eberkund

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by eberkund 9y ago
> Where is this value coming from? People transitioning from one currency (USD) to another (BTC). When countries joined the EU and started using Euros, holders of say Francs, could exchange their Francs for Euros at a set exchange rate.
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by eberkund 9y ago
That's a very specific number, do you know what the relevance of 128 is?
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by eberkund 9y ago
Why are there so many TPB mirrors? I am pretty confused as to what happened to TPB after the takedown a few years ago, since then it seems to have fragmented into a dozen copycat sites. Is there still a legitimate TPB?
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by eberkund 9y ago
Confluence seems to be pretty popular for reasons which I can't understand since like you said it's godawful.
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by eberkund 9y ago
The accepted answer is not accurate, ZCash is also decentralized, private, digital.
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by eberkund 9y ago
What is this?
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by eberkund 9y ago
> needs a corporation's backing behind it (or a government's) You touch on an interesting point, maybe Firefox should be soliciting donations from governments who are concerned about the US surveillance state instead of relying
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by eberkund 9y ago
An 8th planet, with AI help is found orbiting a distant star
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by eberkund 9y ago
What about XAML and all the other XML based UI markups? I find HTML refreshingly easy to use compared to the alternatives.
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by eberkund 9y ago
That was his point...
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by eberkund 9y ago
I've made a few, but ironically they were all to the bank accounts of cryptocurrency exchanges when I was funding my account.
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by eberkund 9y ago
I can see where @dmichulke is coming from, nobody is going to come to your door looking for that money in the fashion you describe but you are paying for it one way or another. Who knows, maybe if the debt levels weren't so high the US
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by eberkund 9y ago
I read somewhere that people are leveraging huge sums of money on crypto which may explain how it is going up by so much and so fast. If for whatever reason we start to see even a small downward trend then these people will be forced to sel
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by eberkund 9y ago
Sort of, I'm assuming a lot of people bring their chargers with them if they're using the WiFi at Starbucks
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by eberkund 9y ago
That's always what taxes like this have been called, same thing goes for smoking. They know people will do it no matter what so they know they can put an obscene tax on it without impacting consumption much. Not that people will like t
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by eberkund 9y ago
How is that any different from US dollars? https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/jan/16/w...
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by eberkund 9y ago
That is a good analogy, if you choose to you can use a bank (or Coinbase) but you also have the option of doing everything in cash or managing your own Bitcoin wallet. Prior to cryptocurrency if you wanted to quickly send money around the w
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by eberkund 9y ago
No, I think she is saying that if 20% of the software we develop is important lets stop working on the 80% that isn't and instead work 1 day per week on the important stuff and get paid the same amount. In theory this makes sense, but
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by eberkund 9y ago
The article explicitly says that she is talking about a typical 40 hour work week. "Sorry, you can’t exercise to make up for sitting or standing at one place for 40 hours a week. Also I’d like to have kids myself. I respect people who
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by eberkund 9y ago
Well China is no longer allowing energy plants to sell power to miners which is probably a majority portion of the problem you are referring to.
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by eberkund 9y ago
It might, there are few crypto-billionaires who have a big headstart now in investing in other things.
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by eberkund 9y ago
Yeah honestly I don't see why it couldn't replace Slack, it is a very similar product but I feel like by marketing it primarily to gamers they are positioning themselves in a far less profitable market than Slack is.
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by eberkund 9y ago
I haven't heard it argued that legalizing drugs would decrease usage. Just that it would lead to safer usage, reduce crime, destigmatize addiction and allow for better treatment of addicts.
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by eberkund 9y ago
Interesting article, I remember reading about the different anonymous cryptocurrencies and ZCash was apparently the strongest from the reading I had done. This makes me want to look more into it, perhaps there is still more work to be done
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by eberkund 9y ago
But a GIF was never an image, it's like now they are saying okay we called this video an "animated image" which is somehow different from a video so therefore all videos are images and should go in the image tag.
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by eberkund 9y ago
Yes, clearly. You made a suggestion but provided no reasonable explanation towards implementing it. If people one to live in one area how do you suggest spreading out the economic development without something similar to the sarcastic sugge
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by eberkund 9y ago
Any non-paywall version?
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by eberkund 9y ago
https://localbitcoins.com
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by eberkund 9y ago
Probably not, but a good video course I might pay for.
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by eberkund 9y ago
I wanted to display a Twitter feed on my static site without using the hard to style and tracking script riddled default Twitter timeline widget but Twitter only allows getting a JSON feed of that data with OAuth so I made a Lambda function

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