call for genital inspections that would requi
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by kemotep 3y ago
Could you please elaborate on that last paragraph? Some of those differences in specific policies seem incredibly significant in their outcomes. To say they are meaningless seems a little reductive if not completely false. A great example w
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by kemotep 3y ago
I think it’s more that a one (or even 2) axis political alignment chart is overly simplistic. The article lays out a definition of liberalism that is in opposition to communism and fascism so there is the very least a “triangle” of politica
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by kemotep 3y ago
That data backs up what I am saying though. The national average means nothing, even state averages means nothing if where you are looking for housing, the vacancies are either not high enough to facilitate moving people around or are in co
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by kemotep 3y ago
A vacant 2 bed room 1 bath house in Mansfield Ohio does not help the family of 5 in San Francisco let alone Cleveland. Where the vacancy is and the “quality” so to speak matters a lot. Additionally, some percentage of homes have to be vacan
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by kemotep 3y ago
According to your link the big three are 4 out of the top 5 brands being sold. Ford and GM being #2 and #3 respectively. And by model[0], they make up 8 of the top 25, 5 of the top 10 with the F150 being the #1 selling vehicle. Not everyone
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by kemotep 3y ago
They don’t employ all 150,000 union members and a 40% raise is on average likely to be less than 40,000 but the points are still the same. Reducing the CEO’s salary to give the workers a raise of more than a few cents would require the CEO
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by kemotep 3y ago
More my point is that the shareholders need to accept less profits. It would cost Ford, if they had all 150,000 UAW, only 4% of their profits from last year to give out the 6 billion dollars necessary to give a 40% raise if those workers ma
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by kemotep 3y ago
Is the CEO cut in pay to cover the costs of pay raises? The article mentions that 13,000 workers will be striking but if we round that down to 10,000 a 2 million dollar CEO pay cut would cover a 10 cent per hour pay raise for those workers.
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by kemotep 3y ago
I am no longer able to use the site because of his changes. 10 years of following links from articles or friends and then scrolling threads. I guess it cost more than the ad revanue my click would’ve generated but I can no longer visit the

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