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the benefits of unemployment

the problem with lightning is: 1) it requires you to open a lightning channel. So you need some amount of initial investment (which usually means you need a credit card and an acco…

With micropayments, the server owner makes 1 million requests times 0.05 cents = ~$500 The status quo with those js PoW pages doesn't really benefit the server owner at all, it's w…

Something like Chaum's blind-signature based ecash, or GNU Taler would be ideal in terms of efficiency, but it's still centralized in distribution. Freenet currently uses something…

I have been following this one for a while, but I have never seen anyone report on its status in linux.

Plug in an EG25-G USB module. It has good driver suppport on linux as this is the same modem that's in the pinephone. About $60 plus the antennas. It also gives you GPS. I'm actual…

What if the supplier backdoors the secure element? It would be better to just encourage the user to use a high-entropy key, and not bother with the secure element at all.

If you're that much of a coward, you won't get hit by a wrench anyways because you will give your keys up immediately. But you will force your enemy to exert additional effort. It …

The wrench attack is still far weaker than a push-button attack. In the wrench attack you are aware that you have been attacked, and you're aware of what data the attacker gains. A…

I'm more curious to see how the second ammendment could factor into this.

You are going to be fed feet-first into a woodchipper, but don't worry about it just smoke some weed and chill out. Live, Laugh, Love that's what I always say

Can't wait for the barista and wicker basket based economy. Although personally I just make coffee at home, so I have no need for a barista with a PhD in neurosurgery to make it fo…

If your earning ability is eliminated due to AI and you can't survive off of welfare or savings there will not be much more to your life other than starving to death.

Okay, so you are saying that there may be a design flaw we just haven't seen yet, based on historical precedent. Which is a very weak argument, because you are just making the case…

I didn't say it violated the first ammendment. I said it violated the principle of free speech. It's the same principle that justifies your ability to post in this discussion here,…

That money had to have come from somewhere, whether it was taxpayers or individuals. What if I donated? Is it cool to just roll over and allow political groups to hijack a previous…

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reminds me of https://xkcd.com/350/

It takes many bits to identify an individual. Let's say I offhandedly mention your email in this comment, for example, like we had an out of band conversation somewhere else. Then,…

I don't have the ability to downvote, and I disagree that the downvote should be used, but I disagree with your disagreement about the downvote. The proposal that seems to infringe…

I wonder if this could be used to unmask satoshi. I remember a piece about applying stylometry to satoshi's writing, but they just compared him to the usual list of suspects (finne…

I remember this! it got me pretty good. I have a bad habit of generating alts because I forget the password. It makes me wonder if we could use non-instruct LLMs to slightly alter …

Eh, I've got 200mb/s fiber for cheap. It's pretty good and definitely bottlenecked by crowded wifi and upstream sources moreso than the ISP. Ethernet helps somewhat. At the same ti…

Probably not that many lives, maybe like a handful of hikers every year I would guess? I think what attracts hikers in the first place is the danger, and the idea that they're expl…

Say what you will, but it's staying above cloud providers.