mediocregopher

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by mediocregopher 5y ago
Can you explain _why_ it's so important to you? I literally don't get it, but I've also always assumed Moore's Law would run out eventually, so my worldview has that baked in.
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by mediocregopher 5y ago
> Process scaling is coming to an end and it is a social imperative that we find a new path to extend the Moore's Law exponential. ... is it? Are our human rights at risk here? This sentence feels weird.
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by mediocregopher 5y ago
While I don't totally disagree, physical items add some practical issues due to their individual scarcity that digital ones don't have. What actually happens when my car goes back into public domain? Is it just fair game for every
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by mediocregopher 5y ago
I'm not sure what your link is supposed to demonstrate. > I'm also not interested in hosting a music server for my friends, and dealing with all the tech support concerns that would come with it. I didn't say _you_ are. I
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by mediocregopher 5y ago
Until they're not anymore. Let's get off this stupid ride, we don't need big centralized services to tell us how to consume the content we're ostensibly paying for. Navidrome on a home server, hooked up to a big ol hardr
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by mediocregopher 5y ago
What's the actual harm done by fraudulent volumes? I've been around crypto for a long time; I basically just ignore trading volumes on most exchanges, and go off other signals. I see this kind of thing come up now and then, with l
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by mediocregopher 5y ago
I buy legal goods with them. Just because you don't _want_ to use them doesn't mean no one else does.
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by mediocregopher 5y ago
I've thought about doing this very thing! But given all the other interesting projects I have/want to work in domains I'm actually familiar with, this is one that I'll leave to an expert.
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by mediocregopher 5y ago
This article is completely hyperbolic, and seems to intentionally misunderstand what the goal of a service like Earn is (was?), based solely on a single one of their users having forgotten to add a newsletter to their allowlist. For me, ema
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by mediocregopher 5y ago
See the latest post on https://pmunofficial.com/en/
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by mediocregopher 5y ago
Not to be confused with the community-loved but hated-by-nintendo mod of smash brawl, Project M: https://pmunofficial.com/
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by mediocregopher 5y ago
A similar project here: https://www.proofofhumanity.id/ They don't solve the proof-of-humanness problem via biometrics, it's more of a web-of-trust kind of thing. Probably also broken as hell, but this is a hard p
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by mediocregopher 5y ago
Norm Macdonald writes like Earnest Hemingway.... I wonder if Earnest was a true writer or just a typist.
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by mediocregopher 5y ago
I deleted my FB probably 10 years ago and never looked back, but most people I know who still have it act like it's some vital part of life which can't be left behind. It's integrated into how people interact with the other p
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by mediocregopher 5y ago
I've had this exact dream and it's one of my favorites as well! It feels like bunny hopping in source engine games.
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by mediocregopher 5y ago
The README mentions Antirez's coding philosophy as being an inspiration: > This codebase aims to follow in Antirez's tradition of writing beautiful programs, that solve extremely difficult difficult technical problems in the si
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by mediocregopher 5y ago
Another similar project to Tailscale, for those in the market: https://github.com/slackhq/nebula Crazy simple, fully open source, trivial to self-host. Maybe not as featureful as Tailscale, but imo that can be a featur
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by mediocregopher 5y ago
All governments are based on some kind of belief. (Which is not to say CCP or monarchies are good, just that that's not the pillar I'd attack them on)
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by mediocregopher 5y ago
For me a part of the melancholy feeling comes from the indignity of being forced to prove I'm human, and then the frustration at this stupid world we've created which requires me to do so which immediately follows the indignity. A
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by mediocregopher 5y ago
I was unaware, as i have no iOS devices to test with. Thanks!
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by mediocregopher 5y ago
Thank you for this tip. If I use a sub-domain for the blog mailer will that dodge the issue? Or do i need to get a whole new domain for the blog mailer? We really need to fix email, it shouldn't be this hard -_-
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Self-Hosting a Blog Mailing List(blog.mediocregopher.com)
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by mediocregopher 5y ago
The article's premise seems to me to be that real money is valuable because there's more to it than its properties and its form... > But a cash token is not mere paper, and the numbers we see in bank accounts are not mere numbe
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by mediocregopher 5y ago
> Value only requires that somebody is willing to pay for it. And they will only be willing to pay if they want or need to do something with it. Wants and needs require some purpose, some intention, to drive them. The Simpsons gives the
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by mediocregopher 5y ago
> Certainly improving physical reality remains valuable, but the non-physical world will likely grow in real as well as ephemeral value at a higher rate. Value requires purpose, so the question is: from what is each individual's pur
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by mediocregopher 5y ago
It seems like a sales tax might be more frequently circumvented than an income tax. With income tax the side who stands to lose is the worker, who generally lacks the resources to bother laundering money. With a sales tax the losing side is
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by mediocregopher 5y ago
> Biodiversity is simply the best thing in the known universe. Nothing else holds a candle to the beauty, the wonder, the awe that the living world engenders. If the beauty argument doesn't sway others, there's a very strong ar
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by mediocregopher 5y ago
In the case of a fork in the chain the network decides the winner based on which fork ends up being longer. If blocks are being mined too quickly then forks become more likely and the state of the chain is more volatile as the current &quot
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by mediocregopher 5y ago
A key component of the hash algorithm used by blockchain is that difficulty can be adjusted, such that the algorithm ensures that the difficulty to mine the next block increases/decreases based on how long it took previous blocks to mi
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by mediocregopher 5y ago
Why would there being too many of something imply that there are specific members which should be removed? If we allow the population to stop increasing we can _maybe_ find a way to live sustainably on this earth. No one existing person is

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