Valakas

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by Valakas 5y ago
How is it that PoW is better though? No single individual can mine profitably anyway. You also need to be part of a pool to get some share of the profits.
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by Valakas 5y ago
It's easy to dismiss the difficulty of something when all you see is a webpage explaining things very well and simply with some cool graphics. That webpage looks really cool, but this is just a front page of the result. The backend of
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by Valakas 5y ago
What happened to the freedom to have your money without it losing value without having to resort to risky alternatives to prevent it from happening?
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by Valakas 5y ago
Gold is a metal made in the burning core of dying stars. It doesn't really care about buyers and economy. We use gold for many purposes other than as a store of value, and that is exactly why it became a store of value. It is useful BE
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by Valakas 5y ago
"Hey we're not removing your ability to speak, just your tongue!"
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by Valakas 5y ago
Totally agree with you on this. We're reaching a point where the services some private companies provide are becoming too important to remain private, or at least, being served in a monopolistic fashion where the user has basically no
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by Valakas 6y ago
'Never' is a long timespan :) It will be solved, sooner or later. The universe will be fully understood and manipulated. By us, a modified version of us, or some other entity, perhaps even one we created. 300 years ago 'elect
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by Valakas 6y ago
I have the opposite experience. I had fears of having heart problems, or in my head, and at some point in my life I went to doctors and they all sent me away, they couldn't find anything wrong. The more incompetent ones might have more
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by Valakas 6y ago
I've used Anki for language learning but didn't find it that useful. A problem I encountered was that while I could remember words and expressions in the Anki environment, I couldn't do it outside of it. Or I could memorize a
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by Valakas 6y ago
Harm maybe not, but used definitely. If you're not useful to a sociopath you will not be in their life. And if something goes wrong, you definitely incur the risk of getting harmed, either physically or mentally.
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by Valakas 6y ago
I attest to this. This book should be required reading in school. There's so much suffering in the world being done to children in the privacy of homes. That suffering goes without punishment and the victims grow up to be perpetrators
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by Valakas 7y ago
But are the billionaires the ones actually responsible for creating all that value? Is Bezos actually responsible for 10 000x the value of what Amazon produces than a worker? If Bezos didn't exist, there would be another "Bezos&qu
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by Valakas 8y ago
Indeed. I use something instead called "savings rate". How much per hour of the money I make is not spent in basic stuff? I also go one step further. In calculating this savings rate, i add to the 40 work hours, much more that are