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by jacobr 9y ago
Maybe in the distant future, but currently USD is the USD of Bitcoin
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It's not very good as a medium of exchange due to the high transaction time and costs. There is a theory that a recent bump in Litecoin prices was due to traders wanting to move Bitcoin between exchanges and Bitcoin is too slow.
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al-Qaida is also present in Syria in the form of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, previously Nusra Front. They have Afghan veterans in their ranks, but do not have the same level of sofistication and standardization as the Islamic State. It's not
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by jacobr 9y ago
For a more detailed story on how they ran their manufacturing, regarding armored vehicles in particular, there is a fascinating story about The Workshop > The facility would perform a wide variety of overhauls and upgrades on nearly all
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This will help if you don't want to run a monorepo, but many in the industry consider a monorepo suitable for their organisation. The biggest blocker with Gitlab in my opinion is not being able to only run a job if some specific fold
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by jacobr 9y ago
> The government has no power to prop up the value of the USD if the world decides it's worthless. The US government has plenty of military power that it can and does use for this exact reason.
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by jacobr 9y ago
> The amount of energy used for heating and cooling is extremely huge. With the additional benefit that it keeps people warm/cool? Can you please tell me why you are not interested in solving this problem? My guess is that it is imp
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Thousands of users in India use WhatsApp on cheap phones via Browserling(catonmat.net)
3 points by jacobr 9y ago|0 comments
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by jacobr 9y ago
> things like cargo ships without so much as a peep from anyone Do you have any idea how much debate and research there is in the shipping industry to reduce the environmental impact? Meanwhile in the Bitcoin community, apparently no one
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by jacobr 9y ago
Does flying somehow reduce the energy consumption of Bitcoin, or how is that relevant? But you are correct, we should not be flying as much, and many people advocate reduced subsidies and increased taxes on flying. Maybe a mining tax would
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by jacobr 9y ago
Are there any reasonable alternatives to Bitcoin which are more environmentally friendly and therefore more long term viable? While still being serious contenders. I know Ethereum is working on Proof of Stake but it still sounds far off and
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by jacobr 9y ago
> They have offices (that take energy) and employees (that take energy and also have households that take energy). This is also true for any company handling Bitcoin. > I'm pretty sure operation of dollar costs much more than ope
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by jacobr 9y ago
Does this require a stay-at-home partner? I don't know how I would ever be able to handle my daily life, stuff like cooking, laundry, sleeping, errands, going to the hairdresser, working out, hanging out with my partner... and I didn&#
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by jacobr 9y ago
So if they had just enough people to "make Firefox", what would they do with it? It's quite easy to see what Firefox would be with "just the browser". Take a look at some Firefox fork which packages almost identical
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Most Bitcoin exchanges also require id/passport, I assume these checks are also outsourced. Not exactly comfortable to share my passport with a random stranger.
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This is what XHTML2 attempted and failed, HTML5 is the opposite, most of the work was to specify what already existed.
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> So what is the non capitalist alternative? State controlled social media services? The alternative is not state controlled media, but rather anything other than an oligopoly. For several reasons it overtook IRC, personal websites, etc,
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If you believe that consumers are rational actors in a free market you indeed need to rationalise behaviour like "not buying the cheapest/best possible thing". If your theory cannot explain a behaviour you can add an imaginar
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If you manage to get a hold of old Lego bricks, there are a few more colors available. https://www.bricklink.com/catalogColors.asp
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> Saying Bitcoin is centralized because large mining firms exist is equivalent to saying that Git is centralized because of GitHub, or email is centralized because of GMail. Email is indeed controlled by a few actors which have way too m
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I use TypeScript and VSCode and recognise the easier refactoring, but almost all external dependencies will use default exports, so you just end up with an inconsistent code base.
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This is also the case with Ember, built by contributors from corporations actually using Ember in production. It's not just Angular, many libraries seem to be written by people without a significant investment in their own library. It
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I remember my huge number of delicious bookmarks tagged with "folksonomy" and other buzz words.
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On Being Jewish in State Prison (2009)(splcenter.org)
85 points by jacobr 9y ago|42 comments
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by jacobr 9y ago
How well do these tools generally handle poor latency? I often work remotely over 3G/4G. Voice is fine, as is simple screen sharing of stuff like Trello boards in a meeting. I tried Slack's screen collaboration and it was hardly u
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This was an agreement between local tribes and the Syrian Democratic Forces to limit the already immense destruction of Raqqa and protect civilians that were held as human shields. If the Syrian Democratic Forces and the US to just say &quo
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I never understood how some people consider "terror" to only be acts of terrorism in Western countries, thus reaching the conclusion that local fighters are somehow not terrorists. If you want to use a narrow definition of terrori
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> I don't believe it harmed me That's very hard to know though. We all have unconscious stereotypes.
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This. My 7 year old watches some awesome Lego building channels and some gamers that I've checked to be OK. For at least 6 months we have forbidden our 3 year old to watch YouTube because he ended up at some (harmless, but totally brai
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by jacobr 9y ago
> The company also says the reports that inappropriate videos racked up millions of views on YouTube Kids without being vetted are false, because those views came from activity on YouTube proper, which makes clear in its terms of service

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