chrishacken

I was confused by the

"4,894 BTC ~$84 million USD remaining"

on the site. It initially appeared as if he/she was asking for donations. I guess that's actually the amount of money yet to be distributed.

This looks sketchy as hell. No personal information attached at all and the domain has who-is protection. How do we know this is legit?

(Edit: nvm, misinterpreted the website)

"Sam makes an interesting analogy with Y Combinator as providing a form of "basic income" to people trying to start startups. "

These two things aren't even close to the same thing. If Y Combinator accepted every single applicant, than yes, it would be equivalent to UBI. They obviously do not.

Then don't give your data to anyone. Perfect security doesn't exist, no matter how hard you try or how much money you throw at the problem. Breaches happen, end of story.

So the real issue should be: When and how will a new secure form of identity be created, used, and made available. Social security numbers were never intended to be used in the manner in which they are.

On top of that, people don't realize how little the federal government (Presidential Election) affects them, nor how much their local elections affect them. Our local elections here get 4,000 votes per candidate. In a city of 120,000 people that's pretty much shit. Your local and state elections impact your lives substantially more than anything at the federal level.

Whether or not your city closes/opens drug/alcohol treatment centers or homeless shelters will affect your life much more than Trump boasting about how he's going to build a wall.

This is my first time discovering IPFS, so pardon if this my question is obvious/addressed elsewhere.

At what point does the "network" become too small. I.e. if your computer can only reach 10,000 devices... are those 10,000 devices supposed to be able to have access to all data for the entire world? (albeit out of date)

The scenario I'm thinking of here is similar to if Alaska suddenly got cut off from the rest of the world for a week, month, year.

So then essentially everyone would make the same they are now; thus resulting in little to no-change.

When it's all said and done, having a $1000/m basic income would be little different than increasing the minimum wage by the same amount.

I'm no battery expert, but is it possible that they have several battery compartments that can all be charged simultaneously? Thus reducing charge time?

Edit:

Just read the latter part of your post after I wrote this. I think this is the most likely scenario. "Personally I think Elon is either going to add multiple charging inputs per truck and combine it with a special supercharger,"

Facebook is more than welcome to come gentrify the city where I live. It would be a welcomed change from the influx of decrepit homes that are abandoned and/or poorly maintained.

AMD has invested heavily in developing ARM based chips.

I think it's more probable that they had the right intentions in the beginning, but then realized how much money these vulnerabilities might cost to fix because they had no easy way to resolve them without recalls. So rather than fix the issues and lose millions of dollars they just tried to hide the them.

"A bigger concern to me is the wood rotting from exposure to water or chemicals. Although reinforced concrete also "rots", but in different ways. Wood at least tends to sag before failing from rotting, unlike concrete."

This. We just moved our office into a 100+ year old wood building. We're doing the renovating ourselves. Most of the wood in the building is rotting or uneven. I've spent a week so far leveling the floors. Every old (70+ years old) building I've ever been in is like this; some worse than others.

We have our datacenter in a stone/concrete building that was built in 1912. While it has also deteriorated, it's not nearly as bad as the wooden buildings. The floors have cracks in them, but they're still level for the most part, or easily repairable. The building will easily be standing for another 200+ years. I can't say the same for the wood building.

I'm not saying they are, but phone connectors.. aka "Aux ports" were designed in 1878, with the 3.5mm rendition dating back to the 1960's. It's obsolete tech. We can easily be making headphones with connectors that are a fraction the size. There's no reason USB-C and lightning ports shouldn't be multi-use. One port, many applications.

You don't have to use bluetooth for audio. Every iPhone comes with an aux port adapter for a reason.

- "What is with it with people expecting that a quick run will sort out your life? Like cool, activity releases endorphins and shit, but are endorphins going to pay this credit card bill? They going to patch things over with my friend? They going to find me a job? They going to fix my life?"

- "How the hell am I supposed to get out of the house to go running a few miles when I practically can’t get out off my couch?"

No, running and exercise won't immediately solve your problems, but neither is sitting on on your couch.

What exercise will do is make you feel good and make you a productive human being so that your brain is functioning optimally and so that you can solve those problems.

There actually was a proposal for one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautilus-X

There's also this issue:

"Another problem is that we do know of adverse effects that arise at high rotational rates of speed. The Coriolis Effect has to do with rotating reference frames and it can seriously screw with the inner ear. The only way to maintain a strong centrifugal gravity while keeping rotational speed low is to lengthen the system as a whole — but the ISS isn’t nearly big enough."

Source: https://www.geek.com/news/geek-answers-why-doesnt-the-iss-ha...

"and the problems Twilio have"

Care to expand on this? When I visited their site to find out what they offer, I immediately said to myself.. "So this is just a Twilio competitor".

That font literally hurts my eyes.

What do you do with Dogecoin though? It's market cap is $91MM and yet its creation was a joke.

I couldn't agree more. A guy that's been sitting on a grandfathered 3.5Ghz license approached us to lease it from him or partner with him to use it. He hasn't used it himself in over 7+ years.

Sure they do. Philadelphia calls it a "wage tax", but it's an income tax. https://beta.phila.gov/news/department-of-revenue/city-annou...

The thing is, those tax cuts are largely offset by income taxes that those employees bring in, along with all of the $ that having a huge corporation like Amazon would bring into the area. It's not corruption, it's business.

What concerns me is that people act like she doesn't have the right to write her opinion (it clearly is just her opinion; it was published to the opinion section), without her facing repercussion.

I'm surprised at how many cables crossed the Atlantic in 1901. Anyone know how they power the amplifiers under the ocean? (Then and now?).

Edit: It appears that there's a separate wire carrying electricity. I'm no electrician but I was under the impression that power loses it's Voltage (or Amperage?) over distance.

Exactly what I said in my comment and yet it was downvoted.

Generally speaking, there's no way to detect if you're using a VPN. They block specific IP ranges belonging to VPN providers.

No offense, but millions of people have lived in Virginia at one point or another in their lives. Are you suggesting that anyone who has ever lived there is likely a government agent of some sort? That's just preposterous.

I've found that going cold-turkey is actually way easier than trying to ween yourself off of it. Reducing my intake only makes me want it more and more because I already have a little bit of it in my system. While going cold-turkey sucks for a 2-3 days, after you're off of it you have almost no urge what-so-ever to drink it.

Interesting theory. I think that's just a mental game though; I think of myself as "healthy" when I order water when we're out.

Most of my friends are also healthy individuals and will also order water though, so maybe it's dependent on who your "friends" are.

| The biggest deterrent, for me at least, is not the price but the need to switch platforms. I'm already annoyed when I have to go from Netflix to Amazon to find a movie/show I want to see but can't remember where it is. No chance I'll add a third, forth, or fifth platform to the mix.

That's my biggest pain point as well. I already have to switch between Netflix / Hulu / Amazon to figure out who has the content I want. I've always been a huge Stargate fan; Netflix and Amazon used to have it, now only Hulu has it. Amazon is the only one that has the latest episodes for shows that I like, (although I have to pay extra, I'm willing to bite the bullet for my favorite show).