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by xondono 5y ago
Why would you want a house to last 1000 years? 150 year houses are already a PITA to adapt to modern standards.
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by xondono 5y ago
Like most things, it’s a reputation ladder. There’s top channels like LTT and if what you are looking for is out of their niche, you look for the biggest channels in that niche and go mostly by association (who they have made collaborations
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by xondono 5y ago
Long term vs short term. Long term they’ll be worth more, but short term prices will go down. No one sees prices really go down because that could trigger another ‘08 style collapse. Banks are less leveraged, but there’s a lot of people wit
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by xondono 5y ago
> This isn't some grand conspiracy to increase homelessness and increase the cost of housing. The problem is that we elect idiots to local government. There’s a bit of both, but it’s not a conspiracy. Most cities have this problem (
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by xondono 5y ago
There’s a lot of good quality reviews on YT on launch date of pretty much anything these days. It’s not a problem of doing the review, it’s that there’s not much of a market for written reviews, most people would rather watch a video instea
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by xondono 5y ago
A lot of processors around you are still 16 and 32 bits. I’ve hit the overflow a lot too. > At the end of the day, code is for people, so keep it easy for people. This is a dangerous heuristic, because people here means exclusively d
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by xondono 5y ago
> The ecological problem is, in my opinion, what should lead the conversation. I don’t because it’s a very weak argument. You could conceivably run all crypto on renewables and excess energy. The fact that the main purpose of the network
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by xondono 5y ago
> I'm of the opinion that the pseudonymous nature of public blockchains is very beneficial to society. Have you tried to “steelman” this? Because I don’t think it will pass basic scrutiny. The same companies and governments you want
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by xondono 5y ago
This. There’s a “mind-virus” doing the rounds on the crypto space, the idea that scarce = valuable.
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by xondono 5y ago
Why? We are talking about a specific case. Don’t get me wrong, I love generality, but it’s clear that the trees don’t let you see the forest here. Sellers were as greedy before the price rise, so greed is not the cause. The difference here
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by xondono 5y ago
So your theory is that sellers weren’t greedy before?
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> It's a productive activity [..] It’s a profitable activity. There’s a difference there.
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by xondono 5y ago
And what's to blame for the tulips high price? A broken fiat monetary system. The reason why tulips are so successful and anti-fragile is that they can be grown everywhere. By the way, if an activity like mining is only profitable beca
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by xondono 5y ago
The point was to realize precisely that some problems might have analytical solutions, but they would take too long. If you’re solving problems on pen and paper nowadays, you’re most likely looking for an approximate answer anyway. Maybe I
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by xondono 5y ago
Because that waste is tiny and controllable. All energy sources are dangerous, the toxic waste from making the batteries required for solar + wind only is no joke.
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by xondono 5y ago
I had a professor that intentionally baked hard (for the course takers anyway) mathematics into some problems, that were technically solvable during an exam, but that required very good level (they typically included rare/obscure ide
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by xondono 5y ago
You might want to look into whatever you are using to render LaTeX, because it doesn’t work on iOS. I’ve had zero problems with Mathjax so far.
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by xondono 5y ago
Relative truth is more dangerous for planning. I don’t plan to exit my apartment through the window because I know there’s no relative truth of what will happen.
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by xondono 5y ago
It might be an honest mistake. The definition of “minority” is one of those things that is very fluid lately.
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by xondono 5y ago
It depends a lot on you module. My laptop now has very spotty wifi (at some point it refuses to work and I have to restart the services).
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by xondono 5y ago
I knew, but somehow it feels different. With SCC I spent whole afternoons chasing links, reading and learning. I don’t get that with substack.
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by xondono 5y ago
I miss SSC so much
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by xondono 5y ago
I was thinking in investment terms, if you think everything is great, you’ll be out of money soon.
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by xondono 5y ago
That would be a hard thing to achieve, given that we are talking about unnamed, unidentifiable groups. What GP meant about Spain being similar to GoT, is that there’s a lot of shifting alliances and moving pieces in the background. You migh
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by xondono 5y ago
> Isn’t this a bit much? This seems very baited and/or flame-war inducing. And yet I think it’s pretty obvious journalism is not about truth anymore. Gawker might be dead, but the Gawker style of “journalism” is well alive. You don’
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by xondono 5y ago
> Just... publish your article, let actual news sites disseminate it, and do things the old fashioned way Have you been to a newsroom lately? If it isn’t on twitter, it’s not getting published.
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by xondono 5y ago
They sued both Facebook and the fact checker.
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by xondono 5y ago
I still prefer the “everything is crap” machine to the “everything is great” machine. Corollary: the only thing worse than a naysayer is a fanboy.
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by xondono 5y ago
I think the Arch installation is the best way to understand the basic plumbing behind a linux distro.
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by xondono 5y ago
At which point this outages are a sign that something inside AWS is deeply broken and pretty much unfixable?

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