mandibles

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by mandibles 2y ago
The book is called Daylight Robbery: How Tax Shaped Our Past and Will Change Our Future https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43805741-daylight-robber...
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by mandibles 2y ago
Daylight Robbery [1] [1]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43805741-daylight-robber...
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by mandibles 2y ago
Taxes Rule Everything Around Me
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by mandibles 2y ago
Schools are the place most people experience physical violence in their entire lives.
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by mandibles 2y ago
Most hardware shops don't understand that the software is also the product.
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by mandibles 2y ago
Any links to good third-party apps?
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by mandibles 2y ago
Are there any projects working on open protocols for digital audio distribution? Any chance manufacturers opt into open protocols?
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by mandibles 2y ago
The conflict is so intense because the stakes are so low.
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by mandibles 2y ago
This is the correct interpretation.
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by mandibles 2y ago
Only a true Texan can tell you the difference between "y'all" and "all y'all".
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by mandibles 2y ago
The quiet part is that you will not be able to spend on those necessities when your politics no longer align with the regime. Total control over money is a guaranteed path to totalitarianism.
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by mandibles 2y ago
Who is "you"?
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by mandibles 2y ago
Protocols > platforms. Nostr will win long-term because it is a protocol.
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by mandibles 2y ago
The best solution to a societal gambling problem is genuine economic growth. Debt fueled "stimulus" mostly finds its way into the hands of the well-connected. Inflation hurts the poor the most, increasing the severity of an alread
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by mandibles 2y ago
The LLM never goes on strike.
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by mandibles 2y ago
Blame inflation. If money maintained stable value over the long term, companies could honestly make promises about "lifetime" pricing. These promises were probably made during the "low 2%" inflation of the past, but basi
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by mandibles 2y ago
Marketplaces need a vendor rating and product ratings. When leaving a review, the form could have sections on shipping separate from the product.
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by mandibles 2y ago
Ah, the days when the Internet was fun.
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by mandibles 2y ago
No matter the situation, in America the lawyers always win.
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by mandibles 2y ago
Standard Oil had already lost a huge portion of its market share when the forced breakup finally happened.
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by mandibles 2y ago
Neural networks often have trigonometric functions internally, so it would be massively more computation than necessary. If you have a few spare CPU cycles, a hybrid approximation could start with a sparse lookup table of values as the init
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by mandibles 2y ago
Now we're all part of the discovery :tada:
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by mandibles 2y ago
Have you checked out the L402[0] protocol? It's basically using the HTTP 402: Payment Required status code and serving up a Lightning Network payment invoice. Edit to add: it basically solves all of the caveat issues you identified. [0
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by mandibles 2y ago
Rest in peace to one of the true greats. My favorite line from Downtown Abby: "What's a week end?"
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by mandibles 2y ago
Open source is a purely voluntary system. So it's not socialist, which requires state coercion to force people to "share."
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by mandibles 2y ago
If cash were invented today, it would be illegal.
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by mandibles 2y ago
Don't forget the internal data pipeline to the security state apparatus in the various FB operating jurisdictions.
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by mandibles 2y ago
> figure out how to actually provide healthcare to people who meed it But what if the proposed solution costs lots of people their jobs?
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by mandibles 2y ago
This is a broader sentiment that can be applied to just about any open source ecosystem. Sometimes the technical debt and legacy install base of an existing project is too great to overcome. Sometimes people want to build a library that dup
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by mandibles 2y ago
Seems like Ireland should have to pay the EU

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