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by glenvdb 5y ago
I would be absolutely shocked if Bitcoin's value ever dropped to zero. I can't see any conceivable way that happens at this point. Even a coordinated effort by the world's governments to "ban" it (they can't re
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by glenvdb 5y ago
The anti-Bitcoin sentiment on HN is frankly baffling to me. It's one of the most exciting things happening in tech right now, and HN is at best ambivalent and at worst openly hostile to Bitcoin. Why wouldn't the tech crowd be exci
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by glenvdb 5y ago
No, that's all bullshit. The purpose of blockchain is decentralised consensus for the Bitcoin protocol. It has fulfilled that function very well for the last ~12 years. There MAY be other legitimate use cases, but the majority of them
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by glenvdb 5y ago
A lot of the "Common Objections" relate to the REASONS people choose to own Bitcoin and how those cases make it a Ponzi. There are many different reasons to own Bitcoin, however the author seems to only view it through the lens of
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by glenvdb 5y ago
Anyone had experience using it as a gaming laptop? Maybe with an external GPU?
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Impervious.ai Hackathon Results(twitter.com)
1 points by glenvdb 5y ago|1 comments
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by glenvdb 5y ago
Lots of interesting work happening in the Bitcoin/Lightning space at the moment. 1st Place https://theworldcomputer.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DE9pbusewNg&feature=youtu.be
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by glenvdb 5y ago
> It is baffling how lawmakers who have so little understanding of the technology write these things into law. And this happens constantly, on all types of things, not just technology.
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by glenvdb 5y ago
I think there are some around? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_mobile_pho...
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by glenvdb 5y ago
Inferior results to what exactly? Interested to know about alternatives you've used
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by glenvdb 5y ago
It seems the point of theology is to make answering anything trivial. Whether those answers are useful or not is another matter.
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by glenvdb 6y ago
Is this sarcasm? It's difficult to tell sometimes... But one good reason for having discussions with people you disagree with is that you get to see things from a different perspective and maybe learn something too. Depends what you&#x
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by glenvdb 6y ago
This reminds me of the "review bombing" debacles that have plagued Steam over recent years. Valve implemented a system to detect these patterns and discard the ratings. Valve had no particular stake in the games being "bombed
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by glenvdb 6y ago
I think the long history of events like these, particularly the more recent publicised ones, are going to push lots of communities, and by extension the Internet, to decentralisation. That's good and bad because communities can't
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by glenvdb 6y ago
I've always thought that a practical use of mega-structures like Niven's Ringworld (or Halo from the video games), besides colonisation, would be to reach higher energy levels in particle physics, like with the LHC. To reach highe
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by glenvdb 6y ago
I've always thought that if you find yourself loyal to any given political party, that's an indication that there's might be a problem and you should reflect on why you feel that sense of loyalty. Political parties should hav
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by glenvdb 6y ago
I love this kind of stuff, but it feels like shooting fish in a barrel when the examples used are inherently visual. Lots of programming deals with abstract "things" that don't naturally lend themselves to being visualised, a
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by glenvdb 6y ago
No studies or articles to reference, just what I've heard from talking to people is that workers want to feel like they have impact . You have to get all the other things like pay and conditions correct too, but that should be a given
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by glenvdb 6y ago
Not CS specific, but generally speaking, in college you should feel dumb. If you don't, you're not pushing the limits of your knowledge and skills. If you find yourself breezing through all the classes, speak to the teachers/
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by glenvdb 6y ago
My favourite part is his own disbelief as he ... spoiler ... continues to solve it. A few minutes later... when the first three on the board causes a cascade of solvable cells after a build up of deduction. Amazing.
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by glenvdb 6y ago
So... UE5 is Malibu Stacy with a new hat?
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by glenvdb 6y ago
I took part in this a year or two ago. Didn't go further than the first heat, but it was a great learning experience in how to condense a message into its vital parts and present highly specialised knowledge for a general audience. Wou
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by glenvdb 6y ago
I think the ramp will be much longer and gradual than people expect though.
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by glenvdb 6y ago
Good. A home is not a school. That's not to say you can't do lots of learning at home, but the way that learning takes place will (and should) be completely different from how it is done at school.
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by glenvdb 6y ago
I'm on Firefox too. Not seeing what you're seeing. The font height is consistent for me.
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by glenvdb 7y ago
This is weird combo of "movie hacking" and "real hacking".
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by glenvdb 7y ago
Well played.
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by glenvdb 7y ago
>My chest feels tight, and I have coughing spells. If I were at home with similar symptoms, I probably would have gone to work as usual. This makes me legitimately angry. If you are sick, please stay home, I don't care if you feel &
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by glenvdb 7y ago
In a time when dinosaurs and birds both co-existed how do they tell the difference between dinosaur feathers and bird feathers? What are the features of feathers between these species that differentiate them?
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by glenvdb 7y ago
I think the lofty and idealistic "end goal" for cryptocurrencies is to be fiat independent, so you don't need any fiat on/off ramps and you will be able to use it for everyday purchases. Whether that will realistically h

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