teh_infallible

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by teh_infallible 5y ago
Microsoft has never been good at building things, period. With the possible exception of Xbox, their products are almost universally annoying to use.
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by teh_infallible 5y ago
I had a Danish roommate whose friend found a message in a bottle on a beach in Denmark. It was written in Swedish, and it said, “Fucking Danes”
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by teh_infallible 5y ago
Currently, people who only got one shot or got their second one less than two weeks ago are being counted as “unvaccinated” which seems disingenuous at best.
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by teh_infallible 5y ago
“ Parapsychologists are able to produce experimental evidence for psychic phenomena about as easily as normal scientists are able to produce such evidence for normal, non-psychic phenomena.” Therefore psychic phenomena exist? I don’t see th
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by teh_infallible 5y ago
For TV, get a short throw projector. It’s a dumb screen, and it’s fun to play retro games projected on the wall
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by teh_infallible 5y ago
I thought it was going to be about 3d printed models!
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by teh_infallible 5y ago
Substitute “NASA” for “blockchain” in this article, and I agree:)
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by teh_infallible 5y ago
If you think about it for even a little bit, it becomes obvious that no one would open a legit assassin-for-hire service online. Think of logistics of this: Your assassin has to travel to some random city somewhere and take all the risks in
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by teh_infallible 5y ago
I was going to call it “marketing.” I am amazed to see people discuss what are essentially the marketing claims of a corrupt industry as if they had scientific validity. Substitute the word “immunity” with “blockchain” or “Artificial Intell
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by teh_infallible 5y ago
I have suspected for awhile now that the bitcoin blockchain is actually an attempt to break SHA-256. Bitcoin is built around incentives, and it has created an incentive for people all over the world to basically brute force this algorithm a
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by teh_infallible 5y ago
It certainly is strange that Tether hasn’t been shut down for counterfeiting, which is essentially what they are doing. I assume people in the banking industry allow them to operate as a way to hold leverage over the crypto markets and abso
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by teh_infallible 5y ago
Actually, banks do get robbed and hacked. Here is one example: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cyber-heist-swift-special...
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by teh_infallible 5y ago
I have received a set with pieces missing. I bought the set off eBay, and the seller swore it was new. I didn’t just misplace the pieces either- one was a wheel, not a tiny part
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by teh_infallible 5y ago
I think the idea is that if the employee is bound to the code of conduct, the company shouldn’t be able to force the employee to act in a way that violates it.
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by teh_infallible 5y ago
From the Indian government’s point of view, taking preorders might be seen as kind of a snub, like, “Your approval is just a rubber stamp we will get eventually.”
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by teh_infallible 5y ago
Crypto to the rescue! It is a mistake to conflate a CBDC or a fiat-based stablecoin with an actual cryptocurrency. (I will refrain from shilling a specific one.)
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by teh_infallible 5y ago
The denial by Southwest isn’t based on the same legal issues facing the union. The CEO has an incentive to deny it because he doesn’t want to risk losing the massive amounts of federal money Southwest receives.
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by teh_infallible 5y ago
I can’t believe people here actually want to help Australia make their surveillance system work better. I wonder why so many people resent tech workers..
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by teh_infallible 5y ago
Ironically, those PHDs you trust are the most hesitant
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by teh_infallible 5y ago
A recruiter contacted me one for a position at Amazon, and I straight up said I will never work there because of the way they treat their employees. (Probably burned a bridge with that recruiter, but oh well)
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by teh_infallible 5y ago
This made me think of the movie, “Pump up the Volume,” where Christian Slater has a pirate radio station and at one point he moves all his gear into a moving van to avoid detection.
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by teh_infallible 5y ago
Bitcoin Cash has CashFusion, which does not rely on a central server, and since transactions are less than a cent, you can shuffle your coins as much as you want. https://cashfusion.org/
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by teh_infallible 5y ago
It’s interesting you imagine this as fiction. I have always thought it was inevitable. It would only take one innovation in space propulsion, and I could easily see fighting over space real estate leading to the destruction of satellites. S
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by teh_infallible 5y ago
I love Monero, but I think it is more intimidating for no-coiners than bitcoin. You can’t buy it on Coinbase or many other exchanges, and the wallets are not as polished as the btc wallets I have used. So if you’re trying to get your fans t
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by teh_infallible 5y ago
True, but there are services like Purse.io which let you order on Amazon and pay with crypto. So theoretically, you could have your fans pay you in crypto, and you could convert that to whatever goods you want. It might not work as your onl
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by teh_infallible 5y ago
I had a coworker who had spent time on a research station in Antarctica. He said there were people who came to hunt for meteorites, and they weren’t allowed to keep them. That seemed like a raw deal to me.
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by teh_infallible 5y ago
As a mostly self-taught programmer without a CS degree, I think your math skills put you in a league above me. I decided to take a shot at learning linear algebra a year ago, and was pleasantly surprised to see that “vectors” are basically
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by teh_infallible 5y ago
Sounds like you have never worked at Amazon.
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by teh_infallible 5y ago
The CDC holds patents for vaccines.
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by teh_infallible 5y ago
I think the whole concept of “voting with your dollars” is flawed. Google will always have more votes than you.

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