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by beaned 4y ago
People are ascribing brilliance and cunning to something that was simple self interest. FTT was risky, so they dropped it. What would they have done if FTT was risky and they didn't intend to acquire FTX? The same thing.
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by beaned 4y ago
What would it mean to crash "for good"? The network will never go offline because it's decentralized and costs nothing to run a node (miners are different). Someone will always be willing to pay a few cents or dollars for one
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by beaned 4y ago
Before people state strong assumptions one way or the other, have there ever been any studies that measured the relationship between test scores and IQ? If so, what did they say?
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by beaned 4y ago
The way I've always thought it was meant to be is that the "weekend" is really the "week ends," meaning start and end, the same way a shoelace has 2 ends.
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by beaned 4y ago
It's not really surprising and for an expected reason. It's the same reason American airports aren't all that impressive compared to other ones internationally. It's because commercial flying in the US has existed for ov
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by beaned 4y ago
But could otexin supplements potentially help people with narcolepsy? As opposed to just keeping people who are already healthy awake longer.
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by beaned 4y ago
Isn't correlation also what you would expect in an honest scenario as well? If there's demand for acquiring tether to trade Bitcoin, and it has to be printed, so it is, and then it's used for Bitcoin trading, I don't und
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by beaned 4y ago
Well... They were right, until they were wrong.
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by beaned 4y ago
I could have been clearer. The point is to be able to opt out of the traditional finance system when they want to.
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by beaned 4y ago
No, but you don't have to. The point of blockchains is to allow people to opt out when they want to. If you don't want to or need to, you have that option.
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by beaned 4y ago
Is this measurable? Is it possible to tell which nodes are running in the cloud, and count them?
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by beaned 4y ago
The reason this is possible for etc is because it's a small chain nobody uses with blocks that can be mined with hardware from much larger chains. There is no larger compatible proof of work chain than Bitcoin.
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by beaned 4y ago
How many full nodes are there?
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by beaned 4y ago
Key word being seeks
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by beaned 4y ago
On the "cheap to transact" side, lightning wallets let you send for typically less than a penny, and without waiting for block confirmation.
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by beaned 4y ago
If they're going to make that many bikes, why not just give them away? Why have them be "shared" and made to be returned to a pile? It would at least eradicate theft. Most people would have the same model. You could get a han
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by beaned 4y ago
> Even in a country with maximum digital literacy, I doubt most people would feel motivated to use crypto either. Not sure we understand each other with this part. I'm arguing that it's about literacy, you're saying people
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by beaned 4y ago
Why do you say "probably," do you know? I would guess that it has more to do with technological literacy. People put effort into saving small amounts all the time, like cutting coupons or going to the cheaper store further down th
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by beaned 4y ago
That's because you have the privilege to not care. There are people who spend their days scraping parks for bottles and cans to make $0.05 at a time.
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by beaned 4y ago
No, I was a kid.
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by beaned 4y ago
I'm 36 and I've only ever known the Arpanet story, and I'm techy enough to be here.
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by beaned 4y ago
I can only speak for myself. I tried a microdose of LSD during the work week and it was really great. I didn't do it to increase productivity, I did it to experiment. I was the same me, minus negative thinking for 48 hours. I felt ligh
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by beaned 4y ago
I would hate my parents for this. It sounds like you were a very normal child.
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by beaned 4y ago
There might be a bit of observational bias here (better technical term?). HN is overwhelmingly about the tech industry, but most US companies are started outside of SF/California.
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by beaned 4y ago
Can you pack it and sell it?
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by beaned 4y ago
Maybe you should try embracing the hunger. I'm on the opposite side of the spectrum, too skinny. It was very difficult for me to gain muscle mass for the longest time. Eventually I came to enjoy the feeling of working out for the muscl
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by beaned 4y ago
This part is intriguing to me: > In fact, if we analyse the history of (the few) radio signals that humanity have sent to several targets in the hope of contacting a civilization, none of those transmissions had a long duration or were r
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by beaned 4y ago
I would say that there are people trying to live this very philosophy already, and we can see what actions it has resulted in practically in the real world. For example, Twitter is absolutely staffed and run by people who I believe would wh
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by beaned 4y ago
The problem even with the paradox is that you can define "intolerant" as anything you want, and it creates a new problem: of becoming a slippery slope not against "intolerance" in itself, but a bucket category that is gr
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by beaned 4y ago
This sounds like a poetic way of justifying the pretense of tolerance while not actually being that, and using it as a symbol to mask the same behavior it is on the surface condemning.

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