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basicplus2 commented on Self Hosting a Google Maps Alternative with OpenStreetMap   wcedmisten.fyi/post/self-... · Posted by u/thunderbong
bdon · 3 years ago
If you want to display infinite fractional zoom levels, WebGL is mandatory. That's what most consumers will expect from a high fidelity map application, because that's the way Google and Apple Maps work.
basicplus2 · 3 years ago
High Fidelity.. Pity their road names don't zoom up to some degree.. it is so hard to read the road names, that as an old bugger i need a magnifying glass..
basicplus2 commented on Crypto is the 'commoditisation of populist anger, gambling and crime'   ft.com/content/028e0109-6... · Posted by u/colesantiago
LatteLazy · 3 years ago
The letter: https://concerned.tech/

I have to say, I think it's dumb. I try not to be a crypto-bro. And some points are accurate (how can something be a stable currency AND increase in price?!). But others are foolish:

* having no ability to reverse a transfer is exactly the point of cash, and reversing transfers is a classic source of fraud in and of itself.

* the claim that crypto has no use case. First it's an opinion, don't lay it next to facts and try and sneak it through. Second, that is fine, don't use it. But don't tell people who do they can't have it because you don't need it.

The thing that amazes me the most about crypto is how it continues to be either the messiah or the anti-christ. It's neither. It's a bit of a novelty, it's useful for some specific cases (hyper inflation, evading state controls be that good or bad). There is a lot of dishonesty, but that isn't the tech's fault. That human nature, refusal to regular and gullible idiots thinking they can get rich quick. It's no different to the early days of any other security.

basicplus2 · 3 years ago
It is absolutely correct to say reversing a transaction is a classic source of fraud.

Errors made should always be reversed by a separate transaction for an audit trail.

basicplus2 commented on Reconstructing images a person sees via non-invasive brain scans   mind-vis.github.io/... · Posted by u/yboris
basicplus2 · 3 years ago
looks more like images/ combined images from an AI data base of previously collected images rather than just "reading the brain" outright
basicplus2 commented on PayPal inactivity fee   paypal.com/re/smarthelp/a... · Posted by u/minusf
basicplus2 · 3 years ago
They may not be a bank but they get the earnings on all that money sitting there.. it is a source of funds for the business.
basicplus2 commented on Money Creation in the Modern Economy – Its a Wonderful Lie   andrewleahey.com/its-a-wo... · Posted by u/tldrthelaw
pengsoo_giant · 3 years ago
If you barter with someone you don't need to pay sales tax or any other Imperialist tax.
basicplus2 · 3 years ago
basicplus2 commented on Baking bread with a hot car   twitter.com/seismogenic/s... · Posted by u/jsnell
basicplus2 · 3 years ago
There is a group of American Private pilots who go on regular trips in their aircrafts and cook lunch in their aircraft engine bays.

Sorry could not find a link..

basicplus2 commented on Fake account and $8 blue checkmark wipe $20B off Eli Lilly's market cap   fortune.com/2022/11/11/no... · Posted by u/walrus01
14u2c · 3 years ago
Well, your first problem there (among many) is that Twitter is no longer a public company.
basicplus2 · 3 years ago
I presume they are talking about Eli and who ever pranked them
basicplus2 commented on Save London's Gas Lamps: Campaign Grows to Keep Our Heritage Glowing   londonist.com/london/hist... · Posted by u/zeristor
basicplus2 · 3 years ago
"They also burn a fossil fuel, which is more detrimental to the environment than low-power LEDs"

True however the true cleverness was that they burn the fumes coming off the sewerage system safely disposing of formally dangerous build ups of the gas while getting brighter at the same time.

So essentially fossil fuel is only a part of what they burn.

u/basicplus2

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The details of my life are quite inconsequential.. Very well, where do I begin? My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink, he would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Some times he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy, the sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical, summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds, pretty standard really. At the age of 12 I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen, a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum, it's breathtaking, I suggest you try it.
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