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by toss1 4y ago
Yup, and the entire fractally meta-toxic concept of "labor is fungible, just move it offshore to where labor is cheaper", that nearly destroyed the entire set of advanced societies and still threatens to destroy democracy — that i
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by toss1 4y ago
If it is totally non-fiat, where you can buy housing, food, fuel, devices, luxury items, etc., etc., etc., you would not need to cash out to fiat. But seriously, in the current world, if we have a half-billion dollars "worth" of l
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by toss1 4y ago
YES!! If you have a deep interest and anything resembling the skills required, go for it. Perseverance is the most important characteristic. That said, Gladwell is completely FOS about the 10,000 hours — it bears repeating completely Full
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by toss1 4y ago
Is there anything to prevent a person/group from setting up a Mastadon instance with a charge to cover hosting, admin, & support costs (something like businesses charging for service on Open Source software support)? This could bo
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by toss1 4y ago
>>Attracting more students also boosts tuition income, but having 350 students in a chemistry class can tend to limit student satisfaction, which may have been a factor in the complaints. Right, so the ratio of [professors]:[students]
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by toss1 4y ago
Interesting. I also fly out/into Boston typically and have never had an issue with Lyft in either direction, and at all kinds of odd flight times, and also arranging rides for visiting friends, relatives, etc.. (I always use Lyft and
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by toss1 4y ago
>>In June, the Association of National Advertisers (ANA), a US industry group, published a blog post that estimated that ad fraud is costing US advertisers $120 billion each year. Hours after it was published, those statements were re
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by toss1 4y ago
plausibly both
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by toss1 4y ago
>>Would be best to have a vehicle bring you down each time. Indeed! Except under "Single Climb" in the rules, it is forbidden >>– Each repeat must be ridden up and down (i.e. you can’t get driven down each time). You
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by toss1 4y ago
Completely agree — thank you for the heads-up! Right up front, I wouldn't have expected this to be another sh*tware connectivity thing unless I was doing net-metering (it kinda does have to talk to the elec utility for that). My gener
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by toss1 4y ago
Sure there is all kinds of stuff out there. Seems the main point of the article was that it is being made highly impractical to build any system that allows you to get paid for it, short of using crypto, which (15 years later) still has an
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by toss1 4y ago
>>such trivial product is so hard to find. Indeed! Although it seems the point of the article is that while these are very basic measurements, building the technology to reliably provide correct readings, especially from the same boa
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by toss1 4y ago
Yup, both for me and our cat, who calmed down amazingly moving from a dense houserow on a main-ish street to a house set 50m back from a very quiet road. Almost a different personality, and almost none of the anxiety cats usually show of m
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by toss1 4y ago
another key hint: The gas is apparently still flowing out of the pipes at pressure - this can happen only if Russia is still pumping, for which the only purpose would be to spend money to create an environmental disaster - another distracti
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by toss1 4y ago
They why do Russian troops paint on the walls of Ukranian houses they trash "Who allowed you to live so well?" and steal anything they can, from washing machines to toilets. ?
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by toss1 4y ago
You are massively missing the facts that: 1) there are multiple OTHER pipelines from Russia to the EU, and NatGas can be shipped by sea (as is now being done from the US); NS1 was not the only route, and NS2 was barely online, and already G
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by toss1 4y ago
Yes, the police are definitely the wrong group, as their jurisdiction is just local or state, and almost none would have much a clue of how to proceed. However, the FBI might be very interested. While these situations may be just be a co
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by toss1 4y ago
Yes, the US is working to show strong leadership for sanctions, since the current administration fully understands the global threats to democracy posed by Russia, China, and authoritarian movements inside democracies (e.g., Hungary). The G
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by toss1 4y ago
>>Who says the US is sensitive to gas prices in Europe? The US was already somewhat sensitive to global NatGas prices even before they recently permitted exports. Since we started permitting exports of NatGas, and are now actively se
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by toss1 4y ago
Yup, at the time it was one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history. Also note that this was not a kinetic/physical attack, and this sabotage almost surely was kinetic/physical. The key factors in thinking about is so are
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by toss1 4y ago
Russia has a LOT to gain from this. 1) They are running out of time on this war of aggression, and this will force gas price action NOW, not in December. They can sell gas through other pipelines to the EU if it accepts it. 2) Norway just
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by toss1 4y ago
Russia has a motivation to kill the pipelines now, to increase gas prices now, as NS1 & NS2 are NOT the only paths to get gas to the EU. Since they are already down for "maintenance" (and we actually know some maintenance is
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by toss1 4y ago
*oops, "...+IF+ it is not constantly and actively maintained."
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by toss1 4y ago
You are certainly right, it is not constantly and actively maintained. After the Constitutional Convention in 1787, it's said that when Ben Franklin was walking out of Independence Hall, someone yelled: “Doctor, what have we got? A rep
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by toss1 4y ago
Yup, with the benefit of hindsight, it sure seems that allowing browsers to be fully programmable was a massive error. Instead of a web allowing instant browsing jumping from reference to reference, we have pages that take tens of seconds
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by toss1 4y ago
Good description of the essence of democracy and the path of it sliding into authoritarianism. In a democracy all of the institutions of government and society are relatively independent, with power spread out and relatively balanced betwee
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by toss1 4y ago
THIS! I want to know when the police agencies will start charging companies for abusing the police services. Having to engage and arrest people puts officers in harm's way every time they make a stop, and when it is literally because s
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by toss1 4y ago
Yes it's great that we can Google/DDG most stuff at a whim. And there are often many great tutorials both written and video searchable online on a lot of software. That does NOT solve the original discoverability problem. >&gt
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by toss1 4y ago
Yes, I saw that, mostly I was thinking about the new developments, and the pace of those developments - it seemed that we could easily outrun it. But, the political will seems lukewarm, at best.
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by toss1 4y ago
Well before the '08 financial crisis, I started noticing that whenever I looked at the world through the lens of science and innovation, the future looked insanely bright, but whenever I looked through the lens of politics, it looks li

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