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by argvargc 6y ago
This is very misleading. Cryptocurrencies developed on 10+ year old tech, that have stayed in that state throughout may indeed have very poor tps as you state. However, this is absolutely not the majority, as that base tech has iterated bot
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by argvargc 6y ago
We'd doubtful be deemed uninteresting after figuring out world-destroying weapons and space-travel. Especially if we were considering mixing the two together. [0] I'd argue these developments would be most interesting, and justify
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by argvargc 6y ago
You've linked to two sites that aggregate data, and provided armchair analysis of them to back up your position. I've linked to 30+ studies supporting mine, none of which you've mentioned or shown studies that counter them (I
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by argvargc 6y ago
At first, I thought this meant languages where the programming symbols were limited in size to a single letter. I was simultaneously disappointed and relieved. Edit: and then I got to "O".
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by argvargc 6y ago
Works similarly for Apple laptops (but maybe stick to 2-3 years in that case). Even if you only get half price for it, it's still owning an Apple laptop... for half price. (And keep the box, they can be worth hundreds in terms of total
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by argvargc 6y ago
I read this kind of complaint, but frequent most of the services concerned and have never seen a single white-supremacist. I see open discourse much the same as HN. The few times I've visited any of the 'chans however, it's b
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by argvargc 6y ago
9 million/year have not been helped by donations, that's why the number persists. The "per year" number for COVID cannot change now, it's been a year. It is what it is. COVID, in light of other preventable deaths, a
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by argvargc 6y ago
9 million - including many children, and mostly people of colour - die each year of starvation. Where's the emergency, trillions and unprecedented worldwide cooperation and effort to eradicate that forever within less than a year? It d
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by argvargc 6y ago
> As far as I can tell, Sources?
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by argvargc 6y ago
Zero experiments have been done on long-term effects, and you cannot, and no one can, counter this point. That's the definition of "rushed". Vaccines typically take several years of testing before being approved. These aren&#
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by argvargc 6y ago
"Doctors For COVID Ethics" a (non anti-vax) group of 150+ medical professionals/university professors etc, warned in March about the likelihood of deaths resultant from exactly this issue. They went public with their previous
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by argvargc 6y ago
Why do you say "will people keep using crypto when they are forced to use centralized..."? They are not forced to use centralized services to issue, custody or trade cryptocurrencies. They never have been since the space was bor
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by argvargc 6y ago
Hence, a revealing and useful challenge.
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Maybe time to switch? Loads of results on DuckDuckGo
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by argvargc 6y ago
No. If advertising became impossible, vendors seeking to compete would be forced to make products good enough to be enthusiastically-shared, word-of-mouth, and everything in the world would be significantly better than it is.
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by argvargc 6y ago
I wonder how much ignorance in the world will be required, before HN stops downvoting people for asking questions?
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by argvargc 6y ago
Yes, agreed. Though I stand by my account of the original comment. (And as such, based on that they may need to go back to troll-school.)
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by argvargc 6y ago
I'm not sure a name change merely in pronunciation must be necessarily large or conflicting, especially if the existing one has an obvious problem. It's essentially a "soft" change - ie, change nothing, don't even a
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by argvargc 6y ago
So you'd be happy announcing to a room of strangers that you're working for a company called "fuq"? Or "diqhed"? Or how about "faqqot"? And how it plays out every single time ? In all things, there a
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by argvargc 6y ago
If there was a project called "fuq", and people were being harassed or finding it difficult to discuss, I think anyone could understand that this was an issue. Given this, "Coq" is clearly a fuqing problematic name, and
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by argvargc 6y ago
The GP's "statement" contained three relevant sentences, two ending with question-marks. I learned from both your answer and its parent, furthering conversation, for me at least.
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by argvargc 6y ago
While everyone is staying at home and distancing, fewer people are being tested, resulting in fewer cases.
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by argvargc 6y ago
Interesting, but given it contradicts volumes of research suggests that if based on real data (rather than the hand-waving it sounds like), it's probably anomaly.
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by argvargc 6y ago
What that list indicates, along with a huge amount of literature about the subject [0], is that arguments for lockdowns likely have zero validity. Certainly, with Sweden faring much better than other countries that employed far more restric
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by argvargc 6y ago
There's a significant difference between being reluctant to take a brand new, experimental medicine that exhibits high risk factors and low benefits, versus being opposed to vaccines per se. Absolutely not opposed to the latter, vaccin
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by argvargc 6y ago
> but at what point do we consider the daily scaremongering by people with an agenda? Indeed, at what point do we consider that? Is it after half the world has been indoctrinated into taking a several-month old experimental medicine fo
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by argvargc 6y ago
Oh, so now it's ok to use this type of argument?
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by argvargc 6y ago
The 4K PC intro competition is incredible, well-worth watching in full. If you didn't know they were entirely rendered in realtime by just 4K of code, you might think you were just watching a series of beautiful, well-produced music vi
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by argvargc 6y ago
"Bears" by Void in the Amiga 64KB Intro comp just now was incredible, a true piece of art. This is great!

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