plebianRube

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by plebianRube 4y ago
I don't buy milk from grocery stores. I use lightning to buy from my local farmer.
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by plebianRube 4y ago
Exactly, so then lightning is the better comparison, since it just a few years old and built on bitcoin, like the web was bult on tcp/ip.
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by plebianRube 4y ago
That is the whole point of bitcoin. There is no entity that can prevent you from using it. Anyone can say you are not allowed, but enforcing it is impossible in practice.
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by plebianRube 4y ago
What a staggeringly uninformed comment.
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by plebianRube 4y ago
This is infact what companies currently do. Your argument would make sense if developers got paid per run of their code, instead of only for new code they write.
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by plebianRube 4y ago
Bitcoin used all the energy and took all the profits, so there isn't enough left for the AI. duh. Or, and hear me out, using energy to push society forward isn't necessarily bad. Maybe instead of vilifying every new technology th
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by plebianRube 4y ago
Wow. HN really has no clue. 26k karma dude thinks Bitcoin is a company.
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by plebianRube 4y ago
I point the finger directly at regulations. Who has the time to track lightning transactions for IRS capital gains reporting. Hopefully we see a bill where small amounts aren't taxed.
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by plebianRube 4y ago
Energy is not a pie. Producers overproduce energy in order to meet peak demand. Most grid mining uses off peak energy, since the utility would rather sell it cheaper than not have anyone buy it at all. Off grid mining finds stranded energy
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by plebianRube 4y ago
9.5 Your PR will be held up for at least a month with the back and forth.
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by plebianRube 4y ago
And knowing banks, overdraft accounts probably just went nore negative rather than positive. Though I don't think people would be advertising if they benefited in that way so harder to measure.
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by plebianRube 4y ago
> “We will not declare her dead until she is warm and dead.” More cases of kids than adults surviving very low body temperatures, but the saying is true, as long as you're not warm and dead there is some hope.
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by plebianRube 4y ago
Seems legit. GPT-WESTWORLD is a large-scale, multilingual language model that generates fluent, realistic sentences from text in any language. It achieves this by incorporating a novel approach to language modeling and incorporating a new t
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by plebianRube 5y ago
Their existing model of soliciting donations via “DEAR WIKIPEDIA READERS,” got them over 150MM without crypto. Their stance on banning crypto changes nothing on this front, and only serves to make themselves seem 'green'
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by plebianRube 5y ago
IIRC, some viruses use inaudible frequencies to transfer data when data transport over a a classical network is unavailable.
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by plebianRube 5y ago
I think lightning network is the next closet. You are correct in that you still need internet, but CBDCs will as well. For lightning you will either need to host your own node, or rely on a third party node. Lightning offers a high degree o
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by plebianRube 5y ago
Put it in the pile with the other dark patterns.
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by plebianRube 5y ago
I would read the article, it is easy to read and accessible. Here's the meat though. "Thibado’s team found that at room temperature the thermal motion of graphene does in fact induce an alternating current (AC) in a circuit, an ac
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by plebianRube 5y ago
Maybe they both are, but in different ways, like mocroservices vs a monolith. Some applications are just better on one platform than another, and vice versa.
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by plebianRube 5y ago
It's been my experience as well that exposing vulnerabilities, especially financial makes enemies, not friends. So basically we learn do the minimum possible, to not do the right thing so as not to get fired, and ignore gaping holes le
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by plebianRube 5y ago
The engines don't move the ship at all. The ship stays where it is and the engines move the universe around it. Maybe the G force is absorbed by the entire universe.
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by plebianRube 5y ago
I think companies will certainly find a use for it to monitor internal chats on teams or wherever, code review comments, web searches, and any other text input they can see. Hopefully you won't pop up on an AI definition of a mental di
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by plebianRube 5y ago
So true. Victims of the 'We are better at this one thing than other automakers, so clearly we will be better at all of the other things too' mentality.' Like seeing metrics that defrost is rarely used so lets bury it in a sub
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by plebianRube 5y ago
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/... > surviving a previous infection now provided greater protection against the subsequent infection than vaccination > Protection against Delta w
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by plebianRube 5y ago
Pleasantville, Millville, Terminus, even the parks remind me of SimCity and placing residential, industrial, commercial, rail, road and shipyard areas.
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by plebianRube 5y ago
Think of all of the real good devs could be doing instead of rearranging UI components and especially the wasted time of making vehicle interfaces require more screen interaction for prior one tap actions. What a waste of brainpower and edu
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by plebianRube 5y ago
> the fashion industry is responsible for one-tenth of the world’s carbon emissions, according to the U.N. Environment Program — more than international flights and maritime shipping combined I think we need clothing that lasts longer. I
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by plebianRube 5y ago
And that's the problem China and governments banning it have. There is no easy way to force someone to give it up, since it can't be taken by force.
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by plebianRube 5y ago
Every technological revolution is held back as long as possible by those making the most money using the current system. London streets will be covered in 3 feet manure if industry progresses at this pace. You’re crazy if you think this foo
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by plebianRube 5y ago
My email transfers regularly take 30-45 minutes and cost 1.00 My lightning transfers take 1 second and cost less than 1 penny. How can the cost of the transfer be less than the cost of the energy it is claimed it uses? I could never figure

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