hokus

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by hokus 7y ago
> Cities have high property prices because they are extremely desirable. There is scarcity which mean those selling can reduce the set of candidates by pumping up the prices. Its a simple mechanic, not a very sophisticated approach... &g
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by hokus 7y ago
I've always considered the internet (in its current form) to be histories biggest book burning event. Hoarding rss feeds I often reached a point around 35 000 subs where the number of new ones I find is roughly equal to the deleted web
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by hokus 7y ago
Its not my area of expertise but.... There are so many corrupt non-profits to which one can make tax deductible donations. Would it be possible to reform/tweak/hack the [existing] donations to help their bottom line? I bet someone
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by hokus 7y ago
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1436
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by hokus 7y ago
this is something between a joke and a thought experiment. function cason(x){ switch(x[0]){ case "movie": switch(x[1]) { case "name" : return "Interstellar"; case "yea
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by hokus 7y ago
yes, to the point that [say] 10% of the rentals are empty.
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by hokus 7y ago
> Can you clarify what problem you are trying to solve with this proposal? Say we live in a town where we make all the decisions and our word is law. Our imaginary town needs 2 garbage men, one to pick up the bags, one to drive the truc
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by hokus 7y ago
Its really simple. We should tax property AND rent to the point where it becomes unprofitable to hoard it for purposes of unproductive wealth extraction. Then change all rent contracts into lease-buy contracts. You would accumulate a good p
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by hokus 7y ago
Your thoughts are clear and interesting. It appears we've always had a ratio of 1, 2a and 2b with some collapses or perhaps even more illusive is the [slow] migration. Like paper gold, man-made diamonds or the private entity stops acti
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by hokus 7y ago
There is this joke where you greet someone on the street by raising your hand to them in front of your face so that they cant see who you are.
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by hokus 7y ago
I didn't read the text but have a special approach for this type of writing: You click on user contributions, if/since there are to many talk page entries filter down to article space. https://en.wikipedia.org/w&#x
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by hokus 7y ago
Its not about me but about the system as a whole of course. Likewise, it isn't about you. You are not the one paying for everything, we all do. If we optimize for lack of purchase power there will only be economy of scale for necessiti
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by hokus 7y ago
could make it build opml files by crawling the links for titles and feeds.
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by hokus 7y ago
On irc complexity is a feature.
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by hokus 7y ago
This was when people still had face to face exchanges by making sounds and gestures usually while sharing liquids. Making a friend was a big deal back then.
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by hokus 7y ago
here you go https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1R5G5hTC7pc next quest
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by hokus 7y ago
"oh our precious search deal" Where was the free and open source distributed search engine? "oh we cant support any protocol or any other technology! We don't want to be promoting anything! Unless we get paid of course!&
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by hokus 7y ago
https://jsfiddle.net/gaby_de_wilde/ye95zcao/29/
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by hokus 7y ago
there are 3 parties: the end user searching for the content the webmaster or author of the content the search provider If I'm searching for something that I know exists and I cant find it there is no excuse. The search provider failed
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by hokus 7y ago
The postal service can send a box with say 10 * 6 TB hdd quite fast. Say 2 days for delivery. 480 000 000 000 000 bits / 86400 sec = 5555.56 mbit/s And you can send as many boxes as you like in parallel.
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by hokus 8y ago
Its nice to see the multinationals agree 30% is a decent taxation level.
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by hokus 8y ago
Great stuff, I started doing this in 2006 but manually. I made an unofficial google toolbar for Opera[1] that (in the unreleased final version lol) also loaded the images from the search pages when one hovered over the toolbar icons. It too
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by hokus 8y ago
I recommend this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfGMYdalClU
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by hokus 8y ago
Ah yes, the Petersonian masculinity without muscles.
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by hokus 8y ago
haha, I looked at twitter for 5 min after it launched, I laughed really hard and closed the page. The thought process was something like "Oh, they've maximized unusability! I should now go and learn how to have a normal conversati
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by hokus 8y ago
> Most of the time they're so off the mark that I don't watch them. I owned a book one time that had such a bad ending I didn't read it.
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by hokus 8y ago
DIY = bad Employable skill = bad Travel = bad Family = bad activism = bad traditional news media = good entertainment = good video games = really really good
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by hokus 8y ago
The video makes the argument that long haul truck driving is the job killing people most effectively. Besides fatal accidents the lack of physical activity is reducing life span. 69% type 2 obesity, 17% type 3 obesity and 27% get < 6 hou
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by hokus 8y ago
wait, does that mean we should package other things in fruit and vegitable skins? I guess a hamburger in a coconut shell would work just fine. Squeezing ketchup out of a lemon will probably take a bit more getting used to but ice cream wrap
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by hokus 8y ago
"human understanding" can wrap it self around very complex things. What I see is an endless repetition of: Lets rip out English and use Dutch from now on! Some time later: Laten we stoppen met Nederlands en op Chinees overstappen.

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