mamon

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by mamon 8y ago
You rent one :) Or, better yet, you use (now non-existing) public transportation to go around.
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by mamon 8y ago
Also, think about California's Amtrack - going from San Diego via Los Angeles to San Francisco. Currently trip from San Diego to LA takes 2.5 - 3 hours. With proper bullet train SD-LA should take no more than 45-60 minutes, making it
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by mamon 8y ago
Employees usually are much faster than customers to scan groceries - thousands hours of practice make perfect. Plus, those anti-theft machines that give you instructions "scan next item, put item in the bag, take the last item out of t
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by mamon 8y ago
I guess in this case ions ARE the moving parts :)
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by mamon 8y ago
The problem is that current cryptocurrencies are not good for such use case. You cannot use Bitcoin for "tiny amounts of money" and for sure you cannot use it "easily". So cryptocurrencies might win in the long run, just
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by mamon 8y ago
Truth is, historically human civilizations has always been based on some kind of authoritarian rule, slavery, serfdom, etc. Democracy is just temporary anomaly created by the fact that during industrial revolution the need arose for mass ed
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by mamon 8y ago
>> users around the world would abandon it and point their miners at more trustworthy pools. This is not as easy as you try to paint it, because mining requires hardware, and you can't just move it around the world at will - most
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by mamon 8y ago
>> main selling points of cryptocurrencies: no authority can prevent a user from sending or receiving bitcoins, or ether, etc. Until you realize that >90% of Bitcoin hashing power is controlled by a handful of Chinese guys, and tho
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by mamon 8y ago
More appropriate name would be "dystopia" because banning cash will have mostly adverse effects, intruducing nearly-totalitarian control over the citizens being the most important one.
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by mamon 8y ago
What do you mean noone? Forgot Tinder, Badoo and others? :)
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by mamon 8y ago
European standard of living is higher on average than American: afordable healthcare, education, housing, good public transportation, social safety net for unemployed, retired... US has some rich elite but other than that it's basicall
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by mamon 8y ago
I see this as a warning against rote memorization.
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by mamon 8y ago
We had exactly that in 1950s, but then the feminism happened </s>
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by mamon 8y ago
I think it's impossible, because the whole concept of Zen architecture is to produce 4-core dies, and then glue them together to create a gigantic 8-core or 16-core processor. There isn't 6-core (or 8-core) Ryzen mobile processor,
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by mamon 8y ago
It can also be argued that charities providing all those third world country with basic supplies, like food, clothes or drugs, actually ruin their economies. It's simply impossible for local producers of said goods to compete on price
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by mamon 8y ago
>> If for any reason you pay more to suppliers than you get from customers, the difference becomes a tax credit that you can carry to the following accounting period or deduce from some other tax. In Poland it is even possible to get
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by mamon 8y ago
But is Ryzen really on the laptop market? There are just few low-end models, nothing that I would consider buying, so for laptops I'm kind of stuck with Intel.
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by mamon 8y ago
That's what loteries are for :)
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by mamon 8y ago
Still EPYC processors have up to 32 cores, 64 HT - where is 96 comming from?
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by mamon 8y ago
But the business is not hiring them to "raise a functioning member of the society", it's hiring to fill the role of c++ dev. Your one year at home with child might count as "work experience" if you were applying for
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by mamon 8y ago
>> In a world where housing prices stay the same, or become slightly cheaper year by year, everyone is better of. I think you made a good argument here against fiat currency and Keynessian economics in general. Let's have gold st
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by mamon 8y ago
The other thing is that with mixed zoning you can get so much more than just grocery stores. My neighborhood has the following within the 1000 feet radius: - grocery store (x3) - dentist's office (x2) - hairdressing salon - pharmacy -
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by mamon 8y ago
I actually hate the fact that in USA you can only shop for groceries in a supermarket that is 5 miles away. Problem with that is that if you happen to run out of milk,or salt, etc., you have to plan the whole trip, instead just quickly comi
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by mamon 8y ago
I might be wrong but my mind associates -dev and -devel packages with something that is provided for developers of the package itself, e.g., kernel-devel allows you to compile the kernel. I'm not going to contribute to OpenJDK project
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by mamon 8y ago
As a bonus hydrogen is higly explosive, helium is not.
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by mamon 8y ago
I think the issue here is the stupid name "OpenJDK" - everyone who has anything to do with Java development understands JDK to mean "Java Development Kit", and here those sneaky bastards give you a package named "jd
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by mamon 8y ago
The point is, in most EU countries the bill would be maybe 300-400 USD. Not just the patient co-payment, the whole sum. So the US healthcare is overpriced by the factor of 120x.
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by mamon 8y ago
The problem is that technical progress is much faster than cultural one. Human nature is basically the same it was 2000 years ago: people in power want more power. And while the totalitarism of early 20th century had eventually fallen, the
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by mamon 8y ago
>> this thing only makes water when you probably don't need water. Living in California recently I constantly see the weather forecast claiming 70-90% humidity and yet the area is basically a dessert with almost no rain. I suppos
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by mamon 8y ago
You do realize that for an average American that’s half of their annual income?

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