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by jcbrand 23d ago
Looks like I might have been wrong about Dino, sorry about that. I worked on adding OMEMO2 support to Converse.js via libomemo.js and I tested it against Kaidan.
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by jcbrand 23d ago
FWIW Converse.js and Dino also support the latest OMEMO.
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by jcbrand 29d ago
Generally speaking, if demand stays high, and existing suppliers don't increase supply, the high prices create an incentive and opportunity for new market entrants to increase the supply.
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by jcbrand 2mo ago
I love my OnePlus 9 pro phone. What would be a good replacement?
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by jcbrand 3mo ago
"War department" is the older name, not "Defense department". Also, is it really a defense department when you're starting wars of aggression every 15 years or so?
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by jcbrand 7mo ago
I still use perplexity. Which tool is better currently?
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by jcbrand 8mo ago
It's not capitalism that requires infinite growth, it's our current monetary system. New money is created by lending it into existence, with interest. That last bit is key. In order to pay off the interest, you need money, which w
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by jcbrand 1y ago
The Austrian school does not dominate academia, not even close. Even the Wikipedia article you linked to says it's a heterodox school, meaning it's not mainstream. Academia is dominated by Keynesianism.
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by jcbrand 1y ago
I used Lit components in a large FE project, enjoyed doing so and am happy with my choice. I don't use the shadow DOM at all. The project is Converse.js, an XMPP chat client. It's an old project that was originally created back in
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by jcbrand 1y ago
Being able to hold on to wealth is an underestimated and undervalued ability. It's actually pretty easy to lose money. Everybody is happy to help you part with yours.
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by jcbrand 1y ago
Your website is very clever, I like it, but unfortunately Google has classified it as a dangerous site with a phishing risk, which I think is understandable because you're effectively pretending to be Google.
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by jcbrand 1y ago
For junior developers in developing countries this can still be a worthwhile salary.
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Converse 11: A Major Leap Forward for XMPP Webchat(opkode.com)
7 points by jcbrand 1y ago|0 comments
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by jcbrand 2y ago
I'd also like to know, I love the look.
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by jcbrand 2y ago
Taking a sabbatical and spending more time on an open source XMPP web client that I started 10 years ago already. https://conversejs.org The website is a bit old, but lots of exciting changes are happening under the hood and I f
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by jcbrand 2y ago
South Africa does have wealth distribution policies in the form of requiring all companies that do business with the state or which need licences (like mines or telecoms) to have a minimum number of black ownership and black employees. Sout
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by jcbrand 2y ago
The first vowel tells you from which country it comes. Grey is UK English, so think "e" for England. Gray is American English, so think "a" for America.
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by jcbrand 2y ago
Yes, there was a spike in suicides after Goethe published his first novel Die Leiden des Jungen Werthers (The Sorrows of Young Werther). https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/04/22/the-werther-effect...
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by jcbrand 2y ago
I worked for two years full-time on a consumer-facing product that was canned less than 6 months after launch. Spending a month on a useless pipeline doesn't seem that bad to me.
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by jcbrand 3y ago
The US gets paid by the "exorbitant privilege" of having the global reserve currency. That was the deal since the second world war.
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by jcbrand 3y ago
> they all seem somewhat casually cruel to one another So you're saying it's the same as just about any other sitcom? Besides joking at one another's expense, a super common trope in US sitcoms is the lie to avoid embarras
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by jcbrand 3y ago
VAT isn't charged on goods exported outside of the EU, so it has nothing to do with the US except for the fact that the US isn't part of the EU.
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by jcbrand 3y ago
> Go to low-income neighbourhoods, where incomes are closer to those in Europe, and you’ll find tax-inclusive pricing This is a pretty funny but largely ignorant dig at Europeans. Every country I've ever been to except the US includ
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by jcbrand 3y ago
It's possible to make record profits one year and a loss the next if you don't react early enough to trends.
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by jcbrand 3y ago
"Defund the police" is a large attack on an institution that's not coming from the GOP. It's unfortunate that people immediately blame the other side in a knee-jerk reaction.
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by jcbrand 4y ago
As a bank, you can't easily liquidate them without that showing up as a huge loss, thereby affecting your reserve requirements and potentially making you insolvent. If you don't have to sell them and can keep them to maturity, the
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by jcbrand 4y ago
> The rest by design is to be lent out, that's how banks offer loans, mortgages etc. When banks lend out money, they don't lend out existing deposits, they create new (debt-based) money from nothing and this new money is fracti
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by jcbrand 4y ago
Every single man-made institution devolves into corruption. Capitalism isn't the outlier here.
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by jcbrand 4y ago
> And this is exactly why "tripping" is heavily frowned upon by serious meditators and spiritual practitioners. This is needlessly judgmental. I know life-long meditators, 30+ of years disciplined practice who sometimes take ps
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by jcbrand 4y ago
Fascinating how nowadays people are excusing clearly unethical (and sometimes criminal) behavior and instead decide to blame it on something nebulous such as the "system". While it might be true that Joe felt pressure to lie due t

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