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Buttes

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    Comment #15947171

    Like, the drivers manual? We're talking about basic driving skills here. Cars need room to stop, the higher the speed, the more room they need to stop safely. Most human drivers ar…

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    Comment #15947035

    A highway cuts through my city, largely because it used to be very poor and it was politically expedient to prioritize interstate traffic at the expense of city dwellers (there's m…

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    Comment #15940932

    You also need hardcore vent systems.

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    Comment #15940913

    No you can't, you need to leave stopping distance for safety reasons. If anything AVs will leave more room between cars than human drivers.

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    Comment #15935946

    Crypto is the new cyber.

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    Comment #15908159

    I'd say they're more like trading cards than anything.

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    Comment #15879310

    It's certainly possible there are fraudulent trades driving price, it's pretty easy to do on BTC exchanges.

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    Comment #15878634

    >newbostonpost Someone on r/boston constantly posts links to this garbage "news" source, everyone flags it as spam there, I'm going to flag it as spam here as well.

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    Comment #15861366

    >Why does everyone repeat that Byzantine consensus requires maximum 33% of participants to be dishonest? Not 33% of participants, 33% of the hash power, could just be one participa…

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    Comment #15861251

    The closed-source coordinator, presumably.

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    Comment #15861250

    My understanding is you only need 33% of the hash power at any given time . Since PoW is only done as part of sending transactions, it probably takes less hash power than you'd thi…

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    Comment #15861234

    It gets better... their "improved" version of "curl"? Kerl. You can't make this shit up.

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    Comment #15828433

    This is a great idea, I'd totally buy a "chromebook" with coreboot and Ubuntu.

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    Comment #15820433

    You're hopeless, this is not subtle stuff, you're being deliberately obtuse, or you're just plain stupid.

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    Comment #15817609

    > He seems to have been disavowing racists since the start Pandering to racists since the start: * Initial refusal to rebuke David Duke. * "Rapists" remark. * Violence on "both sid…

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    Comment #15809516

    I know middle aged people who do the same thing, their "performances" are appropriate for their age. Pictures of expensive vacations, manicured gardens and so on. Same phenomenon.

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    Comment #15809487

    Is it easy for mastodon operators to disable?

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    Comment #15800940

    It's like how you kinda need to know js to do anything with coffeescript. The fastest way to learn Elixir is to learn Erlang first. You will be dealing with Erlang data structures …

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    Comment #15771884

    Do any of the android apps support sycning over git yet?

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    Comment #15768761

    This talk is borderline unreadable. Are there slides or something I'm missing?

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    Comment #15768214

    Which features? Looks like (arithmetic, not bitwise) AND/OR/NOT are supported, I'm not an expert but it seems like this could be do-able. I'll have to think about this more maybe I…