throwawayallday

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by throwawayallday 4y ago
>Regular financial infrastructure requires maybe a few weeks or months or years for a reasonably irreversible transaction. For good reason. Crypto is speed running through the centuries of financial strife to understand why things are th
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by throwawayallday 4y ago
Except it doesn't.
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by throwawayallday 4y ago
>The US Democratic Party is pretty right wing by European standards, and arguably more right wing than the UK Conservative Party. Any facts to back this claim? I'd say the US Democratic party is more left wing than Europe's maj
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by throwawayallday 4y ago
Less than 20 transactions per second. Mindbogglingly slow.
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by throwawayallday 4y ago
Anything that stands in defiance of leftism, especially leftist identity politics is "right-wing" now. That's how far the Overton Window has shifted.
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by throwawayallday 4y ago
>People go along with this kind of BS because they are afraid of being labeled as communist Do you actually know anyone for whom this is true? Afraid of being labeled communist? If you're not communist that strikes me as a crazy thi
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by throwawayallday 4y ago
This is an example of the celebration parallax: It's a neo-Nazi White supremacist myth that the White population is declining! It's not happening but I'm glad that it is! No way this doesn't get [flagged] by the end of t
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by throwawayallday 4y ago
Mormons don't smoke.
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by throwawayallday 4y ago
Luckily you posted this anonymously because if your name was ever tied to a comment like this, you'd face the wrath of the woke mob. Your comment is extremely benign as far as "right-wing" comments go, but if you would'v
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by throwawayallday 4y ago
>Do any of these people actually do any work? No. >Secondly, why are they all women? Do they get more views? Yes. >Are they just more inclined to make TikTok videos? Yes. >Were they hired without much to do? Yes.
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by throwawayallday 4y ago
> burning down cities is mostly peaceful protest This was a conversation about far leftism. You wanted to link it to non-violence. Take a long hard look at yourself.
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by throwawayallday 4y ago
>Distributed is not decentralized. No one said otherwise. >This is the same mistake as the subject matter with crypto. This is where you're wrong. You misunderstood these concepts as if they were mutually exclusive. Torrent DHT i
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by throwawayallday 4y ago
>One of those protocols is highly centralized and advertises users and their requested data packets as well as their available data packets to a centralized registry. This hasn't been true for almost two decades. DHT exists so track
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by throwawayallday 4y ago
>...perhaps I take a broader definition of public works than you do. You're taking an incorrect definition of "public works". Words have meaning: "Public works are a broad category of infrastructure projects, finance
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by throwawayallday 4y ago
GI Bill suburbia was built by private home builders and contractors, not the government. They were not public works. The government subsidized the loans.
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by throwawayallday 4y ago
>He quit that group because he can't sign a statement that he is anti-racist, and supports diversity and inclusion? Can you reply to my comment with the anti-racist and supportive of diversity and inclusion phrase "it's OK
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by throwawayallday 4y ago
>Are you serious? Yes? They also convinced web archives to delete their backups of Kiwifarms so we're not able to verify any claims.
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by throwawayallday 4y ago
Wonderful relics that survived the various wars in Korea are treasures of all humanity.
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by throwawayallday 4y ago
OS/400 was developed alongside the AS/400. IBM introduced the AS/400 specifically as a "midrange system". Source: me, two decades doing IBM sysprog on AS/400s and z/OS.
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by throwawayallday 4y ago
IBM i (iSeries, AS/400s) are considered "midrange" computers. Indeed the author is a bit wrong on this considering IBM introduced the AS/400 specifically as a "midrange system".
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by throwawayallday 4y ago
ZFS defaults to fletcher4 for checksum. It has never had MD5 support.
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by throwawayallday 4y ago
Don't worry, Bush can't actually hurt you. I know you're scared of a kindly old man but it'll be ok. Cue music: "Hundreds of thousands of deaths later..."
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by throwawayallday 4y ago
Witricity claims to have inductive charging efficiency that matches traditional plug-in level 2 charging: https://witricity.com/newsroom/blogs/what-is-efficiency-how-...
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by throwawayallday 4y ago
I wish they kept the dislike count visible. It was a useful signal that's saved me hours of my life.