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by nwah1 7y ago
And both would work better than either individually.
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by nwah1 7y ago
Gold is a useful metal, yes. Its use as a money standard is arbitrary. A wiser commodity standard for currency would be a basket of non-scarce commodities that historically do not fluctuate much in price. But commodity standards in general
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by nwah1 7y ago
A private blockchain hosted only by a trusted party has absolutely zero purpose, even in theory. This whole experiment is a scam.
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by nwah1 7y ago
> When asked about why a redacted audit or report from the auditors wasn’t released, Voatz co-founder and CEO Nimit Sawhney, who co-authored the white paper, gave multiple reasons. First, he pointed to a nondisclosure agreement with the
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by nwah1 7y ago
Why would an exec intentionally violate US law for this?
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by nwah1 7y ago
Do the trade restrictions just mean they must refrain from engaging in monetary transactions? Continuing to offer various free services would be nice.
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by nwah1 7y ago
Even with curtain walls, as long as the windows are made with low-E glass and are well insulated, then they will provide a lot of protection from heat and allow AC to work efficiently.
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by nwah1 7y ago
You're assuming that the same people are doing the praising and complaining. In my experience, the people who don't like Facebook, don't like what they are doing anywhere. The people who like Facebook, who I assume are mainly
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by nwah1 7y ago
Lenovo and many other Chinese companies have been caught adding rootkits to their laptops, etc.
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by nwah1 7y ago
I consider this to be more like a polemic to shift the overton window of acceptable email restrictions. Probably much of what we enable in email could be restricted without loss of actual useful features. Each feature adds attack surface, c
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by nwah1 7y ago
"Disclosure" could mean many things. The idea of providing the info directly via email to the affected user seems to adequately disclose things to the relevant parties. Are there additional benefits of the public api that on balan
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by nwah1 7y ago
Other downsides are that it is more expensive than Aurora MySQL and there's no automated upgrade tools.
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by nwah1 7y ago
Agreed, and they should also ditch all Apple products.
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by nwah1 7y ago
I've injured myself multiple times on bicycles, never as a result of a car, despite traveling a tiny sliver of the distance that I have in a car. I've, thankfully, never been injured in a car accident. I realize this is anecdotal,
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by nwah1 7y ago
I loathe car culture, but bicycles are very dangerous compared to cars, and e-bikes moreso. Motorcycles are approximately 30 times more dangerous than cars, and bicycles about 15 times more dangerous. Goes to figure that e-bikes would be so
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by nwah1 7y ago
Fannie Mae's "jumbo loan" policy means you have to pay huge money down and also prove that you have enough in the bank to fund like 6 months of payments.
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by nwah1 7y ago
Tesla has benefitted quite a lot from government subsidies and regulations specifically aimed at encouraging companies like Tesla.
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by nwah1 7y ago
By that standard, the REEs required for solar definitely aren't 100% clean.
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by nwah1 7y ago
Resume from sleep causes a black screen. Crashes do happen occassionally, where the plasma desktop will die and restart itself... this happens more frequently with the latest releases. In recent releases, with multiple panels, sometimes t
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by nwah1 7y ago
It doesn't matter if Brave is nefarious or not. Extra data transmission means extra possibility for third parties to gain access to it... hackers, governments, etc.
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by nwah1 7y ago
Totally agree. I've also had it just completely forget all my "always open in container" settings in the past. But that hasn't occurred recently, so hopefully those days are over.
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by nwah1 7y ago
Main thing I don't like about Firefox for Android is the lack of support for containers. I want to use sites like Facebook within a container.
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by nwah1 7y ago
We live in an aging society, so the GDP metric is misleading. Although, we certainly do spend irrational amounts on healthcare, partly because consumers don't bear consequences for going with the pricey procedures. There's also nu
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by nwah1 7y ago
It takes like 5 minutes, max, to shop around for a pizza. You can easily pull up prices, reviews, and so on. If price transparency and quality comparison were made easily accessible, and one could actually choose options regardless of consi
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by nwah1 7y ago
If and when solar paints and solar windows become super cheap, then it would make sense to slap some on. But at the moment, panels are expensive and would add weight, which offsets much of the benefit. I do want such ideas to succeed, but t
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by nwah1 7y ago
I looked into the idea of solar panels on cars, to figure out why they don't do that. Turns out it would add only a trivial amount of energy, and thus is just a gimmick. >Although the energy from the solar panel might seem like a la
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by nwah1 7y ago
It isn't just unionized people that don't care about prices. Most people on Medicare or Medicaid do not care... that's like 1/3rd of the country right there. And among the highest per-capita consumers of healthcare. Ther
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by nwah1 7y ago
The economy is the sum of individual actions, which are all guided by incentives. Set up poor incentives, and each individual poor decision might not matter too much, but the collective result can be awful. The idea that we ought to throw o
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by nwah1 7y ago
There are some markets where price shopping is possible and does happen. For instance, LASIK prices plummeted as a result of competition and price shopping. There could be many more, if not for various policies that impede this.
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by nwah1 7y ago
I have done that and seen all of those. I'm thinking at the systemic level. If everyone had to care about prices, then there would be more demand for transparency, and more competition in pricing, which would help even those who are un

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