smokey_circles

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by smokey_circles 4y ago
[2] several citations needed. The danger is they're not dead, they're alive and well with a large part of a voting population. Terrible idea. As is [1]. Let's spend money for no reason, and also it makes it harder to integrat
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by smokey_circles 4y ago
> Docker is a terrible idea for a database in general Why? Genuine question, my gut feel is there's something wrong about it too but I can't put words to it nor have I found a benchmark that convinced me, but it's worth no
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by smokey_circles 4y ago
required is a strong, but personal opinion. go's generics are just type switches for the lazy (over simplified)
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by smokey_circles 4y ago
> it really is not better than what you can do in Java or C# Theoretically, sure. If you _really_ know your stuff. However, you can naively pack hundreds of thousands of go routines into a single thread in a go routine after a week or tw
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by smokey_circles 4y ago
None of that is salient. Propaganda is an effective drag net. We're all susceptible to some form of it. Outright lying works more effectively than it should. You're just looking for a morale high ground, no need to pretend otherwi
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by smokey_circles 4y ago
Oh yeah. It's Facebook that causes kids to become depressed or attempt suicide. Nevermind the student loan debt crisis, the floundering economy or the authoritarianism sneaking in. Definitely social media. Spoken like the disconnected
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by smokey_circles 4y ago
Oh you beat the market? So do cats [1] This just proves "the market" are not the experts they charge you to believe they are. [1]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/frederickallen/2013/01/15/cat
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by smokey_circles 4y ago
... obviously? It's an asset (for some reason). That's what happens to assets when you file bankruptcy. What do you think happens when a bank collapses? Your money is magically protected?
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by smokey_circles 4y ago
Of course, as we all know, using electricity is the real danger. Nevermind how it's produced, it's the configuration of transistors and how they are used that does real damage to the environment. Coal? No no no, GPUs are the real
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by smokey_circles 4y ago
> it will never pass I'll take the Patriot Act for $200, Alex
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by smokey_circles 4y ago
I'm a pessimist but this probably has more to do with circumventing those pesky KYC and AML laws that HSBC keep getting fined over
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by smokey_circles 4y ago
well my app sucks and this should have been a top level reply. My bad
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by smokey_circles 4y ago
This is a great example of Chesterton's fence. Predators keep population numbers low. Which prevents overgrazing, which protects the environment, which ensures herbivores can survive. The Yellowstone park's reintroduction of wolve
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by smokey_circles 4y ago
I hadn't heard of this. Doesn't matter. RICA requires you to give a current and valid proof of address and government issued ID when buying a sim card. Biometrics is unnecessary. Also probably useless, given how often those system
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by smokey_circles 4y ago
Yes, weekends and holidays are the worst because I just bore myself to death. Let's go to a 7/365 work model instead
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by smokey_circles 4y ago
That doesn't make sense to me. Chesterton's fence is about explicitly removing something. You can't implicitly invoke it. What you're describing is a lack of explicitly removing things. Chesterton's fence does not a
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by smokey_circles 4y ago
Oof, we wouldn't work well together. Very rarely is someone good enough to be this obnoxious.
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by smokey_circles 4y ago
Citation needed
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by smokey_circles 4y ago
The next time someone tells you crypto currencies have no worth because of something related to crypto, show them this article and point out humans assign worth to things arbitrarily and without discernable reason and the problem is regulat
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by smokey_circles 4y ago
> still looking for a problem to solve The Satoshi protocol is about creating a mechanism to achieve distributed, trustless consensus. Plenty of applications for such a platform. Whether it's achieving that goal is a separate debate
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by smokey_circles 4y ago
The word you are looking for is "contemporary" and nobody is spending money to make contemporary things appealing to you anymore. The collorary is your "counter culture" was bought and sold too. That one stung to find ou
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by smokey_circles 4y ago
As an African I laughed at this. Swiss kids not clearing their plates is not why people starve in my country. We produce enough food to feed ourselves but 1) poverty means people can't afford food 2) you're not reaching a great ma
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by smokey_circles 4y ago
Conversely, 3 women will not give birth in 3 months
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by smokey_circles 4y ago
> Do you think muggles actually care about this? Yes, you nugget. That's why UX is a thing. Just because you know how to traverse your thinking patterns doesn't mean anyone else (wizzards included) can. Surefire way to write ga
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by smokey_circles 4y ago
Not convinced the author understands steelmanning. I don't need to strawman myself to try to understand your argument from a good faith perspective. I'm also not sure how this format came to life, but it's highly aggravating
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by smokey_circles 4y ago
I'm torn on this one. I agreed with epic when they made this argument with Apple but that's because the App Store was the only way around. Epic could just distribute an APK they build themselves. They just can't use the play
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by smokey_circles 4y ago
That is the dumbest argument I've heard about ponzi schemes to date. If you don't know something, just ask questions. That author is retarded. Bitcoin has no central authority. It's just utilitarian. Crypto needs regulation w
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by smokey_circles 4y ago
Old grumpy person upset some young people don't value work as much as they do
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by smokey_circles 4y ago
Why do you imply these are exclusive? Seems dismissive for no really discernable reason
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by smokey_circles 4y ago
The cigarette part was pure profit, no argument there. But we banned alcohol 3 times, and 3 times the hospital's casualty admission rate plummeted. We have a problem with alcohol and we should be talking about it

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