potamic

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by potamic 8d ago
How do you know they are spam? I use disposable emails for registration wherever I can, and if there's too much friction I'll just drop it.
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by potamic 9d ago
What is their source that the non-fiction book market is collapsing? Their entire premise seems to come down to the fact that non-fiction in 2025 took a smaller share of the top 25 best-selling, hardcover books compared to 2015. It's b
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by potamic 11d ago
If you follow the way the private jet thing is done, it is structured as a gift to the government and not the president. It is perfectly legal and you won't be able to find any "proof" of corruption over it. This is how most
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by potamic 11d ago
No, see the entire thread. They claim article author's salary is paid by some Coefficient Giving organisation.
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by potamic 11d ago
Pleasantly surprised to see dpreview still running, I thought they had shut down. It was a fantastic site back in the day. Not sure how it fares these days.
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by potamic 12d ago
Well, the question primarily seemed to contest the scope of corruption, so I responded in view to that. The big banks were one of the top donors to Obama's 2008 campaign. The fact that none of the banks were prosecuted or even held acc
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by potamic 12d ago
Aren't Guardian's journalists full time employees? Why is their salary being paid by an outside entity?
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by potamic 12d ago
Most of the big ones. The government in fact was issued equity in these banks that they later sold to recover the funds. So it was very much necessary to preserve shareholder value. This arrangement probably wouldn't have upset people
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by potamic 12d ago
Not directly, but indirectly by declining any punitive actions. Ideally the banks earnings should've been used up towards the bail out punishing shareholders in the spirit of the free market. But if I remember at that time, execs paid
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by potamic 13d ago
Corruption is not limited to financial profit. There are many ways to engage in acts of self interest like grant personal agenda, favours to friends/donors, quid-pro-quo etc.
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by potamic 13d ago
Do you have a source that says it was an analytical error? Everything I've read over the years suggested they knew there were no WMDs, yet went with the narrative. Here's one post that cites a CIA report that shows the administrat
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by potamic 13d ago
What about the whole WMD debacle? Isn't it widely considered to be an act of corruption? And bailing out bank shareholders during the '08 financial crisis.
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by potamic 27d ago
> The one thing I find slightly grating about links to Kagi blogs is the top comments are almost always "I use Kagi and it's great!" Couldn't agree more. I don't know how others perceive it, but I find myself bec
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by potamic 27d ago
Could you elaborate a bit on why RA's incremental approach takes more memory? Intuitively it feels that it should take less, because you're only processing what you need? Whereas you seem to indicate that you save a full analysis
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by potamic 29d ago
> Generics are convenient but they come at a cost in complexity in the type system and run-time. By run-time they mean compile-time? There shouldn't be a run-time penalty right? Also, is there some measure of the additional compilat
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by potamic 1mo ago
I dunno how it is in America, but in my country if the largest individual donor was granted carte blanche to run his own department within the administration, with his own people, answerable only to the head of the government, it would caus
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by potamic 1mo ago
That most people could care less about tech and are just in it for the grift.
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by potamic 1mo ago
> someone has to pay to maintain the infrastructure Do you know what it costs to run the cash infrastructure? Maintaining physical branches, employees to handle cash, counting machines, counterfeit detectors, security personnel, armoured
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by potamic 1mo ago
Where do you see $1B subsidy? There is no subsidy. The system is already profitable. This will generate a new revenue stream of $1B for banks out of thin air that has no reason to exist.
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by potamic 1mo ago
What makes it better?
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by potamic 1mo ago
Thanks a lot.
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by potamic 1mo ago
Timing? How many hours before bed?
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by potamic 1mo ago
How much of each do you take and when do you take them?
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by potamic 1mo ago
> Other clues include highly structured comments with multiple headings, unnecessary comments in code, gratuitously defensive programming, and the use of emoji characters.... In general, if something in a pull request seems uncannily che
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by potamic 1mo ago
Have you checked out IPFS?
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by potamic 1mo ago
Reason #13843 for using an ad blocker.
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by potamic 1mo ago
> he could extract the essential information from the much more confuse sources that were available at his time Wasn't this the case with Einstein's relativity as well? From what I understand the maths for it was already develo
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by potamic 1mo ago
Leading physicists at one time appeared to disagree. Newton and Maxwell do come at #2 and #3 though. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/541840.stm
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by potamic 1mo ago
Adopting a new technology often needs a lot of consideration. People will have a lot of questions, want to understand the implications and discuss with the hive mind. No need to attack them for that, I think.
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by potamic 2mo ago
It does seem to be quite some (very boring) work. I'm curious about your reasons for taking it up. Is it more of a principles kind of a thing or do you see it could make a difference to the project in the end?

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