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by IAmEveryone 4y ago
I wonder what Musk would say about the idea of limiting Tweets instead of banning them. Oh, wait! New Twitter policy is freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach. Negative/hate tweets will be max deboosted & demonetized, s
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by IAmEveryone 4y ago
Yea, „those people“ making provincial governments go into debt for… toy-based theme parks? Musk be terrible.
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by IAmEveryone 4y ago
> has this happened with blockchain yet? I'm not seeing it. It's a unique situation in that hype is easily and definitely measurable: market cap. You would arguably need to subtract any use for real-world applications, i. e. th
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by IAmEveryone 4y ago
Note that page view data is also available at https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org&plat... (I didn't see this linked in the post. Apologies if I missed it)
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by IAmEveryone 4y ago
I am thinking about wearing a Dutch flag when abroad to avoid being considered a German. And I am German.
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by IAmEveryone 4y ago
People spend more than 23 hours per day in RL, making me doubt the blame that "cyberspace dwarfs" it.
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by IAmEveryone 4y ago
That was always stupid and there were always demonstrations of said stupidity. It’s one of those snarky contrarian takes people repeat ad nauseam. See also: correlation and causation.
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by IAmEveryone 4y ago
This excellent comeback currently being downvoted is quite a testament to this weird turn against California in the tech community. It seems too sudden and drastic to be just the result of the general ascend of the alt-right in the sector s
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by IAmEveryone 4y ago
So… A recession may turn out to be bad for an economy? I know economics is called the “dismal science” but this seems to undercut even low standards. More specifically on the article’s thesis: yes, California’s tax revenue may be more sensi
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by IAmEveryone 4y ago
For Saudi Arabia, it seems they didn’t nationalize anything but demanded 50 % of profits, which is not too far off from being considered a tax. They then bought the other 50 % decades later. For Sri Lanka, it seems it wasn’t oil production
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by IAmEveryone 4y ago
You could try adding an elaborate backstory and run it as a cult. Traditionally, violence was also useful to get people to work for free. If you’re really good, the first round of violence makes the mere threat of it effective for subsequen
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by IAmEveryone 4y ago
Being triggered by the use of the word "dirty" for fission reactors, in comparison with fusion reactors no less, is far more telling than the use of the word. It creates radioactive waste. Creating waste is dirty. The promise of f
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by IAmEveryone 4y ago
We have an unbroken timeline of tree rings that goes back a few millennia.
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by IAmEveryone 4y ago
It doesn't require anal sex, it requires prolonged skin-on-skin contact. The factor that makes gay men overrepresented among the current cases is likely to be the number of different sex partners, plus possibly a higher rate of detecti
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by IAmEveryone 4y ago
I say this is the most deranged take on this possible, but then again, humanity tends to surprise me. Who is "the government" in this case? What power do they have over this person? The power to stop them from saving money? How is
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by IAmEveryone 4y ago
Survivorship bias is less of a factor than commonly assumed. If you check, for example, this map showing the age of buildings in Berlin ( https://interaktiv.morgenpost.de/so-alt-wohnt-berlin/ ), you will note that it is
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by IAmEveryone 4y ago
Great recommendation, indeed. There are quite a few misspellings, but more often than not, it feels like a running record of humanity. „petrosexual“ is certainly a Word I didn’t know I needed to know.
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by IAmEveryone 4y ago
The difference is marginal at best. Most of the requirements are obvious and never/rarely change, like your address or the date. And adding a an incrementing number to a set of documents isn't exactly rocket science, either.
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by IAmEveryone 4y ago
I was in student accommodation recently and noticed that it didn't have any reading lights at either desks or beds, neither as part of the standard finishing nor added by the students, at least in for the two or three rooms I saw.
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by IAmEveryone 4y ago
A common definition, which happens to better capture my idea of what tether is doing (wrong), is that a bank transforms short-term deposits into long(er)-term loans.
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by IAmEveryone 4y ago
I hate the whole cryptocurrency thing more than most people, but tether may just not be a scam, at least in the legal sense. Holding their reserves in something other than cash is the way they can make money. The community will consider it
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by IAmEveryone 4y ago
Indeed; darkness means dilated pupils means shallow depth-of-field means your eyes need to work a lot more to keep text in focus.
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by IAmEveryone 4y ago
What kind of illoyal loser would denounce their wife in public, offer to “trade” her like some property, all over some completely meaningless bullshit cliché complaint about their choices of style?
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by IAmEveryone 4y ago
I don't quite understand how these traders are "making matters worse" by using the defining characteristic of a "stablecoin". If anything is making matters worse, it would seem to be the "reaction" of halt
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by IAmEveryone 4y ago
I have some doubts that any significant amount of cryptomining is actually done in Siberia. Part of that would include a few questions of the definition of “Siberia”, a deep examination (i. e. a suggestion to google) people’s ideas of the w
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by IAmEveryone 4y ago
There are people reading this forum who earn mid 6-figure incomes in Silicon Valley. There are others that are first-year students at, say, Nigerian universities (median income $ 800). $ 150 can mean an hour of work or 1 1/2 months.
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by IAmEveryone 4y ago
Or, more commonly, „virtue signaling“. Which is bullshit, of course. They are giving up doing business in a rather large country. It’s certainly not free.
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Two judges gave Texas control over Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube(vox.com)
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by IAmEveryone 4y ago
Just to make it explicit: the woah-effect of the idea is that the firm, a concept rather central to our experience of capitalism, contradicts a (common conception of a) central idea of capitalism, namely that competition assures efficiency.
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by IAmEveryone 4y ago
I think what’s worst is how boring he is in all these shenanigans. Peter Thiel invents a method to sue your business out of existence. Evil, yes, but also smart. Musk? Calls people he doesn’t like pedophiles. Like some schoolchild, or Rep

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