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by webXL 5y ago
I bet the people censoring The Hill would have a problem with your opinion.
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by webXL 5y ago
> It's use has a fixed duration and scope of action. Sounds like "15 days to flatten the curve". > Everyone who was arrested at the illegal occupation is being given the same rights and freedoms everyone gets in this co
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by webXL 5y ago
Looking at Apple's latest hardware changes, I think users are once again the customers.
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by webXL 5y ago
Yes, crazy, but not exactly "nowhere". It "comes from" future earnings and the (projected) demand for US military protection and access to the markets which it enables. The bank (really the government) is helping you shi
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by webXL 5y ago
Super cool. Reminds me of https://zoom.earth/ ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23901252 ) which was really useful recently to gauge wildfire smoke patterns.
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by webXL 5y ago
I don't think the install duration is new. Most of the security updates on MacOS 10.15 have taken about 15-20 minutes to install on my 2020 MBP. And the first stage claims that it will only be a couple of minutes. Annoying as hell.
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by webXL 5y ago
> Minecraft Classic - official game from Mojang (I'm as surprised as you are) lol. Microsoft should just release all the source for this since Minecraft isn't exactly state of the art these days. The brand is nearly all of the
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by webXL 5y ago
The “as if” part means it can only be true if the regular money aspect of these two cryptos has no value, which is laughable.
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by webXL 5y ago
> since the interests of a few ultimately triumphed over the best interests of the system as a whole Is it in the best interests of "the system" (interesting choice of words... instead of "the many") to require enterp
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by webXL 5y ago
Any software engineer can clone Twitter. The value of it is in the network and the high cost of users switching because they can't convince the people they follow and those who follow them to switch at once. The same applies to Bitcoin
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by webXL 5y ago
Blame Elon for that. But you know what's dumber than Dogecoin? Trust that central banks act in your financial interests. The bursting of that bubble is what spawned all of this, and it hasn't fully sunk in yet because most people
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by webXL 5y ago
So back to the OP's point, Ethereum minus smart contracts and efficient energy use is "nothing for humanity", as if the basic features of money haven't improved our standard of living and there's nothing wrong with
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by webXL 5y ago
> Does nothing for humanity Really? If that energy consumption problem wasn't there, what advantages does Ethereum have over Bitcoin? Would it even exist, since it offers many of the same features?
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by webXL 5y ago
PoS can be easily copied and modified by the powerful. There's little cost to create the system and force adoption rather than incentivize. There's an enormous amount of investment and technology dedicated to bitcoin that makes it
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by webXL 5y ago
> Bitcoin literally does nothing. Except make those little pieces of green paper in your wallet look foolish.
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by webXL 5y ago
The government is made out of people and if history has taught us anything, power corrupts those people. Income inequality has only risen since the last financial crisis. Decentralization of money is the whole point of this exercise, and
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by webXL 5y ago
"gratuitous use" is completely subjective, so the anti-economical assertion isn't provable. You're suggesting there are no trade-offs between PoS and PoW, no tradeoffs between solar+batteries vs coal or nuclear.
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by webXL 5y ago
Apple sells privacy, so there's a market for it and it's expanding into the public conscience. Apple isn't a bank though, and they aren't beholden to the same paternalistic/sinister interests. So what's really
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by webXL 6y ago
This Chrome/Brave extension makes this task a bit easier: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-ux/chn...
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by webXL 6y ago
The attitude of our leaders seems only concerned with stopping the current pandemic, ignoring the root causes. What if the next one starts before the current one ends?
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by webXL 6y ago
I won't. I'm just trying to determine what this has to do with showing the content. Authorities could have benefitted by seeing the stream, so this isn't a clearcut issue. Do you remember live 9/11 coverage? Were you tel
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by webXL 6y ago
I have some doubts about this claim of Trump "violating their ToS repeatedly" I just google'd "trump tos violations list" and nothing like a clear list came up. That should be relatively easy, right? Especially afte
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by webXL 6y ago
I didn't notice much 2009-2017.
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by webXL 6y ago
Which one and why is live streaming (aka what TV news occasionally does) bad?
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by webXL 6y ago
They already had plenty of enemies on the left. Now they got a ton more on the right. Elon Musk was just tweeting about the hatred headed their way. Time to check my investments.
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by webXL 6y ago
> someone eloquent, competent, and thoroughly able to move effectively in the political sphere How will they be able to deplatform that? Are you endorsing deplatforming anyone to the right of Joe Biden?
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by webXL 6y ago
Aaron seemed very opposed to large corporations and their control of information. The increase of control seems to be timed and in favor with the incoming administration. Government using business to do its bidding is very troubling, and I&
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by webXL 6y ago
Here's something even simpler: Trump supporters might try to do the same to you if they get power again. These are Nazi tactics being used by the Left.
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by webXL 6y ago
This is a sad day for free speech.
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by webXL 6y ago
"disinformation" seems to be information that advances an unpopular narrative now. The latest newspeak for the feeble of mind.

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