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It's hard to listen to recently, he's suggesting working out and eating vitamins instead of a vaccine. He still has an influence on people and he's spreading misinformation. Rogan …

That’s not the point, I didn’t say that it would be a good idea. The point is that it would work with just 100 or a 1000 miners if no one has 51% of computing power, hence the comp…

> This seems like a pretty flawed idea and an attempt to justify the incredible amount of electricity required by bitcoin. It's not "required", it's only that high because it has s…

That's a straw man argument, you can't change the discussion of YouTube vs Bitcoin to rice fields vs private jets. If you have the freedom to view Bitcoin as an unnecessary luxury …

To put this in perspective, YouTube (243.6 tw/h) uses about double of Bitcoin's (124 tw/h) energy consumption, but there is no outrage about that. People care about the environment…

That was hard to read, it doesn't feel like someone who is mentally stable, clinging on to an idea he once had. Sometimes you have to listen to the world, adjust your ideas and mov…

Went to the github Microsoft package and came across this issue, posted by one of you. https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/issues/353

What I use to switch git identities is direnv ( https://direnv.net/ ) which automatically loads specific config based on the dir that you are in. You can use it to switch AWS profi…

To be honest, at the start of this epidemic it wasn't that clear how dangerous the virus was or how easily it would spread. First it happened to Wuhan and we all thought that it wo…

They didn't include more information because they implemented the OpenID Connect specification which is awesome. That means that you can use any OIDC library and it will work for A…

In present days it's really hard to get factual, correct, unbiased news.

If we ever want Bitcoin to evolve from a store of value to an actual payment method we have to come up with something that does at least better than VISA's 8000tx/s and that's just…

Democracy is fundamentally broken, the examples go far and wide accross the globe. Lobbies are winning from the population and governments don't give a damn about the people who pu…

You can't predict the future, when ARPANET was developed they didn't have the internet in mind as it is today, but it was a new technology which evolved and will keep to evolve. I …

Take a backup or charge it for example.

I'm growing tired of people saying that they want a full touch screen. Good luck holding your arms up 8 hours a day while sitting. Every new thing that Apple does gets a lot of neg…

> I sit at my desk and that's apparently what's important. After everything it indeed sometimes feels like it comes down to this. They want to see you physically sitting at your de…

I just can't wrap my head around the fact that it can happen like this, wide in the open with everyone watching. Before the coup I was already amazed that I heard news about he tak…

http://waitbutwhy.com/ Gives great insights in various matters for simpletons like myself.

> "they sell things that are locked down, both physically and in software" Well, I can understand the physically part, but fortunately you can solve it with money, you just have to…

Is there any interesting lecture that got you this far or did you study source code?