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9point6

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  • Depends when really, there have been a few periods of time where buying/mining bitcoin turned out to be a pretty lucrative for anyone involved at the time. I mined some on my laptop about 15 years ago and ended up buying some steam games with it a few years later. Multiply that up to people who actually invested seriously, they made several times their investment.

    NFTs? Basically all were scams and no one was ever going to make money apart from the scammer.

    (Also nobody take this to mean BTC is a good investment today, if you're buying it today expecting exponential growth and not to potentially lose your investment entirely, you're being very silly)

  • tough choice?

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  • Oh that's cool to hear, I was under the impression in research that whilst a lot of the processing actually happens in FORTRAN-written code, it was nearly always reusing already-written functions and primitives in a higher level language (such as python, via the aforementioned SciPy). And then those libraries being maintained by a handful of wizards on the internet somewhere.

    Can you elaborate on the kind of research where people are still actively writing directly in FORTRAN? Did people typically arrive with the skills already or was there training for learning how to write it well?

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    What USA did to Venezuela and Russia to Ukraine, while NK left to itself further proved that to be left alone you gotta have nukes from the looks of it.

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  • NK is safe because trump admires it. It's the deluded model for how he wants to reconfigure the US with him at the top

    Conversely, venezuela has oil and wasn't giving it to America. They have a left wing government. Trump wants to keep the Epstein stuff out of the news, lest the final few people out there who still don't realise he's a human trafficking pedo, find out.

    I don't think nukes prevent this one. Frankly I think he would have done it anyway, despite the risk.

  • JPMorgan CEO Warns AI Will Wipe Out Desk Jobs, Urges Workers to Lean on Soft Skills

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  • Funny if we weren't working with a capitalist work or die political and economic system, this would be good news

    Technology is supposed to free us to pursue happiness

  • We Need to Stick Together!

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  • Why else do you think Putin and now his puppet wants it broken up?

    Apes together strong

  • tough choice?

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  • Isn't it more COBOL than FORTRAN in terms of getting paid?

    I thought FORTRAN was pretty much exclusively used via SciPy in research & academia these days.

    COBOL is still powering the world economy on mainframes

  • What the fuck is this timeline

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  • Hasn't Gen X voted slightly more for trump than the alternative both times?

    Millennials and Gen Z both voted against him with a sizable difference. Gen Z significantly more than millennials which surprised me given the reporting that keeps seemingly gaslighting me that the kids are all fascists these days.

    If you're gonna do this intergenerational conflict schtick, you should maybe try pushing free and open onto your peers and elders as they're seemingly the ones in dire need of it.

  • Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro has been captured after US conducted ‘large scale strike’ on country

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  • Some will, but most will see this as confirmation he will act illegally rather than just threaten to. i.e. an escalation of threat from before this happened.

  • Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro has been captured after US conducted ‘large scale strike’ on country

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  • The thing is those are all threats people involved in diplomacy can rationalise away as public image stuff and not take seriously. Like don't get me wrong, it's going to have them on alert, but it's not a bridge burning yet.

    This is a physical act with no other interpretation. The US invaded a country and kidnapped its leader. This is a burnt bridge.

  • Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro has been captured after US conducted ‘large scale strike’ on country

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  • How the hell can they just waltz into a country and just kidnap their leader without committing diplomatic suicide with the rest of the world?

    The next US president should finally join the ICC and give retroactive authority to prosecute anyone associated with the current US regime. Neatly sidesteps any pardon shenanigans they're going to attempt, given a US presidential pardon has no legal standing outside its borders.

  • What song should be the national anthem of your country?

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  • John Cage - 4'33

    Everyone just has to sit in silence and think about why having a nationalist song is kinda weird in the light of the modern day

  • From battleships to buildings: Trump's name is everywhere

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  • A man devoid of any actual accomplishment frivolously seeks to be remembered

  • time will tell

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  • I unironically loved the pandemic for being able to progress some of my hobbies

    Being able to throw myself into making music for hours without a drained social/mental battery and basically nothing to interrupt me helped me do more in a year or so than I'd managed to find time for in a decade. I also got back into enjoying long-form games that I've not been able to make time for outside of the pandemic. The few I've started since I've had to put down for extended periods of time and that's kinda killed my momentum. I also read the most I'd read since I was a kid.

    So I know I could definitely be given an extra couple of days a week of free time, and would have zero issues filling that time and getting something positive out of it, even if I wasn't allowed to leave my house.

    I'm not saying there weren't downsides, but more free time was amazing

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    I cannot understand what dose of vitamin D I should take

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  • Not a doctor and I don't have an exact answer to your question, but this might be helpful:

    This may not be a thing in Italy, but check if you're actually able to get enough vitamin D naturally all times of the year where you are.

    if you live in northern England near where I am, for example, you can only really guarantee you'll get your RDA of vitamin D from the sun during the summer months. I believe in north Scotland it's not ever possible to reliably get enough naturally.

    I try to take a 3000/4000 (honestly which one depends what's on offer) more or less daily outside of summer. During summer I still take them but maybe every few days.

    I would probably try what your doctor recommends (assuming you've already flagged your specific concerns, otherwise I'd do that first), it's entirely possible the 50,000 pill is formulated in such a way it manages to be (somewhat incredibly) slow release. If you experience any issues, schedule an appointment as soon as you can, so they can do some tests to help figure out what's going on. Your doctor has a degree in this stuff, so it's good to try what they suggest and discuss any changes with them

    This also might not be much of an issue for you since I assume you're getting your supplements from the same, trusted place. But if not, there's a load of fake and low quality supplements out there, make sure you research the brand you're getting has been tested and had its contents verified independently. Any issues could be down to unexpected adulterants rather than the vitamin dose itself

  • Some Japanese shops start rationing GPUs — graphics cards with 16GB VRAM and up are becoming harder to find, says one store

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  • GPU shortage V.2?

    I mean, did the first one ever end?

  • AI Electric Bills

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  • When there is a finite amount of something and someone with more money wants it, it makes the price of it for everyone go up to make it so that some people can no longer afford to compete for the resource, making it available for the higher spender. (Yes there's also infrastructure being built, but they will out compete us for that too)

    Same thing with land & property on it, the working class can't afford to buy housing now, because rich people want to use housing as an investment vehicle.

    Food is another (though also tied to land ownership)

    Ultimately it's the same problem across the board and the solution is generally a wealth tax to prevent densely concentrated capital from distorting the market.

    Specifically for these companies, they're simply too big. They need to be broken up and need to be prevented from getting this size again. If they truly cannot be broken up, they should be nationalised.

    Failure to address these issues will result in these companies and people holding a total monopoly on all the resources available. More expensive electricity is only the beginning.

  • Donald Trump brags about eliminating over 270,000 federal jobs since taking office for his second term

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  • That's 270,000 people who were interviewed, trained and had accumulated domain specific knowledge paid for by the tax payer.

    He's bragging about burning your house down

  • On demand hyperloop-style water delivery

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  • FWIW I think there's still some merit in maglev vactrains that aren't tied to someone who was only pushing it to get public infrastructure projects cancelled with the goal of selling more cars.

    At least there are seemingly serious academics and engineers still researching and developing the concept anyway.

  • The UK has spent more than £500K since 2024, including £350K by the Department for Education, on 215 influencers to promote government campaigns

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  • That's £2.3k each if split evenly.

    That seems pretty cheap given how much marketing (particularly when involving "talent") usually costs, assuming these campaigns actually had some kind of measurable success.

    Why does this read kinda like rage bait? I don't really expect that from the guardian

    Edit: just another helpful number I remembered, for context:

    The Tories spent £100m on an advertising campaign to gaslight us with how great Brexit was going to be as it happened

    That's 200x for much less tangible benefit