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by trog 3y ago
> When it reaches user experience parity with the dollar then it comes down to the true fundamentals of the currency and I suspect that bitcoin wins out. So far the only way this even comes close to happening is by wrapping centralised s
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The USN might also say they knew, without actually knowing, just to exaggerate the claims of their capabilities. I take everything any country says about stuff like this with massive grains of salt - if they're not providing the inform
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Interesting, thanks - I assume on EC2 you were running your own database servers? (Just based on the fact that you don't mention RDS.) This would keep costs down significantly in most cases although I assume they get transferred into s
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I'm an Australian, but I lived in the UK from 2016 to 2018. I was able to vote in UK elections (including Brexit) despite not being a citizen, because I'm part of the Commonwealth.
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This is very unusual in my experience, except in cases where the on-prem was either massively over-provisioned or the customer was getting absolutely gouged on pricing at the DC or IP transit or whatever. Do you recall what the big savings
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> Turkey's situation was discussed in the article, I highly recommend reading it. Oh yep sorry I should have noted that as well - I just thought NPR's (slightly) deep(er) dive was also interesting & worth a read as a bit m
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NPR's Planet Money Indicator podcast just did an episode[1] of this topic as it relates to Turkey, where the big cheese decided that in fact, no, high interest rates don't fix inflation, and that it was low interest rates that fix
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Applying Hanlon's Razor here: I do not believe the Australian government wants inflation. I believe they are generally incompetent, not malevolent. They are too scared to do anything and risk losing the next election, despite the fact
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> if there's gonna be waste, i don't want my tax dollars to be wasted. I don't care if private dollars are wasted, since it's not me taking the hit. Well, it depends on what it is - if it's a service that you con
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> You obviously have not been around non-profit, government run entities. The waste they create, the inefficiency inherent in such enterprises is terrifying. I have been wondering recently about the value of a market-based approach has
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Won't someone think of the people that need to make those LinkedIn slide posts?!
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People
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Not sure how to read that guide, but would an F5 filter out smoke well?
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co2.click also worth a look: https://www.co2.click/
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This is just confirmation bias though - what matters is the percentage of hacked WordPress sites. It's probably not as high as you think.
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I remember when I got my first Windows Mobile device and I was showing civilians and the most common response was "why do you want to get email on your phone?" When the iPhone came out, I heard the same thing - people couldn'
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Alternate viewpoint: I keep several WordPress sites online, mostly for testing & experimentation. They are all configured to auto-update. They have a mix of a small number of plugins - mostly high reputation ones. They sit there and wor
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This is hilarious and people modding you down have missed the joke.
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I worked on that game! Started at Auran about three months before it shipped. Fun times.
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I mean, you can do MVC in PHP if you want. I used perl long before I used PHP so the $annotation never bothered me. I personally like mixing frontend and backend. I get why it's anathema to some, but there are simply tons of use cases
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> You could follow something like this: https://learn.svelte.dev/tutorial/welcome-to-svelte I think if you are, like me, someone who for various reasons never followed the JavaScript ecosystem for various reasons o
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> I am sorry but I have such an aversion against the attitude of "we use xy because of historic reasons but hey actually it is really good because the design pattern that has proven crucial over the last 50 years imo is just overhea
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I ignored the requirements page entirely, downloaded it as a zip file into my existing (PHP-based) web server, unzipped it, and it basically worked immediately. I think this would be the case for anyone else running a relatively modern exis
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> Installing in this case means copying files to your web server. In PHP land, once you have the web server set up with the basics, this is just such a nice easy way to deploy software. I actually run Kanboard on the same server as my W
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After reading the Wikipedia summary, "The Sheep Look Up" sounds too real
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> Yes, and if you have the time/patience to let the cooker naturally cool, all the flavors stay in the pot instead of evaporating. Can you expand on this? I have a combo slow/pressure cooker and the few times I've used it
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> Totally agree. Online shopping is only going to get worse: more expensive, less quality, harder to return. On the other hand, brick and mortar places are going to have less variety, and lower quality What I am hoping might change thing
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> Affluence is not always privilege. It can be hard earned. But once you're affluent, you're almost by definition privileged, surely?
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> What percentage are entrepreneurs and what percentage are people with mental health problems and or drug addiction? Never really met anyone that described themselves as an 'entrepreneur' that actually was one though. Lots of
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> A non biased article would've mentioned how much Bitcoin mining accounts for the total energy used in US. And that would've been compared to the energy used in other industries. Take videogames for example. Just that datum w

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