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If you think "crypto" is short for cryptocurrency, you're probably exactly the kind of person who should stay away from cryptocurrency.

Interestingly, I think I recognize the background tile on the page as a member (or slight modification of a member) of my favorite wallpaper package propaganda-debian. In any case, author is clearly a connoisseur of textures.

We're not _all_ unsuccessful entrepreneurs, I for one am an unemployed programmer!

When I was an intern there was this old dude who had an ancient computer with the same Debian on it for like 7 years. He never got excited about new stuff, and just didn't want to break anything. I thought that was kind of funny and un-hip, back then, but now I'm like that. It's like Dad OS. :)

Are plumbers licensed? Should I assume that just anyone can become a plumber?

Licensed trades have gatekeepers, e.g., my high-school friend couldn't be an electrician because he couldn't get a union internship. They were full and he didn't know anyone important. Also, I believe that the licensing required the completion of course work.

I have never had a job that didn't require college and also paid more than rent. It seems a strong assumption that there are ready alternatives which pay a subsistence or higher wage. Of course it is also a strong assumption that higher education will necessarily result in a subsistance or higher wage, but my point is that it seems unfounded to simply assume that there is a reliable practicable alternative just because there used to be. As far as I know, I don't know anyone who didn't go to college and can reliably pay rent by themselves, and I know lots of people who didn't go to college.

Are cryptocurrency trades/flows balanced with cash? Are there likely solutions that approach this problem as one of money laundering?

thanks. thought they meant "server message block" at first and i'm like do i have to?

I wish they would unpack their buisiness jargon acronyms. What are SOHO, ROBO and SMB in this context?

hypothesis: security failure by a service provider is evidence of winning at externalizing costs.

strategy: find SaaS corps responsible for catastrophic cyber-attacks and buy them on the the dip?

Climate change is a collective action problem; the fact that people don't want to solve it with voluntary donations doesn't imply that they think the problem is unimportant.

It would be equally reasonable to propose that roads or police or militaries should be funded solely with voluntary donations, and then use support for that proposal as a measure of public sentiment towards the necessity of those functions. Of course, these functions are used as canonical justifications for the existence of the state in the first place.

This comment almost seems to willfully satirize libertarianism. Does it follow that if a goal hasn't been accomplished without a state mandate, it must be impossible?

It might be in this particular case, but to be convincing we would need to show our work, or at least make a more specific argument.

Nvidia graphics driver perhaps? Linux with proprietary drivers tends to suck (and Nvidia has been especially unfriendly to FOSS drivers). Intel and AMD support open GPU drivers, which tend to be be better. This might be why you're hearing about experiences that don't match yours.

Also, people can have legitimately different priorities. Some folks might want freedom from vendors badly enough to buy inferior but supported hardware, and/or get their hands dirty dealing with problems. At least there's a choice.

cool, but am i like a complete grandpa if i'm a bit alarmed by how everyone these days seems to think curl bashing with stranges is totally normal and fine?

land value tax is not assessed on the basis of who is presumed able to afford it. it's assessed against the use of a public good --- the ability of more people to live and work in the city that perhaps makes the land more valuable than when the owner bought it.

also observe that the purpose of the tax is not strictly to raise revenue, but to address what would otherwise be an externalized cost and make the housing market more efficient.

haha, it was much more exotic in my imagination. as usual. :)

ikr? it seems like if we can figure out what to do with a big wad of ASII armoured data, we don't need animated gifs to be made easier than they already are. i wonder if poster just expects this to show up as an embedded image because that's what happens on other forums, or if they think this is a good value proposition for hackers?

perhaps no one will ever know...

Neat, but why?

My problem is with the anonymouse hearsay.

"America is a bad country" Who said this? Why can't the author quote them directly? Why should I believe this even happened?

Edit: Not that I have a dog in this fight, but while we're at it, can you point me in the direction of a reactionary/militant leftist 501(c)3? I have always assumed that all sorts of rich zealots were using these as as anonymous lobbying slush funds, or at least would be soon enough, but I have genuinely never seen a general leftist-interest one, and I'm intellectually curious. :)

>> I know for a fact this ideology is being pushed hard right now

And yet you have ironically failed to furnish evidence. OP rightly observes that the article is riddled with anonymous hearsay, and published by a tax exempt lobbying group. For those who choose to read comments first, here's a taste of what you have to look forward to in the article:

"says one of the fathers(...)'What he has a problem with is a movement that tells his children that America is a bad country and that they bear collective racial guilt. They are making my son feel like a racist because of the pigmentation of his skin' one mother says."

One of my professors also taught an undergrad intro AI class. He told me a story about a student who got some of their goal conditions wrong, and later returned to find that they had trained an agent to lose at several board games with astounding efficiency, and that it was strangely impressive to watch how quickly it could lose to other agents, or to see how adroitly it could lose to a human player, even a willfully un-competitive one.

I lacked the imagination and experience at the time to recognize any implied object lesson beyond programming more carefully.

This. It's a pernicious temptation to infer motive, or make hostile generalizations about groups we disagree with, but this makes it impossible to cooperate or engage in good faith debate.

I don't know. My goal is to establish some baseline of fact and perspective before I start opining on causal relationships.

Thank you for the link. I'm having trouble locating the national rate for 2020 -- Most reports seem to be from a sample of a few dozen cities. Maybe it takes more time to report the nation data?

A %30 YoY increase is a dramatic increase, but also seems to be considerably lower than a few decades ago, if I'm understanding correctly?

Good question! It seemed to me that we were discussing something like the last 4-5 years at minimum, because the author identified a prior and continuing decline in surveyed trust of government and institutions, with especially low reported trust during that period. So I would think it helpful to look at homicide rates over the last decade or so for context.

If we think 538 is a reputable source, maybe we could try this: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-u-s-murder-rate-is-...

It seems like there was a gradual decline from a ~9.7/100,000 in 1990, to about ~4.8/100,000 in 2014, followed by a smaller but sharp uptick of about %9-%10, to 5.3/100,000 as of 2016.

Edit: bad math.

Six independent scholarly sources are cited within the first several paragraphs, whom the author claims arrived at similar conclusions.

Your table doesn't include information prior to the current period of supposed political instability, so it does not contain enough information to identify a trend.

i have simply assumed that the purpose of this requirement generally is for the platform owner to establish your real identity for monetization and/or indemnification, and that any benefit to the user is incidental.

who ever said that "security" meant yours? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Anyone know what DE is used in the picture of the pinebook pro?

some of the other screenshots look like gnome, but that one has miraculously not giant widgets/windowbars.

also, does anyone know what those earbuds are?

the urban heat island is real, and austin is hot enough already, so thanks for the very humane suggestion! the screen on my phone used to turn black if i forgot it in my car at work. sometimes i left frozen tamales on my dashboard and came back for them at lunchtime.

in my student coop, i once looked up from my studies to see that my clock/thermometer said it was 110F on my desk. so yeah, if you're going to cut down all the shade, can a bro at least get some awnings?

That fact that we need to prepare in advance to defend learning a new-ish language and then using to build something interesting or useful is a depressing.

Oh well, the PM will make you re-write it in that k8s thingy anyway, because everyone else has it.

Probe GT turbo was baller. How dare you? :)

Also, it weighed about 1000 pounds less the current ICE Mustang.

>> My understanding is that if a little guy evades taxes, but then cooperates with the IRS when caught, and agrees to pay all taxes and interest and penalties, then they generally don't get thrown in jail

Where in the world did you get this idea? If you don't pay fully or on time, but don't lie, they just make you pay, because that's not "evasion."

Elaborate premeditated lying using fake books or shell corporations to deliberately hide assets is a serious crime, which the rest of us can't get out of with our armies of lawyers and well placed phone calls to politicians.