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by cryptica 6y ago
I refreshed the HN home page and, for a brief moment, on the same page there was "YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Gets 'Freedom Expression' Award Sponsored by YouTube" right above another link about YouTube CEO banning videos
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by cryptica 6y ago
Only good people are left behind. Our modern economy is driven entirely by unethical financial schemes. It's not possible to earn money any other way. There are unethical schemes and there are illegal schemes; nothing else yields any p
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by cryptica 6y ago
This is very different because what the previous comment is suggesting is that it will be impossible to rent out a property without losing ownership of it after x years. This would make it very unappealing to rent out a property and it woul
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by cryptica 6y ago
The system is so heavily manipulated. I don't trust statistics anymore. I remember reading a statistic that only 35% of wealth is inherited... The way I read this now is that 35% of wealth is inherited via a will after a parent's
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by cryptica 6y ago
>> Software infrastructure (by which I include everything ending with *aaS, or anything remotely similar to it) is an exciting field, in particular because (despite what the neo-luddites may say) it keeps getting better every year The
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by cryptica 6y ago
Mandatory password changes never made any sense. It's especially terrible when systems don't allow users to re-use previous passwords. It forces users to keep inventing new passwords which they can never remember, then they end up
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by cryptica 6y ago
Could this explain why everyone seems to be getting dumber? Have we all been infected by prions already and our brains are decaying?
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by cryptica 6y ago
The real reason why most non-fiction authors don't make a profit is because only scam topics which sell a dream but don't add any real value can make any profit in our current scam economy. Self-help gurus, spiritual charlatans, s
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by cryptica 6y ago
>> This is interesting. I am curious, which PoS coin implementations do you like? I've been involved with Lisk (LSK) for several years. It's Delegated Proof of Stake though so you can use your LSK to vote for block forgers w
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by cryptica 6y ago
Lightning network doesn't work. - It forces everyone who wants to receive money to constantly run a node at all times. If their node goes down at any time (or is intentionally taken down by a hacker), in certain situations, they could
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I was also thinking that this is the perfect excuse for them to dump their fiat monetary system and let their citizens adopt crypto... I'm pretty sure all other countries' fiat monetary systems will also fail soon, Turkey has a un
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Also, most of the drawbacks that Andreas mentioned in the video are not related to PoS in general; perhaps it is more specific to certain older implementations of it. Most current PoS blockchains do provide guarantees of immutability since
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by cryptica 6y ago
The best strategy is usually to tell the sender that their message could not be delivered and let them decide how to deal with this. Unfortunately, most current message queue systems are not end-to-end (e.g. re-send or modify their message)
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Lisk. Though it's Delegated PoS.
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There is a very strong incentive for Bitcoin proponents to push this narrative but it doesn't stand up to scrutiny. Proof of Stake is more secure than Proof of Work because it's not possible to use external resources to take contr
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Now I understand why so many among the woke elite pretend to have impostor syndrome. It's to virtue signal which side of the Dunning-Kruger partition they're on. I don't believe that the Dunning-Kruger effect is very signific
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>> Banks don't fabricate a need for houses In many developed countries like Australia, there are many people who own 10+ houses which they bought using debt and rent out. These people are monopolizing ownership of real estate and
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by cryptica 6y ago
The one from dalbasal on the last page of comments is pretty lengthy and good. Also, user ailmanki (also last page) said: >> Every system requires sooner or later another system on top. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by cryptica 6y ago
This is incorrect because in the 1950s, the average price of a house was much cheaper relative to average salaries. This information can be found all over the net. For example this article https://archive.curbed.com/2018&#x
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> But it's also obvious to anyone outside the SV bubble that it's still only accessible to a small minority of people. Most people don't have the safety net or mental bandwidth to even consider entrepreneurship. That is ba
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Yes but unlike the browser, Node.js modules all run in a trusted environment anyway (you should never install modules you don't trust) because there are many ways that a malicious module could hijack the main process to read memory or
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Do you know how banking works? Banks keep injecting new fiat money into the economy via loans and thus dilute everyone's salaries (buying power) by inflating asset prices artificially and thus make them increasingly out of reach for sa
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I'm also skeptical about that. It depends on whether or not the smartest content aligns with people's financial interests. Sometimes the smartest content goes against most people's financial interests so it is heavily downvot
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How is the monarchy more evil than the current corporate oligopoly? The latter does far more damage to society.
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Rich people are all equally useless. They're all parasites who profit from the exploitation and monopolization of people and economic resources. There is no such thing as a 'self made' millionaire or billionaire. They just go
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What is the difference between being born lucky versus getting lucky later in life? Name one millionaire who didn't get lucky. The only way to earn that kind of money is luck... They all received special treatment. Unless you're a
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She spends a lot of time at home reading books (mostly non-fiction) and browsing the net (she reads a lot of online articles about a wide range of topics) and chatting with her friends on social media (most of her friends live in different
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by cryptica 6y ago
My wife is almost 100% consumer and I'm almost 100% producer. She latched on to me the second we met. She initiated. I was a poor and shy college student at the time so it was quite a shock for me to suddenly receive so much attention.
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I can relate to this but my wife is attractive, smart, honest and loyal so it seems like a fair trade. I earn all the income, do most of the house chores, spend almost nothing on myself, buy her almost everything she wants, move to whatever
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Find a big corporation. The amount of income per unit of work is proportional to the size of the corporation and how 'evil' it is. Also, the % of all company shares which is owned by the executives and board members is also a majo

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