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by windows_tips 8y ago
Are you saying the buyers and sellers don't cooperate? Are we expected to believe that high-value buyers wouldn't authenticate the art they buy?
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by windows_tips 8y ago
> Very few thieves ever proceeded to made some political statement (e.g. the Bonnot gang). How do you view acts such as statue toppling/removal/theft[0][1][2]? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firdos_Square
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by windows_tips 8y ago
If it's known a black market exists, but the participants are not known, then things are ripe for conspiracy theories.
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by windows_tips 8y ago
How deep into conspiracy theory territory is positing an entire secret market of buyers and sellers of stolen artifacts? Because that seems much deeper than simply stealing jewels to make a political statement.
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by windows_tips 8y ago
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-ssds,3891.html
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by windows_tips 8y ago
It would be real nice if our neighborhoods and streets were lined with edible plants. It seems like it could/would be a lot of work to maintain, but with the appropriate tools and planning it might be pretty simple. Non-edible (as far
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by windows_tips 8y ago
wtf
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by windows_tips 8y ago
It's sort of a profile of a local business.
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by windows_tips 8y ago
I don't think Twitter is analogous to yelling in a town square. It's more like talking at a bar, where others can overhear you. Twitter can of course start throwing people out, but then it turns into a clique and will probably be
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by windows_tips 8y ago
How dare someone organize protests on FB. Is the issue just that the organizers are ostensibly from another country/nation? Maybe the solution is for FB to regionize similar to the DVD industry? Posts in one region can only be seen in
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by windows_tips 8y ago
Have you tried applying to listings? https://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=cto
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by windows_tips 8y ago
>I wonder if, faced with this choice, most people would not simply become vegetarians. Probably not if they had to forage all their foods at current densities.
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by windows_tips 8y ago
That post doesn't advocate for a new model; it just points out possible deficiencies in current conceptions. >The society is a network of researchers with like interests. So, the added value is for the researchers in the network, bu
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by windows_tips 8y ago
Supposed Russian "bots" were tweeting at Merkel parody accounts?
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by windows_tips 8y ago
It's really the ultimate in gatekeeping and trolling. Culture promotes an "authority" of a journal, while the journal gets to selectively choose what to publish, while collecting fees from scientists and their institutions &a
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by windows_tips 8y ago
In what way? Organizing protests?
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by windows_tips 8y ago
Sounds like an Economist position, to focus on minimizing pay. Reminds me of the Pony Express.
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by windows_tips 8y ago
Total war, ending with a couple nukes?
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by windows_tips 8y ago
Drivers could be swapped out when the trucks are refueled or loading/unloading. There'd be no speed-up in general if speeds stay the same. >The money you'd save is by not having your truck sit idle while the driver slept.
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by windows_tips 8y ago
Is Mars tectonic? Living underground on Earth risks becoming stuck or crushed.
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by windows_tips 8y ago
A long time. With uranium, ground-fuels will last even longer. Sun's supposed to explode and consume the planet soon though.
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by windows_tips 8y ago
Isn't there a Ruby->JS transpiler?
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by windows_tips 8y ago
Do you know what a global boon it would be if I could operate a cryptomine in your bedroom?
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by windows_tips 8y ago
>A self driving truck would get to its destination faster (saving money) I think traveling faster requires quadraticly more energy though. mv^2 E = --- 2
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by windows_tips 8y ago
One could use hash signatures to detect a problem.
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by windows_tips 8y ago
curl | ... bash
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by windows_tips 8y ago
>in a way that they don't stand a chance of detecting by inspection (or of having proof of after the fact) What do you mean? They could `tee` curl output to a file (or elsewhere, for archives). They could also suspend passing the ou
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by windows_tips 8y ago
That's probably because it's often used to describe lawyers, which have a pretty notorious representation, as a whole.
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by windows_tips 8y ago
I think the original usage was fine, it just doesn't mean what some are trying to add on.
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by windows_tips 8y ago
"fundamentalist" is used as a slur by some people (c.f. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Fundamentali... ). The slur assumes things that don't exist in the word itself, so it's not obvious

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