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by ibz 4y ago
I'm a noob too, but yes, the FOSS options look pretty dope. SuperCollider and Sonic Pi (which is built on top of it) are so powerful I can't even imagine there are commercial solutions that can beat them!
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by ibz 4y ago
Russian troll, you got me with that. :) Dude, Estonia is NATO, so that is a very different story. NATO would definitely have to intervene. Not that I agree with that either, but I guess it is part of some contract. You are the one who came
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by ibz 4y ago
I don't believe they have any rights to invade any countries, including Ukraine. But I also don't believe in joining a war against a country that invaded another country just because "you think they might not stop at that&quo
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by ibz 4y ago
You are assuming that Russia has any interest beyond the borders of the USSR, which is quite a strong assumption. By this logic you probably also supported the invasion of Iraq based on the assumption that they were producing nuclear weapon
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by ibz 4y ago
You were literally trying to make an argument that because Ukraine is geographically part of Europe, Ukraine being in a war means Europe is in a war. Which is not the case. Again, Ukraine is in a war, Europe is not. Unless they decide to. A
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by ibz 4y ago
I am very close to the war - my country borders Ukraine, however - Ukraine is an independent entity and their war is none of my business. If I can get cheaper gas in Russia I will continue to do so. This is an open market and I don't s
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by ibz 4y ago
> Trying to curb Russia during the war the best they can. > Because we need not to forget that Europe is at war Europe is not at war. Or at least it wasn't until some politicians decided it was their business to intervene in some
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by ibz 4y ago
Is it Russia stopping exports to the EU or the EU deciding to stop buying gas from Russia? To me it seems like they are simply taking decisions against their citizens best interests.
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by ibz 4y ago
You can't "capture the real world as faithfully as possible" in the same way that there is no map projection that "portrays the globe as faithfully as possible". It's the impedance mismatch between the real wor
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by ibz 4y ago
You can buy bitcoin with cash. You can work and get paid in bitcoin. You can sell stuff for bitcoin. You can mine bitcoin. If you want something, you will find a way.
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by ibz 4y ago
Depends how you measure it. You can indeed achieve higher efficiency than nature if you look at a single number. Where nature always wins is the combined efficiency, because it acts as a whole. You example is great because it shows just tha
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by ibz 4y ago
Straw man. Cows should be grazing, not being locked up and fed corn. Grazing cows actually make the environment better. So rather than blaming cows, blame the way they have been grown over the past 50 years or so.
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by ibz 4y ago
> The point of the exercise is to find alternatives that aren't so hard on the environment. Cows and grass are "the environment". Millions of years of evolution refined cows to be the best mechanism for converting grass
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by ibz 4y ago
If the average type of paper deviates over time, it doesn't matter whether the average number of citations is low - the type (direction) of research that gets cited shifts as well, and ultimately the direction of all research done
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by ibz 4y ago
Fair point. The way I see it - if you think about beauty, you must already have accomplished everything else. Otherwise yes, beauty for the sake of it is useless. Say I have a knife - of course I want it first and foremost to be a "goo
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by ibz 4y ago
Are you suggesting that cryptocurrencies will fail to go mainstream?
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by ibz 4y ago
> except that its marketing people seem to want the product to be perceived as beautiful It means they care about beauty in the first place, which is already a huge plus.
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by ibz 4y ago
Umbrel is beautiful though.
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by ibz 4y ago
How is TypeScript more "secure" than JavaScript?
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by ibz 4y ago
Umbrel started as a way to easily host a Bitcoin node, so naturally there is plenty of Bitcoin related stuff. I think they only have one crypto (ie non-Bitcoin) app though.
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by ibz 4y ago
1. "nobody cares" - you realize that your statement is wrong if there is at least one person that cares. And there is at least one: Jack Dorsey, definitely not a speculator or a fraud. 2. Bitcoin != "cryprocurrencies" -
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by ibz 4y ago
A sat = the 100 millionth part of a Bitcoin. Also, a sat can be further divided into millisats (1000 millisats = 1 sat) on the Lightnig Network. So, essentially, very very tiny amounts that can be sent very fast at at very small costs.
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by ibz 4y ago
Free services attract spammers. No surprise. The "free" model is broken. Imagine how easy Twitter would get rid of spam accounts if they only charged a few sats per tweet.
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by ibz 4y ago
I find it to be quite the opposite actually. While you get up and running faster with Django, in the long run you spend more time fighting it, whereas with Flask you only spend time on stuff that you actually need.
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by ibz 4y ago
Your link just says that the busker has to declare the income and pay tax, not that I need to pay some form of tax for tipping the busker.
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by ibz 4y ago
I sometimes also wonder why are HNers so anti-Bitcoin, which - politics aside - is one of the major innovations built on top of the Internet.
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by ibz 4y ago
It is not. This is "value 4 value": you donate money to a podcaster you like. Is tipping a street musician also a taxable event?
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by ibz 4y ago
The whole Podcasting 2.0 / "value 4 value" movement is built on top of Lightning Network micropayments. It works. People use it. When you listen to a podcast that has the v4v tags in the feed using a compatible app you are gi
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by ibz 4y ago
Seems like you are making a circular argument. First you claim blockchain can help with "hosed and portable". Then you claim hosted can help you manage on-chain identity and make it transferable. While your first argument was plai
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by ibz 4y ago
Actually LNURL-auth [1] has nothing to do with blockchains except that it makes it dead simple to use a Lightning wallet, such as Breez, to log in. All it does is send a request, get a random string, sign that with the private key, and send

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