majinuub

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by majinuub 4y ago
I disagree that America was intended to be a melting pot. That idea came later. It was intended to be a federation of Christian, culturally English states.
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by majinuub 4y ago
I'm seeing some rather naïve explanations here like it incentivizes spending and encourages economic growth. There's absolutely no need to artificially incentivize spending. Humans naturally require and desire goods and services.
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by majinuub 4y ago
This article can give you some insight as to why HN reacts the way it does: https://www.citadel21.com/why-the-yuppie-elite-dismiss-bitco...
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by majinuub 4y ago
If you release the CO2 into the atmosphere, it doesn't really reduce emissions. However, because miners can harness the energy in a profitable way, they could afford to sequester or scrub the CO2. That would make oil and gas companies
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by majinuub 4y ago
The only purpose of a blockchain is to decentralize the storage and validation of data. It only makes sense if the decentralization is worth the loss in efficiency. Using a blockchain just to store data and perform computations when you hav
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by majinuub 4y ago
> Because every bitcoin transaction costs $60 in electricity. That is a monumentally stupid amount to pay. It's $125 per kB. Its incredibly fallacious to measure the cost of electricity per transaction on Bitcoin. Blocks can be comp
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by majinuub 4y ago
They should stop using computers too because hackers use them.
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by majinuub 4y ago
Europe and Asia have been doing instant bank transfers for a while now. Bitcoin has been doing 24/7 payments since 2009 and instant payments since at least 2018. Not to mention Bitcoin is decentralized and not reliant on government and
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by majinuub 4y ago
“Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon in the sense that it is and can be produced only by a more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in output.” - Milton Friedman
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by majinuub 4y ago
> Project direction controlled entirely by core devs and the centralised exchanges that bless their output as "bitcoin" regardless of the fact it directly contradicts the original consensus mechanism for the project and the cha
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by majinuub 4y ago
Its disturbing how many people on HN are okay with this.
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by majinuub 4y ago
Doxxing everyone by government mandate isn't the answer, nor should it ever be the answer.
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by majinuub 4y ago
Privacy and anonymity are essential for people who want to speak out against powerful or potentially violent groups or individuals. Anonymity is really the only way to protect freedom of speech imo. Privacy is also extremely important for a
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by majinuub 4y ago
I'm thinking that its because many HN users live in or close to medium to large sized cities. So they have no perspective when it comes to a place that's truly rural. They just see that some small city has no high rises or large c
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by majinuub 4y ago
What could possibly go wrong?
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by majinuub 5y ago
It's a subpar service not worth the price they're charging. Sure there are no ads, but they still track the hell out of you. I might as well use this free improvement of YouTube's app.
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by majinuub 5y ago
I'll repeat what I said in another comment here: What's valuable is purely subjective. That's what makes markets work. Its also why planning economies from the top down doesn't work. What seems like wasted energy or capi
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by majinuub 5y ago
From the article: “This gas is unable to be sold to a pipeline, so otherwise they’re either venting or flaring the gas. If you are venting the gas you’re just literally venting the methane into the atmosphere,”... There's probably too
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by majinuub 5y ago
I've heard really good things about Librewolf, which is a privacy focused fork of Firefox. https://librewolf.net/
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by majinuub 5y ago
Inflation is caused by the Federal Reserve's manipulation of interest rates and the money supply. "Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon." - Milton Friedman
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by majinuub 5y ago
This type of mentality is what lead to forever wars in the Middle East. How about we don't establish organizations that will likely be used to infringe on the rights of innocents?
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by majinuub 5y ago
This is in no way going to be used to further infringe on our rights and liberties. Nope, never gonna happen. /s
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by majinuub 5y ago
Its not strange. However, I do think governments mandating it is an overstep and it should be strange. Then again, I am a voluntaryist living in the US so I'm pretty biased when it comes to government mandates.
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by majinuub 5y ago
I like the theory that this event is what inspired the biblical story of Sodom. It reminds me of how paleontologists use the ancient art and stories of Native Australians to figure out what Pleistocene animals looked like and how they may h
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by majinuub 5y ago
This guy glows
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by majinuub 5y ago
Its disappointing that Hacker News can't seem to see past the fad. NFTs have some really interesting use cases. They're basically a digital deed or certificate of authenticity you can't just copy (at the very least it would b
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by majinuub 6y ago
Its a salary that you would normally earn working for the large tech companies in Silicon Valley. FAANG stands for: Facebook Apple Amazon Netflix Google
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by majinuub 6y ago
I'm in love with this concept! I'm wondering about the longevity of storage devices. > SD Cards won’t last 100 years but the code to talk to one will. It seems like the article implies that family that owns an heirloom computer
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by majinuub 6y ago
> Your spotify was pretentious-hip-hop-god-rock bad. > Thank your obsessions with Childish Gambino and christian rock for that. > Based on your listening habits, I can also tell you your spotify was... > awkward-beatboxing bad B
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by majinuub 6y ago
Not going to lie, I feel pretty vindicated about avoiding the hypetrain. I had a feeling something like this would happen. I still want to play the game, but I'll wait for a few patches before I purchase it.

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