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by tonypace 4y ago
Is it unbelievable that pressing a bar will bring you long term happiness? Surely it is, but primates will press the heroin bar. This has happened before with humans as well. You cannot simply dismiss the effectiveness of well - targeted pr
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by tonypace 4y ago
If people are looking for news on the topic, they will FB or tweet you first. That has a snowball effect.
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by tonypace 4y ago
Bitcoin institutions are objectively untrustworthy and most people involved in Bitcoin have no real choice but to rely on them. I trust, say, Citibank more than Bitfinex.
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by tonypace 4y ago
Good lord, do not hold up Frank's dad as a role model. [but you should definitely read the Wasp Factory. Wild energy beats skill, i think, and this is brimming with that]
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by tonypace 4y ago
The standard rumor is that it is largely Chinese real estate bonds from companies like Evergrande.
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by tonypace 5y ago
The link itself conflates them.
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by tonypace 5y ago
You could readily add, "We need a more nuanced discussion of the situation," as another sabotage tactic.
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by tonypace 5y ago
Milton Friedman made a good career proving you wrong with his helicopter money. Dumping cash in human hands has real effects beyond increasing the price of everything. (I agree that the parent comment is unconvincing.)
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by tonypace 5y ago
Exactly this. The ratio of equipment to staff is usually very high, the equipment is usually very old, demands are sometimes complex, and pay is governed by a formula developed for white collar workers without better options. The good ones
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by tonypace 5y ago
You have your enormous electric desalination plant, or metal smelter. It needs cheap electricity to be profitable, but there is cheap enough electricity during the day to be feasible. As a result, coal is now dirt cheap. You build a coal pl
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by tonypace 5y ago
Coal based irradiation is slow and wide. It does not have the potential to render a concentrated area semi-permanently uninhabitable. There is nothing irrational about watching a relatable peer's life investment crash to a value of zer
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by tonypace 5y ago
Large areas of the west coast facing China are reclaimed land filled with very narrow roads and aquaculture ponds. Think of the bocage country in Normandy and then fill all the central fields with water. There are really only four coastal a
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by tonypace 5y ago
They had information to trade. He has nothing. His only value is as a head on the wall.
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by tonypace 5y ago
So, all of them.
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by tonypace 5y ago
You cannot claim that GDPR is a good law, not with the galaxy-sized loophole where you can track the vast majority of people just like before, as long as your annoy them first. Better than nothing, sure, but not good.
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by tonypace 5y ago
Maybe some devs are allowed to do this. And that's why it wasn't patched.
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by tonypace 5y ago
That's what made the on-device policing effort so incomprehensible. Doing battle for privacy is their armor.
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by tonypace 5y ago
Remember the Templars. What Apple is in danger of becoming is a very wealthy Pinata that nobody feels bad for when you hit it. Developing that kind of reputation can be existentially bad for an organization.
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by tonypace 5y ago
Don't forget the totally legitimate sites selling software licences.
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by tonypace 5y ago
Nobody remembers the exact moment they stopped thinking about something because it was easier not to. Ragequitting is one way to exit a process, but just not going to the next step from distraction is surely more common.
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by tonypace 5y ago
Your original is better, he is just emphasizing the loss in modern internet English slang.
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by tonypace 5y ago
YouTube search is regressing quickly. They're losing there too.
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by tonypace 6y ago
Thorium is astoundingly slow. I've started using Sumatra for ebooks as well as PDFs. It's fast and good enough.
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by tonypace 6y ago
I thought you needed to keep the sample very dark and only illuminate it with a laser so you can see the changes in reflected wavelengths. How does a handled unit with light all around get around that?
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by tonypace 6y ago
Lubuntu is no longer on LXDE, having switched to LXQT on version 19.04. LXQT is pretty good from my perspective, minimal but intuitive.
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by tonypace 7y ago
That would be good, but it seems to take kids a few years to learn the ropes. I don't feel like older people have the patience or peer pressure. Would love to be proved wrong, though. I would have paid money to make that problem go aw
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by tonypace 7y ago
No company that has a choice is going to pay Apple their tax. That's why the MacOS sure is always going to be the same as the Windows store: a home of loser apps. Since another install procedure is available, only losers will use the a
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by tonypace 7y ago
No, probably not. There is evidence that there virus was not engineered. The spike protein is completely novel and existing techniques for finding bonding proteins do not see this virus as a good binding candidate. It is conceivable that th
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by tonypace 7y ago
Of course not, and some things would never be ported. But if they had a massive cost advantage for a year or two in data centers, a lot of things would get ported, quickly.
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by tonypace 7y ago
The standardized test organizations give briefings to teachers on the most common Hans cues for students. In order, they are differing answer length, answers that mirror the question's grammar, and the infamous letter C.

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