jrek

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by jrek 3y ago
I’m not entirely unsympathetic to this line of thinking but “dessert with every meal” as an example of late capitalist degeneracy seems cartoonishly austere.
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by jrek 4y ago
The PS Vita is an apt point of comparison - a beautiful piece of hardware that performed fantastically (and in my opinion much more impressive for its time than the steam deck) - that is considered to have been a complete failure.
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by jrek 4y ago
Not at all, in the sense that if you were asked THAT question, you’d easily be able to come up with a convincing answer.
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by jrek 4y ago
Steve Jobs in a university lecture in 1991 (iirc) articulated the vision among him and his industry contemporaries of consumers using thin clients accessing data from the cloud, a reality that took two decades to really come to fruition and
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by jrek 5y ago
Whenever I make a small project I live in fear that the NYT will threaten to give me a million dollars for it.
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by jrek 5y ago
What problem is solved via a public tamper resistant ledger outside of the hypothetical? I routinely make purchases outside of a public tamper resistant ledger without issue. I’d argue that what you’ve stated is just the mechanism by which
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by jrek 5y ago
This is making a mountain out of a molehill. There's nothing to suggest any pre-conditions for deleting an account have to be removed, simply that it must be possible to "initiate deletion" from within the app.
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by jrek 5y ago
The issue I've always had with Monte Carl simulation in this context is that it takes more knowledge, expertise, time, and care to accurately perform a Monte Carlo Simulation than to prepare an accurate estimate. It's like saying
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by jrek 5y ago
The poster said "I'm legitimately quoting", which doesn't sound like an admission to me.
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by jrek 5y ago
Apple is not using PhotoDNA, but in any event - this is a good article but they misconstrued the '1 in a trillion' quote, as is canvassed in the comments for the article itself. According to apple there is a 1 in a trillion chance
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by jrek 5y ago
My understanding is that neither of the major outages in SA in recent times have been related to intermittent supply issues (i.e. the first major incident was related to trips caused by weather, the second was related to a gas using supplie
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by jrek 5y ago
I think this supports the point - in either case the syntax for the action is 'get wood'.
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by jrek 5y ago
Without re-litigating the events at Basecamp, surely you're fully aware that other people have a different view to you (i.e. that in their opinion DHH did do something wrong), and surely from that starting point it's hardly myster
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by jrek 5y ago
You have to understand - it was REAL subtle.
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by jrek 5y ago
To be far these restrictions operate in a fairly narrow domain (Developer documentation) where some restrictions on idiomatic usage are probably warranted to maximise the number of people that can fully comprehend the docs (for example not
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by jrek 5y ago
Monetary emission is already tied to the cost of consumer goods. Central banks make interest rate and reserve requirement changes that regulate growth in money supply. Those changes are aimed, in part, at achieving a price inflation target.
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by jrek 5y ago
This expands the definition of "backed by" into meaninglessness. I used to be able to trade dollars for gold and vice versa, at a fixed price, guaranteed. I can't trade bitcoin for 'math'. No-one is storing energy r
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by jrek 5y ago
"Dollars used to be backed by gold and it was still fiat money." - This is just plain wrong.
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by jrek 5y ago
Fiat is money not backed by a commodity. What commodity was it again that backs Bitcoin?
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by jrek 6y ago
The modern central banking/inflation/'debasement' conspiracy theorist is interested in a return to a gold standard - that is, paper currency that is backed by reserves of gold, as (kind of, sometimes) existed from ~1850
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by jrek 6y ago
I think you’re right on the supply side of the equation, that the profit motive applies upward pressure. But the constraint is on the demand side - if I increase or even maintain my interest rate, the number of borrowers that are able to se
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by jrek 6y ago
I'm on board with your socialist sensibilities when it comes to housing - but when the same effect is occurring throughout the entire economy the result is a depression.
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by jrek 6y ago
Growth in money supply =/= inflation. If price stability is what you want then the money supply has to increase as production increases to avoid deflation.
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by jrek 6y ago
The availability of credit is a separate question from the interest rate, and may indeed fall. Rising real interest rates directly impact borrowers and their ability to borrow, as their debt burden increases without any changes to interest
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by jrek 6y ago
The opposite actually. The Real interest rate is the nominal rate minus inflation. So negative inflation of, say, 2% pa, effectively adds 2% of real interest to any loan, since 100k of principal today will be worth ~111k in 5 years’ time.
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by jrek 6y ago
It's supported by both logic and experience. It's easy to see logically if we flip the relationship. If house prices are steadily increasing (equivalent to inflation, where my purchasing power is decreasing), I want to convert my
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by jrek 6y ago
As someone with a 2020 intel macbook air (i5) that uses it occasionally for gaming here and there, I can tell you that the reported performance in this database, if accurate, is a substantial improvement.
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by jrek 6y ago
For anyone joining the community for a recurring fee, at what point does it make sense for the members to just make a free offsite?
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by jrek 6y ago
Where does this notion that classifying phones as a 'general computing device' magically strengthens the anti-trust case against apple come from?
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by jrek 6y ago
"Consumer rights" is nebulous and meaningless in this context. No legal right is being infringed upon. It is not against the law for a private business to control its platforms, in fact its something that private businesses routin

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