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by kukx 6y ago
I think what you are trying to say is that future will look bleak for drivers. It does not mean humans in general though. Drivers will be replaced by more cost efficient and often more reliable robots. But the upside is lower prices, more f
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by kukx 6y ago
It also gets a bad rep because of Oracle.
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by kukx 6y ago
Nice idea. Why not a single character for hours and minutes? It could make a cool watch face.
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by kukx 6y ago
"If, say, a US adversary creates a great-looking video of the US president doing/saying something really heinous (...)" Did we not see enough fake stories about US presidents already? The DeepFakes are not really needed to fa
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by kukx 6y ago
Well, let's merge both narrations: they need to, if they choose to pursue the leadership in the global market ;)
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by kukx 6y ago
And a religious person would say that we should follow ten commandments. Should we make it illegal not to follow them? Should we move toward punishing the sinners by law? I am against immoral behavior but it does not mean I am for banning s
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by kukx 6y ago
"Let's pay them." Ok, with whose money? I am all for good pay for everyone. The problem begins when we detach the pay from the value created by the worker. In many cases worker may become too expensive to hire. So trying to f
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by kukx 6y ago
Yes, it is similar to how creating inflation by the government is just a way to tax poor and the middle class, without actually rising taxes.
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by kukx 6y ago
CPI measures a basket of goods and these will differ from country to country. But, let's assume the US government does a good job on estimating the increase in the consumer prices for an average citizen. Still it does not address the p
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Singapore university develops special aerogel that turns air into drinking water(sea.mashable.com)
19 points by kukx 6y ago|3 comments
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by kukx 6y ago
Define arcane. You can type "man dd" and acquire the required knowledge, it is not hidden. Whatever the intention was the syntax is simple and pleasant to use, at least for me ;)
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by kukx 6y ago
> "no other ..." Do you realize that anyone can make a cli tool with whatever syntax they like? :) Also, see "man xm", which uses quite similar approach. And there are probably many other examples.
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by kukx 6y ago
> arcane and bizarre command-line syntax It is not arcane, you just have to read docs, like for every command line tool. Different cli applications have different syntaxes usually influenced by their domains, eg compare find, tcpdump, ip
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by kukx 6y ago
> Housing itself, like stocks, is considered an asset and is not part of inflation. The CPI is an arbitrary indicator set and counted by the government in secrecy, the same entity that has the incentive to keep its value low. Even if som
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by kukx 6y ago
There is the CPI, but it does not represent all prices. House prices and stock went up a lot, in many cases to irrational levels. The young people without a house feel the pain. They will inherit the national debt as well. Now the commodity
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by kukx 6y ago
The money printed to finance the government debt is not backed by a production of value. It just increases the money supply, while not increasing the amount of goods that one can buy with that money, hence by nature it is inflationary, ie i
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by kukx 6y ago
He predicted the financial crisis. And predicting is hard, especially, if you have a "creative" government. The underlying problem was postponed, not fixed, and it got bigger in the mean time. I do not agree with him on everything
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by kukx 6y ago
Some counter perspective laid out by Peter Schiff, while I do not agree with everything said, I find it valuable and entertaining: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6k0QEnYpSQ
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by kukx 6y ago
These are all arbitrary numbers. Besides, I am not convinced that a democracy is better than a republic. Additional layers of competent people and detachment from the current will of majority has benefits and mitigates the rule of the mob.
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Critical NTFS bug in Windows 10 can corrupt HDD/SSD filesystem(guru3d.com)
4 points by kukx 6y ago|0 comments
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by kukx 6y ago
There is a risk of radicalization of masses. And banning people will not help with reversing it. They will find another way to communicate and the tech giants will no longer be able to challenge the flawed message. And the ideas should be c
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by kukx 6y ago
I disagree. People will find ways to mess things up even if they have the resources.
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by kukx 6y ago
Or is it really? I am honestly curious what are the arguments? I can find one to the opposite, like humans did not evolve in the arc welding environment, while the cruelty was not unknown to our ancestors. I would expect that there are many
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by kukx 6y ago
The resources are limited. What is better, employ more people with a smaller pay or less people with a higher pay. I understand that this kind of job is not for everyone. And I assume the potential employees are well informed about it. And
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by kukx 6y ago
You can always put a vpn before mac eg using some Cisco or Linux based. Although it is obviously more complicated and expensive.
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by kukx 6y ago
It is a failure of imagination to think that everything can be bought. Many things do not have a monetary equivalent.
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by kukx 6y ago
"and give you piece of mind that what you own is yours and no one is going to take it by force" except for the government that takes stuff by force eg by collecting taxes etc.
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by kukx 6y ago
It is your sister. You probably talk to her. Try convincing her. If you fail, is the Facebook to be blamed? I do not think so.
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by kukx 6y ago
Well exactly, it is a borrowed money and everyone will have to pay it back in some way, for example through taxation or more likely via inflation (things will get more expensive, so people will be able to afford less). The weakest, poorest
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by kukx 6y ago
I am not sure, if it is agreement or disagreement with my observation. And while I assume some people may genuinely be scared of the infection... It is hard not to notice that while the lockdown started the beaches were flooded with people.

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