nojster

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by nojster 2y ago
On a relative scale, I agree with you that the amount of training involved differs for accountants and burger flippers, thus this is a good example. On an absolute scale, comparing skills of burger flippers, accountants, aeronautical engine
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by nojster 2y ago
With the two examples you chose, I‘d say there is not much of a skill gap. If you‘d have chosen a burger flipper and an aeronautical engineer or a surgeon, I‘d have agreed with you.
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by nojster 3y ago
As a German, I have to fiercely object here (: More seriously: Almost all cars in Germany are limited to 250km/h (155 mph). Higher limits for more powerful cars are also found in the 280-290 km/h (173-180 mph) range. So, de facto,
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by nojster 3y ago
Descartes told us that animals are mere soulless automatons, not entities given the same rights and same consideration as humans. Well ok, that was 300 years ago and views have changed dramatically since then.
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by nojster 3y ago
Agreeing on this one. State should sell any kind of addictive substance, which would immediately yield benefits: 1. (Large parts of) Funding of organized crime would dry up and the state would get extra income via tax 2. Addicts know they c
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by nojster 3y ago
That’s a very fine line to walk. The same reasoning could be applied to speeding (actively endangering others), overeating (actively endangering yourself), hunting, snowboarding, skydiving (or any other activity which increases your likelih
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by nojster 3y ago
Curious as to why you are interested in 100%+ Keebs. I know that everyone has a different comfort zone, especially for their daily driver (which is a 60% split for me) and the only reason I can think of (besides aesthetics, of course) is a
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by nojster 3y ago
Precisely! Once you do that, you realize that public debt on the US has quadrupled since the financial crisis of 2008. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GFDEBTN/ Meaning that much is simply kicking the can a litt
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by nojster 3y ago
If by that you mean a quadrupling in public debt since the financial crisis of 2008, you are right. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GFDEBTN/ No other first world country adds debt as quickly as the US and the i
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by nojster 5y ago
The general answer is: through proof of stake. Since this is HN, you might enjoy this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/0805.2815 originating from a project called Cardano, which has published dozens of peer reviewed papers
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by nojster 5y ago
Thank you for pointing this out! Having my fingers leave home row as little as possible is vastly superior to reaching for arrow keys and having to reposition my fingers on home row. With vi that made immediate sense to me. Switching to HHK
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by nojster 5y ago
If you are really asking this, you failed to understand the fundamental concept of DLTs. Why would they use DLT for exchange of (promised) value rather than using banks? Why would they use DLT for token issuance rather than the monetary pol
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by nojster 5y ago
That’s correct and several exchanges will freeze funds when they have a “tainted history”. Thus, tokens on open ledger DLTs are not fungible at all. Cash is more fungible, yet you can also link serial numbers on bills back to ransom payment
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by nojster 5y ago
What kind of build is 75 keys without arrows? A 60% (no arrow keys) has 61 keys (ANSI) and the next “bigger” one, a 65% has 67 keys and usually already arrow keys. Is it some non-standard ergo mech build?
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by nojster 6y ago
Then I could counter argue with another anecdote that I visited thousands of such facilities and in all of them cases of magic healing once the insurance money dried up happened. Merely extending the scope of an anecdote does not change the
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by nojster 6y ago
With e2e vs insecure, there is an objective differentiating factor, while in wine (apart from price, there apparently isn’t). To leverage your example, it would be like selling “secure e2e chat” (label) at a high price, although it uses ins
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by nojster 6y ago
Isn’t sharing it publicly already a counter argument to “I don’t care if nobody knows about it”? Thus you wouldn’t have to falsify. We could think of a scenario where his neighbor shares information about his (the authors) garden. In this c
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by nojster 6y ago
Your statement is illogical on several levels. This is not a tertium non datur situation. If donating money is ‘neutral’ then not donating money is ‘neutral’. I’m not joining the discussion on whether or not this is a charitable act, just p
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by nojster 6y ago
> “While we took into account whether this was just due to what well-off people eat and drink, randomized clinical trials are needed to determine if making easy changes in our diet could help our brains in significant ways.” So they are
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by nojster 6y ago
> It's the first step for a major cryptocurrency towards ledger security that does not damage the environment via mining. Not true. Cardano has been operational with PoS since early 2020. And it’s staking process is much more straig
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by nojster 6y ago
That is likely, if the fake street sign were to resemble a real one both in appearance and context. If it were a stop sign in a billboard ad, humans would ignore it, though.
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by nojster 6y ago
> The examples I gave were meant to show that the behaviours that one believe to be "fitting" for a certain worldview, is suddenly not "fitting" in another group. I think this is where we have different viewpoints. To
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by nojster 6y ago
> You only have to look at the multitude of society that have survived until now to see that that kind of thought is not valid Thinking longer term, it could also be that not enough time has elapsed or that there was/is too little s
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by nojster 6y ago
> They are not common and you don't lose any money, if they are stolen from banks. if someone obtains access to your bank account and withdraws your money, then YOU have to prove that it wasn't you. Also, about how common some
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by nojster 6y ago
Have you tried international money transfers? Bank to bank this can take 3-5 business days (agreed, western union can be faster, but less convenient) and, depending on your payment processor, can easily cost 15% on the transferred value. So