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by toenail 3y ago
Every industry on this planet that is worth doing uses "more energy than one country". Anybody who parrots this "argument" is either stupid or malicious.
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by toenail 3y ago
Bitcoin uses less than 0.1% of the world's energy. Any time somebody says things like "uses more energy than a country" they are either dishonest or malicious and clearly have an agenda. I'd recommend to try to stick fac
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by toenail 3y ago
Bitcoin uses a ridiculously small amount of energy to begin with.
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by toenail 3y ago
> Bitcoin is not backed by anything other than crime, money laundering & financial derivatives. Then short it.
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by toenail 3y ago
And the US military is backed by debt, it's turtles all the way down. Force is not a reserve asset.
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by toenail 3y ago
I'd recommend https://www.lynalden.com/broken-money/
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by toenail 3y ago
You may not know this, but there is no reserve asset on this planet any more. Central banks world wide use the dollar, which was backed by gold when this agreement started. But it isn't any more, and it is only backed by more debt crea
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by toenail 3y ago
Military industrial complex says US must be ready for wars, shocker.
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by toenail 3y ago
Is it open source RISC-V?
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by toenail 3y ago
> It is as bad as being ill/disabled. No it is not, and I say that as somebody who lived below the poverty line for several years. Yes, it is devastating, but unless you live in some shithole country without any government help, it
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by toenail 3y ago
> It's really not going to hold value if a big country (or EU) foribids it. Haha, how did China banning bitcoin affect anything? Is it just ignorance or racism that you ignore what China did? > Away from Bitcoin, towards web3 and
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by toenail 3y ago
Yeah, when people confuse bitcoin with NFTs or believe that keeping bitcoin on centralized exchanges is normal, or that "smart contracts" are the future, I can understand that they see no value. Too bad you listened to "cryp
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by toenail 3y ago
After so many years you still don't realize how privileged you are? You have no worries about runaways inflation, you have access to a functioning banking system, your are not concerned about having your wealth stolen, you have no prob
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by toenail 3y ago
I saw why bitcoin has value in 2013 and have been acquiring more ever since. Bitcoin is one of the reasons I sleep well at night, but you do you.
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by toenail 3y ago
Nah, especially in tech, people are too invested in hating bitcoin. They'd have to admit to being wrong to change their tune, which will likely never happen.
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by toenail 3y ago
Ferrari sells around 10k cars per year, they already are in a weird niche. Maybe they understand their business better than you do.
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by toenail 3y ago
I have 90+% of my net worth in bitcoin, it would be far easier to buy a ferrari with bitcoin for me. I don't need a car though.
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by toenail 3y ago
Nah, they accept traditional money to get all of that, which is widely more popular with all criminals.
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by toenail 3y ago
> Am I misunderstanding something? Yes, source being available is not enough to be called open source.
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by toenail 3y ago
> Why is an aging population an issue? Because the pension is a ponzi scheme. Young people will be squeezed for every penny as the old population also controls the majority of votes. Politicians have known this for decades and done nothi
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by toenail 3y ago
> The report said: “The women are real, the sexual acts and the violence is real, the suffering is often perfectly visible and at the same time eroticised.” Often perfectly visible? Did this 90% number perhaps come from people who were l
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by toenail 3y ago
> And yet you don't use different file systems for small files vs large files, for text vs movies. Um, yes, I do. Not that it matters anyway, filesystems are not optimized to handle source code to begin with, they deal well with sec
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by toenail 3y ago
Yes, and git doesn't play video files either, because it is a version control tool for source code, not random binary data.
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by toenail 3y ago
Exactly, they include other programs. They don't ship a kernel that includes a music player.
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by toenail 3y ago
I'm primarily a command line user, I don't use explorer to view, rename, move, copy files etc. Like I said, unix-y. If you think "manage computer stuffs" the OS should bundle all tools anybody could ever want.
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by toenail 3y ago
It's a good list actually, and shows what fossil devs value. Which is more often than not something I don't value highly.
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by toenail 3y ago
github isn't git
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by toenail 3y ago
> Well, do you use GitHub or an equivalent? Not sure how that's relevant, but I have ~150 repos locally and less than 10 on github. I also like the unix philosophy of having tools that do one thing and do it well.
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by toenail 3y ago
I guess AWS never gave OpenSearch back to the open source community? Or anything on https://aws.amazon.com/opensource/
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by toenail 3y ago
Superficially it's also far superior, because the amount of energy consumption that can be switched off is far bigger than that of a single home. Yes, bad journalists will always write bad headlines that are inaccurate or wrong to gene

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