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jpsalm

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    Comment #36278259

    Because the purpose wasn’t to lockdown third party apps, that’s just an unfortunate bystander. The purpose is to lock down API access to extract value from AI training.

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    Comment #27474123

    Yea its i2c.

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    Comment #26421301

    You're trying to cut out the middle man in learning how to cook. It doesn't need to be complicated. Everyone who cooks knows the answers to these questions because they can remembe…

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    Comment #26198602

    Yea that's what I don't understand either. Is the plan to secure a fully-mined chain just rampant value-inflation in a way that is completely detached from supply and demand? Today…

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    Comment #26017719

    > Wild conspiracy theories, financial advice with no basis in reality, astroturfing, and mob behavior. Like convincing the world that 'short ladder attacks' were a thing. https://m…

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    Comment #26002598

    Gnome on Wayland works pretty great for me. (No issues with brightness etc). Occasionally I log into an X11 session because Wayland screen sharing doesn't work that great.

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    Comment #25981189

    What? A few (new) trading platforms that are deliberately trying to shake up the market 'jammed'. The market itself was fine.

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    Comment #25781772

    Well, if people are paying for it with Tether and it turns out Tether is backed by loans or other cryptocurrencies then it would be by definition artificially inflated.

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    Comment #25674531

    Do you hear yourself? I assume you are a rational person. Why wouldn't you expect the count of votes entered into a system to be off before everything is entered into the system? O…

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    Comment #25673339

    Maybe, just maybe, you are being lied to: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/pennsylvania-205000-votes/

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    Comment #25672969

    The allegations were thrown out by every court they got brought to and by conservative judges as well. It's a farce and you're the sheep getting fleeced.

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    Comment #25671930

    > ction fees cannot support the mining hardware as is, miners sell of their hardware to recoup their costs and the chain becomes vulnerable. I mean unless you are logging this and …

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    Comment #25668443

    Twitter suspending/banning for violations of policy is discrimination in the same way barkeeps throwing unruly patrons out of the bar is discrimination.

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    Comment #25647395

    The cycle is self-reinforcing though. As transaction fees increase to cover the cost of security (even an "altruistic" (self-interested) financial system needs to pay for energy) u…

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    Comment #25637060

    Can someone explain this to me? The year is 2150 or whatever -- bitcoin is fully mined. There is a metric asston of mining hardware out there that needs to be running to secure the…

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    Comment #25506958

    You can get an IP camera app and just use gstreamer to pipe it to v4l2loopback. Perfectly usable webcam available on /dev/video1.

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    Comment #25457726

    Yes, non-blockchain transactions are much more efficient. But then what's the point of using blockchain if transactions happen off-chain?

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    Comment #25445600

    Significantly less energy per transaction, which is the only metric that matters.

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    Comment #25438668

    >One thing that's always worked for me is to amortize the cost of purchase by time played. If I get only six hours of Cyberpunk 2077 played at $60. That's 10/hr for entertainment..…

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    Comment #25333165

    When a meter company catches someone cheating do we want them to be able to rectify in their database or fork an entire blockchain?

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    Comment #25001291

    Apologies for the paywall. At time of submission it was the only article. Here is another: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-05/facebook-...

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    Comment #24984936

    Just reading through the notes and there are lots of EVE terms in there. They look like they're talking about something else, a new game maybe, but I wouldn't discount it just yet.…