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   by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 4y ago

   Many nations have nukes and navies. None is capable of breaking a secp256k1 key.
2. 1322.▲
   by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 4y ago

   So they did exactly the same thing that FTX did - gambled with clients' money and lost.
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   by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 4y ago

   >> write a polite email That only works as long as X doesn't realize that the letter has been written by AI. Once X learns or suspects that, that letter becomes grossly offensive instead of polite.
4. 1324.▲
   by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 4y ago

   >> your long duration assets drop alot in value so you can't easily liquidate them That conjecture seems wrong. Sure, 2% 30-y treasuries dropped a lot in value, but you still can easily liquidate them.
5. 1325.▲
   by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 4y ago

   14. First Bitcoin was mined 14 years ago. And Bitcoins have not been mined with GPUs since 2013.
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   by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 4y ago

   Haha, 6ms to add two integers that's about 1000x slower than on my trusty old PDP-11. You can trust software people to undo half a century of hardware engineers efforts).
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   by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 4y ago

   What will happen, such a thin tube will not be able to confine the electromagnetic wave within its boundary, so most of the wave's field will propagate outside of the tube and will quickly diffract on any bumps it encounters.
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   by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 4y ago

   Sorry, what's wrong with home cooked pasta? Just made some, with scallops, using a chatgpt provided recipe, it came out pretty good.
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   by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 4y ago

   ChatGPT timed out?
10. 1330.▲
    by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 4y ago

    Newer generations will inherit all that real estate. Some will inherit more, some less, just as some will be born in Australia and some in Malaysia, well, life is unfair.
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    by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 4y ago

    Too honest for that world. Could have just said yes I will be sleeping there with Marilyn every night. They wouldn't know unless there are cameras installed in the bedroom.
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    by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 4y ago

    You make it sound like chargeback is an easy thing to do, with 100% success rate. I tried twice in my life to chargeback, for items not delivered. Both times unsuccessfully. It looks like banks usually side with merchants, because merchants
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    by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 4y ago

    Possible alternative reason: you can't outsource housing (proximity), education (language), healthcare (proximity and language).
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    by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 4y ago

    Which browser are you using? Shows a blank page for me.
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    by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 4y ago

    Whatever you do, don't take SSRIs, there is good chance that you won't be able to come for the rest of your life.
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    by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 4y ago

    Switch was invented because it allows to replace several ifs and gotos with a precomputed static jump table, an optimization trick.
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    by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 4y ago

    Their business model is specifically not to go bankrupt, so there is hope ... With interest rates on the rise, and the price of GB consistently deflating, I think economics is on their side. I'm willing to take a 100-year bet).
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    by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 4y ago

    Of course, you can buy a terabyte from them, just would cost more.
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    by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 4y ago

    There is forever.com, they promise to keep data for 100 years at least. I paid $160 for 10GB of storage. They even promise to transcode your videos for you as file formats become obsolete.
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    by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 4y ago

    Does Instagram offer a similar filter? If not, can we conclude that China is somewhat ahead in the AI game?
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    by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 4y ago

    I think there was a study that showed that college paid off only to a very low percentage of highest achievers, if you consider earning years lost, tuition cost and loan interest. And masters paid off to almost no one.
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    by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 4y ago

    >> If my kids didn't have my wife and I to inherit from Isn't it a nice feeling when you children impatiently wait for you to kick the bucket)
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    by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 4y ago

    As I remember, Pascal was nicer than C, because it allowed to edit, compile and run the application all in memory, while with C, you had to go through all those C0, C1, (C2?), lib and link stages, all requiring hard disk activity, very slow
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    by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 4y ago

    35 was when I first started needing naps after the lunch at work. That's when I realized I need to save enough money by 50 to retire from my programming job, and I did.
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    by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 4y ago

    "old fart" has never been associated with Putin, in any language. If, however, you Yandex "bald dwarf" in Russian, you will immediately arrive at the desired result :) if you are outside of Russia. Not sure what happens
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    by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 4y ago

    And once you go to Yandex search page, it will spam you to death to install Yandex browser, which will automatically install Russian government CA certificates, allowing them to spy on all your web traffic!
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    by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 4y ago

    What disease can be spread via old shoes, if you, for example, steam them at high temperature?
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    by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 4y ago

    Where they stand does not matter. If those three observers do not move in relation one to another, they will see events in the same order.
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    by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 4y ago

    The escrow and trust part can be handled in 1) reputation system 2) breaking the work into small parts and not risking large amounts at once.
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    by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 4y ago

    Currency stability is a relative and psychological issue; for someone in Russia, people holding USD are crazy adventurers, as value of US dollar fluctuated from 120 rubles to 50 and now back to 76, all within a year. For a Bitcoiner, a USD