cowtools

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   by cowtools 4y ago

   Why is it necessary to break even? Ordinary users can mine on their home hardware and make a return on their existing hardware before it depreciates.
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   by cowtools 4y ago

   >It is a fundamental aspect of modern capitalist organization of wealth. In a functioning system it's a property that reflects the time-value of money. In cryptocurrency, there is no need for such a property. Any altruistically-desi
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   by cowtools 4y ago

   Maybe they will switch to DirectWay Land?
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   by cowtools 4y ago

   TOR is no magic bullet
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   by cowtools 4y ago

   sms and email are insecure-by-default protocols. Gmail/imessage extend them which necessarily will create vendor-lock in when the extension relies on some centralized service, the extensions are private, and the implementations are clo
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   by cowtools 4y ago

   For me, the difference is that one is an emergency and the other is a long-term sytematic issue. The cost of the lives of 5 first-world people in terms of economic productivity is like an order of magnitude greater than my savings.
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   by cowtools 4y ago

   I suppose it depends on infant mortality rate
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   by cowtools 4y ago

   Sway has some reverse compatability via XWayland. I am curious, is there any feature in particular keeping you on a native X11 desktop?
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   by cowtools 4y ago

   I agree. An inportant one for me ia the filesystem. Why can't I segregate Whatsapp to a single directory?
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    by cowtools 4y ago

    Right now it is probably monero. It does one thing (anonymous transactions) and does it alright. But I think we will see increased adoption of less decentralized and anonymous systems like GNU Taler or Nano for micropayments, which are gene
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    by cowtools 4y ago

    You're stating that there is a non-negotiable right and wrong, and that cryptocurrency is in-defensively wrong (e.g. "Literally Hitler"). I ask you to justify your position then.
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    by cowtools 4y ago

    I don't think it's a fair comparison. monero (and almost every other modern cryptocurrency) has reasonable fees due to its dynamic blocksize. Additionally, the tokenomics of monero are somewhat inflationary as of last month, they&
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    by cowtools 4y ago

    As much as I like XMR, you have to admit that you are still paying the (albeit very competitive and CPU-based) miners for verifying your transaction, in both the transaction fee and inflation due to tail emission.
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    by cowtools 4y ago

    are cryptocurrency supporters "literally hitler" now?
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    by cowtools 4y ago

    > Hacker News has gotten overwhelmingly anti-crypto to an extent it’s as bad an echo chamber as many pro-crypto echo chambers. I think it's reasonably skeptical. There is a balance here. > People have such a hatred for crypto the
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    by cowtools 4y ago

    I think there is some net utility cryptocurrency provides as a means of payment, but the cryptocurrency "community" has largely veered away from that narrative since bitcoin and others have butted heads with their transaction volu
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    by cowtools 4y ago

    I mean, who benefits from advertising in crypto? The developers, owners, early investors and inside traders. Is it ironic that the most advertised cryptocurrencies are usually the least equitable?
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    by cowtools 4y ago

    Good game.
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    by cowtools 4y ago

    I would imagine that any implementation of x86 would have to bear the weight of reverse-compatibility. With reverse comparability, the bad design decisions just compound, for example complicated stuff like memory synchronization https:&#x2
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    by cowtools 4y ago

    Are the GCC cross-compilers for ARM64 not sufficient? We're not talking about some niche, new architecture here like RISCV or WASM.
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    by cowtools 4y ago

    I've recently installed this plugin on my own distro. It sucks that default gnome can only tile 2 windows per monitor. This plugin is great
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    by cowtools 4y ago

    How is it any worse than the current system? Use Tor or I2P. NAT is not a privacy or security feature. You can treat it like it is, but only at your own risk.
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    by cowtools 4y ago

    If you must take it with a grain of salt, you can usually find a grain of truth.
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    by cowtools 4y ago

    All reporting is selective
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    iFixit and Google launch official Pixel parts store(arstechnica.com)

    3 points by cowtools 4y ago|0 comments
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    by cowtools 4y ago

    Who knows, maybe country music was all the rage on the ARPANET
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    by cowtools 4y ago

    Peer-to-peer file transfers will always be faster than having an intermediary. Why not use bittorrent or IPFS? P.S. The problem dropbox "fixes" is that there is no decent file transfer protocol that is IP agnostic. Using something
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    by cowtools 4y ago

    I would certainly prefer to live like that once that is within my means and skills. But until then, is there no middle ground between surveilance state and free society?
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    by cowtools 4y ago

    Good.
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    by cowtools 4y ago

    Yes. The internet is broken, and a lot of these companies are based on selling "solutions" to these artificial problems. Another example is Cloudflare. If the internet was designed properly, you wouldn't have DDoS attacks in