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I've been experimenting with using ChatGPT for worldbuilding, including NPC dialog and stuff. I was rather satisfied with the results, that is until I saw your comment. The text it…

I consider obligatory 20% tipping as that weird American thing along with guns and (absence of) healthcare. People have elaborate arguments and discussions about them, and the side…

Same, never got any headaches from any screens. Regardless of the type of the screen, lighting or viewing position. Have been using computers for almost 25 years, with many 10h day…

The crucial difference is that at no point I felt I was stuck. I could paste any line of code into ChatGPT and ask it to explain it. Practically every time I got a meaningful and v…

I have been developing a hobby project (AI powered document search) for a few months and was in sore need of a frontend. My frontend development skills however are stuck in late 19…

Same general idea: it's not in the dating apps' best interest to get their users into successful long-term relationships and out of the dating pool.

This is blatantly untrue. Venezuelan bolivar has lost 100% of its value (within a rounding error) - current exchange rate is something like 800 trillion of old bolivars to USD. Arg…

Evidence for existence of a (il)liquidity premium in the stock market is very weak. What this means is that the market has been liquid enough for a long, long time. Consider high f…

It seems that this already exists: https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/bjw8bv/smooci-app-escort-...

I usually don't go out of my way to pay with bitcoin, but recently needed to buy a PSN prepaid card and every website I tried either declined my 2 credit cards and paypal outright …

I highly doubt it really mines bitcoin because with the current difficulty a typical modern graphics card can expect to mine less than $0.01 worth of bitcoin a week if left running…

The answer is certificate pinning. For example, it is impossible to MITM google services if you are using Chrome because the correct public keys are hardcoded in the browser itself…

Yep, it is exactly the same rhetoric, word for word as used in other NSA-praising comments on HN. Posted by a 1-year old account that had exactly 1 comment in their history until t…

CHF appreciated 40% in 15 minutes and then retraced about half of it. That's Bitcoin-comparable levels of volatility.

> most coins (no reference, just surmising) are in exchanges rather than wallets owned by the end user. Are you saying there are 7+ million BTC stored on exchanges? I disagree base…

More info: https://coinfire.cf/2015/01/05/bitstamp-confirms-deposit-add... "We are working to determine what has gone wrong. The majority of our coins are swept and placed in cold …

I wonder if it is possible to implement blacklists so that each relay operator may exclude their node from serving requests for hidden services they don't approve of. E.g. a law ab…

I'm talking about particularly large chains of transactions (like hundreds or even thousands of transactions within the same day, often with most of them included in just a few blo…

http://pastebin.com/whyuCDqi Tab-separated columns are as follows: - Date - Percentage of "strange" txs - Number of transactions with strange txs discarded - Length of the longest …

A few weeks ago I made a script to look for transaction chains like this in the blockchain, and it turned out they have been going on every day since mid-2010. Currently they accou…

Also, "Osborne 486, with about 64k of RAM if memory serves me correctly. " First, a 486 with 64K RAM is ridiculous as they typically had multiple megabytes of memory. Second, he wo…

> I would think the first step would be buying bitcoins with paypal This is where your plan fails. Since it is very easy to rollback the payment with paypal, no one is going to sel…

Not the parent poster, but it works the same way in Thailand. Here in Bangkok first 150 kWh are cheapest, 150-400 are more expensive and 400+ is the most expensive tier.

> Very few companies want to possess bitcoins as a liquid store of value. I don't disagree, this is a valid criticism. What I meant by moving goalposts was that the argument change…

Recently, I've been noticing this kind of moving goalposts from bitcoin critics a lot. From outright rejection of Bitcoin a few years ago it went to "blockchain is a great technolo…