moralsupply

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by moralsupply 6y ago
Maybe it's time to realize that the "culture war" is just the realization that we're all living inside bubbles of information, and that there's no way to reconcile that with a centralized "democratic" gove
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by moralsupply 6y ago
LockPickingLawyer has plenty of videos showing how pretty much everything that Amazon sells has security issues... https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm9K6rby98W8JigLoZOh6FQ
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by moralsupply 6y ago
> Individuals are an abstraction too, we're just a bunch of cells. A bunch of cells that collectively constitutes an organism that can perform arguments, therefore it has the ability to declare self-ownership. Ownership implies priv
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by moralsupply 6y ago
> That's entirely dependent on your ethical axioms, on which there is no universal consensus. There are certainly frameworks within which some taxation is justifiable. You're right in that there are multiple ethical systems tha
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by moralsupply 6y ago
My point is that taxation is unjustifiable ethically. That includes direct taxation and inflation (under a monopolistic currency dictated by the government). You can only justify taxation under an authoritarian standpoint (eg. "we mus
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by moralsupply 6y ago
Inflation is taxation on your savings. It's effectively the same thing as any other tax. Laws and regulations are the reason as to why taxes exist in the first place. The government holds the monopoly of force, therefore it can issue a
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by moralsupply 6y ago
Also: taxes are arbitrarily imposed through coercion, therefore they are not legitimate under an ethical standpoint, no matter how one wants to cut it. The idea of a "social contract" to justify taxation is absurd, to say the leas
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by moralsupply 6y ago
Same for Memrise
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by moralsupply 6y ago
There's always Memrise https://www.memrise.com/ which does pretty much the same as Anki, with some interesting extra features
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by moralsupply 6y ago
I generally just write "100 USD in EUR" in google or macos finder...
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by moralsupply 6y ago
That's alright too, but SpeedCrunch is much faster for simpler workflows
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by moralsupply 6y ago
After all these years I still can't find anything as usable as SpeedCrunch on pretty much any platform
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by moralsupply 6y ago
The major issue with a telescope in the moon would be the very fine sand in moon's surface that would cause mechanical failures
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by moralsupply 6y ago
Stylistically, it should be called Chuck Palahniuk App
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by moralsupply 6y ago
> The trial involved 30,000 people in the US with half being given two doses of the vaccine, four weeks apart. The rest had dummy injections. > The analysis was based on the first 95 to develop Covid-19 symptoms. > Only five of the
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by moralsupply 6y ago
I have a contrarian view on this. I believe that China is heading to an economic collapse during this decade. The Chinese economy is effectively a huge bubble fed by monetary stimulus, and it doesn't seem to be sustaining its historica
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by moralsupply 6y ago
> By the way, if you insist that capitalist economies are distributed, how would you explain the extreme concentration of capital in a few hands? The global markets are ultimately controlled by a handful of people. You can't equate
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by moralsupply 6y ago
Central planning might appear as a "good idea", until your linear programming model has to deal with factors of production that are counted in small quantities (eg. highly specialized machinery), at which point the so called &quot
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by moralsupply 6y ago
How compatible is it nowadays with Numpy, Scipy and the ML toolkits?
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by moralsupply 6y ago
There are plenty of great "barefoot" walking shoes in the market nowadays. I like to run on Vibrams and sandals (I generally use a Shamma Warriors during the summer), and a have a bunch of other shoes for walking (Lems, Freet, Viv
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by moralsupply 6y ago
Here's a video that illustrates the walking barefoot technique: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGST6h3yhJE As for the running technique, a good reference is this website: http://runforefoot.com/
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by moralsupply 6y ago
Regarding your back pain, try to start walking barefoot using a forefoot technique, as opposed to heel striking as most people do. I suffered a lot with back pain (for years, despite the fact I was very active), tried everything to fix it t
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by moralsupply 6y ago
That and 8GB RAM, plus NVMe or PCI Express with some internal space for a hard drive. Also, make the case easy to open with screws...
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by moralsupply 6y ago
At this rate in 20 years California will be competing with Mississipi for the title of the poorest state in the country
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by moralsupply 6y ago
Read "The Princes of the Yen", by Richard Werner. He coined (no pun intended) the term QE and his analysis of the Japanese, European and American government/central banks monetary interventionism is spot on. There's a do
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by moralsupply 6y ago
I wonder why they didn't release a version with 8GB RAM
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by moralsupply 6y ago
Interesting that in the last 10 years some governments that got rid of the DST were accused of dismissing global warming by their political rivals
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by moralsupply 6y ago
Ruby on Rails: learn in a week, spend 4 years dealing with the mess you've created. Then jump to Clojure and start again...
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by moralsupply 6y ago
Turns out old Usenet content is particularly hard to find nowadays...
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by moralsupply 6y ago
Sony knows that XORG is dead...

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