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garbthetill

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    Comment #46014067

    The salvator mundi was bought at an auction for $1.2k, restored & appraised, then eventually sold for $450 million. The art/collection world is fascinate everything latches onto ex…

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    Comment #45848405

    here is a reddit thread about it: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1nq3vk9/proton_mail_r... the proton mail team claimed they will write a technical writeup soon

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    Comment #45845374

    Yeah no mention of how it would effect marine ecology is bad, but the avg startup/mega-corp doenst care see how far people are trying to make deep sea mining legal, even with its o…

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    Comment #45840826

    Correct me if im wrong, but isn't the pain points for mobile devs, the need to have intimate knowledge of both pl to build & maintain a good "backend/functionality" of the app over…

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    Comment #45759941

    idk google is so flaky, one must not forget that they had the llm concept first and couldnt really materialize it into anything commercial until chat gpt came around. Google often …

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    Comment #45759796

    apple is quite smart with this, there was a time when people thought they were dumb for not buying up tesla and ultimately shutting down their self driving division, but now it see…

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    Comment #45642771

    Thats so interesting to me, I always assume companies like google who have "unlimited" dollars will always be happy to eat the cost to keep customers, especially given gcp usage ou…

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    Comment #45606801

    Ive only used ruby a handful of times, so my comment might be ignorant. But other than community , what does ruby and ror do better than say elixir & phx, i feel like the latter is…

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    Comment #45490460

    but what if he turns into the ultimate humanitarian after he wins one? Has the nobel committee considered that?/s Yeah its weird how he explicitly states he wants a peace prize and…

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    Comment #45483663

    call me naive, but I thought game pass was going to be used as sort of a loss leader and gives them the avenue to build out other things like in the azure side of their business or…

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    Comment #45472417

    I agree on the current admin being pro grift and just extracting as much as they can, but crypto works because it overwhelms the system, if a million people rushed a military base …

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    Comment #45471888

    ik alot of people on here hate crypto, tether has been making billions each quarter for the last few years. I dont think there's any more real thought to this, than the genius act …

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    Comment #45471863

    regulation from the US side sounds open with the genius act, plus the current admin is pro crypto. Regulations from other govs dont matter as they will just "geo block" countries t…

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    Comment #45365064

    There is a category called incremental reading,you can find more elegant techniques if you look into it. My method is more primitive, I first get a simple overview of the topic (LL…

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    Comment #45363098

    I found it really great for quickly learning contents of a paper or books, my only gripe with anki is the integration between desktop and mobile, especially if you dont opt to sign…

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    Comment #45307474

    yep, its always funny to come across a company that uses it. For me the latest one was tubi, ive heard truth social also uses it not 100% sure. Sometimes I wonder if they're quiet …

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    Comment #45236232

    Im on the same boat and this is coming from someone who loves the beam thanks to elixir, I think the marketing of the lang threw me of a bit. But I might give it a try this week, a…

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    Comment #45202625

    Im not american, but consume american media because you guys are the world leaders. But charlie had the number 1 youth conservative movement in the country , he is pretty influenti…

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    Comment #45132289

    ngl you are not wrong, I've never thought of it like that. Is there an argument that it can never really be regulated? sure if the US gov stops circle from buying treasury bills & …

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    Comment #45129610

    it depends, regulators can still force validators to censor. I have kept up with the scene in a minute, but i remember builders and even some wallets were dropping tx from tornado …

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    Comment #45129569

    it says its an evm clone, so it may not be like solana. Im shocked they didnt go the l2 route like many seem to do. They might pull a bsc with a limited number of validators and ju…

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    Comment #45129479

    cheap fees, cross border payment without relying on legacy platforms like visa and mastercard. Also the added benefit of programmability

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    Comment #45115635

    if it does, then elon really won the bet of no lidar

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    Comment #45102749

    I am the same but for elixir, the beam is awesome & I always wonder why it still hasn't caught on with all the success stories. The actor model just makes programming feel so simpl…