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by problems 9y ago
One interesting talk I watched recently: https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/GoingNative/2013/The-Care-a... In it, they make a really good argument that humans simply shouldn't be doing this type of formatt
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by problems 9y ago
> Since May 2015, over 600 universities around the world have licenced and downloaded the MIPSfpga core, the Getting Started Guide, and the lab exercises. Seems pretty cool, but I'm just wondering, is there any reason the core must
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by problems 9y ago
You're right, I had incorrectly said halted earlier, but attempted to correct for that, not quite enough perhaps. In terms of progress per-capita, how does it really compare though? To my knowledge at least, it was still very low for a
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by problems 9y ago
Sure, look at the feudal system, look at most communism implementations, look at China before their recent uptake of capitalist concepts. Progress almost entirely stops in these places under these systems. Clearly, at some level there is a
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by problems 9y ago
I've done this using Inkscape a few times, usually works but I've had one company come back to me saying "uh no, print it out". They were in finance so maybe a regulatory thing or maybe just luck.
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by problems 9y ago
> Got some news for you. You are not representative of the people that the system failing. These things are luxuries to that demographic. I don't believe that's true, no one is starving to death of their own choice in the US. N
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by problems 9y ago
> That's a natural result of human intellectual progress and knowledge being passed down through generations. We have direct evidence that that is incorrect and any high school student knows it. Many, many times have we failed to p
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by problems 9y ago
Quite a bit. I can live a much better life with some basic things in our modern society - modern medicine, a vehicle, a computer, easy access to good food for only a small part of my salary. "Feeling powerless and forgotten" is so
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by problems 9y ago
Cuba is comparatively an incredibly poor nation that has missed many advancements of modern society in recent decades. Wages are dirt low, access to the internet is low, and from what I gather, access to modern anything in general is challe
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by problems 9y ago
Yeah, fixed it. Thanks.
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by problems 9y ago
Definitely, we've seen several cycles - to name 2 I watched more closely, the $30 peak and the $1000 peak were both followed by extended months of much lower prices. After which the value tends to average out higher than it began, but
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by problems 9y ago
> We've also witnessed capitalist systems fail drastically, and other systems succeed impressively. Please, show me one country not rooted in capitalism which has "succeeded impressively" in recent decades.
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by problems 9y ago
> People are ragging on capitalism because they're looking over the pond to countries that see capitalism as a tool to serve democratic interests rather than a moral worldview, and they kind of like that idea. Interestingly, those c
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by problems 9y ago
Things have improved immensely , more than any other time in history under capitalism. And we've watched other systems crash and burn. We don't need to experience it for ourselves, thanks.
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by problems 9y ago
Thank you, eugh, it's incredibly annoying, like people miss a hundred year history lesson and want to repeat the mistakes of the past here. Even the bottom 20% that everyone is so concerned about in the western world are better off tha
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by problems 9y ago
They're consistently on a cycle of booming and busting - Bitcoin's value has been slowly creeping up and up through these cycles. Others... not so sure. Bitcoin is a huge driver for the hype cycle in cryotocurrencies in general. I
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by problems 9y ago
Indeed they can, For basic framebuffer, but for doing 3d acceleration, to get many nice desktop effects people are used to you basically have to speak their proprietary protocol to the GPU. You can do a little better than framebuffer, like
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by problems 9y ago
I'm not saying there's no validity to either of them as strategies, just that they're big differences from the way we operate today and there's nothing to mandate their application except these politicized exaggerations.
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by problems 9y ago
Honestly it doesn't seem that interesting - browsing /r/DarkNetMarkets, dnstats and just signing up yourself is enough. I've signed up for a few for shits and giggles but never bought anything, browsing is pretty interes
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by problems 9y ago
Ultimately though I think any effect there would be temporary - there's less money available and sooner or later they'll go out of business.
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by problems 9y ago
I think there's a lot of negative economic exaggerations going on to promote political views on either side. Paint a bleak picture that only your team can solve. Something something protectionism, something something basic income. It a
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by problems 9y ago
Vivaldi seems like more of the same, sends statistics information with no way to disable it. On Firefox, all of that is in about:config and easily copied around as user.js.
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by problems 9y ago
> To dispute that de-facto centralization requires miners to collectively decide to abstain from updates to these primary clients en masse. That just won't happen, people don't organize or coordinate like that. The status quo h
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by problems 9y ago
Definitely agree with the address bar, I'll add a few: * Being able to disable unnecessary features and phoning home using about:config is great * Extensions look and feel more native (this will probably change because Mozilla has deci
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by problems 9y ago
So, for per-minute SIP calls: Twilio - 0.0125 in 0.017 out voip.ms - 0.09 in 0.005 out Of course, the unlimited plan is only useful for a select few - if you want to plug it into your PBX and use it as a small support line (could be this ca
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by problems 9y ago
Yeah, the urls were dumb for sure, but communicating cryptographic keys is a pretty great and common use for them. Authenticator keys, Bitcoin addresses, wallet backup, setting up keys for things like Signal's desktop client, etc. All
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by problems 9y ago
There's some truth to it though - the Windows Explorer file operations are flaky as hell. I was just trying to copy files between an old system drive and a new one but I kept getting infinite recursion issues with the "Documents a
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by problems 9y ago
Interesting, unless I'm missing something Twilio's pricing does not include any unlimited incoming model. From other VoIP providers, you can get that pretty easily. I use voip.ms and they charge $4.25/mo for a number and unli
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by problems 9y ago
If you can come up with an interesting enough formula but with varied enough gameplay you can get some cool stuff. Kairosoft comes to mind and I'm sure they've really made bank on their games.
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by problems 9y ago
It almost certainly never will replace your credit card. But there are other things it can replace or create. Like paying in cash for less-than-legal products or confirming, beyond a shadow of a doubt that you're not using a stolen car

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