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by ur-whale 3y ago
Why would anyone invest in this 500M USD raise instead of actually buying BTC directly ? Especially now that ETFs give access to Bitcoin to institutions that traditionally could not touch it. Makes no sense to me.
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by ur-whale 3y ago
> It's unlikely that they would want to out themselves He would not need to out himself. A simple "Satoshi Nakamoto is not Craig Wright", signed with the private key of the coinbase of block zero or one would be plenty of
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by ur-whale 3y ago
I never claimed that Blender was at the level of more focused CAD/CAM and other specialized tool. I also never claimed that rendering was the only thing you'd ever want to do downstream of building a CAD model. There is a ton of t
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by ur-whale 3y ago
> So people don’t have to buy an autodesk product to view these types of plans. Can Autodesk products still be bought these days ? I thought they had switched to full-on leech mode (subscription).
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by ur-whale 3y ago
There is (among many other) one thing that I truly like about Blender: with its gigantic add-on ecosystem it is on the path to becoming the standard platform for everything 3D. Or rather: the one place where everything you can do with 3D ca
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by ur-whale 3y ago
And you're not even accounting for all of the secondary upwards price pressure generated by these two primary systemic factors. For example FOMO and other network effects will for sure, at least for the short to medium term generate qu
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by ur-whale 3y ago
> Isn't this an equivalent of giving everybody all over the world permanent read-only access to your bank account? If you read early Bitcoin literature, you'll discover a number of very clear and vocal warnings against "ad
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by ur-whale 3y ago
https://archive.is/S3LXU
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by ur-whale 3y ago
> Earlier today I decided to switch my Android for an iPhone. Mistake #1 : switching to an even more closed computing environment, where user has strictly no control > android Mistake #2 : running on a tech. stack you do not control:
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by ur-whale 3y ago
Key take-away: blockchain analysis heuristics should not hold legal water, and should at best be used at the corroborative level. Pretty much the conclusion the prosecutors themselves published after winning the case.
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by ur-whale 3y ago
Do the trustees have to be known or can they remain fully anonymous ? In that case, the whole warrant theory isn't the last word.
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by ur-whale 3y ago
> Send the spacecraft to land on the surface a distant body in the solar system, such as one of the moons of Neptune. The economics of your proposal strike me as a tad weak at the knee.
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by ur-whale 3y ago
> The world has never before experienced an asset with perfectly inelastic supply and exponentially growing demand. Fully agree, and a point that most folks who shout "no intrinsic value" on the rooftops, completely fail to und
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by ur-whale 3y ago
> AI-Generated Data Can Poison Future AI Models Looks like we didn't learn anything from the mad cow disease!
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by ur-whale 3y ago
I was kind of expecting the first paragraph of this paper to explain first and foremost how they solved the switching problem (i.e. a transistor) using optical only components. After wading through the paper for 10mn, I still haven't f
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by ur-whale 3y ago
Since we're in full-on speculation mode ... Russian cyber-attack ?
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by ur-whale 3y ago
Looks like their entire auth service is completely borked. [EDIT] : and if it's a hack, by now half of the world has typed in their password to re-identify ... scary.
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Calyx, a Compiler Infrastructure for Accelerator Generators(calyxir.org)
33 points by ur-whale 3y ago|6 comments
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by ur-whale 3y ago
>We should pass a "European Foreign Lobbyists Act", and send them back to their own country. Another way to look at it is that European companies are basically asleep at the wheel and should wake up and realize the nature of th
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by ur-whale 3y ago
And worthy of note that, every time Bitcoin goes up brutally (every 2 years or so, like clockwork) Coinbase crashes. You'd expect their SRE team had that one figured out by now, but no, apparently. other link to story: https:/&
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Bitcoin so high it crashed Coinbase today(techcrunch.com)
5 points by ur-whale 3y ago|5 comments
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by ur-whale 3y ago
> That way you contain the inherent mess that a Windows install will eventually devolve into. Came here to say exactly this, and lo, top comment. Don't let windows anywhere near you actual hardware.
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by ur-whale 3y ago
Very long article to find a justification for a Stockholm syndrome.
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by ur-whale 3y ago
> You can sit there and not be bothered at all. Radiations man, radiations!
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by ur-whale 3y ago
If there's one thing the French are particularly gifted at, it's sticking the government's nose deep, deep where it strictly does not belong. Even more amazing: when that happens, no one seems to notice that a huge line has b
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by ur-whale 3y ago
Blame flipper instead of blaming weak-ass security protocols, way to go Canada. Next, the root of all evils: screwdrivers, which, if you are smart enough, can be used to open things that are screwed shut! Think of the children!
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by ur-whale 3y ago
Not that far off from Gemini TBH
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by ur-whale 3y ago
Ah, Gemini, the patronizing is strong with this one. I asked for a practical guide to becoming a hermit and got sent to a suicide hotline instead (US-based, so both patronizing and irrelevant). Google in 2024 seems to have a new corporate m
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by ur-whale 3y ago
> More relevant to my future however, Tom was also a participant on an early internet (pre-Web) kind of discussion forum called Usenet — a kind of "reddit" if you will So, this is where we are ... in 2024 you need to explain
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by ur-whale 3y ago
> I really can't even fathom the rationale If you take into account that jxl was and is in large part an effort supported internally by Google teams, and fought against by another, a fairly occam's razor like explanation is tha

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