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by thot_experiment 5y ago
When I looked into this previously I wasn't able to find a suitably sized boost converter but it seems like there are higher capacity ones cheaply available now. Thanks for the suggestion I may very well end up doing this.
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by thot_experiment 5y ago
yeah pretty much, I've even found myself pirating things that are actually on the services I pay for because playing a file is just a better user experience I also find collecting to be satisfying, there's something nice about k
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by thot_experiment 5y ago
I don't think blockchains meaningfully decentralize anything, the state still has a monopoly on force and anything they enable can be achieved in other ways and ultimately is bounded by the same state. The important bit is the interfac
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by thot_experiment 5y ago
Money laundering, speculation, pyramid schemes and pushing terrible ideas about ownership can be achieved without crunching a bunch of numbers to find low hashes or whatever. The kind of video gaming that has you burning 300W with your GPU
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by thot_experiment 5y ago
NGL I think I have a pretty efficient setup and I'm in the process of installing a 4th panel (bringing my total to 1220W) because 915W isn't really cutting it for winter power now that I'm not spending time outside much. My q
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by thot_experiment 5y ago
Fun fact: this is called a Harris Shutter effect when it's done for art purposes.
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by thot_experiment 5y ago
I didn't know too much about him, thought he was probably a chill engineer type. Holding him in somewhat lower esteem after this. He sets off my bullshit detector, too good at business and showmanship and not enough of that spark for t
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by thot_experiment 5y ago
Beneficial compared to what? We're stuck in a peak and there may be much higher ones elsewhere but because to traverse to those points we might have to descend the idea is unthinkable.
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by thot_experiment 5y ago
By understanding behaviors and patterns on a large scale you can become better at manipulating on a large scale. In giving up privacy you allow yourself to be more effectively manipulated (giving up your agency) and the entities that unders
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by thot_experiment 5y ago
The actual harm? If you steal a dollar from everyone what's the harm, it's just a dollar? Except now you have 7 billion dollars and you can do a bunch of bullshit with it. Except in this case companies are stealing personal agency
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by thot_experiment 5y ago
A classic and wonderful piece of internet lore. If I ever have kids this is one of the ones I'll be telling around the campfire. The one about the internet going down because the delivery truck blocked LoS is a good one too.