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~$11,000 a year on GCP according to https://gcpinstances.info/?cost_duration=annually , for just the instance, if you commit up front to a full year. Then add on storage and ingress/egress traffic. And this is without t
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The existing alternatives are other cryptocurrencies, not fiat.
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Yes, but then you read things like https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/01/introducing-i... , or look at the payments offered by https://zerodium.com/program.html… the days of clicking a lin
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Check out https://caprover.com/ - nothing cooler being able to deploy postgres from your phone
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This is what almost all of the essay describes
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Assuming you trust they aren’t saving any logs..
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Start up idea - run hundreds of “preliminary studies” with small sample sizes, then sell any of the p-hacked results to marketing or news groups. Want a story about how milk boosts intelligence? Want a story for how a standing desk leads to
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It’s a bit hard to disambiguate. What about a PS5, should the electricity for that be taxed higher?
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I’m not sure I see what you’re saying. The “arbitrary target” is so high because of all the mining. If there were less miners, the difficult would decrease, and then it would be easier for a malicious party to find one of those 6 lottery ti
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Wait until they hear about Monero and Zcash…
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Not really, this is closer to saying that the trigger on “Beretta M9 Serial No. 371758” doesn’t kill anyone. If WhatsApp didn’t exist, any other E2E encrypted messenger would have been used.
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Bitcoin mining
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According to https://www.statista.com/statistics/1200477/bitcoin-mining-b... , 65% of BTC mining already happens within one country.
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Can you give an example? Struggling with analogy
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This would result in a cat and mouse game requiring constant eng work
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That’s a little scary. If those covered the globe, you could see and track anyone anytime they left their house. This gets dystopian fast. Imagine the ad targeting. Or “sorry, we notice you haven’t been to the gym all month, we have raised
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The story doesn’t end there. After they converted to BTC at https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/1Cm6WGvXQ9EgvvWX5dRsB... , where does the money go?
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54% of employees thought selecting that survey option is the one mostly likely to increase the odds they would be given flexibility in the future. The headline of the press release, “More than half of employees globally would quit their job
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Can at least block ads still (mostly…)
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I’m not sure - surely a jockey who did have the opportunity to be a horse (via a one year brain transplant) would have a significant advantage
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They claim world class because they are “a highly competitive set of peers and some of the largest tech companies in the world”. Moving “from 50th to 75th” is totally meaningless thought if they’re already arbitrarily deciding who is their
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Yeah, I don’t understand why small positive changes always are met with “doesn’t matter”. It doesn’t matter in the same way that not littering, turning off the lights, reducing consumption and waste, donating to charity, or voting “doesn’t
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Does programmatic money not sound exciting to you? I see way more skepticism than support on HN but it surprises me. Can you really not picture any uses for a financial system with Turing completeness?
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Yeah, total clickbait. The headline is not true at all. Annoying
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There is 1 bidder, paulg1
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I think Shopify’s massive success means this likely isn’t this extreme
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Essentially he would first become an “advisor” for the B2B IT company offering services to Netflix, and receive share options or large sums of cash. Then he would sign an agreement with Netflix. No clue how he thought he would get away with
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Has an official NFT been released yet?
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This doesn’t place a dollar amount on privacy, the author makes that up for a headline. This is just differential pricing ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination ) targeting business buyers. It’s a bit of an
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I am a little confused how we can add up to $50M. Let’s say they only hire the best of the best, and it somehow costs them $200k per employee used to build the site. Let’s say 20 to build the front end. 20 to build the back end. 20 to integ

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