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by crumbshot 6y ago
A highly wasteful one too, in terms of energy consumption. And the negative environmental impact that has. As we head towards a burgeoning climate catastrophe, no-one should be using Bitcoin.
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by crumbshot 6y ago
I bet if this supplier had started churning out broken or otherwise lower quality parts, Apple would have forced them to sort it out in fewer than three years.
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by crumbshot 6y ago
Those were much, much more enjoyable to listen to. Another better one, synthesized rather than recorded: https://youtu.be/idXYwYgcFEs (Cylob)
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by crumbshot 6y ago
https://github.blog/2021-01-17-update-on-an-employee-matter > On Friday, January 8th, GitHub separated with an employee. What an absurdly passive corporate euphemism for GitHub wrongfully firing one of their employees.
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by crumbshot 6y ago
Are you talking about employees being paid a wage? If so, what you describe isn't what happens for the vast majority of people. We need income to pay for rent (or mortgage), food, utilities, and other essentials. With a bit saved over,
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by crumbshot 6y ago
> Instead, workers usually prefer to estimate what the profitability will be up front and determine what they want out of the pie based on that assumption. I'm not certain what you mean here. When does this happen? This doesn&#x27
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by crumbshot 6y ago
> Someone joining Apple today did not create any of that wealth. Everyone working for Apple, including indirectly, i.e. all the way down its supply chains, are collectively generating wealth for the company. Just imagine how much faire
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by crumbshot 6y ago
It's not the world we live in though, workers are rarely paid from the profits in the same sort of way shareholders are. Ideally, workers would be paid a wage for their time, and later have the profits of their work shared amongst them
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by crumbshot 6y ago
It's exploitation because of the imbalance of power. This is also why unions exist, to try to redress that imbalance via collective action.
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by crumbshot 6y ago
Indeed, a decent company would split all its profits amongst its workers, commensurate with the value they created. Rather than handing it over to shareholders and investors who, by and large, have done no work to earn it. But as you say, t
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by crumbshot 6y ago
Sounds like poetry for accountants.
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by crumbshot 6y ago
> A true balance sheet is beyond the purely financial. It covers natural capital and social capital too. > To refine my initial point: there will be many horrific costs to this mess. Some poor sod will end up paying the cost. If ow
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by crumbshot 6y ago
Agreed, it just comes across as callous and inhumane to abstract the suffering of our fellow humans and other sentient beings out as merely a business cost. A sadly common motif through, particularly on HN.
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by crumbshot 6y ago
> After I was a few Units in (3) and thus financially obligated to pay the ISA, they removed core components of the program. > Where a mentor was paid to mentor you, you are now forced to mentor other students and vice versa. So L
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by crumbshot 6y ago
This is a neat design, but, does this not just shift the issue of trust as to whether the proxy and the target are colluding: > However, each of these guarantees relies on one fundamental property — that the proxy and the target server
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by crumbshot 6y ago
Bitcoin and other compute-intensive cryptocurrencies should be banned or taxed so heavily that it's financially infeasible to use them. The amount of energy being wasted (reportedly more than seven nuclear power plants worth) on what i
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by crumbshot 6y ago
Definitely part of it, along with the cult following he's managed to gather here. Quite ironic to see the high priest of HN commanding his devotees on how to think for themselves.
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by crumbshot 6y ago
Same here - as well as coffee/piss breaks, sometimes I just need to sit away from the screen and think on a problem for a while, or work it out on pen and paper. But I know this will leave an 'Away' gap in whatever they are u
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by crumbshot 6y ago
And not even purged from the repo, it's still in the history if needed. Seems like the copyright holders making a big fuss over nothing really.
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by crumbshot 6y ago
One example: there are phone apps which simulate a piano keyboard, so you can create and record music (or at least jot down chord/melody ideas) while out and about.
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by crumbshot 6y ago
I tried using Anki but found it far too boring to sustain my interest. Staring at fact flashcards for hours on end just felt like a waste of time. In my experience it was much more useful and engaging to learn by doing things (creating, wri
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by crumbshot 6y ago
> Get a homeless person to spit the seeds from the grapes he just bought in a cup. Who you gonna sue? How much is the patent holder going to get from a lice-infested, pee-smelling indigent? There's really no need for this, you cou
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by crumbshot 6y ago
More likely https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_vino_veritas
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by crumbshot 6y ago
Tried a few songs that I know I've found successfully before via SoundHound's same feature - no results. Also attempted Grieg's Hall of the Mountain King and got this, not quite what I expected but close enough: https:&#x
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by crumbshot 6y ago
Not quite, it still has one positive use case: buying drugs (and other similarly prohibited items) off the dark web. And there remains plenty of interest in academia, there are still many fascinating areas of research in this space.
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by crumbshot 6y ago
Nothing is stopping the Holocaust deniers from posting all their "different interpretion" nonsense on Stormfront or whatever. There are no 'first amendment' issues here, as no new law has been passed compelling Facebook
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by crumbshot 6y ago
That looks great. I already use an adblocker, but playing a small part in interfering with their pay-per-click mechanisms sounds much more compelling. Are there any downsides to using this?
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by crumbshot 6y ago
Agreed on that. It just looks like the parent commenter is feeling a strong reaction to having their assumptions challenged. Which I think is also a purpose of the article, exposing some of the underlying assumptions of these tropes that ma
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by crumbshot 6y ago
Seems to me it's the opposite, writers will have to be more imaginative if they decide to avoid using some of lazy tropes described in the article.
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by crumbshot 6y ago
Is this meant to be some sort of parody comment?

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