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by throw0101b 1y ago
> Flashing your wealth on social media or being a high profile executive is dangerous, crypto-ties or not. Given the finite quantity that many cryptocurrencies can create, I'm curious if another 'attack' will become popu
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by throw0101b 1y ago
> Crypto is the way it is because there are behaviors that are driven by perceived anonymity. See Penny Arcade comic from 2004: * https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19/green-blackboa...
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by throw0101b 1y ago
A question for sysadmins: what do you device is useful in data centres? And not just sound cancellation, but more importantly what device do you find has a good microphone that works well if you're on a phone with tech support or cow
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GPS Needs to Toughen Up, or Get Trampled Down(aviationweek.com)
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by throw0101b 1y ago
https://archive.is/https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/ar... https://archive.is/aJJ88
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American Panopticon(theatlantic.com)
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by throw0101b 1y ago
TIL: > OpenTherm (OT) is a standard communications protocol used in central heating systems for the communication between central heating appliances and a thermostatic controllers.[1] As a standard, OpenTherm is independent of any singl
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by throw0101b 1y ago
I don't see anything about relative humidity (RH). While temperature is important, if you have a well-seal and well-insulated house (i.e., up to modern code), your AC won't be running that much, and so the incidental dehumidificat
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by throw0101b 1y ago
> Pictures are one way, there are other ways too like writing a journal. Finding a shoebox full of photos is a lot easier to go through and reading through a journal / diary. One can quickly reminisce with the photos, but it would
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by throw0101b 1y ago
This paragraph has really stuck in my head: > The moral of the story is: if you’re against witch-hunts, and you promise to found your own little utopian community where witch-hunts will never happen, your new society will end up consist
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Neutral vs. Conservative: The Eternal Struggle (2017)(slatestarcodex.com)
4 points by throw0101b 1y ago|2 comments
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How to Leak to a Journalist(niemanlab.org)
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by throw0101b 1y ago
Contra: > A common response I’ve seen to this is Warren Buffett repeatedly expressing concern about the trade deficit. Buffett’s main concern has always been that we’re sending pieces of paper abroad that give foreigners claims on US as
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by throw0101b 1y ago
This has probably been true of all invention / automation: when we went from handwashing to using washing machines, did we start doing more leisurely things for the hours that were saved by that 'labour saving' device? >
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by throw0101b 1y ago
> You have agency over your business. You're just betting on a stock. You wouldn't own enough stock to have meaningful agency over it. Yes you have more agency in deciding how to run the business, but you have little to no ag
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Trump to Rename Veterans Day as 'Victory Day for World War I'(politico.com)
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by throw0101b 1y ago
> The sheer hypocrisy The Legal Eagle channel did an analysis of the two situations, "Signal War Plans v.s. Hillary's Emails": * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cw1tNTIEs-o The two situations are not a
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by throw0101b 1y ago
> I guess Bonwick et. al. were not really aware of LFS. Sad. They were: > [16] Mendel Rosenblum and John K. Ousterhout. The design and implementation of a log-structured file system. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, 10(1):26–5
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by throw0101b 1y ago
> And the original paper on ZFS that appears to have been scrubbed from the internet mentions WAFL repeatedly (and you were a co-author so I'm not sure why you're saying you didn't reference NetApp or WAFL): Cantrill was
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by throw0101b 1y ago
> How would you convince people that they aren't gambling when investing in stocks? How about: > But in a casino the longer you play, the higher your chances of walking away a loser since the house has the edge. > The sto
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by throw0101b 1y ago
> You're still gambling Is running a plumbing business gambling? Is opening and running a restaurant gambling? (Sure there's risk in running a business but risk is not the same as gambling.) Because owning stock is basicall
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by throw0101b 1y ago
> Think snapshots at every update, and having a/b boot to get back to a known-working config after an update. Solaris had this about a decade ago with beadm : * https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E53394_01/html&
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by throw0101b 1y ago
> As a desktop user, I am content with APFS. The only feature from ZFS that I would like, is the corruption detection. I think some power users would appreciate an equivalent to zfs send/recv .
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Seasonal Covid shots may no longer be possible under Trump admin(arstechnica.com)
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by throw0101b 1y ago
> My supermarket, for example, only has electronic cash registers. And no price tags. I know someone who works at a supermarket, and (some of?) their point of sale (POS) systems have a small UPS that can run for a couple of hours to ri
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by throw0101b 1y ago
Cell towers have batteries and/or generators, with fibre connections to data centres, which also generally have batteries and/or generators.
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by throw0101b 1y ago
As of: Mon 28 Apr 2025 07:22:00 EDT Mon 28 Apr 2025 11:22:00 UTC this is breaking just minutes ago: * https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c9wpq8xrvd9t (rolling updates) * http://archive.is/
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What I wish I knew before going to Japan(rustyselectricdreams.substack.com)
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by throw0101b 1y ago
> Among native peoples, sharing seems to be the default. Greed applies to more than just 'wealth'. Honour, fame/glory, and power are all things people that people strive for and are envious about: * https://ww
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by throw0101b 1y ago
> Sorry, why should it be noted? What is the relevance of your comment other than whataboutism? It is worth noting because nowadays the Nazis are treated as evil incarnate, and the Allied side of WW2 the side of justice, but the histor

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