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by 627467 6y ago
I'm amazed that "less than 10% of users" is considered NOT a "pretty strong need" for ux.
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by 627467 6y ago
But visa doesn't provide most of the functions of bitcoin infrastructure. Visa does need to hold the balance of my account. Visa does need or make available all of my equity worth of assets for me to transfer. Visa does not custody my
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by 627467 6y ago
What is the economic (hence energy cost) impact of maintaining the financial infrastructure where VISA is only a tiny part of? While the traditional financial infrastructure is under doing rapid modernization, my layman eye still see lots o
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by 627467 6y ago
I agree that most NFTs will be mostly useless outside of certain conditions. Ie. If I want to play a blockchain-based game NFTs in that game will be valuable because my client and other player client to the game is forced to accept that tok
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by 627467 6y ago
Being a 'low-tech' (compared to most other web destinations these days) and text-only sites with some social interactions is one of the reasons I come to hn multiple times a day. I sorta learn to ignore most things posted. So bene
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by 627467 6y ago
I agree with sentiment but the last time someone handed us a optical disk with memories in it we had to ask a relative for a device they had in the basement for us to read that disk.
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by 627467 6y ago
Energy is not an infinite resource. If you use up that energy to <insert activity>, it could have been used for something else instead.
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by 627467 6y ago
I'm surprised this post didn't mention the ui components (front end code in whatever framework they use) in the system. in my experience, a design system thag only caters to designers will get little adoption, particular in larger
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by 627467 6y ago
Exactly (about it being the opposite of an "actual" horcrux). But this is not even the first (or the second) split-secret mechanism to make this same reverse analogy
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by 627467 6y ago
https://www.dictionary.com/e/pop-culture/horcrux/
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by 627467 6y ago
You know what else consumes more power than Argentina? Canada and Saudi Arbia[1] (among others) both countries with less population than Argentina but with higher overall consumption. Is that "good"? Is it "right"? How m
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by 627467 6y ago
Shutdown, how? Will any individual country shutting it down mean bitcoin looses all it's value proposition? Why/how would all countries shut it down?
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by 627467 6y ago
Probabilistically, you probably can estimate that. Is a permanently dormant address just dormant or is it "burnt"?
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by 627467 6y ago
> The higher the price, the more miners compete to find a block. But only if it's profitable to miners coming in. Ultimately mining pressures miners into finding cheap sources of electricity. Yes, many just take advantage of subsidi
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by 627467 6y ago
I'm wondering what is the wealth distribution of Fiat, using the criteria you set.
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by 627467 6y ago
Isn't there a place for this kind of fetish? It doesn't need to be in today's Google (but maybe in 5 year old Google). > Google can on the whole accomplish its revenue goals without being a meat grinder. So why be one? I t
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by 627467 6y ago
As seen from many comments this posts would be polemic to say the least. Obviously the author is from a different time where tech/SV abundance did not exist and had to be created through huge personal sacrifice. He speaks as such perso
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by 627467 6y ago
In this is also how gender discrimination perpetuates.
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by 627467 6y ago
Have you tried to do that while being part of non-first world financial system? Normally if local currency is being devalued by government it goes along with capital control mechanisms that essentially renders other investments impossible
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by 627467 6y ago
As a actual ban, it wasn't as effective as you'd think in many other countries. Considering how countries with high inflation such Venezuela and Argentina rely mostly on P2P to on-ramp to crypto I don't think "banning&qu
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by 627467 6y ago
"Should remote workers have their pay reduced if they move somewhere cheap?" Who is anyone to say one way or another? It's a negotiation between 2 parties. Employee will try to argue that value they bring is indifferent of wh
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by 627467 6y ago
Only adjacent to this: am i wrong to think that in many places this lack of available vaccines in a predictable manner is leading to a staggered immunization and (unneeded?) delay of effective mass immunization? I mean: if you waited to sto
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by 627467 6y ago
Agreed, but I'd clarify that being open (source, or with little vendor lock-in effects) can certainly make a product better in the eyes for certain market segments. Building a AWS without vendor lock-in sounds like a interesting propos
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by 627467 6y ago
...or when "indigenous" culture pretend that integration only works in a single direction-minorities being absorbed into bigger group without impacting any change in "original" culture.
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by 627467 6y ago
Racial stats and forms asking about it are an underestimated force that perpetuates systemic racism, increases segregation, discrimination and undermines social cohesiveness. Change my mind.
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by 627467 6y ago
The September internet is also the ad/bloat-driven internet. It's cool in its way too, but Gemini (at least for now) is meant to be a different place. Soon, we'll have easier publishing tools for Gemini, so soon September wil
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by 627467 6y ago
...and none of which produce irrefutable dogmas or relies on censure to validate itself. In fact it's the opposite: the scientific method, reason and philosophy relies on the availability of stupid ideas to reinforce the "truth&qu
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by 627467 6y ago
Heard of it before but you comment made me actually see vimium in action. It seems like a potential tool for me! Thank you. I'm intrigued because navigating this way makes UI much closer to a touchscreen experience: there's no mou
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by 627467 6y ago
I guess a car is similar to a cellphone like a car is similar to a cruise ship...
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by 627467 6y ago
"the auto industry made it a crime", I mean, we hear lots of allegations that USA is actually ruled by corporations but was this crime not established as such by elected officials in an elected institution? Jaywalking is a ridicul

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