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by yc1010 11y ago
I am currently shopping for a car and now need to keep in mind which brands/models are affected by this fiasco as another factor in my shopping. Here in Ireland motor tax is based on CO2 emissions I can see some very very unhappy VW dr
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by yc1010 11y ago
iftop
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by yc1010 11y ago
Hmm I would love an electric car and the i8 is beautiful after seeing it local car dealer and drooling but the price is incredible at north of €120K! you can buy an apartment/home here for that lol, and it wont depreciate as much So in
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by yc1010 11y ago
I don't get the "smart grid" buffer argument why would anyonce cycle their car battery (and hence reducing its lifespan) for little to no financial gain
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by yc1010 11y ago
Nothing stopping them from doing so, tho the use of a blockchain in such a "centralized" context is silly and an overkill when they can use a normal database with better/faster results especially if they already know+trust ea
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by yc1010 11y ago
It seems to me that some are overstating their case and believing their bullshit in order to sell the banks a rotten tomato when a perfectly healthy potato exists. Sort of how years ago some people/companies would claim that using Linu
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by yc1010 11y ago
So whats the cause now? China being a big bubble??
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by yc1010 11y ago
That was patched within hours of the exploit coming out, hell I even remember seeing an article here on HN frontpage about it BTW Google is not exactly known for being good at updates of hardware, just look at the mess Android is, especiall
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by yc1010 11y ago
The keyword here is CAN, no harm was done to CERN in this case that we know of. It makes for a toxic workplace once employees/students in a facility feel like they can be thrown under a bus by management, or worse purposefully made an
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by yc1010 11y ago
My opinion of CERN has gone done a few notches after reading this bitchy blog post, this is some poor sap's life they have ruined for taking initiative around silly restrictions to get shit done. They should have contacted the software
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by yc1010 11y ago
"Please note that some features may not function with certain privacy settings turned off, and some information (such as the association of your Google Account to your OnHub) is stored by Google even if all privacy controls are turned
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by yc1010 11y ago
Its a sci-fi book for gods sake, thats what scifi has always done, explore current events and extrapolated future from the point of view of FICTION AND SCIENCE sheehs whats the fucking point of discussing anything on this site if you are go
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by yc1010 11y ago
So be cause you disagree with my theory you have to go down-voting me? sci-fi is often based on current geopolitical fears, just look at Battlestar Galactica reboot few years back reflecting on the wars in the middle east.
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by yc1010 11y ago
"... the Trisolarans, are en route with a giant fleet of warships. It will take them 400 years to reach Earth, leaving our panic-stricken species in a state of fevered war preparation. From afar, the Trisolarans incapacitate our scient
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by yc1010 11y ago
If only there was some secure & magical internet money thingie which works on a push not pull basis /sarcasm
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by yc1010 11y ago
I think the whole DNS mechanism is broken badly Beside the hundreds of new nonsense TLDs you have domains being taken down for copyright infringment or dissident suppression, name squatting and of course domain name frontrunning by registra
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by yc1010 11y ago
Premining, Satoshi releases Bitcoin quietly to the world and doesnt ask for a red cent in advance from anyone despite creating one of the most important/innovative technologies of the last decade, and then disappears with his mined coi
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by yc1010 11y ago
For 18 million bucks people would go to great lengths...
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by yc1010 11y ago
Right thanks
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by yc1010 11y ago
I was surprised Kraken (US company) are getting involved with Ethereum trading The whole project should be looked at by SEC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest_funded_crowdfu... $18,439,086 raised, yet no leg
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by yc1010 11y ago
There was a good documentary on PBC about the canal recently, the US basically staged a coup for Panama to gain independence from Columbia and in return got their Canal Zone
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by yc1010 11y ago
If China block ships from the area it wont be too hard to block their ships from Panama and Suez canals and deny access to Americas Watch their economy crumble if they are prevented from selling this cheap knacks to the rest of the world. I
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by yc1010 11y ago
Nope these gobshites went back over my past posts and downvoted those too Fuck them and their fucking scam
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by yc1010 11y ago
From what I gather one has to pay you (in bitcoin of course) to get ether to even use the network. Now once again contrast it to how Satoshi quietly created probably one of the most important projects of the last decade without asking for a
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by yc1010 11y ago
So how come Satoshi makes a brilliant breaktrough and released a really well designed/coded opensource project (Bitcoin) to the world without asking anyone for a cent, and then promptly disappearing (dead?) with all the coins he mined
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by yc1010 11y ago
This can be done with Pay per action and referral links such as site X has sent us 1000 users and 10 of those have signed up so we pay them for these 10 signups/purchases whatever interestingly amazon are the leaders here...
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by yc1010 11y ago
Good, bitcoin is not going to replace central banks, what it is a great online payment system not a replacement for world banking. Some of us have no issues trusting cold hard maths, cryptography and computer science behind bitcoin which gi
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by yc1010 11y ago
a) Yes, likes of Circle and are solving this with USD balances and instant conversion to btc, also bitcoin has not been that volatile in last year b) Coinbase a YC company and Circle mentioned already are doing great job on this end c) Sinc
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by yc1010 11y ago
Yes because the average person has power over the central banks Anyways it is sad being down-voted in technical forum by people who should better than most understand that bitcoin despite its faults is still a damned good online payment met
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by yc1010 11y ago
There is a better and safer online payment method its called Bitcoin But the existing financial and payment companies realize that this new technology makes them largely redundant hence they lobby and make it hard to acquire bitcoin for the

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