miguelmota

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by miguelmota 6y ago
> It's quite unfair to call them terrorists when they've harmed no one and destroyed nothing. People were harmed and property was destroyed. There's plenty of videos of fights breaking out and capitol windows being broken.
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Excerpt from paper which was interesting > Finally, managers often pursue conduct that harms outside victims (whether by shoddy manufacturing, false advertising, or negligent safety measures) in order to bolster their share price. The fa
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by miguelmota 6y ago
Same, I don't see this feature either on iOS Telegram app. Edit: I turned enabled location sharing under iOS settings for Telegram app and "Find People Nearby" is now showing as the first list item under the Contacts tab.
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by miguelmota 6y ago
People like Amy Castor, Peter Schiff, Nouriel Roubini, etc don't seem to fundamentally understand that intrinsic value is completely subjective and that bitcoin being a borderless, trustless, and scarce resource is what makes it valuab
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by miguelmota 6y ago
I always hear this argument. Can you provide a source comparing between how much money has been laundered worldwide using cash vs cryptocurrencies?
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by miguelmota 6y ago
Online advertising is fundamentally broken because it pegs dollar amounts to HTTP requests. Ad fraud steals billions from advertisers because it's so easy to fake being a publisher, impression, or click. Not to mention that you have to
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by miguelmota 6y ago
Username + password is nice when you have a password manager that auto-inserts the credentials for you into the form. The 1Password extension and browsers with builtin password managers do this. All I have to do is click login and I’m in. T
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by miguelmota 6y ago
As long as profits are greater than fines, these penalties aren't enough to incentivize good behavior.
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by miguelmota 6y ago
i3 is a great gateway drug into the tiling window manager world since it works well out of the box. I migrated from i3 to bspwm which is more configurable and prefer the fibonacci style partitioning. Bspwm also decouples window configuratio
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by miguelmota 6y ago
When I was living alone for a few years I would speak out my thoughts rather than in my head. That lead to having conversations with my self and then having conversations with fictional characters. I think also being alone increased anxiety
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It’s not fully confirmed yet but its probable it’s the same 'Cozy Bear' Russian hack group that hacked the State Department and White House email servers during Obama administration.
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It's missing the 1 guy that slips in "I use arch btw"
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It's a slippery slope for sure. I think a big concern is that if far-reaching conspiracy theories are allowed to flourish then it could lead to the development of more extremist groups using scapegoating tactics to influence violence o
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by miguelmota 6y ago
The iPhone was revolutionary because of the responsive capacitive touchscreen with onscreen keyboard and shortly after the App Store which popularized more the iPhone. The M1 chip makes the Apple software run smoother and the battery effici
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by miguelmota 6y ago
"People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware." — Alan Kay
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by miguelmota 6y ago
I think it's simply the nature of crowdsourced funding that creates more ideas that get funded, both good and bad. For example, anyone can start a funding campaign to launch a product on Indiegogo and most of the projects on there aren
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by miguelmota 6y ago
What exactly are you seeing on Uniswap that’s a scam? Why do you think people need credentials to create a startup if they have a good idea?
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Visa will issue credit card to send and receive USDC cryptocurrency(forbes.com)
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by miguelmota 6y ago
The PayPal integration of cryptocurrencies had a huge positive impact. Also more large institutions are diversifying their portfolio into Bitcoin.
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That was amazing and entertaining as heck. Loved how it was synchronized with the music. Brought back nostalgic memories!
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It loops back around
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The wiki article reads a lot like what we do in software engineering post-mortems; timeline of events, what went wrong, why it went wrong, how it was addressed, what will be done to prevent it in the future.
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by miguelmota 6y ago
They should sort the list by most government requests instead of alphabetically and in table format instead of that terrible horizontal slider.
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by miguelmota 6y ago
Seems like a cool search engine but wish they didn't go so heavy on the box shadows
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by miguelmota 6y ago
After running Xubuntu and Fedora on a MacBook for several months, I don't recommend it; not all drivers are available and sleep functionality is finicky. Running Windows on a MacBook was even worse in terms of graphics card support. Ru
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by miguelmota 6y ago
I think it comes down to humans being creatures of habit and conservation of energy. I've seen people buy macs even after seeing all the flaws because it's what they're used to and don't want to exert energy learning a n
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by miguelmota 6y ago
You can't go wrong with a ThinkPad. I switched from Mac to a T480 with Arch for dev work and it's been great.
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by miguelmota 6y ago
This package installed 47.4MiB of node_modules. Yikes.
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by miguelmota 6y ago
"Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them." — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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by miguelmota 6y ago
One thing to note is that the directory hierarchy in Termux is not the same as a standard Linux. For example, in termux everything is under `/data/data/com.termux/files` and there is no `/tmp`. Use PRoot in termux t

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