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by cowtools 4y ago
Sure, but the threshold between "Retina" vs Non-"Retina" is somewhat arbitrarily decided by Apple, and it's also a registered trademark that only Apple owns. It's like arguing whether or not macbooks are "
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by cowtools 4y ago
That's a good point. But distance also plays a factor. Perhaps we should be measuring in pixels per degree at the viewing distance.
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by cowtools 4y ago
I am not a professional, I am just a student. Edit: If I was an artist or something I might care about resolution or color accuracy.
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by cowtools 4y ago
I use a bitmap font such as Unifont If I want the text to look sharper on a 1080p screen. it is useful for programming, not so much documents. As for hard drives vs SSDs, I can hardly notice the difference in read/write speeds day-to-d
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by cowtools 4y ago
It's still on f-droid
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by cowtools 4y ago
besides the fact that "retina display" is a marketing term invented by Apple, I don't really see what the big deal is. I have pretty good vision and I don't notice individual pixels on my 1080p screen. More pixels means
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by cowtools 4y ago
>Nvidia can ship a binary driver with a tiny shim and not get any blowback The opposite is true for every linux circle I am familiar with.
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by cowtools 4y ago
From the website: >[...] personally, after 6 months of iOS I am itching to get back to Android. Why? The notification system SUCKS on iOS compared to Android. It’s impossible to move files between apps. Hard to get any work done on it. B
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by cowtools 4y ago
I am talking about non-standard libraries
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by cowtools 4y ago
Well, the users did agree to the code when they bought $cryptocurrency
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by cowtools 4y ago
> That seems odd. People get fined when trying to circumvent copyright (or more). If they get caught. If you were opposed to copyright law, why go toe-to-toe against IP lobbyists when you can make a computer program that makes their tyra
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by cowtools 4y ago
>Go and Rust are similar in that aspect. I think this poses a subtle security risk about namespacing. Who authorizes these packages? Who audits these repositories? When you use a C/C++ library, there is obvious accountability. You k
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by cowtools 4y ago
we don't get to choose whether the law applies to us, but we do get to choose whether the code applies to us. The idea being that code is is far more powerful than law Edit: see Tor/I2P vs censorship law, or BitTorrent vs copyrigh
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by cowtools 4y ago
This is like saying a word doesn't exist because it's not in a dictionary. Dictionaries reflect the public's usage of words, not the other way around. Similarly, courts are supposed to reflect the values of people, people&#x2
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by cowtools 4y ago
When you use or own a cryptocurrency, some of your wealth is transferred to miners in exchange for securing the network (block reward, fees -> mining, development). When you use or own a fiat currency, some of your wealth is transferred
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by cowtools 4y ago
Sure, but you would think that P2P is mostly sufficient for a social media replacement (e.g. PeerTube, Mastodon, etc.). Consensus is only really nessisary for solving problems like payments or namespacing (e.g. namecoin)
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by cowtools 4y ago
Those "open standards" are often dictated by the whims of giants like Google. That's fine when the interests of buisnesses align with their clients, but a recent one that comes to mind is FLoC Edit: I think this is why we hav
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by cowtools 4y ago
Those aren't facts. The reason the fees are low is simply because traffic is low. It has nothing to do with the design of dogecoin.
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by cowtools 4y ago
Cryptocurrencies are not nessarily more volatile, but they are certainly slower. I don't think you need to make the same tradeoffs because less decentralization is needed for micropayments. I think GNU Taler is a good solution but it i
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by cowtools 4y ago
It does not really matter, as only miners (and large buisnesses accepting bitcoin) would need to run a full node. All these non-mining nodes have no real effect over decentralization, as they can't counter a 51% attack.
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by cowtools 4y ago
It's neither reasonable or rational. As technology improves, the cost of bandwidth and storage decrease, and latency decreases. Rationally block size and block time should reflect that.
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by cowtools 4y ago
RandomX has some mechanisms to discourage cryptojacking botnets: https://github.com/tevador/RandomX#does-randomx-facilitate-b...
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by cowtools 4y ago
>It's weird how so many of the arguments against what I've originally written pretend that it matters whether the reward comes from a block reward or transactions fees. It does not matter. It does matter. Block rewards are a tr
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by cowtools 4y ago
Yes, but I predict people will cease entering the market once the hype dies down and people learn how flawed bitcoin is.
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by cowtools 4y ago
I agree. In fact, some cryptocurrencies like have implemented constant "tail emission" block rewards. The problem is that this scares off investors and speculators because there's not as much scarcity.
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by cowtools 4y ago
Yes. The fees are mostly due to bitcoin's unreasonable 1MB blocksize constraint. Most other cryptocurrencies do not have this problem because they make a more reasonable throughput to bandwidth/storage tradeoff
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by cowtools 4y ago
Cryptocurrency mining isn't analogous to Gold mining in this way. The purpose of cryptocurrency mining isn't to produce cryptocurrency, but rather to secure cryptocurrency transactions by making the order of transactions hard to r
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by cowtools 4y ago
>The direct block reward goes to zero over the years, but the miner's fee will still be a positive amount. Yes. >Each miner will be competing for the miner's fee, and will buy more electricity if they can mine more blocks (a
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by cowtools 4y ago
Please just stop and think for a moment FFS. Miners care about where their bitcoin comes from. Let's imagine the case where 100% of their income comes from the block reward and 0% from fees (seeing as this is nearly the case right now)
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by cowtools 4y ago
You're making sweeping statements here, when in reality it depends on both the block reward AND the price of bitcoin. Currently, the block reward has decreased as the price of bitcoin has increased. If the market cap of bitcoin stays t

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