sliverstorm

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by sliverstorm 9y ago
Self-sufficiency is inefficient, but specialization has enabled greater and greater consumption rather than reduced impact. If everybody lived like the Amish we might need to farm more land, but for example there wouldn't be much in th
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by sliverstorm 9y ago
I'd hardly go that far, calling my parents as a teen on phone booths never worked well, and phone booths are all but gone today. (Smartphones are a different discussion)
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by sliverstorm 9y ago
The first hurdle is probably parental engagement, rather than common sense. Unfortunately we've been trying to fix it for decades.
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by sliverstorm 9y ago
Yes, although bytes-based billing runs counter to the provider-side convention of peering.
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by sliverstorm 9y ago
In a sparsely provisioned world, IMO usage (caps) is the most sensible way to bill. (No one wants to pay for a fully provisioned world)
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by sliverstorm 9y ago
The ISP's feel like, burden or not, since Netflix represents more of the traffic they should pay more of the infrastructure cost. Many people fear that if Net Neutrality is repealed, the ISP's will have a giant lever (in the form
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by sliverstorm 9y ago
You see the same thing in simple data consumption patterns. It's become normal for your average app to suck down tens or even hundreds of megabytes a month, even if it barely does anything. It's so normalized I figured there wasn&
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by sliverstorm 9y ago
Sounds to me like they just need to tune their electrolyte balance!
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by sliverstorm 9y ago
1) Another middle-man takes another cut 2) Your food becomes a faceless commodity
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by sliverstorm 9y ago
I'm not sure I agree with the last bit- can you be good at a business if you have absolutely no passion or skill with the material? If all you bring to the table is business skill, can you beat out the guy who has business skill and is
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by sliverstorm 9y ago
That depends a little on your market position. Subaru did the same thing, but that strategy probably won't work as well if you're in the Corolla/Civic part of the market.
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by sliverstorm 9y ago
Not yet, but Bitcoin is fixed in supply & deflationary, just like gold was, and there have been non-fractional reserve gold standards.
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by sliverstorm 9y ago
Just the next step from the Bitcoin economy, to the Bitcoin Standard economy, to the eventual Bitcoin Fiat economy. Seriously, the Lightning network looks a lot like the old Gold Standard, and the arc of Bitcoin seems to be reinventing mode
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by sliverstorm 9y ago
A common approach on Android. Nobody really seems to know exactly why, but evidently crap accumulates, either from old apps or from sloppy in-place OS upgrades. A full reset clears all the crap, and you start anew. I prefer to skip even the
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by sliverstorm 9y ago
That's exactly it, the trade imbalance means empty ships going back to China, ergo freight to China is supposedly very cheap.
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by sliverstorm 9y ago
Recycling, save for very specific things, is neither environmentally beneficial nor economically viable. To me that has always seemed like a problem to be solved, rather than just tossing it all. Sure, that's the way it is today, but
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by sliverstorm 9y ago
I'm glad to hear they are organizing after the disasters, for the next one. It's easy to jump in, in the thick of it. But the training, preparation & organization can't be faked on the fly, and it's critical to get
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by sliverstorm 9y ago
Clearly this means the solution to our declining insect population is predator control. A problem we created by spraying insecticides, we will solve by spraying arachnicides! It's perfect. Much Love, Dow Chemical
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by sliverstorm 9y ago
These cases are all pretty damn ridiculous, but do always seem to involve the victim doing something with the hands. Goes without saying this shouldn't be happening, but makes me think as a member of the public, step one is just, keep
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by sliverstorm 9y ago
JK Rowling's success story is singular because the masses don't have oodles of disposable income Hardly, she could still be a huge success story if she split that pie of disposable income halfway with another author who was her
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by sliverstorm 9y ago
He's basically pointing out that JK Rowling's success partly benefited from a feedback loop. For example, once everybody was talking about it, free publicity. If somebody else had all the same skills and wrote another book that wa
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by sliverstorm 9y ago
Well, I went straight to Facebook as it's got a lot of ads, and disabling uBO does appear to speed up the "long tail" load of FB. I'm not complaining, and if you're confident in your overhead times feel free to disr
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by sliverstorm 9y ago
Hey, you are the developer aren't you :) I will attempt to come up with a test case. Mostly I just noticed when resetting Firefox or with a new install, "hey this is snappier than usual" until I install uBO. Not sure if it&#x
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by sliverstorm 9y ago
Despite being one of the best adblockers, uBO is a small but noticeable performance hit to me- it's still worth it though. Nature of the beast I suspect.
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by sliverstorm 9y ago
This is such crap. If they really were committed to making things right in the event of a problem, they wouldn't have to fear being sued. I mean, even if you have the best of intentions, it's still nice to have all the cards sta
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by sliverstorm 9y ago
It makes sense to me in a divide-by-zero sort of way. I'm not saying the market confidently believes bitcoin has no value. But such wild fluctuations might suggest that even after five years, the price discovery function still has no
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by sliverstorm 9y ago
The technical implementation of the lightning network is neat, but I swear at a high level it feels like we're just re-implementing modern money. Once upon a time when we realized shuffling around gold bars was slow, expensive, and a p
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by sliverstorm 9y ago
Most of the extensions I use have been ported, but after just a day or two, I started to hit real performance issues again. Maybe the answer is contained in this statement?
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by sliverstorm 9y ago
Anybody have tips on balancing all the cofactors? You need other things to absorb & use the vitamin D. Some kind of multivitamin that focused only on D and its cofactors might be handy, without going whole-hog to the "everything&qu
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by sliverstorm 9y ago
How do you figure? Everybody needs to be evacuated, not just the wealthy.

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