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by qwytw 3y ago
My argument is just as substantive as the pro-bitcoin ones and spending any meaningful amount of effort arguing with these people is just like fighting windmills. But no, not because I say so but because it's obvious if you have at lea
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> pay directly for some products and services as long as the other party will accept it. You can but generally you don't want to. Besides the technical issues it's a very volatile asset which means that you don't want to h
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> Soft money wins in the short term. Hard money wins in the long term. What do you mean by that? Repeatedly saying the same thing multiple times doesn't make it any more accurate. The type of "hard" money you're talki
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Why would you expect anyone to waste time making any substantive arguments against silly claims like "Bitcoin is money"..
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True. Many modern "TV shows" can hardly be called such in the traditional sense. They are basically serialized (very long movies) and mainly an evolution of the mini-series format.
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> Bitcoin is a hard money that takes the best monetary qualities of both fiat and gold Not it doesen't. Also bitcoin is not money (why do people keep claiming this?), it's a speculative asset.
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> just leave and live somewhere else, taking their wealth with Wealth can't really use to purchase anything with is not real wealth. If you can't convert bitcoin to $/€ it becomes effectively worthless > History shows t
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> world reserve asset. Except it's extremely unsuited for this purpose despite of what some delusional people might be thinking. No (at at least semi stable) country ever will use bitcoin as their primary reserve asset...
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> Russian troops kept advancing Did they? The war is in a stalemate. Militarily this isn't that different than the proxy wars of the Cold War EXCEPT Russia has suffered more casualties by a magnitude or two than the USSR did in Afg
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> There weren't serious writers in TV before? To be fair kind of.. Before the 2000s were few shows had complex plots which developed over several episodes. Basically every episode basically had to work on a standalone basis. So comp
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So the last time they released a non integrated GPU prior to 2022 was back in 1998? That seems hardly relevant..
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> A society like China Why? China was even more poor and rural that pre-revolutionary Russia. I'm pretty sure Marx himself was thinking about France, Britain, Germany etc. you couldn't just jump from a pre-capitalist system to
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> Intel has been behind discrete GPUs for decades They only entered the discrete GPU market a couple of years ago to be fair.
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> look at the price difference between an A100 40GB and A100 80GB Nvidia is effectively a monopoly. They can charge whatever they want regardless of cost (which is what they are doing according to their reported margins)
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> Cambodia the genocide would have been prevented It's not like the US or the UN were particularly bothered by mass massacres of civilians in South Korea, so it's doubtful that really was a significant concern. At the time, the
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It wasn't exactly that obvious at the time. IIRC North Korea outperformed the south in the 60s and didn't really fall significantly behind until decades after the war. After the war South Korea was both extremely poor and ruled by
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The US effectively lost the war before it even started. They decided to support the French during their colonial war due to the so-called 'domino theory,' which ignored the fact that the Vietnamese hated or feared China more than
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To be fair it only became a free country decades after being liberated... The non-communist regime in South Korea was about as brutal as the Northern one during and after the war.
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That's almost an apples to oranges comparison. The situations in Korea and Vietnam were only similar on a very superficial level so it's a very disingenuous argument.. Also at the time the South Korean regime was about as brutal a
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Except the war in Vietnam was fundamentally different to that in North Korea. It was a direct outcome of the French colonial war in the early 50s which the US decided to support for semi-absurd reasons ("domino theory"). Geopoliti
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The genocide happened in the mid to late 70s, a couple of years after the US had already withdrawn from Vietnam. Why did the US decide to support the Khmer Rouge only after they have significantly intensified their campaign of mass murder?
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> Cambodia also fell to communism, where the new regime murdered between 1.5 million and 2 million of its people Right. What you're leaving out is that the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia was supported by the US and was ove
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Sometimes you have to use very broad definition of "works". Often (certainly not always) UX and general aesthetic design for many open source apps is extremely poor compared to their proprietary alternatives.
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Also good luck running most macOS games that were published 5-10 years ago or more and not updated. Apple really doesn't care about backwards compatibility at all which I think is a bigger issues for games than most other software. MS
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> aligning with a somewhat minimal rolling distro that is quick to update packages, especially considering how comparatively slow the other big distros are Is that an issue besides GPU drivers? I assumed (though I haven't really tri
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> All of the office workers use windows If you define "office workers" as people who use Windows then sure. Even if we don't count tech quite a few people still use Macs (of course depends on country area but Apple seems t
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> If there are truly no other options, then the developers are going to have to severely reduce the price of their real estate or choose not to build there. This is simply taking an implicit approach to things, which may or may not work.
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IIRC Apple was donating lots of Apple IIs to schools in California in the 80s and then still maintained a disproportionately (compared to other states) high market share in the educational market in the 90s and 2000s. This presumably had a
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IMHO usability on Linux is good for advanced users who can more or less understand how packages work and can use the command line to some extent and also for people on the other side who are fine with a 'static' system, use a very
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> It was 4 litres per week I couldn't find soldier salaries for ~300 AD but for semi-skilled labourers by it might have been up to 7 liters per day. The 4 per week figures seems to be based by using salaries from the early to mid 20

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