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by retrogradeorbit 8y ago
Also the composition of diatomaceous earth https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatomaceous_earth which is used in certain types of water filters, like pool filters.
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by retrogradeorbit 8y ago
Reminded me of this recent piece https://spectator.org/everyone-is-smart-except-trump/
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by retrogradeorbit 8y ago
I like watching the cognitive dissonance and mental gymnastics when Trump does something that American's generally would be behind (if any other president had done it). You start with your conclusion, that Trump is Hitler, and then con
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by retrogradeorbit 8y ago
Do you love it? Do you love programming? It all comes down to this. To get really good at this (or anything) requires such an investment in time, and for you to push through all the stops when things get really difficult or tiring. I know m
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by retrogradeorbit 8y ago
Not just the soccer ball but the whole crew compartment. http://www.space-shuttle.com/challenger1.htm
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by retrogradeorbit 8y ago
"transaction fees are at least an order of magnitude higher than Visa" Transaction fee on bitcoin presently is an average of 60c [1]. Visa is around 2% + 0.10. Thus for transfers over about 25 USD, bitcoin (presently) is cheaper.
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by retrogradeorbit 8y ago
All corporations are amoral. They exist to maximise the profit of their shareholders. This is marketing. It is a nice sounding lie. If it were authentic, the last few months wouldn't have happened at Google. For me, it only makes it w
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by retrogradeorbit 8y ago
You are making an assumption. We have not seen the proposed bill.
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by retrogradeorbit 8y ago
It is my understanding you actually do have that right. But it's a bit of rigmarole. It is only compulsory to vote if you are on the electoral roll and you can actually disenroll.
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by retrogradeorbit 8y ago
I love the cynicism. Perhaps it's a perspective you normally find in someone older. As a gen-Xer I am sick and tired of people bashing millennials. That Simon Sinek talk is just the worst. Almost every sentence in that talk is complete
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by retrogradeorbit 8y ago
The "jewellers can't tell" is BS. Unless you put quotes around the jewellers (as most jewellers are now just importers/re-sellers). As someone who bought lab grown diamonds for some custom made jewellery and had them tes
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by retrogradeorbit 8y ago
s/Microsoft/Apple/ s/Xbox/iPad/ I dislike Microsoft a lot. But Apple, just as much. People will take a dump on Microsoft while in the same breath fawn over Apple for identical behaviour. They're all as bad
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by retrogradeorbit 8y ago
"Australia is a lucky country run mainly by second rate people who share its luck. It lives on other people's ideas, and, although its ordinary people are adaptable, most of its leaders (in all fields) so lack curiosity about the
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by retrogradeorbit 8y ago
There's no trading floor any more, mate. Well at the very least said floor is a quiet place. Its all hft and electronic trading these days.
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by retrogradeorbit 8y ago
"it's a big club... And you ain't in it" The community prides itself on being 'diverse' yet it's always the same names, over and over again. That's how you know who's in the club. But on the othe
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by retrogradeorbit 8y ago
Can confirm. I don't have a google account or a facebook account. I watch videos on youtube and it functions perfectly. However facebook is totally unusable without an account.
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by retrogradeorbit 8y ago
So credit card companies cutting off people trying to donate their own money to wikileaks is now preventing 'money laundering'. Good one.
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by retrogradeorbit 8y ago
It's all relative. Lower level than what? Higher level than what? C is lower level than a huge number of other languages so I would feel comfortable calling it 'low level'.
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by retrogradeorbit 8y ago
It was once civil, but corporations successfully externalised their enforcement costs on the tax payer by lobbying and rewriting the law to make it criminal.
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by retrogradeorbit 8y ago
Make sure to get all 176 in that dropdown, just to be sure.
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by retrogradeorbit 8y ago
Imagine being a Venezuelan right now. https://www.wired.com/story/where-could-bitcoin-succeed-as-a... Everything is fine, right up until the moment it's not.
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by retrogradeorbit 8y ago
There is a way, actually. Browser crypto mining. People just seem to (IMHO irrationally) hate it even more than surveillance and data gathering.
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by retrogradeorbit 8y ago
There is an alternative to this method of providing a free service: Mining cryptocurrency on the users computer. Yet doing that, even floating the possibility of it, is met with great, vociferous anger. "How dare you use my CPU."
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by retrogradeorbit 9y ago
"The divide aims to tackle problems such as major population growth, sky-high housing prices and increasingly congested commutes." All three problems are self inflicted. Some have labelled Australia a "Population Ponzi".
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by retrogradeorbit 9y ago
Only as long as you host your own mail. If your mail sits on some third party's cloud servers (like fastmail?) they can certainly make your email disappear.
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by retrogradeorbit 9y ago
Will they also resurrect the dead?
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by retrogradeorbit 9y ago
What if my electricity comes from solar or nuclear power? Have you ever taken a commercial air flight? Please, no. Stop doing that already. Your carbon footprint is too high. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_
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by retrogradeorbit 9y ago
What's morally dubious is you telling me what I can and can't do with my own computer and my own electricity that I pay for. I'm a grown adult and don't need people like you calling me stupid. I've had enough of thi
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by retrogradeorbit 9y ago
Are you being disingenuous? The word has been used to denote "male-or-female sex" since the 15th century. The quote you say supports your timeline is with reference to "the use of gender in academia" and states "to
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by retrogradeorbit 9y ago
https://www.etymonline.com/word/gender "The "male-or-female sex" sense is attested in English from early 15c." So 15th century, not 17th. "As sex (n.) took on erotic qualities in 20c., gender c

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