spookthesunset

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by spookthesunset 9y ago
All this was thought about the last time bitcoin spiked. Bitcoin is 9 years old. The iPhone wasn’t even around when it was born. If bitcoin was gonna revolutionize money, bookkeeping, governments, and life in general, it would have happe
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by spookthesunset 9y ago
The quickest way to tell that bitcoin is a bubble is when shysters start making breathless posts like yours. Bitcoin as a populist movement?? No sir. It is pure greed (and probably a healthy dose of good old fashioned MtGox style exchange
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by spookthesunset 9y ago
BTC is worth what it is thanks to massive manipulation under the hood just like the last run up. The music is gonna stop sometime. Almost every exchange is sketchy and you have no promise that anybody is playing fair.... Bitcoin is pure,
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by spookthesunset 9y ago
Ah lightning network, the vaporware that is always just around the corner...
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by spookthesunset 9y ago
Its harsh because there is no way to sugar coat it. This post is full of people bragging about running 9 year old phones with ancient highly vulnerable operating systems. On the same forum that has people bragging about being child genius
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by spookthesunset 9y ago
> Love the HN crowd here explaining that staying still on old tech full of security holes is a-ok. :) It’s disheartening when a forum full of supposed tech enthusiasts starts to morph into a bunch of paranoid tech Luddites. That is what
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by spookthesunset 9y ago
I’d rather trust a faceless corporation with a reputation to keep over a bunch of faceless anonymous dudes on a forum.
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by spookthesunset 9y ago
You seriously don’t see what is wrong with a five year old watching that? Did you even watch it?
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by spookthesunset 9y ago
> That's ... just wrong The lawyers would disagree with you. If the email address contains anything that identifies you personally, it's PII and thus falls under GDPR. Therefore, if you collect email addresses you have to go
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by spookthesunset 9y ago
Its good as a person, but it is a pain in the ass for companies. Things like the domain name used in an email address can be considered PII because if the domain name was your name, that is PII... IP addresses can, in many cases, also be
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by spookthesunset 9y ago
> I'm experiencing a lot of anxiety lately that I'm missing the cryptocurrency boat That is just the hype getting to you. Anything that sells itself with as much hype as bitcoin does with the implicit (sometimes explicit) mess
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by spookthesunset 9y ago
> I wonder what particular cultural elements make vending machines seem so successful in Japan, but not as much in the US Mostly a lack of, for a better term, conformity. There is very little crime in Japan and people trust each other w
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by spookthesunset 9y ago
> Right now cryptocurrency is in its infancy. Bitcoin is, what, ten years old. It predates the iPhone. I’d hardly call it still in its “infancy”
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by spookthesunset 9y ago
> If you go the traditional route, you will always have a company in the middle, taking their cut or selling you out behind the scenes. The free market sure seems to be okay with this. Those middle men provide valuable services like cha
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by spookthesunset 9y ago
> this system is free. Free? Who pays for the blockchain? Last I looked into it, each transaction requires about enough electricity to power a house for an entire day. That isn't very free.
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by spookthesunset 9y ago
> Do people really want to exercise without their phone? Yes. That is the entire reason I bought mine... Those phones are huge . It would be like strapping a plate to my arm while I run.
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by spookthesunset 9y ago
Every website you and everybody know you visits is full of telemetry used to improve the website. Why should "real" desktop software be any different?
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by spookthesunset 9y ago
You are gonna get something that looks awfully close to a marriage over long enough of a term. Why not just go for marriage?
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by spookthesunset 9y ago
The longer you live together and pool resources the harder it will be to cleanly break apart. Marriage makes an implicit contract and ruleset an explicit one. If you are gonna be in a perma-relationship, why reinvent the wheel when you ca
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by spookthesunset 9y ago
I doubt kickstarter pays 3% in fees...
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by spookthesunset 9y ago
Proof of stake is something that "has been coming along" for years now. Sounds like vaporware to me.
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by spookthesunset 9y ago
And real time tracking of the car, a feedback system, an invoice that shows the route taken, etc... Nope. No innovation here... /s
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by spookthesunset 9y ago
That has yet to be an issue in my experience.
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by spookthesunset 9y ago
How many of those self driving cars actually exist as a commercial product at this point? So far, zero.
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by spookthesunset 12y ago
If you are literally taking Ritalin, I highly, highly suggest you get your doctor to prescribe long acting variants such as Adderall or Vyvanse instead. Short-acting Ritalin has awful side effects--it lasts maybe 2 hours, you can feel it k