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by phs318u 10y ago
My first thought: "I wonder what the economics are like, re: cryptocurrency mining?" My second thought: "I wonder if Amazon use their 'idle' capacity to mine cryptocurrency?" With respect to my second thought,
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by phs318u 10y ago
Australia's short-lived carbon tax reduced emissions. Despite the overblown media claims at the time, it didn't impose a massive cost on consumers, nor hugely impact GDP. https://ccep.crawford.anu.edu.au/sites&#x2F
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by phs318u 10y ago
.local ? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.local
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by phs318u 10y ago
This. I too go back to Usenet and Compuserve. I'm really close to giving up on Slashdot altogether. I've only recently come across HN and love it. Vast majority of discussions are polite, thoughtful, considered and interesting. Th
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by phs318u 10y ago
This stuff is not my area of expertise but am I correct in assuming we're talking about a "checker checker"? In which case, quis checks ipsos checkers? ie will we eventually find we need a checker checker checker, and so on a
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by phs318u 10y ago
Not offended, but I don't consider myself a sheep. While some see no difference between mega-corps, there are a few key things that I value Apple for over Google. 1. The seamlessness of the ecosystem. 2. The low rate at which products
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by phs318u 10y ago
> What they’re reacting to is the fact that we’re headed toward a multicultural tolerant scientific society and that is what they don’t want. They don’t want science. They want a theocracy. They don’t want multiculturalism. They want mon
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by phs318u 10y ago
I think that's a bit of a simplistic generalisation. It's probably more accurate to say that there are aggressive and "dangerous" ideas that have taken hold among some groups of people, including among native westerners.
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by phs318u 10y ago
On a slight tangent here... I've always thought one of the biggest problems with globalisation as a concept is the absence of free movement of people. What I mean by that is the ability of people anywhere to move anywhere else, to wo
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by phs318u 10y ago
Haha. We wished we got patches. This was back in the day when the prevailing mantra was, "Patches? We don't need no stinking patches!" (Though we did convince the DBAs to apply a necessary AQ related patch. Rare.) Having sa
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by phs318u 10y ago
I'm a little long in the tooth so aren't as up to date with every new fangled technique to land in IT. Some of you may find this anecdote interesting and somewhat pertinent. Many years ago the electric utility I worked at had a
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by phs318u 10y ago
Wow. What a sick puppy.
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by phs318u 10y ago
If one of the broader benefits to society of an education is your contribution to the economy, then this would negate that benefit. Eg no one wins from having qualified doctors being unable to practice. It's punitive rather than correc