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by MadeThisToReply 4y ago
Privacy isn't the same thing as secrecy. I know what you're doing in the bathroom, but you still close the door.
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by MadeThisToReply 4y ago
It didn't.
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by MadeThisToReply 4y ago
The whole point of crypto is that it's not regulated. As soon as the regulators take real action on crypto, the entire promise of crypto will vanish in a puff of smoke. I'm not saying that's a bad thing, but I struggle to env
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by MadeThisToReply 4y ago
"Ponzi scheme" has become completely divorced from its original meaning. It's supposed to refer to a specific type of scam where you pay "investors" using the money you received from previous investors, but nowadays
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by MadeThisToReply 4y ago
This was my main lesson. I lost some money on Terra/Luna - thankfully much less than $5k, but still enough to sting. Looking back, I can see that I really had no idea what I was getting myself into and it was mostly just FOMO. Obviousl
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by MadeThisToReply 4y ago
> Jack Dorsey just launched “Web5”, a buzzwordy project focused on decentralized identity Woah, hold on, I thought we were still on "Web3"? Actually I'm not convinced that we've even moved past Web 2.0, since Web3 is
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by MadeThisToReply 4y ago
> Your ability to obtain credit is based on the past several years of income, with a penalty for instances over the past ~7 years in which you didn't pay back debts. Okay, and using these inputs, what function is applied to determin
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by MadeThisToReply 4y ago
Is he wrong? What is "Web3", except a trendy marketing term to make the old seem like it's new? All I hear about Web3 is that it's the future, it's the next big thing, it's blowing up, it's coming soon - b
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by MadeThisToReply 4y ago
I think the important question is: why would we need to?
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by MadeThisToReply 4y ago
> Technically, web3 is merely authentication with a public key. I thought "web3" meant "something, something, blockchain"?
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by MadeThisToReply 4y ago
What's the potential of web3, and how does it solve the problems of web2?
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by MadeThisToReply 4y ago
Eh, I have a 90 minute commute and I don't mind because I go by train. Three hours a day to read! I love it. Granted I wfh 2/3 days a week; if I had this commute every day I'd probably feel differently.
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by MadeThisToReply 4y ago
I don't play videogames and know very little about crypto mining, but isn't the mining being done on specialised hardware these days and not GPUs? Are GPUs still being wasted on crypto nonsense?
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by MadeThisToReply 4y ago
"Web3" is just a new label to make it seem like the same old bullshit is somehow novel and revolutionary. First "blockchain" was the future, it was the next big thing, it was a revolution, it was going to change everythi
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by MadeThisToReply 4y ago
No
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by MadeThisToReply 4y ago
Why would web3 be capable of anything else? Satoshi invented the blockchain to solve one specific problem: creating a decentralised currency. It was never supposed to be some kind of universal "truth machine" applicable to any oth
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by MadeThisToReply 4y ago
What do you think about when it comes it Web3, crypto and DeFi?
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by MadeThisToReply 4y ago
I'm pretty sure "Web3" is just a term that crypto-enthusiasts have invented to mask the fact that crypto has completely failed to live up to any of its promises. No-one can tell me anything about Web3 except that it's th
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by MadeThisToReply 4y ago
Every now and then I'll be shopping and the security device by the door will beep as I'm walking out, even though I haven't stolen anything. I always just assume there's been a mistake, e.g. the cashier forgot to deactiv
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by MadeThisToReply 5y ago
An aside, but is it a standard thing to write # to mean "pound" when you're talking about pounds as a unit of weight? Like as opposed to "800lb"? I knew what you meant, it's just I've never seen that notat
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by MadeThisToReply 5y ago
What's wrong with Ruby version managers?
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by MadeThisToReply 5y ago
I think what GP is saying is that even with large, multi-million margins in the popular vote, the result can still be "close" because many of those votes count for nothing in the electoral college. Hillary Clinton could have recei
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by MadeThisToReply 5y ago
This. When I lived in London I never got in my car except to make journeys out of London. Now that I live in a village (and not a particularly remote one; London is less than an hour away by train) I need my car to do anything.
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by MadeThisToReply 5y ago
He's not a native speaker and his native language doesn't even use the Latin alphabet. Give him a break.
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by MadeThisToReply 5y ago
Depends how you generate the electricity that powers the heaters. If it's coming from fossil fuels (as most of it does), it's obviously inefficient: you're burning fuel to generate heat, then using the heat to generate electr
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by MadeThisToReply 5y ago
https://xkcd.com/1386/
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by MadeThisToReply 5y ago
My first thought was the UK's "Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies", who have become a household name in Britain during the pandemic, and are most famous for having been repeatedly wrong about everything yet for some re
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by MadeThisToReply 5y ago
What about horseshoe theory?
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by MadeThisToReply 5y ago
This is also the reason why most food is full of garbage.
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by MadeThisToReply 5y ago
What happened this week?

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