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by mckirk 4y ago
I can't find the source anymore, but I once heard a pretty interesting theory: Men use banter as a form of indirect emotional connection. Playing rough with your male friends is like 'bouncing balls off their emotional walls'
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by mckirk 4y ago
To be fair, crypto currencies _are_ more useful than some pretty flowers. You can actually use it to e.g. buy stuff (though most of that is drugs) and to transfer money (though most of that is evading taxes). The use cases discovered so far
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by mckirk 4y ago
The thing I don't like about these 'well people have been complaining about this forever' arguments is that, it's entirely possible to have a) people pointing at an issue for a long time and b) still have that issue get
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by mckirk 4y ago
Also makes sense if you think about it; little opportunity for sleeping was likely an indicator of external stressors during our evolution, so up-regulatibg energy intake during those times seems reasonable.
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by mckirk 4y ago
I suspect this largely depends on where you're coming from. If you are comfortable with C++ and Haskell, Rust probably doesn't feel that hard to learn. But coming from JavaScript or PHP, I can indeed imagine a steep learning curve
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by mckirk 4y ago
Essentially: The mere symbolism of it. People ascribe a bit more meaning to such 'round' numbers, and since you are in a market with other people that do the same, it actually starts to make sense to see them as important markers
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by mckirk 4y ago
After having a look at the logarithmic BTC/USD chart, I'd say it crashed worse in 2014 and in 2018.
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by mckirk 4y ago
When I randomly checked my Steam account and realized I had about $70 worth of ingame items that I had gotten through drops while playing, and which had suddenly 'appreciated in value' noticeably... That's when I knew we are
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by mckirk 4y ago
Meanwhile, in '$8/gallon territory': "1.25€ per liter of Diesel sounds like heaven right about now..."
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by mckirk 4y ago
That's what I immediately thought of as well; for some reason the people telling SR-71 stories seem to be great story tellers, and despite having read the Speed Check Story probably a dozen times by now, it's hard to resist when i
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by mckirk 4y ago
How so?
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by mckirk 4y ago
At least in my case I have to go to quite some lengths so that a sleeping mask doesn't slip off during the night; I'm not exactly sure what I'm doing while asleep to constantly work them off my head, but unless I really tight
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by mckirk 4y ago
A startup selling probiotics containing plastic-eating bacteria, anyone?
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by mckirk 4y ago
My advice: Don't underestimate the substance, but also don't give too much importance to stories of people that overdid it and had a terrible time. People have been using Phenibut for long periods of time without getting dependent
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by mckirk 4y ago
And awfully fragil pseudo-code, and hard-to-reproduce base data, and ridiculously extensive hyperparameter search, and specialty hardware, and proprietary libraries, and magic circumstances that a grad student with horrible sleep deprivatio
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by mckirk 4y ago
Refreshing HN to find more signs of the cryptocalypse has definitely become a guilty pleasure of mine the last few days. I really don't wish for it, because so many people would get caught in the crossfire, but there's still that
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by mckirk 4y ago
That was my takeaway as well. Telling gambling addicts 'no don't go, I've been there and suicide is not the answer. There is more gambling to be done!' is pretty strange. It might be helpful for some people to hear, but
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by mckirk 4y ago
I've researched some more and come upon this article: https://kash-defi.medium.com/why-ust-is-a-superior-stablecoi... I'd be curious to hear whether you still think it's a scam after reading it.
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by mckirk 4y ago
Considering the market caps of other crypto currencies that serve no purpose whatsoever (other than going to the moon, obviously), one could argue that by being interconnected with UST, LUNA is actually one of the more sensible currencies.
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by mckirk 4y ago
That's what I keep telling people: until we have the autonomous murder drones, a smart contract can't really be binding outside of the cryptoverse.
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by mckirk 4y ago
You could make that argument about the majority of the crypto-currency universe, yes. I wouldn't consider an algorithmic stablecoin a ponzi scheme, though. People don't buy UST because they expect to be able to sell it to a greate
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by mckirk 4y ago
Yup, I thought about posting a correction, but figured it would be outdated by the time I was finished, heh. It's not looking good at the moment... I know HN isn't very fond of crypto, but I still feel for everyone stuck in UST sp
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by mckirk 4y ago
It looks like this (un-)stablecoin has lost its peg two times in the past. The interesting thing is that's it's an algorithmic stable coin: if its price is below a dollar, you can 'burn' one UST to get $1 worth of LUNA (
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by mckirk 5y ago
You know, that's not the most unlikely theory. I've wondered why clubs reopening only had seemingly little effect on covid spread...
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by mckirk 5y ago
Easy, just put cocaine in the spray and make it mouse-operable.
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by mckirk 5y ago
That probably depends on whether the mice need to be dewormed or not.
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by mckirk 5y ago
I'm not sure where you got that spin from the article, as it seemed fairly balanced to me in pointing out the issues both on the right and on the left.
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by mckirk 5y ago
Oh cool, I'd almost forgotten about those guided meditations! I used to listen to them a fair bit, not sure what happened to that habit. But good to know that they have an app now, thanks for the info!
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by mckirk 5y ago
And how do you prove that you have such a spark?
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by mckirk 5y ago
He's had a lifelong feud with the lab mouse population and is happy about every blow we can deal to them.

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