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by sb057 5y ago
Within the US banking system, all of that is, for the most part, kept in line with the Federal Reserve System and other regulatory apparatuses to keep everybody honest. Outside of the US, you run into so-called "eurodollars" (unre
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by sb057 5y ago
>Yeah we close the doors once 95% of people show up So they are essentially scamming 5% of passengers out of their tickets?
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by sb057 5y ago
These lectures by Daniel Kim should be up your alley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wq6w03E2DS4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REC5V7d3pqM
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by sb057 5y ago
They already realized it over twenty years ago when they hired the developer of the iNES format for Animal Crossing. https://twitter.com/LuigiBlood/status/1378736192875810818
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by sb057 5y ago
This misses the mark, Reddit's search is completely useless for any sort of query, and has been for at least a decade. Searching for a post's title verbatim but without quotes will frequently return completely unrelated results. T
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CBC: The word [freedom] has become common among far-right groups, experts say(twitter.com)
9 points by sb057 5y ago|1 comments
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by sb057 5y ago
Say what you will about the Hays Code, but I would hardly consider Gone With the Wind, The Great Dictator, Casablanca, It's a Wonderful Life, Sunset Boulevard, The Ten Commandments, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Ben-Hur, Spartacus, Psy
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by sb057 5y ago
>I trust the USG. You might, but I and many[1], many[2], many[3], many[4], many[5], many[6], many[7] others don't. [1] https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-03-03-mn-34339-... [2] https://www.
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by sb057 5y ago
>Fungibility means that a given asset is legally identical to all other instances of the same thing. There are a number of bitcoin addresses that the United States has blacklisted. If you interact with them (including receiving bitcoin t
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by sb057 5y ago
1) Compressed X-axis makes it look visually worse than most graphs. 2) A combination of inflation and nominal GDP growth has resulted in the effects not being as bad as it otherwise would be. (Modern Monetary Theory essentially argues all t
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by sb057 5y ago
It's significantly below freezing in much of the northern U.S. and virtually all population centers of Canada.
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by sb057 5y ago
The fact that they gave the previously-elected guy the same runaround gives me the impression that it isn't a misunderstanding.
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by sb057 5y ago
I think that quote should be flipped. "A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must always make management decisions."
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by sb057 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robber_baron_(feudalism)
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by sb057 5y ago
FWIW: >The HR was 0.87 (95% CI 0.78–0.97, I 2 = 59%, n = 3) in adults older than 70 years, and 0.88 (95% CI 0.82–0.95; I2 = 86%, n = 4) in the general population of adults (p subgroup difference = 0.11).
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by sb057 5y ago
>The matter of whether a work has been successfully dedicated to the public domain (and when, and in what jurisdictions) is a matter for a court, not a matter to be arbitrarily decided or revoked at any time by the (at the time) copyrigh
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by sb057 5y ago
It remains an open legal question (at least in the United States) whether or not an author even can voluntarily release something into the public domain. Hwaci could theoretically decide that, actually, that they never really put SQLite i
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by sb057 5y ago
Mozilla axed the Servo team and the project is dead in the water as far as anyone can tell.
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by sb057 5y ago
>The profit difference between a well-isolated passive building and one that merely meets the minimal standards, is often very small, so why bother building a passive building? People making decisions about which contractor to use (both
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by sb057 5y ago
It's just specialized Unicode characters, you can do all sorts of fun things with them. https://qaz.wtf/u/convert.cgi 𝕾𝖕𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖝 𝖔𝖋 𝖇𝖑𝖆𝖈𝖐 𝖖𝖚𝖆𝖗𝖙𝖟, 𝖏𝖚𝖉𝖌𝖊 𝖒𝖞 𝖛𝖔𝖜.
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Ask HN: Has Gmail spam blocking taken a sudden nosedive?
93 points by sb057 5y ago|42 comments
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by sb057 5y ago
>we are not in the position to set the price point by... market expectation While I do like the project and wish you the best, producing a product that the market will not pay for is a business model doomed to fail.
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by sb057 5y ago
I was attempting to find some historical data on the Soviet Ruble the other day, but found the task nearly impossible because Google "helpfully" considers "Russian" and "Soviet" to be synonyms, and so all the r
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General systemantics: an essay on how systems work, and especially how they fail(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by sb057 5y ago|0 comments
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Speaking from experience, there's two main strategies: 1) Diligence, care, time, and luck on the part of the loader, carefully stacking boxes in such a way to make sure there isn't any room for the boxes to shift in transit or fal
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by sb057 5y ago
Plenty of people are getting graphics cards, it's just that demand is massively outstripping supply.
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by sb057 5y ago
https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome
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by sb057 5y ago
This is why I don't respect rationalism as a philosophy.
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They key advantage to video (and the reason why YouTube seems to keep expanding to encompass more and more subcultures) is that video formatting is also inclusive to text, audio, and still image formatting. You can only upload text to a blo
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by sb057 5y ago
Something that I think a lot of Web3 (and metaverse, et al) proponent types don't understand is that you can't plan out a revolutionary technology. By definition, any wide-reaching society-wide overturning of the current order wil

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