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by qubex 3y ago
I’m impressed.
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by qubex 4y ago
“High-powered money” is that which is created when the central bank lends to commercial banks. As it is a claim on the central bank’s assets, when it is returned to them it ceases to exist (as the central bank doesn’t need extra paper to di
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by qubex 4y ago
Narrow Bank is the same as Thin Client.
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by qubex 4y ago
Also came here to say this — I wanted to love the Optimus Maximus (perhaps because of a bad case of buyer’s regret generating a counter-force to maximise cognitive dissonance) but as a keyboard it was awful. (Combined it with a BMW-designed
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by qubex 4y ago
Does it support Exchange? Last time I tried it bizarrely it didn’t.
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by qubex 4y ago
I presume that ‘hashes’ to 11.
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by qubex 4y ago
I’m a male from Milan and I’m 178 cm tall. I like the bit about it supposedly providing a stable environment for millennia: I often find myself in pretty ancient churches or monasteries eyeing eroded depressions in stone stairs and flagston
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by qubex 4y ago
I’m old enough to remember when that was coined.
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by qubex 4y ago
I have one of these terminals and I’ve wanted to do something of this kind for many years… I really wish I could get the hardware.
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by qubex 4y ago
Absolutely. Windows 2000 was the pinnacle of Classical Millenial Windows design. After that we got XP’s Fisher Price mode (albeit easily regressed) and it’s been downhill since then (switched to Mac in ‘03, totally baffled by Windows UI now
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by qubex 4y ago
You deserve an upvote just for your use of ‘scry’.
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by qubex 4y ago
This book by David Macauley was one of my favourites as a kid growing up. My father bought me a copy at the Science Museum in the very early nineties.
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by qubex 4y ago
I still have my first gen iPod Touch. It’s still hooked up to my grandmother’s early 1970s stereo. I even bought the upgrade to iPhone inbuilt apps. (Memory escapes me right now.)
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by qubex 4y ago
A friend of mine built a small model vehicle that implemented dual gyroscopes as an energy storage medium for an electric vehicle as part of his PhD. One of the gyros seized and the whole thing flipped and slammed into the ground with treme
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by qubex 4y ago
To this day I still chortle about “big, chunky volts” delivered down innocent-looking connectors. The younglins know not what I speaketh of.
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by qubex 4y ago
I’m a nudist. Scanning for CSAM has caused no end of grief to the community and even led families losing their kids. It’s police-state type crap and I’m glad to see it go.
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by qubex 4y ago
I’m a nudist. This kind of technology has crucified us as a community. I’m glad to see any sign of it being walked back.
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by qubex 4y ago
I’m a nudist. We’re going to be crucified by this kind of technology because it’s coarse, context-unaware, and enforced with draconian consequences by automated systems and corporate functionaries with absolutely no understanding of other p
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by qubex 4y ago
I can see this rapidly ‘degenerating’ into “what is a chair? Is a tree stump you sit on a chair?”- or “is there such a thing as a ‘chair’, after all ‘chair’ is an abstract concept and what we sit on is physical items”-type discussions. “It’
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by qubex 4y ago
Personalised & tracking ads are beneficial firms because they extract more revenue from consumers. That means it makes consumers poorer by diverting a larger fraction of their disposable income. As such, I couldn’t care less whether per
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by qubex 4y ago
I think a key point to consider is that when buying a good or service that has a quoted price, a consumer can make an informed decision as to whether that good or service’s utility to the exceeds the utility of price being asked for. When t
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by qubex 4y ago
> First off, probably don’t date a 24 year-old. That’s extraordinarily rude.
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by qubex 4y ago
There’s finite matter in the observable universe and finite configurations thereof, so the amount of content is finite.
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by qubex 4y ago
I administer a SAP installation. I have such sights to show you.
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by qubex 4y ago
Satan’s Accounting Package
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by qubex 4y ago
I don’t understand it either… if you don’t like it, walk away. Don’t contribute to the toxic commentary and above all don’t contribute to the viewing numbers, because if they can hold your gaze you’ll get more of the same.
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by qubex 4y ago
I was prompted to reply by “it’s the product people want”. No, it isn’t. Not this person, at least.
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by qubex 4y ago
Setting aside Musk’s current plunge in credibility, his argument regarding hydrogen is predicated upon electrolysis. A vast network of transparent tubes and sunlight reflectors feeding genetically engineered microorganisms that release hydr
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by qubex 4y ago
No. I tried but I couldn’t get through the very dense accents. I forgot Breaking Bad. Sorry, my bad.
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by qubex 4y ago
No. (Chiming in to diminish sample bias.)

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