scientismer

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by scientismer 5y ago
So your wife has to work because your house was so expensive? I wonder about the place where you live. When your boss bought his home, was it cheap everywhere, or did he pick an affordable location that now has become expensive? It's n
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by scientismer 5y ago
"I would love to write a book or get involved in other projects, but these things all take time" Might be worth mentioning that actually, few people will care about you having written a book or other projects. It highlights the da
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by scientismer 5y ago
That's the most ridiculous reason for having kids I have ever heard. If that's your issue, maybe just invent some fake children and say you sent them to boarding school or they died in a car crash. Or less dramatic, say they live
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by scientismer 5y ago
This doesn't take care of the aspect of parents wanting to spend time with their kids. It's just "we need more daycare options so that mothers can focus more on their careers".
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by scientismer 5y ago
You have the exact same challenges. He just was able to overcome them better than you, by having/picking/convincing a wife who takes care of the home. You all made your choices.
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by scientismer 5y ago
Personally, I would consider gold as an insurance. The current price does not matter that much. What matters that in case of a catastrophe (financial crash, system crash, socialist takeover, whatever), it would be valuable. I would assume t
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by scientismer 5y ago
I have to read up on Musk, didn't get any of those references :-) Anyway, just because he does some investment, doesn't mean it is a good one. It just shows that people do use BTC as a hedge.
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by scientismer 5y ago
I think you are right, the "small fish" are buying Bitcoin hoping for speculative gains, but also big fish are buying it to hedge against inflation. I don't think Tesla bought Bitcoin speculating on big price rises, for examp
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by scientismer 5y ago
Ok I forgot about the money printing, which may or may not stop after Covid. But I think people buy BTC as an alternativ to gold, not because of some banking narrative. The question is still what would be actually good investments. Maybe ev
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by scientismer 5y ago
Oil, coal and gas are actually produced from biological sources, plants that lived millions of years ago. It's even a bit ironic - there was a time when nature hadn't yet learnt how to break down trees, so a lot of trees accumulat
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by scientismer 5y ago
Actually the costs to mine a block on the blockchain are the same, no matter if somebody buys a Bitcoin or not. At most you could argue that driving up the price gives miners an incentive to mine more.
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by scientismer 5y ago
It's probably all bullshit. There are papers by professors of music studies claiming listening to streaming services wastes a gigazillion of CO2. It's all just back of the napkin estimates.
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by scientismer 5y ago
Why would Covid drive up the price of Bitcoin? Sure, the pandemic is being used for attempted government power grasps, but those won't go away with Covid.
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by scientismer 5y ago
So now it is "jokes lead to genocide, AND to all sorts of other bad stuff"? Sorry I don't see a way out of that being a political battle. It's absolutely just a belief system. It seems just as likely that displaying a se
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by scientismer 5y ago
That doesn't make sense. By bringing forth the ADL pyramid, they made the claim that the joke list would be a step towards genocide. They absolutely say that. They did not randomly share that ADL pyramid, they wanted to make the point
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by scientismer 5y ago
Is it going to cause genocide or not? If it is not going to cause genocide, then to comment on it with respect to genocide doesn't make sense. I'm sorry, I really can not follow your logic. Somebody said it shouldn't be done,
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by scientismer 5y ago
Well it presumably can't occur at Basecamp, because it could get you fired. People can still discuss it elsewhere, or secretly at Basecamp. I also didn't take sides for Basecamp, I merely pointed out that the decision was in fact
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by scientismer 5y ago
I don't understand what point you are trying to make. Your last sentence seems to indicate that you believe the funny names list was a step towards genocide. Yet at the same time you say DHH's interpretation was uncharitable? You
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by scientismer 5y ago
Then maybe I was just unlucky, broke one GPU mining Bitcoin.
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by scientismer 5y ago
I wouldn't count on the cheap hardware, it may be pretty much broken after endless full power use for mining.
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by scientismer 5y ago
That's the literal interpretation given by DHH in his blog, when describing what happened. Personally I don't see how it is wrong, it literally says "first step to genocide". In any case, discussing whether it leads to g
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by scientismer 5y ago
Pretty sure it was about politics, because some employees felt it was an identity politics issue and the list of funny names would lead directly to holocaust. DEI issues were also directly mentioned in the blog posts.
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by scientismer 5y ago
If they do that, they open a door for another competitor. Of course it is all a bit more complicated. But by and large it works.
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by scientismer 5y ago
2 years warranty is enough to sort out the faulty pieces. Is there no warranty in the US? In any case, obviously that kind of insurance costs money. Why not let individuals pay for it if they want it?
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by scientismer 5y ago
You brought up smartphones for comparison. The M1 is so fast and efficient because it combines even more stuff on a single chip.
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by scientismer 5y ago
That may be so, but you can still buy from the competition.
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by scientismer 5y ago
Unless your country goes full socialism and there is only the government as provider for all those things, competing companies can provide you with repairable products. If people actually want them (which I doubt), why shouldn't compan
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by scientismer 5y ago
Average spend has of course gone down - you can get the same computer you would have gotten 10 years ago for a lot cheaper now. Computers have gotten a lot faster, that is why "spend" has kept up. And you seem to suggest that earl
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by scientismer 5y ago
How do you know how much it costs to provide an extended warranty? If it actually costs money, that kind of rule would make devices more expensive for everybody.
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by scientismer 5y ago
Can you present me a sleek smartphone design with a rubber gasket and screws? I'm genuinely curious what you have in mind.

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