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by headmelted 5y ago
Compatibility really is the killer feature here. Also, foveated rendering means dramatically improved performance depending on how good their implementation is - at 120hz I'd expect it to be pretty decent.
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by headmelted 5y ago
This. I always sort of hoped that Apple would either enter the market at some point or acquire DuckDuckGo and try to build out to a larger user base. I realise this is pretty unrealistic, as I'm sure there are far more people out ther
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by headmelted 5y ago
The Ponzi comment above was a poor attempt at humour. He was a con artist who knew he was a con artist. I do not believe the majority of people in the cryptocurrency space are attempting to harm anyone.
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by headmelted 5y ago
Imagine paying someone for a sandwich and being obligated to give them access to view your bank account balance (past, present and future) in perpetuity.
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by headmelted 5y ago
This is simply saying “can all these people be wrong?” in other words. What I wrote is absolutely logical as best I can tell. I didn’t say it’s a scam (although that community is riddled with those too). I said it’s a collection of ponzi sc
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by headmelted 5y ago
I think at this point we’re just so far past the point of having reasonable discourse on this topic that it will not be possible to have a reasoned discussion about it ever again, anywhere, regardless. Personally I have to fight my own ri
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by headmelted 5y ago
This is exactly how I imagine it would work, albeit with a standard provision being made by Apple and Google as a starting point, something like a universal federated VOIP (they'll come up with a decent brand name for it obvs). If you
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by headmelted 5y ago
I'm actually more worried about a different problem - I don't care about removing the physical SIM slot but I'm really concerned about halving the amount of numbers someone can have on a single device. Phone numbers are an u
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by headmelted 5y ago
I realise you didn’t post this looking for advice (and I apologise if this is unwelcome), but if I can relate one small thing from my own personal mental health nadir: Walk. Outdoors. In the greenest place you can find. No, it won’t chang
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by headmelted 5y ago
right!?!? Yeah I take your point. €6.5m still seems too low to me to disincentivize though.
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by headmelted 5y ago
Keep getting Resource Limit Reached errors, which is pretty ironic.
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by headmelted 5y ago
€650 million does not seem steep at all for the offence, given the consequences for those involved. It’s not supposed to be a tax, it’s supposed to be a disincentive.
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by headmelted 5y ago
It's a slap on the wrist. 100x this fine would have been appropriate. Anything less just encourages other companies to treat privacy and data security as a joke.
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by headmelted 5y ago
Sort of. It's like being in the world's biggest ever lottery syndicate, except if you pick the winning numbers it gets sent to a specific other person who's website you're on. If someone, eventually, hits the jackpot th
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by headmelted 5y ago
100% agree. All I’m saying is that to get double the salary from someone not obligated to pay it would mean that you’d need to be able to convincingly answer that question first. It’s going to be a massive elephant in the room before the to
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by headmelted 5y ago
Well, sure, but this line of thinking suggests you’re worth more than double what someone else is at the same job. What makes you think this is so?
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by headmelted 5y ago
This. An entire generation will be demanding their golden years be subsidized by the young like they had to subsidize their parents’ generation, who had to subsidize their parents before them. The world is not ready to be told “No” on this.
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by headmelted 5y ago
> but DeFi actually is a giant circular digital economy which doesn't create real world wealth. Isn't this true of the entire cryptocurrency cult though?
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by headmelted 5y ago
> Eh, this is basic virology. We already saw the Alpha variant essentially die out because the Delta variant out-spread it. Survival of the fittest. To be fair, the consensus at this exact moment seems to be that it's not clear th
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by headmelted 5y ago
every other week release for STORIES FROM THE DARK SIDE OF THE INTERNET*
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by headmelted 5y ago
This is not the case. I wasn’t comparing anything to gold (or whatever other asset). The energy expended is cited as a reason for the value of the token, but the utility of that energy, even if it were a near infinite amount, is still zer
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by headmelted 5y ago
Indeed.
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by headmelted 5y ago
It definitely will speed things along from personal experience, if only because the waiting area afterwards seemed to be the bottleneck slowing things down. Anecdotal I know, but it really was a case of waiting around for people to leave be
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by headmelted 5y ago
To be fair to Boris, he at least seems to have some sense of the limit of his own knowledge. If Whitty and Valance tell him “this is what’s happening, and where we think it’s going” then it’s probably as much as you can expect to have him t
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by headmelted 5y ago
This is what panic looks like. Given the virus is by most recent evidence assumed to be airborne ( https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sage-98-minutes-c... ) it wouldn’t take much at this stage to cause the s
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by headmelted 5y ago
I've heard this argument, but there's no utility value whatsoever to that power, or the energy consumed to run the hashes (in that the energy and hashing power is spent on the mining task and therefore unavailable for other uses).
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by headmelted 5y ago
> These are the big known-unknowns. It's the big unknown-unknowns that are the problem. Is there a relatively simple implementation bug that hasn't yet been discovered in the biggest projects? They're all less than 12 ye
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by headmelted 5y ago
That’s not what intrinsic means.
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by headmelted 5y ago
Wouldn’t smaller tokens need comparatively lower resources though?
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by headmelted 5y ago
Pretty sure the parent was being sarcastic (and provocative). In real terms it’s worth whatever the next buyer is willing to pay. It annoys me that people cite the run-up over the last decade as evidence of it’s brilliance when it’s nothing

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