mandibles

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by mandibles 2y ago
Isn't that the current status quo ?
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by mandibles 2y ago
CSI pun payoff at the end was worth it.
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by mandibles 2y ago
> Chase is a criminal organization This should be your operating assumption from Day 1.
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Kraken Labs: Experiments in crypto data visualization(labs.kraken.com)
8 points by mandibles 2y ago|0 comments
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by mandibles 2y ago
Let's Enhance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxq9yj2pVWk
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by mandibles 2y ago
The mercantilist impulse will live forever.
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by mandibles 2y ago
This is probably true for nearly all employees who have held their same job during that time, since raises rarely exceed inflation, especially recently.
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by mandibles 2y ago
Some people just want to watch the world burn.
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by mandibles 2y ago
While we're at it, can we get rid of staggered keyboards? We don't need to accommodate mechanical linkages from the bottom rows any longer, yet here we are. As other commenters have pointed out, once conventions and standards have
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by mandibles 2y ago
See also: Type System Chess[0], in which the game rules are expressed in the type systems of Rust and TypeScript. [0]: https://github.com/Dragon-Hatcher/type-system-chess
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by mandibles 2y ago
I'll take another book like Anathem any day. Stephenson's latest book, Termination Shock seemed tired. It didn't have the sarcasm and vigor that sprinkled his earlier work.
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by mandibles 2y ago
The ending of Cryptonomicon is excellent!
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by mandibles 2y ago
Protectionism hurts the ultimate consumer of the product. If domestic companies require patronage from the state in order to remain in business, they should not exist, no matter the conditions in some other jurisdiction.
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by mandibles 3y ago
NYPD probably has an order for 10k of these things, for your protection of course.
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Iced 0.12 Released(github.com)
2 points by mandibles 3y ago|0 comments
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by mandibles 3y ago
Ah, the old Visa vs Bitcoin comparison. It was wrong when it was first made in 2009, and it's wrong now. 1. Bitcoin is a final settlement system, akin to moving gold bars from one vault to another. It achieves this settlement in minute
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by mandibles 3y ago
Due to the extremely competitive nature of Bitcoin mining, the miners must seek out the cheapest power on the market. By definition, cheap power has low demand, so the miners are not crowding out other "higher" uses of the power.
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by mandibles 3y ago
Who is "we"?
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by mandibles 3y ago
Nothing proposed in the article will achieve the desired ends, but it will only serve to centralize more power with the federal government. The only way to achieve reliably low prices is to allow deflation to happen, which means government
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by mandibles 3y ago
The year is 3157. Each time you access a new resource on the shared data substrate, you are required to accept something called a "Cookie." You have no idea what they are or why. Your crewmates say it has something to do with the
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by mandibles 3y ago
Perhaps sociology researchers should find larger sources of private funding and rely less on state patronage.
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by mandibles 3y ago
It would have been great if Boeing had focused on technical excellence instead of financial engineering for the last two decades.