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Radio Garden – Map/Explore Radio Stations of the World(radio.garden)
2 points by nosuchthing 6y ago|0 comments
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by nosuchthing 6y ago
Interesting concept but it looks like this site is not even using local radio stations - it's just stealing the streams from soma.fm and putting youtube videos in full screen mode and then asking for donations without credit to the con
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by nosuchthing 7y ago
If only we could trace insider trades using some sort of big data system. Hmm. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-column-insidertrading-saf... KID TRADERS Using data on a half a million accounts from Finland fro
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by nosuchthing 7y ago
The threat model you sound concerned about could easily be mitigated in several ways. Use a proxy/VPN/TOR to visit the site, don't sign up for the email list. Maybe use a spare email address? I'd assume the email list is
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by nosuchthing 7y ago
You're wary of sites with opt in email list subscription links? From the site header ABOUT page: https://thoughtmaybe.com/about/ "Thought Maybe is a 100% independent, autonomous, not-for-profit, self-directed
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by nosuchthing 7y ago
Here's a better source for Adam Curtis's series: https://thoughtmaybe.com/by/adam-curtis/ The Century of The Self https://thoughtmaybe.com/the-century-of-the-self/ HyperNo
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by nosuchthing 7y ago
Turn around time is mostly due to shipping samples to outside labs, in addition to outside labs lacking automation.
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by nosuchthing 7y ago
Simply not true. Faith in cryptography will not help anyone with fraud, theft, and trust. Naive neo-liberal libertarians and anarchocapitalists attempt to claim deregulation will just work because they've never encountered abuse, fraud
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by nosuchthing 7y ago
Why waste energy on a system that's designed to grow increasingly inefficient over time (Crypto PoW mining), when you could simply store the energy or use it on something that is helpful to the local community, as in food or manufactur
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by nosuchthing 7y ago
Where is the demand? * *If you read the article, it explains the demand was from the person behind Bitfinex printing a seemingly unlimited amount of Tether to steal BTC from other exchanges, so the demand is in effect a huge heist across
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Insider trading – all the cool kids are doing it(reuters.com)
1 points by nosuchthing 7y ago|0 comments
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by nosuchthing 7y ago
Isn’t bitmain ramping down production already though?
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by nosuchthing 7y ago
It’s true, that’s why cryptocurrency advocates attempt to sell you the money they minted and then gimp the mint so no one else can produce the supply for the same work energy. Anytime someone advocates cryptocurrency x, ask them if you’re a
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by nosuchthing 7y ago
It's slower than random access mediums, but tapes have built in memory for track location which is nice when you're listening to something (in the car) and want to switch devices and carry on from your last listening point (books
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by nosuchthing 7y ago
So an Oligarchy that's less monopolistic? Where do the coins come from? Has there been any other mechanisms for minting other than minting the supply from day 1, or burning computational capital/energy in the form of PoW mining?
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by nosuchthing 7y ago
Presumably people wouldn't want a cryptocurrency as plutocratic and centralized as Bitcoin has become. Some lessons were learned with BTC as an experiment, and as we can see there's evolution taking place and plenty of more advanc
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by nosuchthing 7y ago
"The decentralized design that Bitcoin uses needs people to do lots of processing work" You should try reading Satoshi's white paper which explains what that processing work is. (hint: there's not really any proc
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by nosuchthing 7y ago
It only takes one veto (bug) to nullify the entire network, CVE-2018-17144 for example. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Common_Vulnerabilities_and_Exposu...
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by nosuchthing 7y ago
No one should have to buy Bitcoin when you can mine it, oh wait it's all being printed in warehouses owned by wealthy capital holders. Surely this is Satoshi's design goal. Also don't worry about the exchanges operating out o
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by nosuchthing 7y ago
It sounds like you're saying extreme violence from the local anarcho-capitalist-libertarian business/corporation/cartel is excused and normal because... there are no checks and balances in nation states.. so oh well!
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by nosuchthing 7y ago
Wow so crowdsourcing the military industrial complex's artificial intelligence KILLBOTS? This almost looks like it's satire, but it's completely real and for sale, just $499! Reminds me of this: https://www.youtube
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by nosuchthing 7y ago
It was also because in the Battle.net chat rooms, your icon would have a higher number if you were ranked lower. So if you wanted to be rank 9999, you just forfeit all your ladder matches.
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by nosuchthing 7y ago
There's no point in a hard fork when you can just start fresh, and mint a new network of cryptocurrency. Especially due to the fact that the early cryptocoins like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Monereo each designed their supplies to dump int
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by nosuchthing 7y ago
The spot price on unregulated exchanges which are presumably operating fractional reserves , wash trading, front running, and spoofing the order book. And don't forget 3 billion Tethers, likely being used to manipulate margin trades.
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by nosuchthing 7y ago
Bitcoin doesn't offer the protection and services provided by banks and stock exchanges, let alone the transaction volume. Employment is a good point, as financial companies employ millions of people but then you would need to add in t
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by nosuchthing 7y ago
Don't forget the total costs of running Bitcoin software: Bitcoin's current estimated annual electricity consumption* (TWh) 63.23 Bitcoin's current minimum annual electricity consumption (TWh) 38.25 Annualized global mining
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by nosuchthing 7y ago
The reliance on the severely distorted plutocratic ownership of 0x, Ethereum, and most of the cryptocoin supplies is a huge risk factor that is often conveniently swept under the rug. By building on 0x, or other cryptocoin software it'
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by nosuchthing 7y ago
There's no way for the blockchain to validate time stamping due to fluctuation in hash power and the nature of an adversarial network with untrusted data. What's been happening is blocktimes wildly fluctuate, anywhere from 20 seco
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by nosuchthing 7y ago
Ranked choice voting, and efforts to eliminate gerrymandering. The 2020 census. https://old.reddit.com/r/EndFPTP/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schulze_method#Comparison_tabl... https:&#x2F
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by nosuchthing 7y ago
I'm guessing because actual wealth accumulates though capital gains and income sources that are not classified or taxed as "income"

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