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by qnr 4y ago
I've been experimenting with using ChatGPT for worldbuilding, including NPC dialog and stuff. I was rather satisfied with the results, that is until I saw your comment. The text it generated for you is very similar to what it gave me
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by qnr 4y ago
I consider obligatory 20% tipping as that weird American thing along with guns and (absence of) healthcare. People have elaborate arguments and discussions about them, and the side in favor can look very rational and plausible, and their hy
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by qnr 4y ago
Same, never got any headaches from any screens. Regardless of the type of the screen, lighting or viewing position. Have been using computers for almost 25 years, with many 10h days and occasionally 15+ hours. As I got older I started getti
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by qnr 4y ago
The crucial difference is that at no point I felt I was stuck. I could paste any line of code into ChatGPT and ask it to explain it. Practically every time I got a meaningful and valuable explanation, moreover the explanation was in the con
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by qnr 4y ago
I have been developing a hobby project (AI powered document search) for a few months and was in sore need of a frontend. My frontend development skills however are stuck in late 1990s and I have zero skill with anything but plain HTML and a
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by qnr 4y ago
Same general idea: it's not in the dating apps' best interest to get their users into successful long-term relationships and out of the dating pool.
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by qnr 4y ago
This is blatantly untrue. Venezuelan bolivar has lost 100% of its value (within a rounding error) - current exchange rate is something like 800 trillion of old bolivars to USD. Argentine peso is doing somewhat better than bitcoin this year,
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by qnr 7y ago
Evidence for existence of a (il)liquidity premium in the stock market is very weak. What this means is that the market has been liquid enough for a long, long time. Consider high frequency trading. Does it really matter for capital allocati
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by qnr 7y ago
It seems that this already exists: https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/bjw8bv/smooci-app-escort-...
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by qnr 7y ago
I usually don't go out of my way to pay with bitcoin, but recently needed to buy a PSN prepaid card and every website I tried either declined my 2 credit cards and paypal outright or requested some ridiculous verification (record mysel
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by qnr 12y ago
I highly doubt it really mines bitcoin because with the current difficulty a typical modern graphics card can expect to mine less than $0.01 worth of bitcoin a week if left running 24/7 on full load. Edit: what I meant is that EpicScal
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by qnr 12y ago
The answer is certificate pinning. For example, it is impossible to MITM google services if you are using Chrome because the correct public keys are hardcoded in the browser itself. If the site certificate is not pinned, you can use a 3rd p
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by qnr 12y ago
Yep, it is exactly the same rhetoric, word for word as used in other NSA-praising comments on HN. Posted by a 1-year old account that had exactly 1 comment in their history until today.
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by qnr 12y ago
CHF appreciated 40% in 15 minutes and then retraced about half of it. That's Bitcoin-comparable levels of volatility.
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by qnr 12y ago
> most coins (no reference, just surmising) are in exchanges rather than wallets owned by the end user. Are you saying there are 7+ million BTC stored on exchanges? I disagree based on two data points: Bistamp's reserves were 180K i
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by qnr 12y ago
More info: https://coinfire.cf/2015/01/05/bitstamp-confirms-deposit-add... "We are working to determine what has gone wrong. The majority of our coins are swept and placed in cold storage often so this s
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by qnr 12y ago
I wonder if it is possible to implement blacklists so that each relay operator may exclude their node from serving requests for hidden services they don't approve of. E.g. a law abiding tor relay operator in Mauritania may decide to bl
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by qnr 12y ago
I'm talking about particularly large chains of transactions (like hundreds or even thousands of transactions within the same day, often with most of them included in just a few blocks). If they actually need to pay to that many differe
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by qnr 12y ago
http://pastebin.com/whyuCDqi Tab-separated columns are as follows: - Date - Percentage of "strange" txs - Number of transactions with strange txs discarded - Length of the longest chain of strange txs Note: coinba
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by qnr 12y ago
A few weeks ago I made a script to look for transaction chains like this in the blockchain, and it turned out they have been going on every day since mid-2010. Currently they account for 20-25% of tx volume but the percentage was much highe
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by qnr 12y ago
Also, "Osborne 486, with about 64k of RAM if memory serves me correctly. " First, a 486 with 64K RAM is ridiculous as they typically had multiple megabytes of memory. Second, he worked with that PC for 7 years and isn't quite
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by qnr 12y ago
> I would think the first step would be buying bitcoins with paypal This is where your plan fails. Since it is very easy to rollback the payment with paypal, no one is going to sell you bitcoins in exchange for it, except for tiny amount
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by qnr 12y ago
Not the parent poster, but it works the same way in Thailand. Here in Bangkok first 150 kWh are cheapest, 150-400 are more expensive and 400+ is the most expensive tier.
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by qnr 12y ago
> Very few companies want to possess bitcoins as a liquid store of value. I don't disagree, this is a valid criticism. What I meant by moving goalposts was that the argument changed from "you can't pay with bitcoin anywher
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by qnr 12y ago
Recently, I've been noticing this kind of moving goalposts from bitcoin critics a lot. From outright rejection of Bitcoin a few years ago it went to "blockchain is a great technology but not the currency" or "yes, many p
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by qnr 12y ago
I made multiple purchases with Bitcoin both small and large (in particular I've been buying air tickets exclusively with Bitcoin for the past year) and have never been scammed.
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by qnr 12y ago
I blame Satoshi for choosing the unfortunate word "mining" as the name of the technical process that confirms bitcoin transactions. I feel it is responsible for a big part of the scammy reputation Bitcoin has today. If only it was
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by qnr 12y ago
I'm reasonably sure that ethereum will be a failure because of a fundamental incompatibility between speculators (enticed by "get rich by being early adopter just like those bitcoin folks from 2010") and developers (who actua
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by qnr 12y ago
The standard client and by extension most miners will reject outputs smaller than a certain value ("dust") You are correct that the protocol itself doesn't have a minimum output size, so if you mine a block yourself you can i
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by qnr 12y ago
Nothing. The way arbitrary data is stored in the blockchain is encoding it in the financial transactional data. For example, you could use a similar method to "store" data using Paypal: use the amount of cents in each transaction

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