phasnox

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Russia launches their own Starlink(bloomberg.com)
7 points by phasnox 6mo ago|2 comments
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Airbus is preparing two uncrewed combat aircraft(airbus.com)
183 points by phasnox 6mo ago|134 comments
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by phasnox 7mo ago
> Switch to EV Most people can't afford one > -Migrate from gas appliances (range, furnace, water heater) to electric (induction, heat pumps) Electricity is considerably more expensive, people that leave paycheck to paycheck woul
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by phasnox 7mo ago
You just described fiat. Terrible store of value(worse than bitcoin) Horrible International transaction fees(swift much worse than bitcoin) Most money laundering and criminal activities happen in the current banking system.
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by phasnox 8mo ago
By your definition Musk is not far right. > Avoiding the deeply unethical grifting and corruption the Trump administration has normalized. Care to give examples of these?
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by phasnox 9mo ago
Learn to control procrastination.
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by phasnox 1y ago
Why not use Grin? Or Monero? Why would using Bitcoin Cash be better than Bitcoin?
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by phasnox 2y ago
Thank you for this awesome project. Question, why Ferdinand III does not appear under people during 1200s on the Hispanic area? He is arguably the most important historical figure during that time period: - Unified Castille and Leon - Lead
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by phasnox 2y ago
> "It's very rare to really see a policy like the minimum wage lead to restaurants exiting the market unless they were already marginally on the edge of making it or not making it" This seems like a gift to big corporation
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by phasnox 2y ago
You should try GrapheneOS It is basically Android with all the crap from Google removed.
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by phasnox 2y ago
Because it is very intersting knowledge?
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by phasnox 2y ago
> You really think Musk himself designed the rockets, robots and brain chips? You really think any of that would have been possible without him? What EV company is as successful as Tesla? How many rockets does the second most successful
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by phasnox 2y ago
You think companies as successful as SpaceX, Tesla or Neuralink would have been possible without Musk?
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by phasnox 2y ago
Counterpoint: It was 100% necessary. Telling the truth always is.
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by phasnox 2y ago
Seems like reuters is lying: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1776272471324606778
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by phasnox 3y ago
"After Boeing declines to pay up, ransomware group releases DEFCON 3 leak" Could be the alternative headline.
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by phasnox 3y ago
This would be so easy with the Lightning Network. In general payments are just better. No need to input your personal info No need to give away you CC Just scan a QR code and you are good to go.
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by phasnox 5y ago
Even bitcoin on-chain no longer has those high fees it had in 2017. Also, Bitcoin has lightning now. A second layer protocol that allows fast and cheap payments. Like less of a penny cheap.
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by phasnox 5y ago
This. I did an experiment to make the algorithm think I'm left wing on alternate accounts. Not to much time passed before my feed was filled with the most hideous and stupid things some "right wing" people did. It is the same
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by phasnox 5y ago
Bitpay stagnated because it is a known bad service. You also have the rise of BTCPay Server and lightning.
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by phasnox 5y ago
Anecdata alert: My wife got covid last year. She was ok until the moment tests confirmed it was covid. She developed shortness of breath and other symptoms. All of those disappeared after reading to her the probabilities of hosp. and dying
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by phasnox 5y ago
..begins with an unscientific sentence: "This summer’s series of extreme wildfires, hurricanes, and tropical storms have made it more apparent than ever that the effects of climate change are here."
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by phasnox 5y ago
I use it every month. I work remotely for an overseas company. I live in a third world country. Bitcoin is money, like it or not.
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by phasnox 5y ago
Of the amount of goods and services you can buy with it. Fiat is just a convenient unit of account, that serves the purpose of contrast.
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by phasnox 5y ago
I was not responding to the Keynes quote, I was responding to this: > 40 years ago, the following was a fact: "There is a country in Europe named Yugoslavia". It is clearly not true anymore. So, existence proof that facts can c
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by phasnox 5y ago
> but USD has proven to be a far less volatile store of value than Bitcoin If by less volatile you mean gradually losing value, I mean yeah.. But is that a better store of value? > such a thing would be possible in the crypto space as
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by phasnox 5y ago
I think they are just used to compliance.
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by phasnox 5y ago
It baffles me the amount of blind fanatical hate Bitcoin gets in HN. It shouldn't though, as most of them live in first world countries and have never experienced the calamities of hyper inflation and wealth seizure by the government.
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by phasnox 5y ago
Centralized. Manipulated. Unpredictable issuance. Subject to censorship. Among a few.
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by phasnox 5y ago
Nope, the problem with Diem is it's creators do not seem to understand Bitcoins appeal: permissionless transfer of value.

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