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by droffel 6y ago
> scarily accurate As the saying goes, Zerohedge has predicted 28 of the last 4 recessions. They have a consistently bearish bias (which rarely seems to play out), and ties to the Russian state, which brings into question the motivations
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by droffel 6y ago
> I did some mod where you remove some foam inside the earcups which effectively makes them like the next model up 555 to 595, I bought the headphones for the exact same reason. I'm very sad they don't manufacture them anymore,
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by droffel 6y ago
I've generally regarded these digital USB headphones to be lower quality (for the price) than analog headphones. That said, I've been using my current pair of HD555s for nearly a decade now, and want to upgrade. Has the tech impro
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by droffel 6y ago
> Mixing is a foundation of cryptocirrency, cryptocirrencies don't make any sense without mixing. I'm going to need a citation on this one. Many people who are still stuck on Bitcoin maximalism these days seem to have gone the
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by droffel 6y ago
I guess I shouldn't use a VPN, because that might look like I have something to hide. Using cash? No way! If I use cash I might look like a criminal. Leave my cell phone at home? No way, I wouldn't want to be suspicious, would I?
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by droffel 6y ago
So is using cash. Lots of things could be 'indicative of possible criminal conduct'. Thankfully, the US operates under presumed innocence until proven guilty. This attitude of people claiming you shouldn't seek privacy lest y
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by droffel 6y ago
Lock you up for what? Using Monero doesn't mean you're a criminal. Am I misunderstanding, or are you implying that caring about my privacy is a criminal act, and that paying taxes on perfectly legitimate income is (or would become
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by droffel 6y ago
I think many of us have the whole 'blackhat SEO' topic on our minds given that there's a thread about it on the front page right now. That said, popularity ranking algorithms often heavily weight votes early in their life cyc
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by droffel 6y ago
Downvoting is also restricted to accounts who exceed a point threshold. I think that particular feature (ensuring people who can downvote at least have some level of trust within the site) has been critical to prevent hive mind-style downvo
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by droffel 6y ago
Don't you offload the authentication to the postal service in this case?
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by droffel 6y ago
In terms of weight, gold is a bit more valuable than twenty dollar bills, pound for pound. And its density is much higher. In no sense would the average person be 'lugging around' a bunch of gold coins for day to day activities. T
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by droffel 6y ago
Where are you getting your information? Tricyclic antidepressants are generally SNRIs, which definitely do effect the brain. It is true that the gut also has serotonin receptors, so there can definitely be side effects there, but to say t
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by droffel 6y ago
$250k annually per person just for downloading apps and using them is excessive to the point of unbelievable - That's a high tier developer salary, not app review pay. I would be surprised if these reviewers broke $50k, especially sinc
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by droffel 6y ago
There was a recent major hack/leak of data from Nintendo. The Mario 64 source code was included. http://www.pcgamer.com/amp/gigaleak-of-alleged-nintendo-sour...
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by droffel 6y ago
Communities grow - I think this kind of strategy only works on a small scale. If it was adopted en masse, it becomes self defeating. Suggesting everyone change groups the moment their current group reaches a certain size ignores the greater
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by droffel 6y ago
Since you're the new maintainer, I assume you're unaware of Worms Armageddon's old "official" page, that currently has a broken certificate. A lot of the old playerbase think it's dead because the old site isn&
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by droffel 6y ago
> If a human decision is needed before pushing the button then there may be some risk in making it too easy since the human will just push any lit up button. Pilots receive training before they fly a plane, these are not laypeople.
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by droffel 6y ago
I saw a proposal recently that suggested the government mandate that existing loans (mortgages and business loans primarily) add the deferred period to the back of the loan, interest free. So if the lockdown is 3 months long, then your 72 m
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by droffel 6y ago
In the absense of capital punishment for corporations, fines can and will be seen as merely the cost of doing business. It feels like the only way to address this is by holding the decision makers (executives) responsible, but that would re
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by droffel 6y ago
Is it really paranoia if the evidence of mass surveillance and abuse of power is right in front of our eyes? It isn't 2012 anymore, Snowden kind of made it quite clear what's actually going on behind the curtain.
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by droffel 7y ago
California cases are plateaued due to a lack of testing capacity, I would be hesitant to suggest that the growth has stopped.
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by droffel 7y ago
I imagine the plan is to engineer it to increase its potency. It's clearly not at a dangerous/critical point in its current form.
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by droffel 7y ago
Is anyone else concerned about the effects this could have if it managed to get out of containment and into the wild? A self-replicating bacteria that eats plastics sounds like a potentially catastrophic event, considering how much we use t
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by droffel 7y ago
Localbitcoins requires KYC these days.
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Ask HN: Should Paywalled Articles Be Penalized?
24 points by droffel 7y ago|20 comments
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by droffel 7y ago
I wasn't intending to single out a particular condition, just labelled a few large-scale areas of active research and development.
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by droffel 7y ago
The big issue I see here is the proper allocation of this earmarked funding. Would all of it go to aids research? Maybe half to aids, half to schizophrenia treatments? But then what about [insert condition here]? The 'free' market
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by droffel 7y ago
Monero is the largest privacy-focused cryptocurrency in existence right now, by pretty much every measurable metric. It's also the only (in the top 250 by market cap) cryptocurrency that enforces privacy at the protocol level, by defau
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by droffel 7y ago
Only if you consider $0.002-$0.006 per transaction high. The protocol has been significantly streamlined over the years.
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by droffel 7y ago
It's perfectly on topic here. I would hardly call this shilling.

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