yholio

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Ethereum is deflationary by both definitions, the market value increases while the rate of disbursement decreases with time.
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They are not being reductionist. Each additional hashing unit cancels out at the next difficulty adjustment, having a net effect of zero on the overall working of the network. Yes, the hash rate of the network increases, thus the difficulty
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That's certainly not a good example. The price has grown much faster than inflation in the western world, while the issuance of new currency has trended down, not only as a percentage of total money supply, but in nominal terms: https
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If you force the energy price to a certain subsidized level, then bitcoin farms will buy it all, masquerading as homes and small businesses, until you will be forced to shut down some large industrial consumers, putting real people out of w
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It's not a genuine usability critique of Adobe, it's a design firm trying to maximize attention from PowerPoint addicted managers, because that's where the money is for contracting external design. So the delivery format is t
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Hacker leaks alleged ULA internal documents highly critical to SpaceX and Musk(backchannel.substack.com)
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You can request phone numbers when creating a certain number of tweets, or trying to reply to a well known account, or if upvoting a comment that is controversial or reported as spam. It's a lazy solution that pushes spam control costs
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> Because we accept the control Apple currently has, we are entitled to nothing and should accept any arbitrary change? Nothing has changed, Apple maintained full control all the time. You have absolutely no power in this matter and no r
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Maybe someone can mount a legal challenge and establish case law. Document the whole buying process, copious advertising where Apple says you can purchase the device, then request the unlock code from Apple to run custom software. If they r
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At least with Android, you have the option to install external APKs, as cumbersome as that is.
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> I’m developing an app of my own creation to install on a device in my own possession, and now I have to prostrate myself before some review committee to use a staple of TCP/IP? That's funny, he believes he owns an Apple devic
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Porn sites still exist and they accept credit card payments all the time. The major credit networks do not censor them. Then, it's simply a question of the fee structure.
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I can understand the business reasons for cleaning up the OnlyFans brand. But I can't, for the life of me, understand why they are killing a cash cow instead of spining it off into a side business. Clone the full experience on a dedica
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Because if you do, your competitors won't, and will poach your customers with hard sell techniques until they reach a network effect required to make you irrelevant. In the long run, there can be only one, the little diversity we have
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In case anyone is wondering, the "propaganda slogans" on the walls are the Motorola "common values": We are innovative. We constantly create ingenious solutions to the real challenges of today, tomorrow and beyond. We a
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by yholio 5y ago
This solution is targeted towards a very specific situation, concentrated communities for people fleeing disasters and war. Refugee camps happen unexpectedly, there is practically no infrastructure and there is a race against time to keep p
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I use Hermit to appify often accessed pages, you get a Hackernews icon on your Android desktop that behaves exactly like an app, has its own cookie jar that does not leak browsing information etc. The interface paradigm of mobile devices is
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There is nothing wrong with technical solutions to social problems per se. For example, sovereigns tend to spy on their citizenry, and the technical solutions of cryptography and steganography help mitigate that, albeit in a limited way. Th
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Buildings generally lose or gain heat throughout the day, proportional to the indoor-outdoor temperature differential. So a building that maintains livable temperatures for say, 12h a day, will still have those energy leaks when the owner i
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Time is inherently equalitarian, everybody gets the same amount so "I don't have the time" is a way to say "I don't think it's a priority for me and I would rather do something else". Whereas financials ca
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You are surely joking. It would have to make a static inference that a numeric variable is converted to a string variable, then processed as a string to base 2 representation, then truncated as a string that can only contain the '1&#x2
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There is no fundamental reason for urban sprawl to stop. Western living standards and wealth are increasing, and the actual material costs of laying a sewer pipe or road become negligible. With the advent of electric self driving cars, tran
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If you can automate 80% of the jobs your customers require, you can make a billion dollars and send the other 20% potential customers to talk to Mailer Daemon. If you automate 80% of every job and leave 20% to every customer, you have no cu
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by yholio 5y ago
You got it backwards, lock-in is a good way to protect a dominant market position by maximizing revenue from an existing, large buyer base. Competitors have no chance to enter because they lack that revenue source, let alone competitors tha
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The difference between sync level and black level in analog TV standards is about 15% of maximum transmitter power. This means that any noise added that is more than 7.5% of max power will confuse the TV to detect sync as black and black as
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They are built upon the same basic principles - QAM modulation, error correcting codes and MPEG/HEVC codecs, so there should be no significant difference. The newest ATSC3.0 standard has a somewhat richer toolbox allowing the optional
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There are many factors that come into this. The bandwidth of a single analog channel can accommodate 4 or more digital channels. If the transmitter is not upgraded, its power will now be spread to multiple channels. Another is simply self-s
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Snowy analog with intelligible sound translates to about 40dB signal to noise ratio. That's a SNR where digital will deliver crystal clear image. When digital becomes glitchy, you will absolutely be unable to watch analogue, you will h
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There is nothing in your link about "pellets". I clearly assumed you were talking about frozen H2 since this is the standard term in the energy industry, see for example fusion research where solid fuel pellets are used. High abso
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"H2 pellets" could be the name of a street drug that makes people believe absurd things. But, unless you live on Neptune, it is certainly not an effective form of energy distribution. Hydrogen solidifies at an insanely low 14 Kelv

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