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by barnbuilder 3y ago
> Step 1: We create a database and use estimated point/mile values found online, such as those provided by The Points Guy. While not ideal, this approach provides a necessary starting point. If you're going to do this, you coul
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by barnbuilder 3y ago
I'm worried about this and feel like "vim" as actively maintained software probably also died today.
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by barnbuilder 3y ago
How many things are there on earth that you can suddenly sell $1 billion worth of, and not lower its price? I never hear this criticism of any other assets even though it applies to virtually all of them.
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by barnbuilder 3y ago
Social media communities really ought to observe a "leave no trace" rule with respect to GitHub and other such spaces. This commit from February 2022 is now as of today littered with a bunch of joke comments from being linked from
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by barnbuilder 3y ago
> He lost Sadly this is not true. Wright was ruled to have won the case but had the damage award reduced to only 1 pound.[1] (Wright is being bankrolled by billionaire Calvin Ayre. They are not worried about the money here.) How someone
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by barnbuilder 4y ago
Why is this an app? It sounds like a nice service but I don't know why I need to install software on my phone and interact with a small touch screen in order to use it.
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by barnbuilder 4y ago
I would be careful working on this sort of thing during the next 2 months while you are still technically under the employment of the company.
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by barnbuilder 4y ago
> No, you aren't making it more costly for the bank. I sure am; almost all of my spending earns a rewards percentage that exceeds the rate charged to the merchant. (This is not even counting the significant sign-up bonuses.) Anyone
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by barnbuilder 4y ago
I don't feel bad about extensively using these rewards cards. If you are a net recipient in this distribution, your participation doesn't directly correlate with any higher participation by any of the victim groups. We simply make
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by barnbuilder 4y ago
Coinbase has not been a bitcoin company since 2017, when they were on the losing side of a debate on whether the protocol should be modified to support commerce at the expense of decentralization.[0] Since then they have gone all in on Ethe
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by barnbuilder 4y ago
> Before Kalshi, markets that allowed you to trade on economically relevant events were illegal or unregulated. Totally untrue. PredictIt was legal and regulated and well-loved for many years, operating with the permission of the CFTC un
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by barnbuilder 4y ago
Some people think it's good to trade some of bitcoin's security for extra features, or at least, think that enough people will feel that way in the future to make these tokens good investments today. Those people look particularly
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by barnbuilder 4y ago
Mea culpa, searching for the actual original name “Southern Pacific Railroad Internal Network Telecommunications” pulls up a number of interesting stories about the origins of the company running telegraph lines along the rail tracks. Examp
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by barnbuilder 4y ago
I guess this is the person who posted recently about their very sad hobby of intentionally spreading misinformation on here and Wikipedia.
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by barnbuilder 4y ago
It's one thing to have excess power, and another to have excess power in the time and place that you want to do these things. For example excess solar energy in the middle of the country is never going to be able to be deployed to desa
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by barnbuilder 4y ago
The miners don't need to be running at all times. If the cost of power exceeds mining returns then they definitely should not be running -- they'd be losing money AND wearing out their equipment. There is a middle ground where min
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by barnbuilder 4y ago
There is no reason PoW-incentivized energy development would have to be only used for PoW. PoW means there can now be a buyer of last resort no matter when and where you are generating power. Newly developed renewable based electricity can
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by barnbuilder 4y ago
Yes he probably knew about Twitter's pervasive spam problem before but today has been a particularly bad day, as spammers are deploying a large number of hijacked verified accounts to impersonate the Ethereum founder coinciding with a
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by barnbuilder 4y ago
The spammers impersonate famous people and then spam the replies of other famous people, for example the fake Vitalik in the OP is a reply to one of paulg's tweets. If you read the threads under certain people's tweets (or anyone&
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by barnbuilder 4y ago
That iPad has enough content, gamification, and social aspects that it keeps you motivated to work out on a consistent basis. For many people that effect (especially if it leads to health benefits) is worth paying a lot of money for, and it
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by barnbuilder 4y ago
Also highly misleading is the phrase "crisis pregnancy center" referring to a facility which has the objective of dissuading pregnant women and girls from seeking abortions. I would suggest journalists and other neural entities (a
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by barnbuilder 4y ago
Just wanted to retract that about the license -- I missed on the Youtube page that it does have a Creative Commons license listed there.
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by barnbuilder 4y ago
Apologies, I did not see that image in the article's history. I assume it lacked a free license as the other commenter mentioned. Interestingly, the current image on that article appears to also not be legitimately freely licensed. It
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by barnbuilder 4y ago
Ronchetti's Wikipedia page has never had any other photos. And the article was protected[0] due to a series of vandalism edits on July 10[1] that had nothing to do with his page's photo. You are right that his article has a poor q
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by barnbuilder 4y ago
You may feel like your accounts are stable and nothing is disappearing but by CPI inflation calculations ( https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm ), any money you had in that account 30 years ago has lost half
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by barnbuilder 4y ago
Once someone sends their bitcoin or "crypto" to a lending platform, they no longer own this asset. What they now have is an IOU for that asset that the platform may be unwilling or unable to fulfill in the future, as appears to be
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by barnbuilder 4y ago
The people getting wiped out by the collapse of Voyager, Celsius, etc. were not putting their money on bitcoin. They were giving it to a custodian who thought they could beat bitcoin by investing in altcoins (or lending to those who do so).
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by barnbuilder 4y ago
You're completely right. Hashpower between chains is only relevant if they are compatible (same consensus rules), as the accumulated proof of work is used as an indicator of which chain should be followed. Once a chain hard forks to al
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by barnbuilder 4y ago
What is the difference between something explained by the "Greater Fool Theory", and any of the numerous things that simply increase in value over time due to increased demand and/or rising scarcity? It seems to me the only d
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by barnbuilder 4y ago
The Times is the newspaper whose headline Satoshi referenced in his genesis block: "Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks". So I would have thought even though all newspapers do a terrible job of reporting on Bitcoin, th

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