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by mckeed 5y ago
PoW is different because it's energy use for its own sake. If carbon taxes go up, some things will no longer be worth spending energy on, but crypto mining is just competitive, so the value of mining will go up with the cost of energy
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by mckeed 5y ago
That's like saying people shouldn't try to ban meth because meth cooks are working hard. It's just not a realistic outlook on how typical people want society to function. Most people do not believe PoW cryptocurrency is impor
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by mckeed 5y ago
The idea was to ban trading, not mining. If Coinbase and all the other legitimate companies that facilitate crypto markets for U.S. citizens had to drop PoW coins it could tank the price significantly and set the coin mining industry back t
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by mckeed 5y ago
It's a difficult problem, but there are coins that have managed it. Stellar has piggybacked on other services to distribute – Facebook, Keybase, and Coinbase. There's an energy-efficient memecoin that distributes based on Folding@
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by mckeed 5y ago
I think the idea is that some people are naturally dealmakers, and the whole idea of YC was technical-minded people taking over the job that would normally be done by social-minded people and doing it better.
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by mckeed 5y ago
The AirTag will start making a sound after a while, and yes they have plans for working for law enforcement: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212227#sound These kind of devices have been available for years, including
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by mckeed 5y ago
The value the employer gets is double-counted later as part of the profit. The value to employees is tricky. Without Amazon they might make more from a competitor with less market power. Without the industry, they might make more selling or
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by mckeed 6y ago
Android, G-Suite, even YouTube (though that is also advertising)
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by mckeed 6y ago
Probably because the last product they put full commitment into was Google Plus.
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by mckeed 6y ago
It looks like you can report them if they violate Nextdoor's Community Guidelines and potentially get them demoted. https://help.nextdoor.com/s/article/How-to-remove-Lead-statu...
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by mckeed 6y ago
I was a big stackoverflow user and then completely stopped using it when I switched to full time embedded C. Any APIs I was using or problems I hit were too niche.
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by mckeed 6y ago
Does anyone technically have the right to download from youtube in this way? Even if so, it's clearly in the category of software predominantly used for piracy, all of which can also have legitimate uses.
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by mckeed 7y ago
The poster. It used to be that shares/retweets were used to put a post on your friends feed and likes were used to express support/appreciation to the poster/creator. Twitter always had the problem where faves (now likes) wer
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by mckeed 7y ago
No, there is also non-verbal thinking. Just like I can communicate via gestures and facial expressions, I often think things through without putting anything into explicit words.
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by mckeed 7y ago
I wonder if you could put them in one of these microphones with anatomical ears: https://3diosound.com