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Re:More German than many Germans on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @02:09AM (#49179154)
"3rd generation Turks" Because they are famously a case of not having assimilated to Germany but instead over-assimilated to an islamist-conservative Turkey.

"Q: Where would you live if you were a hyper-nationalist Turk? A: Germany"

Did it never occur to you how the vast majority of people acquire initial capital is via labor?
It's just a lot of words with very little substance. 75% of their exports go to the US, all their best professionals and investors move to the US, and a large part of their economy is just rent-seeking on real estate prices.

Saying all the middle powers need to join together is all fine and well but doesn't really mean anything.

Re:Our Society Is Not Prepared for This Much AI Awesome on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @04:31AM (#34878844)
"We are hardwired for scarcity and capitalism itself thrives on it to create value."

"There is something awesome about the end of shortage."

So you understand that we, as humans, part of nature, have lived a certain way for nearly 7 million years, then lived another certain way starting 10,000 years ago with agriculture, and basically yesterday have started living in the modern world. And you expect us, as humans, to fully cope with this concept, to the point that it is awesome?

What we need to rethink is what it means to be human and our relationship with technology. We surely didn't evolve for millions of years to have all our needs met by machines and sit around without any purpose, forever being out-competed by said machines.

Are ocean waves to you calming or distracting?
« Between restless brain and tinnitus, actual silence, or anything with a noise floor below ~15dB, just doesn't sit right with me.»

As someone with both (and particularly bad tinnitus) I look forward to my new air filters/fans.

Re:How Friendships Change in Adulthood on Saturday November 19, 2022 @02:21PM (#33673622)
Thanks for this comment. I just moved to a new city at 25 and have been pessimistic about being able to meet anyone.
Re:Social isolation and the brain in the pandemic era on Sunday November 13, 2022 @12:07PM (#33584945)
I believe you’re confusing meeting new people and isolation.

Living alone was extremely rare until recent history [1]. Not having freedom of movement, or not living in a city does not mean social isolation. Villages back in history used to celebrate holidays together, families were much larger, everyone knew everyone since birth etc…

I just woke up but don’t feel like pulling up the sources but I believe the exact opposite of your statement. Social isolation is a modern phenomenon that was extremely rare before in history. It was incredibly difficult to survive just by yourself.

[1] https://archive.org/details/goingsoloextraor00eric

Re:Body Doubling on Sunday November 06, 2022 @10:12PM (#33500670)
I lived in a very orthodox Jewish neighborhood for a while and what you described is exactly what happens on Shabbat still (since there’s no phones being used).

People just feel welcome to drop by. The house is usually a total mess because « work » is not allowed, and there’s no gift bringing either because of religious reasons.

I always admired it. Just one day where no one’s working or traveling and everyone’s free to come over and hangout.

Re:Elevator Saga: The elevator programming game on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @02:57PM (#33266420)
Bitburner is my favorite. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1812820/Bitburner/

It’s an idle game at its core so it feels like Factorio whereby you try to automate as much as you can as efficiently as you can.

In my experience I didn’t do math at all between grade 6-12. At the community college I obviously had to take some elementary courses but I went from elementary to linear algebra/calc2 within a year and a half.
Re:Benchmarking the Apple M1 Max on Monday November 22, 2021 @09:49PM (#29314084)
Would you or someone happen to know/guess the hash rate of the M1 Max?
Re:Twitch is hacked, and its source code leaked on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @05:04PM (#28778393)
It depends. It doesn’t have to strictly be a leaked password. If it’s similar to a leaked password then the permutation rule-set will catch it.

Anything under 9 characters I can brute force in minutes. 9 character passwords would take me 9 hours.

Obviously if someone has a nest of the latest GPUs then they could go a lot faster.

But yes if your password is uwv&6qu_brusb618_$@618jg then it doesn’t really matter how you hash it.

Re:Twitch is hacked, and its source code leaked on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @04:16PM (#28777873)
Couldn’t find it in 1.4 Trillion combinations. Used rockyou.txt with dive.rule.

Took me 6 minutes to try all 1.4 trillion passwords. So either you have a strong password or I messed something up. What is it?

In theory if your password was weak enough to be on this list it would take on average 3 minutes to break it on a GTX 1080.

I believe OP is saying that due to the increase in risk and volatility there is a greater chance of the trader to emotionally manage their money as it peaks and falls.

And obviously there’s mathematical measurements where one tries to get the highest return per unit of risk. It’s possible that these returns might be higher but fall under the curve.