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christopherwxyz

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    Comment #48608455

    It’s written by AI.

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    Comment #48170027

    I would readjust your convictions. We are only 2-4 years away from consumer grade immutable-weight ASICs.

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    Comment #48078639

    Being able to change your mind is a excellent exercise in free will.

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    Comment #48078626

    I don't think most serious developers have time to watch prediction markets.

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    Comment #48078624

    Protecting software creators, engineers, builders, and their work, regardless of their tools, is infinitely more important. Full stop.

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    Comment #48077917

    Zig isn’t so much on the blacklist because of the culture it carries from its maintainers, but because the ecosystem is no longer easily composed with other GitHub projects/GitHub …

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    Comment #48077888

    It’s disrespectful to immediately jump to adversarial conclusions from a simple desire to refactor and poor netiquette.

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    Comment #45695177

    I was part of the presale. I own one and am using it daily. Invested in it because of the emerging opportunities from crypto and ZKPs.

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    Comment #35274925

    That mix is fire.

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    Comment #34778862

    Agreed. It appears then they were averaging up, and now they are averaging down.

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    Comment #34276916

    The only knowledge this system knows is whatever it can scrape and regurgitate that appears truthful. A whole bunch of positively true, but also many cases of falsely positive. Thi…

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    Comment #34275560

    I see ChatGPT more akin to Wikipedia and Google than a calculator. We don't consider Wikipedia or Google as much of a tool as they are a knowledge reservoir of truthiness.

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    Comment #33820294

    Basically Robert Patrick’s T-1000 from Terminator 2, but instead of hunting humans it will optimize for rats.

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    Comment #33417024

    Disney doesn’t have as great of pricing power in its much larger relevant market. Plus, United States v. Paramount in 1948 prevents a lot of the vertical integration that could be …

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    Comment #31819799

    Both products are lotteries with premiums.

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    Comment #31477745

    Ethereum name service (ENS), which ties a wallet to a human readable domain name.

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    Comment #31060999

    The system isn’t immune to spam attacks.

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    Comment #30643929

    Full tweet: "These falcons aren't traveling to any specific destination. There is no aviary they call home. Instead, each bird is backing hundreds of fractional interests held by i…

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    Comment #30080497

    Congrats, Ryan! Well deserved.

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    Comment #29731727

    web3.js is the name of the Ethereum API since 2017.

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    Comment #29728456

    Consider that lots of companies have relatively small market caps relative to their profit mandate, and yet they still provide a crucial value to their customers. GE with a workfor…

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    Comment #28881001

    The U.S. government insures its own currency using its own currency or security. Tether can’t do that without hurting the stability guarantee.

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    Comment #28788357

    Zuck changed the motto in 2014 to be "Move fast with stable infrastructure." It's obvious that the first mentality was a bit reckless and only optimized growth at all costs. At som…