trompetenaccoun

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by trompetenaccoun 2y ago
>Because they bought it. When someone gets tricked in a shell game, is it fine because they voluntarily bought into it? Would you legalize such schemes? Of course any scam (short of outright extortion and robbery) relies on the victim to
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by trompetenaccoun 2y ago
To be fair, Cape Town has better climate and is extremely beautiful. Tourists generally like it, I can see why someone would have a nice impression without knowing much about what's behind the facade. It could be paradise if not for th
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by trompetenaccoun 2y ago
Are they going to replace all the tiles before it can relaunch? And what about the engine nozzles? They must be taking quite the beating. No doubt SpaceX has very smart people working on this and I'm not an expert in material science,
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by trompetenaccoun 2y ago
I still remember when we could not even flush the toilet because CT ran out of water and there were fights breaking out at public water pumps. Then came the electricity crisis and constant blackouts which South Africa has only just gotten o
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by trompetenaccoun 2y ago
The news is about SpaceX sharing the launch date for the 6th Starship test flight. Musk is not even mentioned in the announcement.
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by trompetenaccoun 2y ago
And that's why South Africa is the way it is. I recommend living there for a bit, might be an eye opener for some Westerners.
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by trompetenaccoun 2y ago
>I'm just going to choose peace today As an alternative to what? I don't understand how the first part of the comment is connected to the rest.
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by trompetenaccoun 2y ago
There other inaccuracies. To give just one example: >One of the key differences between the Japanese and Chinese rice cooker is that the latter has a glass lid, which Chinese cooks demanded so they could see when to add sausage. The aver
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by trompetenaccoun 2y ago
True. I'm talking about private bank books, the kind of "electronic money" regular people use, which I assume is what the comment above referred to. Since only financial institutions have access to central bank accounts.
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by trompetenaccoun 2y ago
Excuse the nerdy nitpick, I get the point but technically as far as "actual" money goes that's the coins. Electronic entries in bank ledgers are not legal tender. One can of course go further and question if banknotes and coi
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by trompetenaccoun 2y ago
Our digital memory shouldn't be in the hands of a small number of organizations in my view. You're right about cost effectiveness. There are pros and cons to both but it's not just external threats that have to be considered.
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by trompetenaccoun 2y ago
Yes, it's a good point. Though they could take that money and reward people for hosting the data as well, couldn't they? They don't have to be in charge of hosting.
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by trompetenaccoun 2y ago
The legal side is a big issue, true. The simplest and best workaround that I'm aware of is how the Arweave network handles it. They leave it up to the individual what parts of the data they want to host, but they're financially in
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by trompetenaccoun 2y ago
So they had "better understanding" of the problem as the other user put it, but their software was still flawed and needed fixing. That's my point. This happened two weeks ago btw: https://www.msn.com/en-in&#x
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by trompetenaccoun 2y ago
>Test drivers for AV companies get advanced driver training, need to filed detailed reports about the cars response to various driving scenarios, and generally are paid to be as attentive as possible. Like this one, who ran over and kill
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by trompetenaccoun 2y ago
All their sensors didn't prevent them from crashing into stationary object. You'd think that would be the absolute easiest to avoid, especially with both radar and lidar on board. Accidents like that show the training data and sof
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by trompetenaccoun 2y ago
We need archives built on decentralized storage. Don't get me wrong, I really like and support the work Internet Archive is doing, but preserving history is too important to entrust it solely to singular entities, which means singular
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by trompetenaccoun 2y ago
Why would they lie about it then? These museums are subsidized by tax payers, not only just local money but often with additional EU funding as well. The scans were paid for by the public. This seems comically evil for no apparent reason.
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by trompetenaccoun 2y ago
The current top comment in this thread recommends AR glasses from a Beijing-based company which has indirect Chinese state involvement (through Alibaba). So yeah...
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by trompetenaccoun 2y ago
I fly a lot (though not in the US) and have never seen that. Would personally boycott airlines where I notice cameras in the back seats, wtf!
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by trompetenaccoun 2y ago
Gensler met with FTX fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried and had a secret zoom call with him as the press later found out. FTX always advertised how they were "regulated". Yet despite not even having proper book-keeping¹, they were never
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by trompetenaccoun 2y ago
Hong Kong island was ceded to the British in perpetuity. The 99 years lease of the New Territories (not Hong Kong, technically) was an additional unequal treaty that the Qing were forced into on top of it, after they also had to give up Kow
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by trompetenaccoun 2y ago
>"Look how you all leaped up to refute me. Even though I'm the supposed 'dolphin expert' here, that hardly matters, since you all assume that any expert can still be wrong! No matter how prestigious his credentials, n
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by trompetenaccoun 2y ago
I'll just leave this here. Real clip from Kuwaiti TV: https://www.memri.org/tv/kuwaiti-preacher-nabil-al-awadi-war...
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by trompetenaccoun 2y ago
The idea that people in e.g. Asia don't tend to consider outside viewpoints as much as Americans is so absurd I'm not even sure what to say. If anything it's the opposite, but Westerners are too full of themselves to notice.
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by trompetenaccoun 2y ago
He's an expert in dolphin cognition, he's said so himself. Also notice the "Ph.D." he put after his name? Don't look up what that's in though, else you might wonder what astronomy and electrical engineering hav
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by trompetenaccoun 2y ago
"Rule of law" isn't a thing in much of the world. Not understanding is one thing but what's with the arrogance of many living in more stable economies? In a place like Nigeria, holding funds in self custody as USD-pegged
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by trompetenaccoun 2y ago
"UNESCO advocates for access to information as a fundamental freedom and a key pillar in building inclusive knowledge societies" https://www.unesco.org/en/right-information *But only for rich people in first
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by trompetenaccoun 2y ago
You shouldn't take advice from people who don't even know how to spell the names of the networks they're lecturing about. Blockchain has become a buzzword like you mentioned, everyone has an opinion, even people who don'
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by trompetenaccoun 2y ago
That isn't generally true, what real world autocratic regime do you have experience with? You can have less government theft than in more democratic countries, because favorable economic conditions are one way of buying compliance. Tak

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