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by 300bps 5y ago
There are 1.6 million tax exempt 501c3 organizations in the U.S. They range from major multibillion dollar charities to dudes who spent a few hours completing paperwork.
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by 300bps 5y ago
Speaking as someone who mined BTC profitably with a GPU and has my ETH mining rig churning away with gminer on flexpool.io right now, I sell everything I mine as soon as I get it. I see no legitimate utility in it. It has enabled scourges o
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by 300bps 5y ago
There are a lot of bad things in the world. Governments attempt to prevent their currencies from financing them. They do this through controls like AML/BSA. Cryptocurrencies bypass these controls. It’s not just dangerous for government
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by 300bps 5y ago
You seem a bit sensitive.
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by 300bps 5y ago
The person you’re responding to specifically mentioned TIPS. Your response seems to imply you don’t know what they are because they’re explicitly linked to inflation with a factor linked to CPI. So if inflation goes up 7.5% in a year then y
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by 300bps 5y ago
Please tell me what provider has free unlimited bandwidth. I’ve heard this false notion so many times on HN and every time I check it out, the provider says clearly that they don’t allow for unlimited bandwidth. So please tell me the provid
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by 300bps 5y ago
Write-ups like this always assume Netflix will remain static. In the past, they have faced two existential crises: 1) DVDs by mail was becoming a buggy-whip style business. They pivoted to streaming. 2) Streaming content licensed from other
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by 300bps 5y ago
We generate electricity with fusion the same way we do with many other technologies. We heat up water until it turns to steam which moves a turbine to spin some magnets to generate electricity. Fusion’s advantage over solar is it can theore
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by 300bps 5y ago
I look at this two different ways. 1) There is no such thing as "unlimited" anything with technology. Either you haven't read the fine print of your provider's terms or your provider will at some point have to change the
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by 300bps 5y ago
Interestingly, Atari was bought by Jack Tramiel who was the founder of Commodore Business Machines that made the Commodore Vic-20, Commodore 64 and more. January 1984, Jack Tramiel essentially got booted out of the company he founded (Commo
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by 300bps 5y ago
I think it's more underestimating the attention span of governments/law enforcement. When someone steals your bike, the cops could spend weeks investigating, interviewing witnesses, searching Craiglist, Facebook Marketplace, staki
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by 300bps 5y ago
The hack occurred 5.5 years ago. The Federal statute of limitations on Grand Theft/Larceny is 5 years. Is this why they are charged with Conspiracy to Commit Money Laundring and not charged with the actual theft? Lichtenstein and Morg
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by 300bps 5y ago
Point #1 - you are going to find the same bureaucracy, aversion to change and outdated technology at any large for-profit company. ---- Point #2 - I do not understand how anyone could have a sense of purpose working in the public sector. Ar
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by 300bps 5y ago
25 years of a loose confederation of unpaid developers working on a code base with frequent updates and improvements. If this is the worst that can be said about it, they're doing pretty darn good.
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by 300bps 5y ago
Wikipedia has a good tl;dr: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_positivity_ratio Later in 2013, the critical positivity ratio aroused the skepticism of Nick Brown, a graduate student in applied positive psychology,
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by 300bps 5y ago
The novel things you mention have happened to you take are rarer occurrences than a 3 year old experiencing basic physics. I can use the same example though! Seeing each of my children born left an immense imprint on me. Seeing them exp
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by 300bps 5y ago
You don’t feel the amount of new things you see slows down considerably as you grow older? Not OP but I don’t feel this way at all. My oldest son is starting college next year. That alone has been a learning experience! I coach his roboti
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by 300bps 5y ago
I’m glad that helps but just wanted to point out that there are ways of dealing with anxiety and panic attacks that don’t involve self-medicating. Someone on HN many years ago recommended the book Learned Optimism saying that it changed the
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by 300bps 5y ago
Mining profits are pretty low right now with EIP-1559 live, difficulty being so high and reduction in ETH price. For example, one of my RTX-3070s is making about $2.10 per day after electricity costs. Before EIP-1559 on high volume days (ex
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by 300bps 5y ago
Respectfully, you have a new account on HN and if it lasts another month before dang shadowbans you I’ll be shocked. You’ll know it happens when people just stop responding to you. I have showdead turned on and I shake my head as people pos
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by 300bps 5y ago
Respectfully, you need to do more research on this. Look up how ETC (Ethereum Classic) came into being. Look up a 51% attack. Look up forks from BTC to BCH and then BSV. Look up Craig Wright and his claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto. Again, res
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by 300bps 5y ago
The example I used protects the user from all these scenarios you mentioned. How does it protect against hardware failure? How does it protect against sending Coin X to a wallet meant for Coin Y? Also, the US doesn't care about movi
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by 300bps 5y ago
I could theoretically do that. But Coinbase says not to. And every single time I transfer ETH to Coinbase they give me a different wallet address to send the ETH to. Bottom line, they say not to do it and I personally can't guarantee I
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by 300bps 5y ago
Wait until your non-tech wife accidentally sends ETH to a BTC address. Or her hard drive dies. Or a million other things that can happen. And the one “legitimate” use case you list is to use cryptocurrency to bypass US controls on money tra
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by 300bps 5y ago
I mine ETH. I have flexpool.io configured to pay me out after I accumulate 0.05 ETH which is about $140 right now. They pay me out to my MEW wallet and the transfer costs me about $7. I then have to transfer from my MEW wallet to my Coinbas
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by 300bps 5y ago
I bought the Slackware CD from a local MicroCenter and used it as the email server for my ISP (running qmail) in 1996.
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by 300bps 5y ago
I can't imagine the target they have on their back right now. They'll have quite a decision on their hands if someone takes this second round of $320 million.
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by 300bps 5y ago
Yes, and I get a mental picture in my mind of a guy walking down the street with $320 in his pocket. Some thugs walk up and take his $320. So he stops at the nearby ATM and withdraws another $320. Then walks down the same street with even m
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by 300bps 5y ago
The vast majority of people...would forego opportunities to steal and rob I agree with you 100%. The scary thing though is that if 99% of people wouldn't steal, just imagine how much damage those 3.3 million people in the U.S. can do
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by 300bps 5y ago
Not only is the TLDR longer than the actual text, it repeats it almost verbatim before adding additional information.

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