mr_spothawk

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by mr_spothawk 8mo ago
I upvoted your comment. Also, it's a scarcity mindset. I don't agree that sibling to my comment: "make money by getting papers cited". it is not a long-term solution, much as Ad revenue is broken model for free software,
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by mr_spothawk 2y ago
> highlight that it uses ML running locally I'd love to know the specifics. if there's an installable, reproducible local build w/ regular model/updates/maintenance that I could subscribe to, I'd be an inter
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by mr_spothawk 2y ago
Relevant case: Wickard v. Filburn United States Supreme Court case Wickard v. Filburn, 317 U.S. 111, is a United States Supreme Court decision that dramatically increased the regulatory power of the federal government. It remains as one of
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by mr_spothawk 2y ago
Because you can't yet purchase electricity/internet with bitcoin (directly).
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by mr_spothawk 2y ago
here's a fun book called Land of Lisp. It'll give you a reason to work in Emacs, and you can start learning Lisp too. https://www.amazon.com/Land-Lisp-Learn-Program-Game/dp/15932... I keep a journal in O
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by mr_spothawk 3y ago
my question was whether or not those 134 had been validated. presumably, it was not the same doctor's office, 134 times.
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by mr_spothawk 3y ago
"convinced" is absolutely the word, and my reasoning is posted as a sibling to your message
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by mr_spothawk 3y ago
I can highlight text on the application switching screen (swipe up on android, press and hold over text on any of the applications in that view, you can highlight text that's otherwise not highlightable) Likewise, you can highlight tex
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by mr_spothawk 3y ago
so, was that 217 unique doctors, then? any effort by the researchers to validate the "official" documentation of shots?
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by mr_spothawk 3y ago
* a youthful 8 month old user account has entered the chats *
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by mr_spothawk 3y ago
I remain unconvinced that phone manufacturers are unable to read the screen. Username obscurity is neat for p2p privacy, but does nothing against "the cops" if you're doing something they don't want you to.
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by mr_spothawk 3y ago
I'm slowly migrating a lot of my browsing out of Safari and into LibreWolf, and using the opportunity to document accounts/passwords that i want to keep. If i were willing to get an iPhone, then i'd be quite happy with Safari
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by mr_spothawk 3y ago
Looks like electric universe to me. https://thehonestscientist.com/electric-universe/
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by mr_spothawk 4y ago
> your financial scheme It's not my financial scheme, it's the social contract.
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by mr_spothawk 4y ago
> Unless you mean digitally, but that's just "having accounts". But you must open an account with a bank, and deposit money before they can process transactions for you. There's no way to deposit money *into* bitcoin.
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by mr_spothawk 4y ago
> Does bitcoin store money? still waiting. > How is a bitcoin address meaningfully different from an account? Well, for one, it's only an address. Not a ledger. Bitcoin transactions point money at one or more address. Transaction
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by mr_spothawk 4y ago
Tell it to Rosa Parks.
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by mr_spothawk 4y ago
Banks store money, right? Does bitcoin store money? Banks have accounts, right? Does bitcoin have accounts?
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by mr_spothawk 4y ago
> You can go to jail for driving a car without a registration or license. Since when is driving a car without registration or license a felony?
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by mr_spothawk 4y ago
> I think Bitcoin functionally bears much more resemblance to a distributed bank than to distributed cash. This is likely because you don't understand what a bank is, or that you don't understand what bitcoin is, or a combinati
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by mr_spothawk 4y ago
There's no such thing as consent when you're coerced.
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by mr_spothawk 4y ago
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/bank_secrecy_act.asp > KEY TAKEAWAYS > The Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) is U.S. legislation aimed at preventing criminals from using financial institutions to hide or launder m
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by mr_spothawk 4y ago
I'm excited about the prospect of cordless, chorded keyboards
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by mr_spothawk 4y ago
And as long as I trust it, i still get dates on Tinder.
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by mr_spothawk 4y ago
TL;DR - > The regulations meant to get better mileage out of vehicles also made it easier for larger vehicles to meet fuel-efficiency standards.
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by mr_spothawk 4y ago
The startup is still around. I don't know what the social protocol here is about things like this, but hint.com is still doing its thing... getting doctors and patients directly connected.
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by mr_spothawk 4y ago
at one point i spoke to a CEO who had leased a 4-letter .com domain for 2 years for a million of dollar (i don't remember the specific amount) for their startup idea. i imagine there are businesses which facilitate these types of trans
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by mr_spothawk 4y ago
I'm over here jobbing from home on my couch (#winning) thinking about how screwed it feels that my task for the past couple days has been to send transaction details to a "webhook" so that a template email can be sent to the
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by mr_spothawk 4y ago
> I thought for a while that my memory was deteriorating not juggling multiple "jobs" but still juggling a lot. i thought perhaps my memory was/is deteriorating... perhaps this is the reason!?
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by mr_spothawk 4y ago
This seems relevant wrt Purism 14: https://www.reddit.com/r/Purism/comments/my8u2l/psa_librem_1...

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