zaik

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by zaik 6d ago
He should be awarded the FIFA Environment Protection prize.
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by zaik 6d ago
It's part of nixpkgs so I tried it out. I killed the process when it started writing something big to my disk. Why is it doing that?
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by zaik 6d ago
Yes, I do know people who voted for the party that pushes things like this in my country.
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by zaik 11d ago
Hopefully I'm looking at the right thing, but it looks like market expections are that you will get more USD per EUR in the future: https://www.cmegroup.com/markets/fx/g10/euro-fx.quotes.html
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by zaik 18d ago
The world's finest philosophers are working on a definition.
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by zaik 26d ago
Who charges their buddy 15 USD exchange fees on 100 USD? :(
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by zaik 28d ago
There will be shenanigans with the definition of a token to save on tax.
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by zaik 1mo ago
I think the authors of SMTP had a healthy attitude towards server uptimes: Retries continue until the message is transmitted or the sender gives up; the give-up time generally needs to be at least 4-5 days. https://da
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by zaik 1mo ago
My first guess got 3 green+2 gray. Should have undone immediately.
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by zaik 1mo ago
> energy to assess the correctness and relevance of such "results". The author claims to have a proof in Lean. Checking the correctness of the result is now reduced to checking the definition of the constant.
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by zaik 1mo ago
Which is surprising since XMPP allows you to hide your global address in public rooms and Matrix doesn't (unless they fixed it by now?).
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by zaik 1mo ago
> mess of what server/client supports If you allow for independent implementations of the protocol this will always happen. Also, inventing another non-standard protocol creates even more incompatibility between clients and servers.
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by zaik 1mo ago
Other nodes cannot make you host arbitrary content you did not request yourself.
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Paul Atkins misreads Adam Smith and the American founding(sites.duke.edu)
72 points by zaik 1mo ago|13 comments
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by zaik 1mo ago
> No encryption, no headers, no sessions. Pure simplicity. AI smell?
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by zaik 1mo ago
> move to a shack in the woods That's what gemini:// is for.
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by zaik 1mo ago
From the same article: > The overall prevalence of SA [suicide attempts] in our aggregate sample was .8%. These figures approached the prevalence of SA in Americans aged 18–39 (1.0%) and in the general population of adults over 18 (.6%).
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by zaik 2mo ago
But what about relative power? US GDP / #votes in last presidential election = 208608 USD You must indeed have a big wallet if you perceive it to be more powerful than your vote. Only a small percentage of people spend that much in a y
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by zaik 2mo ago
> easy to use without a google account I'm doing that and I had to get a second phone with a Google account just for banking and government apps. Not exactly easy I would say.
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by zaik 2mo ago
The EU shows that regular voting is also an option.
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by zaik 2mo ago
I never heard of this. Do we know somebody who was killed this way?
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by zaik 2mo ago
OSM is interested in pictures, even of bookcases: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:image The only difficulty is data than can not be easily represented in key=value pairs, such as timetables for buses. But even
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by zaik 2mo ago
Have you considered making OSM itself the submission mechanism? This could be as simple as having a static guide on how to add bookcases to OSM. Your app could also act as an OSM editor specifically for bookcases (not a general one).
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by zaik 2mo ago
How many deaths because of anti-vaccine sentiment? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_measles_outbreak_in_the_P...
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by zaik 2mo ago
It's an effect of walled gardens that the communication method is conflated with the app. But people understand well that Outlook and Thunderbird is both just email. I think this analogy helps when explaining XMPP.
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by zaik 2mo ago
> Developers who insert bugs I knew it was the developers!
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by zaik 2mo ago
I have achieved nothing this year, and yet I have had a lot more success than Mr. Musk in the "human lives saved" category by not gutting USAID. With reasonable estimates on the weight of this category I'm quite confident to
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by zaik 2mo ago
> unknown to most Europeans Good opportunity to learn!
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by zaik 2mo ago
Is clicking and double clicking some kind of voting system?
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by zaik 2mo ago
Why exactly should someone acknowledge their unhappiness but then do nothing about it?

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