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by nroets 3y ago
On some favors of Linux (gnome), it's possible to right click on a link that appears in a terminal emulator and open it. However there are many things that all need to work: Firefox (or similar) installed (using a snap??) DNS must work
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by nroets 3y ago
Many of the participants may also be reading it in a terminal emulator with no web browser nearby.
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by nroets 3y ago
So Park Hotels bought a call option on SF real estate. Surely they and their counter parties did some modeling and stress tests.
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by nroets 3y ago
Firstly, the moon is pretty hostile: Radiation. No water. No oxygen. To survive the moon and then survive the oxygen rich atmosphere, the organism would need to be built like a tank. So it's replication rate will be very very low. Then
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by nroets 3y ago
For millennia governments survived with cash in circulation. Crypto is no real threat to their existence. Regulating it with a heavy hand will do more harm than good. Those innovators will just move offshore.
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by nroets 3y ago
I've never owned any crypto. I'm changing my tax residence for legitimate reasons. (Hardest thing I've done in my life!) But I suppose some crypto owners are changing their tax residence without declaring their crypto i.e. no
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by nroets 3y ago
You can make the same argument that governments should ban physical cash.
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by nroets 3y ago
A friend of mine got hooked on something really bad. We could all see his health deteriorate month by month. He's probably dead right now. Even his parents don't know where he is. He's son will grow up without a father. I nev
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by nroets 3y ago
Tax evasion is rife: How many tradesmen fixing stuff around your house for cash will report that income on their return ? Governments can get most of their revenue with little economic distortion by taxing stuff where evasion is much harder
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by nroets 3y ago
Crypto is used to circumvent capital controls: In other words to create a free market in foreign exchange for countries that ban it. Crypto is also used to evade taxes. I'm not saying it's a good thing, but it's not as bad as
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by nroets 3y ago
That's why I'm working on an invisible parachute. So that flak gunners can't see the paratroopers.
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by nroets 3y ago
There's often a crucial difference in the nature of "revenue": With nonprofits it's often a voluntary contribution ("donation"). Or non profits can rightly claim that the contribution is of a capital nature in
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by nroets 3y ago
Churches were social security centuries ago: You contribute a tenth of your income and in exchange the church will look after you if you when disaster strikes (illness, crop failure) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tith
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by nroets 3y ago
For many people it's a bad habit possibly due to performing certain tasks like manufacturing things at a desk. Similar bad habits: chewing with an open mouth, mouth breathing or using filler words. By spending enough time in the right
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by nroets 3y ago
YouTube frequently need to update their anti scraping and anti piracy tech. There could be valid reasons why they don't inform Microsoft of the changes. Microsoft cannot market they OS as developer friendly and then take steps against
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by nroets 3y ago
There are many reasons why a landlord will either not get rich or get rich at a much slower pace than alternatives. Just to mention a few: 1. Buying in a bad neighborhood and things just get worse. 2. Tenant falling far behind for some reas
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by nroets 3y ago
I for one are hesitant to click on any new website because I expect yet another cookie consent banner. So cookie consent increased the hurdles users face to explore the real web. So the real winners are the dominant websites and apps.
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by nroets 3y ago
Even in Europe there are many smaller boutique hotels who cannot charge your credit card based on a phone conversation. Their bank either require them to use a speed point machine with the card present. Or use an online payment gateway with
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by nroets 3y ago
When you are on booking.com you have the most choices. Not only between all the inventory they have, but you can also browse Airbnb. When you're at the hotel and you ask their rate, your basically committed. They know how much time and
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by nroets 4y ago
And if anyone is thinking that DSA or RSA is too difficult, Carter and Wegman of IBM invented Universal Message Authentication Codes in the 1980s
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by nroets 4y ago
Because Apple sets the price according to what people are willing to pay. The price isn't directly related to the manufacturing cost or the development cost.
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by nroets 4y ago
Why should the US try to lead solar panel technology ? China has many talented engineers and plenty of venture capital. I'd prefer them to invest it in solar panel manufacturing and power electronics rather than social media, ai or Tel
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by nroets 4y ago
It's inevitable that people will follow parts of the trail without the paper map. Perhaps hunting geo caches. Or perhaps looking for a waterfall they saw on Google maps or some website. If it's in OpenStreetMap, they can easily fo
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by nroets 4y ago
There can be a free permit register along the trail need to sign. This is fairly common for hiking trails in some countries. It may also assist search and rescue efforts. If the permit only covers a small area and it's not at the trail
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by nroets 4y ago
Most highschool students mainly use sin to calculate the lengths of sides of triangles. So it feels very counterintuitive that sin can be greater than 1. If you define sin as the solution to a particular differential equation, then it'
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by nroets 4y ago
Only 4 ? sin(1.5708) = 1 sin(1.5708 - 1.3170 i) = 2 sin(1.5708 - 2.0634 i) = 4 ...
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by nroets 4y ago
Law enforcement will not use the Bard API. So technically he's right.
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by nroets 4y ago
The country earns hard currency and can then purchase food from abroad ?? In Mathematics, there are metrics that differ for small values, but converge (percentage wise) for larger values. Then the metrics are deemed equivalent. Hopefully CO
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by nroets 4y ago
And Mathematica when given a math problem. And web search search for news. And a good hacker can add these features to Alpaca and run it on his desktop... Import all his WhatsApp chats and private emails into the corpus. Add speech recognit
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by nroets 4y ago
What if the license says "licencee will provide source code (GPL) or pay $n per device" ? If the lawyers then demand the source code and they don't comply then sue for n x number of devices.

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