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by gnode 8y ago
> What exactly would a therapist do? Diagnose your ADHD and prescribe you medication.
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by gnode 8y ago
It's certainly not a problem for me in the UK; PAYE is automatic, and I've not yet had to do a tax return. Although I did once need to get an adjustment, which I did with a short letter. I do wonder why the US puts such a tax admi
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by gnode 8y ago
> If you're using an ad blocker, wouldn't this be irrelevant? No; using an ad blocker won't prevent this kind of data collection. Ad blockers prevent you seeing ads, and some can block certain page elements associated with
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by gnode 8y ago
A fundamental issue with CDNs is that you have to trust them. Even for public content, who accesses what is valuable private information. I can imagine IPFS making this worse, when anyone who wants to observe what is accessed by whom need o
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by gnode 8y ago
> or you have to do a lot of careful dividing up the "static" resources from the dynamic Static / dynamic is orthogonal to private / non-private. It's important to consider that what public or static information
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by gnode 8y ago
What public data you access is in itself private data. Even if you don't care about your personal privacy, I think we should all care about the chilling effects of people not being afforded privacy to look at public information. That p
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by gnode 8y ago
You post doesn't seem to really be advocating not using a CDN, but running your own CDN. Many people don't have the time / budget / inclination to do this themselves.
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by gnode 8y ago
The technology could also be useful for having a virtual window in tunnels, to make the experience a bit less claustrophobic. Particularly for something like a hyperloop carriage when there might not be room to move about.
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by gnode 8y ago
Such profits aren't usually sustainable when the competition starts doing it.
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by gnode 8y ago
As mentioned in the article, you don't have to get rid of all the windows. Regulators may be happy with keeping only the windows near emergency exits.
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by gnode 8y ago
In the UK at least, authorities can access data without a warrant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investigatory_Powers_Act_2016#...
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by gnode 8y ago
My understanding (someone correct me if I'm wrong) is that virgin CaO is released from volcanic activity, and the aforementioned underground basalt is an igneous rock that has not been exposed to surface atmospheric conditions, and thu
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by gnode 8y ago
If producing gasoline requires extracting CO2 from the atmosphere, then providing enough H2 to make the fuel, then it may make more sense to replace your car. Bear in mind that H2 is mostly produced from natural gas today, and electrolytic
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by gnode 8y ago
Apparently when CO2 is injected into hot underground basalt deposits, it is absorbed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_sequestration#Mineral_c... (last paragraph of section) So I would guess the reason for producin
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by gnode 8y ago
> The problem with sequestering CO2 as hydrocarbons is that you need to put a whole load of energy (embodied in the hydrogen you're combining it with) into the ground and leave it there. If sequestering CO2, combining it with CaO to
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by gnode 8y ago
Converting CO2 back to fuels to be burnt in combustion engines sounds counterproductive to me. If the goal is to reduce atmospheric CO2, then it would be better to more permanently sequester it in carbon-rich building materials, for instanc
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by gnode 8y ago
I wonder if the claim of environmental friendliness actually works out in practise. Friends of mine who do remote jobs occasionally have the need to meet in person requiring international flights (which while being infrequent, are far more
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by gnode 8y ago
It's probably possible to do speech recognition with much less power / computation, if you don't care about its reliability. For the purpose of targeting ads it doesn't really matter if you get it wrong, as long as you i
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by gnode 8y ago
I like the look of the hardware, particularly the e-ink ink display, but can't say the software UX appeals to me. I agree that the modern smartphone experience by default is cognitively impairing (too many notifications), but that&#x27
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by gnode 8y ago
I think it makes sense for something minimalist to not be an eccentric shape.
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by gnode 8y ago
> intentionally designed to waste electricity. I strongly doubt the intention was to waste electricity, more likely it was incidentally designed that way, as it's difficult to conceive how you could create such a decentralized crypt
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by gnode 8y ago
I don't think there's any reason you can't have both: for each site have a new circuit, and make a connection for that DNS resolution only, on that circuit or a separate one, using Cloudflare.
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by gnode 8y ago
> If we're going to play that game, where did the electricity come from for your watt-hour-sucking GPU? Pointing out that diamond mining is also not without externalities doesn't mean d0lph is an exponent of Bitcoin mining.
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by gnode 8y ago
You have the same issues with gold also. Although it's very unlikely gold would lose most of its value, the price of gold throughout history has fluctuated greatly: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons&#x
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by gnode 8y ago
You're right, I was wrong to say without trust. I think it would have been more apt to say trust in their integrity. Demand can of course change, but your gold won't be physically redefined by other parties. I think an interesting
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by gnode 8y ago
Bitcoin doesn't intrinsically require that much power. The computation to verify transactions is a tiny fraction of that required to compete for the next block by hashing. The high hash rate is because of the high difficulty, which is
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by gnode 8y ago
I didn't suggest they were identical. Only that a limited comparison can be made about their use as a store of value.
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by gnode 8y ago
Admittedly diamonds are not a good comparison, because they're not commonly used for investment and not fungible. Gold bullion is comparable insofar as it's used as a store of value, with scarcity controlled by natural limitations
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by gnode 8y ago
Naturally scarce stores of value like Bitcoin, gold, diamonds, etc. have always "wasted" resources, whether they be power, human resource, or polluting the environment. On one hand you could regard them as immoral because of this,
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by gnode 8y ago
I have to wonder whether the "SCANATE" name was inspired by the film "Scanners".

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