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by codebolt 6y ago
Bitcoin alone currently pollutes about the same as half the global airline industry. If cryptos really are the future, I weep for the planet.
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by codebolt 6y ago
Am I saying it will happen to everyone? No, but I am saying it CAN happen. Of that I am living proof.
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by codebolt 6y ago
You're correct that I didn't just drug myself with mushrooms, but they certainly didn't help. Marijuana was the main cause. And I likely would have stopped myself sooner if it wasn't for ignorant people telling me I coul
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by codebolt 6y ago
As someone who personally struggled with drug-induced psychosis for several years (and met many others with similar struggles), I kindly ask that you stop generalising from personal anecdote when giving advice about mental health and psyche
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by codebolt 6y ago
Sadly, you're absolutely spot on.
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by codebolt 6y ago
Just like the stock market was never about cashing out during the 1920s. But that situation can change very fast. In fact, the only reason Bitcoin wasn't wiped out during the last panic in 2017 is because no one was stopping Tether fro
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by codebolt 6y ago
Except with Bitcoin, you're now relying on the liquidity of actors like Tether to get your money out, which is even more centralised and less trustworthy, certainly, than any bank subject to western regulations and backed by our govern
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by codebolt 6y ago
Blockchain technology doesn't really do anything in practical terms that a conventional, simple ledgering system wouldn't have been able to do much better and without wasting so much energy.
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by codebolt 6y ago
These numbers are outrageous, and only solidify my already skeptic stance towards cryptos in general. In an era where people are encouraged to reduce their carbon emissions to protect the future of the planet, it seems irresponsible and stu
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by codebolt 6y ago
I quit 3 years into my physics/math degree (my university had a joint 5-year masters program) with basically the same insight. Took a masters in CS instead and wrapped up the necessary credits for a bachelors in physics so I'd at
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by codebolt 6y ago
Not something done on a whim when you have a family. Might consider a remote position, though. My current job has decent benefits, and I do enjoy the work, but the pay absolutely stinks compared with the value of the work I'm performin
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by codebolt 6y ago
Physics is a set of mathematical relationships that aims to describe how things behave. The important distinction seems to be whether one believes that all behaviour of all things everywhere can be reduced to a simple mathematical model, or
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by codebolt 6y ago
Yes, but as long as nothing is stopping them from simply minting out of thin air, I wouldn't bet against their ability to keep pushing the prices up. Daily volumes of tether trades are consistently a high multiple of the total supply.
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by codebolt 6y ago
Any real value analysis of Bitcoin that doesn't take Tether into account isn't worth much. As long as the whole crypto market is built around a currency issued by an unregulated and unaudited company with a mile-long list of past
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by codebolt 6y ago
> Setting IT maintenance as a core strategy, rather than something that serves a strategy, is complete death. Employees better hope they like the dead end career they have at such a company, because it’s going to cut them off from any li
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by codebolt 6y ago
Denmark has been doing this for years. It's not a perfect solution but it hasn't been a complete disaster either.
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by codebolt 6y ago
I agree. Vegans are usually 'all or nothing' when it comes to animal welfare. However, if you could increase the quality of life of farm animals from miserable to decent for the majority of their lifespans, that would surely elimi
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by codebolt 6y ago
You can also search for the serial number on eBay and typically find a compatible part.
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by codebolt 6y ago
> already priced in Nothing can be effectively priced in as long as you have an artificial and illegitimate source of liquidity pushing the price up. Such a market doesn't allow for rational pricing mechanisms to manifest.
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by codebolt 6y ago
Speculation? You can look at the raw market data right here and see several things that should make any critically minded person go 'hmmm': https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/tether/ How can Tether hav
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by codebolt 6y ago
Remove the unconstrained supply of Mickey Mouse money (Tether) and eliminate wash trading, and you will watch Bitcoin descend into the abyss rather quickly.
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by codebolt 6y ago
Human drivers fail reliably, in ways that are understandable. Non-AGI artificial intelligence based on a mix of heuristics and dumb statistics (aka 'deep learning') will fail in highly unpredictable and to a human eye completely f
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by codebolt 6y ago
HN has a giant global user base. Wouldn't be surprised to find more than a few west Africans here. As for myself, here in northern Europe I'm a lead developer in finance/banking, but for a few weeks a year I'm a farmer i
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by codebolt 6y ago
Completely disagree with this sentiment. I personally built a small program that scans our production environment for logs with errors and sends the team an email if something's up. Spent two days writing the initial version, have only
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by codebolt 6y ago
Might have something to do with this: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-hunter-biden-...
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by codebolt 6y ago
Forget mocking, the major benefit of DI for me has always been proxies. For our multi-tiered system, this means managing caching and logging of certain calls and events at the level of data access. And at the service level, it means dealing
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by codebolt 6y ago
Cool. Now can we please get this thing with Norwegian key layout ASAP?
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by codebolt 6y ago
Based on advice from certain experts like Rhonda Patrick and various anecdotes from others I think the combination of sugar and fat in particular exacerbates the damaging effects of both. This study seems to focus on one variable, but there
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by codebolt 6y ago
> We say African Americans have higher rates of Vitamin D deficiency, but this is based on the assumption that their average levels of Vitamin D should equal those of European whites, not on an assessment of when they experience problems
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by codebolt 6y ago
Perhaps there has been an improvement in other parts of the supply chain, but the situation in DR Congo (where e.g. coltan used for capacitors is mined) seems to only be getting worse.

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