smokey_circles

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by smokey_circles 5y ago
A point that I always find interesting to remember is that although we've proven there's no measurable benefit to crystal therapy, there's no discounting the people it's helped. We think that's probably placebo (see
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by smokey_circles 5y ago
That's not a fair comparison though. An exchange is a fat, juicy target. I am not
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by smokey_circles 5y ago
Good question. I only wanna add that traditional trading instruments suck and are not fun to scale. Highly centralized points of failure with truly mind numbing consequences that are difficult to predict and respond to. I've worked on
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by smokey_circles 5y ago
It is the implementation. I believe in bitcoin, works well and I don't blame the consumer for the producer's problems when it comes to power. But exchanges have become a key part of the implementation. That's not the real iss
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by smokey_circles 5y ago
Humans are a cooperative species. Seeking help and wisdom is part of the process. Nothing is being taken away or deprived here, and from what i can tell that's a hell of an overreach on such little context, unless you've caught so
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by smokey_circles 5y ago
It's a Bethesda game. So it needs mods to truly be appreciated. Doubly so 11 years after release. I did this with Oblivion, glad I did cuz I love that game
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by smokey_circles 5y ago
Crypto is just a fancy distributed linked list and people get tied up over it for no reason (gross oversimplification, I know). The issue is the lack of regulation in the intersection of fiat/traditional finance. EVERY time there'
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by smokey_circles 5y ago
> I'd prefer seventy years of living to eighty years of not dying You're going to be disappointed then. Closer to 40 years of living, 30 years of being imprisoned by your failing health. I support your right to make stupid deci
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by smokey_circles 5y ago
I maintain a usenet subscription because the file transfer and search mechanisms are incredibly relevant today. There is a yuge amount of data still pushed around on the usenet. Which is not-so-coincedentally related to media formats and si
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by smokey_circles 5y ago
I don't understand how bitcoin is a ponzi scheme. There's no pyramid shape, which is kind of crucial. "Just look at the whales" uh huh, you mean like the dollar? It's just a value store. Debating the efficacy of the
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by smokey_circles 5y ago
I just can't take the power and pollution argument seriously. There's just nothing salient about it. I might have otherwise agreed with the author on their other points but if you can't see the issue with this argument it dis
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by smokey_circles 5y ago
Uh... bodycam footage is somehow different?
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by smokey_circles 5y ago
If I got a job for a top tier firm and all I could afford was a 2 bedroom apartment, I'd suspect I was played. What was the point then? "Come for the tech" sure and leave because of anything/everything else. One of many
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by smokey_circles 5y ago
> Over the past few weeks the FBI, Department of Justice (DOJ), Interpol, and other international law enforcement agencies have worked together to incarcerate and indict ransomware threat actors. Through this effort, millions of dollars
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by smokey_circles 5y ago
Genuinely curious question: how do tell the sky hasn't fallen? American media is so polarized and dramatized that I imagine it's as disorienting on the inside as it feels from the outside. For context, I believe covid has killed m
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by smokey_circles 5y ago
I had to read the whole thing to make sure I didn't miss anything. You don't need to read this article, it's adding nothing new to the conversation except for a whole bunch of "i'm so smart, use my wisdom" type
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by smokey_circles 5y ago
Come on. You can't believe ASICS pull more power than mining operations. Aluminum smelters are not cheap
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by smokey_circles 5y ago
I'm not convinced crypto has failed to be a value store or an effective means of currency and these "arguments" don't really talk about the meat of the problems crypto faces. 1. Regulation is pretty much the defining fac
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by smokey_circles 5y ago
Channels. Share information between routines with channels. If you're passing pointers to mutate down a channel, then that's on you. Just set yourself on fire, much easier that way lol. You don't need immutable structures to
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by smokey_circles 5y ago
Why does the Chinese Government need to be told _at all_? You're saying that doesn't seem strange to you? The government busy silently exterminating a people and who employ mass surveillance and other obvious human rights violatio
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by smokey_circles 5y ago
I'm not sure I'm following. Listing 70k files was a benchmark. It would take you 10x the time to use 'exa | grep' but grep might just filter out the item you're looking for during execution (not certain if grep is r
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by smokey_circles 5y ago
well it's been a good few years, but now it's time to pick up another language and wait for the community to beat stupid ideas into that one too
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by smokey_circles 5y ago
So we're clear, I'm not proposing the west do any kind of reparations. You just won't calculate it and the damage is already done, a pay cheque isn't going to help. But you are wrong. I'd prefer it if they just left
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by smokey_circles 5y ago
I've lived in Joburg all my life. Joburg, especially the inner city, is one of the most dangerous places in the world. Couriers are at risk? We all are. I don't know anyone who doesn't have a story of being held up at gunpoin
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by smokey_circles 5y ago
Genuinely curious how you arrived here. 1. My time is valuable to me. Low effort sales templates are offensive in this light. 2. Joe never answered about why he has different metrics than Evan. You're just going to waltz past that poin
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by smokey_circles 5y ago
This is not a convincing argument. If things go wrong for nuclear stations, the consequences are incredibly high. I'm not sure there are many fields that can make the same claim. And oil is absolutely not one of them (bit of a weird at
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by smokey_circles 5y ago
there's nothing mild about many online ads. pages load faster and I don't use as much bandwidth. YouTube et al are ok, not so much other pages
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by smokey_circles 5y ago
Because it is usually impossible to remember all possible permutations of a chess board, I disagree. Humans handle large data set with a cheat by using creativity and predictive reasoning to avoid having to store EVERY piece of data we enco
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by smokey_circles 5y ago
Just claiming an opposing stance isn't enough to validate it. This is just a silly opinion for the sake of argument. I live in a country with a 40-45 hour max work week. After that, you pay 1.5x rates. Saturdays are 1.5x rates for sala
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by smokey_circles 5y ago
This argument is completely without merit. Facebook makes money from mining the data you generate while using their platform. If you're not using _their_ platform, you're not making _them_ money. To combat WhatsApp and Instagram,

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