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by tal8d 6y ago
Warmer... but not quite. Governments are defined by a monopoly on force. Whoever distinguishes "murder" from "homicide" is the government, and that government's territory stretches as far as those definitions are in
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I don't wish you ill, but I wish you and your ideas had no effect on me. Which is more to the point - you are focusing on the wrong part of the problem. Trust and disinformation isn't the problem, the problem is the second order e
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> > Make trust the default, not the exception. > I'm not here to advocate either way for anonymity Is trust and anonymity somehow disconnected in your mind? Before you answer that, I'll point out that I didn't say ps
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> Make trust the default, not the exception. So the death of anonymity. I already hear the defenders of such a proposal: "If you don't want to give Facebook your federally issued ID then you still have the darkweb!" Follow
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There is also xrn, if you are looking to fill out your CDE. https://stuff.mit.edu/~jik/software/xrn/art_mode.htm
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by tal8d 6y ago
The "diversity and inclusion" pundits seem to be aware of the fact that Asians are on the outs with the grievance crowd. We can't even be sure who they're talking about here, are the Asians in question able to legally sh
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by tal8d 6y ago
They definitely don't, and it is no accident that they've maintained a state of uncertainty. After the B-cash hardfork created a potential taxable event, the IRS refused to release any kind of guidance or warning for how they&#x27
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by tal8d 6y ago
Marketers aren't trying to match you up with products that meet some unfulfilled need you have, they are trying to get you to buy anything in the very limited window available to them. You seem to be under the impression that they&#x27
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by tal8d 6y ago
Oops, that is the other one - "digital gold". The litecoin people really latched onto that one, declaring themselves to be silver. There was already a digital gold a few year before bitcoin (something about an eagle, or the Libert
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> It's closer to digital beanie babies than any sort of serious currency. And then he flushed any possibility for a good faith argument away. What, are keeping your powder dry on the tulip mania line? I'm long past the evangeli
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People have been expressing that sentiment for nearly 10 years. At what point do you accept that you were shortsighted? 20 years?
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> ...are going largely unexamined. I've been hearing plenty of accusations of pump and dump, with no further examination. So I don't think that opinion is underrepresented. It is effectively noise anyway, because the same can b
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Because it isn't an either or scenario. I'm sure they are concerned about not having a chair when the music stops. But their relationship with Citadel (who has been fined for thing like frontrunning) can't be ignored. All the
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by tal8d 6y ago
Well we could continue stacking assumption upon assumption, with regard to conspiracy, but it looks a little goofy. But who knows, maybe this will be one time Wall Street wasn't the one conspiring, and it was in fact a shadowy flash mo
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...yes, that is my point. Anyone who deals with crypto is aware of it.
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by tal8d 6y ago
That is a weird assumption to make about wsb types, who have a sizable overlap with the crypto-currency folks - who are keenly aware of counterparty risk and the function of clearinghouses.
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by tal8d 6y ago
Nope, the narrative has been building for the last two days that this was all perpetrated by fascist white supremacist deplorables... so it is no mystery which side Democrats will pick. Republicans will do the same for more classically ster
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by tal8d 6y ago
Well those private companies wouldn't be seen as "supporting" anybody, if they behaved with any level of consistency and transparency. It is a problem of their own making, with every virtue signal further compounding expectat
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by tal8d 6y ago
> zstd is now standard and the default on openzfs 2.0, replacing lz4. Are you sure? The default compression level has always been "off", but when switched on - the default has been lz4 for about 5 years. Zstd support was added
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by tal8d 6y ago
Yeah, that girl that identified herself as "Ketchup" was definitely a member of the Young Republicans, maybe even a John Birch Society card carrier.
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If all programmers and admins had the same needs then that would be a logical conclusion. But we don't, so I'll stick to ksh.
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A phrase made meaningless by its universal applicability. Blizzard management was upset about their inability to control everyone associated with them? Play stupid games... Don't appreciate someone pointing out the fact that "Play
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by tal8d 6y ago
The Allen Brack letter wasn't that long ago, have we already forgotten our prizings? I wonder how that fiasco would have gone down if it was a 10% stake, instead of 5%. It would be pretty hard to top getting an American CEO to claim Ch
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by tal8d 6y ago
< 401k benefits Maybe it is because I've never worked in the valley, but I can't think of a positive 401k plan experience. I do remember a lot of onboarding powerpoint with regards to penalties and limitations. The whole thing
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My formal education isn't even close to CS, zero overlap, but I've been paid to write software for the majority of my work history. I'm an autodidact, and I wouldn't change the path I took to get where I am, but I am kee
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Or Madagascar, or Iceland! Having the foresight to occupy an isolated location with a small population is really paying dividends. All those incompetent countries, with their highly interconnected economies and lack of natural barriers... R
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That would be a little difficult to pull off at the municipal level. The federal government doesn't even fully implement that strategy, which is why we are unlikely to ever see systemic fixes for consumer data protection at the Federal
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Here is what will happen: the task will be outsourced to some nebulous SaaS that has no FOIA obligations.
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"...police are strongly addictive personalities... Surveillance & control are drugs, ones that they are not capable of putting down." That is insightful, when you acknowledge the fact that it is actually part of the human cond
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by tal8d 6y ago
Well yeah, that is the solution that was arrived upon hundreds of years ago, and has been the norm ever since. Like Churchill said, democracy is the worst form of government - except for all the others. Declaring cops to be inherently power

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