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by throwaway167 3y ago
Central bank digital currencies where the currency can be spent only on certain goods, and can be set to expire.
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by throwaway167 3y ago
I changed width to 700px (from a computed 519.x), increased font size to 1.4rem, line height to 2.2rem, background color to #16212f (a bit darker) and text colour to #efefef. But I do prefer lighter backgrounds, and would reverse it - light
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Salt and salary: Were Roman soldiers paid in salt? (2017)(kiwihellenist.blogspot.com)
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by throwaway167 3y ago
Critical theory? I feel an analysis of power structures - what they are, how they come about - is a pretty useful arrow to the bow of the study of a society (as in, any collection of people, not exclusive to a nation, etc). But I draw an an
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by throwaway167 3y ago
It's still sadly fashionable in engineering circles to bash social science without reason. Please list objections objectively * . '* Was Kant a social scientist? Perhaps. Odd trivia: his work reversed the notion of subjectivism an
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by throwaway167 3y ago
Income's circular. Airline related employees etc would have less. While others get the substitution. But where's the net increase?
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by throwaway167 3y ago
And nor will those 60 minutes take you through all of Europe. You seem overly focused on London.
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by throwaway167 3y ago
nano
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by throwaway167 3y ago
Everyone's doing when I was 16 . When I was 16 I read magazines about computers I couldn't afford, read Pascal code from a book that I wrote out in hand with pencil as I only had 2 hours time with a classroom computer each week,
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by throwaway167 3y ago
I get some Electron hate, but... my 9 year old laptop, a 2nd gen i5 running, albeit with 4G RAM, can handle quite a few Electron apps. At the same time as Gnome, Postgres, the Java hunk that is Jabref, some python apps, Thunderbird and Fire
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by throwaway167 3y ago
manager-tools.com had loads on this. If starting, just be honest about not having done them before and why you're committed to them. Also, the article touches on goals: always cascade your goals as fyis this is what you've got set
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by throwaway167 3y ago
Sir Humphrey, you're an expert on autonomous submarines, too. How hadn't I guessed.
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by throwaway167 3y ago
> Internet Explorer 5, for Mac So it wasn't a Mac as in Apple, perhaps, but a user stuck on IE5 called Mac?
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by throwaway167 3y ago
30% of the code but 80% of the time I touched UI.
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by throwaway167 3y ago
So, like Slashdot meta moderation? That was often a lot of fun, getting exposed to some of /. I'd not usually see, and some not, consistent with the experiences mentioned in the article.
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by throwaway167 3y ago
I mainly drive downhill on the way to work. Then when finishing work, the earth has rotated a full 180°.
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by throwaway167 3y ago
mastodon.social averages 1.5 visit per second? 3500000/30/24/60/60. That seems low.
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by throwaway167 3y ago
And requiring a job a tradegy.
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by throwaway167 3y ago
Did someone get an invite to the metaverse five years too late? A screen is not 'real life', abstractions exist, like street lights and road signs being an example, ordinance survey maps, etc. Idle thumbs burn Rome.
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by throwaway167 3y ago
Laugh not. I've been there. Not a H1B but a work visa in another country. PhD yes, worse, lapsed but threw it around, better, business setting. My 'way out' was to stay on and keep building good terms with his boss's equ
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by throwaway167 3y ago
That's really interesting. I could serve a whole site purely via DNS.
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by throwaway167 3y ago
Hence towers with dishes on the outside. Long perplexed why they had canvas stretched across, and didn't point up: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave#/media/File%3AFraz...
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by throwaway167 3y ago
It's a creator of wealth also from a capitalist perspective. When you get something for free you can spend your money on other things. It's only not a creator of wealth for merchantilist software companies that peddle something wi
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by throwaway167 3y ago
What of Mohism? [1] The philosophy (religion) that's inconvenient for holders of power who have preferred to use, quite mutually exclusive use - one displacing the other, the philosophies (religions) Daoism or Confucianism to justify t
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by throwaway167 3y ago
I do not make fish. I put my fishing rod and bait in the river, and I get a fish. But I still say I'm a fisherman.
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by throwaway167 3y ago
30 million people's not tiny. Plus，in terms of places people around the world can approximately place on a map, I'd imagine it scores reasonably well.
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by throwaway167 3y ago
+s for: GitHub (influence). Reddit (despite spez, it has a handful more years). YouTube (remaining video king). Signal and Tiktok if apps are allowed.
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by throwaway167 3y ago
I don't see any newspaper sites there, and I can't make a strong case for a newspaper now. For all the pleading to save journalism to content walls that do nothing but self silo and isolate their voice, I feel big newspaper journa
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by throwaway167 3y ago
I quite liked jobs that I was qualified for. But then I became too qualified and too experienced.
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by throwaway167 3y ago
Perhaps they sought to hide it so those that sought to renege couldn't, making it a forever obligation.

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