1996

28 ms·

211.
by 1996 6y ago
> In other words, it might soon be too late to ban crypto. The ball already started rolling down the hill. In other words, it might soon be too late to ban crypto. The ball already started rolling down the hill. Great analysis. Give it a
212.
by 1996 6y ago
> Once your iPhone is stolen, it's gone. No iCloud lock is going to bring it back, so why prevent other, less-privileged folks from using it when you can't use it? Because I would like to inflict damage back. Stealing from me c
213.
by 1996 6y ago
You are unfairly downvoted, while giving the proper answer. For complex actions, the UI should summarize the future result of the comment - not so little as to be useless (ex: "some of the money will go to an external account" = h
214.
by 1996 6y ago
Wait until people learn about fish meds! When in a hurry go to PetCo!
215.
by 1996 6y ago
Brilliant!
216.
by 1996 6y ago
> I'm starting to think the reason why tech companies are so well-valued is purely due to regulatory evasion skills and a dash of political engineering. And how exactly is that a bad thing? You assume regulations are good, but as a
217.
by 1996 6y ago
Same thing here: I don't have to work anymore but I chose to, with a bit of VC on the side. There are many interesting projects, and having full freedom is priceless! I try to favor project that only take crypto, not fiat, and price th
218.
by 1996 6y ago
> I actually tremendously enjoy hearing a well constructed negative argument against Bitcoin/Crypto that presents a perspective I haven't heard a 100 times before and/or hasn't been debunked in depth. Me too! /r&
219.
by 1996 6y ago
I know. I'm retired thanks to crypto. I'm glad I eventually saw how HN was wrong and learned from my mistakes. It did cost me bit of time-opportunity, but there's a point where you have "enough" and it's not w
220.
by 1996 6y ago
For 12 years, just bubbles? First it was over 1 cent, then over $1, over $1000, now over $50k.... when will you consider the possibility you may have been wrong? At $100k? At $1M? (which most models indicate as a plausible target price in 1
221.
by 1996 6y ago
I'm patiently waiting for the dismissals (it's just a fad like tulips or beanie babies), the negative permabulls (it's evil because people can use it to buy drugs / not pay taxes, it can't do as many TPS as Visa, it
222.
by 1996 6y ago
I don't work anymore, but I'm curious of what happened. You said they destroyed you. Did they fire you for working on your project? Were you harassed? (tall poppy syndrome?)
223.
by 1996 6y ago
> For context, my last employer was "Oh you're doing something in your free time? let me utterly destroy you." (and they did). How could they? And what was their motivation for doing this? An employee doing something in th
224.
by 1996 6y ago
> they payed more per vaccine, thus guaranteeing the supply needed to be able to mass vaccinate Who could have guessed that paying the right price would guarantee the supply of a rare commodity everyone would want? :)
225.
by 1996 6y ago
> servile wave of infantile 'technologists' that are beholden to FAANG so this is clearly what happens when even 'smart people' get things wrong: they try to justify their errors with these campaign smears. Which is w
226.
by 1996 6y ago
As seen in the keyboard space! Try the latest XPS 15: low travel yet perfect feedback, better than mechanical keyboards! While we now have better technology, people prefer what they are familiar with.
227.
by 1996 6y ago
> French leaders and politicians are now concerned that USA "wokeness" threatens the stability of their country Hypocrites. Look at how Asians are targeted in hate crime in France, by both whites and non whites. Covid being cal
228.
by 1996 6y ago
> As those are equivalent with 4 PCIe 3.0 lanes Can you suggest some brands or models?
229.
by 1996 6y ago
Have you heard about how people who grew up with MP3 prefer music that's not lossless encoded but that's missing the same frequencies as in mp3 files? It's the same, except with keyboards: if you grew up with a laptop, you wa
230.
by 1996 6y ago
> Will keyboard shortcuts be primarily using Control or Super? On linux, Super as the shortcut for window operation is gaining ground, leaving Control and Alt for the other shortcuts. Control is idea for the text shortcuts (emacs: Ctrl-A
231.
by 1996 6y ago
TLDR: you are selling a book
232.
by 1996 6y ago
> I think the tide has turned. Old people eventually retire and die. But it took BTC to go to 46k for the tide to turn! And given what I keep noticing every now and then here on HN, the moon seems to control the tide :)
233.
by 1996 6y ago
yet
234.
by 1996 6y ago
> I'm not 100% positive about Hetzner, but suspect much of it is is actually on a VM Wrong. The parent poster means running postgresql baremetal. Yet both VM and containers just don't cut it when it comes to performance. I&#x27
235.
by 1996 6y ago
They will be super angry and look at all the details, including the past profits, then calmly decide to look the other way because they need a retirement account after all :)
236.
by 1996 6y ago
No, it's accurately conveying the sadness and the loneliness when you see the right moves (in life, in work) and people being oblivious to them and ending up poor/unhappy/etc.
237.
by 1996 6y ago
> How does that differ from using a hypervisor with similar limiting features? Depends on what you think is the most costly: kernel control of processes, or hypervisor control of kernels controlling processes. Based on my experience, no
238.
by 1996 6y ago
This should be the top reply, not the useless discussion without any extra content.
239.
by 1996 6y ago
> Now that most things are virtual and easily created/destroyed there's no good reason _not_ to name functionally. Uh, my servers with at least 256G of RAM and a raid60 of more drives than you have virtual machines can't e
240.
by 1996 6y ago
> What do you mean "thinks" it can? I mean that the government can claim whatever it wants, the validity of the claims still have to be demonstrated in court - since we are not yet in a dictatorship the executive and the judici

More ›