young_unixer

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by young_unixer 5y ago
Wouldn't it be easier to just say "current is how many electrons flow through a specific section of the wire in a second" and "voltage is the force that makes the electrons move"? It's just as easy to understan
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by young_unixer 5y ago
We have partially "free market" healthcare in other countries and it works fine. The problem with US healthcare is not that it's private, it's that it's more expensive than it has any right to be. A private system w
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by young_unixer 5y ago
KYC is already hard to deal with, I dread the day I mistakenly log into my Binance account from a US exit point, because my account could just get frozen. I prefer they keep being like this instead of things being even harder. And them doin
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by young_unixer 5y ago
Being against climate change and against carbon taxes at the same time basically boils down to "I want everyone else to work hard on solving this problem, except for me. I want to keep benefiting from the low prices that the pollution
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by young_unixer 5y ago
> Do you really think the sponsors and the people using this code actually care that one person (of many contributors to the project) who wanted to break the project is no longer part of the project? Some of them probably do. And some pr
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by young_unixer 5y ago
> Only sponsorships tied to the project itself will continue to be tied to the project Yeah, but the project is not actually the same anymore. The new project taking over the name and URL of the old project doesn't make it "the
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by young_unixer 5y ago
> By putting them on a social network, like Github, he is submitting to their whims. He doesn't have any legal right to stay on that site if they want to kick him off of it. Of course, legally speaking, Github can do whatever they w
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by young_unixer 5y ago
npm has a history of unprofessionalism and arbitrary decision-making. See the whole left-pad fiasco It wouldn't surprise me if banning the guy's account was the decision of someone at the npm team.
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by young_unixer 5y ago
> If you do bad things, you're going to get banned No, that's not what the TOS says. In the same way that being an asshole isn't illegal, doing "bad things" is not against the TOS. > This guy abused Github to
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by young_unixer 5y ago
Would it make sense to ban electric heaters? Well, mining Bitcoin is not more wasteful than an electric heater. If we assume that cryptocurrencies provide no benefits, a computer mining crypto is equivalent to an electric heater. If we assu
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by young_unixer 5y ago
The package manager could install its own version of Python, isolated from the rest of the system, so that it doesn't get in the way of the user, but repository programs know where it is and can use it.
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by young_unixer 5y ago
Which creates more problems than solutions. If the Python version that comes with your OS is not the one you want (e.g. it's outdated), then you'll have to: 1. Install the version you want anyway, and all the tools required (that
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by young_unixer 5y ago
The actual problem is that chargebacks are possible when using credit cards, and chargebacks are possible because of the legal concept of card fraud (i.e. the person holding the credentials could actually not be legally "authorized&quo
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by young_unixer 5y ago
Morally, I find it much more acceptable for governments to use non-coercitive methods like hacking instead of coercitive methods like subpoenas requesting user data.
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by young_unixer 5y ago
I would totally do this to one of my close friends and we'd have a good laugh about it, because implicitly we've allowed each other to cross that boundary. I wouldn't do it to someone with whom I don't have that level of
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by young_unixer 5y ago
> the government can knock down your door and gently rubber hose Yes, but that requires more effort than just saying "hey bank, freeze that guy's account" or saying "Hey central bank, just print money like there'
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by young_unixer 5y ago
If it's a keygen, just run it in a VM.
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by young_unixer 5y ago
> It's not clear what bitcoin is providing It's pretty clear: 1. A way to store value without it being stolen by governments. 2. A secure way to pay without the fees and limitations that banks and governments impose on us. 3. A
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by young_unixer 5y ago
Or even if the parents don't make the choices for them, they could have not appropriately informed their kid about how bad sugar is. As a kid, I did have the choice but I didn't have the knowledge. Had I been informed about how ha
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by young_unixer 5y ago
Lots of landings are done on autopilot.
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by young_unixer 5y ago
The problem with fact-checking is usually not the fact-checking. The problem is giving a label as simple as "true", "false", "misleading" to some assertation that can be more complex than that.
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by young_unixer 5y ago
Because blocking ads in a city would require coercion. Blocking ads in my browser doesn't.
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by young_unixer 5y ago
My first thought was: how hard to do you have to strum it for that to happen?
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by young_unixer 5y ago
> That worked out pretty bad for him I don't think so. He was incarcerated for unrelated reasons.
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by young_unixer 5y ago
(also applies to dollars)
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by young_unixer 5y ago
I don't think the Unix philosophy makes too much sense for things other than CLI commands, and even there, I'm not 100% convinced.
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by young_unixer 5y ago
There's an old chinese proverb that goes: "Not your keys, not your coins"
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by young_unixer 5y ago
If you think this is a problem, then cryptocurrency speculation is just not for you. When you get into cryptocurrency speculation, you know there's not a lot of regulation, and that's the beauty of it. You get what you're pay
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by young_unixer 5y ago
That's right. We should get rid of the social safety net.
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by young_unixer 5y ago
When I was beggining to learn game programming, I tried really hard to like SDL, but I just couldn't. The official documentation [1] is just an API reference. There's no official tutorial or getting started guide that gives enough

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