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by Slartie 5y ago
Yep, sounds very much like Warcraft. That also matches the timeframe much better.
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by Slartie 5y ago
> The producers stayed up late playing WoW and avoiding their wives and babies. Sure about this? World of Warcraft was first released in 2004.
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by Slartie 5y ago
That's simply not true. Electricity prices vary by a considerable factor, even among the cheapest sources. The Bitcoin price is identical, globally. These two can only coexist if there is a considerable margin to be made in mining, all
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by Slartie 5y ago
Maybe the American taxicab market was especially dysfunctional (the stuff I read about NY taxi medallions suggests that somehow), but in other countries, this "inevitability" came about, largely without Uber's involvement. In
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by Slartie 5y ago
The referee at yesterday's England vs. Denmark match apparently didn't get the memo.
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by Slartie 5y ago
> Except there was never any evidence that Trump got involved, even after multiple independent reviews. That doesn't matter. We're not talking about criminal proceedings, where anyone has to be proven guilty beyond reasonable d
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by Slartie 5y ago
1. It helps get the point across just _how crazy_ this is. Sarcasm isn't only a tool to personally attack people - it's also a tool to verbally emphasize objectively valid arguments. 2. That's the beauty of it! We arrive at t
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by Slartie 5y ago
> A PoW miner has to spend to cover their costs, a staker doesn't have any cost to cover, providing a cryptographic signature requires no energy on an ongoing basis, just an initial investment. And that is great news for crypto hold
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by Slartie 5y ago
That's exactly what I meant with "all crypto holders pay for it": in the state of equilibrium of costs and rewards, the huge costs are effectively paid by devaluing existing crypto holdings and via transaction costs. Is that
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by Slartie 5y ago
> nobody can just become richer because they started rich Right. In PoW, they need access to limited semiconductor supplies and cheap electricity. Which are two things that can be bought with...what was that stuff called...? Ah, yes: mon
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by Slartie 5y ago
You mostly need to do that if you have a security division that's looking for reasons to justify their existence. One reason involving little actual work on their own side is to constantly nag other teams to install updates "for s
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by Slartie 5y ago
How can a patent from 1999 still provide any leverage? Isn't the lifetime of US patents (or patents in general in most countries) limited to 20 years, so this patent should have expired in 2019?
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by Slartie 5y ago
It would be worse because I think it would finally end the sequence of ever-bigger bubbles followed by collapses to higher lows. Why? Because the narrative that fueled this sequence has been "people with ever deeper pockets coming into
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by Slartie 5y ago
If tether went away tomorrow, 60 billion of "assumed dollars" backing up crypto asset values would also vanish. Such an event would immediately tank the dollar value of all cryptocurrencies (real dollars, not USDT, that one would
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by Slartie 5y ago
Even when you get those stolen GPUs placed on your porch for free, you still have to set them up in mining rigs, install software, cables, cooling et cetera, and you need to cater to the hardware once it is running and fix problems coming u
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by Slartie 5y ago
Some codebases have just mutated into junk beyond the point at which refactoring could still rescue any value, so a full rewrite actually becomes the better option. I would assume this problem to be especially widespread in apps of hastily
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by Slartie 5y ago
It just does not make sense. They are measuring themselves with double standards. On one side they want to defend their App Store tax and its immense height by counting usage of APIs, the store's distribution bandwidth etc. as value th
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by Slartie 5y ago
If that is so, then why are there still "developers in crypto" left? Shouldn't you expect from smart people that they eventually realize the conceptual infeasibility of what they are trying to accomplish?
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by Slartie 5y ago
> The speculation is a separate thing from the coins themselves. People also speculate with fiat currencies, stocks, real estate. No, speculation is the primary use case for all of these coins right now. And crypto currency has some adva
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by Slartie 5y ago
> I don't think it's transactions. Interesting. > For example, Monero enables private and untraceable transactions [...] So so... > Cryptocurrencies create value by providing other properties such as decentralization, tru
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by Slartie 5y ago
The machines from ASML are just tools (very precise and high-tech tools, but still tools) for one step in the semiconductor fabbing process. They don't come with a manual describing the entire process, but are more like a software libr
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by Slartie 5y ago
Don't forget that there's Eclipse as well, which I personally still prefer when dealing with Java codebases, although I have somewhat positive experiences using JetBrains IDEs in other languages, particularly Python with PyCharm.
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by Slartie 5y ago
I'd say this observation might be correct, on the basis that the Tesla announcement also sent the lesser-known NANO currency up by about 60-80%, which uses PoS as well.
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by Slartie 5y ago
Actually as to my observation it's the same fools again every time, plus some new fools, with ever-deeper pockets. This streak will break not when the maximum number of fools has been reached, but when the fools with the biggest wallet
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by Slartie 5y ago
I think you have just described in broad strokes what will happen in the next decade of GUI development.
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by Slartie 5y ago
Its only "use" is to artificially inflate the total crypto market cap by effectively providing another source of leverage to crypto coin traders. And no, it is not at all like borrowing against your house. You can live in a house,
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by Slartie 5y ago
Miners usually undervolt the GPUs to mine at peak efficiency, not peak performance and power consumption. Since chip wear correlates with power usage and heat production, GPU usage for mining is actually much less taxing for the hardware th
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by Slartie 5y ago
Someone should write a book about an AI that is developed as a new cryptocurrency, with PoW providing it insane amounts of compute power to its AI algorithm instead of performing dumb hashing races and proof of space providing insane amount
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by Slartie 5y ago
> and given how easy crypto is to steal and never return, I wouldn't WANT to lend it to anyone anyway! That's why all this "lending" is a joke anyway. They lend you less than your collateral. If you want to "borr
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by Slartie 5y ago
The EU has exported 113,5 million doses as of April 13, according to Bloomberg: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-14/eu-vaccin... This is in stark contrast to 0.25 million doses AstraZeneca vacc

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