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by noxer 4y ago
Auto-correction wins again. Yes, both is easily detected anyway, hence I said "ditching" it would allow to make it a zip file.
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by noxer 4y ago
In case anyone wants to build this but cheap. You can use an old satellite dish and either very reflective tinfoil or many small pieces from a (broken) mirror.
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by noxer 4y ago
This is not much steganography and by ditching steganography completely you could make it so that the file is both a valid image and a valid zip. At least that would make it easy to extract the data. Needless to say that too has already bee
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by noxer 4y ago
Funny how millions of people who had all the common vaccines except the covid "vaccine" suddenly became anti-vaxer. That like saying someone who smokes cigarettes, pipes and shisha but not cigars must be anti-smoking. The common w
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by noxer 4y ago
"Instant edit" on most website. Similar to a wiki but it should go to the user/admin that made the content and he can publish or discard it. Ofc it would have to be without login/captcha etc. Every blog post would have e
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by noxer 4y ago
The forced sign-in is an instant turn off. There is no way I'm going to sign in to a random website in 2022 before I tried the product and know its what I want. This will make most people leave and probably collect a bunch of trow-away
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Blocking YouTube ads is PIRACY(youtube.com)
2 points by noxer 4y ago|3 comments
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by noxer 4y ago
Some years ago I sold my TV because of its annoying UI and ads. I use a large PC monitor instead to watch stuff. Went back to pirating everything so I dont have to worry about whatever DRM garbage comes next or ads or streaming subscription
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by noxer 4y ago
No one was talking about web pages in this thread.
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by noxer 4y ago
The default for a laptop and even for a desktop monitor today is still 1920x1080. Yes the rage has been extended to way higher resolutions than 10 or 15 years ago but only the higher-end devices actually use them. If you go in an office bui
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by noxer 4y ago
>So do screen resolutions Maybe on phones but not on laptop. Resolutions went down after like 2009. I have a 14+ year old laptop with a WUXGA (1920x1200) screen. That is similar to FHD but 16:10 not 16:9 so its a bit higher that FHD (whi
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by noxer 4y ago
These "unpaid pedantic nerds" have as you can imagine common interests, opinions and ideas. Its only logical that they also have the same or similar biases. And the more they align with yours the less likely they will trip your bi
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by noxer 4y ago
Wikipedia does not report facts for journalistically relevant events. It documents journalistic "reactions". "Newspaper X wrote Y" is factually true if newspaper X indeed wrote Y and NOT if Y is true. This in combination
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by noxer 4y ago
"...and quite possibly even racist." No need to read further, what an absolutely stupid thing to say. Maybe the author should open a dictionary and look up the word "racist". (I hope he did in the years after he wrote th
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by noxer 4y ago
Well there are no second or different options in reality. Since it can only fork intentionally you will only have the one chain that everyone uses unless there is an intentional fork but then the networks are separated and you pick the one
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by noxer 4y ago
Roulette is an example where the odds are against you and its obvious. Your chance to win in statistically lower than 50% and it should be higher than 50%.
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by noxer 4y ago
You can not professionally bet on black. What you think of as professional gamblers is probably something like poker that has nothing to do with a high risk/reward investment/speculation. Anyway you try really hard to not understa
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by noxer 4y ago
If the odds are obviously against you its not useful ofc. If you think there is a 50% chance you lose everything then you should also see a 50% chance that you make over 100% profit if that is not realistic its probably not the right thing.
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by noxer 4y ago
Obviously I didn't not attempt to cover ever possible case and personality you can think of that wasn't the goal anyway. Someone who gambles doesn't fall in the category of "risk intolerant" anyway. Beside that in
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by noxer 4y ago
People mean different things with "trustless". Its trustless in the sense that you yourself can apply the rules and verify that each block follows the public rules. The "agreeing" is only within the rules and the rules a
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by noxer 4y ago
There is no block 2 created if block 1 is not final. Once consensus is reached on what is in B1 it doesn't matter anymore if someone comes around with a different idea what should be in B1. So by the time the nodes "debate" o
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by noxer 4y ago
Gold is a worse inflation hedge than stocks. Gold is actually bought to have quick liquidity when there is a market opportunity. It functions as cash but with less inflation but its not to evade inflation its just better than directly holdi
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by noxer 4y ago
People with this kind of "risk tolerance" usually dont take a risk even tho it would probably be totally "sane". If you think about it, many people make several million dollars over their life time but see it as to high
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by noxer 4y ago
There is a word for this, jealous.
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by noxer 4y ago
Only if you ignore the risk of missed opportunities because its not like holding cash its like owning cash but someone else holds it and you can not do anything with it. Beside that its a loan to the gov not the currency issuer which is the
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by noxer 4y ago
I hope they use it to transport garbage or stuff to recycle with any free capacity. All the diesel trucks that just move garbage around is such a waste of resources.
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by noxer 4y ago
No, its really not. It is literally just a puzzle which solves the "problem" as to who gets to write the next block. Instead if you define the rules for the next block as strict as possible so it essentially eliminates a huge vari
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by noxer 4y ago
Longs long solved problem. You only need to store the last state of the ledger and the chain of hashes that lead there to validate that any give block actually did happen. If you dont care about validating past block you dont even need the
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by noxer 4y ago
PoW is not needed at all its just a puzzle do "randomizes" who can write the next block. Its comically inefficient and p much the worst known working solution. Some BTC devs realized this and created Federated Byzantine Agreement
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by noxer 5y ago
Can you name 3 such opinions that he does not like? Can you name 3 incidents where he tried to silence someones opinion?

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