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by lolsal 6y ago
The original element of the article is the perspective it's offering regarding _how much_ energy bitcoin consumes. You can dismiss it each time it comes up, but the reality of the situation isn't changing.
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by lolsal 6y ago
Thank you for clarifying!
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by lolsal 6y ago
Hey you responded to my comments elsewhere, but I just saw this - this definitely changes the tone for me, thank you!
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by lolsal 6y ago
There is another option - I understood and did not agree.
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You're talking about a 'job' and 'onboarding' engineers - that's quiet a departure from what I think most people imagine when they imagine an open source project. Office hours for an office-like job sound total
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by lolsal 6y ago
I understand that, but a person new to the development world might see this as something expected for anyone starting an open source project. I don't mean to exaggerate or make an unfair comparison, but I had very similar experiences 1
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by lolsal 6y ago
Anyone can run office hours for any of their open source projects they want - that sounds great! But I won't and I don't feel any sort of obligation to do so, so I don't think 'should' is really appropriate here.
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by lolsal 6y ago
You could give up or you could try. Seems like you've already made your choice.
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by lolsal 6y ago
I completely understand what you're saying. Paying someone who is more of an expert than me is still better than me doing it myself. "Hey I did this in good faith and this company messed up, can we work this out without me going t
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by lolsal 6y ago
It is utterly bonkers; I wish it was different. That being said, it seems "freer" to me to tell the IRS what my financial situation is rather than let it dictate to me what I owe, and then have to fight the government in order to
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by lolsal 6y ago
> I do take advantage and do not lift a finger to achieve it, because the tax man knows about this already. I think you're mistaken. The tax man does not already know what charitable donations I've made, or depreciation I would
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by lolsal 6y ago
> It's a racket. Yea, possibly (I agree with you). It is as much a racket as lots of other things. Doesn't excuse it being a racket, but TurboTax is not an anomaly. > Government already knows how much you owe them. This is f
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by lolsal 6y ago
I don't know if I can answer that first question - it seems like if they position themselves as providing expert advice and competent filing, and then I pay for it, I should be guaranteed something . But the world does not really oper
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by lolsal 6y ago
I understand (and agree that it's a racket), but even so, it was worth something to me even when I was filing 1040EZs.
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by lolsal 6y ago
TurboTax's offering is not just about literally filing my taxes. It's about managing risk that I'm not botching my filing in the form of missing something entirely, mis-filing, or leaving deductions on the table. Even if subm
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by lolsal 6y ago
You went way over my head I'm afraid. I don't know how banks/reserves/etc work.
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by lolsal 6y ago
Being driven down to zero I think means people would lend at 0% interest - I would think thousands of years of anecdotal evidence would speak to the contrary - how would it ever get to zero? Who would lend like that? What would their motiva
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by lolsal 6y ago
What are some possible explanations for the 'bands' in the visualization of this data? The description at the bottom mentions data sources, but no interpretation.
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by lolsal 6y ago
> They are starting from scratch, all they have is physical locations. And presumably infrastructure to manage those locations. I don't know if you know this, but that's actually kind of a big deal. Nationally distributed brick
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by lolsal 6y ago
There is plenty of room to compete or innovate. GameStop might be getting a second chance, which is rare.
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by lolsal 6y ago
Having only two sides to any argument seems like part of the problem, not the solution.
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by lolsal 6y ago
I am colorblind and the way that you articulated your points really changed my understanding of colors. Thank you.
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by lolsal 6y ago
If you think climate change is real, you probably should. A super-wealthy technologist is investing in _farm land_. Why do you think that is?
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by lolsal 6y ago
Thank you - I totally missed your point.
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by lolsal 6y ago
Why would that be the weirdest possible outcome? This provides a demonstration of intelligence, intent and understanding that starting with objective, science-based fundamentals which can be deduced (set theory) and observed (elements) seem
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by lolsal 6y ago
I was under the impression the argument against OSS from MS was not due to software security, but due to protecting IP.
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by lolsal 6y ago
Ok, but you could opt out of the phone book. You know about unlisted numbers, right?
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by lolsal 6y ago
> (Though honestly, if you show just one letter even for non-risky recovery attempts, why bother? It can't possibly be of any significant help to the users.) Why? I use multiple email addresses and on these occasions seeing that sin
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by lolsal 6y ago
I believe Patreon allows consumers to set how much they would like to pay.
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by lolsal 6y ago
Spend your time and energy on more important things friend. Good luck.

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