nicoffeine

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by nicoffeine 3y ago
I thought I read that this is where they deploy new changes first. Can anyone confirm?
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by nicoffeine 5y ago
> I do not understand why designers are so insistent on making tools so difficult and unpleasant to use. Because they need something to pad their resume. In fact, most of the things that are wrong with software today are for the same r
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by nicoffeine 5y ago
If you had read the entirety of that article, you wouldn't have posted it as an example.
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by nicoffeine 5y ago
Every public figure has been called names. It comes with the territory and usually it's not worth mentioning. It's part of the deal and shouldn't be surprising to anyone who has decided to step into the public square. Some pe
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by nicoffeine 5y ago
How are the complicit media organized? Is there a secret WhatsApp thread going on between the hundreds of media organizations? Who runs the organization? How do they keep it a secret?
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by nicoffeine 5y ago
The guidance from the CDC has been relatively clear: closures depend on the state of the local hospital system and transmission rates. Closures that avoid overwhelming health systems protect medical staff, increase COVID survival rates, and
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by nicoffeine 5y ago
She was correct if you don't consider children as a vector for COVID-19 transmission to parents and grandparents. Hundreds of thousands more people would have died if schools weren't shutdown before the vaccine was available.
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by nicoffeine 5y ago
I think there was almost a good system in place: a variety of ad-supported sites that professionally reviewed new products, and a variety of ad-supported forums where you could get the advice of other people. Manufacturers win in both cases
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by nicoffeine 5y ago
> As far as I can tell, you just made that up. Literally no Google hits NAFTA was passed in the very early days of the internet. Here's a great quote about it from former presidential candidate Ross Perot via wikipedia: "We hav
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by nicoffeine 5y ago
Buy a Brother Color Laser printer. $250 and the ink never dries. I haven't thought about printing other than pressing "print" in 6 months.
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by nicoffeine 5y ago
Because people in debt are easier to control. It's the same reason we are the only nation that does not provide healthcare as a right. Millions of people would quit tomorrow if they were sure their kids would have access to healthcare.
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by nicoffeine 5y ago
According to Leonard Susskind[1], fine tuning is a compelling argument by itself[2], and the strongest case is the cosmological constant.[3] In a nutshell it is a sort of repelling force first proposed by Einstein to create a workable model
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by nicoffeine 5y ago
> A CDC Whistleblower leaked they had found over 40k vax-induced deaths in medicare data back in July I don't know what FaceBook feed you are mainlining, but you should probably stop.
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by nicoffeine 5y ago
In addition to your points here, I found the hypothesis below very interesting. In a nutshell, American governments are incentivized to zone for expensive land that doesn't require much infrastructure. So we get giant, sparse suburbs a
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by nicoffeine 5y ago
Not too worried about it. It only happens during wartime for G20 nations, the last being in the 1920s/1940s. When those nations were on the gold standard. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation
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by nicoffeine 5y ago
> Would you be happy with no paper certificates for gold and just use gold coins? From your earlier argument I suspect the answer is no. Everyone's answer is no. Even during the prime of the standard, people made transactions on pap
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by nicoffeine 5y ago
> Gold is a currency trusted by all, fiat is a currency of force. > You have to trust that banks or governments aren't going to steal your gold. If you don't trust them you change your dollars back to gold. > With any cur
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by nicoffeine 5y ago
> It is a terrible idea for a civilization that exists in a system with finite resources to use a currency that is unbounded and exponential. The disconnect between the nominal economic substrate and raw reality will lead to broad class
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by nicoffeine 5y ago
> More gold or an increase in gold value is required to represent greater wealth. Not true. A restriction in supply can raise the price, and the discovery of new sources can lower it. Plus wealth is entirely subjective. Would you rather
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by nicoffeine 5y ago
Who said economic growth cannot happen on a gold standard? I said it's a useless technology for civilizations that have better ones. You responded with an incoherent argument and a claim that 1850-early 1900s is a time period that show
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by nicoffeine 5y ago
> Modern monetary theory isn't doing fine and neither are the countries with fiat currencies. They're all in absolute crisis because their economies are built on ever-shifting quicksand. Okay. What countries use representative
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by nicoffeine 5y ago
The US was on the gold/silver standard from 1792-1850. Was that the reason it continued the genocide of millions of indigenous people, took their land, and then imported millions of slaves to farm that land? Maybe there are other possi
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by nicoffeine 5y ago
Gas is more expensive because fossil fuels are more difficult to extract, we have some environmental standards instead of none, consumption has skyrocketed, and there's an organization called OPEC that maximizes the price. Pretending t
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by nicoffeine 5y ago
The gold standard was abandoned because it is a terrible idea for civilizations that have technologies like accounting systems and currencies that are difficult to counterfeit. Tying economic expansion to the ability to mine and store one t
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by nicoffeine 5y ago
Totally and completely false. The UK in 1930 was much more polluted than the USSR and China at that time. Making that argument today is possible if you ignore moving practically all manufacturing to a country that happens to be communist. T
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by nicoffeine 5y ago
The nation is dependent on the money that California and NY put in to the federal tax system. You're welcome. "A 2017 study by the Rockefeller Institute of Government found that traditional blue states like Connecticut ($15,643),
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by nicoffeine 5y ago
Spoken like someone who doesn't have a fucking clue about being poor. Educate yourself. "Target Workers Unite recently released a survey of more than 500 Target workers around the US, representing 382 different stores in 44 states
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by nicoffeine 5y ago
I can't really answer your question because all of your premises are wrong. Your concern about the IRS is irrelevant: they enforce policy, they do not define it. Your concern about Congress is also irrelevant, since this change can be
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by nicoffeine 5y ago
Sec. of Treasury Janet Yellen in a letter to Sen. Crapo, earlier this year: "Treasury also takes seriously the protection of the U.S. fisc. Our Greenbook proposals will bring corporate tax revenue as a share of our economy closer to it
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by nicoffeine 5y ago
In the postcode of the card used to purchase the services.

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