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  The numbers are obviously wiiiiildly off but it’s certainly true that there are some STIs that condoms aren’t adequately able to protect you against (HSV, HPV, syphilis).

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  Affinity: I’ve tried and tried and tried with GIMP and it just doesn’t do it for me. Microsoft Flight Simulator: X-plane yes. But MSFS is just stellar good, with BeyondATC. Excel: Gsuite sheets - yuck, contributing my info to Google. Libre Calc. Please, they are 10 years behind. No proper table support, no MAP, no spill (yes, array formulas sort of work), etc etc. but chiefly: So slow compared to Excel and Gsuite. That’s it.

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  It was their final, most essential command.

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  Show me a working alternative that’s actually been implemented in the real and I’ll happily shift. Until then I’ll happily stick with a well-regulated, Nordic-style market economy.

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  Car finance. It’s so prevalent, I think I’m literally the only one on our road that doesn’t drive a 1 year old, brand new, financed car. Literally everyone is like “but it’s only $499/month and I can just hand it back when I want a new one”. Well shit, yes, but try tallying up what you’ve paid for running all these new cars every three years. Save up instead and continue saving after you bought the car. Then you can afford a different car later.

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  But I presume a new battery also only need 10% lithium?

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  I’m sorry, but have you read the technical documentation? The design is intentional created this way to avoid tracking. You are issued a set of ZKP tokens that you hand back to websites. They cannot correlate these tokens back to you, nor can the operator of the system. Now they could lie, of course, and violate the design (but being open source that’s a little harder), but if the government wanted to secretly track you, much more precise tools exist for this already.

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  Ii can thoroughly recommend “A Brief History of Intelligence” (by Max Bennett), which explains how intelligence has taken steps through evolution, what those steps were etc. Spatial intelligence requires spatial understanding and it’s not something that can be solved through a large language model, IMHO. I’m excited to see how these are solved. And I’m terrified to see how these will be solved.

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  And when they do they only offer them as the second factor. Yes, let me first input my password (from a password manager), the let me approve with a passkey that is meant to make my password not necessary. But email based login: FUCK THAT SHIT.

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  If I’m in the zone I want to sit in a medium dark room with fucking no one talking to me or “having a great time”.

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  Ah, come on this is valid investigation. If you get the same error every time, you know you can find it and debug it, somewhat with ease. If you don’t, you might have a thornier issue at hand.