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by ric2b 6y ago
> but having GTA take 1-2 minutes to load almost certainly makes people feel better about the money they spent on the game than if it loaded up in 5 seconds like some low-production 2D adventure game. Given that it has been the most comm
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by ric2b 6y ago
Where does the belief that corporations are somehow perfect at doing cost-benefit analysis come from? Has anyone worked in a place where that seemed to be the case? We're talking about an issue that has been loudly complained about for
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by ric2b 6y ago
I rarely play it and the load time is actually the main factor. If I have an hour to play a game waiting for GTA V to load unfortunately feels like a waste of time and a chore, so I play something else.
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by ric2b 6y ago
It (in theory) doesn't reduce the _market cap_, but it reduces the voting power of existing stockholdings and that is certainly bad for those shareholders.
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by ric2b 6y ago
> Presumably in an attempt to grow their business and create actual value. Or not, you don't know. Maybe a friend of the board wants to have a controlling stake in the company and that's the reason.
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by ric2b 6y ago
> and it would only take a soft fork. No, it would be a hard-fork and be rejected by all nodes that weren't explicitly updated to accept it.
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by ric2b 6y ago
How many USD will it take to buy a Toyota Corolla in Feb 2022?
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by ric2b 6y ago
Plus most games are awful at handling connection issues, you'll be dropped from the game and have to reload the entire map and assets again, often taking 30 seconds or more to rejoin. I'm not sure we should be taking advice about
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by ric2b 6y ago
>The server side is being broken up into micro-services which makes all server a client/server roundtrip as well. Your DB was always running seperately making it a client/server roundtrip, etc. The backend is likely all in the
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by ric2b 6y ago
> If you don't use it, its value is almost zero But the value is also zero if you're using extra for no benefit. Actually it's negative, because it prevents other programs from using it. You should try to use all your RAM,
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by ric2b 6y ago
What's the killer app of PayPal? Let's see how easy this game is to play, now I only need to claim that any advantages you bring up are either irrelevant or not unique to PayPal. At least that's how every argument against Bit
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by ric2b 6y ago
What makes you think you alone will find that cheap electricity, that is so much cheaper than anywhere else that it allows you to beat everyone else that is also mining?
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by ric2b 6y ago
> So long as wages keep pace with inflation, which they do, this is not an issue. Lots of workers don't get inflation adjustments to their wages. And even if they do, you'll still lose money because a larger share of your incom
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by ric2b 6y ago
I've read the whitepaper and follow technical developments occasionaly, I know how it works on a high-level. You could make Bitcoin process 1000x more transactions and the energy consumption of mining it wouldn't even change by 1%
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by ric2b 6y ago
If you show me a cool wood car you built and I go home and make one for myself, did I steal it from you? In what way is copying "taking something"?
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by ric2b 6y ago
Can you elaborate on some of those differences?
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by ric2b 6y ago
It would at least make sense for it to be mandatory for any vehicles or weapons used by the DoD, no?
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by ric2b 6y ago
Isn't this entire discussion the definition of whataboutism? We're all focusing on Bitcoin as if killing it would stop global warming or something. There are dozens of different things we could be criticizing when it comes to poll
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by ric2b 6y ago
Bitcoin's energy usage is not related to the number of transactions in any significant way, it's strictly a defense measure to prevent a nation state from tampering with the ledger.
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by ric2b 6y ago
Don't forget ads! There are way more people wasting time on that.
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by ric2b 6y ago
Bitcoin mining demand is a small subset of energy demand.
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by ric2b 6y ago
Gold already exists and has for millenia, what about crypto currencies doesn't apply to it as well? The existence of deflationary assets doesn't seem to crash the economy as predicted.
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by ric2b 6y ago
> There are lots of other contractors that fail to negotiate and end up accepting a client's first offer. Are they not actually contractors? Is there a 3rd party coming in and deciding what their rates are going to be? Or is it betw
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by ric2b 6y ago
> Given that all of those things have increased in cost at rates far beyond 2%, I don't really see how you blame that on the inflation of the USD as a whole. My point is inflation isn't being measured in a way that actually mat
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by ric2b 6y ago
I agree with you that it's not accurate, but you're also missing the forest for the trees. Let's say no one is willing to buy all those shares for $200B, ok, but do you think he could find a buyer at $50B? Probably several. S
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by ric2b 6y ago
Makes sense, the exodus of people who cared mostly already happened, tens of millions switched to Signal, and those people aren't going to come back just because Facebook decides to back down for now. So what does Facebook have to gain
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by ric2b 6y ago
> Now, for whatever reason, nothing has effectively changed and millions suddenly care. But it has effectively changed, we like to ignore contracts/laws/T&C's and focus on the technology but those things really matter
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by ric2b 6y ago
Isn't the page file on disk? Can't you just force shutdown and then boot an alternative OS that ignores the file permissions and read it?
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by ric2b 6y ago
Sure, and the same applies in those cases as well. But for most products it's rather easy to tell if you're getting the value you expect out of them, not so much here.
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by ric2b 6y ago
Sure, until you want to go to college, or buy a house, or have access to healthcare or buy some stocks to save for retirement. But if you don't want to improve your life and just want to survive until the next paycheck sure, I guess in

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