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by nootropicat 4y ago
The only outcome of this would be that all commercial image/video AI creation tools are Chinese, but illegal to directly use in the West, so everyone wanting to do this legally has to pay contractors in China instead that semi-unoffici
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by nootropicat 4y ago
We don't need to know precisely into what, just that it's extremely unlikely nothing would be visible. All that energy radiated by stars into the void is wasted from the perspective of an advanced civilization.
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by nootropicat 4y ago
>There is no hard limit here on the supply chains for miners That's an irrelevant theory. There are very few fabs capable of making adequate asics. >if this ever happens there is no recourse as the supply of coins to stake is fin
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by nootropicat 4y ago
Communication is one thing, but most likely a highly advanced civilization would visibly transform its neighborhood.
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by nootropicat 4y ago
>the workers are functionally illiterate This is a really bigoted comment that generalizes a whole state. If it would be racist for any random country, eg. 'Mexico' or 'Nigeria', why is it ok for an American state?
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by nootropicat 4y ago
To mine bitcoin you need to buy an asic, which is a single purpose physical good with at most two original maker (fabs). It needs to be physically received. This single distribution is trivial to track by the authorities and makes bitcoin m
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by nootropicat 4y ago
>With PoS, although governments can’t print tokens, it doesn’t really matter. The governments and central banks have unlimited money. so they pump eth price to infinity to get majority of stake? While in theory it could work, it would co
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by nootropicat 4y ago
>If a POW miner invested the resources to take over the network, breaking the network would certainly crash the price. In practice, us government would pass a regulation that forces miners to register and to censor sanctioned addresses.
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by nootropicat 4y ago
Yes, which is exactly why PoS is censorship resistant and PoW isn't. Taking over PoW is just a matter of acquiring resources - can be via regulation, or outright buying. The cost of mining hardware isn't very big. It's imposs
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by nootropicat 4y ago
Same reasoning works for banning internet in general. Banning discord in general is of course less damaging, but the reasoning is similarly incorrect. It's an enormous platform for chats about virtually everything. A general ban on dis
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by nootropicat 4y ago
>I know one thing, I will not be letting my children near discord Ten years later: why is my kid such a loner? Discord is the main persistent group chat service in the west (telegram seems popular in the third world except for China). It
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by nootropicat 4y ago
What the... is that what's possible with 5G? Amazing, and even days ago I was thinking of satellite smartphone internet as something scifi because of (clearly incorrect!) complicated antenna requirements.
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by nootropicat 4y ago
Streaming isn't really competing with cable but with torrents. If DRM ever gets good enough to block piracy (imagine displays themselves using ml to recognize what are you watching and if you are allowed to) streaming will become worse
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by nootropicat 4y ago
>one where intermediaries have zero knowledge but doesn't require co-mingling of dirty and clean money how would that be different from tornado? There's no legal difference between a contract with a balance and an internal utxo
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by nootropicat 4y ago
This is great news for those that actually have sex with a gorilla, because now they can claim it's an ai photo. :) Kidding aside, I think this is actually good. Humans need ephemerality. We are never getting the full version of it bac
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by nootropicat 4y ago
Interestingly, this is literally institutional racism.
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by nootropicat 4y ago
I tried both NMN and NR. NMN did absolutely nothing for me. NR is noticeable - can sustain heavy exertion for much longer. Much faster recovery.
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by nootropicat 4y ago
Every case described in the article seems fine to me. The lives of those dead people had negative value and they clearly agreed with this assessment. The idea that human life has inherent value is fundamentally Christian, and as the Wester
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by nootropicat 4y ago
Neither voyager or celsius are defi. They were exclusively used by people that trusted centralized financial institutions more. They are the equivalent of those Lebanese banks here. The fact all those companies put people's funds into
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by nootropicat 4y ago
Ust was an obvious ponzi scheme, not an actual stablecoin. Irresponsible people losing money on ponzis is sometimes sad - but also definitely deserved.
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by nootropicat 4y ago
This article is a perfect response to anyone asking 'why do you need blockchain?'. Maybe you live in a stable and developed country. Nice. Those people don't and it's extremely hard for them to open a banking account els
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by nootropicat 4y ago
I don't think they are going to ever be mainstream. Even a lightnode that only downloads headers is going to eat up battery fast. If a centralized service works for you, what's the point? What's necessary is to allow actually
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by nootropicat 4y ago
Governments started the offensive. Now decentralization actually starts to matter. Ethereum is switching to PoS at the last minute, PoW miners are very easily forced to enforce sanctions because they can't hide due to enormous physical
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by nootropicat 4y ago
I consider climate change a negligible issue, it's just the hype of the day, something you're "supposed" to virtue signal about. Even a 10C temperature change won't change much in the grand scheme of things. Average
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by nootropicat 4y ago
The whole premise is weird. Logically, smarter people should be less happy, because they realize that important issues are borderline unsolvable in any realistic timeframes. A cat almost certainly doesn't think about things more than o
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by nootropicat 4y ago
Metamask is a browser addon, infura is an external rpc service. You can use metamask to connect to a different rpc.
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by nootropicat 4y ago
Metamask didn't blacklist these addresses. https://github.com/MetaMask/metamask-extension/commits/devel...
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by nootropicat 4y ago
>other important pieces of the puzzle to need a lot of resources to the point where they become businesses and are on the governments radar (and by extension they would need to comply with regulations). >But because everyone knows tha
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by nootropicat 4y ago
>A secondary effect of sanctions is indicating what the regulators do and do not consider illegal. No, it shows the exact opposite - that mixers are legal and the government has to utilize a completely arbitrary executive power to ban pa
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by nootropicat 4y ago
What do you expect to happen? Centralized service have better ux, so it makes sense for most people to use them - but nothing about ethereum or tornado requires them. People will only use their own nodes, tor and/or ipfs if that's

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