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by tablespoon 6y ago
There seems to have been a steady stream of posts hyping NFTs lately. > In October 2020, Miami-based art collector Pablo Rodriguez-Fraile spent almost $67,000 on a 10-second video artwork that he could have watched for free online. Last
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by tablespoon 6y ago
> It's not about not allowing access to people--it's about provably being the person named "owner" of a given good. Like this? https://lunarland.com/
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by tablespoon 6y ago
> Isn't "having a central authority" the very problem that Bitcoin solves? You can't just say Taler is better than BTC because it has a central authority. Central authority IS the problem. All central authorities are
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by tablespoon 6y ago
> Everyone can generate electricity with solar panels or wind turbines, etc. Even if there wasn't a central government at all, bitcoin miners would still have resources to defend their operations. If things deteriorate to the point
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by tablespoon 6y ago
> this looks like an ad for a different cryptocurrency I’ve never heard of. I think Taler is this: https://taler.net/en/ . It's a GNU project, and I don't think it's a cryptocurrency. Recently discuss
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by tablespoon 6y ago
> This isn’t a claim that I have zero downtime at home. It’s only to say that if my Bitcoin node is offline then any hope of relying on fiat banking was abandoned much earlier. Even if I had a setup like yours, I'd give up on bitcoi
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by tablespoon 6y ago
> That is an incomplete and misleading definition of "at-will employment". The most important part of at-will employment is that the employee is allowed to leave their employer for any time, for any reason; i.e., they can&#x27
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by tablespoon 6y ago
> Designed for the future of work with a 13.5” 3:2 screen with 2256x1504 resolution I approve of this. 16:9 computer screens are an abomination.
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by tablespoon 6y ago
> I love this: "Make your voice heard! VOTE NOW AND VOTE NO." Those posters are all over the warehouses and it really feels like some 1984-esque parody. Make your voice heard! Tell Big Brother you love him!
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by tablespoon 6y ago
> I don't expect people to agree with their case, but they should get to make it. Yeah, though the problem is that "case" is likely professionally polished FUD (if American Factory is any guide) hammered home in mandatory
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by tablespoon 6y ago
> A government absolutely can declare that the correct blockchain is actually this other blockchain, or the only legal algorithm is now a version of their own invention (like the split between Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash, but enforced by la
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by tablespoon 6y ago
> I don't understand how NFTs change anything, though? Like, why do I care that Bob technically "owns" the file that I have a bit-for-bit identical version of? Yeah. And Bob just has some blockchain token that signifies no
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by tablespoon 6y ago
> Thank you. I guess it is a good start. But, as a solution - develop new protocols and standards, and declare that military does not buy _anything_ that does not interoperate on these standards, no matter how advanced your shit is? But
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by tablespoon 6y ago
> The F-35, by comparison, was a platform vehicle, with the base suited to adapting to a variety of capabilities and missions. That means more voices demanding priority of features, more expensive engineering to get a variety of polygon
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by tablespoon 6y ago
> All modern browsers and operating system employ anti-aliasing on text to some degree. Textual anti-aliasing is agnostic about whether or not your font is made up of letters and numbers or pictograms. This has the potential for negative
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by tablespoon 6y ago
Full disclosure: I don't work in defense, but I've read Wikipedia. >>> I can't comment from the perspective of the F16 specifically, but from experience working on upgrade efforts of military and IC ground processing
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by tablespoon 6y ago
> That seems like all the more reason to invest more in our cyber-warfare/security capabilities instead of dumping the money in machines designed to carry meat-bags. We're talking about nation-state on nation-state hacking here
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by tablespoon 6y ago
> If the plane is connected to anything else, it can be hacked. Just because it hasn't been reported yet doesn't mean it's impossible or even that it hasn't happened. And if that's a realized threat, the planes c
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by tablespoon 6y ago
>> "the system consists of a set of complex collision avoidance and autonomous decision making algorithms..." > It's 50 nested ifs, isn't it. If that's the case, I don't see an issue if they're sp
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by tablespoon 6y ago
> Every Fry's I have been to in the last decade has felt like the store was already in the process of going out of business. Ars Technica says it's because they tried to switch to a "consignment" inventory model, but
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by tablespoon 6y ago
That's just a tweet from a random person, though. This is an actual news story, and Ars Techinca says this was the first new outlet to break the story: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/02&#
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by tablespoon 6y ago
> Why do you want to be able to run the app elsewhere? To test new features? To reduce regressions? Reasonable goals, but at the end of the day the only thing that is identical to production is production. Unless you have a real time cop
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by tablespoon 6y ago
> Landlords are part of the financial system. Deciding landlords must take the loss on rent so that their tenants can be safe is sensible health and social policy during the acute uncertain phase of the pandemic last year. That uncertain
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by tablespoon 6y ago
> Tax arbitrage, iirc. In some jurisdictions like the US, exiting your position into USD is a taxable event for capital gains taxes. I seem to recall stable coins were invented to avoid that. I can't imagine tax authorities allow th
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by tablespoon 6y ago
> If I'm going to consume that much power, I might as well mine crypto and make a few dollars. Mining for NiceHash, a service that lets people rent hashing power from miners What's the benefit of this vs. just participating in
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by tablespoon 6y ago
> Have you seen Open AI's DALL•E? https://openai.com/blog/dall-e/ Is there any way to try it out easily? Everything on that page looked like it was pre-rendered (constrained-choice mad libs).