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by p_j_w 4y ago
What an absurd thing to say. What's that got to do with GPs point? Should we ignore this criticism of congress because it's not allowed in China?
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by p_j_w 4y ago
If you can't trust people in crypto, though, who CAN you trust?
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by p_j_w 4y ago
What percentage of 30 year spans give a 1.4% return or less? Better question: what's the cumulative distribution function of a 30 year investment span on an S&P 500 index fund?
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by p_j_w 4y ago
I once took an overnight bus trip from LA to Las Vegas. The bus must have left LA around 4am. We stopped at Eddie World somewhere around 6. It was a real experience waking up and being greeted by that place. It felt like an acid trip. I don
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by p_j_w 4y ago
>Apple killed off the web version too It boggles the mind, doesn't it? The equivalent of a bunch of food and housing was spent just so something useful could be taken out of half of the population's hands. Just think about that
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by p_j_w 4y ago
>a lot of them are heavy supporters of Putin and russia in general and hate immigrants just like trumpers do. Unlike in the USA, these people in Germany don't get their insane voices boosted by the ballot box equivalent of Affirmati
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by p_j_w 4y ago
Then go ahead and do it, but why should the Asahi Linux people take this into consideration? The entire point of the project is to get Linux running on ARM Macs. That's what they personally want and there's no reason for them to m
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by p_j_w 4y ago
>They lost the customer. Unless customer default on the loan, they won't be 'right' This isn't how banks work. They put in place rules that they consistently adhere to when they decide if they're going to give ou
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by p_j_w 4y ago
>It is an immense failure of law enforcement to not crack down harder on widespread scams. Do you think if we let cops put on their pretty SWAT gear and roll into the front yards of white collar criminals' front yards in their APCs
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by p_j_w 4y ago
I don't think GP is saying that they're good analogs aside from them being mergers that are ultimately bad for the health of the market place.
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by p_j_w 4y ago
It's very upsetting that deadmau5 hasn't released an instrumental version of this song.
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by p_j_w 4y ago
>'go woke go broke'...which is what happened to SVB Jesus Christ, people actually believe this shit?
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by p_j_w 4y ago
Are you going to sit here and pretend that centralized marketplaces aren't how the vast majority of people deal with crypto?
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by p_j_w 4y ago
I would still place that bet.
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by p_j_w 4y ago
>It's at least as likely as the coffee scenario. I would bet money on a blind taste test on a well pulled shot of espresso vs just dumping some water on some ground beans would show a substantially bigger difference than these peopl
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by p_j_w 4y ago
There was an article this morning about Silicon Valley VCs throwing a temper tantrum over the whole SVB debacle that was flagged, locked, and hidden with incredible speed ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35138024 ). I&#
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by p_j_w 4y ago
I can't believe you would dare to imply that these companies and VCs actually bear some responsibility and that their incessant whining that it's not actually their fault at all isn't entirely true.
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by p_j_w 4y ago
> bits are ultimately conveyed via analog electrical impulses Yes, but unless the analog error reaches some certain threshold, the 0 will still read as a 0 and the 1 will still read as a 1. The bit is still a bit. The bits only cease to
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by p_j_w 4y ago
Also, this: https://www.moneycrashers.com/dif-insurance-massachusetts-de...
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by p_j_w 4y ago
If that's even an option then there's no reason to be having this discussion. These companies were irresponsibly putting all of their eggs in one basket and now I'm being asked to bail them out?
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by p_j_w 4y ago
Then buy more deposit insurance.
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by p_j_w 4y ago
Unless your questions are rhetorical, I think you're making a mistake in thinking any of these people are asking for certain policies out of any principals beyond their own self-interest.
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by p_j_w 4y ago
Is there any FOSS you can use these PDKs with?
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by p_j_w 4y ago
Guess we better outlaw everything but fruits and vegetables then.
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by p_j_w 4y ago
>Is it as serious as selling drugs? Absolutely. It is 100% worse than selling drugs to willing buyers. How is this even a question?
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by p_j_w 4y ago
>it wasn't the risk-taking that did them in [...] didn't adequately account for duration risk. This sounds like risk taking to me.
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by p_j_w 4y ago
>if you or I would use such an argument, people in this forum would jump on us invoking "Godwin's law" In which case you can happily point out that, in doing so, they've really misunderstood Godwin's Law.
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by p_j_w 4y ago
I mean, look at the replies underneath GP. They are others just piling on with the puns and adding zero value to the conversation.
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by p_j_w 4y ago
Vote for candidates who will do something about it.
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by p_j_w 4y ago
>or you'll be trapped in pedantic bickering and inaction forever. There are lots of people and groups out there for which this is the goal.

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