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Also, case matching of Scala <3

Those days are over. Being evil means there is no goodwill to begin with unless you can exploit it financially wise. Google stopped being not evil, they specifically deleted it from the code of conduct.

Ofc, being evil is subjective. But also this is the first excuse of evil players!


People would use it for sex.

Teens will use anything for sex.

I'm far from an expert but maybe the air we breathe is toxic? It makes stuff oxidize and go bad. It just takes enough of this poison and that's it.

> maybe the air we breathe is toxic?

I suppose since atmospheric oxygen is mostly of biological origin, yes, you're technically correct in labelling oxygen in the air as a toxin.


* { border: red 1px solid } Remember when IE6 was a thing? The kids today are angry at chrome for good reasons and yet, there was a time in which the most popular browser didn't implement jack shit from the specs. And it was the kind of browser that ships with the OS.

God the bad karma for working with this crap. I'm glad it's over.


I had to do a reflow reordering trick on a sibling page in that app and it doubled or tripled the speed on FF and safari, but on IE6 the test case went from 30s to 3.5s. Good Christ.

Would it kill you? Well, ultimately yes..

Not necessarily. Could get hit by a car later the same day.

From the what if:

> On August 31st, 2010, a diver was servicing the spent fuel pool at the Leibstadt nuclear reactor in Switzerland. He spotted an unidentified length of tubing on the bottom of the pool and radioed his supervisor to ask what to do. He was told to put it in his tool basket, which he did. Due to bubble noise in the pool, he didn’t hear his radiation alarm.

When the tool basket was lifted from the water, the room’s radiation alarms went off. The basket was dropped back in the water and the diver left the pool. The diver’s dosimeter badges showed that he’d received a higher-than-normal whole-body dose, and the dose in his right hand was extremely high.

The object turned out to be protective tubing from a radiation monitor in the reactor core, made highly radioactive by neutron flux. It had been accidentally sheared off while a capsule was being closed in 2006. It sank to a remote corner of the pool floor, where it sat unnoticed for four years.

The tubing was so radioactive that if he’d tucked it into a tool belt or shoulder bag, where it sat close to his body, he could’ve been killed. As it was, the water protected him, and only his hand—a body part more resistant to radiation than the delicate internal organs—received a heavy dose

I love this book. Randall is such a gifted artist


One of my favourite bits (and a fine example of Randall's sublime humour), comes right at the end:

But just to be sure, I got in touch with a friend of mine who works at a research reactor, and asked him what he thought would happen to you if you tried to swim in their radiation containment pool.

“In our reactor?” He thought about it for a moment. “You’d die pretty quickly, before reaching the water, from gunshot wounds.”


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Honest question why would anyone harvest Bitcoin after this? Wouldn't it lose all its value since everyone has everyone key now?

After? There is no reason. But between "only you have the keys" and that "after" there is literally tens of billions of dollars.

maybe it could be turned into a game.. hide the satoshis from the quantum ghosts

Isn't it the same with USD to some extent?

only to the extent that they are both artificial. The totality of USD _represents_ the totality of all resources that exist under the control of the USA (ala, the people, gov't, companies etc, as well as any natural resources).

The counterstrike skins don't represent such real life physical resources.


You retelling how money works on how money works comment

USD is human created artificial item, as real as human believe that skins in video games worth something

"The counterstrike skins don't represent such real life physical resources."

it represend steam wallet currency


my specific point is to claim that skins are not a currency - the crucial difference between things that are both artificial.

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