Hizonner

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901.
by Hizonner 2y ago
> it's not actually code, just some stuff on what the software should "look out for" If it controls the behavior of a computer, then it's code. > and it's kind of understandable that channel files might seem s
902.
by Hizonner 2y ago
> It's literally impossible to understand multiple systems at a deep level,\ No, it's not. It takes above average intelligence, and major investment in actual education (not just "training"), and actual depth of e
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by Hizonner 2y ago
> So, your 1% figure was Bitcoin in general, not Lightning, and you intentionally used the wrong value to be misleading. You cannot use Lightning without using Bitcoin. And nobody is actually planning to change that so far as I know. I s
904.
by Hizonner 2y ago
At that time, "micropayments" meant payments on the order of less than a cent. Chaum's system didn't try to do that. I don't know exactly what "micropayments" means to people now. I get the impression it&#
905.
by Hizonner 2y ago
Goodness, child. What I suggested was that people shouldn't voluntarily support a stupid and wasteful project like Bitcoin (especially when, again, there are alternatives that are superior in every way including carbon). YOU are th
906.
by Hizonner 2y ago
Lighting is built on Bitcoin. Using Lightning encourages Bitcoin, and in fact requires doing transactions on the base Bitcoin chain. In fact, if Lightning-based Web micropayments caught on, it would drive the base transaction volume over th
907.
by Hizonner 2y ago
Finding and shooting the people publishing certain transactions is a fabulous way of censoring those transactions.
908.
by Hizonner 2y ago
Yes, I do. If you really want micropayments, then use one of the newer, better base systems that do the same things better on every metric, including not ripping through half a percent of the electricity generated in the world. Even if Bitc
909.
by Hizonner 2y ago
Bitcoin is not acceptable in 2024, and Lightning doesn't help. Nothing based on a PoW cryptocurrency should get any support from anybody.
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by Hizonner 2y ago
You're reaching. Well, you're stretching like crazy, but not actually reaching anything. Hypothetical taxes on unrealized (and possibly zero) profits are not in any way part of the transaction, and it's just bizarre to think
911.
by Hizonner 2y ago
> The linked opinion makes a point of explaining how this case differs frim Wickard v Filburn. My take is that the district court has to show deference to Wickard... but that doesn't mean that the whole issue can't be teed up t
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by Hizonner 2y ago
OMG, they're coming for Wickard v. Filburn.
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by Hizonner 2y ago
"right"
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by Hizonner 2y ago
> I'm not concerned with this question as it implies that people haven't got a choice between "rent modem, ez for noobs" and "buy own equipment, fully control it." If you buy the equipment from Verizon, I wi
915.
by Hizonner 2y ago
Do the own they rest of the equipment on the network that they're putting at risk?
916.
by Hizonner 2y ago
Verizon does not get to decide what's an appropriate tradeoff for other people's security .
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by Hizonner 2y ago
Google really needs to be broken up. Into 5 or 6 totally independent pieces.
918.
by Hizonner 2y ago
Don't panic over that! Panic over this!
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by Hizonner 2y ago
Youtube's eraser tool removes any music that any moron or bullshit artist has chosen to claim...
920.
by Hizonner 2y ago
I would put a fairly large wager on it just being bureaucratic dumbassitosity, and give you odds.
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by Hizonner 2y ago
> I disagree, 10^100 seconds in the future is perfectly valid time in any time system Professor Einstein would like a word...
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by Hizonner 2y ago
"What have you done?" "How did you do it?" "What problems did you encounter?" "How did you solve them?" It's not hard to recognize an impostor.
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by Hizonner 2y ago
They survived 12000 years doing something that did not in fact heal anybody.
924.
by Hizonner 2y ago
Actually you're meant to write "morphey". But the original is clear enough.
925.
by Hizonner 2y ago
> Not really, no more so than a random webpage running js/WASM in a sandbox. ... except that it can happen in non-browser contexts. Even for browsers, it took 20+ years to arrive at a combination of ugly hacks and standard practices
926.
by Hizonner 2y ago
I use at least four of those pretty heavily, and I suspect that I'm in the top quartile in terms of using at least three of them. I guess I'm going to be queued for deactivation now.
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by Hizonner 2y ago
Overblown hysteria both makes school administrators feel useful and sells papers...
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by Hizonner 2y ago
Sorry, what was this goal that was supposed to be getting "accomplished"?
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by Hizonner 2y ago
Well, you can expect all of those superior things to start going to hell in about a year or two. The enshittification will begin.
930.
by Hizonner 2y ago
A serious actor would have a cover phone that was their main phone and had truly been used for everything they did, other than eee-ville, for months or years. Either that or they'd be a completely in-character business traveller wi

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