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by lappa 5y ago
You might consider small claims court for the value of the laptop. Whether you would win depends on the context which you've mostly left out.
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by lappa 5y ago
Interesting but I feel like I'm still missing an important piece of information to use this tool. Is there a resource which provides optimal nutrient ratios for different plants?
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by lappa 5y ago
Thanks for posting this. This is a work in progress and definitely isn't at the point where, for example, a Ubuntu user with little technical background could switch over easily. As many commenters have pointed out, users will still be
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by lappa 5y ago
>After this foundation is laid, there's no reason we can't add more "tutorial/wizard" flows, just as Microsoft kept revamping the Windows "control panel" but kept the old version. Well put, this is exac
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by lappa 5y ago
Unfortunately Nix-Gui hasn't yet achieved it's tagline. Hopefully https://github.com/nix-gui/nix-gui/issues/77 letting users configure a predefined list of options relevant to completing a task will
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by lappa 5y ago
Seems that he wants pypi and pip to be the exclusive distribution mechanisms for his project. He wants to avoid handling bugs that come from his project being packaged through other means. He misunderstands how nixos works and suggests that
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by lappa 5y ago
>People pay software engineers higher wages because of the risk of them leaving and taking all of their domain knowledge with them Why is it that software engineers tend to get substantial raises by changing companies while receiving onl
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by lappa 5y ago
Similar project: http://e-basteln.de/other/stm/overview/
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by lappa 6y ago
In that case, why have proof of stake at all? Wouldn't it be simpler to just have the set of oracles alone facilitate the currency, since they already effectively have the power to?
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by lappa 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24429196
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by lappa 6y ago
The SEC supported the validity of LTSEs Voting Rights Policy [0]. Eric Reis has clarified time-phase voting won't be mandatory [1], however the LTSE is facilitating technological / legal support for the implementation of such voti
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by lappa 6y ago
IMO, the main difference between LTSE and a traditional stock exchange is the way votes are allocated to shareholders. Traditionally voting power is proportional to shares owned. However, on LTSE the amount of time a stock has been held is
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by lappa 6y ago
>I think the difference is that the West is engaging in surveillance and not sabotage. This isn't true though. Pretty much all countries with the capability and incentives to perform cyber attacks do, including the US. For example,
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by lappa 6y ago
>I love org mode (with evil for vim goodness), but the one problem I really wish was easier is image support. Yes, inline images are an important part of rich documents. I'm not sure what you're looking for in terms of images,
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by lappa 7y ago
IMO, your demo site could be improved by having some widgets created in advance.
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by lappa 7y ago
Because it's deceptive to call it "Bitcoin" Cash, because it's not Bitcoin. It's confusing to people who want to buy real bitcoins.
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by lappa 7y ago
Yes, they share a blockchain history until a certain point. If your Bitcoins were sent in a transaction belonging to a block prior to the split, you own both BCash and Bitcoin.
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by lappa 8y ago
Or get an ad blocker or use the browser being discussed. Regardless of your desire for websites to be able to serve ads, the users are mostly in control of whether they want to see the ads.
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by lappa 9y ago
no subscription mirror: http://www.cetusnews.com/life/Forever-Young--Tech-Startups--...
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by lappa 9y ago
I don't follow your argument. You are saying that because we have nearly a tree structure within the workplace, the Internet will approximately have nearly tree structure? Seems that it's just a matter if the most efficient struct
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by lappa 9y ago
Can I get more info on this?
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by lappa 10y ago
Has he treaded carefully on twitter avoiding breaking the TOS? I imagine that, a- with the Milo ban, they wait for you to do something arguably in TOS violation if they want to get rid of you.
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by lappa 10y ago
Why do you believe it has to be the first AGI? Why does the current state of their data centers matter? It seems a bit like saying "we don't have to worry about nukes being used by the Russians, do they even have centrifuges suffi
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by lappa 10y ago
And what happens when it's creators are terrorists?
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by lappa 10y ago
Archived version https://archive.nyafuu.org/n/thread/1050512
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by lappa 10y ago
I just did this, the results don't seem very different.
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by lappa 10y ago
Are you implying that chefs at fancy restaurants don't love to cook?
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by lappa 10y ago
Agents are expensive overhead. Agents are for people who shift between "clients" frequently. The thing that both actors and athletes share (at least the ones with agents) is giant salaries and a frequently changing employer.
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by lappa 10y ago
His example demonstrates that determining causality avoids problems such as the inability to recognize other relevant correlations.
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by lappa 10y ago
Is it better to meditate with the sound of rain as provided with quietkit, or no sound at all?

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