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by pearjuice 4y ago
Turns out, if you're the largest oil exporter in the world you can do whatever you want whenever you want. And every world leader happily shakes hands with them.
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by pearjuice 4y ago
Imagine if they weren't wiped and receiving (a snapshot of) the entire Netflix catalogue.
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by pearjuice 4y ago
"Stadia is not shutting down. Rest assured we're always working on bringing more great games to the platform and Stadia Pro. Let us know if you have other questions." - Jul 29, 2022 https://twitter.com/googles
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by pearjuice 4y ago
45 minutes of unsupervised access to your phone? Even if it's a "travel" phone I wouldn't connect it to any other device after that.
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by pearjuice 4y ago
Deleted Facebook years ago and turns out if you have actual friends who you care about, you'll just send each other life/status updates via direct messages (whatsapp, sadly also owned by Meta).
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by pearjuice 4y ago
In some countries, being personally identifiable and liking or interacting with tweets which are against the viewpoints of people in power is "sensitive" as it can get you into forced rehabilitation camps. Twitter DMs are consider
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by pearjuice 4y ago
That's because IBM is in the business of selling complex stuff and promising to make it simple with support contracts.
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by pearjuice 4y ago
Are there known cases of miners or other organizations resisting this transition? Will there be people left mining the old proof-of-work chain? Something like Ethereum Classic but for PoW.
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by pearjuice 4y ago
Wondering when majority of KYC-enforced exchanges also start banning and seizing assets of all users who ever interacted with tornado cash. Then, if you relay someone Ethereum via tornado cash you can potentially blacklist their public faci
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Treasury Dept. Blacklists Tornado.Cash(nytimes.com)
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by pearjuice 4y ago
Too much filler cut scenes and slow dialogue. For example, Suits has notorious slow dialogue and lots of cut scenes hovering over city buildings which add nothing to the script. Watching it at 1.5x makes me miss absolutely nothing and reduc
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by pearjuice 4y ago
Everything seems to be underperforming. Most tech stocks are at their 2020 levels or headed towards it. Almost all tech IPOs in the last year are down. With everything being down, how is Bitcoin's performance an outlier?
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by pearjuice 4y ago
You (and anyone for that matter) can pass them with extensive preparation. If your day to day job is writing CRUD stuff and APIs without any recent actively memorized computer science concepts, you are not going to pass. The technical recru
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by pearjuice 4y ago
I'm wondering what kind of investment vehicle or financial strategy you can possibly use to counter these kind of percentages reliably.
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by pearjuice 4y ago
How is this better than hashing a txt document with a claim which has a timestamp in it? shasum -a 512 filewithtimestamp.txt
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by pearjuice 4y ago
I'm wondering how much of these shifts in monthly revenue for creators are actually additional signs of inflation.
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by pearjuice 4y ago
>These people should not have gone "all in" on a risky investment People shouldn't go to a casino either thinking it's a money maker. They see a high risk/high reward investment option and are not properly educat
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by pearjuice 4y ago
Bernie Madoff's scheme had an estimated $18B of actual losses. At it's peak, TerraUSD and LUNA had a combined market cap of roughly $80B. Though market cap says nothing about actual value invested, there could be a few billion dol
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by pearjuice 5y ago
Why wouldn't they? The risk of getting caught is virtually zero if you do it right and even if you get caught you get a slap on the wrist and a fine at best. It's just pathetic that for a company which so hard tries to legitimize
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by pearjuice 5y ago
95% of the article is about getting Docker to run properly on M1 - not Java. The JVM works fine.
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by pearjuice 5y ago
Any insight on initial investment required and ROI? Is this actually passive or you still have to do a lot of back-office work?
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by pearjuice 5y ago
When will we get a Wordle version where we guess the Wordle clone?
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by pearjuice 5y ago
I still don't understand Meta's obsession with the "metaverse" and Zuckerberg going all-in. Or what exactly the plan/paradigm is. With the world largely reopening again I feel being in a virtual world becomes less a
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by pearjuice 5y ago
FYI, a massive hedge fund (Fortress) has employed this "huggable" tech nerd as PR-symbol to lead a claims lawsuit bandwagoning on the hatred for Big Tech. Ironically, the same guy (Alexander Klopping) ran a company which offered a
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by pearjuice 5y ago
For me, it's the absolute hypocrisy of these events which turn me off. Slogan of the winter Olympics is "together for a shared future". Everyone is laughing and clapping and keeping up a facade. Meanwhile, millions in China a
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by pearjuice 5y ago
PHP hasn't been madness for a long time. One could argue Laravel (a RoR inspired framework) has become better than RoR.
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by pearjuice 5y ago
Code reviews make sure the other party at least thinks a bit about the code they write. "Someone is going to look at this, let's at least tidy it up or not be cobbled together underperforming spaghetti". Sure, you can trust y
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by pearjuice 5y ago
The only fear I have with 1password (or any password vault for that matter) is that one day they disappear or see great malfunction losing my data. The thought of having to reset my password everywhere is gut wrenching. Some accounts I don&
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by pearjuice 5y ago
I use Common Sense 2021 as I'm the sole user of my system and do not execute arbitrary executables. In the case I get hit by a vulnerability beyond my control, everything important is in "the cloud" and on secondary hard driv
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by pearjuice 5y ago
Yeah, I'm never going back and if they want me to go back I will quit too. This is the new normal and productivity has shown that there is zero necessity for people to come to an office. It's all perfectly viable to WFH. - stress

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