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>This is an aspirational wish but not reality at the moment. No shit. If it existed, it would be pointless to work on it.

A system where anyone can rent out their CPU time will result in less centralization than we see with current cloud providers. A system where anyone can mine productively will resu…

I disagree. Making proof of work involve real applications rather than just cryptography means that machines will need to be general. It isn't possible to build an ASIC capable of …

>Coming up with a way to have a decentralised currency where everyone involved gets a fair say without consuming too many resources is a super interesting problem. I think the obvi…

That's why I mentioned it. I also disapprove of .google, but it's less ridiculous.

1. No idea. 2. No idea. 3. No idea. 4. About 0%. They're laughably unscalable and wasteful.

Especially something as generic as .dev. I could possibly see Google having a legitimate claim to a .google TLD, but not something like .dev that is in no way limited to Google.

We lost that battle a long time ago. The Internet is mostly corporate now and will be for the foreseeable future.

What sort of virtualization performance and features does Epyc have? I haven't seen much good information. EDIT: Actually, yes I have. I know that Epyc allows encryption of every V…

I have no problem with an episodic show, but I think an episodic Trek-like has problems. It just isn't plausible that a starship can come inches from destruction every week. The cr…

Not on an LCD. The backlight is always on, even if the screen is black. I wonder how much power the 50 pounds of JS on Youtube costs.

I disagree. There's NO situation where this kind of update is good for users. Being unable to accidentally brick your machine is good, but no user benefits from having adware and s…

>Maybe it's more that Facebook thinks it's horrible when people kill themselves, and that if Facebook's tech could help prevent suicide, inaction would be immoral. That doesn't ent…

This may or may not be a useful technology, but the fact that Facebook thinks they have the ability and the right to diagnose their users with mental illnesses is disturbing. They …

I hate the way this article is written. This is a news story, not an editorial, but it's clearly trying to tell me what to think. Here's the correct headline: "Japanese politician …

Gambling is definitely comparable to (and possibly worse than) cigarettes. Gambling has ruined plenty of lives, and it can ruin your life in a few days while smoking takes decades.…

I wonder if he actually believes it's flat. It sounds to me like he might be just trying to get funding. These kinds of stunts are obviously his passion, but he repeatedly had trou…

It's not a real monopoly, but it acts like one. They obviously aren't the only gaming company out there, but they own the rights to several beloved franchises. Like, as I mentioned…

Because some of their games are actually good. I hate their business practices, but I still want to play Battlefront 2. And they ARE a monopoly. They own the rights to a lot of my …

I'm confused by it, too. The main reason I've preferred Firefox to Chrome for years has been performance. It's pretty much the same in responsiveness and uses far less memory. Chro…