manfredz

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by manfredz 5mo ago
I don’t know, but there are other ways of funding besides -completely- volunteer run. Take look at Ladybird https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladybird_(web_browser)?wprov=s...
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by manfredz 5mo ago
There are plenty ways to fund digital commons, including people volunteering their time.
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by manfredz 6mo ago
Great project! I can also see other use cases; investigative journalist or criminal investigators using this to create a detailed profile of persons (eg Epstein files), authors setting up detailed profiles of fictional characters for storie
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by manfredz 9mo ago
Happy New Year from Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet – Cory Doctorow 39c3 [video](media.ccc.de)
20 points by manfredz 9mo ago|0 comments
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by manfredz 2y ago
Some cities also provide trees to plant.
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by manfredz 2y ago
Actually cryptocurrency perhaps more resemble a pyramid scheme because early investors profit disproportionately from latecomers, who buy at inflated prices. Transaction fees play a key role, as miners or validators earn significant fees, o
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by manfredz 3y ago
This is just a joke of course, but there is an underlying thought. The goal of OpenAI is to develop AGI and Ilya Sutskever will keep OpenAI on this course, as a research company, until this goal has been reached. To me this just says that t
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by manfredz 3y ago
OpenAI will now be run by GPT-5.
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by manfredz 4y ago
[role] at Company A, through Company B
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by manfredz 5y ago
It's not a Ponzi scheme. It's a multi-level marketing or pyramid scheme. A percentage of every sale (transaction fees) of crypto goes to the other coin owners of the crypto. For every crypto coin it works slightly different. For
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by manfredz 5y ago
It's the transaction fees that get distributed to all the other coin holders that makes it a pyramid or MLM scheme. In the case of Bitcoin, originally, every Bitcoin holder would also be able to mine with their own computer and receive
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by manfredz 5y ago
If there is a promise of future cash flows from transaction fees that is dependent on new holders, doesn’t that make it a pyramid, ponzi or MLM scheme?
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by manfredz 5y ago
The risks cited may have to do with the irreversibility of transactions and the lack of a deposit guarantee scheme when using cryptocurrency.These are valid concerns. This will however not help with their financial crisis, because the natio
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Hacking German Elections [video](media.ccc.de)
3 points by manfredz 6y ago|0 comments
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by manfredz 7y ago
Maybe Microsoft can hire him?
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by manfredz 7y ago
Maybe Microsoft can hire him.
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What The Fax?! Hacking your network likes it's 1980 again [video](media.ccc.de)
3 points by manfredz 8y ago|0 comments
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by manfredz 9y ago
Isn't this what Kodi (formerly XBMC and source from which Plex forked) is all about? https://kodi.tv
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by manfredz 10y ago
Talk to one of their sales reps.
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by manfredz 11y ago
The strictly non-commercial, science-based public service called NutritionFacts.org researched the health effects of sodium and published a video two days ago summarising the evidence that salt raises blood pressure. http://nutri
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by manfredz 14y ago
To burn extra calories! You'd be surprised how much the energy required for such a small movement, performed continuously over longer periods, adds up over time.
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by manfredz 14y ago
Check out the recent BBC Horizon documentary on this very subject http://youtu.be/Pfna7nV7WaM
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by manfredz 14y ago
Your body is probably spending less time and energy digesting the food.
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by manfredz 14y ago
Maybe Apple is designing a new chip for the Mac desktops? A6?