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by sygma 5y ago
Your friends are most likely mining ethereum, not bitcoin.
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by sygma 5y ago
Saying that Bitcoin blew the market for GPUs reveals that your knowledge is years out of date. Bitcoin is predominately mined on ASICs. Viagra was originally developed as chest pain medication. Did it utterly fail, simply because a new use-
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Daughter from California Syndrome(en.wikipedia.org)
36 points by sygma 5y ago|26 comments
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by sygma 5y ago
Right, but you can make a new WhatsApp out of thin air. There is no value in it because you can just make a new one.
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by sygma 6y ago
> It’s nice to have the option to be completely decentralised (…) I think "nice" downplays the importance of the possibility of self-custody. Despite the majority of people perhaps not opting to control their own keys, the mer
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by sygma 6y ago
I am old enough to remember what Panic claimed to be the first ever emoji domain in 2011 [0]. But a quick look at the relevant wikipedia entry sets the record straight [1]. [0]: https://panic.com/blog/the-worlds-first-e
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by sygma 6y ago
> Similarly, for block chains, mining only occurs when the thing being mined has value. NFTs would not be mined if people weren't using them. Therefore I would absolutely call them an ecological disaster. The point is that energy co
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by sygma 6y ago
I know it sounds catchy to say that NFTs are an ecological disaster, but that statement is sensational and not accurate. NFTs do not cause carbon emissions themselves, just like you don't add carbon emissions by occupying a seat on a
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by sygma 6y ago
(3) reveals that you are not as well informed as you make it sound. Bitcoin hasn’t been mined on GPUs for years.
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Aptronym(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by sygma 6y ago|0 comments
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by sygma 6y ago
> businesses start hoarding crypto tokens instead of investing in building stuff Share buybacks. Tech businesses are buying their own shares to pump the stock price (and their options' value) rather than investing in building stuff.
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by sygma 6y ago
> At the city level, [Miami mayor] Suarez’s ambitions are equally ambitious. He’s “looking at” ways to pay municipal employees a percentage of their salary in bitcoin and allow residents to use bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies for “pay
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RCE and Privilege Escalation on iOS 14(support.apple.com)
2 points by sygma 6y ago|0 comments
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Noodl: From Design to Deploy(noodl.net)
1 points by sygma 6y ago|0 comments
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UK judge rules against extradition of Assange to US(twitter.com)
20 points by sygma 6y ago|2 comments
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Tesla Model X hacked with $195 Raspberry Pi based board(embedded.com)
3 points by sygma 6y ago|1 comments
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The Challenges of Autosave(figma.com)
1 points by sygma 6y ago|0 comments
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Barbados 4–2 Grenada(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by sygma 6y ago|0 comments
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by sygma 6y ago
Great talk [0] given during the 2016 congress touching on the Amadeus flight booking system and the danger of posting your boarding pass on social media [0]: https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-7964-where_in_the_world_is_carme.
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Search Theory(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by sygma 6y ago|0 comments
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Wealthy investors see lasting life changes after Covid-19(ubs.com)
2 points by sygma 6y ago|0 comments
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Palantir files for stock market listing(ft.com)
2 points by sygma 6y ago|0 comments
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Rule of 72(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by sygma 6y ago|0 comments
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by sygma 6y ago
Is it really 2FA if your password and your token are on the same device?
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You’re Showering Too Much(theatlantic.com)
4 points by sygma 6y ago|0 comments
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A 19th-Century Vision of the Year 2000(publicdomainreview.org)
1 points by sygma 6y ago|0 comments
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Sum of All Fears Still Can’t Dispel Speculation About Inflation(bloomberg.com)
2 points by sygma 6y ago|0 comments
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Byline: A multi-player creative writing app where stories are built line by line(byline.page)
2 points by sygma 6y ago|0 comments
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by sygma 7y ago
You can use the Tranquility addon [0] on Firefox to make it readable. It worked well for me. [0]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tranquility-1...
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The Pinocchio Paradox(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by sygma 7y ago|0 comments

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