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by kmmlng 4y ago
The YouTube subscription just seems excessively expensive. I find it hard to fathom they would generate anywhere near as much revenue from me watching their ads compared to the subscription cost.
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by kmmlng 5y ago
> I suspect they are better than stainless for long term storage of certain things. I'm confused, how is that relevant to the topic at hand?
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by kmmlng 5y ago
With credit cards, you have to give out your details to whoever you are paying. That party will save them somewhere and then there is a possibility that someone else will gain access to your details and abuse them. You won't ultimaltel
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by kmmlng 5y ago
Well sure, I can send money around using third-party services, but the official banking system is not that fast.
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by kmmlng 5y ago
> easy electronic transfers within 5 seconds for no charge This is certainly not the case everywhere in the EU. In Germany for example it usually takes days. Not sure about other countries.
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by kmmlng 5y ago
> Bitcoin has yet to achieve price stability against real goods, because the price of bitcoin versus the real dollar goes up and down by tens of percent on a monthly basis. True, but Bitcoin still has a fixed supply. If adoption continue
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by kmmlng 5y ago
> we don’t have perfect code or computers efficient enough to do proof of work Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the point of proof of work precisely that it takes resources to perform this work? I.e. it's not a bug, it&#
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by kmmlng 5y ago
Yes, to make this clear: the actual image (or whatever other type of media) is not stored on chain, only a link to the image.
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by kmmlng 5y ago
I don't think this is an example of Russel's teapot. In Russel's teapot, you are giving a solid explanation of what you are claiming, it just happens to be unfalsifiable. In the example I was criticizing, the word "God&q
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by kmmlng 5y ago
Let's say it isn't the idea of religion I got growing up. There was no one around who could make a convincing case for Christianity, so I and everyone I knew thought religious people were completely delusional. As I (very) slowly
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by kmmlng 5y ago
> But one of the reasons I don't like talking about religion on HN is that I've found a computer science centric way of thinking about some sub branches of philosophy and theology is a dead end. We're used to dealing with
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by kmmlng 5y ago
It seems like a statement like this cannot be made without first giving a definition of God. Clearly, people have different ideas of what God is. So either you are saying there is no evidence for one particular definition of God, but you ar
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by kmmlng 5y ago
Interestingly this sounds like the new agey saying "We are the universe experiencing itself". > Quran 2:115 states that wherever you turn, there is the Face of Allah. So Allah is everything or at least he is IN everything. The
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by kmmlng 5y ago
Interestingly, this line of thought seems compatible with the description of God in the bible to me. If you put aside all your preconceived notions of some dude in the sky and simply read the bible for what it is, you'll find things li
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by kmmlng 5y ago
From what I remember when I last looked into it: We underestimate how bright sunlight is. Screens just aren't bright enough. They only appear to be bright to us because they are one of the few light sources in indoor environments.
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by kmmlng 5y ago
But in this case it seems a lot more clear that it doesn't matter if it is the original or merely something that resembles the original. I don't care about the actual bytes on a hard drive, the grooves on a vinyl or whatever else
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by kmmlng 5y ago
While it is true that incidences of myopia are increasing, we don't quite have the evidence to assert that it is due to phone and computer use. Indeed, many studies suggest that the reason might actually be a lack of bright light (i.e.
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by kmmlng 5y ago
While you make a fair point, it seems like the alternative is to assume that the consensus opinion is the correct one and discard everything else. That doesn't seem like the way to go to me.
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by kmmlng 5y ago
It's clear that Rogan himself is not an intellectual. He will be the first person to tell you that. That seems to be the appeal of his show, though. He talks to experts (not all of them intellectuals) without being an expert himself. T
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by kmmlng 5y ago
So they are taking steps which are ostensibly geared towards this drug dealer vision. But is it working? I can only look at myself and the people around me. There was a time when we would go on Netflix binges and there probably was somethin
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by kmmlng 5y ago
Counterexample: SpaceX. Sometimes, starting from scratch can be very helpful.
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by kmmlng 5y ago
I simply take it as a description of reality. As a child, you are nothing yet, but you have the potential to become almost anything. As you get older, you trade in that potential for something specific. It's up to you to choose. You ca
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by kmmlng 5y ago
There really seem to be different ways of quitting. You can quit while remaining addicted, but you can also quit by getting over the addiction. Clearly, you have taken the first path, i.e. are playing on hard mode. I know this path well, bu
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by kmmlng 5y ago
If you can't manage it every day, a less frequent habit will still have benefits. I've been doing strength training once a week since the pandemic startet, and it has been great. Obviously I could have made much more progress with
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by kmmlng 5y ago
In the context of their relationship (comedy), Chappelle is certainly much higher status than Rogan.
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by kmmlng 6y ago
The issue with an approach like this is that it's merely fighting the symptoms of the underlying problem. The underlying problem is that you have more demand than supply and something is preventing the market from rectifying this probl
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by kmmlng 6y ago
Methamphetamine is sometimes prescribed for ADHD under the name "Desoxyn". While medical professionals appear hesitant to do so, patients who are prescribed Desoxyn rate it much higher than other ADHD drugs.
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by kmmlng 6y ago
Here is my take: Writing is thinking. As long as you have some topic to write about that has been on your mind for a while, writing about it is a wonderful opportunity to structure your thoughts, make explicit and conscious what has thus fa
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by kmmlng 6y ago
Yes, that assertion sound like it's coming from someone who has never actually used Bitcoin. There are cryptos which are instant and without transaction fees (e.g. Nano for payments and maybe in the future IOTA as an alternative to Eth
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by kmmlng 6y ago
Transaction fees appear to be significantly higher than $5 at the moment (see e.g. https://www.coindesk.com/ethereum-transaction-fees-hit-recor... ).

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