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by random_comment 4y ago
I agree with the comment below. You are extremely lucky not to be hired by that CTO. Huge red flag.
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by random_comment 4y ago
If you genuinely think taxes are not a sufficiently 'proven' way of forcing demand for a currency, see what happens when someone stops paying them.
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by random_comment 4y ago
> The only thing that maintains the value of any asset (or currency) is the collective belief in that asset or currency. Hello jmyeet! Unfortunately, I believe this statement, as you have given it, is untrue. I hear it often, as it is co
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by random_comment 4y ago
https://store.steampowered.com/app/700480/Microsoft_Allegian... has been around since March 2000, and currently free to play
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by random_comment 5y ago
Books: Sci-fi: the Culture books (Iain M Banks). The Expanse series. Fantasy: Belgariad (Eddings), Discworld (Pratchett), Robin Hobb's work. TV: Farscape, Stargate SG1, Lexx (!), DS9, Babylon 5, The Expanse. Buffy the Vampire Slayer&#
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by random_comment 7y ago
Zachtronics: Start with e.g. opus magnum. Visual, will teach basic concepts of sequencing instructions, iteration etc. Then Shenzhen I/O if they enjoy it Alternatively: Human resource machine (programming) 7 billion humans (parallel pr
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by random_comment 7y ago
also relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Grey_Walter "Grey Walter's most well-known work was his construction of some of the first electronic autonomous robots.[citation needed] He wanted to prove
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by random_comment 7y ago
Have you looked into the effects of zinc supplementation of common cold frequency and severity? I am not a doctor, this is not medical advice, etc. https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/common-cold/e...
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by random_comment 7y ago
Will pass that on to someone I know. They are using high-strength cranberry extract and zinc, with great success (cranberry specific for UTIs, zinc just to ensure not deficient, as that impacts immune system). UTIs still occur occasionally
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by random_comment 7y ago
Have you ever looked into zinc supplements? If I recall correctly, a huge (50%) part of the population are zinc deficient, and zinc deficiency lowers white blood cell count, amongst other things.
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by random_comment 7y ago
see my comment above about sintech...
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by random_comment 7y ago
Sintech sell adapters via amazon US/UK etc for about $15 that allow you to take a regular NVME drive (which are VERY cheap just now) and adapt it to the apple SSD hardware interface. You can have up to 2TB of faster-than-ever storage.
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by random_comment 7y ago
> very unique I once read a short article by a journal editor, on the theme of contributors describing their work as 'extremely unique'. Something is either unique or it's not. If anyone knows the article I'm referrin
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by random_comment 7y ago
Try adding some chilli sauce. Mixed with the olive oil and fish it's amazing. After experimenting with quite a lot of chilli sauce with mackerel/oil over a period of years, I really recommend "Encona West Indian Hot Pepper Sa
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by random_comment 7y ago
protip: get a sintech adapter and stick a big fast nvme disk in there. another 1-2 years before you need a new computer.
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by random_comment 7y ago
install smcfancontrol
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by random_comment 7y ago
if you need to 'upgrade' there's a sintech adapter that will let you put a MUCH bigger and faster ssd in there.
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by random_comment 7y ago
> I wish I'd opted for the 1t model vs 512g drive Hi there. You can buy a sintech adapter on amazon that will let you put a standard NVME SSD into a macbook air/retina 2013-2015 model (and maybe some others). It costs about $20
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by random_comment 8y ago
> If you want lucid dreams, slap on a low dosage nicotine patch before you sleep. This is utterly awful advice if you don't want to acquire a nicotine addiction.
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by random_comment 8y ago
> I woke up shortly after for real this time, into reality. I'm afraid not.
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by random_comment 8y ago
There is an anime series with something similar to this as one of the premises, 'Overlord'. Near the beginning, the protagonist uses superuser powers to reprogram a cute but hateful character in a VR game so they are in love with
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by random_comment 8y ago
Hello there yasbhagchandani Lots of people get suicidal thoughts, it's nothing to be ashamed of. Lots of people get depressed. Lots of people find that they have lost their reason to show up for work when their startup changes into a l
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by random_comment 9y ago
To anyone who loves Star Trek, Firefly, BSG etc: I want to highlight Blake's Seven for you as a really great series that's well worth a watch: Imagine a gritty British version of the original Star Trek. In this story, the federati
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by random_comment 9y ago
Turns out simply wishing people good luck and asserting everything is going to be fine [1] is a poor substitute for extreme weather monitoring / defence / preparation / response [2]. Who knew? [1] http://www.chron.
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by random_comment 9y ago
> What does society gain from taking more of those profits and consuming them, instead of allowing them to be invested in supporting more jobs and creating more economic output? Judging from e.g. Scandinavia, France, Germany etc, what th
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by random_comment 9y ago
> At an atomic level, events are not deterministic. > At a molecular level, events are not deterministic. > Therefore, we all behave randomly. Qed. This doesn't follow. The combination of many random events can be highly predi
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by random_comment 9y ago
Depixelizing Pixel Art http://johanneskopf.de/publications/pixelart/paper/pixel.pdf I think this paper is very cute and also technically interesting.
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by random_comment 9y ago
> Mostly nonsense said with authority. Psychology and dietary advice really are crap sciences. You don't appear to have presented any evidence or reasons that would make your hostile opinions a useful contribution here.
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by random_comment 9y ago
> The brain is mostly deterministic. Quantum-level nondeterminism has very low probability to matter much. Sources, please? At an atomic level, events are not deterministic. At a molecular level, events are not deterministic. Perhaps you
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by random_comment 9y ago
> Any money that a corporation earns is either paid out as dividends (at which point it's taxable as individual income) or reinvested into growing the company (at which point it turns into things like "salary", which is ta

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