empraptor

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by empraptor 4y ago
my impression of prosecutors is that they are a narcissist bunch who are in that role because tough-on-crime reputation they earn by putting ppl in prison gives them a leg up in future political career. so more publicity a case gets and le
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by empraptor 4y ago
Microsoft had preview for ARM64 Azure VMs earlier this year. Not sure if they've gone beyond that. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/now-in-preview-azure-...
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by empraptor 4y ago
virtuoso? i'd settle for ability to think and learn. i have been surprised by someone hired as senior software engineer - two levels above me - struggle to understand simple multithreading and synchronization concepts even when provi
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by empraptor 4y ago
> I've seen bike lanes added to roads, and almost no one is happy. There's always idiot drivers and bikers and every now and then someone gets hurt or killed. which is why we should allow only bikes and public transport in lar
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by empraptor 4y ago
i've always wondered why "Sent from my xxxxx" lines are tacked on. are those intended to blame poorly composed messages and typos on bad typing experience provided by mobile devices?
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by empraptor 4y ago
I don't know what the current state of thermophotovoltaics are but maybe that's one way to go about it. Or maybe the temps are too low for that. Not sure. https://www.science.org/content/article/thermal
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by empraptor 4y ago
they said odds were good, but maybe they're not much of a gambler. and sounds like they views cryptocurrencies as being something akin to scammy MLM or Ponzi scheme rather than an investment. i haven't bought any myself. i just
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by empraptor 4y ago
and this is part of why i think cryptocurrencies should have died before large number of people wasted their money on it. for the average user without the time/knowledge/patience to handle cryptos "properly", the choice
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by empraptor 4y ago
i'm not sure why people keep thinking that there is a hard limit to number of bitcoins that can be mined when the network can be updated to allow more coins to be mined.
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by empraptor 4y ago
the few ivy league graduates i've worked with were idiots with no original thought who constantly needed handholding. they were good at parroting other people's opinions & ideas and at schmoozing with the boss so maybe those
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by empraptor 4y ago
Tesla has a culture of working 21/7 and sleeping at the factory. this is just typical asshatery from a ceo who gets paid millions while jerking off at the factory 24/7 and expects his employees to put in the same hours. the soon
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by empraptor 4y ago
i wouldn't have issues with him if that's what he claimed he was doing instead of trying to pass off every engineering feat of Tesla and SpaceX as his own. but the piece of shit has made himself the stereotypical entitled executi
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by empraptor 4y ago
i've never trusted him ever since he promoted Leap Motion as some great piece of tech. and his notion that two cheap ass cameras should be sufficient to get self driving up to par with human drivers really sealed the deal. he's
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by empraptor 4y ago
report on wheat market outlook from Jan 2021 is interesting to peruse. there's certainly no one simple answer to why the price rose, but it does indicate higher consumption and lower yield overall in the world (higher yield in Russia
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by empraptor 4y ago
sounds like an episode of House.
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by empraptor 4y ago
from what i've been reading up on the subject, the thin margin that service sector businesses operate on means many failed despite government intervention and the rest raised prices in order to make profit on lower volume, higher mater
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by empraptor 4y ago
from what I understand, the increased demand was at least partly due to shift in spending from services so goods during the pandemic.
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by empraptor 5y ago
"...helped the adoption of renewables and made them cheaper." How so? Miners are chasing profit margin so they'll use whatever's cheapest. If that's renewable where some of them are, so be it. And if everyone els
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by empraptor 5y ago
makes me wonder if they loaned Tethers to their buddies (or themselves) so they can buy cryptos then "backed" the Tethers with the loans. wouldn't surprise me given the kind of unscrupulous scumbags that are often found oper
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by empraptor 5y ago
Difficulty of the work needed is lowered if it takes too long for miners to find the solution. I'm sure there is a point at which mining becomes not worth doing financially. But that may not happen anytime soon.
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by empraptor 5y ago
Might be a regulation that brokerages have to comply with? Seems like a reasonable solution if such regulation was made in order to detect insider trading.
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by empraptor 9y ago
> The article seems in a very indirect way to make argument that violent reaction to and ostracizing of people that hold opposing opinions is ok when you hold the correct opinions and not when you don’t I'm having trouble seeing how
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by empraptor 9y ago
I see the difference as there being a national economy and government closely tied to USD. Usually, central bank tries to manipulate supply and velocity of USD so it doesn't become too scarce. Because short supply of money leads to de
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by empraptor 9y ago
With stable national currencies like US dollar, there are debts, expenses, taxes, etc. that are denominated in the currency. And there is a national economy producing products and services for which people can pay with US Dollar. And fina
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by empraptor 9y ago
EDIT: I didn't consider dielectric heating ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dielectric_heating ). Seeing as how microwave ovens have 500W rating on the low end, I assume heat generated by 10W source can be dissipate
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by empraptor 9y ago
Interesting off-topic tidbit that is not meant to derail your point: You could probably send the shredded bills to a US department that examines mutilated cash and get compensated. https://www.npr.org/sections/money&#x2
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by empraptor 9y ago
A new economy that supposedly runs on a payment method that doesn't scale so have to resort to various degrees of centralization and trusted third-parties that don't deliver on the original promises of Bitcoin? I guess I don'
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by empraptor 9y ago
I don't think most of the young investors these days are participating in a new economy. They are just trading Bitcoin as commodity on exchanges. In which case if they don't get it and Warren does, that's a problem for them
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by empraptor 9y ago
I don't see the point to buying Bitcoin. I was born before 1980 (< 1 year before, but still true statement) so maybe I really don't get it, but a "currency" that doesn't have transaction speed or throughput neede
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by empraptor 10y ago
If everything else is most expensive in Norway, it seems more remarkable that Norway's single payer system spends less per capita.

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