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by seibelj 5y ago
Boston is not much better. I have been trying to get hold of someone to move a bureaucratic process forwards, that only this department can do, for 8 weeks now. Letters, emails, voicemails, nothing can get someone to reply or call me back.
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by seibelj 5y ago
Cryptocurrencies exist that preserve privacy somewhat - bitcoin if you are knowledgeable, pay fees, and are very careful; monero pretty much perfectly; and tornado.cash for obfuscating ETH if you are familiar with that ecosystem. However, t
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by seibelj 5y ago
A person drugging you at a bar, illegally entering your house, and then robbing your bank accounts. Felonies on top of felonies!
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by seibelj 5y ago
That is extremely scary. I hope you filed a police report? That person is a serious criminal.
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USD Coin Backer Circle Set to Go Public with $4.5B SPAC Deal(decrypt.co)
2 points by seibelj 5y ago|0 comments
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by seibelj 5y ago
First Vietnam, now Afghanistan. The wealthiest nation with the most powerful military was bested twice by a passionate local force that played the long-game. Iraq is not exactly going well either. I'm glad that America can return to
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by seibelj 5y ago
What we can definitively say is that CO2 levels have increased dramatically since the industrial revolution, and their cause is humans burning fossil fuels. On the models themselves, if you look deeply at how they are created and how they a
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by seibelj 5y ago
My point was that we refer to “greenhouse gasses” and “greenhouse effect” because these are associated with what happens in greenhouses because plants grow better in them.
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by seibelj 5y ago
Plants do not sequester enough additional co2 to offset what humans release into atmosphere. But increasing co2 will increase rate of growth of plants provided other limiting factors do not impede growth.
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by seibelj 5y ago
Not if increased water evaporation leads to increased cloud cover leads to increased rainfall. We don’t know what will happen, it’s simply too complex to model accurately.
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by seibelj 5y ago
Plants love carbon dioxide. That’s why it’s called “greenhouse effect” - greenhouses artificially increase the amount of carbon dioxide in order to increase plant growth. Trees and plants will grow faster and larger as CO2 ppm increases, an
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by seibelj 5y ago
I believe using guns to force everyone to make the same salary would lead to economic ruin, as it has everywhere it’s ever been tried. If you allow differences in wealth, then some will accumulate more. Over time, these differences become p
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by seibelj 5y ago
A perusal of that subreddit is full of a lot of anti-capitalist propaganda and some obvious logical fallacies. I don’t think consuming that subreddit is very healthy or productive.
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by seibelj 5y ago
If you are tired of making someone else rich, you could start your own business. But that’s a lot of work, and as someone who is anti-work, I don’t think that’s possible for you and your comrades. But the option is there!
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by seibelj 5y ago
In Boston and surrounding areas the “triple decker” is very common - three 1000 square foot condos, driveway leading to compact car parking in back, small yard or none at all. The buildings are not connected but the space between is the dri
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by seibelj 5y ago
SQLite is one of the finest pieces of software ever made. It’s one of those quiet innovations in the world that has multiplied the advancement of society and the chattering classes have absolutely no idea. I hope this story gets told more o
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by seibelj 5y ago
The same issue is with houses, and the bigger the house the bigger the issues can be. For a big condo complex, if a problem is truly big, the association can do a bond offering that can be paid off over a very long time (decades).
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Joe Rogan is too big to cancel(nytimes.com)
42 points by seibelj 5y ago|51 comments
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Slack Is Having Issues(status.slack.com)
3 points by seibelj 5y ago|0 comments
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by seibelj 5y ago
At a macro-level it’s the answer to why we have enormous buildings, cities, and went to the moon. Why people keep doing anything rather than nothing. Why we have complex societies rather than hunter gatherer lives. As a species we don’t wan
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by seibelj 5y ago
I'm thinking in terms of 50+ years. The optimist in me thinks freedom-oriented people will win - eventually. But historically speaking the US is an anomaly, and the older I get the more impressed I am that people in the 1700's wro
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by seibelj 5y ago
There is an epic tv show to be made about underground freedom fighters in HK and what they do to subvert the gestapo. Just like there is a genre now of how different groups tried to subvert the nazis, it’s pretty clear that China is the mod
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by seibelj 5y ago
High school, ~2005. A classmate's dad was a fairly high up DEA agent and he came to class to talk about his drug warrioring. Despite all his warrioring, he sadly stated that the DEA probably seized less than 1% of all drugs entering Am
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by seibelj 5y ago
There was not $Billions to be paid out for finding that - it's a matter of incentives.
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by seibelj 5y ago
https://archive.is/LBGrR
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Regulators Begin to Grapple with DeFi(ft.com)
2 points by seibelj 5y ago|1 comments
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by seibelj 5y ago
I don’t know any definition of “wealth hoarding” nor what a “fair share” is that makes logical sense. It’s always some dollar amount where beneath it someone is a good citizen, and they make one more dollar and suddenly they are evil robber
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by seibelj 5y ago
Property is easy for the government to seize. Bitcoin, not so much.
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by seibelj 5y ago
You can get mouth cancer from tobacco, as well as many other cancers. Lungs are just one.
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by seibelj 5y ago
Put it this way - smoke is clearly bad for you and proven to cause cancer. I believe what I eat is absorbed by my body and can affect it, like medicine affects my body when absorbed. Therefore I think it’s fairly likely that eating a lot of

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