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by smeej 1y ago
This comment just isn't even remotely connected to U.S. reality. Transactions into and out of USDC are taxable just like transactions into and out of USD, and the IRS can every bit as easily find the owners of these accounts as they ca
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by smeej 1y ago
This was mostly true of v.1 cryptocurrencies, but it's not like it's inherent to the system. It's just as easy to design cryptocurrencies where there are control mechanisms, governed however you'd like them to be. USDC
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by smeej 1y ago
You're going to end up sitting next to a stranger anyway if you're flying alone. Nobody says you have to become friends, but I wouldn't mind having in common with my seatmate that we're both the kind of people who don&#x
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by smeej 1y ago
I think there's probably major overlap between "woo woo" and "all the stuff we don't understand about the brain yet," at least when it comes to woo woo effects on our own bodies. Honestly, though, the hard part
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by smeej 1y ago
Ask the U.S. how important it is to be the world's default currency before you go ignoring the value of getting that one thing right.
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by smeej 1y ago
When Coinbase and Circle formed the CENTRE Consortium back in 2018, they were extremely clear, at least internally, that they were trying to build what would become FedCoin. They hoped that, because USDC is already designed such that it can
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by smeej 1y ago
I'm just trying to get my ideal PKM collection system working the way I've always wished it would. It involves trying to coax an LLM into writing code for me when I'm not a developer myself, so that's been an adventure.
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by smeej 1y ago
Yeah, but the other symptoms don't line up. Screenings I've had have been negative. It seems more likely that I have complex trauma from gestation, birth, infancy, and early childhood that really threw a monkeywrench into my neu
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by smeej 1y ago
I've tried a couple times, but the interest in making physical things cycles through just like any other interest. Then it gets replaced by something like neurobiology or anthropology and I don't want to make things for awhile. It
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by smeej 1y ago
I came here to leave a comment related to this. This article has great advice, if you're normal enough that enough of "your people" exist to be able to find them and do something together. But if you've spent your whole
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by smeej 1y ago
The truly scary thing to me is watching them start to believe the anecdotes they've stolen from people and presented as their own stories actually did happen to them, as they lose their marbles. I've spent much of my life learni
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by smeej 1y ago
I'm accustomed to listening to regular speech at 2-3x speed, but apparently that's entirely different than listening to a human try to speak 2-3x faster than normal, because I could barely pick intelligible syllables out of that m
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by smeej 1y ago
It's funny you mention this, because my father operates exactly as you describe the LLMs, making facts up on the spot, lying smoothly and keeping track of the lies... ...and he's built his whole career in sales because of it. He
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by smeej 1y ago
In the vast majority of cases, it's actually extremely easy. It took less than an afternoon for me to learn how to trace 90%+ of transactions on either BTC or any of the networks built on Ethereum or an Ethereum-like protocol. There ar
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by smeej 1y ago
Which state are you talking about? The 0% tax bracket for long-term capital gains in the U.S. for 2024 for single filers was $47,024, never mind the standard deduction. Then it goes up to 15%, then 20%.
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by smeej 1y ago
> whether a year 0 ≤ y ≤ 102499 or equal to 0?
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by smeej 1y ago
Wow, I understand using the button on a phone app, because where would you even find the "Ctrl" button, but if it's true that even digital natives are still using the button instead of a keyboard shortcuts when sitting at a k
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by smeej 1y ago
I've worked mostly remotely, and in companies where management insists on having visibility into subordinates' calendars. So I've placed an awful lot of official sounding decoy meetings on my calendar right after meetings tha
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by smeej 1y ago
I'm certainly in that category. At least with a human, I can excuse it by imagining the person grew up with half a dozen siblings and always had to fight to get a word in edgewise. With a robot, it's interrupting on purpose.
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by smeej 1y ago
This isn't necessarily true at all. Other people in this very thread have proposed much better reasons. Some have even provided evidence that people do still buy cars that are limited (Volvos), without any apparent impact about speed.
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by smeej 1y ago
I don't know what percentage of cars sold on the U.S. ever get transported across the Atlantic to the autobahn, but I'm willing to bet there are several zeroes between the decimal and the answer. I can't see how the existence
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by smeej 1y ago
How can you make an empirical assessment when one of the options isn't available?
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by smeej 1y ago
Why are typical passenger vehicles even sold with the ability to go so fast? Or perhaps more pertinently, why aren't any typical passenger vehicles I've ever heard of sold without the ability to go so fast? I think the overwhe
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by smeej 1y ago
I'm not actually assuming it only happens for one town. I'd assume it would be broader than that. I don't really think it matters much how it happens, though, does it? Even if all that happened were a widespread cellular ou
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by smeej 1y ago
I think it also threw me because we have a trick question in English, "How many months have 28 days?" All the months have 28 days, but people usually answer 1, so for those of us who are used to approaching questions, especially l
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by smeej 1y ago
I would go with, "Which question has E as its answer?" or " the answer" instead of " an answer" would fix it for me. Similarly, "How many questions have E for the answer?"
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by smeej 1y ago
It took me a second to realize "has the answer E" meant "as the answer" not "as an option," but I think that's a glitch in my brain, not the puzzle. I did accidentally pull down too hard on my screen when
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by smeej 1y ago
The example of not being able to navigate roads with a paper map points in the direction of what concerns me. Even if I have been diligent about maintaining my map-reading skills, other people's devaluation of those same skills affec
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by smeej 1y ago
Yeah, that's why I said "unless she was already considering surrogacy". There doesn't seem to be a lot of overlap between women who ate so desperate to carry their own child that they'd undergo a womb transplant, an
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by smeej 2y ago
> He told the BBC around 10 women have embryos in storage or are undergoing fertility treatment, a requirement for being considered for womb transplantation. Each transplant costs around £30,000, he says, and the charity has sufficient f

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