pointsphere

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by pointsphere 5y ago
I failed basic reading comprehension. The first sentence of the abstract clearly says "It has recently been shown that the mere presence of one’s own smartphone on the desk impairs working memory performance." So while the presenc
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by pointsphere 5y ago
It‘s easy enough to believe, but newer research says that the mere presence of a smartphone does not have a measurable effect on cognitive function. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S
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by pointsphere 5y ago
Maybe they invented their holdings of commercial paper as well. Pretending to be fully backed by USD didn't work out, so now they pretend to hold equivalent assets.
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by pointsphere 5y ago
Maybe a bank run on Tether for some other reason than the SEC? It would require a lot of people to lose trust in Tether at the same time, which surprisingly still doesn't look likely. But it might happen.
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by pointsphere 5y ago
To fund a Lightning channel you have to pay fees on the Bitcoin network, which can get quite high. Up to 50 USD during times of high demand. To send to someone who's offline the recipient either has to run their own always-on node, or
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by pointsphere 5y ago
I always hoped that Bitcoin would become "the people's currency" but currently it does not work as cash anymore. Lightning might become great, but the engineering needed just to send to offline nodes makes me sceptical, not t
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by pointsphere 6y ago
Yes please, an API! Also there's a recurring theme/running gag on NTS Radio that it's faster to find releases on Bandcamp through Google than through the internal search. I've witnessed several times that linking to rel
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by pointsphere 7y ago
Besides the obvious speed, Sublime has the best-looking font rendering of all editors. Might be a minor detail, but all text always looks great.
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by pointsphere 7y ago
Yeah those are hard to find. One of my favorite games is “Nuclear Throne Together”, although it is quite hard, and more players make it much harder. A current good and accessible one is “Vectronom”, a very stylized rhythm game where you pla
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by pointsphere 8y ago
The same way I organize my whole life, everything is either new and unprocessed, being processed, or done. - unprocessed, unsorted, new information: /Downloads - currently being processed or worked on, otherwise empty, synced to NAS: &
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by pointsphere 8y ago
Nearly all „large“ cities in Switzerland now have fibre. Symmetrical 1GBit/s is pretty much standard, price is between 60 and 120 CHF (about 60-120 USD) You can run anything on it as long as it‘s not commercial, there are no filters or
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by pointsphere 8y ago
I’m a beginner with python as my first language. I used it to write an arbitrage trading bot. I learned python and asyncio just for this, and it is working as intended. Asyncio with aiohttp is used to capture price data from 4 websockets an
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by pointsphere 9y ago
Miners are nodes and therefore verifying transactions, and they're the only nodes writing transactions to the blockchain. Non-mining nodes can only verify transactions for themselves , which helps them stay on the chain of their choice
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by pointsphere 9y ago
There is no "intrinsic value", but the subjective value of Bitcoin is that could be a better money than any money that has existed so far. Strictly speaking "intrinsic value" does not exist, there is only subjective valu
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by pointsphere 9y ago
Yes, the number of coins in circulation decreases over time. But the precision can be increased from the current 8 decimals. Even if all but 1 Satoshi/0.00000001 BTC is lost, it could still be split into smaller units, or used to boots
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by pointsphere 9y ago
Do not leave coins on an exchange. Any digital currency is only yours if you control the private keys. All recommendations are for Bitcoin. Most secure: A hardware wallet like the "Trezor" or "Ledger". Good balance of se
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by pointsphere 9y ago
There is utility in Bitcoins ability to transfer value worldwide, without middlemen, only requiring a cheap smartphone. Strictly speaking nothing has "intrinsic" value, but Bitcoin can be valued because it has many qualities of &q
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by pointsphere 10y ago
They do seem to have at least 82k left, visible on the blockchain and verified by their "spokesperson" here: https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/4wiw3q/bitfinex_has_72...
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by pointsphere 10y ago
https://btcvol.info/ shows the volatility over the last few years. Still very wild, but looks like it is decreasing.
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by pointsphere 10y ago
Probably "not at all". I can only assume that the number of buyers using both Bitcoin and a VPN to buy cheaper games is too small to worry about.