But that is neglecting the performance aspect.

Something like this can be very good for offloading large amounts of data onto a parity backed array either to be moved to a proper long term storage solution later or to be actively worked.

High resolution / bitrate footage comes to mind, where you may be offloading multiple cameras at once and need high write performance.

It’s pretty unlikely that SSDs will have price parity with spinning rust anytime soon, but the value in them has always been performance.

But calling someone an idiot is explicitly insulting their intelligence just the same.

What about the word is offensive?

Is it just as offensive as calling someone stupid, moronic, dumb, or an idiot?

Is it that insulting someone’s intelligence is inherently offensive? Or is it just that it’s one of the most recent to become medically obsolete?

This isn’t art, it’s a platform, it’s a tool more akin to engineering than painting.

Would you have this same response for x, Facebook, or truth social?

Big mesh networks are ‘easy’ but I think the reality is most people don’t want to be responsible for it. They want to use utilities not run them.

Another aspect is that different people will have significantly different burdens, if you live in a dense apartment building, it can be easy to wrap up the infra for the building into an HOA or other collective, but people in suburbs or less dense areas will need huge long range antennas and underground cables that have a disproportionate cost.

I think more than a community run physical internet layer, we need neutralized, municipal internet as a utility.

I agree with this sentiment. I vaped for years and years because I didn’t actually want to stop.

But once I did make the decision the vape made it considerably easier.

I did but it took me a long time, years and years, with occasional dips back into smoking.

Now though it’s nearly been 2 years no vape or anything and at least three years of no nicotine.

I went up and down in nicotine levels, I used big huge cloud throwing fog machines and little tiny disposables.

I eventually settled on a unit with a built in rechargeable battery and pods with replaceable coils (geekvape aegis)

I don’t think vaping will naturally result in quitting, it I do think it’s the most effective harm reducer out there and as a tool has many ways to help reduce use over time.

High nicotine disposables (elf bars, juul) I would stay away from if you can though since the nicotine concentration is so high that it can deepen the addiction.

It seems like they both imply deletion, but I can still see the comment

Well, a lot of stock trading isn’t as simple as just stock picking, buying and selling individual stocks.

Much of the market is made up of derivatives trading, such as options, where you aren’t trading the stock itself, instead you are trading the option to buy the stock.

The value of the option is derived from the value of the underlying asset, but it is not absolutely coupled to it (this is how a lot of the money is made, by finding market inefficiencies and capitalizing on things like slippage, where there is a mismatch in the value of the derivative and it’s underlying)

What the person above is saying is that, when it becomes no longer profitable to trade underlying assets directly, new derivative markets will be invented that trade around other underlying assets.

Think about unregulated Bitcoin trading for example, while contrived, imagine a crypto currency that is coupled with the price of another asset (these exist, like USDcoin) such as a stock, future, option, or something else.

I should add, typically the derivative kind of collapse into the underlying at some point, but in the case of an option, it might be traded 100 times before that happens, during each of those trades the actual asset (e.g. the underlying stock) doesn’t actually change possession, and a given side of the contract may or may not be changing possession. If you write a call option for a 100 shares of Ford you own, you aren’t selling the stock unless the actual call gets assigned and you are required to fulfill the contract, but the ‘buyer’ side of the contract could have been sold 100 times in the meantime.

All this to say, it’s complicated and there are lots of opportunities for shady shit to happen.

Don’t mail in voting concepts kind of contradict a lot of these points?

Trash disposal isn’t free, yea the dog poop is probably a negligent amount, but most people have to explicitly pay for trash disposal, and so filling up other people’s trash cans can either cause an additional financial burden on them, or mean that they can’t effectively dispose of all of their trash.

It looks like in your case, each unit gets a can assigned to it, and service fees and replacements cost the individual directly, additionally, there are fines for trash violations, so having other people put unknown trash in your bins can result in a direct financial burden. I think it’s pretty reasonable to be relatively protective over your trash bin if you are the one that has to pay for service, replacements, and fees.

I’ll take the L… but I’m gonna blame it on sleepyheadedness, lol.

A resume with no PII, how are they gonna call you for the interview?

And what is the point of encrypting it? If they can’t decrypt it then you just sent them a jumble of bits, and if they can, then what was the point?

Right I get that.

But why is it marketed, for lack of a better term as early. Why wouldn’t it be, ‘the polls opens on October 20th, and you can vote late up to November 5th’

TPM isn’t inherently bad, it’s just a way to cryptographically store keys. TPM overall is great as it gives you a very secure way to store things like encryption keys.

You also don’t need TPM to lock down a system. Locked bootloaders have existed for decades and platforms have historically rolled their own encryption modules as they wanted, like your ipad example, or any video game console in the last 20 years, or most mobile phones, etc.

The ‘knows enough to be dangerous’ crowd has been fearmongering about tpm since it’s been introduced, it isn’t some magic bullet for vendor locking, since vendor locking is already achieved.

Building your own cabinets will be monumentally more expensive unless you are an experienced cabinet maker with a bunch of tools already.

2013 was over a decade ago we’ve went through both a housing crisis and record levels of inflation since then.

People generally don’t like being proselytized.

Old looks cheap to make, new looks cheap and safe to operate, shows, imo, a positive trend.

My mango is, to blow up, then act like I don’t know nobody, ahahahahahaha