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by krupan 3y ago
$4 per what? Do you even know? Have you heard of the lightning network that is a fast transaction layer built on top of Bitcoin?
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by krupan 3y ago
You are correct about lightning transactions. Funds are settled in the Bitcoin layer when the two channel partners close the channel. I think that time can vary depending on the channel partners, but when they do decide to close, then it
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by krupan 3y ago
Paper dollar settlement times are fast, if you happen to be in the same physical location as the person you are transacting with. Everything else you mentioned is a transaction not an actual settlement of cash. When you pay with a credit c
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by krupan 3y ago
Vitalik says, "hey, let's do this" and everyone does it. Even when it's crazy things like rolling back transactions. Satoshi doesn't even say anything and hasn't for a very long time.
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by krupan 3y ago
Bitcoin is not expensive to use, I'm not sure why you think it is It is far more private by default than our current central bank and credit card system. Could it be better? Maybe. Does everyone want a fully anonymous system? I&#x2
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by krupan 3y ago
People are speculating on Bitcoin for different reasons, but many of us are doing so because we have examined it closely and seen it's utility. It is still very early in the adoption phase and so it's hard to see the utility in p
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by krupan 3y ago
You do realize that people heavily speculate on the price of dollars, stocks, real estate, etc., don't you? ;-) In all seriousness, we do understand what you are saying, bitcoin's price relative to the things you want to buy does
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by krupan 3y ago
I wish we could stop saying crypto here and just say, fraud, or ponzi, or get rich quick schemes. Crypto was the marketing term used this time around, but it's been other things in the past and there will be new ones in the future.
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by krupan 3y ago
Securing the Bitcoin network is the useful work.
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by krupan 3y ago
Ethereum is essentially centrally controlled and Bitcoin is absolutely not.
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by krupan 3y ago
People on hacker news are smart, but not about everything. It takes some effort to really understand our central bank dollar based financial system. It's takes effort to understand Bitcoin. Most of us here are focused on other thing
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by krupan 3y ago
You are talking about settlement times of Bitcoin transactions. Yes, those take 10 minutes at best, or roughly around an hour if you want to be very confident that the funds have settled. Settlement times on dollars is generally 3 days at
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by krupan 3y ago
In my experience, no, you don't need this. The few things I keep just go in folders named for the year under my Documents folder, and they are given descriptive filenames like paystub-2022-10-15.pdf, or companyA-w-2.pdf. In the rare
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by krupan 3y ago
I want to make sure I understand. Atoms are not empty space, they are a solid cloud of...something?
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by krupan 3y ago
In each of those incidents, how many people were hurt and how badly?
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by krupan 3y ago
You are not wrong at all. There is a certain level of fraud tolerated by banks so that they can more easily make loans to people. It's the classic security vs. convenience trade-off. Two big problems are: 1. If you happen to be one o
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by krupan 3y ago
Which evidence/data tells you that cruise cars are not safer than humans?
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by krupan 3y ago
I've been learning emacs calc (my HP-48g calculator finally died) and it seems to have this built-in. It's super impressive.
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by krupan 3y ago
Thanks for starting this thread. I have my first initial and last name for Gmail and it's nice to know I'm not the only one getting all kinds of mail for other people with similar names!
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by krupan 3y ago
Righ, so 20 years from now we'll all still be using passwords while a few people play around with webauthn
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by krupan 3y ago
That's like saying: IPv6 is basically IPv4 with bigger addresses, right?
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by krupan 3y ago
That's pretty much the point the blog post is making.
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by krupan 3y ago
While you are technically correct, you are missing the whole point of the blog post
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by krupan 3y ago
I kind of see where you are coming from, because it's true that every alternative to passwords that seems to be gaining traction right now is horribly complicated. Webauthn and passkeys are like the IPv6 of security upgrades. Waaaaay
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by krupan 3y ago
What are you talking about? It’s not all dollar cost. You can’t eat what a solar farm produces. A solar farm does not replaced the carbon sequestration of a forest. Endangered species displaced by solar farms (desert tortoises, for exam
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by krupan 3y ago
We haven't seen anything like a worst case scenario for [insert any energy source here]. So? Covering too much land in solar panels could have dire long-term effects that we don't even know. Sucking too much energy out of the ai
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by krupan 3y ago
Interesting (maybe?) background info, this is John Walker, the creator of AutoCAD, an o.g. software entrepreneur. Also the author of The Hacker's Diet: https://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/
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by krupan 3y ago
How big are the areas that solar farms cover compared to that exclusion zone? How big will the exclusion zones of Climate Change be if we keep burning fossil fuels?
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by krupan 3y ago
Terry Pratchett added these wonderful animals to the world in which his book Nation takes place (one of his very best books, if you ask me). He undoubtedly was inspired by this website
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by krupan 3y ago
I don't understand why some of these are for socialists. The Master and Margarita is a pretty damning take on socialist Russia. And it didn't get past the censors as the author of this page seems to assume, Bulgakov was deathly

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