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by livueta 4y ago
The thrust of your comment is accurate, though > it seemed like its ended entirely not quite: relative volume actually increased as a function of growing game popularity around the time of the introduction of bonds ( http://cry
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by livueta 4y ago
This thesis always reminds me of Satoshi Kon and Paranoia Agent . https://web.archive.org/web/20210820145247/https://sittingon... > “monotonous ruins of a nation-state… perfectly realized in the name
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by livueta 4y ago
Definitely not just Shanghai and Beijing. https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2022/05/15/g... > According to Ting Lu and colleagues of Nomura, another bank, 41 cities accounting for nearly
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Why oligarchs love European data-protection laws(economist.com)
3 points by livueta 4y ago|0 comments
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by livueta 5y ago
Yeah, definitely worth mentioning that Wireguard is actually super easy to manually configure, especially if you don't have a bazillion hosts or need to integrate with auth domains. I think a lot of the stuff individuals end up setti
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by livueta 5y ago
> China would have to be very tempted to conquer more of Asia (some territory bordering the Sea of Japan and Okhotsk), going up the coast to open up more routes for their navy forces into the Pacific. It's interesting to note that t
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by livueta 5y ago
Every Chromebook model I've ever had has had a physical switch or screw that can be removed/toggled somewhere on the motherboard to unset the write-protect bit. e.g. https://joshuawoehlke.com/wp-content/upload
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by livueta 5y ago
Presumably a reference to how the Brandenburg decision only threw out Whitney/Schneck/Abrams/etc in 1969. Legal rights are just words on paper without a corresponding culture of respect for their importance. The US has a long
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by livueta 5y ago
> I can only assume that you or anyone you care about hasn't died or destroyed their life due to drug addition? Actually, no, but slight correction: they were killed by the war on drugs, not the drugs. Similarly, I know multiple peo
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by livueta 5y ago
Are you using Cloudflare DoT? about:preferences => Network Settings => Enable DNS over HTTPS: Use Provider: Cloudflare (Default). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828317
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by livueta 5y ago
Pretty disgusting. The university's behavior deserves lots of castigation, but, instead, I feel like it's time to air what is apparently one of my more unpopular opinions: Legal parental rights in the West are way too strong. This
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by livueta 5y ago
I'm not really an expert (corrections welcome!) but having spent some time recently playing with positioning systems: Most of GPS's perceived suck (in cold boot (TTFF) time, general receptivity) is actually just bad antennas/
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by livueta 5y ago
I appreciate the reply, this cleared up some misconceptions.
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by livueta 5y ago
I thought it was interesting/unfortunate that the role of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in this dynamic was limited to a single sentence at the bottom of the article. A lot of this is self-inflicted (or, depending on your perspective, wor
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by livueta 5y ago
Sorry if this is a dumb question: Reading your link, it sounds like the HgCdTe-based FPAs are primarily an electrochemical thing, akin to the microchannel plate approach of traditional analog image intensification. My impression of more mod
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by livueta 5y ago
As a lifelong Seattle resident/employee (psq, eastlake, cap hill), minus a few year-ish expat stints, I'd say it is partially correct but not the whole picture. All this said, I like it here and have no plans to leave permanently.
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Bolivia is awash with contraband cars from Japan(economist.com)
98 points by livueta 5y ago|80 comments
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by livueta 5y ago
On one hand you're right, but on the other - that sort of thing isn't exactly unprecedented. Everyone was terrified of Beria until they weren't. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavrentiy_Beria#Arrest,_trial
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by livueta 5y ago
Per unit or amortized? My impression was that long-distance high-voltage transmission lines can be expensive and logistically challenging to get built, e.g. NY/Quebec line thing, even if it eventually evens out. That's less releva
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by livueta 5y ago
And Tarkovsky's Stalker (1979).
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by livueta 5y ago
Top one is basically impossible, but I can do an unordered top ten: - Catch-22 - Dune - The Dispossessed - Illuminatus! - Kafka on the Shore - Use of Weapons - Blood Meridian - The Book of the New Sun - A Deepness in the Sky - From the New
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by livueta 5y ago
> I do think their religious beliefs were relevant to policy. The US was very cognizant of this when they demanded the unconditional surrender of Japan. That's certainly the Chrysanthemum and the Sword take on it. I'd agree t
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by livueta 5y ago
The military-political establishment had spent the past decade or more basically purity-spiralling out anyone seen as insufficiently dedicated to the cause of imperial expansion. To me, the most striking example of this is what happened to
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Building a Metaverse with Chinese Characteristics(economist.com)
5 points by livueta 5y ago|0 comments
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by livueta 5y ago
Of course, as it literally describes the event the parent originally asserted occurred: > On August 1st Hong Kongers received the first instalment of the government’s consumption voucher, an effort to revive the city’s hard-hit retail in
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by livueta 5y ago
That is a fair caveat, though I'd argue that it is clearly a test case for broader expansion in an instance where the condition is unlikely to produce a backlash, attached as it is to stimulus money. c.f. speed of yuan CBDC rollout; h
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by livueta 5y ago
I think your comment is fake news: https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2021/08/07/d... Please don't post shallow dismissals without actually researching the topic.
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by livueta 5y ago
Thought I'd list a few things I run that are very handy but didn't get much love in that thread: unbound + void-zones-tools: caching dns w/adblocking (including properly configured DoT so phones don't whine about it, whi
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by livueta 5y ago
It depends a little on caliber but you're broadly on the right track. Suppressed 22LR is 110-120-ish db, which is just barely hearing safe. Suppressed 556 (typical AR) is 135+db even with top-tier cans (qdc, rc2, saker), which is firml
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by livueta 5y ago
Came here to post this; also, https://meshtastic.org/ . Still in (very) active development, but it genuinely works quite well and is very exciting. Imo lora and similar protocols are a great example of the innovation fueled

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