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by nix0n 4y ago
No, I think the prices are going up because that's where the money gets stuck. People don't want stable coins, or any coins, they want fiat (they got into unstable coins as a way to get more fiat).
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Departing from crypto is generally done in two steps, first convert from speculative to stable then convert from stable to fiat. If some exchanges are making the second step much harder than the first, then a lot of people attempting to dep
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by nix0n 4y ago
If it's in a repo, it's normal to need a PR to change it. And, it's normal for a PR to need a ticket. Alternatives to creating a new ticket could be: 1) Link to the ticket number that was used, for creating whatever you&#x27
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by nix0n 4y ago
He's not the legal owner of the content he creates.
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by nix0n 4y ago
Are there any color ramps that work well for color blind people?
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by nix0n 4y ago
I thought you were posting April Fools articles until I saw the YYYY/MM part of the Wired URL.
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by nix0n 4y ago
> I'm sure that we haven't found the limit yet. I agree with that. > A free labour market ensures that skilled people get allocated to the highest value work, which is a great outcome for everyone. Value in terms of dollars
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by nix0n 4y ago
I used an old Kyocera Rise [0] for document editing a few times and it worked fine, and that was a budget phone ten years ago. Having an actual keyboard and a dedicated task switcher button made that phone better for work than the modern fl
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by nix0n 4y ago
It looks to me like HTTP/2 can be disabled in Firefox via setting network.http.http2.enabled and network.http.http2.enabled.deps both to false. I tested on http://www.http2demo.io/ both with and without those settings
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The counterpoint to this is laptops. If you're doing CAD and you need to get a laptop with a decent GPU in it, the enterprise version of that will cost you twice as much as the gaming version.
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by nix0n 4y ago
> organically grow a cryptocurrency ... to usefulness You might be right, but the only thing they were ever useful for, was money laundering. So, I don't think that drawing a greater distinction between the first wave of money-laund
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by nix0n 4y ago
> The carbon cycle has a good 800M years left before photosynthesis starts grinding to a halt. What?
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by nix0n 4y ago
Without a 3.5mm headphone jack, I would have to carry wireless earbuds, which would defeat the purpose.
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by nix0n 4y ago
The other option is downtime: boot into another OS, so you can mount the disk to be backed up as read-only.
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IBM was selling service contracts too, which increased their incentive to make the machines last. Some businesses (and governments) would still be willing to shell out the money for that kind of quality.
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by nix0n 4y ago
Currently, a lot of US companies have significant financial presence in Ireland, for tax-loophole reasons. See [0] for the Microsoft example specifically. I'm not a lawyer, and I know nothing about New Relic specifically. But the wor
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by nix0n 5y ago
> I don’t think there’s a bifurcation between “good” and “bad” people in crypto Right, there's only bad people. The bifurcation is between money laundering people and Ponzi scheme people.
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by nix0n 5y ago
There's a tool for this type of thing called Expect[0], written in TCL. [0] https://core.tcl-lang.org/expect/index
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by nix0n 5y ago
My comment got kind of far from its context, visually. By "supporting" I'm really referring to significant amounts of financial support, beyond what normal people would be able to give to their children. I do think it's
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by nix0n 5y ago
> supporting parents > self made The two concepts cannot coexist. Someone who is supported by others is not self-made. Turning wealth into wealth is not an accomplishment. It was already there.
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by nix0n 5y ago
One possibly overlooked factor is the death of Roger Ebert, who managed to be both a man of the people and respected among critics (possibly because he was also an excellent writer).
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by nix0n 5y ago
> We don't care about the extraction For carbon-reduction purposes maybe not, but fracking does create its own problems.
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by nix0n 5y ago
Same for Kate, but for technical documents it's actually better that way in my opinion, since your vocabulary is going to be different than what's in your spellcheck dictionary. I usually just copy/paste another document wit
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by nix0n 5y ago
I don't know of anything on the OS level, but when I have to write a long document in English I use the Kate text editor, which offers autocompletion based on words you've used already in that document.
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by nix0n 5y ago
I use an old APK of Swype, because it's still the unsurpassed state of the art for swipe typing. I don't know why, either, but it's not just you.
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by nix0n 5y ago
> all my files inside the WSL filesystem Is this a necessary limitation of WSL? I've been using Cygwin instead, so I can access Windows-native files using Linux-y tools.
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by nix0n 5y ago
> An american doctor will never, for example, say “Hey maybe your chair is too low compared to your desk and you’re putting too much pressure on your wrist” or suggest a series of stretching exercises to do 3x/day for a few weeks un
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by nix0n 5y ago
Any other package manager has config files which are essentially a domain-specific declarative language. Sometimes to do a whole new thing, you have to learn a whole new language. What would the Debian way to do this be? I bet it would tak
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by nix0n 5y ago
You're probably right, but I think a bigger factor is that if someone pays by mail, a scammer will find it difficult to cash a check that's made out to the utility company.
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by nix0n 5y ago
Is this true of server side only, or is there a practical solution for locking down JS within the browser?

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