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by kebman 5y ago
If you search for anything political on Google, you'll notice that the results are clearly slanted in one direction, towards the opinion of a handful of pre-approved news outlets. This leads me to seek alternatives whenever I need neut
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by kebman 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_Network
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by kebman 5y ago
> But that is only possible because the value of bitcoin has skyrocketed. Even if the price of Bitcoin hadn't skyrocketed, it would still be capable of transacting billions of dollars of value. You'd just have to buy more Bitco
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by kebman 5y ago
Do you have a measure against the banking system? If you do, then I'd love to see how Bitcoin is worse.
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by kebman 5y ago
That's pretty high. OTOH I bet Hawaiians don't need as much heating during the winter. Most homes in Norway are electricity heating only, due to the building policies of the last 50 or so years, which makes the individual bills pr
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by kebman 5y ago
I bought my first pirated warez in Poland as a teen. I bought Atari ST games copied onto 3½-inch floppies at a shady market stall in Szczecin. Good times! (Not sure why the 3½-inch floppy disks are called floppy, because they ain't.) I
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by kebman 5y ago
Yeah, imagine that! Thing is, Norway used to have some of the cheapest electricity in Europe, due to population centres being situated right next to a lot of waterfalls. It's still some of the cheapest and most "green" to pro
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by kebman 5y ago
Not even close. I pay almost 4 kroner per kWh this month. Granted it varies a bit depending on the deal you've got. Mine's a monthly price. Some have hourly spot price, and some have a locked-in price.
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by kebman 5y ago
Oh, this has probably nothing to do with the major energy deficit Europe is now experiencing. Sorry for the sarcasm, but people living here without a secondary source of heat are suffering ice cold houses because they have to choose between
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by kebman 5y ago
That's not the point. The point is, if they get used to it, they will pay it.
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by kebman 5y ago
‘It is incredible what people can pay in tax if they just get used to it.’ — Erik Brofoss, former Norwegian minister of finance and director of the IMF.
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by kebman 5y ago
The cost of food is suppressed, because our elites, leaders and politicians know what happens when that too is subjected to inflation as well, and that is revolution. Meanwhile, as far as I can see, the frog-boiling of regular people has be
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by kebman 5y ago
Please allow me to illustrate: Tether is used to buy Bitcoin and other cryptos. As you correctly observed. But: Tether ≠ Bitcoin. Tether FUD = get rid of Tether. The only thing that could dent Bitcoin, as in making it dip, would be if pot
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by kebman 5y ago
Lots of people in here who don't understand neither Tether nor Bitcoin. The quickest way to get rid of Tether for most people, is to buy Bitcoin. The alternative would be to try to withdraw your Tether. Good luck with that during a cri
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by kebman 5y ago
People would want to get rid of Tether and fast. One way is to buy real money, like Bitcoin.
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by kebman 5y ago
I'll tell you what is the other option: Digging through the code and extracting the information without accepting the blood contract, because people who are stupid enough to put something in the public sphere on the internet don't
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by kebman 5y ago
It is generally a smart idea to get consent first, especially if the imagery is intended for monetized use, such as ads and posters, especially since such use can result in law suits if done without consent. The one thing that might outweig
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by kebman 5y ago
But when you're informed about cookies when entering the site, the only option is "I accept". Not unlike walking in a public space, where it's is, and should be, legal to photograph anyone. (And no, the back button is n
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by kebman 5y ago
I think it's a bit more complex than that. I'm sure most voters have a real hope that their politician is actually speaking the truth. And sometimes the politician is even honest about wanting to make it happen. But then comes the
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by kebman 5y ago
A friend of mine was the leader of the Norwegian Pirate Party. He proposed a new way to organize society in a decentralized, professionalized, yet accountable way. His main issue was that politicians would promise a bunch of nonsense, and t
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by kebman 5y ago
So they just sat around and were poor all day? All the rich culture being brought through the generations, it meant nothing? I grew up on a farm. It was run pretty much by manual labour up until even the 30's and beyond. Even while tra
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by kebman 5y ago
A whole article on financial innovation, and not one mention of crypto or defi? Not even Bitcoin?
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by kebman 5y ago
Here's a fun and working model aircraft powered by articulated flight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysnAVwtdbYc Things that strike me off the bat for creating "the real thing:" Ground effect with rising he
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by kebman 5y ago
That's a great site! Is there anything similar for the Atari ST?
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by kebman 5y ago
Not sure about the algos used, but the game "X-COM: UFO Defense" (known as "UFO: Enemy Unknown" in Europe) was released in 1994, and it prominently featured a 3D rendition of earth that was used in the game.
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by kebman 5y ago
I make a conscious effort to not get sucked into Facebook. One rule I have is to never browse past the first ad unless I've got the day off. That minimizes a lot of the time I spend there. Unfortunately I am involved in a few special i
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by kebman 5y ago
On my journey into this secret world I sadly had to conclude that understanding of the needed math was severely lacking, and that I'd have to start far back to ever get a grasp on it. But on the flipside it has motivated me to learn a
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by kebman 5y ago
Trying to render them in code, or with Desmos, is quite enlightening. Cryptographic tools are also helpful for testing it out in practise, such as OpenSSH. Then read up on the various forums and the Bitcoin Wiki, and try to make your own im
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by kebman 5y ago
The M1 Abrams is actually just a modified copy of that mouse!11
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by kebman 5y ago
How does it measure up to LBRY / Odysee?

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