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il on May 15, 2013 >As the anarchists and idealists on HN will soon learn, the decentralized nature of Bitcoin won't make a difference if anyone transmitting it is in violation of …

Naw I removed it. Just idle speculation. I'll put it in my about if you want to repost.

It absolutely still exists. Here is a chart that shows how regularly it happens. https://www.statista.com/chart/5824/ios-iphone-compatibility...

Ah, Marvin the Paranoid Android, thank you.

Was Marvin named after Marvin Minsky?

Might their be some need to legislate chip allocation? What would sink GDP more: one year of no new cars, or one year of no new phones? Which would have the greater domino effect o…

Long ago, the accuracy would decline as scar tissue formed around implanted electrodes. Not sure if that's changed in recent years as techniques improved.

A loose remaining proxy will be the ratio of like count to view count. Perhaps one of those will be axed next. I don't understand why complaining creators don't just turn off votin…

Because they are pivoting to being an ad company like Google.

Old people will show up and say: "Paid Firefox, I remember that when it failed as Netscape." Although technically that was Netscape Communicator? Maybe times have changed though.

Anyone have stats on how much it costs to run Wikipedia's collection of websites? Do they release itemized expenses (servers, programmers, lawyers, management, etc)?

There are also the reports about Wifi affecting plants. https://www.eurekaselect.com/141391/article But "Wifi allergies" seem like a myth. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/1…

It's strange that Apple requires a billing address to download free apps. That was unexpected given the marketing.

I can't decide if Facebook's usage of the word "safety" is more Kafkaesque or Orwellian. Where did this bizarre usage come from?

It sounds like the clearest example of a Ponzi scheme in my lifetime.

There's more about this amazing story at Paul's substack https://zeroshillings.substack.com/p/it-was-never-supposed-t... with the original blog post at https://blog.deversifi.com/2…

Extensions are not allowed, because of course... It also self updated, even if you have that turned off.

It's jarring because I've never seen advertising on any of the dozen substacks I've visited before. This one has so many ads .

You know, PvE is really underrated. I find playing against bots to be more fun, easier to gauge skill progress, and a better time with friends than playing against overmatched huma…

I wish Ray Monk would write a biography of Alan Turing. He is an excellent biographer.

I've recently had the experience of getting a spam email that allowed the spammer to add an appointment to my Google Calendar without my permission - even though I never enabled su…