waterlaw

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by waterlaw 1y ago
There are numerous clips of Rabbis openly promoting the extermination of Palestinians. They use the story of Amalek from the Torah. One of the Rabbis I watched recently said "when you kill the first child it breaks your heart [...] the
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by waterlaw 1y ago
What's the true purpose of crypto? It can be used to escape the banking system?
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by waterlaw 2y ago
Concerned about these R&D layoffs and startup closures. I love startups and cannot go back to the mind drudgery of corporate offices. Remote work changed my life for the better. Feel like there's a massive recession coming and it&#
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by waterlaw 2y ago
Looks like it from the Documentation. The User and Developer Guide references Atom quite a bit (includes the original Atom docs too) An aside, but I wish more webpages for applications put screenshots on the front page. Probably would had m
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by waterlaw 4y ago
Now I believe Peter Zeihan when he says we'll likely enter an energy crisis that encompasses the majority of the world later this decade.
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by waterlaw 4y ago
This is good advice. Learning lessons is not the same as wallowing and reliving the past.
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by waterlaw 4y ago
Haha. I lost all my bitcoin stored on a personal wallet. Doesn't even have to be Mt. Gox
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by waterlaw 4y ago
Lost half my money in Gold/Silver mining stocks. Broke at 30. Didn't start that businesses I wanted to in my 20s. Would had been in the same position financially by now anyway.
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by waterlaw 4y ago
Yeah. Their idea was to reduce the population until you reach a number low enough that is viable for the ecosystem. The population would then be "maintained" at a stable level. Most people would not be able to afford children. You
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by waterlaw 4y ago
Surrogacy will be the next big thing. Women in poorer countries will birth the children for wealthier nations. This will aid in the reduction of family formation in poorer countries and serve as population control. While ensuring no one cou
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by waterlaw 4y ago
The biggest problem with the ARC GPUs is the inconsistent frame times. Even with ReBar enabled, there's something wrong with the scheduler, firmware or driver. AMD and Nvidia have had a lot of years to optimize their stack and get bett
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by waterlaw 4y ago
Cities would stop caring about new residents then (as they've done in Canada.) They mostly cater to the existing residents that own homes and partake in municipal voting. They'll stop creating new housing developments and put mass
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by waterlaw 4y ago
> A Spellchecker Used to Be a Major Feat of Software Engineering > Fast forward to today. A program to load /usr/share/dict/words into a hash table is 3-5 lines of Perl or Python, depending on how terse you mind be
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by waterlaw 4y ago
Intel spent tens of billions on stock buybacks and now they're getting subsidies to build fabs. Why does the middle class taxpayer have to bail everyone out, with lower living standards due to taxation and inflation.
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by waterlaw 4y ago
I'm going to be honest and likely argued with, but my standard of living has been falling for a long time. Even while my income has been steadily increasing. I've been in a recession for the past 10 years. If you don't hold a
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by waterlaw 4y ago
Some experience here as a 30 year old boomer. Unfortunately this makes market research difficult. Guess it depends on the audience you're trying to reach.
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by waterlaw 4y ago
I'm the biggest gold bug ever. Been holding this awful asset for the last 12 years. This is the most manipulated, trash asset imaginable. The price of gold hasn't changed since 2011. It was $1900, still $1900. Worst investment of
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by waterlaw 4y ago
Agreed. Bought a chromebook and made a distro that boots into neovim for this reason. It's fanless. Cost $45. Makes almost no heat after tweaking. Has a 12 hour battery life under use. Basically functions as an electronic (abeit more a
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by waterlaw 4y ago
My concern is that these unprofitable unicorn companies are employing highly competent and employable engineers that other companies will want to hire. This will cascade, causing smaller companies to layoff staff, so they can replace their
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by waterlaw 4y ago
Half the population has low to no income. Manufacturing was gutted and sent overseas in an effort to integrate China into the world order. Russia exports way more resources and has decrepit living conditions. LNG will not make up for a fall
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by waterlaw 4y ago
Lost me at wages keeping up with inflation. In Canada (unrelated to article, but similar.) I'd need a 16% raise to keep pace with inflation. Since 52% tax bracket. Meanwhile homeowners do nothing and have tax-free returns. Yearly retu
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by waterlaw 4y ago
I bought a fanless quad core Apollo Lake Chromebook and installed Linux on it. It's not perfect (headphone jack doesn't work), but been really happy so far. Probably the best $ per performance laptop I've ever purchased.
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by waterlaw 4y ago
In Ontario it's not just urban centers. Prices are going up almost everywhere. Towns with a grocery store and Tim Hortons are seeing prices explode. One problem in Canadian provinces is your taxes remain the same regardless of where yo
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by waterlaw 4y ago
Being able to leave a job at any time (due to savings) is a huge comfort. This is anecdote, but the higher salary companies I've worked at have been much more competent, productive and happier in general. Most of the stress I've e
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by waterlaw 4y ago
I rather make more salary and take 6 - 12 months off after 2 years. The counter is, in the USA, FIRE is a possibility. Few, if any, Software Developers talk about FIRE in Europe. Pensions in Europe will be under pressure. I doubt they will
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by waterlaw 4y ago
Depends on your circumstances. I don't use the majority of the services where I live. Rarely leave the house. I'm convinced that the income tax is a repressive tax, designed to curb consumption and destroy the middle class. The ri
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by waterlaw 5y ago
I'm on the fence with this one. On one hand, I have less motivation to work hard. On the other hand. I have more time and am not being verbally abused by anyone. Having a partner doesn't necessarily mean I'd work harder or sm
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by waterlaw 5y ago
It's many factors. However, the inability to create new cities and infrastructure can be overcome with will. Now, whether we need new cities is a separate question. In Canada where taxation and housing is expensive, the complaint has b
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by waterlaw 5y ago
The housing market is dictated by fiat. Both supply (lending) and demand (building) are a function of government regulation.
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by waterlaw 5y ago
Remote towns have been stagnate or depopulating for decades. The problems for residents may be lack of services, high taxes, high energy costs, lack of opportunity, access to shipping, etc. From the government's perspective. There are

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