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by phpnode 5y ago
What is a suitable way to prepare in your opinion?
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by phpnode 5y ago
Banning crypto mining would be a far easier solution and better for the world and humanity as a whole. No one is going to push for "100% renewable crypto mining", so just ban it completely. Honestly it is absolutely unforgivable t
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by phpnode 5y ago
there's a chance, but whose jurisdiction is it, and who is responsible for investigating the fraud?
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DeFi100 team steal $32m, post abusive message to victims on homepage(web.archive.org)
78 points by phpnode 5y ago|40 comments
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by phpnode 5y ago
The purpose of a military is not solely to provide continuity for a currency, it is to provide security for the interests and inhabitants of a nation. Also, regardless of any morality issues, having a military _creates value_ in a way that
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by phpnode 5y ago
It's a naturally occurring, negative-sum pyramid scheme. All money extracted is coming from subsequent entrants to the scheme.
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by phpnode 5y ago
I think this is a really bad look for Sebastian. He started babel and made the most contributions overall, but he hasn't been involved in the project for 5 years at this point. He left to join Facebook and babel would have died if it w
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by phpnode 5y ago
Reading 100Gb from disk costs $0.50? this is absolutely incredible to me, how has this become acceptable to the industry?
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by phpnode 5y ago
Presumably a vast majority of that cost is in R&D rather than manufacturing.
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by phpnode 5y ago
There was discussion about it here yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26892135
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The destructive green fantasy of the Bitcoin fanatics(ft.com)
24 points by phpnode 5y ago|5 comments
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by phpnode 5y ago
cryptocurrencies could easily go away. They have almost no adoption and the US or EU could look at just how much power and wealth is being controlled by Russia and China, how they're used for money laundering, or how Iran and so on use
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35% of Bitcoin mining is powered by one coal mine in China(fortune.com)
45 points by phpnode 5y ago|5 comments
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by phpnode 5y ago
you cannot generate electricity from bitcoin
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by phpnode 5y ago
It's an offensively transparent attempt at greenwashing from a company run by a morally vacuous bitcoin proponent and an investment company with a large position in bitcoin.
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by phpnode 5y ago
this is just another disingenuous propaganda piece for cryptocurrency proponents to link to whenever people bring up the environmental impacts of bitcoin. Shameful.
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by phpnode 5y ago
I think you're underestimating the scope of the impact and just how vital software is in the modern world. It's not just that people can't login to a system, it's that they simply can't get their work done, and some
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by phpnode 5y ago
The Twelfth Law Of Hacker News: Any reference to Betteridge's Law will have at least one reply referring to the unreliability of Betteridge's Law.
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by phpnode 5y ago
I'm so sorry tome, but this is actually the Fourth Law of Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4722251 This predates tome's law by 3 years.
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by phpnode 5y ago
would you consider a book reviews website a profitable niche? seems like it'd be a gamble in terms of effort vs reward given that most books are pretty inexpensive
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by phpnode 5y ago
both of these require very large audiences to make money, the amazon affiliate program pays very poorly and people hate & block ads. Not saying it's impossible but the days of slapping a few ads and affiliate links on your website
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by phpnode 5y ago
a thing a I tried, and ran out of steam with, was writing SQL queries in my client side code but statically extracting them with babel, so you have some code like this: const users = await sql.query`select * from users`; console.l
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by phpnode 5y ago
I agree, one very concerning trend I've seen on Twitter (and it's probably seeping into other online spaces too) is that merely following or engaging in discussion with someone whose ideas are controversial can be grounds for a bl
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by phpnode 5y ago
I saw something earlier today that said (inelegantly paraphrasing) "developers read articles as if they themselves were a compiler, immediately stopping as soon as they reach a sentence they disagree with and then throwing a syntax err
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by phpnode 5y ago
I'm surprised to hear this description of Ukraine. I'll agree that their economy is not particularly strong (although it is recovering), but it has historically been an agricultural powerhouse and is still one of the world's
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by phpnode 5y ago
Thanks for taking the time to respond. It does seem that "better than Yeltsin" is a running theme in this discussion, so in turn I wonder what "better than Putin" would mean to you? With regards to tensions around the bo
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by phpnode 5y ago
it's not as simple as that - poisonings, beatings, imprisonment etc have a chilling effect. We have no idea which leaders would step forward if it weren't for the effects of intimidation. That is to say, someone smart enough to be
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by phpnode 5y ago
the perception from the west is that corruption in Russia didn't go away but was simply hoisted up to the level of government. How do you feel about the level of wealth that Putin and his associates have accumulated during his reign? I
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by phpnode 5y ago
Which politician(s) do you favour if not Navalny?
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by phpnode 5y ago
The book covers both techniques (though not in great detail), Memory Palaces are another term for Method of Loci[0] - in my experience it is actually much better and faster, but requires habitually revisiting rooms in order to remind yourse

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