butMyside

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by butMyside 5y ago
Let’s hope the vulnerability isn’t injected into all the deps your OS pulls down to run the VM Physics informs us a perfectly secure system is impossible. We need to socially accept it rather than make ourselves paranoid.
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by butMyside 5y ago
Using the same environmental concern logic, the carbon footprint of traditional banking, which still hauls around, protects, and produces real currency, plastic cards, and financing for every other destructive activity… rather dwarfs Bitcoi
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by butMyside 5y ago
Since it’s just math in a machine and we have the math written down all over, what would be losing of long term value to the human species? I have made a lot of money thanks to SV, but it’s not what puts food on my table; people where I liv
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by butMyside 5y ago
Good news; when the economy implodes there will be no financial costs, but you’ll have skills. 5% of the public hunts. My guess is, should society collapse, there will be plenty of work cleaning up the bodies as millions go nuts in shock an
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by butMyside 5y ago
So it is: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/25/technology/apple-google-s... I mean the politicians are in on it, and turn against them when their ability to control elections for their own purposes comes i
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by butMyside 5y ago
What if there are no layers and you can’t think outside hierarchy? There’s no reason for anyone else to take your view as sacrosanct since many many many apps and services are working just fine without ORMs. You might accomplish something i
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by butMyside 5y ago
Domain squatting, and all the security effort of protecting now worthless code IP, meta data analysis for private use, profit being funneled to fewer and fewer people are all outcomes of web 1 & 2 Take off the rose colored glasses; it’s
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by butMyside 5y ago
No, human behavior enables things like the Laffer curve to be defined and held up like a shiny bauble by a politically motivated half-wit. Laffer has never had and never will have anything to do with pre-existing human behavior itself. He n
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by butMyside 5y ago
The Laffer curve doesn’t dictate anything, laws do. We don’t need to take every math object as a physical truth. Laffer especially should be seen a political tool more than an economist.
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by butMyside 5y ago
Taken out of its context to prove a point on a web forum and I would agree Lots of people negotiated these things and agreed to make commerce happen. Novel to you does not mean novel to humanity.
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by butMyside 5y ago
Both sides of the aristocracy only care about hypocrisy on Main Street: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/02/us/politics/elaine-chao-c... While I get the sentiment, western working hours are the lowes