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by potamic 4y ago
I sincerely hope they don't entertain such ideas. Culture is an expression of ideas, and ideas are built upon other ideas. Nobody can claim an idea to their own, and certainly not a group of individuals who have come long after the con
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by potamic 4y ago
If anything, ChatGPT will be for the masses. Programming as a skill has been commoditized a fair bit over the last decade and I believe the kind of hackers pg was talking about would actively eschew all forms of AI search.
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by potamic 4y ago
Tipping has been weird ever since it ceased to be voluntary. This is the root cause. Everything else is a side effect. But there's another side to tipping I've not seen anyone bring up. It gives people a means to employ discrimina
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by potamic 4y ago
I'm echoing some of my previous comments because this post resonates quite a bit with me. Ultimately, an ecosystem is only as good as its community and that's where I believe the root lies. The community has not figured out how to
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by potamic 4y ago
A "post-detection" hub? Are these people for real? If intelligent life contacts humans, every country in the world is going to rush to open back channels with them in the hope of gaining alliance and taking their help in getting a
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by potamic 4y ago
Much hostility. You know this will cause more emigration right?
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by potamic 4y ago
What do you mean blown out of proportion? OP has mentioned that it's a partial block and shared a source showing multiple people facing the same issue.
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by potamic 4y ago
And as we speak, I upgrade to 3.10 only to see my dependencies break and wonder if they have learnt anything at all.
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by potamic 4y ago
Oh you sweet child, you haven't seen complexity until you have deployed J2EE services generated using WSDL, running in an OSGi container, interfaced with EJBs packaged using Ant and deployed into GlassFish, integrated with IIS running
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by potamic 4y ago
I think this is a common theme all over the world where there is a steady increase in corruption with time. But really, this should be expected. Political systems across the world are now many decades old. No system can be perfect and with
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by potamic 4y ago
If it is a site wide coupon, it is usually sponsored by the platform. Their play is either user acquisition or some quarterly targets on gross volume. This is likely in early stage ventures who burn VC money in order to boost their perceive
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by potamic 4y ago
Can you use this for a full system backup or is it more suited towards backing up individual files?
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by potamic 4y ago
Obviously, when we talk about scammers we are talking about the ring leaders.
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by potamic 4y ago
Gandhi might've said a lot of things, but the point of that quote is that retaliation leads to an overall worse outcome. Unless you're an egomaniac, you will want to swallow your pride, break the chain of retaliation and live your
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by potamic 4y ago
It's not bad, it's reprehensible. Notwithstanding the fact that there are about a dozen moral qualms about this line of thinking, the economic conditions of the countries have little bearing on the economic situations of individua
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by potamic 4y ago
I think there's an argument to be made about earthly things being beautiful in that they are signals of a habitable environments thriving ecosystems. What has somewhat mystified me however is that we find extra terrestrial things just
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by potamic 4y ago
Smart watches already use rechargeable lithium batteries of a few hundred mAh which are tiny enough to fit in the watch. You just need to standardize the interface and form factors across the industry. Again, not suggesting to use CR2025 fo
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by potamic 4y ago
I think the point was not so much to use replaceable coin cells, but introduce a rechargeable lithium battery with a standard interface and form factors that can be adopted by all devices. It doesn't seem impossible on the outset, but
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by potamic 4y ago
Is there a source that objectively compares camera abilities for these two devices?
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by potamic 4y ago
I'm in the same boat. I can spend weeks and months exploring the most mundane things I buy. One thing I have realized is that I rather enjoy the process. I like to find out more about what comprises a quality product for a given applic
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by potamic 4y ago
Depending on where you live, see if motorcycling is an option. With your packed schedule you would have scant time for any leisure. This is one way to incorporate a hobby into the commute. They are insanely fun to ride and can give you some
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by potamic 4y ago
You don't need CBDC to operate a cashless economy. Digital payments are ubiquitous already and cash is merely an alternative that is available. CBDC changes nothing for end consumers. It is primarily a tool for the central bank to appl
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by potamic 4y ago
Friction in a process can be an amazing deterrent and prevents you from abusing power en masse. Whenever there is a cost to doing something, it demands prudence.
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by potamic 4y ago
Most examinations of CBDC paint a grim picture of things to come, mostly in terms of yielding absolute power to the central bank. As with any situation involving power, with good intentions you can do wonderful things, with bad intentions y
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by potamic 4y ago
The cynic in me observes that a boat allows you to get to international waters outside the reach any jurisdiction.
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by potamic 4y ago
There is nothing about something being "natural" that makes it inherently safer. Indeed there is nothing that is not natural in fact. Wood ash soap is no different than any other soap you may buy in the market. It only differs in
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by potamic 4y ago
The failures were really a blessing in disguise for Apple. Without them they would have most certainly continued to push forward the butterfly, given how they always know better than their users.
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by potamic 4y ago
Gimmicks such as buy our product and plant a tree might work in oversaturated, commoditized markets where consumers care less about which product they buy. I'm not sure choosing a financial product falls in the same category where ther
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by potamic 4y ago
I've seen a few anecdotes of people starting ADHD medication and seeing drastic improvements immediately. But at the other end, also some from people who regret going on medication, that it is more depleting than helpful in the long te
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by potamic 4y ago
Interesting. It's public information in India which I thought would have inherited from the UK.

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