netsharc

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1. 4021.▲
   by netsharc 5y ago

   What do you think needs more energy: several systems (2, with some intermediaries) that talk to each other, one decrementing a number in a bank account, and another incrementing a number in another bank account, vs. thousands of systems tha
2. 4022.▲
   by netsharc 5y ago

   Government is formed as a way to manage a society/community of people, if blockchain/crypto gets big enough to have hundreds of thousands of adherents, you'll also need a way to manage that "society". Some people th
3. 4023.▲
   by netsharc 5y ago

   This car reviewer tried it (with his mom holding the button) and it would've pancaked him too (they tried it twice, once with his mom's motherly instinct letting go of the button): https://youtu.be/kW2W2l2kXFM?t=41
4. 4024.▲
   by netsharc 5y ago

   Video's title is clickbait... skimming it, the guy figured out how to enrich Uranium, invented the use of lead additive in fuel and Ozone-destroying flourocarbons.
5. 4025.▲
   by netsharc 5y ago

   (2000). Hah, that's before The War(which one? Russia-Ukraine War, Iraq, Afghanistan? Syria? Before any of those!), before Covid, before Trump, Brexit, Obama, the Bush admin which you thought was worst government ever, before 9/11,
6. 4026.▲
   by netsharc 5y ago

   Some guy got 90 doses of the vaccine so he could sell the "vaccinated" status: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/03/german-man-sus... , I wonder if he'll be a case study of what o
7. 4027.▲
   by netsharc 5y ago

   You should just start a swapping round of a certificate of ownership (or several of them) of a rai stone: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2011/02/15/131934618/the-...
8. 4028.▲
   by netsharc 5y ago

   I've seen the referer field used to advertise the websites. So maybe some crypto-kiddie is just blasting these things like handing out flyers on the sidewalk. Or someone just took a bot (maybe a bot that DDoSes binance.com?) and forgot
9. 4029.▲
   by netsharc 5y ago

   > Now what if Delicious, Feedster, or Technorati goes down for 30 minutes? How big is the inconvenience of not being able to get to your tagged bookmarks or do yet another ego-search with Feedster or Technorati for 30 minutes? Not that h
10. 4030.▲
    by netsharc 5y ago

    In one I've been you can pick a totem (they're all in form of old pocket watches), and they note what time this totem got "checked out" of the reception, and what time it returns, and charge you for the minutes.
11. 4031.▲
    by netsharc 5y ago

    A long while ago I found the Jargon File, it's a "dictionary" of terms used by hackers as the culture was budding at the universities in the 70's. Reading the entries you get a glimpse of the technology and culture of th
12. 4032.▲
    by netsharc 5y ago

    Is this a bot? I followed that link and you have this same comment with the same link, which just recurses and reloads that page...
13. 4033.▲
    by netsharc 5y ago

    There are actually "unbanked" Africans, according to this article they just use their mobile provider's feature of credit transfer to bank that way: https://archive.ph/imZOj - it allows them to buy and sell t
14. 4034.▲
    by netsharc 5y ago

    Google draws borders differently if you're opening Google Maps from different countries (e.g. India and Pakistan), it used to only offer bitmaps (instead of vector graphics) of S. Korea to comply with the law there, the satellite image
15. 4035.▲
    by netsharc 5y ago

    The Catholic Church is still making saints nowadays, e.g. the second to latest ex-pope (the one who didn't retire to a sanctuary to be taken care of by a cadre of single women): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_J
16. 4036.▲
    by netsharc 5y ago

    I think it's a study of how race relations affect just more than how people perceive others, it also affects things like big governmental policies. IMO it's like studying how lack of water lead to more than thirst, it causes thing
17. 4037.▲
    by netsharc 5y ago

    To Godwin it straight away, Nazi germany also built the Autobahn, expanded the German railway, and progressed rocket technology. You seem to be saying we have to take the good and the bad of Meta and add them all up. And hey, at least it&#x
18. 4038.▲
    by netsharc 5y ago

    Don't misuse the word "chemical", you're using it like a Gwyneth Paltrow follower is using it. Oxygen is a chemical element, should we get rid of that in our lives too?
19. 4039.▲
    by netsharc 5y ago

    Hah, that's the dodgiest proof ever... but well, keep drinking that Kool-Aid!
20. 4040.▲
    by netsharc 5y ago

    I did a bit of travelling, and after a while I felt I was just going through the motions. I'm a bit like OP, and if I followed your list I would have to wonder, are these things just things I'm doing to distract myself? I was trav
21. 4041.▲
    by netsharc 5y ago

    Here's someone (one of many DDG hits[1]) talking about personality changes when speaking different languages: https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine/how-bilingualism-almost-d... [1] https://duckduckgo.
22. 4042.▲
    by netsharc 5y ago

    If I can read Putin's mind, if you're a respected leader, your citizens will probably be ready to let you stay in power, and in the event of an attack, to die for you, but if you're a corrupt grifting piece of shit, then, fir
23. 4043.▲
    by netsharc 5y ago

    Similar thing in Germany and Switzerland.
24. 4044.▲
    by netsharc 5y ago

    Ah, reminds me of the "Moscow residents please stay indoors, there will be a storm tonight" news bulletin after an officially not a nuclear incident: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyonoksa_radiation_accident
25. 4045.▲
    by netsharc 5y ago

    The front fell off...
26. 4046.▲
    by netsharc 5y ago

    Every HN discussion about smart TVs have the same points repeated again and again... "Just wait until built-in 5G modems!".
27. 4047.▲
    by netsharc 5y ago

    There are also digital cameras that "print" the date onto the pictures, I saw someone had this feature turned on and I thought explaining EXIF to them might be too difficult.
28. 4048.▲
    by netsharc 5y ago

    Someone should remake "The front fell off" video[1] but fitting the context: A Russian reporter interviewing the Russian defense minister. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM
29. 4049.▲
    by netsharc 5y ago

    I guess it could be change to count whether if the number of days since Jan 1, 1970 up to today has been odd or even...
30. 4050.▲
    by netsharc 5y ago

    The Inclusive Coding Bot (a stupid Github bot that went around Github making pull requests replacing "he" with "they") guy should've talked to you... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30877930