dsomers

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by dsomers 2mo ago
Yes you do. I elected my European member of parliament, and I elected my EU councillor. The elected EU councillors select the commissioner, a bureaucrat, and the elected parliament can block anything the commission puts to a vote. That’s tw
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by dsomers 3y ago
> Shitty country How rude. They were economically shattered by being occupied by the USSR for decades. Lay off.
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by dsomers 3y ago
That’s still on the GP and the general public health policy of Australia. If I go to my GP with a cold here in the Netherlands, there is a snowball’s chance in hell that I get prescribed antibiotics.
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by dsomers 3y ago
It’s from his butt. Which makes it just as valid as how everyone else does estimates.
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by dsomers 3y ago
I for one have built enough Linux kernels from scratch, and patched enough Linux drivers into working — thanks, so no one can call me an average Joe when it comes to tech. However, I mostly left all of that behind outside of work years ago,
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by dsomers 3y ago
Exactly
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by dsomers 3y ago
> Maybe, but the latest Fed action violates a 40-year downtrend in interest rates, so it was exceptionally improbable from a historical perspective. imo this is very flawed thinking, a once in a 40 year event is almost 100% likely to hap
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by dsomers 3y ago
> 4. The old treasuries decline 30-40% in present value. Oops, they're not so safe after all if you need your money back before maturity, which is often decades away. This is because they fucked up their duration risk handling, no o
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by dsomers 4y ago
Okay, name one?
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by dsomers 4y ago
Being back 1:1 is different from being redeemable.
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by dsomers 4y ago
> As little as a birth certificate? I get what you’re getting at, but in Canada birth certificates from the 80s had a wallet sized version that had no more information than a drivers license, but it didn’t even have a photo on it. It was
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by dsomers 4y ago
Exactly this. As late as the 2001 I could cross into the US from Canada with as little as my birth certificate, which I often did. That was just a cotton blended paper with tattered edges with some writing, and the crest of my province prin
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by dsomers 4y ago
Come on, I 100% realize that jetpacks will probably always be impractical/unsafe. Although, I think there’s a lot of allure in the same way that there is for motorcycles. I imagine you would get this sense of free flying, like a bird —
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by dsomers 4y ago
Funny you say that, I just opened Safari, no ads.
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by dsomers 4y ago
Can you give evidence of a developed country where that’s the case? Because I grew up right on the Canadian/US border, I have family and friends on both sides. It’s really easy for me to see why Canadians live longer than Americans. Po
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by dsomers 4y ago
> “macro-optimism but micro-pessimism” This is an interesting idea, I have I feeling I know the what they’re getting at, but if you have any examples of how they put that into practice I’d love to hear it.
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by dsomers 4y ago
They call them y’all qaeda for a reason.
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by dsomers 4y ago
IIRC the book ‘Common Sense on Mutual Funds’ has data going that far back with charts. I believe the period from the start of the 20th century until the 70s had similar inflation adjusted returns. However, for the early data I think it was
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by dsomers 4y ago
> A soldered SSD is especially bad because broken laptop = lost data. I never broke a laptop but I think that was just my luck. When it will happen, I want to be able to recover data from the computer. Please reconsider your backup strat
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by dsomers 4y ago
To be honest, I live a two minutes walk from my grocery store and I’ve used these services a few times. Sometimes with discount codes they’re been cheaper than my grocery store, but we all know that’s just setting VC money on fire for custo
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by dsomers 4y ago
If I recall correctly, the stock market _only_ lost 90% of its value during the crash that proceeded the Great Depression.
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by dsomers 4y ago
Hi, I’m curious, can you tell me about the most promising storage technology being rolled out now?
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by dsomers 5y ago
> destroyed Libya I guess you seem to forget the civil war that was happening before NATO got there. The one the was so atrocious that not even China or Russia vetoed it when the proposal of interfering was voted on at the UN. This is no
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by dsomers 5y ago
I don’t think google maps info was ever close to 100% reliable anywhere. Once in midtown Toronto there was a giant hole where google maps said a bank was, they where building a condo there. I thought I’d be helpful and submit a correction t
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by dsomers 5y ago
I know you’re going to disagree with this using some silly rationalization, I won’t respond to after this because it fundamentally sounds like you don’t believe is Ukraine’s right to self determination and you think that they should be boun
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by dsomers 5y ago
I like the idea here, but it does not seem to support the Apple Pencil feature for handwriting to text when I try to write in text fields, which is a bit of a deal breaker for me. I hope you can fix that because I do like most everything el
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by dsomers 5y ago
And the majority of Europe is still ahead of the US, so what’s your point?
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by dsomers 5y ago
What an absolute joke. The United States has terrible class mobility compared to the Netherlands or Germany for example. You don’t have anything to support what you said other than a skewed perspective created by American centric media. Edi
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by dsomers 5y ago
>You're pulling this hypothetical figure out of thin air, it may as well be one in a hundred or one in a trillion. I agree, but it’s just as had waving when I say maybe it’s low chance that there are false positives, as it is when y
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by dsomers 5y ago
> There are types of hashes that aren’t for finding exact matches. My thesis in school way back when was building something for image near-duplicate detection using a sort of hash made out of the image features detected. The output of a

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