ardy42

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by ardy42 6y ago
> I'm not sure how that demonstrates QAnon members are not generally trapped in right-wing echo chambers. Are yoga practitioners exempt from right-wing echo chambers? I suppose a significant number of yoga teachers/influencers
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by ardy42 6y ago
> I believe it is reasonable to speculate that QAnon members are generally trapped in extreme, right-wing echo chambers. Echo chambers enable people to retain undeserved credibility. That's not true, for instance: https:/&#x2F
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by ardy42 6y ago
> How long would it take you to establish enough credibility to be able to make an accusation like that and have people actually take your word for it? Keep this in mind: Q is literally some dude on 4chan/8chan with a tripcode. >
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by ardy42 6y ago
> misinformation is combat with MORE discussion, not less! The problem with that idea is that it takes more effort to debunk a lie than to tell one. It also takes more effort to absorb a debunking than a lie. That's why disinfor
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by ardy42 6y ago
> It's political censorship disguised at fact checking. If they were really concerned about "fake news", they would apply the same standards to the other side. Remember how just a couple years ago almost all of the major m
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by ardy42 6y ago
But if there are 34 billion tethers, $18 million is like a rounding error.
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by ardy42 6y ago
The difficulty is that so much infrastructure has been built around the assumption of car use, and that will be very expensive and take a long time to redesign and replace.
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Surely there must a technical trail to investigate. The probably is, but I'm guessing the really definitive records would probably require a subpoena to obtain (e.g. business records of the domain registrar or hosting company).
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by ardy42 6y ago
> It‘s a pretty strong case for Len to be Satoshi, admittedly. And it would explain the mysterious silence from Satoshi Nakamoto - he's dead. I think it's pretty likely that the person (or people) who went by Satoshi is dead, a
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by ardy42 6y ago
Were there any scientific utility to these payloads, or were they added in order to create some spacecraft porn? How much did the equipment for this weigh? IIRC, a downward facing camera is useful for precisely locating the landing locatio
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Per their press conference today, in the Q&A section. https://youtu.be/gYQwuYZbA6o?t=4025 What was the model? The recording was garbled, and all I could hear was "...we're using a commercial computer, an
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Griddy is simply an energy provider you can choose to hedge your bets and save money if you are smart. Plenty of people using it shut off their power or switched providers when they were informed of the incoming price surge. That some
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by ardy42 6y ago
> This article seems to suggest the answer is a fully automated smart home, with some kind of AI to intelligently manage your power usage. Sounds awesome, but I don't think that's ever going to be a reality outside the valley.
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by ardy42 6y ago
> That's kind of what I'm saying. Rich people making their own dream cities is probably as old as rich people and cities. Ig I could see an explosion of home automation tech giving more people a reason to try, though Not all ri
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by ardy42 6y ago
> They dont really seem too, though. Theres a lot of examples of rich people building towns even in these comments. Is there any evidence tech moguls do it any more frequently? The OP didn't really establish it (e.g. take an invento
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by ardy42 6y ago
> What a strange thing to pin on tech. Company towns have existed forever, to the point of having laws made about how they can function. The idea of building a utopian city doesn't need to be a brand new thing for tech moguls to hav
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by ardy42 6y ago
>> No. It's time to push back on Bitcoin. >> It is disgraceful to watch people such as Elon Musk and most of the VCs put money ahead of the environment. > I am sorry you did not buy it when it was cheaper. No need to hat
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Agreed. Surprised there are so many Bitcoin lovers on HN and in the startup scene, which is supposed to consist of smarter-than-average people. Bitcoin is basically shitty gold, because unlike gold, it has no intrinsic value and can go
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by ardy42 6y ago
> The argument for gold is that it isn't 100% a speculative investment. According to Wikipedia( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold ) 50% of gold's use case is in making jewelry and 10% is used for industry.
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by ardy42 6y ago
> China gains no benefit from destroying Bitcoin; they can just continue to let it exist and tax all the Bitcoin miners in China, generating revenue for themselves and their citizens and continuing to be a thorn in the side of dollar heg
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Life will be so much better after we erase our history so we can repeat it. So you're saying the way to prevent a repeat of the holocaust is to setup awards and honors in the name of Adolph Hitler?
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by ardy42 6y ago
> It's interesting if you want to support 50B people on Earth, but the resources required to build it out mean it isn't really even a viable solution for restoring farmland to wildland without massive amounts of mining. Also it
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by ardy42 6y ago
> I'm surprised there aren't more independent apps geared towards maximizing earning for drivers. Like it can't be that hard to create an artificial surge price if there's enough coordination between most regular driv
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by ardy42 6y ago
> - They are loud That really depends. This one seems pretty quiet: https://youtu.be/rGM8Y6yal-8?t=337 , but buckling spring keyboards are obnoxiously loud (IIRC from my childhood). > - The keys are massive and ugly T
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by ardy42 6y ago
> IID/BAIIDs that gets installed in vehicles are often installed to protect other peoples life, not your own. Yeah, but that's just an example. If you were about to make a suicide attempt, you could be involuntarily committed,
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by ardy42 6y ago
>> Who decides that someone is a responsible and healthy adult? > You do. It's not up to someone to decide, you're responsible for your own body and your own decisions to improve/harm it. That's obviously not th
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by ardy42 6y ago
>> control over whatever open source projects they target. > but if they rewrite the project in rust, why _shouldn't_ they control that project? If other people choose to switch, then it's not wrong for them to move, and
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Opioids are insanely and instantly addictive. I accidentally became addicted after knee surgery. Is that true generally, or just for a subset of people who have some predisposition to addiction? While it could just be Purdue Pharma pro
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Do wholesale prices directly translate to consumer prices? I don't think they do where I live, because the rates are regulated and the power company needs permission to raise them.
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by ardy42 6y ago
> 900/Mwh is 90c per kwh, national average is about 14. Higher cost states are around 20c with Hawaii near 30c. And IIRC, electricity in Hawaii is so expensive because they generate most of it with diesel.

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