ur-whale

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901.
by ur-whale 3y ago
The feature set of Monero is strictly larger than Bitcoin's. In other words: everything you can do with Bitcoin can be done with Monero while the converse isn't true. Strikes me as a pretty decent definition of "Better".
902.
by ur-whale 3y ago
> It is eye opening to realize there has never been a situation where one person could simply transfer wealth to someone else without anyone in the middle being able to say No. Well, this is what the promise of Bitcoin was, but the lack
903.
by ur-whale 3y ago
> No charismatic leader boiling the frog with scope creep. LOL > It's actually private. It's actually anonymous. This is all a lot of us ever wanted from a cryptocurrency. Yes indeed. I sometimes daydream Satoshi knew about
904.
by ur-whale 3y ago
> We will not be releasing the usernames involved publicly or to the users themselves. Emphasis on the last part: or to the users themselves. In other words: unless they actually let the users involved in spite of claiming the opposite,
905.
by ur-whale 3y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAJlr5C8fPA (skip to 03:00)
906.
by ur-whale 3y ago
https://archive.is/Tf3OK
907.
by ur-whale 3y ago
> Scheme looks like Lisp but isn't really Lisp The Lisp world is extremely confusing. I'd wager that at this time, most people in that space can't even agree on what "being a LISP" means.
908.
by ur-whale 3y ago
https://archive.is/4KLVs
909.
by ur-whale 3y ago
https://archive.is/vKPvu
910.
by ur-whale 3y ago
When you decide to subject your body to (what seems to me like) the abuse of running a marathon or and even more extreme race such as this one, I wonder what the negative effects are, short or long term. Is this really good for your health?
911.
by ur-whale 3y ago
> Once again, the right tool for the job and that's Windows + WSL. Some of us like to keep our work device ad-free
912.
by ur-whale 3y ago
I don't get the concept at all. Earth's atmosphere didn't "become breathable". Rather, species evolved to survive within whatever the environment was at the time and also had an effect on the atmosphere itself, ther
913.
by ur-whale 3y ago
> How do you get excellent health care when you pay under the table? As is very common, you're thinking within the confines of your borders.
914.
by ur-whale 3y ago
Aren't you somewhat leaving out the fact that she may still have assets (she may not, I don't know) ?
915.
by ur-whale 3y ago
> what other option is there? Cloning?
916.
by ur-whale 3y ago
God forbid they would use the actual name of the chemical in the title. Journalists and their tricks are so tiresome.
917.
by ur-whale 3y ago
> Most travel agents need a license, taxi drivers etc. You say it like it's a good thing.
918.
by ur-whale 3y ago
> Nonsense. Give the politicians time: I predict a day will come where you will need a permit to use a compiler and connect the result to the internet.
919.
by ur-whale 3y ago
> The real problem here is that the number of crimes you can commit with LLMs is much higher then the number of good things you can do with it Yeah? Did you get a crystal ball for Christmas to be able to predict what can and can't b
920.
by ur-whale 3y ago
When I look at the list of "technologies" the author invested in learning ... no surprise it's all technical debt or deprecated: all the things he lists are completely superficial and have obvious short-term, "I can make
921.
by ur-whale 3y ago
> Lisp, which seems to go to great lengths to isolate you from the details of machine organization. Right there, along with Haskell is exactly why Lisp was never an option for me. And much like the author, I've been subjected to the
922.
by ur-whale 3y ago
I can't imagine the kind of administrative nightmare it would be to try and be allowed by the local thugs in power to do something so ambitious in 21st century Italy.
923.
by ur-whale 3y ago
> One can only hope that Turkey does not become a religious dictatorship. I guess you meant "does not become a religious dictatorship again "
924.
by ur-whale 3y ago
> It's hard to believe these days that Erdogan once was a pretty good leader. Either that or he was smart enough to look like a good leader when he was in fact playing the long game to get to the top.
925.
by ur-whale 3y ago
> If he can be voted out then by definition that is not a dictatorship. Correct, except for the fact that he hasn't handed the reins over yet. I'll agree with you if he actually hands the power over peacefully, most certainly
926.
by ur-whale 3y ago
While I strongly wish Erdogan will be ousted tomorrow, it's rather unfortunate that if he his, he'll be replaced by a hard-core socialist, and there is therefore a sizable likelihood that Turkey will be in an even worse shape in t
927.
by ur-whale 3y ago
> Just a few minutes' reflection I believe the person who has to spend - likely more than - a few minutes reflection isn't who you think. IOW, burden of proof is on you.
928.
by ur-whale 3y ago
> They control the redemption process, Not if the redemption process is inscribed in the constitution, in which case, "controlling" it is subject to quite a number of hurdles.
929.
by ur-whale 3y ago
> then it is no different from the US dollar Yeah? Can you decide to create more gold out of thin air on a Monday morning like Washington has been doing for the past 100 years with the USD?
930.
by ur-whale 3y ago
While I tend to systematically doubt anything that "represents" gold supposedly stored somewhere and therefore tend to agree with the sentiment, I believe that if an actual state were to implement this, along with: - a syste

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