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by panarky 4y ago
pg will almost certainly be reinstated because he's a high-profile supporter. But just because the new owner makes exceptions to his ridiculous anti-free-speech policy for high-profile supporters doesn't make it better. In fact, s
902.
by panarky 4y ago
pg said almost exactly those words 30 days ago https://imgur.com/a/HtOh4yt
903.
by panarky 4y ago
Okay, then to summarize, you're saying there's lots of shady stuff with centralized exchanges, and more of them could go bankrupt, and people with fiat and shitcoins and bitcoin on deposit there could lose it. There's a run o
904.
by panarky 4y ago
It's not clear to me that the collapse of corrupt crypto exchanges should make the price of bitcoin drop. What is the mechanism exactly? It's not like FTX holds a shitload of bitcoin and now suddenly they have to sell it all, driv
905.
by panarky 4y ago
This is a distraction. Billions of dollars and euros went into a black box. Then some magic beans invented out of thin air came out of the black box. Now when we open the black box, the billions of dollars and euros are gone. FTT tokens doe
906.
by panarky 4y ago
> burned through billions If Alameda lost the billions, then who won the billions? Who was on the other side of those trades?
907.
by panarky 4y ago
Option C is missing, that must be the unambiguously correct answer.
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by panarky 4y ago
Are they still using a battery that's too small, just to keep the phone thin, and prevent you from replacing the battery yourself, then when the battery wears out prematurely they throttle the CPU to stretch battery life, which makes t
909.
by panarky 4y ago
Federation, defederation, local moderation and zero algorithmic amplification are all inherent in the platform.
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by panarky 4y ago
Just finished A Swim in a Pond in the Rain and it was a mind-expander for me. Saunders teaches creative writing at Syracuse University. This book repurposes some of his teaching for a more general audience by analyzing seven classic Russian
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by panarky 4y ago
> dismiss the virtue signaling of high resilient ... So you're saying it's impossible to improve reliability from 97% to 99% because you can never make it to 100%.
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by panarky 4y ago
"FTX" wasn't registered with the CFTC, only one of the 130 FTX-related entities was registered, specifically "FTX Derivatives US LLC".
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by panarky 4y ago
> rather absurd assumption that the only material that's being blocked ... It's fallacious reasoning to assert that any system that is less than 100% perfect should be changed. If the current system meets the community's
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by panarky 4y ago
> blackhole independent actors Freedom doesn't mean the requirement to spend the community's resources propagating material that the community agrees is harmful or objectionable. That would be the opposite of freedom. The abi
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by panarky 4y ago
Promises to do something good in the indeterminate but distant future generate tons of positive press coverage for free. Better to ignore empty PR nonsense and wait for billions in philanthropy to actually materialize before showering socio
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by panarky 4y ago
Then Bitcoin isn't a Ponzi scheme either. It doesn't hide anything, it's far more transparent than Social Security, it doesn't mislead anyone.
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by panarky 4y ago
Gambling with customers' funds works great for you when you win, and bad for your customers when you lose.
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by panarky 4y ago
Twitter's new owner promised to allow all speech that is legal under the first amendment to the U.S. Constitution. He demonstrated his high-minded principles by reinstating the account of his friend who had been banned for anti-Semitic
919.
by panarky 4y ago
So firing most employees kept a sick company alive for ten years.
920.
by panarky 4y ago
Rule of thumb: cut the quoted theoretical capacity in half. This one's theoretical capacity is 360 square feet, so you'd need eight of them in a 1500 square foot apartment.
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by panarky 4y ago
One size does not fit all. Some people want to escape the filter bubble, to expose their ideas to criticism, to strengthen their thinking and arguments through conflict. Other people want a community of like-minded people to share and impro
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by panarky 4y ago
If life in Japan is what catastrophe looks like, then they've proven that a high rate of economic growth in perpetuity isn't required for decent living standards.
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by panarky 4y ago
Forget about what might happen in decades into the future, Japan's debt-to-GDP ratio is 275% right now and the sky hasn't fallen.
924.
by panarky 4y ago
It's cool how HN discussions predictably get distracted from the main point. The main point was that the claims made by the new owner are demonstrably false. The new owner claimed that unbanning decisions would be made by a new moderat
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by panarky 4y ago
Do you have any idea how much high-traffic shopping malls charge for a storefront? What you call "tax", shopping malls call "rent".
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Spotify Wants to Get into Audiobooks but Says Apple Is in the Way(nytimes.com)
6 points by panarky 4y ago|5 comments
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Hot on the Trail of a Mass-School-Shooting Hoaxer(wired.com)
2 points by panarky 4y ago|1 comments
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by panarky 4y ago
A pay-per-Tweet scheme would reduce the total number of Tweets by 90% or more. We can all discuss whether that would be net-good or net-bad, but the vast majority of that reduction of speech would come from speech that is legal under the US
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by panarky 4y ago
This episode demonstrates the foolishness of Twitter's prospective new owner. He promises to allow all speech that is legal under the first amendment to the US constitution, while simultaneously eliminating spam. That's an instant
930.
by panarky 4y ago
Exactly. We're all better off when smart people can build something new, that advances the frontier of what's possible, and release it to the world for free, without committing to support it forever. It's nauseating when lazy

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