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by bavell 5y ago
Agreed with the "waste" argument. I won't defend the huge power consumption but the energy spent is strictly useful in a utilitarian sense - every joule spent makes it that much harder to perform a 51% attack. Ideally, the en
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by bavell 5y ago
Depends on if you count hard forks as new chains. Successful hard forks require decentralized consensus to follow the new chain.
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by bavell 5y ago
I agree. I think you two are talking past each other to a degree - Bitcoin the protocol is decentralized, Bitcoin the ecosystem in 2022 is moderately centralized in various ways.
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by bavell 5y ago
Yes, it also ignores that price is only one of many factors in the market - doesn't matter to some consumers how cheap your widget is if my widget has new tech/features not found in your widget and consumers need those features. S
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by bavell 5y ago
I completely agree with you but I think OP is poking fun at the overzealousness of some people accusing others of being anti-vax when the covid vaccines are the only ones those people oppose. Of course there are actual antivaxxers out there
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by bavell 5y ago
Does this apply to all usages of "Big Tech" as well? Or is that different?
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by bavell 5y ago
> I don’t think that your model of how vaccines work really makes sense. I believe OP is referencing "Original antigenic sin" [0]. "This leaves the immune system "trapped" by the first response it has made to ea
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by bavell 5y ago
Do you think the unvaccinated medical workers with natural immunity who were fired were criminally dangerous? I think denigrating nurses and doctors who have been working overtime to save lives for the last two years is pretty harsh and cal
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by bavell 5y ago
I'd imagine we'd have studies on this by now if that were actually the case though, right? It's been almost 2 years... so it seems like there's something else going on.
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by bavell 5y ago
That's fair, although instead of banning them I'd prefer to just have better alternatives that people naturally transition to. Cars are certainly not a very efficient mode of transport.
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by bavell 5y ago
Don't the vaccines put evolutionary pressure on the virus to mutate in order to escape them? I'm thinking of the hospital superbugs which are resistant to antibiotics.
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by bavell 5y ago
What I can't understand is the risk/benefit of firing thousands of unvaccinated medical staff across the US while we're in the middle of a pandemic and already experiencing hospital staff shortages. Isn't that just exace
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by bavell 5y ago
Hmmm, I take it you live in a city? You may not need anything other than a train or bike but other people have different needs.
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by bavell 5y ago
> COVID with no restrictions, which will only plateau at ridiculously high amount of infected (and dead). I'm curious what you think of Florida, which has had almost no restrictions for a majority of the pandemic and yet is actually
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by bavell 5y ago
Harm the young to help the old... why are we doing this to ourselves?
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by bavell 5y ago
I've never seen anyone in public with an N95 mask since the pandemic started but I've seen plenty of cloth masks, bandanas and those cheap hospital masks.
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by bavell 5y ago
Speak softly and carry a big stick - sometimes you're not the one starting the armed conflict.
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by bavell 5y ago
Love it haha, gonna borrow this sometime!
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by bavell 5y ago
I used to work like this in PHP at my first software job circa 2013. Wrote my own deployment tooling with all the warts you'd expect. Working this way is fine for simple setups but I'm glad I've moved onto saner workflows for
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by bavell 5y ago
Sounds like blender might not be for you. Personally I'm super happy with the new UI they revamped a year or so ago in 2.8 (which has barely changed since then). Plus there are tons of great YT videos at all skill levels for inspiratio
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by bavell 5y ago
Same here and agree 100%. Seeing ads again will help me spend less time on the platform. I almost cancelled earlier this year but this made it easy for me to pull the trigger.
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by bavell 5y ago
How many times can you get away with this before steam wises up? My guess is not many. They also have your CC. Makes it a pain for anyone but criminals to successfully brigade en-masse.
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by bavell 5y ago
Neither of the articles claim what you're claiming though ("game dev is a woman/gay", etc). What assumption have I made that you think is incorrect? I just made an observation that in my extensive history on the platform
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by bavell 5y ago
Dev nightmare fuel
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by bavell 5y ago
IIRC, vegetable oils (unsaturated fats) exploded in popularity in the middle of last century when chemical companies figured out how to mass produce them. Prior to that, we got most of our fats from saturated fats. Very interesting video ab
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by bavell 5y ago
Umm... What? I have never seen any of those things you mentioned on a steam review, ever, in my ~15yrs on the platform. The steam review graph is a fantastically useful tool for users with a huge SNR and I don't understand why you thin
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by bavell 5y ago
The steam review graph is brilliant and an example of getting it right. YT seems to have succumbed to it's incumbent position in the market and has stopped innovating - it now seeks only to maintain the status quo and apparently thinks
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by bavell 5y ago
It sure doesn't :/
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by bavell 5y ago
Those people are already getting their second or third boosters. What makes you think it would take 20 years for them to get it instead of inside of a year? Covid is highly infectious and spreads easily in spite of mass vaccinations. Gettin
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by bavell 5y ago
But if load on medical services is an issue, why are states firing health care workers by the thousands? I bought the "flatten the curve for 2 weeks" argument a year ago, not so much anymore.

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