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by sireat 9y ago
Fondly I remember devouring each issue of Mondo 2000 as if it held some grand promise of future about to happen. I even bought some "Smart Drugs" and techno t-shirts but it was all for nought. Even more than Wired, Mondo 2000 was
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by sireat 9y ago
Enjoyable collection but somewhat a little bland. You hear about all the wild stuff you'd see in Sninjuku and this was rather mild. The most provocative was one Ganguroo pic. My uneducated guess was that these pictures represent the &q
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by sireat 9y ago
One person's really low wages are another person's dream wages. Senior programmers in my neck of woods make about 1/3 of that really low Finnish wage while cost of living is about 2/3 to that of Helsinki. Not saying that
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by sireat 9y ago
Cryptocurrencies are not always cheaper. They used to be but not anymore. In Europe, I split a 0.36 Euro SEPA fee for a 1000 Euro transaction between two different banks in two different countries. Bitcoin would have cost me $3-5 if not mor
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by sireat 9y ago
It changes the practical side. As more and more psychopaths learn that there is no global ruleset the more entropy we get. If everyone learns that there is no difference between suicide and drinking coffee(via Sartre), then the number of su
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by sireat 9y ago
Coma patients are just a subset of people without awareness. Awareness is not binary. My friend going into diabetic coma exhibits a degree of awareness until you realize her answers to my questions have stopped and you have to call the ambu
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by sireat 9y ago
The question is are we simply automatons? Yes we are automatons ("a really smart meat" per Ready Player One) but is that all there is to human life? 1. To me the mystery lies in the awareness. Modern neuroscience/psychology&#
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by sireat 9y ago
By what measure is a 2.5USD fee modest? 2.5USD is not very competitive with the old guard unless you are moving more than $100. I had to pay $20 to sweep some old wallets(circa 2011). In my case it was worth it, but there is so much dust o
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by sireat 9y ago
I keep seeing advice in the comments to skip breakfast and how great it is. What about the common folk advice of "eat a hearty breakfast by yourself, share a lunch with friends and give dinner to your enemy"?
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by sireat 9y ago
You might be familiar with https://home.cern/ and one of its 1980s employees/contractors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee So while one could very well argue that it was a happy accide
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by sireat 9y ago
http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/09/09/fortune-crime/
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by sireat 9y ago
How did Plenty of Fish grow at first? I have deep respect for Markus Frind being able to scale so well. Still I feel there is some missing ingredient in the early growth of PoF. What really happened before the big monthly 500k Adsense check
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by sireat 9y ago
I did say that other corporate entities discontinue products all the time. I suppose the difference with Google products is that they usually seem "cool" and very promising. With Microsoft I have no such expectations.
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by sireat 9y ago
Cross-platform development has been the holy grail for some 30+ years. Alas, I stopped reading the moment I read it is being developed by Google despite the open-source nature. Being developed by Google it means the chances of a project bei
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by sireat 9y ago
The news cycle really started once Bitcoin went over $1 but it was still limited to technical. I think the first mention of BTC was in 2010 on HN. The first real bubble was the rise to around $50 and then fall to $2-3 in mid 2011. BTC star
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by sireat 9y ago
Not everyone can be productive all the time and that is ok. Also, think what you really want to produce. It could be that your goals are too vague and big. As soon as you stop thinking of it(blogging, making videos, coding) as a committment
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by sireat 9y ago
Problem is that you cannot have both via current (from 2011+ on) Intel route: high clock speed on the CPU(achieved by OC) AND ECC. You want ECC you have to get Xeons. You want OC you have to get regular mainstream K chips or enthusiast -E c
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by sireat 9y ago
Any hints on what has taken what.cd's place?
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by sireat 10y ago
Could be a bad chip batch on the SSD. 3rd party SSD vendors are notorious for switching around NAND suppliers. Often they are forced to do so(since they do not control the supply like Samsung/Micron/Intel does) Besides SP600 is no
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by sireat 10y ago
Sadly Privacy.com - We're currently only available in the US Privacy looks like a useful service if you can use it. Interestingly Paypal had the same one time CC service some 10 years ago but it only lasted a few years. Thing with alte
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by sireat 10y ago
Interesting that this gets no comments when usually Google related news get some discussion. 1.5B a year(or is it 1.5B just to start Calico?) seems like a lot of funding to produce something so important so secretly.
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by sireat 10y ago
If you consider that most EU equivalents of SEC have issued warnings against OneCoin I would say that counts as a scam. The amazing thing is that OneCoin does not even have a public blockchain or any chain. Probably just an Excel spreadshee
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by sireat 10y ago
Have things improved with CBs lately? I still have Acer C710 CB collecting dust. Reflashing the boot firmware was not really an option back when I checked.
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by sireat 10y ago
Grothendieck is also famous for discovering a new prime: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/57_(number) He was a very abstract genius. More on his life: http://www.ams.org/notices/200410/fea-grothe
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by sireat 10y ago
I love buying old workstations, however power costs have to be considered. For example my 2x Xeon 2670 (16 cores/32 threads) is quite the power hog. Your example is pretty good since V2 Xeons are Ivy Bridge le vel and consume noticably
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by sireat 10y ago
Cycling 8km to work and back is my daily exercise. Hard to say about cancer and heart disease but it definitely has cut about 20 lbs off my weight and kept it steady for over 5 years. I live in a not very bike friendly city so had to design
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by sireat 10y ago
I bought DPT-S1 on sale from B&H last summer for $600 after ignoring Sony for many years(rootkits et al). DPT-S1 even with its limitations (PDF only, so Calibre is extra helpful) it feels amazing to read on it. It is a combination of ha
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by sireat 10y ago
Being a maxed miner battle mage was a blast. You would be merrily mining away in some cave when some unsavory types would come along for the seemingly easy pickings from the poor miners in rags. Little could they suspect that there was the
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by sireat 10y ago
For linkrot pinboard Archive is one way to deal with. Funnily although I pay for the service I am yet to actually use the archive! Some anecdata on linkrot: I started paying for the archive about 3 years after starting on pinboard. This was
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by sireat 10y ago
Indeed, CDNow started before Amazon despite later being merged into Amazon. I used to buy CDs through CDNow using Telnet in 1994-1995.

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