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by SwimSwimHungry 6y ago
Sure, but it's probably a good thing he's not at Mozilla now, because he would have also pulled Firefox down the same path Brave has gone with micropayments using BATs, which isn't exactly uncontroversial. See the Tom Scott a
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by SwimSwimHungry 6y ago
Exactly. This is basically digital Amway haha.
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by SwimSwimHungry 6y ago
It scares me how much of a cult following Bitcoin specifically has. I just saw a post go up on /r/bitcoin about a butter who sold her house for freaking Bitcoin. I'd hate to be her when (not if) this goes tits up.
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by SwimSwimHungry 6y ago
Also, this statement you made. "Ethereum goal was to allow people to build different types of dApps by opening up the number of op codes on the virtual machine" Let me tell you, laypersons won't understand a word of this at a
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by SwimSwimHungry 6y ago
Yeah... I absolutely love what the hacking community has pulled off with the 3DS. It's pretty much my favorite gaming handheld right now, even over the Switch!
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by SwimSwimHungry 6y ago
sumgame, I appreciate this long and detailed response, as well as your insights. That said, here's why I think cryptocurrencies (specifically the underlying blockchain concept) are mostly redundant to us. The answer might surprise you,
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by SwimSwimHungry 6y ago
Dude you're totally fine. No offense taken. I'm actually of the opinion that I need to be offended once in awhile. It makes me think.
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by SwimSwimHungry 6y ago
Ok so HN is a bit annoying as I can't really reply to things you said directly now... but let me break a few things down. Firstly, did we like become best friends or something? I love how you described homeschooling haha. Secondly, rea
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by SwimSwimHungry 6y ago
P.S I was also homeschooled myself. high fives
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by SwimSwimHungry 6y ago
Btw read your new comment below mine. Thank you for being a good sport about all this. Please note, I will never personally attack someone I disagree with. I just get a bit heated sometimes. :)
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by SwimSwimHungry 6y ago
I've only been adding content. I haven't changed any of my positions. Working on a mobile it's a bit hard when you return carriage and sometimes I post anyway.
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by SwimSwimHungry 6y ago
Eh, can you tell me what the killer app is supposed to be? I'd like to know. Because in 12 freaking years, there has to have been something better than "lets kill our planet as quickly as possible while early adopters get rich&quo
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by SwimSwimHungry 6y ago
I'm dead serious. Your comment seeks to discredit my position, but I'm speaking my truth to what I see. Sorry, but the bitcoin fans get condescending, acting like they can save us from those evil banks. Not a chance. Technology th
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by SwimSwimHungry 6y ago
This decomp is the basis for a Super Mario 64 native port to the 3DS. It's really incredible work that was done here.
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by SwimSwimHungry 6y ago
This is quite spot on. Cryptocurrency lately has become this techbro version of a white-savior complex, where we think this magic technology will somehow uproot the lower lesser classes from their eternal toil and discord, yet I've see
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by SwimSwimHungry 6y ago
My friend, this bank the unbanked meme is a tired trope that all the cryptocurrency apologists love to push. But does anyone really want to be their own bank? Consider the following... - You could lose your wallet and have nobody to phone i
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by SwimSwimHungry 6y ago
You'll never get a straight answer. Cryptocurrency fans love huffing their own farts too much to actually give a salient explanation for this. Proof of work does a good job contributing to increasing problems with global warming and wr
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by SwimSwimHungry 6y ago
I see this applies even moreso with the cryptocurrency fanboys on HN that feel that their newfound wealth (on paper) makes them paragons of financial wisdom and success, spawning serious Dunning-Kruger effects. I would argue the cryptocurre
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by SwimSwimHungry 6y ago
Well not me personally. I mean some of the commenters on this thread seem to be a bit irritated and the clashing that turns up afterwards in the comments, which seems relatively unproductive. It would be nice to have a way to kind of give n
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by SwimSwimHungry 6y ago
I've always wondered if someone could make a browser plugin to filter anything involving cryptocurrency out of web sites like HN, /. or reddit? Having to read about all this every day contributes to unnecessary anxieties and stres
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by SwimSwimHungry 6y ago
Hey Chris, for what it's worth, your software was quite a lifesaver for me in my earlier OS X days back in college. Your software had great impact on my workflow and I'll never forget it. :)
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by SwimSwimHungry 6y ago
That depends on what you define as a "mass shooting". Some of the statistics turn out to be playing a game of sleight of hand, defining events that really shouldn't be classified as a mass shooting as a mass shooting. Most of
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by SwimSwimHungry 6y ago
I can't agree more. Simply put, even if you do manage to get a thumb up from the Sheriff in California for a permit, the fees really are a tax on the poor as well.
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by SwimSwimHungry 6y ago
As a quick note, I appreciate the candor of your responses. And, I understand the sentiment you point out about a wallet not being worth another person's life. But sadly, not everyone necessarily will take your cash and dash. I'm
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by SwimSwimHungry 6y ago
Wait, what chaos are you referring to? I'm simply stating that the right to bear arms is enshrined in the US Constitution and it's wrong that the Sheriff is acting as some kind of gatekeeper on who should be allowed to exercise th
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by SwimSwimHungry 6y ago
>So yeah all nice in thoery, in practice men kill each other over stupid things. And your point? Murder is illegal and punishable if it's not considered "justified homicide" under a court of law. But murder being illegal n
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by SwimSwimHungry 6y ago
Yes. That is what is likely being suggested. A well armed society is a polite society. But hey, if you live in an ivory tower, why let the common folk have a right to bear arms? Doesn't that sound elitist to you? A certain someone by t
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by SwimSwimHungry 6y ago
I should clarify my statement for "new" installs of Windows. Typically older set ups are already running specific configurations where a 32-bit install makes sense and are left alone until the next upgrade cycle. This PAE patch is
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by SwimSwimHungry 6y ago
Pretty sure the so-called Auto Pilot system that came earlier on with Tesla vehicles basically does all that you describe, just without the ridiculous pricetag of FSD... a system that still has a lot to prove and needs further development.
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by SwimSwimHungry 6y ago
There is a way around this limitation on consumer versions of Windows. There's a patch by Wen Jia Liu and it works even to this day on the very latest build of Windows 10 (20H2). https://wj32.org/wp/2016/02&#x

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