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by rjbwork 5y ago
Any of a number of apps can serve your music/TV/Movie collection off your home network to the internet and stream it to your phone or other devices in real time. Plex. SubSonic. MediaPortal. Kodi. Etc.
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Spotify. Steam. Dev tools: GitKraken. Linqpad. Sublime Text.
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Not really socialist. It's just a giant imperial jobs program that also provides cover for channeling tax dollars into the coffers of the donor class.
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This is pretty much one of Matt Levine's takes on all of crypto, and just the rampant financial speculation that has taken place in general since the beginning of 2020 - people bored and stuck at home are willing to throw away money to
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Hah. That is fair. It admittedly was a poorly thought out comparison.
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Not really. It's just an effect of it. The explicitly stated purpose is to represent the states, not the people, as the original conception of the US was more like the EU than, say, Switzerland.
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So you drive 50, then ;)
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Yes. I am not the fittest person, but I lift weights and read books. Both have definitely helped keep me sane over the past 2 years. I don't have a family and don't intend to though, so I have a lot more free time and less gener
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Author has a way with words. I chuckled quite a bit. I will not eat your shedcake, dear OP, but I have eaten your cake and it was pretty good. I may eat another.
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Do Advent of Code. It's the first time I've been drawn into extracurricular programming in quite some time. It's been fun. They're bite sized problems and you're only committed as far as you want to be, and no la
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I tend to agree. I sometimes fantasize that it were otherwise, but I don't think it's really possible to maintain a society of any size or sophistication without a state to do a lot of the fundamental things that keep things movi
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Chartalism is more of an absolute. I don't claim that money has value only due to this reason, just that it is a significant component of the mass delusion.
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Don't forget that whole pesky "have to pay taxes to the state in their chosen currency under threat of the state monopoly on violence" thing. It is somewhat touched on in your first sentence, but at the end of the day, if yo
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A fairly good point. Modern adtech is kind of the induced demand of internet bandwidth - that is, when new bandwidth is available, adtech will grow to fill that bandwidth. I guess this is also analogous to the fact that our computers are
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Why is there no way for workers to own the means of production? Do many of us software people not own shares in the companies we work for? All that needs happen is that all shares are owned by the employees of the company and, voila, the
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You actually rent it from the state for a fraction of its nominal value each year. Don't pay your rent (property taxes) long enough and the state will absolutely put a lien on "your property" or confiscate it - by force if n
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It's also a little too easy to avoid arguments you find inconvenient by refusing to examine the assumptions that underpin the position you put forth.
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Which is almost entirely my point. There's at least three concepts that are quite distinct components of an economic system that people commingle when they talk about these broad categories like capitalism and socialism in popular dis
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You're still comingling the concepts of capitalism and markets. I actually 100% agree with your entire post (as a description, anyway, not as an ideal or with respect to the conceptual foundations of property rights), but is in no way
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The Socialism and Capitalism dichotomy has nothing to do with markets or planners. Socialism is when the workers own the means of production. Capitalism is when there is an owner class that owns the means of production and extracts profit
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Cool. Then websites can sell direct placement banners hosted on their own servers.
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Wrong thread - this is for those that want to BE hired. Not those hiring.
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Diversification. If you consider that your employment at an employer is one part of your investment strategy, then it makes sense to diversify your portfolio as much as possible. Keeping those eggs in the same basket presents increased fi
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Indeed. I greatly enjoyed the recent Jeopardy category, "BOOK TITLES EN FRANCAIS". Essentially, "What is the English name of the novel when given the French title?" I aced it. Can I speak French? Hardly. Has enough
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I commuted by bike along Peachtree Street in Atlanta for 3 miles each way for just under a year. Going too slow ends up with motorists making aforementioned risky maneuvers. I don't think I would have done so for so long had I been r
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Ah, I did not know of the naive/childlike connotation. I was simply using it as a synonym for something like candid, frank, truthful. Thanks.
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These vehicles are capable of doing so - they simply have a limiter on them. It's like saying an NVidia card can't mine cryptocurrency because they added a limiter in their drivers or something. Or that a truck with a governor o
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He said KPH. That is about 25MPH. Legal in the US is 28MPH.
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No. I disagree with his assertion that one cannot go >~24MPH indefinitely. The legal limit here is 28MPH. I can certainly do so indefinitely.
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I have a JuicedBikes CrossCurrent X. They only made my particular configuration for a short amount of time around early 2018 - it has a massive battery, a 52v system, a 750W Bafang hub motor, and location tracking within the battery (thoug

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