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I’m not entirely unsympathetic to this line of thinking but “dessert with every meal” as an example of late capitalist degeneracy seems cartoonishly austere.

The PS Vita is an apt point of comparison - a beautiful piece of hardware that performed fantastically (and in my opinion much more impressive for its time than the steam deck) - t…

Not at all, in the sense that if you were asked THAT question, you’d easily be able to come up with a convincing answer.

Steve Jobs in a university lecture in 1991 (iirc) articulated the vision among him and his industry contemporaries of consumers using thin clients accessing data from the cloud, a …

Whenever I make a small project I live in fear that the NYT will threaten to give me a million dollars for it.

What problem is solved via a public tamper resistant ledger outside of the hypothetical? I routinely make purchases outside of a public tamper resistant ledger without issue. I’d a…

This is making a mountain out of a molehill. There's nothing to suggest any pre-conditions for deleting an account have to be removed, simply that it must be possible to "initiate …

The issue I've always had with Monte Carl simulation in this context is that it takes more knowledge, expertise, time, and care to accurately perform a Monte Carlo Simulation than …

The poster said "I'm legitimately quoting", which doesn't sound like an admission to me.

Apple is not using PhotoDNA, but in any event - this is a good article but they misconstrued the '1 in a trillion' quote, as is canvassed in the comments for the article itself. Ac…

My understanding is that neither of the major outages in SA in recent times have been related to intermittent supply issues (i.e. the first major incident was related to trips caus…

I think this supports the point - in either case the syntax for the action is 'get wood'.

Without re-litigating the events at Basecamp, surely you're fully aware that other people have a different view to you (i.e. that in their opinion DHH did do something wrong), and …

You have to understand - it was REAL subtle.

To be far these restrictions operate in a fairly narrow domain (Developer documentation) where some restrictions on idiomatic usage are probably warranted to maximise the number of…

Monetary emission is already tied to the cost of consumer goods. Central banks make interest rate and reserve requirement changes that regulate growth in money supply. Those change…

This expands the definition of "backed by" into meaninglessness. I used to be able to trade dollars for gold and vice versa, at a fixed price, guaranteed. I can't trade bitcoin for…

"Dollars used to be backed by gold and it was still fiat money." - This is just plain wrong.

Fiat is money not backed by a commodity. What commodity was it again that backs Bitcoin?

The modern central banking/inflation/'debasement' conspiracy theorist is interested in a return to a gold standard - that is, paper currency that is backed by reserves of gold, as …

I think you’re right on the supply side of the equation, that the profit motive applies upward pressure. But the constraint is on the demand side - if I increase or even maintain m…

I'm on board with your socialist sensibilities when it comes to housing - but when the same effect is occurring throughout the entire economy the result is a depression.

Growth in money supply =/= inflation. If price stability is what you want then the money supply has to increase as production increases to avoid deflation.

The availability of credit is a separate question from the interest rate, and may indeed fall. Rising real interest rates directly impact borrowers and their ability to borrow, as …