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by mytherin 5y ago
I see two possible situations in what you describe: * Ownership of a land/property is tied directly to ownership of a cryptocurrency. In that case getting hacked means people can steal your house . Forgetting your password means losin
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by mytherin 5y ago
The first source does not seem particularly reliable, it makes some back of the envelope calculations based on extrapolated stats that are not even sourced. Other sources put Google’s total energy usage (including youtube) at around 12 TWh
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by mytherin 5y ago
Source?
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by mytherin 5y ago
Maybe I'm the odd one out, but this describes me to a T. I started programming primarily using Visual Studio on Windows which I used for several years. It has a nice debugger, but the IDE in general was so painfully slow and bloated it
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Efficient SQL on Pandas with DuckDB(duckdb.org)
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by mytherin 5y ago
You are still taking words out of context. Clearly the author agrees that cryptocurrency is not the singular reason behind *all* ransomware, considering he states it is not a new phenomenon. The sentence you took out of context relates to *
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by mytherin 5y ago
The article directly addresses your point in the paragraph surrounding the sentence you cherry picked. > Now this is not a new phenomenon by any means. But what is new is that the level of these attacks has gone parabolic in the last few
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by mytherin 5y ago
UBSAN detects undefined behavior at run-time. Compile-time detection of undefined behavior is present in the form of compiler warnings, but catches far from all cases of undefined behavior. The compiler does not actively exploit undefined b
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by mytherin 5y ago
Bitcoin alone is estimated to use around 129 TWh of electricity [1], compared to 12 TWh for Google or 200 TWh for literally all other data centers [2]. Hardly a drop in the bucket, unless that drop is the size of 10 buckets. Surely not ev
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by mytherin 5y ago
The welfare systems of most (if not all) Western countries are inspired by this viewpoint, but take fundamentally different trade-offs. They do not action the viewpoint itself - the viewpoint clearly is not an actionable policy. It is also
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by mytherin 5y ago
The refined point (and all preceding points) are not based in any sort of actionable public policy. I would argue that that point is as much based in emotion as the leftist points the parent is talking about. Yes, it sounds good that in a
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by mytherin 5y ago
It sounds to me like you are doing the exact same thing you accuse "the leftists" of doing - oversimplifying the other sides views without actually considering their benefits and drawbacks, and writing them off as "feel goo
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by mytherin 5y ago
No, they are not convicted of monopolising until they lose an antitrust case. That doesn't mean they aren't monopolising right now, it just means there hasn't been a verdict set against them for illegal monopolisation. Case
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by mytherin 5y ago
The reason government is treated differently from companies in that regard is because the government has a natural monopoly in many areas. You cannot choose an alternative government, you are forced to deal with the one there is. When compa
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by mytherin 6y ago
The probability of a coin flip being heads or tails is completely independent from the previous flips. If the coin lands 6 heads in a row, the next coin flip still has a 60% chance of being heads, hence it is always unwise to bet on tails i
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by mytherin 6y ago
What will actually happen if the crypto coins collapse in price? What tangible effects will there be? Very few people's salaries are paid in crypto, crypto isn't backing people's mortgages, and outside of the rare (and newswo
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by mytherin 6y ago
Sure, Amazon wins by providing lower prices through economies of scale. The details of how they acquire customers of small businesses are not relevant because it does not influence the end result. Wealth is moved from one party (a small bus
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by mytherin 6y ago
Amazon has no doubt created wealth as well. However, they have also consolidated wealth and put many small companies out of business. The extent to which they have created new wealth and the extent to which they have taken existing wealth c
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by mytherin 6y ago
> There isn't a finite amount of "wealth" in the world. You can go out and make wealth every single day. The rich obtaining more of it doesn't mean there's less left over for you and I. There is an essence of tru
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by mytherin 6y ago
"You can only launch 1 concurrent EC2 instance per $100 on your max cap, if you want to launch 1000 instances of EC2 your max cap needs to be set to at least $100.000, or to $unlimited". There are many solutions to this problem to
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by mytherin 6y ago
> Well, that is an abuse of the term, by people that sometimes don't actually know what that really means. Up to a point, quadratic IS faster than linear after all for example. Too many developer love too abuse the word blindly. The
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by mytherin 6y ago
I wouldn't link the usefulness of swap to the quality of programs. It has a lot to do with user behavior. If a user opens 100 tabs in a web browser but never looks at most of them, swapping unused ones to disk if they don't fit in
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by mytherin 6y ago
There is a difference between active coercion (someone goes to your house and forces you with a gun to vote their way) and passive coercion (if you vote for X in 20 years time your vote might be considered inappropriate and you will be fire
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by mytherin 6y ago
> There's also the behavioral cost, I've noticed more and more people simply don't the code in code reviews anymore. Most feedback I get these days is stuff like "that's not supposed to be snake_case" or &qu
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by mytherin 6y ago
The same could be argued for a Ponzi scheme: it is useful for the people at the top that have taken money from others, and not so useful for the people that have lost money by buying in later on. The more interesting question is what value
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by mytherin 6y ago
Drugs have a purpose beyond trading. Currency does not. I fail to see how these are comparable.
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by mytherin 6y ago
I used to have it enabled to block certain social media websites. It is unfortunate you can't just block websites without also enabling the adult content filter, especially since the adult content filter has many false positives in my
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by mytherin 6y ago
> I hear this argument a lot, and I'm confused. What's the alternative here? The billions these people have literally wouldn't exist if it weren't for them. iPhones and social networks and electric cars don't spo
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by mytherin 6y ago
I'm really confused by your perspective. How is this a win for open source? A big open source project has just shifted away from open source to protect their revenue stream, and now serves as (yet another) warning against other compani
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by mytherin 6y ago
IANAL either but I believe that if you release code under license A you can relicense it to license B, but anyone that obtained the code under license A will be able to keep on using it under that license. A license is like a contract, and

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