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by leppr 5y ago
No I was referring to: > GET BETTER AT THE GAMES WITH SENPAI.GG GAMING ASSISTANT SenpAI.GG is the best gaming assistant that will help you get better at the games you play. With the help of Artificial Intelligence, SenpAI.GG offers you
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by leppr 5y ago
So your definition is exclusively from the PoV of an asset owner, and denies that there are also producers, and people who own nothing. > If I buy a house for $250,000 and suddenly it is $500,000 then I am suddenly $250,000 wealthier. I
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by leppr 5y ago
Last I checked Mullvad wasn't great for sites that actively ban VPN IPs like Netflix. For that NordVPN is better since (I recall reading) they use the residential IPs of users of some other free VPN services, so these rotate too freque
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by leppr 5y ago
Using smart contracts doesn't mean you completely forgo human intervention. Blockchains themselves have standardized discretionary escape hatches in the form of hard forks. Nobody except straw-man'ing detractors claim current cryp
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by leppr 5y ago
Why would you switch perspective when describing assets vs consumer goods price rises? When considering the price of assets, a generalized rise in prices has the same relative effect as inflation in consumer goods; the decline in the purcha
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by leppr 5y ago
> But only Apple and Google are big enough to fight the other bad actors. Sure, their interests may not always be aligned with mine, but we are much more likely to be aligned than mine with the bad actors. So, I pay my money, and I get
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by leppr 5y ago
> Accepting such implants might then allow direct surveillance of thoughts so that all novel ideas which thinkers come up with are patented by private investors With the prevalence of cleartext cloud-based workflows (Discord, Slack, No
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by leppr 5y ago
In HN fashion you'd usually expound on which definitions of inflation you consider valid or not.
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by leppr 5y ago
The only ones that can barely compete are phone manufacturers that can pre-install their store. I'm thinking of the Samsung app store in particular, which even has some relevant exclusives[1]. Doesn't really weaken your point thou
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by leppr 5y ago
And in the context of becoming a millionaire through investments, adjusting by more relevant factors than consumer goods inflation result in the following: * Residential real estate inflation: $355k [1] * Stock market inflation: $770k [2] *
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by leppr 5y ago
The MS that's killing their own single most popular product, Windows, with anti-user features, is the MS of now . Releasing VS code and WSL doesn't redeem their sins.
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by leppr 5y ago
Small nitpick/advice, the hero subtext should be a little bit shorter and more to the point (you have 3 instances of "get better at games" paraphrasing). I like how descriptive the rest of your site's copy is, but the he
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by leppr 5y ago
Interesting expectation given that on Windows, OSX and the other Linux file explorers I've tried, typing selects from the list of files in the current folder, with a behavior similar to an HTML "select" element.
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by leppr 5y ago
The reason the crypto world uses dollar-pegged tokens in the first place is for their relatively stable value. The downside is that obviously this stability is not perfect, and it's managed by a centralized entity, which as monstrously
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by leppr 5y ago
I don't reckon Signal disappearing messages have much to do with "large-scale blanket surveillance of the whole population". This seems more about reducing potentially incriminating evidence in the absence of blanket survei
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by leppr 5y ago
You're assuming the nearest body of water is somehow cool enough, which is often not the case.
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by leppr 5y ago
> Ubuntu [...] never does anything I don't expect. Especially when it comes to finder/explorer/nautilus. You expect typing letters while having the file explorer window focused to launch a full recursive file search?
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by leppr 5y ago
"Code is law" is either nonsensical or redundant when applied to a complex Turing complete language such as Solidity. If you can't accurately predict the implications of the lines of code in a smart contract, then it's a
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by leppr 5y ago
First line of the article: > Hackers exploited Poly Network on DeFi exchanges Polygon, Ethereum and Binance Smart Chain When even a website supposedly specializing on blockchain can't get their basic terminology right.
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by leppr 5y ago
I would suggest the crypto industry, specifically DeFi. Reasoning: * It's (mostly) all open-source. * It's self-directed. Don't like a team? There are a dozen others waiting scrambling for developers that you can join with no
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by leppr 5y ago
Your unprovoked comment about not having a job read like you were desiring one.
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by leppr 5y ago
Well, while the printing machines were running, the zeitgeist was fully occupied with Covid-19, BLM, a short episode of anti-Asian racism toward the end, Trump's vulgar attitude, ... Now that the harm is done and the money circulating,
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by leppr 5y ago
Value is still shifting somewhere. Lower rates can force you to borrow more total value to outbid your peers, allowing the bank to extract the same or more value out of you. Same with taxes entering the equation. I don't reckon any mon
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by leppr 5y ago
You could simply ask for your salary to be denominated in gold/bitcoin. /s?
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by leppr 5y ago
Access to debt is still difficult for those that will be hurt most by inflation of consumption goods (CPI in the US). Furthermore it's also more accessible proportionally to existing wealth, which means inflation is in effect an inequa
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by leppr 5y ago
Is there a way to, even approximately, target the "social security system" issue with your vote? Or do you have to chose between 2 or 3 bundles of pre-chosen policies, the composition of which you had no say in?
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by leppr 5y ago
That's because there is no "we". The most popular way to deal with coordinating important collective efforts is to give up all power to a small elite group and hope their members are magically not self-interested. The effect
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by leppr 5y ago
> If you're also a US citizen, please vote to get this fixed. Where/how can US citizens vote to modify the social security system?
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by leppr 5y ago
Do you really have enough trust in the Apple App Store curation to just pay for random apps? Last time I tried doing that, the app was bugged and Apple refused to refund. My personal impression is that it's already overflowing with &qu
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by leppr 5y ago
> There is no business sense to enabling the current trial mechanism Apple doesn't take their 30% cut on subscriptions?

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