plokiju

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by plokiju 3y ago
Weren’t you the one just making an appeal to history and tradition above?
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by plokiju 4y ago
Hypocrisy
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by plokiju 4y ago
“ According to the Economic Policy Institute, the average annual wage of the top 1% was $823,763 as of 2020”[0] Or “According to recent studies, to be in the top 1% of earners in the U.S., you need to bring in an annual salary of at least $
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by plokiju 4y ago
There’s definitely still some who believe in the American dream idea, where anyone who comes to America and works hard can pull themselves up by their bootstraps and become successful. That often leads to the idea that if you’re poorer than
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by plokiju 4y ago
What is it about humans that makes only them capable of meaning? And how would you define meaning here?
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by plokiju 4y ago
It’s funny, I thought this comment was going to go the opposite way. The first examples I thought of in evolution were things like ant colonies, where individuals sacrifice themselves for the good of the collective gene pool, and are extrem
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by plokiju 4y ago
> What preserves these shows, what guarantees access to these shows? r/datahoarder
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by plokiju 4y ago
That includes spam though
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by plokiju 4y ago
He’s also become the richest man in the world over the last few years (at least publicly known wealth). That tends to bring you a lot of attention. His politics isn’t the only thing that changed
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by plokiju 5y ago
I’m a developer who’s pretty much always used Ubuntu, and haven't bothered digging too deep into other distros. What are the modern features I’m missing?
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by plokiju 5y ago
Why do you feel they don’t understand that?
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by plokiju 5y ago
And that’s only looking at US Christmas lights, not world-wide
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by plokiju 5y ago
I’m all for artificial scarcity. Collectors are going to find rare things to collect. It would be better if they didn’t, but I think it’s probably a part of human nature to some degree. Personally, id be ecstatic if collectors decide they
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by plokiju 5y ago
What is the scientific process if not an attempt to filter and “cancel” wrong ideas, and propagate the right ones? Ideas will be attacked relentlessly by society until proven useful. That’s how it all works
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by plokiju 5y ago
> Society, as a whole, has worked fairly well without "bullshit filters." It's when you start putting them on that you start having issues When has society ever not had bullshit filters? Intellectual debate goes both ways.
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by plokiju 5y ago
It’s ok to be wrong. But you should also expect that you may be ridiculed or ignored sometimes if your theories aren't conventional Basically, I don’t think the BBC refusing to give time to flat earth era is cancel culture. Even if the
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by plokiju 5y ago
> If he were alive in 2021 and pushing something that went against "current wisdom," of that magnitude, he would be banned from media, ridiculed, and cancelled. The problem is, for every Galileo who is thinking against the main
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by plokiju 5y ago
Calling that control “democratic” is a bit of a stretch. Plus, anonymous physical cash transactions have been the status quo forever
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by plokiju 5y ago
Crypto != Bitcoin. There’s a lot of exciting innovation happening in defi and other areas. The argument that crypto is only used for trading is well out of date
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by plokiju 5y ago
If you want to use a decentralized finance app on ethereum, must pay transaction fees in ETH. That seems like the same level of backing to me
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by plokiju 5y ago
The content itself can be preserved by putting it on chain, in IPFS, or in some other future persistent content storage system. There are a lot of junk NFTs now, but it doesn’t have to be that way
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by plokiju 5y ago
Source on the eye tracking? The light field displays I've seen ( https://lookingglassfactory.com/ ) don't need eye tracking to work
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by plokiju 5y ago
> PoS is closed-membership with a veneer of open-membership, because the means of coin production are tied to owning a coin already. What this means in practice is that no rational coin-owner is going to sell you coins at a fast enough r
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by plokiju 5y ago
> POW currencies are guaranteed to prevent this kind of abuse unless any individual entity is able to get more than 51%. There's an incentive in addition to this because corrupting the integrity of the network would also devalue the
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by plokiju 7y ago
Bitcoin works by consensus though. Nobody can be in that position. the best you can do is make a fork. Those who don't agree with the rule change will keep mining with the old rules in place
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by plokiju 7y ago
I just finished "Now: The Physics of Time" by Robert Muller. I have mixed feelings about the book, especially the chapters devoted to the author's interpretation of philosophy. I did enjoy hearing a history/overview of m
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by plokiju 8y ago
This wasn't some anomaly, AAPL stayed above $1T for an entire quarter, at times being above $1.1T and then only slid down recently when the tech market as a whole did. Trying to pretend Apple was never legitimately worth over $1T is ri
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by plokiju 8y ago
Maybe you trust the source, but not the broker?
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by plokiju 8y ago
For the record, Apple did hit the trillion dollar mark, but has since fallen
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by plokiju 8y ago
Duplex only works because it was highly optimized for specific domains, like booking haircuts and booking tables. Every conversation in these domains pretty much goes the same way. If you go off the standard reservation script, it falls apa

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