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The article is about local newspapers, not TV stations

Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31932250

We might find out if that's true soon enough. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/23/tax-return-backlog-is-crushi...

Are you sticking with the tired old 2019 tech, or have you rewritten everything with Kotlin, Compose, Swift, and SwiftUI?

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/223050/why-do-i-ha...

I hope the first public-domain animation we see is of Mickey Mouse swimming in a lair of gold coins like Scrooge McDuck

To be clear, I'm not claiming that any particular implementation of PoS is vulnerable to this exact attack. It's an illustrative example of one class of attack that is a danger on …

I'm extremely skeptical that it's more secure. PoW burns a lot of energy, but the algorithm has an elegant simplicity to it. Crucially, the _work_ is impossible to fake. PoS (very …

https://web.archive.org/web/20210806101020/https://spectrum.... According to this, the PoS schedule first slipped in 2017. (search for "snooze button")

Is it public how much they paid? I couldn't find any info besides this https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20201119005153/en/Ret...

You're also not allowed to have the best toothpaste in the world. Toothpaste with Novamin can't be sold in the US. Thankfully the internet makes it easy to get the good stuff anyho…

My experience is based on visits to an Amish town in Ohio when I was growing up in the 2000s. I distinctly remember being surprised to see they used phones and rode in cars. But th…

I wasn't offended and didn't downvote you. But the Amish do receive mail and use phones. First article I found: https://amishamerica.com/do-amish-use-telephones/

Re: Ukraine. My article was March 23, the second article is Apr 28. So suppose they got back online a month later, that doesn't mean they've always been online. Just like if GitHub…

Sure, I could move to the woods and live off wild berries for the rest of my days. But if you want to be part of modern society, your bank will mail you your credit card, and your …

I'd give anything to get rid of my phone, but almost everyone you do business with (DMV, electric/gas/water company, etc) expects you to have one. Same thing with USPS and their pa…

Parent specifically asked about the four-year market cycles and I answered that specific question. To your more broad question, BTC demand outside speculation is driven by economic…

> If it is just driven by speculation, then what makes for "normal market cycles" in speculation? Miners are rewarded in BTC for keeping the network secure, and they sell these BTC…

I'm a fan of ElectroBoom, but I have to agree, some of them are pretty horrifying to watch. The Jacob's Ladder video sticks out in my mind - I still can't decide whether it was sta…

I didn't know the damages were statutory - I guess I should look that up myself. In your case, was it a class action suit? If not, I wonder how they had standing to sue on behalf o…

What would the damages have been had you lost? I'm being called by a persistent "insurance" salesman that I'd love to take to the cleaners

Disputed. Not refuted.

Advertising is a black hole for money. https://twitter.com/BlockFiZac/status/1422189818667323394

Who says BTC isn't used for payments? Many porn sites ONLY allow you to pay with crypto, including PornHub[1], and they're keeping the lights on somehow. It's being used by the Ukr…