mitxela

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by mitxela 2mo ago
I guess he means the Bretton Woods system, where the US dollar was backed by gold and everything else was backed by the US dollar, wouldn't have existed. Everything would have been backed by gold, instead.
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by mitxela 2mo ago
You just hold onto it until you want to trade it for something else. Right now there are liquid international gold markets. Like bitcoin, people who are trying to get rich quick by day trading are much of the liquidity.
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by mitxela 2mo ago
You don't have to be a silk road vendor. You just have to be selling and buying both, then you can make money on the spread, which can be several percent in P2P markets.
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by mitxela 2mo ago
Using tor doesn't hurt. They probably know which people have used tor at least once in their lives, but it's so many people it's useless information. All it really shows is that the people on the list know their way around a
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by mitxela 2mo ago
They are. In general, having a big and respected institution to hide behind does wonders for avoiding suspicion. It would have to be formally approved by whoever is responsible for these things at the university - you couldn't just plu
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by mitxela 2mo ago
According to law, in most places, it's legal. The legal problems people are worried about are not being charged and convicted, they are everything that happens before the conviction. Police can raid your home, take all your electronics
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by mitxela 2mo ago
It's not trust, it's uptime. Tor trusts only the directory authorities, not any nodes. A node that is going up and down won't be used much. They can be used as middle nodes, since those are ephemeral. If it's IP, it will
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by mitxela 2mo ago
Well? Tell us the story. What happened?
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by mitxela 2mo ago
I don't really agree with this entirely. Yes, you can be paranoid and only run them when you're absolutely sure there won't be any trouble. Alternatively, we can run so many and the police can learn that nothing happens from
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by mitxela 2mo ago
Oh so that's why images are prohibited. It's not because they steal souls, it's because people get used to the image instead of the real thing. People program to the abstraction, and forget the underlying machine. I've w
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by mitxela 2mo ago
Oof, Austria. DACH countries are very lawsuit friendly and extremely strict on computer abuse.
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by mitxela 2mo ago
> And we're still lucky it hasn't been used en masse for massive disinformation campaigns. About that...
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by mitxela 2mo ago
Moltbook was completely fake. It was just set up to make it look like Moltbot (formerly ClawedBot, later renamed to OpenClaw) was sentient, to generate hype.
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by mitxela 2mo ago
Did you mean to link to a particular trope?
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by mitxela 2mo ago
Chief republican politician Mitch McConnell once filibustered his own bill because democrats also supported it. https://theweek.com/articles/469675/mitch-mcconnells-amazing...
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by mitxela 2mo ago
Why is Ground News relevant here?
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by mitxela 2mo ago
What can a single person legally do about corruption though?
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by mitxela 2mo ago
It would be cool if libredirect could redirect a broken frontend instance to a working one.
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by mitxela 2mo ago
The vote count is just the normal vote count, so I guess only the ordering is different?
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by mitxela 5mo ago
What if the agreed upon international standard alphabet didn't happen to be the one you natively write with? If the world agreed to write all email addresses in katakana, that would work just as well as ASCII, right? I have to ask this
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by mitxela 5mo ago
Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-a...
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by mitxela 5mo ago
Since the recent re-pricing many companies are finding AI coding to be more expensive than human coding.
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by mitxela 5mo ago
But they don't. LLMs can't understand messy code much better than humans can. Maybe a little, but not enough to compensate for the code they create being messy.
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by mitxela 5mo ago
Technical debt remains the same. LLMs are found not to work as well when editing messy codebases - exactly the kind you get after using an LLM for a while. After a few weeks or months you have to either throw it away and start over, or invo