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by rodgerd 4y ago
This is where I wish I could post the Scooby-Doo unmasking meme. "Turns out Sam was the ghost all along!"
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by rodgerd 4y ago
> Crypto is a 24/7 global, resilient payments network. Which crypto?
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by rodgerd 4y ago
> That would stand out among SC justices as abnormal Well that was certainly Scalia's opinion of Thomas.
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by rodgerd 4y ago
That was part of the hype for 5G in B2B conversations - Telcos have pushed the idea that it will scale in a way that 4G (and earlier) can't, so you could drop 5G on every device in every home, invisible to the occupants and the nominal
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by rodgerd 4y ago
Forcing, say, the Google OS (Android/Chromebook) and Browser business to justify its existence independent of the ad-selling business, and YouTube to justify its video-hosting existence independent of the other two would certainly dram
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by rodgerd 4y ago
The cynic in me says that Thomas is open to the discussion to the extent that it hurts companies that he percieves as his enemies, and will shut it down as soon as it covers companies that he considers on his side.
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by rodgerd 4y ago
Don't forget "reconfigure your APs because half the devices will error if they see a 5 GHz band"
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by rodgerd 4y ago
I seriously doubt that Google would have signed on to Matter if it didn't provide an abundance of ways to gossip about you.
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by rodgerd 4y ago
> If you lose a key, do you need a backup master password like using auth apps? Yes. If you only have one key enrolled and no other recovery mechanism, you're now locked out forever. That's why Apple are pushing you to have two
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by rodgerd 4y ago
Where's the death threat? That paragraph is not much different from what you'll find from self-described stocastic terrorist LibsofTikTok. And, you know, I certainly agree that this kind of speech is terrible! But just as the US f
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by rodgerd 4y ago
If I said, in the US, "Peter Thiel is a woman-hating monster and the country would be better if he and every politician on his payroll was swinging from a lamppost Mussolini style" it would be difficult to make any case that I was
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by rodgerd 4y ago
Billionaires who lord it over the bulk of humanity no longer fear a French revolution style ending to their greed. They're afraid of the machines they're building. (And effective altruism is a scam designed to lend a thin veneer o
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by rodgerd 4y ago
I've been privy to execs sharing the "why" for stacked ranking, open plan, layoffs, and various other decisions. If you had some naive belief in the efficacy of capitalism or the idea that CEOs are highly paid because of thei
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by rodgerd 4y ago
It seems more syndicalist leaning to me, but yes. HN seems an odd place to bemoan a company taking the offer of a huge premium on its stock price.
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by rodgerd 4y ago
"An insecure narcissist buys a criticism factory" remains the best one-line summary of the situation.
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by rodgerd 4y ago
Is that why Musk supports LibsofTikTok, who are responsible for terrorist attacks?
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by rodgerd 4y ago
I mean at this point he's as nutty as a Scooby Doo villain burning down the community centre.
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by rodgerd 4y ago
"No-one ever died because of social media" was garbage when pg said it, and this is yet more evidence.
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by rodgerd 4y ago
It is literally a law in some US states that children have to submit to genital inspections to participate in sports.
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by rodgerd 4y ago
It's a very good documentary.
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by rodgerd 4y ago
> Sadly any discussion is immediately considered a personal attack so we two camps. Funny how "you shouldn't exist" is taken is a personal attack, I wonder why that could be?
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by rodgerd 4y ago
Like he kept Alex Jones banned because Musk cradled his dying child? Except oops, that was a lie. At this point if you believe anything Musk claims you are the dullest, most gullible shit I can imagine.
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by rodgerd 4y ago
Explain Yoel Roth. Explain Libs of Tiktok.
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by rodgerd 4y ago
He supports LibsofTikTok, which has resulting in whole hospitals being shut down by terrorists. He unbanned Taleb Kweli, who was banned for using twitter to stalk, harass, and organise mobs against a woman he didn't like. His campaign
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by rodgerd 4y ago
The whole premise - that double negatives don't work for humans - is invalid. Natural languages have and continue to make use of double negatives and double positives (and in some cases, the positive-negative). Obviously if your specif
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by rodgerd 4y ago
> I'm frankly amazed that people with the ability to understand this alphabet soup mumbo jumbo keep falling for the same scam over and over again. You can't cheat an honest man, but it's easy to scam people who think that
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by rodgerd 4y ago
> If i was committing ~9 figures worth of fraud, If you committed a billion in fraud, you probably wouldn't be shitposting on Twitter or giving interviews that made a prosecuter's case easier, either. Guess what, you're sm
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by rodgerd 4y ago
> So as a result, exchanges exist. Problem is with exchanges in order for settlement to happen the money has to be held somewhere where it can actually be used to settle trades An exchange is just an unregulated bank.
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by rodgerd 4y ago
Well it certainly beats the record the RNZAF have for keeping an Orion aloft for 21.5 hours - although that was with no resupply.
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by rodgerd 4y ago
If anything, they'll err in the other direction when chasing unpaid money: people won't be getting a free car because the recordkeeping and collections were a mess, people are going to be fighting with debt collectors over having

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