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by strbean 7y ago
I wish the Q2 mod Gloom had the same longevity :( last I heard there were just a couple dozen people still playing, mostly in Europe.
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by strbean 7y ago
I need to research this more, but my impression is it should be fairly easy and affordable to get tested and, if necessary, get chelation therapy to remove heavy metals from your system. Anyone with knowledge on the topic that can weigh in?
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by strbean 7y ago
Some of the linked articles in this comment section claim that conformal coatings mitigate whisker shorting because the whiskers can't pierce the coating.
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by strbean 7y ago
> They assumed consumers make rational decisions. Maybe they believe that low-fat sugar and simple carbs is worse for you than sugar and carbs combined with fat, due to the lower glycemic index? (Obviously not, but the biscuit maker is g
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by strbean 7y ago
Dealing with the same thing with AT&T fiber. There was word of a hack involving putting your router behind a switch with the AT&T router after cloning the MAC, then booting them both up and letting your router pick up the DHCP respo
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by strbean 7y ago
> compared to [...] mtg the game mechanics felt forced and over complicated I honestly have never heard someone suggest any game was more complicated than mtg!
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by strbean 7y ago
I think the top level comment is based on the assumption that a greater quantity of objective data will lead to a greater weighting of objective data, and a lower quantity will lead to a lower weighting, leading to a greater weighting of su
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by strbean 7y ago
I think measures like the CPI are a woefully incomplete view of inflation. I'm not sure what would be a good alternative metric, but it seems clear from the stock market average that stock prices have been growing much faster than the
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by strbean 7y ago
The far end of the spectrum is martial law.
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by strbean 7y ago
Fair point that the interest accrued is coming out of the pre-existing money supply. Doesn't really change the thrust of my comment that you quoted though - they are being handed the ability to accrue capital. Also, this is getting a l
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by strbean 7y ago
> When you use classes in this way, I call it type oriented programming (TOP). Watch out, you might make topmind mad! https://wiki.c2.com/?TopMind
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by strbean 7y ago
Giving Person A a "good deal" on loans so they can loan that money to Person B at a great profit isn't so different from just giving money to Person A.
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by strbean 7y ago
Like they were "very creditworthy" in 2008.
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by strbean 7y ago
> Is that really a crafty artistic person turning out handmade items on Etsy, or is it a front for a factory in China with dozens of pseudonymous identities on Etsy? Ran into this when my fiancé was browsing Etsy to get an idea of how to
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by strbean 7y ago
Well duh. Collectibles are basically non-fungible by definition. How are you going to have an automated exchange for them? /s
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by strbean 7y ago
Added to my reading list, thanks!
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by strbean 7y ago
Oh hi there!
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by strbean 7y ago
That's a semantic error, not a grammar error!
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by strbean 7y ago
Maybe time travel? We've beat that horse well past death in fiction, and it probably will never arrive.
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by strbean 7y ago
I think parent is more getting at component lifetime. Every charge/discharge on the batteries is a bit of their lifespan gone. Although I was under the impression that the impact on lifespan is much greater the deeper you cycle the bat
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by strbean 7y ago
> Tesla Roaster posters Now I'm wondering what Elon will name his coffee roasting company.
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by strbean 7y ago
Interesting. I haven't looked in a long time, but my vague recollection is of bulk card data being sold much cheaper than that. I could be totally incorrect though!
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by strbean 7y ago
I don't think it's that premature. Making the (big) assumption that serialization format X has good stable support in your language, and has the same expressive capabilities as JSON, you should be able to use it as a drop in repla
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by strbean 7y ago
None of those are serialization schemes. XML can be used for serialization, but if you look at the whole ecosystem it is a Turing-complete complexity monster, so of course it isn't safe.
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by strbean 7y ago
I love this concept. This perfectly describes the state of pretty much all consumer markets today, and one of the biggest pitfalls of free-market capitalism. Also, it feeds in to my always-shouted-down argument that advertising/marketi
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by strbean 7y ago
Companies sign official correspondence, and email clients give blaring sirens/red flags for unsigned correspondence (or send it straight to the spam folder) similar to how browsers now handle http vs. https traffic? It would also be ve
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by strbean 7y ago
The bitterly hilarious part is that they only stole $8,000 (and were happy to return it). The gains since 2008 though...
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by strbean 7y ago
Credit cards with complete billing info sell for what... 50 cents a piece? If you're rooting a payment processor, maybe a worthwhile target, although you could probably do much better than steal card numbers. A consumer device? Not so
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by strbean 7y ago
Upvoted you just so I get shadowbanned from upvoting in the future.
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by strbean 7y ago
At what point to you revert from "their reputation is already so terrible they wouldn't sully it more" to "we should really just assume the worst 100% of the time"?

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