velcro

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by velcro 1y ago
You're probably talking about Peter's Pence collection contribution which is just pocket change (a few millions). Dioclesian revenue, lease income, Vatican's wealth fund generate billions. Lets not forget state support which
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by velcro 2y ago
Sure - and Plato once said: "Quotation marks are always a sign of absolute truth."
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by velcro 2y ago
Comments so far are sort of singling out the "negatives" i.e. make it seem like 40yo just don't want to put in the time anymore (for one reason or another) but the article also mentions stuff like: - At 40+ you're more j
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by velcro 2y ago
I thought it was already encoded with SynthID? could that not be used to detect it?
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Ask HN: Setting up a tablet for a baby/kids?
1 points by velcro 4y ago|1 comments
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Solana hack ongoing with 7000+ wallets affected(twitter.com)
7 points by velcro 4y ago|0 comments
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by velcro 4y ago
congratulations on the launch! how does this compare to Gumroad?
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by velcro 5y ago
This will very likely end by both parties pronouncing they are the victors here. For Ukraine the victory might be that Russia will most likely be unable to take Kiev and need to "withdraw" closer to their own borders i.e. the vict
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by velcro 6y ago
Exactly - especially given that BTC is -13% today.
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by velcro 6y ago
My experience with Flash is completely opposite to yours - I'd say we're for the most part pretending that by letting Flash die we're better off today. My fans spinning up every time I open a random website definitely disagre
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by velcro 6y ago
Not defending them in any way - but don't think security was the primary reason for Zoom taking off. It was stability - it just worked and at the same time competitors didn't. Everybody used to have Skype and I would have gladly h
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by velcro 6y ago
Yes of course there are synonyms in all languages - but I specified "a lot more words". If you look at the link I included in my first reply under "vocabulary comparison" you'll see an example of what I mean. And th
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by velcro 6y ago
Thats only partly true on a very broad macro level - for example someone mentioned Kajkavian, which is dialect of Croatian but sounds a lot more Slovenian :) In fact its the dialect spoken by the majority of people in Croatia (even though S
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Google Pixel 4a(store.google.com)
86 points by velcro 6y ago|1 comments
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by velcro 6y ago
Yikes - just compared the latest map with the one in January - what a difference!
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by velcro 6y ago
Not unlike what Slack is doing with data residency controls - only available for Plus and Enterprise plans.
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by velcro 7y ago
At the risk of going full doomsday mode (and besides stockpiling on food and masks) - lets say pandemic happens and some useful meds/vitamins do go out of stock - is there any advice what those are i.e. what kind of meds/vitamins
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by velcro 7y ago
https://handshake.org/
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by velcro 7y ago
Not really a fan of the design - too rough for this world and too fragile to survive Mad Max ;) Plenty of Tesla design concepts online that were way better: https://www.behance.net/gallery/78909965/TESLA-Pickup
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U.S. lawmaker calls for Facebook to pause cryptocurrency project(reuters.com)
2 points by velcro 7y ago|0 comments
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Facebook Cryptocurrency Plan Faces Opposition in France(bloomberg.com)
409 points by velcro 7y ago|132 comments
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by velcro 7y ago
https://www.shiftnrg.org/ might be interesting here too - IPFS-based project targeting web hosting specifically (includes a custom DNS + working on serving dynamic content, CMS, etc). BTW as a proof of concept their website
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Web 3 Revenue Primitives(github.com)
1 points by velcro 7y ago|0 comments
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by velcro 8y ago
Just for the sake of accuracy - Croatia was never "under" the Ottoman Empire. That was Herzegovina - so technically today's Bosnia. Also not sure what you mean by Slovenia being historically different - slavs, similar languag
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by velcro 8y ago
Agreed. Smaller nations/states almost have to do that to remain competitive. Especially the newer EU member states that have been experiencing an incredible amount of brain-drain i.e. people moving to bigger/"richer" cou
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MAKERphone – a DIY mobile phone(kickstarter.com)
2 points by velcro 8y ago|0 comments
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by velcro 8y ago
Have taken a quick look at it, still seems in very early stage. Keep up the good work! Is the platform releasing soon? BTW whats the purpose of having your own token? What is it used for?
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by velcro 9y ago
I don't understand people who cite current network speed/overload, transaction problem/cost and co as the reason why Bitcoin (or any crypto) will fail in the future. Nothing is set in stone - its software, all of these things
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by velcro 9y ago
as far as I know www.shiftnrg.org is building something along those lines... decentralised hosting on IPFS + custom DNS...
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by velcro 9y ago
No. I was doing a lot of research into ICOs over the summer, but its incredibly time consuming and there are so many now. I spend too much time behind the screen as it - need to live in the "real" world every once in a while - I&#

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