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by starkd 5y ago
I never understood why graphing calculators were required for basic calculus or math courses. Always wondered if it was part of a marketing deal with the company that manufactured them. The course is said to require a particular make
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by starkd 5y ago
I've heard from many Russian immigrant friends who insist that Soviet education was one of the few areas that was done well in USSR. Particularly, mathematics, which, other than the obligatory Marx/Lenin quotes at the top of paper
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by starkd 5y ago
Both CBO and UPenn Wharton School of Business called it a bust. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/wharton-budget-mo...
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There’s No Such Thing as a Fast-Expanding Bullet. (Or Even an Expanding One.)(fieldandstream.com)
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Can Silicon Valley Find Its Way Back?(linkedin.com)
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by starkd 5y ago
Anyone looking into it for the first time should be deeply skeptical. The notion of imputed value to a shared service sort of feels like a scam. However, you have to realize its a shared value you are buying into. No less real than what
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by starkd 5y ago
A lot of people work in the underground economy. It's useful when excessive government regulations prevent "undesirables" from being hired.
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by starkd 5y ago
Good point. Tyranny is not all or nothing gambit.
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by starkd 5y ago
Iran and Venezuela would not have the crypto tool if it had not been for a free society in which they can operate. The fact they were tyrannical oppressive regimes before crypto came along is besides the point. They have them now and are
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by starkd 5y ago
I think the "you've got nothing to hide argument" is basically a failure of imagination. If you're immediate response is "what's the big deal?", you likely haven't thought about it much. You have to
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by starkd 5y ago
When they cash it in for dollars, they have to report it their gains. That's already built in. This bill pushes further into the crypto space.
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by starkd 5y ago
Not solely for the point of evading government regulation. I said it's useful to get around oppressive governments. Governments usually become tyrannies so gradual you don't notice. But it's faster than you think.
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by starkd 5y ago
Well, they are instrumental in oppressive governments like Iran and Venezuela. The whole objective behind cryptocurrency is a digital cash. If you are unconcerned about it happening in US, I don't know what basis you have for that, o
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There are less heavy ham-fisted approaches they could take. But they don't seem inclined or even interested in knowing the topic well enough to figure out how to do so.
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by starkd 5y ago
Maybe because they know it is unpopular and they can't buy off senators who will only vote for it because it contains unrelated provisions they want?
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by starkd 5y ago
Cryptocurrency is also a hedge against tyranny. There seems to be a naive belief that it can never happen here, just because it never has.
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by starkd 5y ago
But the power and potential disruption of cryptocurrency is the anonymity. It's the benefits of cash brought to the digital world. I understand the dangers of the criminal element, but underground economies benefit oppressed people w
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Antibody findings spark ideas for pan-coronavirus vaccine(medicalxpress.com)
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by starkd 5y ago
Looks like they have shipping restrictions for certain states/cities. They don't mention anything about background checks. Its sort of experimental at this point. My guess is that its useless for self-defense or criminals. htt
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NASA Is Recruiting for Yearlong Simulated Mars Mission(nasa.gov)
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Preorders for This Electromagnetic Rifle Are Being Taken for $3,775(thedrive.com)
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Stanford researcher proposes tech to produce vaccines to stop the next pandemic(news.stanford.edu)
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by starkd 5y ago
The method Apple is using looks more like a cryptographic hash. That's entirely different (and more secure) than a perceptual hash. From https://www.apple.com/child-safety/ "Before an image is stored in iClo
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by starkd 5y ago
But that's more out of a genuine concern to avoid the unnecessary crud that's accumulated in the curriculum. Of course, college imputes useful things, but it also has a tendency to teach abstract concepts, when what you need in t
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Home Depot Is Selling Power Tools That Require Activation IN-Store(hackaday.com)
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The Debate over Origins of SARS-CoV-2(caltech.edu)
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Despite ‘Delta’ Alarmism, US Covid Deaths Are at Lowest Level Since March 2020(fee.org)
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Mysterious New Insect Is Feasting on DC-Area People – But Its Not Bedbugs(washingtonian.com)
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Facebook is reportedly trying to analyze encrypted data without decrypting it(techspot.com)
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by starkd 5y ago
Whether or not anyone is poisoning anyone's mind is an opinion. It also assumes those minds don't have agency and the ability to discuss issues on their own terms.

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