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by shakezula 4y ago
You're certainly not alone, but it was eye-opening as fuck for me getting arrested at 25 and finding out I was about to be charged thousands of dollars for a single night stay in the county jail.
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by shakezula 4y ago
This is a problem of Stated preference vs. Revealed preference. You ask them what they think and they'd tell you "that's awful, I can't believe that, that's so unfair" but you put them up on the ballot at the m
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by shakezula 4y ago
Years ago, I got a speeding ticket. I worked nights at the time, and the office to make the payment at had very strange hours because it was from a tiny town. My schedule made it difficult to make it over to the office during open hours, an
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by shakezula 4y ago
Most of the time, supporters of these laws aren't brainwashed or stupid. They just prefer the status quo that these laws uphold, which tends to overlay nearly perfectly with class lines.
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by shakezula 4y ago
I left Heroku in favor of just a hand-configured DigitalOcean droplet. I might try Fly.io but honestly, for what I’m doing, the flexibility of a full Ubuntu box is just too good, even in 2022.
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by shakezula 4y ago
I think the thing that is so beautiful about 1984 is that people almost universally think their side is the "right" side when they discuss the book. It's like how proponents of eugenics or voting rights laws assume they would
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by shakezula 4y ago
Does the author ever promote stronger state powers as a solution?
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by shakezula 4y ago
We arrived at this place on the line directly from capitalism though. This is a failure of capitalism at least, and a direct incentive of it at worst. You can’t just say it’s not capitalism when it’s the exact consequence of capitalism just
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by shakezula 4y ago
multiplayer web is at a cool spot right now. I’m writing an app in graphQL / Go and it’s been awesome for real-time player experiences.
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by shakezula 4y ago
The problem that I have yet to see DoorDash et. al. solve is that they're injecting a middle-man where one doesn't need to exist. The typical delivery model of a local restaurant worked just fine without them, but with a third en
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by shakezula 4y ago
Agreed. The author makes a few comments in the second part of the series about how ships of gold were the main way to ferry money around and how if that went wrong it had sweeping consequences, too. Would be a really interesting series fro
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by shakezula 4y ago
the first two parts of this blog post series absolutely blew my mind and changed how I think about an army in the real world. Can't wait to read this post.
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by shakezula 4y ago
What do you mean? The amount of improvements in standard ICE engines are mind-blowing. The fuel efficiency and power they manage these days is insane. You’re quoting that 60% figure and neglecting that most of the losses from that are therm
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by shakezula 4y ago
Sure, at face value you're right about that, but I think the main difference is a lot of people don't get annoyed at , for example, Ford's customer service and turn around and start an auto manufacturer, and for most non-tech
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by shakezula 4y ago
A friend of mine highly recommends toastmasters for this exact type of practice. I’ve never done but i can absolutely see the value.
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by shakezula 4y ago
I’m not sure about “best” but I’ve been using Colly (written in Go) and it’s been pretty slick. Haven’t run in to anything it can’t do. http://go-colly.org/
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by shakezula 4y ago
That's a complete non-sequitur. Assuming they're alcoholics is pretty racist and, even if they are, doesn't even begin to justify these actions by police.
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by shakezula 4y ago
Racism. It's racism plain, simple, and uncomplicated racism. Police are just the ones with the right opportunities and power to do this stuff and get away with it.
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by shakezula 4y ago
You can send a ton of really small transactions (colloquially referred to as "crypto dust") for an insignificant amount of money to innocent wallets from a single tainted wallet. The "tainted wallet" in this case would b
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by shakezula 4y ago
I would encourage everyone on both sides of this argument to watch this [1] video from Peter van Valkenburgh at ZCON. It lays out a very clear argument why this is really much more serious than just a sanction against a bad actor. 1. https
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by shakezula 4y ago
You're being needlessly pedantic here. They implied US law because the article is by the U.S. Treasury.
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by shakezula 4y ago
I don't need to imagine. I was searched at Berlin Tegel (RIP) and they specifically asked me if the devices I was carrying (2 laptops, a work and a personal one) contained cryptocurrency wallet information. This happened in 2018.
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by shakezula 4y ago
weird time to make this argument in the wake of the latest cryptocurrency downturn which tracked almost lockstep with the stock market.
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by shakezula 4y ago
This is not true. Bitcoin has a difficulty adjustment. https://www.blockchain.com/charts/difficulty https://www.coindesk.com/learn/bitcoin-mining-difficulty-eve...
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by shakezula 4y ago
Why would this have anything to do with Eth2 when it’s explicitly a vulnerability in Proof of Work systems?
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by shakezula 4y ago
Yeah, really disappointed in this thread’s comments about Chinese scientists and the country as a whole. This type of comment is all too common on here.
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by shakezula 4y ago
There’s gotta be some like inverse square law for how difficult a war is to win against a smaller and smaller nation.
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by shakezula 4y ago
these types of notes are among some of the most important notes I take during my day to day. I'll have a quick thought about something, jot it down and completely forget about it, and come back to it later in the day when I have space
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by shakezula 4y ago
Funny you mention that, cause I just added this article to a longer-ish list of long-form posts I want to read in depth. I don't make my way to that list as often as I'd like, but I have found plane trips and other similar times a
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by shakezula 4y ago
I have to say, I would laugh in a salespersons face if they told me the heated steering wheel was a subscription service.

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