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by ntoskrnl 4y ago
The article is about local newspapers, not TV stations
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by ntoskrnl 4y ago
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31932250
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by ntoskrnl 4y ago
We might find out if that's true soon enough. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/23/tax-return-backlog-is-crushi...
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by ntoskrnl 4y ago
Are you sticking with the tired old 2019 tech, or have you rewritten everything with Kotlin, Compose, Swift, and SwiftUI?
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by ntoskrnl 4y ago
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/223050/why-do-i-ha...
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by ntoskrnl 4y ago
I hope the first public-domain animation we see is of Mickey Mouse swimming in a lair of gold coins like Scrooge McDuck
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by ntoskrnl 4y ago
To be clear, I'm not claiming that any particular implementation of PoS is vulnerable to this exact attack. It's an illustrative example of one class of attack that is a danger on PoS chains but not PoW chains, and might help peop
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by ntoskrnl 4y ago
I'm extremely skeptical that it's more secure. PoW burns a lot of energy, but the algorithm has an elegant simplicity to it. Crucially, the _work_ is impossible to fake. PoS (very roughly) means that the richest control the networ
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by ntoskrnl 4y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20210806101020/https://spectrum.... According to this, the PoS schedule first slipped in 2017. (search for "snooze button")
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by ntoskrnl 4y ago
Is it public how much they paid? I couldn't find any info besides this https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20201119005153/en/Ret...
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by ntoskrnl 4y ago
You're also not allowed to have the best toothpaste in the world. Toothpaste with Novamin can't be sold in the US. Thankfully the internet makes it easy to get the good stuff anyhow.
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by ntoskrnl 4y ago
My experience is based on visits to an Amish town in Ohio when I was growing up in the 2000s. I distinctly remember being surprised to see they used phones and rode in cars. But that was a long time ago and only one town of many. I didn&#x2
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by ntoskrnl 4y ago
I wasn't offended and didn't downvote you. But the Amish do receive mail and use phones. First article I found: https://amishamerica.com/do-amish-use-telephones/
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by ntoskrnl 4y ago
Re: Ukraine. My article was March 23, the second article is Apr 28. So suppose they got back online a month later, that doesn't mean they've always been online. Just like if GitHub is online right now, it doesn't mean they&#x
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by ntoskrnl 4y ago
Sure, I could move to the woods and live off wild berries for the rest of my days. But if you want to be part of modern society, your bank will mail you your credit card, and your water company will text you a code to login and pay. Realist
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by ntoskrnl 4y ago
I'd give anything to get rid of my phone, but almost everyone you do business with (DMV, electric/gas/water company, etc) expects you to have one. Same thing with USPS and their paper spam. At this point they're little m
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by ntoskrnl 4y ago
Parent specifically asked about the four-year market cycles and I answered that specific question. To your more broad question, BTC demand outside speculation is driven by economic usage, despite HN's doubts. If it wasn't for that
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by ntoskrnl 4y ago
> If it is just driven by speculation, then what makes for "normal market cycles" in speculation? Miners are rewarded in BTC for keeping the network secure, and they sell these BTC to cover operating costs. Every four years, th
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by ntoskrnl 4y ago
I'm a fan of ElectroBoom, but I have to agree, some of them are pretty horrifying to watch. The Jacob's Ladder video sticks out in my mind - I still can't decide whether it was staged. https://www.youtube.com/
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by ntoskrnl 4y ago
I didn't know the damages were statutory - I guess I should look that up myself. In your case, was it a class action suit? If not, I wonder how they had standing to sue on behalf of thousands/millions of other users.
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by ntoskrnl 4y ago
What would the damages have been had you lost? I'm being called by a persistent "insurance" salesman that I'd love to take to the cleaners
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by ntoskrnl 4y ago
Disputed. Not refuted.
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by ntoskrnl 4y ago
Advertising is a black hole for money. https://twitter.com/BlockFiZac/status/1422189818667323394
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by ntoskrnl 4y ago
Who says BTC isn't used for payments? Many porn sites ONLY allow you to pay with crypto, including PornHub[1], and they're keeping the lights on somehow. It's being used by the Ukrainian military to pay their suppliers while
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by ntoskrnl 4y ago
Heat stroke as a cause of death is a bit nebulous, in that it can cause parts of the body to fail that otherwise wouldn't. It's similarly fuzzy to dying of old age: If someone has a heart attack, and they're 95 years old, did
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by ntoskrnl 4y ago
Please name the company.
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by ntoskrnl 4y ago
That may be true right now, but their banking system has had a lot of downtime this year. https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-crypto-is-helping-ukraine-r... > He noted that since “the national bank is not really operat
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by ntoskrnl 4y ago
https://www.yahoo.com/video/ukraine-government-using-crypto-... > Chobanian says vendors are stepping up to accept crypto in exchange for supplies and crypto is proving to be more efficient than traditional payment
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by ntoskrnl 4y ago
It gets old quick. I remember joining when bitcoin was around $100 and it looks exactly the same now as it did back then.
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by ntoskrnl 4y ago
One example: Ukraine's military has been using bitcoin to pay their suppliers. The bitcoin network is antifragile and not vulnerable to attack the way their traditional banking infrastructure has shown to be. When searching I mostly fo

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