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I liked Mozilla's idea of pdf.js since it is intrinsically sandboxed by using javascript, and makes use of all the architecture that it is already providing rather than shipping an entirely separate rendering pipeline. Adobe's pro
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Winston Smith? Adam Smith? Mr Smith who went to Washington?
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Mining for rewards is not the only way mining can occur. It can also occur from fees. And since the total number of bitcoins is capped, it will soon only happen via fees. The amount of fees is unlimited, and the total possible energy usage
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From the Chief Economist at the Financial Times today: The case for Land Value Tax is overwhelming https://archive.is/bkS21
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They can't trick me. I know what works. I'm sticking with Windows 98.
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We are willing to spend endless trillions on administrators, elaborate facilities, tablet computers, tutoring, lowering student-teacher ratios... But not willing to spend any time or money figuring out how to provide kids with fresh air, nu
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Most of the medical stuff looks like testing. The only pharmaceutical I see is metformin. Which part of this is extreme or likely to lead to problems? I realize that even testing is not harmless, but the main problem would be inaccurate tes
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How have they died, specifically? The specifics matter. This protocol doesn't involve risky surgeries, for instance. I agree that venturing into exotic pharmaceuticals or experimental drugs would be unwise, for instance. But if he were
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If you look at his regimen, which he documented extensively, it is actually very thorough and well-researched. There is very little to criticize in there, given his goals. It is a refreshing contrast to all the many people in this field who
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As far as I can tell, there is no point whatsoever to have tipping as an option on payment terminals. You use them when you are getting takeout, or when you are at a fast-casual place. If there is waitstaff, then they take your card and you
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Would be ridiculously inefficient, while also being nondeterministic and opaque. Impossible to debug, verify, or test anything, and thus would be unwise to use for almost any kind of important task. But maybe for a very forgiving task you c
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Ask HN: Where do breakthroughs in computer science come from?
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systemd is from Red Hat.
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This starts from the assumption that billionaire funds are intrinsically malign in intent. While it may be helpful that some portion of the public believes this, to keep them on their toes, it is not really fair. For instance, this video it
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I didn't know that you could use emojis in URLs. Neat.
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True, that is the common theme. Personal servants being distinct from your lawyer or your doctor or therapist. If tipping were good and respectable and promoting better market dynamics or service... then it would actually be more important
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Big difference between taxed and taxable. I know people who have explained how being a cabbie etc was only lucrative because of cash tips. But yea, electronic POS is now more common.
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The odd thing is how specific to restaurants it is, and only a handful of other industries. You dont tip in any other context. If you want the deluxe experience you order the deluxe option. To me this seems wrong. If tipping were so great t
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This is unfair. The commenter you are replying to is claiming that a liberal organization is being attacked from the left, and this is a pretty fair statement. Even the sales pitches for why you should subscribe to The Guardian make it clea
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The obvious answer is that animals are very efficient because they use self-replicating biological means to construct the flesh, and industrial animal operations are extremely efficient particularly when they dont have to care about animal
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No. OP argued that you should not use the software because it might phone home, and the author doesn't think the tools should phone home for any reason. Yet, with flatpak you can specifically turn off networking permissions just for th
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Silverblue is super cool, although this page doesn't explain what is cool about it. This article helps explain. https://fedoramagazine.org/what-is-silverblue/
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Also, you end up with very similar questions for non-corporate languages like Nim because you don't really know who created the software, what their motives might be, and whether the binaries you are receiving are really what the sou
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Terrible arguments. Golang and Android Studio are both open source, and you could compile them yourself. Telemetry can be turned off in Android Studio, and you can use stuff like flatpaks to isolate the software from your system, and comple
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Love your metacognitive awareness. Excellent comment.
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It isn't about difficulty. It is about compliance. People who haven't complied with the law for their filings are going to get targeted more.
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The Fed doesn't create new base money, and they cannot really offer "stimulus" the way Congress can. They can just change the asset classes on their books. But because of their unique position, the choice of those asset class
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Banking is digital, and thus functionally money in general is digital and has been since the 60s. The dollar itself is physical. No central banks are proposing the use of a blockchain, as that would be a completely ridiculous and counter-pr
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Industries produce things. "Web3" does not.
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You are both right. With unchanged demand for imports, then the total value of imports in USD would be the same, but a stronger dollar would affect the relative demand for imports vs domestic commodities in reality given basic supply and de

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