ObscureMind

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by ObscureMind 1y ago
This is the Windows 7 version of MacOS
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by ObscureMind 1y ago
The expiration date should be 0 seconds after it's signed.
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by ObscureMind 2y ago
This seems less like a genuine discussion and more like an emotional appeal bundled with a series of accusations. Laws are challenged in court all the time—that's part of the process, not proof of wrongdoing. As for government workers,
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by ObscureMind 2y ago
You're walking down the street with a billionaire. A thief approaches, but only robs you. Would your complaint be that the billionaire should have been robbed too? Taxation is coercion. Instead of resenting those who manage to keep mor
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by ObscureMind 2y ago
I would acknowledge that the Tea Act itself did not introduce new taxes, but instead retained an existing tax from the Townshend Acts. The real concern for many colonists was the principle of being taxed at all by a distant government. The
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by ObscureMind 2y ago
While it's true that cryptocurrencies rely on electricity and infrastructure, this doesn’t inherently tie them to government control or the state in the same way as traditional fiat systems. Cryptocurrencies, by design, function on dec
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by ObscureMind 2y ago
If every government worldwide were to forget about or ban cryptocurrencies entirely, they would still persist. Governments, in this case, offer nothing essential to the functioning of cryptocurrencies. Cryptos are essentially just digital n
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by ObscureMind 2y ago
The American Revolution was partly sparked by the "Tea Act" of 1773, which imposed taxes on tea without colonial representation. The colonists saw this as unjust. Fast forward to today, and many people seem to accept high taxes on
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by ObscureMind 2y ago
cd /Applications && xattr -d com.apple.provenance "Zen Browser.app"/ && xattr -d com.apple.quarantine "Zen Browser.app"/
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by ObscureMind 2y ago
https://github.com/mikker/wezterm-icon
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by ObscureMind 2y ago
I stopped trusting Amazon a long time ago. They've been canceling plenty of hardware devices, and on the top of it Prime is not even worth it anymore.
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by ObscureMind 3y ago
protip: if you use freemium spotify in the browser with an adblock you won't be bugged with ads
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by ObscureMind 3y ago
Along the lines of building a full computer out of discrete logic parts, slu4 created the Minimal 64, described in his Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@slu467
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by ObscureMind 7y ago
Think for a second and you'll reach the conclusion that currency monopolies (meaning: you can only use a given currency in a "country"), taxation and populism (a side-effect of democracy) are interlinked. As for the "wha
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by ObscureMind 7y ago
Is the state's army economically funded by a contract established voluntarily? Can you start a private army to compete (not meaning fight it, but to provide the same services) with the state's army ? If you have to pay for it (you
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by ObscureMind 7y ago
> That said, we have zero chance of fixing our corrupt political system We do have a chance. It's not going to be long until a critical mass of individuals understand that democracy is a system that legitimizes coercion, and that ta
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by ObscureMind 7y ago
... Wealth redistribution is essentially theft, no matter how much you like it Start Blaming America's Poverty for the size of its government.
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by ObscureMind 7y ago
Just to make sure we understand something here: Taxation is robbery. If you want companies and individuals to pay taxes, you're defending a state that is unethical (as taxation forces people to give away their private property through
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by ObscureMind 7y ago
How is that having journalists reviewing the work of other journalists won't lead to corporatism?
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by ObscureMind 8y ago
The article talks about morals, which by themselves are based on values and beliefs, therefore not defensible ethically and logically. Meritocracy is not ethically defensible under argumentative logic -- Hans Herman Hoppe has provided the f
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by ObscureMind 8y ago
HackRF one can be purchased for $100 nowadays: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/HackRF-One-1MHz-to-6GHz-SDR-... Is it worth paying $380 more to have a better ADC and a few more bells and whistles in the BladeRF micro?
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by ObscureMind 8y ago
The authors also provide a reimplementation of dplyr in Python that integrates well with plotnine: https://github.com/has2k1/plydata
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by ObscureMind 8y ago
Check plotnine, which is a decent reimplementation of ggplot2 in python: https://plotnine.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
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by ObscureMind 8y ago
It doesn't seem to work very well... Gpython 3.4.0 running in your browser with gopherjs >>> x=[1,2,3] >>> x [1, 2, 3] >>> [ v**2 for v in x ] [USER]: runtime error: invalid memory address or ni
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by ObscureMind 8y ago
> I think they are right but they really have no proof that they avoided the IPO pop discount. They actually opened trading at $165.90 and closed at $149.01. Incorrect. They opened at $120, jumped to $165 then dropped to $149.
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by ObscureMind 11y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4_FvK59WN8