mbar84

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by mbar84 1mo ago
> But a struggling economy, questionable planning for many years now, the "educated middle class" he mentioned in the post shrinking don't bode well for it. Indeed. I left the country recently for this and many other reaso
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by mbar84 1y ago
> I want you, I want you, I want some of you What about what I want? What if I don't want what you want? What if my criteria for a recipe is perfectly well served by an AI and I don't want your project to be my project. Time is
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by mbar84 1y ago
> I never look for any type of tax dodge. If you're engaging in philanthropy, dodging taxes is perfectly justified. The main thing to look out for is whether or not you are using the money better than the government would, which isn
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by mbar84 1y ago
Would be good for Tesla's reputation if they would upload/mirror the crash data to a neutral third party. Then the police and plaintiff could get it from there without any allegations of withholding data.
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by mbar84 1y ago
I've heard this expressed as existence versus life. Nobody owes it to to give up their life for the life of another, let alone if all that can be hoped for is the mere existence of another.
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by mbar84 1y ago
The connection between sludge and distrust in government is worth emphasizing. The narrow minded and short term focus on metrics leads people in the managerial class to lose sight of reputational damage. Dehumanizing treatment may lose a co
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by mbar84 1y ago
If you receive btc in a transaction, the question is, when you consider it to be settled. In other words, how much energy is enough for you to consider it infeasible for an attacker to rewrite recent blocks so that you no longer are the rec
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by mbar84 1y ago
That wasn't the reason to restrict block size. There is no way to scale the number of transactions on the main layer to anywhere near the level required to cover daily transactions. The bitcoin main layer was always destined to be for
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by mbar84 1y ago
Lex non cogit ad impossibilia. - The law cannot compel the impossible. A judicial system populated by people who don't understand what's possible is a real issue.
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by mbar84 1y ago
I hope the only valid use for WhatsApp becomes giving people a link to your Signal.
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by mbar84 1y ago
I really like how well the node editor preserves the path as much as possible when adding or removing nodes, apparently adjusting adjacent nodes to minimize distortion.
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by mbar84 1y ago
Why would you give your product a quite specific name that's exactly the same as another product? "Core 2 Duo" immediately brings an Intel CPU to mind and will probably make it harder to search for anything related to the wat
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by mbar84 2y ago
One definite UX improvement over the past 25 years have been command menus. In the most simple implementation, press Ctrl+P start typing to filter a list of commands down and hit enter.
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by mbar84 2y ago
None of this is settled economic theory. Even just the conclusion in the second sentence is highly debatable. Capital investments are a market and it is completely plausible that they will clear like any other with a fixed money supply, jus
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by mbar84 2y ago
The pricing on these products is frustrating. To even try out the Phind-405B model I have to pay $20 and then I get unlimited queries which I never asked for? For a product I don't even know if I'll ever use again, give me usage b
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by mbar84 2y ago
I wonder if this sets up a moral hazard that only exacerbates a possibly coming crash. People assume the Fed will prevent assets from dropping, which makes them bid up asset prices to even higher levels that even the Fed is incapable of mai
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by mbar84 2y ago
I doubt many people are making purchasing decisions based on Intel branding. Any kind of speed advantage has not been a dominant factor in the minds of most low information/brand influenceable consumers who are buying x86 machines. Eve
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by mbar84 2y ago
Was he really that wrong? Isn't a bond just another debt instrument? It's not obvious to me, that there is any fundamental difference between the operations that both comments describe.
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by mbar84 2y ago
For some, it's an ethical imperative. The government is at best wasteful, often what it does with resources is harmful. If you can make sure resources are kept in private hands and used for further capital accumulation then we'll
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by mbar84 2y ago
It would be really nice if there were a battery technology that could charge 100 miles in a few minutes, even if that meant you would be constantly charging on longer trips.
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by mbar84 3y ago
Perhaps something for your list: https://mbarkhau.github.io/asciigrid
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by mbar84 3y ago
Possession is not illegal anymore. My understanding is, that police now cannot use mere possession as a pretense for searches of your car or home. If true, this is great progress from a civil liberties perspective.
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by mbar84 3y ago
Do you know which of these would be best suited to customization? I'd like to create a linux live distro only run a single application.
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by mbar84 3y ago
I have a microwave with two knobs: power and time. Both controls are haptic and I imagine the circuitry is the same as what might have been built in the '60s. It's perfectly fine.
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by mbar84 3y ago
It's not as if crypto has a particularly good reputation or the scammy nature of crypto is a secret. I wonder if your former friend has the same kind of personality that just as well would have deluded themselves into thinking they ha
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by mbar84 3y ago
I wish they would even just have standardised on a colour coding or label system or something, so people could find out what a cable supports.
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by mbar84 3y ago
I have one USB-C cable that I know can be used to charge my laptop. I can't grab any old USB-C cable and use it to charge from my the exact same power brick. I have other cables from USB-C to Display-Port and I know only of one that do
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by mbar84 3y ago
I'm trying to think how I would ideally set up such a system. The person traveling is in the best position to determine the most cost effective way to travel. Ideally you could somehow determine or negotiate ahead of time what travel e
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by mbar84 3y ago
I'd love it if the old man were Isaac Asimov.
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by mbar84 3y ago
My hypothesis about open source is that it's all about tax evasion. I can write some software for others to use, not charge them anything and thus no tax liability is generated. If they do the same, we've generated value for each

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