Lifelarper

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by Lifelarper 4y ago
In an industry notorious for jobhopping what leverage do you actually think these well compensated employees have? There's a horde of people willing to replace them if they wish to take an ideological stance and quit. They can always s
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by Lifelarper 4y ago
What do you think the financial standing is of a company that since 2015 has taken bitcoins and given people tokens valued at the current btc/usd price? They are essentially taking shorts on bitcoin over the last 7 years.
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by Lifelarper 4y ago
SD cards are horrendous for long term storage. Probably the worst medium for such a task.
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by Lifelarper 5y ago
So hypothetically as a western activist at risk of govt coercion you'd trust Cisco more? Statistically, you very likely own a Chinese manufactured router while using it to tell others here not to do the same.
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by Lifelarper 5y ago
> there is no way to easily self host images When you run lxd init there's an option to make the server available over the network (default: No), if enabled you can host images from there. lxc remote add myimageserver images.
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by Lifelarper 5y ago
Many gold mines across the planet reopen and shutter solely based on price. If gold doubles, supply dramatically ramps up. Same with most commodities.
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by Lifelarper 5y ago
There's an old darknet wives tale about a certain person who did very much the same thing but kept the significant bitcoin downpayment.
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by Lifelarper 5y ago
The UK has far more vaccinated people testing positive even when normalised for population and based on per 100k rates. See the latest Covid-19 vaccination surveillance report. Table 6, page 23. https://www.gov.uk/government
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by Lifelarper 5y ago
What rotten tomatoes considers the "best films of all time" is laughable across the spectrum. Some gems from the top 10: 4. Black Panther 6. Parasite 7. Avengers: Endgame 9. Knives Out 10. Us Its surely just coincidence that the h
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by Lifelarper 5y ago
> sensible reasons of why The last few weeks have had some extreme rhetoric coming out of the US, claiming that Europe is about to be invaded by Russia, so extreme that even Euro allies find it a stretch. Maybe this doesn't make the
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by Lifelarper 5y ago
I find it hard to believe the small non-paying contingent is unique to the US or even a significant % of daily patients, plenty of other countries have homeless who end up in ED's. America somehow spends far more than any other countr
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by Lifelarper 5y ago
https://users.rust-lang.org/t/name-squatting-on-the-crates-i... This a very old discussion if you keep digging through the links.
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by Lifelarper 5y ago
> I’m not sure if it’s by bots or real persons The bot usage is a significant amount of the low level noise, I've published things of no use to anyone and they always rack up a lot of dl's despite no one practically using them
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by Lifelarper 5y ago
> Twitter is public I'd highly suggest you logout of twitter and try instead using it in private mode in a browser manually navigating. Bonus points for trying on mobile. I remember trying to explain to a store that I couldn't
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by Lifelarper 5y ago
Honestly quite cheap. I go sort of tinfoil about why these billions of drugmoney is allowed to pass on the internet these days, if those uber specialists put their mind to this they could surely stop all the badness in the world, surely.
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by Lifelarper 5y ago
> all the computers Maybe those machines that don't even spin up a fan with 400 npm dependencies, but billions of of low end embedded devices pumped out annually. Call me a sceptic but I think the lightcrypto contest is actually s
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by Lifelarper 5y ago
pdf and print newspaper is still a massive pain in the ass to OCR accurately
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by Lifelarper 5y ago
Venezuela, once one of the richest coutries on Earth with more oil than Saudi Arabia thought this way too. Turned out great for them. By all metrics they should be Western Europe level rich and yet many young kids find it more profitable to
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by Lifelarper 5y ago
Excellent advice. Though I'd posit that simply making it legal closes down plenty of avenues for someone coming to harm from use, especially younger people.