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by johnyzee 5y ago
People feel that way the first time they feel the acceleration of any electric car, even a Nissan Leaf.
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by johnyzee 6y ago
It should simply be disabled until the user performs an action that requires it. I believe web audio works the same way.
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by johnyzee 6y ago
Your link is about 'belly fat', which is not visceral fat, but rather subcutaneous (under the surface of the skin, as opposed to internally around the organs). Intuitively, it would seem that visceral (internal) fat might affect l
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by johnyzee 6y ago
Your question is unpopular because everyone here likes the web and want to see it thrive as a platform. So do I, but still, I agree with you. Unfortunately, the web is not a viable platform for games. It had its moment for casual games some
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by johnyzee 6y ago
So like many of the world's most celebrated artists during their lifetime...
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by johnyzee 6y ago
> “Easy reading is damn hard writing.“ Reminds me of Mark Twain: "I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one."
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by johnyzee 6y ago
How do I know that that particular wallet belongs to the artist? I see some ENS entries on the address, but not sure if/how that helps tie it uniquely to a person.
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by johnyzee 6y ago
The blockchain is the public ledger, where the ownership message is stored. The CA simply verifies that the message is actually from the artist. Tangentially, perhaps the blockchain could be turned into the official registry of the CA, too.
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by johnyzee 6y ago
I was thinking if it could not be made to work with certificates. Like the artist signs a message handing over the ownership using his private key, which can be verified by his certificate from a trusted certificate authority, then commits
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by johnyzee 6y ago
Blah blah money laundering blah blah beanie babies. This is getting old, it's like when Google launches a service and comments are "So when will this be shut down?". It's lazy and brings nothing to the table. On the topi
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GameStop – The Second Surge: Anatomy of a “Gamma Swarm”(forbes.com)
20 points by johnyzee 6y ago|0 comments
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by johnyzee 6y ago
There are a couple of cases where people like the added security of having their own node, such as exchanges as you mentioned, or big payment processors and the like. Other than that, I don't think there's any reason to run one fo
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by johnyzee 6y ago
It was never the intention that regular people would run nodes. Satoshi envisioned that eventually nodes would run in large datacenters: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=532.msg6306#msg6306 "The current system w
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by johnyzee 6y ago
Transaction throughput can easily be increased a hundredfold right now, with a simple increase in block size. As far as I know, this is the plan, once it becomes necessary (for example due to Lightning adoption picking up). It is only out o
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by johnyzee 6y ago
Is this FUD or just a lack of understanding? Staying anonymous is very easy. You can choose between a number of ways to move coins into a separate address in an untraceable way. E.g. (1) CoinJoin transactions (which are natively supported i
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by johnyzee 6y ago
Nodes. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=532.msg6306#msg6306 "The current system where every user is a network node is not the intended configuration for large scale. That would be like every Usenet user runs th
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Bitcoin hits $1T in market value(cnbc.com)
52 points by johnyzee 6y ago|107 comments
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by johnyzee 6y ago
I would say the main danger is the crippling physical addiction (as well as psychological, but that is harder to quantify) it causes in a substantial amount of users.
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by johnyzee 6y ago
You can't really discuss usury in a modern context without taking into account, the entirely modern notion of what money is. I.e. the instrument of today's national currencies are entirely detached from what used to be considered
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by johnyzee 6y ago
Yes. He is a gifted writer, very succinct. Funny that his writing pursuits all seem to be incidental, like the Lisp books (per his own account), and the essays, which certainly played a part in his success.
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by johnyzee 6y ago
Great read! Reading about PG doing things that don't scale (building storefronts for customers), I am reminded of how Commodore became a dominant player in the early computer industry. When they first made the 6502 processor, Chuck Ped
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by johnyzee 6y ago
I think it is a very worthwhile observation, that existing, comparable systems also have massive 'externalities', only they aren't measured in kwH.
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by johnyzee 6y ago
Yes? The point is that there is nothing strange about Tesla putting some of their cash reserves into assets that retain their value better ("speculating" as the GP put it).
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by johnyzee 6y ago
To Google's credit, it's pretty easy. Go to your account (from GMail choose 'manage my account'), then go to 'data & personalization', find the 'download your data' option. They'll zip up all
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by johnyzee 6y ago
> the only purpose of buying them was to bet that they'll go up. Which seems a good bet, when the government is increasing the fiat money supply by 40% per year [1]. [1] https://seekingalpha.com/article/4392716-
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by johnyzee 6y ago
I suspect that 'nurse service' was basically the insurance company checking that they weren't paying for more than was needed.
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by johnyzee 6y ago
Maybe. But singling them out while happily consuming products produced under similar, or worse, conditions reeks hippocracy. It is fully in our power to force companies to source manufacturing to places where you have more than one day off
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by johnyzee 6y ago
I immediately thought of Caesar II when you mentioned Smacker :). One of the impressive things in that game (besides being a great game) was the many very smooth video clips, enabled by that tech.
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by johnyzee 6y ago
Worth noting that satiety (to a large degree controlled by leptin) is triggered much more by fat than by other macro nutrients. So white rice, and all other carbs, are worse on that axis too - high in calories but not very filling, thus pro
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by johnyzee 6y ago
The world wants and needs a medium of exchange, otherwise we are back to bartering fish for sheep skins. All the medium of exchange needs, is to be scarce - people have used conch shells when it served the purpose. Right now, bitcoin is the

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