jgeerts

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by jgeerts 5y ago
It's hard to listen to recently, he's suggesting working out and eating vitamins instead of a vaccine. He still has an influence on people and he's spreading misinformation. Rogan is against wearing masks but demands all of h
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by jgeerts 5y ago
That’s not the point, I didn’t say that it would be a good idea. The point is that it would work with just 100 or a 1000 miners if no one has 51% of computing power, hence the computing power is a consequence of Bitcoin’s success.
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by jgeerts 5y ago
> This seems like a pretty flawed idea and an attempt to justify the incredible amount of electricity required by bitcoin. It's not "required", it's only that high because it has so much success. Bitcoin would be work
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Should We Fear Deflation? [pdf](upcommons.upc.edu)
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by jgeerts 6y ago
That's a straw man argument, you can't change the discussion of YouTube vs Bitcoin to rice fields vs private jets. If you have the freedom to view Bitcoin as an unnecessary luxury I can view YouTube in the same way. Why is no one
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by jgeerts 6y ago
To put this in perspective, YouTube (243.6 tw/h) uses about double of Bitcoin's (124 tw/h) energy consumption, but there is no outrage about that. People care about the environment if it doesn't take away their comfort,
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by jgeerts 6y ago
That was hard to read, it doesn't feel like someone who is mentally stable, clinging on to an idea he once had. Sometimes you have to listen to the world, adjust your ideas and move on, maybe he should have listened more to the world i
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by jgeerts 6y ago
Went to the github Microsoft package and came across this issue, posted by one of you. https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/issues/353
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by jgeerts 6y ago
What I use to switch git identities is direnv ( https://direnv.net/ ) which automatically loads specific config based on the dir that you are in. You can use it to switch AWS profiles, proxy settings, npm settings, maven sett
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by jgeerts 7y ago
To be honest, at the start of this epidemic it wasn't that clear how dangerous the virus was or how easily it would spread. First it happened to Wuhan and we all thought that it wouldn't happen to us, then it happened in Italy and
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by jgeerts 7y ago
They didn't include more information because they implemented the OpenID Connect specification which is awesome. That means that you can use any OIDC library and it will work for Apple, even verifying the keys. If you want to know more
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by jgeerts 7y ago
In present days it's really hard to get factual, correct, unbiased news.
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by jgeerts 9y ago
If we ever want Bitcoin to evolve from a store of value to an actual payment method we have to come up with something that does at least better than VISA's 8000tx/s and that's just not solved with going from 7tx/s to Bit
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by jgeerts 9y ago
Democracy is fundamentally broken, the examples go far and wide accross the globe. Lobbies are winning from the population and governments don't give a damn about the people who put them in office. How can we fix it?
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by jgeerts 9y ago
You can't predict the future, when ARPANET was developed they didn't have the internet in mind as it is today, but it was a new technology which evolved and will keep to evolve. I think it will be the same with Bitcoin, it might b
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by jgeerts 9y ago
Take a backup or charge it for example.
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by jgeerts 10y ago
I'm growing tired of people saying that they want a full touch screen. Good luck holding your arms up 8 hours a day while sitting. Every new thing that Apple does gets a lot of negative attention, remember the launch of the iPad? It wa
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by jgeerts 10y ago
> I sit at my desk and that's apparently what's important. After everything it indeed sometimes feels like it comes down to this. They want to see you physically sitting at your desk for at least 8 full hours, that's the o
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by jgeerts 10y ago
I just can't wrap my head around the fact that it can happen like this, wide in the open with everyone watching. Before the coup I was already amazed that I heard news about he taking over a critic newspaper and the next day publishing
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by jgeerts 10y ago
http://waitbutwhy.com/ Gives great insights in various matters for simpletons like myself.
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by jgeerts 11y ago
> "they sell things that are locked down, both physically and in software" Well, I can understand the physically part, but fortunately you can solve it with money, you just have to pay for your hardware upfront, it is expensive
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by jgeerts 11y ago
Is there any interesting lecture that got you this far or did you study source code?
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by jgeerts 12y ago
You are completely right but from a legal standpoint their launch is very interesting either way.
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by jgeerts 12y ago
Why do I see so many similar posts? Is it cool to turn something down other people want and make a blog post about it? The internet these days is much like McDonald's, instant gratification and quantity over quality.
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by jgeerts 12y ago
When the major software company after making the web a resourceful place decides that taking notes is the next problem to tackle means that absolutely every problem in the world has already been solved.
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by jgeerts 12y ago
We just don't understand yet what we can do with it, I think we need to see bitcoin as the raw protocol and now we have to build layers on top of it to handle security/transactions properly, what those layers are and what it looks
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by jgeerts 12y ago
I almost got a heart attack listening to the 'Binaural Test', I have a v-moda crossfade m-100 and it's so incredibly realistic. It's even freaky when I know that it's just an audio file playing.
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by jgeerts 12y ago
Because beer and other alcoholic beverages taste good?
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by jgeerts 13y ago
I can imagine in what a position you are in, you see all the potential in the world, a lot of these world problems unresolved and you want to make a lot of money quickly. Just realise yourself that becoming a billionnaire overnight is impos
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by jgeerts 13y ago
Noooo... I want to give them my money.

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