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by krrrh 6y ago
And it’s estimated that there area only around 1 million active Bitcoin wallets.
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Just scanning the paper and there are other major limitations that didn’t make it into the summary. They don’t control for other activities that screens may substitute for such as active physical play, having books read to them, active exer
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It was the best and best of times.
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Mandatory driving school and a much harder exam. When I lived there I was able to swap my home country drivers license for a German one and bypass the whole system. I will say that German’s drive very well, and the training and gatekeeping
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Wow, there’s a name I have not heard in a long long time. Thanks for the waves of nostalgia.
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Traditionally collectors do have legal control over the display of a work even if it is digital. For instance a film artist may sell three editions of a short film and keep an artists edition for loaning to museums. If one of the copies is
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This is actually how lots of photographer artists operate. For instance it’s common for a piece to have 3 editions, and I don’t know of any cases where the artist just decided to produce extra copies after te original production, except for
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The Venn diagram overlap between people with sizeable art collections and people who don’t back up their computers and store their passwords on a piece of paper under their keyboards is definitely not zero.
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Isn't this true of any asset? You’re not really addressing GPs concern that the term “store of value” usually applies to more stable valued assets. > You have arbitrarily chosen a frame of reference which fits your existing world-vi
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Anyone who’s been involved with crypto for more than a month or tried to help people to sign their email with PGP knows how often people lose their keys even when access to fungible cryptocurrencies is on the line. So what happens to the sh
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I’ll admit to being a bit facetious in my comment, but I really appreciated your thoughtful reply. There are definitely cases where the extra expense and inefficiency is worth it because of being able to route around broken centralized syst
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The world computer idea does help to understand it. If you are playing a game or running some other processes on your discrete computer sometimes you accidentally pin the CPU, RAM, and IO, then you’ll run into issues where copying files to
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There was Shoeboxed over a decade ago, looks like it’s still around. I think there have been others in the meantime.
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I got the free year and then got hooked on Ted Lasso and For All Mankind, both of which would fit into the upper tier of Netflix’s programming. Some of their nature shows are also great. TV plus, News, Fitness, and Arcade ended up being an
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They’re both still subject to entropy and the rules of the physical universe in a way that digital isn’t.
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Canada’s National Post delivered on this front, but generally speaking the media have been significantly more absurd than when they were all afraid to publish the Mohammed cartoons. https://nationalpost.com/entertainment&#x2
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He was actively campaigning against racism well before he adopted the name Dr Seuss, even if he occasionally fetishized foreign cultures along with caricatures of local cultures. https://twitter.com/daBookdragon/status&
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> Does this means cartoon caricatures are only acceptable if they are of white westerners? They cancelled Apu from the Simpson’s without understanding that his presence on the show demonstrated a mainstreaming of Indian immigrants, in a
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This isn’t even that theoretical. Born again Christian Kanye has expressed regret for some of his older secular music. A lot of Kanye fans live in fear of him suddenly deleting his back catalogue from the streaming services. If the major re
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I really miss the anti-copyright radicalism that used to suffuse hacker culture in the early naughts. The Seuss estate should have the same power to limit publication of these books as Shakespeare’s heirs would have to stop publication of t
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Or the already widely adopted Hispanic.
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In Canada it was introduced as part of the Employment Insurance system. I think that’s a good way to look at it and spread the costs across the workforce. It doesn’t replace your full wages (I think it’s 55%, though some employers top it up
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I just had my first at 45, and it is worth it, but I do now appreciate the wisdom of my friends who did this in their twenties.
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Parts of what she wrote are similar to parts of what James Damore wrote, and he was fired for it.
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That's interesting, and it's the first I've heard of the project. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like Apple has yet released the adaptors to the open source project [1]. As much as I'm not interested in having Apple
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It's interesting to watch consumer behaviour around Telegram's growth and how much value people place on preserving conversation history at the expense of security and privacy. Even people who are aware that e2e encryption is only
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s/doesn’t cost/costs/
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Ah, makes sense.
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OP didn’t say anything about Dr Seuss. He may have been referring to this or other direct actions by Amazon. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26262815
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I never said that wasn’t the case. Outside of being a Jainist monk, there’s no escaping that your life on this planet doesn’t cost other animals’ lives. If you were to argue that all lives are equally important (I wouldn’t, but lots of vega

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