steego

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by steego 4y ago
> This doesn't happen in crypto. Sure it does. In crypto, you have two options when it comes to keeping your money safe: 1. You can try to keep your keys and devices safe from hackers (The equivalent of buying a safe. DIY security)
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by steego 4y ago
When has anonymously transferring large values of money ever been a right? It’s never been a right. It’s like saying money laundering should be a right or evading taxes should be a right. Cash transactions and commerce has been regulated fo
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by steego 4y ago
Let’s not hand wave: Can you actually spell out the use-cases that provide value to its users without significantly adversely affecting others? The trouble with crypto is most of the use-cases it claims to solve, either aren’t solved, or th
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by steego 4y ago
I’m a functional fan and I don’t disagree with your points. Like anything, real life functional programming is not a panacea and most languages that append functional constructs as an afterthought often come with a price (debugging, perform
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by steego 4y ago
Ok, I understand Elon wanting to reduce the staff and focus on engineering on some level. I don’t agree with his decisions, but I can of understand the motivation on some level. He wants to focus on a few very important things and discard e
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by steego 4y ago
Same, but I’d love to own as few things as possible, but have access to things when I need them. At this point in my life, I would just like to be a friendly NPC that helps open doors for other people.
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by steego 4y ago
His goal was always to launch his career as America's first AI priest, publish a book and become a talking head.
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by steego 4y ago
So when you're not prompted, you just stare into space without a thought in your head?
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by steego 4y ago
Well that’s a disingenuous punt of a response: You can always fork it and start your own teeny-tiny forked Bitcoin network and pretend like the Network Effect is irrelevant to liquidity, right? Who needs liquidity? The truth is cryptocurren
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by steego 4y ago
Funny, I’ve never had an issue with a moderator on any platform in the 30+ years I’ve been on the Internet and it’s not because I’ve always been a nice person. I once had Facebook warn me about using abusive warning when talking shit to a
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by steego 4y ago
You’re missing something. Both Twitter and Reddit have apps which allow access to NSFW content.
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by steego 4y ago
That’s true, but Netscape wasn’t his first browser. He and Eric Bina also releasedd the first version of Mosaic in 1993, which was the first graphical browser to inline images with the text. Oh yeah, it ran on 5 operating systems (I used th
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by steego 5y ago
A _tremendous_ amount of money is spent on public relations and lobbying each year for the past 40 years.
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by steego 5y ago
How would humans experience revenge differently? What makes you think revenge isn’t an instinct in humans? I recall reading (the book escapes me), that just about all animals employ a Tit-for-Tat mechanism for dealing with other animals of
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by steego 5y ago
I value autonomy and independence for the right things that provide us a competitive advantage. I don’t value autonomy and independence for fungible services that are distractions to our mission. For those, we prefer SaaS solutions. Not e
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by steego 5y ago
How about we stop mangling metaphors and speak clearly? Paying for software and the licensing terms are independent concepts. We pay for OSS software for the projects where we find it advantages for us to have access to and contribute to th
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by steego 5y ago
I’m not going to pretend I am an OSS champion. I am not. I want to use tools built by people who are paid and supported. I don’t care if it’s commercial or OSS. I want to pay for my lunch. I want my interests and the person making my lunch
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by steego 5y ago
To be fair, people who work on supercompilers have been in the meta space long before it was ironic.
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by steego 5y ago
Assuming Bitcoin is a currency, it would have experienced hyper-deflation. Under hyper-inflation, your currency would lose value at the end of the month because the price of everything has risen 50% or more. Under-hyper deflation, the price
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by steego 5y ago
You do know that hyperinflation refers to inflation that exceeds 50% per month, right? 5% yearly inflation is just plain old inflation.
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by steego 5y ago
> What do you think the whole end state of this whole saga? Honestly, I don’t know. But I don’t think reform and collapse are the only two outcomes. A lot of countries hobble along and simply live with their corruption for long periods o
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by steego 5y ago
<raising hand> Ooo! Ooo! I know this one!!! I know this one!!! Over the past 30 years, steady changes to regulations in healthcare, education and infrastructure have created a system where we pay HUGE premiums for similar services co
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by steego 5y ago
There appears to be between 400-600 some members and from what I’ve read, it seems like all the members are receiving a nice share of revenue. How many would like to claim membership? I don’t know, you tell me. It seems like their membersh
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by steego 5y ago
Comparing him to Thanos isn’t fair. Thanos had an actionable (albeit unpopular) solution. This vague “actually it’s worse” nonsense is meaningless babble because it projects the problem through one simple dimension (number of houses) and ig
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by steego 5y ago
Honestly, it just sounds like you’re hand waving the same old line. I’d love to see a citation or two. My wife’s band settled a huge land claim not too far back. This land claim resulted in a cash payout to all 3000 band members and the r
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by steego 5y ago
Yes - Those were my supporting points. It should go without saying that popular things are often not true. My main point is they’re not doing this out of some agenda. They’re doing this to deflect that their algorithms PROMOTED misinformati
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by steego 5y ago
People have incredibly short memories, but media conglomerates have ALWAYS been in the business of curating and censoring content. Sometimes it’s about agenda, but more often than not, it’s about ad revenue and shielding themselves from ris
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by steego 5y ago
I don’t think it’s overstating it. You explain it well enough yourself. The was a wide gap of difference hash in Europe in the 90’s vs your average weed in the US. All too often the stuff in the US would barely get you high whereas a few
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by steego 5y ago
I think the increase in cases is more likely to be explained by a number of factors: 1. THC concentrations have increased which usually means there is less CBD. 2. Legalization probably increased casual use. 3. People who suffer from schizo
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by steego 5y ago
You cringe, as you should. But when you say empty-headed things like, “Stories like this have me worried the vaccines aren't as effective as I once believe”, now I cringe. It’s a clickbait science website pandering to people who like a

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