bigphishy

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by bigphishy 5y ago
What country's citizenship do you hold?
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by bigphishy 5y ago
from https://www.speedtest.net/ ...Hmm.. I don't even trust speedtest for accurate speedtests let alone cosmological news. Speedtest.net's results are hilariously inaccurate, both way higher, and way lower than m
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by bigphishy 5y ago
If I understand this article correctly, the information is not new, but the report is following an investigation which has been on-going since the initial FCC comments began. However I don't see the report linked anywhere in the articl
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by bigphishy 5y ago
This sounds like desperation from FB.
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by bigphishy 5y ago
Sigh, time to break out the faraday cages then.
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by bigphishy 6y ago
I can see this is a productive conversation.
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by bigphishy 6y ago
For the love of god, we get it. What are no-coiners going to complain about when ethereum moves to proof of stake?
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by bigphishy 6y ago
Are these NFT's exclusive to ethereum? I should hope so for ethereum's sake. How will they be used to disrupt software?
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by bigphishy 6y ago
Hahaha holy shit
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by bigphishy 6y ago
Exactly this, web-browsers should look after the user, and should protect the user against webbrowser-exploits e.g. 1px png tracking images and cookies.
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by bigphishy 6y ago
https://www.deribit.com/ and there are a number of decentralized crypto options markets out there as well.
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by bigphishy 6y ago
But the question remains unanswered, is this behavior we should expect or reward when it is one of the world's largest and most influential actors?
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by bigphishy 6y ago
On a related note, does anyone know of any updates of the rare earth metals found off the coast of Japan? https://bigthink.com/technology-innovation/japan-rare-earth
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by bigphishy 6y ago
"At fundamental level, Adtech is there to help people." Haha. Adtech is not there to "help people". Back in the day, prior to television and radio, ads were there to provide information about a product, but those days ar
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by bigphishy 6y ago
No. Betteridge's law of headlines . . . Although, I support setting a similar type of legislation targeting Major websites ( 50 million+ active users ) to enforce something akin to the Fairness Doctrine. Other than that, a long-term so
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by bigphishy 6y ago
>If people want to play the lotto or burn a billion dollars to send a message I’m not sure why billionaires would go on cnbc angrily shouting it’s a “way of attacking wealthy people” if they weren’t really angry about something. My head
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by bigphishy 6y ago
Hey jbegley, I reposted this story since the initial submission did not garnish enough attention https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25966014
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A Pro-Huawei Influence Campaign(nytimes.com)
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by bigphishy 6y ago
Are we to believe data that comes direct from the Chinese communist party without second guessing it? I am not that naive.
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by bigphishy 6y ago
Reality is not black and white. You need to strike a balance. The claim of "1000% as dangerous" is sensational, and frankly, should be backed up by facts, or else you are just smearing mud.
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by bigphishy 6y ago
Twitter and Facebook have radically different leadership, and therefore they do not take the same approach. In a related note, Twitter is actively developing and promoting decentralized social mediums and decentralized protocols.
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by bigphishy 6y ago
amazon is eating open source, it's messed up.
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by bigphishy 6y ago
Wow, I don't mean to issue an ad-hominem attack... but I do not consider anything from NY Post legitimate, I'd even venture to say NY Post is a tabloid owned by News Corporation, and surprised that this is on HackerNews.
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by bigphishy 6y ago
Legitimate use cases can include donations.
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by bigphishy 6y ago
There's more discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25842855
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by bigphishy 6y ago
A blast from the past, and of course the article is quite interesting to read 14 years later. Thanks for sharing this
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by bigphishy 6y ago
Great, this time he cannot use tax payers to pay for his legal defense team.
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by bigphishy 6y ago
According to this article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/01/06/where-is-... Jack Ma has gone missing after criticizing Chinese banks and having his ANT IPO stopped by the Chinese governmen
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by bigphishy 6y ago
The primary reason I'm looking at a performance model S is for the speed, I am a simple man XD
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by bigphishy 6y ago
I wonder why"ET7" was the name, is this the 7th iteration?

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