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by phs318u 4y ago
That would arguably feel worse for the sender. "I did what?!" No thanks :)
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by phs318u 4y ago
The original Bitcoin white paper mentions commerce (in the introduction) as the primary use-case and it does not qualify this in any way. But yes, in hindsight many things become obvious.
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by phs318u 4y ago
Your comment triggered a question in my mind and searching isn't helping find a convincing answer. Does anyone know the size of the largest privately-owned retail bank operating in the world? I believe CTBC Bank (Taiwan) is privately-h
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by phs318u 4y ago
Frankly, I’m finding it increasingly hard to muster any sympathy for the “victims” who lose money in these scams. I use quotes around the word victims because at this point there’s no excuse for not understanding that this is a scam and you
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by phs318u 4y ago
As an active user on a thematic instance (metalhead.club) I’ve seen an initial tsunami wave in the immediate days/weeks of the twitter craziness, then a dropping off in the following month. But the instance has easily increased in size
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I'm just guessing here, but I imagine most writers would recommend you produce writing that you want to write.
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As a long-ago C programmer (late 80s, early 90s), this series of articles is so cool. I know there will be comments complaining that it doesn't go far enough (compared to modern languages), and it stretches comprehensibility to do it,
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by phs318u 4y ago
We saw this writ large with the evangelical support for Donald Trump. It's crystal clear that DT is a huge "family values" hypocrite, yet he's seen to be a global change agent (of God, no less), so that justifies their u
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> explain to me how it would work, such that elon wouldn't notice He's a narcissist. At least, it seems obvious to me that he is. And narcissists are absolutely amenable to co-opting other people's ideas. It's what th
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Sorry, but you don’t speak for me.
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Firstly, if this was the most ridiculous thing I'd ever put on the internet I'd be pretty happy. Secondly, I agree that consciousness is predicated on emergent properties arising from the complexity that simple machines can produc
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by phs318u 4y ago
> Note, at this time, these CVEs are not public I'm not sure what the lag is, but from what I've seen all Apple CVE's are made public at some point. The last one I got before this bunch (from security-annouce@lists.apple.c
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by phs318u 4y ago
I fully expect that the average consumer is not reading any of these notes, and either has automatic updates on, and stuff just magically happens at some point, or has them off, and then wonders why shit breaks 2 years after their last upda
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by phs318u 4y ago
You(we) are already paying right now by delaying, deferring and not acting. We are all paying in terms of environmental climate and all the consequences of that, to the environment, human health and yes, the economy too.
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by phs318u 4y ago
Ok. But that works both ways. The Germans then are culpable for their government’s actions as are the Americans for theirs.
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The Greeks are hesitant about taxes because they know from experience that their governments (of any flavour) have invariably been historically corrupt. The Germans experience (post-war at least) was not that. I doubt very much if the Germa
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You’re expecting ordinary citizens to be aware of their actions on the broader economy when their own governments are lying to them. Leaving aside the fact that most people have neither the knowledge nor the power to live other than as thei
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Friend, firstly please don’t conflate Greeks with Greek governments. Secondly, yes Greek governments lied with some great help from Goldman Sachs. I promise you the Greek people found that all prices rose when the Euro was introduced. Final
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by phs318u 4y ago
You and I are neighbours. I ask to borrow your chainsaw. You lend it. Next month you come knocking wanting it back. I point to the corner where it lays broken and shrug. Some time later I ask to borrow your lawn mower. You give it. When you
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by phs318u 4y ago
As the son of Greeks living abroad it’s exactly this.
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by phs318u 4y ago
Which is exactly what they used to do regularly pre-Euro. You seem to believe the German banks were hoodwinked into lending to the Greek government but that’s just not supported by the well known economic history of the country. The real re
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My first job in 1987 was with the Australian Department of Defence and as I recall in this country, they are explicitly exempted from environmental laws governing everyone else. I wouldn't be surprised if something like this is true in
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by phs318u 4y ago
Please stop trolling. Either engage reasonably or go to Slashdot. On the very slim chance that you're not trolling, let me explain that "environmentalists" don't live somewhere else. They too are people, that like everyo
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by phs318u 4y ago
Back in 2008 (when I was using Solaris daily at work and MacOS at home), I actually had a personal use-case, which I actually took the time to document. https://macoverdrive.blogspot.com/2008/10/using-zfs-to-manag.
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Perhaps it's targeted at psych professionals in respect of their discussions with non-psych professionals e.g. patients and their families.
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Hyper-specific apps just seem to me like a return to the Victorian predilection for hyper-specific tools, such as grape shears and top-hat irons.
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Reading through the comments I get the sense that there's something missing in our attempts to link "qualia" to hardware/wetware. My brain is made of neurons but "I" am not my neurons in and of themselves. Ther
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Analyzing a new material that promises faster, higher resolution displays(phys.org)
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“ The total number of pixels—and therefore, the resolution and display size—is limited by how many of these pixels can be addressed within a given fraction of a second. A new material called ITZO (for its constituent elements indium, tin, z
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According to Vesta's own website, even at their projections of "global scale" i.e. 100's of millions of tons CO2 captured, that's still around 1% of the annual fossil fuel driven emissions (tens of billions of ton

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