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witweb

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    I've been working on and off for many years on my own weather app mainly to learn Swift/ SwiftUI. Forecasts come from national and international weather institutes via https://open…

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    Purelymail is really good. I've been using it for over 4 years now and haven't had any issues around deliverability or availability. It might not be fancy but it has almost any fea…

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    Great article, in which I find myself partially. I have tried for many years to be quite perfectionistic but mostly because of the feeling of not being good enough. It's a pretty d…

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    Thank you so much, I was able to successfully cancel my plan for free!

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    I don't really get your point here as you don't have to buy ASICs every X years with PoW consensus. A friend of mine mines with his 3070 in a mining pool and makes a small plus wit…

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    Is the efficiency really that depend on the architecture (x86 vs arm64)? I always thought Apples lead comes from things like the little big approach and the lower transistor size. …

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    DIDs are not meant to compete with ENS addresses. They solve different problems.

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    But what would be the solution? I've already played around with DIDs and Verifiable Credentials in the SSI-context and I like it from a tech perspective. I am also not sure if the …

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    Please read up on UASF and Bitcoin. People can buy tons of mining factories, but if a very large amount of nodes start rejecting blocks and therefore the rewards, miners start to r…

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    So people living in countries without a stable currency due to hyperinflation don't count as a real use case? It's sometimes the only way they can secure their capital. I think tha…

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    Comment #25470890

    God bless Sci-Hub. Thanks for linking the full article.

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    But what's going to happen with the nuclear waste? I've heard too many times about water getting into permanent repositories and leaking containers contaminating the biosphere. See…

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    There is no Bitcoin Core! There is only one Bitcoin using Bitcoin Core as one of its clients used to connect to the Bitcoin blockchain. The rest are just irrelevant forks.