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by pas 1y ago
Are we still at the "Bill Gates got a BSoD during the demo of USB" level? I know that at least on Linux mounting filesystems can lead to nasty things, so there's FUSE, but ... I have no idea what distros and desktop environme
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by pas 1y ago
... and let me recommend this blog post about how the housing bubble was exaggerated, and it the bubble is real, the money manifesting as demand for housing is really there (of course coming from the economic growth and brutal amounts of we
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by pas 1y ago
since the key is there it's not impossible to extract it in theory
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by pas 1y ago
... information theoretically... you can't it's okay there's already some fraud, waste, loss, inefficiencies, accidents (packages lost, chargebacks by mistake, package arrives weeks later) .... that said the chips have some p
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by pas 1y ago
I assume there's no minimum there (as I haven't encountered such a requirement in Hungary for some time, nor in Spain)
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by pas 1y ago
there's no need to understand it, as being healthy well after being alive for hundreds of years would incentivize a lot of people to do more with their life than clutching their academic pearls. even if not, the aphorism is not a neces
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by pas 1y ago
mind uploading and backups
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by pas 1y ago
that's one small part of aging
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by pas 1y ago
do you happen to have a link to a helpful YouTube video tutorial on how to organize a coup against a terrorist state while starving to death in the middle of a total occupation?
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by pas 1y ago
never let a good crisis go to waste, right? but the same processes that put the orange man there put similar people in other places too and similar sentiments led to voters preferring authoritarian measures
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by pas 1y ago
if I understand correctly it only injects a "gene cassette" which forms an episome (a plasmid-like thing, ie. just a ring of DNA outside the nucleus, just floating around in the cell), so it's non-integrating https:/&#x
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by pas 1y ago
tethered to good old human biases though
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by pas 1y ago
if the piece of code in question is so type independent, then either it should be generic or it's doing too much
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by pas 1y ago
also note that having arbitrary lines on maps led to very inefficient banking and healthcare (and telecom) markets it's protectionism, and led to ~50 monopolies (or oligopolies) instead
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by pas 1y ago
how would you pick those 1000 projects? this is the problem with NIH grants too, for example - lots of appeal to authority, lot of noise, not a lot of signal. AI might be a bubble, but at least there are people (who value their reputation)
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by pas 1y ago
there are two possibilities, either the big behemoth provides something for cheap (let's say because there's competition or because the buyers form an efficient price negotiation bloc), in which case the buyers benefit from buying
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by pas 1y ago
small businesses get a lot of exemptions from various regulations, and small business owners/proprietors tend to be very vocal and effective politically of course big systemic things are usually not great for them (such as technologica
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by pas 1y ago
"came from" after some serious guidance, though the fact that GPT5 can offer candidate solutions (?) is pretty nice
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by pas 1y ago
... also sometimes a bubble is just a brutal unnecessary wealth transfer between generations everyone was crying how unsustainable these real estate prices are ... and then they kept going up still. because supply fucking stagnates, yet dem
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by pas 1y ago
they should, also with air filters, noise and air quality are big issues, keeping windows closed would help a lot yes, it's expensive, yes, people's revealed presences indicate they don't care for these things, they rather gi
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by pas 1y ago
I think there's a why with regard to the code. Why this "how" and not some other "how". (Why did you pick this algorithm, this pattern, this solution to the bigger business why.)
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by pas 1y ago
We don't know, but epidemiological data hints at which one is more likely. ADHD diagnosis requires "onset" before age 14, yet there is such a thing as acquired ADHD (due to brain damage). And of course the genes don't ch
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by pas 1y ago
Yes, and it's likely due to low-intensity disorder showing up as something one can control, manage, compensate for, and find a place for oneself in society, but if somehow the dial gets fiddled with, things start to fall apart as we mo
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by pas 1y ago
why things are falling apart? isn't it mostly good old Baumol's cost disease (relative productivity decreasing) coupled with the lack of economies of scale (even more productivity backsliding) coupled with spending priorities (ser
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by pas 1y ago
did any Amazon boycott ever achieved anything? (ie. did any of them ever reach the threshold of a statistically significant impact on their bottom line?)
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by pas 1y ago
track cars then and shipping containers and whatnot, not people's conversations. we all pay the price, yes, but we also all enjoy the prosperity it brings us. at best these are arguments for finally making cars harder to steal. (and fo
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by pas 1y ago
Ah, I completely support your righteous anger against the tragicomedy of US "IP colonisation", though note that it has not much to do with my comment about the possibility of an open source patent. The fact that most of the worl
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by pas 1y ago
thanks for the links, and ... uhh, mad respect on the xwiki CQL feature! :) a bit tangential, but isn't Solr (and ElasticSearch and probably others) all use Lucerne "indexes" (as in Lucene is a library like LevelDB)? what&#x2
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by pas 1y ago
... voters (or however we want to handwave preference aggregation) are very passive about carbon-free energy (and global warming and sustainability and economics and ...) they either pick some pet peeves (coral reefs, rainforests, global So
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by pas 1y ago
... yes, yes, they fucking are. It's the people we meet along (and get along with) not the fucking data. Cherish people who want to work with you, not one more byte saved. Users are responsible for their own backups. If you want to be

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