patrickaljord

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by patrickaljord 5y ago
NATO is with the good people tho so it can't do wrong.
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by patrickaljord 5y ago
> If a country doesn’t want to operate within the confines of international law, does not honor international agreements, does not honor its word and commits war crimes — then the word “immoral” does not apply to any action taken to puni
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by patrickaljord 5y ago
They don't need to build their own tools in this case, they can just use https://almalinux.org/ which is the new CentOS, the redhat equivalent of open source. As for the need for tech support, these are local Russians
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by patrickaljord 5y ago
Because sanctions don't work and not everyone agree they are needed?
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by patrickaljord 5y ago
Bridges like that are not decentralized and rely on trust, I don't think anyone consider them to be DeFi.
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by patrickaljord 5y ago
Has anyone ever not been accused of being a scammer in this space?
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by patrickaljord 5y ago
First, the difference is that it's trust-less because people votes are backed by crypto. Second, you're aware the "congrats, you've just invented" argument is a ridiculous fallacy that can be used against any kind o
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by patrickaljord 5y ago
It's pretty common, the two biggest and most used decentralized exchanges uniswap and sushiswap hold $10.5B and are immutable.
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by patrickaljord 5y ago
More like, they realize "heavy regulations" are meant to protect incumbents from having to compete against new actors.
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by patrickaljord 5y ago
Many so called "shitcoins" generate more revenue, get more transactions and offer more utility (loans, market makers etc) than your beloved bitcoin, so let's be humble. https://cryptofees.info/
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by patrickaljord 5y ago
If everyone start using their phones, they kind of will. I would guess it's easier to spy on people when you own the hardware and OS. Maybe the infrastructure would allow broader spying but owning a big part of the smartphone market al
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by patrickaljord 5y ago
> Spending 1% of it to insure its safety seems about right. How much would you spend ? Are you unironically saying the US isn't spending much on military? Most wars conducted by the US are not defending its safety. If you still beli
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by patrickaljord 5y ago
Next year the US will spend $715 billion on military budget alone, a $10 billion increase from last year. Shouldn't the government try to cut spending before thinking of how it could increase tax revenue? It's like an obese person
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by patrickaljord 5y ago
Plenty of tiny nations already solved this problem by contracting other nations instead of building their own defense infrastructure. Granted it's not free either but much cheaper than building your own.
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by patrickaljord 5y ago
Do you have a link to the list of signatories?
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by patrickaljord 5y ago
Polygon is working on their own L2 solution, both optimistic and zk rollup. Optimistic will be released by end of year, co-founder also said current sidechain could be upgraded to rollup when released https://twitter.com/Mih
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by patrickaljord 5y ago
That's why I don't drink beer either.
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by patrickaljord 5y ago
Problem with flaxseed is it is the richest dietary source of lignans, a type of phytoestrogen. A phytoestrogen is a plant nutrient that is somewhat similar to the female hormone estrogen. Due to this similarity, lignans may have estrogenic
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by patrickaljord 5y ago
At $2 per month they are probably still subsidizing you with datamining.
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by patrickaljord 5y ago
Why not? If you use wasm for a small library need in your web app, then sure, go doesn't make sense. But if your whole app is coded in wasm like a game, then it's probably ok I guess as the app will be heavy to load regardless.
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by patrickaljord 6y ago
True, the more overregulated an economy is, the more corrupt it will be. That's just a fact of life. Corollary, the less regulated countries but with a strong rule of law for the few regulations that do exist are the less corrupt world
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by patrickaljord 6y ago
> but with apologies to Mitt Romney, corporations aren't people I agree corporations are not people but then why are they taxed instead of just the people? This whole country was founded on the principle of "no taxation without
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by patrickaljord 6y ago
Quick reminder: co-Founder of Netflix, Marc Randolph, is directly related to both Sigmund Freud and Edward Bernays. Both historical figures of psychology and propaganda... https://i.imgur.com/u9OyyOp.png
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by patrickaljord 6y ago
https://www.wired.com/2011/05/warrantless-house-search/ > yet houses are still sold without built-in surveillance cameras, that would let law enforcement look at the recording of what you were doing (with
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by patrickaljord 6y ago
Carbs are cheap, easier to store, package and sell. Part of the reason they are pushing hard on veganism. When refined it's empty calorie though so it ends up more expensive per nutrient in this case. Non-refined carbs are more expensi
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by patrickaljord 6y ago
Quick feedback from your frontpage, the slack demo does not work when trying to sign up https://supabase-slack-clone-supabase.vercel.app/
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by patrickaljord 6y ago
> You are not owed anything. He is owed whatever the price someone is willing to pay for his shares which for now seems to be around $300k. He is not owed anything else though. > Putting money in a company is not work. He did work for
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by patrickaljord 6y ago
The most annoying part is that it usually comes with a patronizing "the youth knows better than the rest of us old fart sinners" message. I'm all for empowering the youth and don't deny their potential to build and creat
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by patrickaljord 6y ago
The problem is not just sugar, it's refined carbs in general. The idea that sugar is bad in great amount seems to have gone mainstream, but many people I know who seem to be aware that sugar is bad and have lowered their intake are sti
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by patrickaljord 6y ago
There's this one but one cared because he was a nazi. Now they're going against pirates. Who knows who's next. https://www.propublica.org/article/service-provider-boots-ha...

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