belltaco

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   by belltaco 4y ago

   Sounds like extreme confirmation bias. Just a couple of counterpoints: Everyone taking the vaccine was supposed to be long dead. Women taking it were supposed to be sterile, and men too. There are billions of people who took and still... ba
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   Bitcoin hashrate drops nearly 40% as deadly U.S. storm unplugs miners(finance.yahoo.com)

   168 points by belltaco 4y ago|133 comments
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   by belltaco 4y ago

   >hanging out at the charger station gets old fast On the other hand, a lot of people can charge an EV at home, but you cannot fill gas at home.
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   by belltaco 4y ago

   There are no big revelations in the twitter files. It's mundane things like FBI employees asking Twitter to look at tweets telling Republicans to vote on the Wednesday after election day, when you can no longer vote. And Biden campaign
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   by belltaco 4y ago

   You're misunderstanding the thread. So let me lay it out. The Biden campaign in 2020(they were not in power, Trump admin was) sent a list of tweets to Twitter asking them to take a look alleging that they violated Twitter's rules
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   by belltaco 4y ago

   Revenge porn isn't necessarily always used for blackmail. Why didn't the FBI, Republican operatives, or the press blur Biden Jr.'s penis before making it public? It was obvious political vendetta. What public interest is serv
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   by belltaco 4y ago

   Instead of artificially limiting performance, why not make that a user configurable option, and let the drivers make the trade off with tire life. Kind of like how many newer phones and laptops have an option to save the life of the battery
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   by belltaco 4y ago

   Looks like you're right about compute. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/how-aws-prici...
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   by belltaco 4y ago

   Any particular reason why? You can get a free VPS in many places, for example: micro instances on AWS free tier, Azure free tier, etc. I don't know if they give you a unique static global IP, probably not. But as another commenter said
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    by belltaco 4y ago

    For a while? I've only heard of that in the past few days.
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    by belltaco 4y ago

    I use hckrnews.
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    by belltaco 4y ago

    Are you on Windows? Chrome has live captions now, not sure if it has it on other OSes. I believe you can play local files in Chrome too.
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    by belltaco 4y ago

    >Both KuCoin and Crypto.com said they had provided customers with the ability to verify their own holdings individually online. How does this even work?
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    by belltaco 4y ago

    Have you read the first amendment? It starts with Congress shall not make a law... FBI is not Congress.
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    by belltaco 4y ago

    No? One of the first tweets mentioned tells republicans to vote on Wednesday, when its too late.
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    by belltaco 4y ago

    From: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1519036983137509376?lang... Elon Musk @elonmusk "I simply mean that which matches the law. I am against censorship that goes far beyond the law. If people want less f
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    by belltaco 4y ago

    The electricity bill is like $2000. It'd waste more money for a manager to think about how to replace equipment, at California pay rates. This whole thread is making me lose faith in HN.
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    by belltaco 4y ago

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    by belltaco 4y ago

    Add HN to that list.
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    by belltaco 4y ago

    That's talking about article submissions, not comments. Couldn't read the PDF because the link is broken. More than 95% of the time I see a flagged account on HN, they post complete garbage that leads to more flaming replies if no
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    by belltaco 4y ago

    This outrage is hilarious coz HN shadowbans people too. Which increases site quality which is why all the complainers are on here.
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    by belltaco 4y ago

    They didn't lose $3T.
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    by belltaco 4y ago

    >The creation and use of cars is one of the most inefficient ways of transporting people to date. And this doesn't take into account all the environmental damage causes by mining practices to get the metals used for his battery and
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    by belltaco 4y ago

    How are those things sociopathic?
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    by belltaco 4y ago

    So Musk, who has done and is doing a lot to reduce air pollution(which is causing 6.5 million deaths per year) and climate change is sociopathic, but all the oil executives get a free pass, got it. Care to expand how he's sociopathic?
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    by belltaco 4y ago

    Not true, many states give Real IDs to non-immgrants.
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    by belltaco 4y ago

    >This joke while funny, was old in 1999 and is certainly ridiculous now in 2022 The joke is that this wasn't a joke, it was constantly someone seriously saying that desktop Linux is momentarily about to kill Windows when $NEXT_YEAR
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    by belltaco 4y ago

    I wouldn't claim it was govt interference like you're doing to support a bogus argument.
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    by belltaco 4y ago

    >California legislators passed a revenge porn law making it a crime for anyone to post online photos or videos of someone's intimate body parts without consent. The revenge porn law is defined under California Penal Code 647(J)(4) a
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    by belltaco 4y ago

    DNC is a private organization.