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by zionic 5y ago
> not having that service, is worse. Is it really? We could eliminate entire sectors of the federal government and your average person would have no clue. Why do we need 18 intelligence agencies? Why do we need 13 carrier battle groups?
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by zionic 5y ago
At this point mars is looking pretty comfy.
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by zionic 5y ago
>Do you use public roads or sidewalks? Yes, and that is paid for by my outrageous property/vehicle registration/gas taxes. Huge portions of our cities have roads in near 3rd-world conditions. The major arteries of every top-50
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by zionic 5y ago
As a US taxpayer who sees the fraud, abuse, and general mismanagement of my tax money why would I willingly support the same government getting more? It is incredibly depressing how little I get from the government vs how much they take fro
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by zionic 5y ago
HN when crypto pops: This is off topic/irrelevant HN when crypto retraces some of those gains: Pop open the champaign! Lets all talk about how great this is! Front page!
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by zionic 5y ago
BTC hasn't used GPUs to mine in 8+ years man.
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by zionic 5y ago
This is completely false, late/end game PoW centralizes mining around the cheapest electricity. It is impossible to mine profitably in the overwhelming majority of the world now.
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by zionic 5y ago
>See my comment to another in the thread. Existing stakers can prevent new people from staking There is little to no evidence of this. Completely unsupported conspiracy theory.
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by zionic 5y ago
> Anybody can be a miner This is patently false, endgame PoW centralizes mining around 3rd world coal/cheapest possible (stolen?) electricity. The overwhelming majority of the world has been priced out of BTC mining, not that they c
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by zionic 5y ago
PoS is more equitable than endgame PoW. With PoS anyone with any amount of capital can secure the network. Even $10 can via decentralized stake pools. With endgame PoW only the rich can acquire mining ASICs and locate them in cheap/fre
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by zionic 5y ago
That chart is highly misleading, as it includes all smart contracts. In ETH a basic transfer (like BTC) is often cheap (although it needs to be even less!), however interacting with a smart contract can be more expensive. If you want to int
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by zionic 5y ago
In a just world this would be the top comment. Instead we have Bitcoin boomers asking if you’ve heard about their lord and savior lightning, which like Jesus is coming any day now!
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by zionic 5y ago
Bitcoin is essentially dead development wise, virtually all exciting development is happening on ETH.
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by zionic 5y ago
Ethereum has increased its max block size 7+ times in the last 5 years and has had zero issues doing so. “Papers” from technically illiterate authors that ignore very real, tangible evidence contradicting them are about as useful as flat ea
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by zionic 5y ago
VPN hardens against your local ISP knowing when you are and are not using Tor, which is important meta data and has been used to identify people in the past.
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by zionic 5y ago
I think the sad reality is a sizable portion of the population is waiting for permission from mainstream sources before acknowledging the new reality. The normalization campaign has already begun (2017 NY Times report) and the next big push
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by zionic 5y ago
>The fact that these sightings are almost always happening at high altitudes and in stressful situations But that isn't a fact. I strongly recommend you read up on the complete timeline of the Nimitz incident. It happened over sever
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by zionic 5y ago
I for one look forward to the hacker news posts titled "How did we get it so wrong for so long?" analyzing the systemic and sociological failures that lead to the "taboo" which blocked progress/investigation for so
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by zionic 5y ago
>Any phenomenon which decreases in rate proportional to our ability to measure it is very unlikely to exist. Military UFO sightings have only increased as we have deployed more sophisticated RADAR/LIDAR/Thermal/EWAR system
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by zionic 5y ago
>I've seen all of them clearly and thoroughly explained away. No, you haven't. Every "debunking" has itself been thoroughly debunked.
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by zionic 5y ago
Is there a good replacement for hackernews? The crypto-skepticism that derails every single thread even tangentially related to crypto currency has totally undermined my desire to participate in this community. It appears the "hacker
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by zionic 5y ago
Huh? That's not what "programmatic money" means. You're confusing it with digital currency. Programmatic money means you can define code/program with the money itself. In a trivial case I could easily program the mo
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by zionic 5y ago
What do you define as "worth doing"? DeFi alone has tons of potential answers to that question. Then there's decentralized exchanges... or do you not think decentralized currency exchange is "worth doing"?
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by zionic 5y ago
I like it because now my ISP is bound by the 1st amendment.
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by zionic 5y ago
After 4 years of tether FUD can we finally put it to rest? Also, this is about Ethereum not BTC… which is the primary target of tether complaints. Not even the most hardcore conspiracy theorists suggest tether is being used to buy Ethereum.
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by zionic 5y ago
Is this true? Plenty of IQ tests are extremely simple pattern recognition. The science of measuring human cognitive performance is plagued by cultural taboos more so than process issues.
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by zionic 5y ago
How do we begin to dismantle these systems? The idea that a law or regulation would prevent you from advertising based on demographics is absurd, and we should build a future without these kinds of insane dependencies.
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by zionic 5y ago
> and noted that the weapons have been linked to several mass shootings. Um what? A plastic 3D printed gun has been used in a mass shooting? When?
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by zionic 5y ago
How far off do you think we are from simulating an entire human on a protein level in accelerated time? Imagine a world where a drug concept could be simulated on an entire human model in parallel cradle to grave 1000x faster than normal. W
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by zionic 5y ago
This seems crazy to me. I have to dehumidify my home to keep it at 35%. Humidity is a constant battle. I couldn’t imagine paying to dump water in my air and promote mold.

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