henvic

Yes, and yes. To the point that it's mere noise compared to the waste and destruction of wealth caused by wars and conflicts caused by politicians.

Economically speaking, the waste caused by the industrial-military complex worldwide is probably 10000 times worse, at least.

Going off-topic: However, even though I'm a capitalist pig, the problem with this goes even far worse than economics: most murders recent history are related to state-sponsored conflicts, not the John Doe carrying a gun around to commit petty theft and accidentally murdering someone. It's hard to become aware of it as institutions like UNODC never includes armed conflict between states in the count, for starters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...

I love space exploration, so please don't take me wrong...

I've got an unpopular opinion: For me, the state-sponsored space exploration of space (particularly, the Space Race) slowed down progress in the sciences and even for space exploration in the long run.

Of course, people can point to me all sorts of technologies that appeared first during the race. Unfortunately, we don't have a fork or an alternative world where this didn't happen that we could use to compare, so anything I say pointing to the high-cost such endeavors had to society is almost always met with skepticism (if you argue this makes me wrong, you're committing a fallacy regardless if I'm right or wrong).

It's impossible to say for sure but had not a lot of resources been taken from civil society for these projects, there is a chance that there'd be a demand to do it in a more effective and long-term way from the very beginning, and this is my point.

Yes, maybe humans would be on Moon only 30 years later. Still, there's a chance at least the wealthiest could afford a week-long vacation with their families today on the Moon. We could have labs and factories for specialized equipment that might benefit from a low-gravity environment in space or whatever.

Wordle tomorrow: https://twitter.com/henriquev/status/1488304923607552009 lol

No. This is a bad idea just like any other that involves taxing more for the sake of... well... anything.

People would just have even another incentive to buy even more smuggled cigarettes.

Any chance we can jump to the second part? I'm worried about poor crows smoking.

It's crazy how so many people are terrified of civilians with powerful fully automatic weapons, while keeping eyes shut to the risk the military and state actors represent to society.

> it's hard to feel much more free than that these days

> You're on a schedule for sleep, meals and events, basically making no decisions, and without internet

Not judging, but... Pick one?

It can't be a store of value when there it represents no value whatsoever. It is an instrument of speculation only.

https://henvic.dev/posts/bitcoin

I agree it comes from a place of privilege, but ain't it true, though?

Because the state was never about making things easier for people.

Turns out that my mind is still stuck in 2019. The year is also wrong (2020).

oh, I missed the "second half".

No mention of freenode going rogue, and Libera Chat?

2038 is coming.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem

oh man, had he predicted that a lot of people would be going nuts on digital stamps that might be copied for free, that'd be hilarious...

And the outcome is completely useless.

I despise proof-of-work exactly for this reason.

https://ccaf.io/cbeci/index https://henvic.dev/posts/bitcoin/#energy-hog

If this hearsay were the case, it wouldn't be the business of anyone beyond Google and Apple stockholders. Antitrust legislation is awful, and only works jeopardizes competition despite supposedly helping it.

To enrich the people selling digital tulips (or 256-colors GIFs, whatever you prefer).

Just like Bitcoin... https://henvic.dev/posts/bitcoin/

Probably being an early adopter and cashing out before it's too late lol

It's a privilege and luxury to have this kind of flexibility? Yes, and that's a good thing!

If anything, we should aim to betterment for our lives, and I bet nowadays many people browsing this website have this. In the future, even more people will be able to! :)

Definitely. I'm into photography, although I'm not by any means an expert, and when I first saw this news I just ignored it thinking there were so much going on, and the cause might be anything simple, it didn't really spark my curiosity.

I thought maybe it was just some processing glitch, maybe it was computational photography messing up, maybe it was just a question of focus, or maybe a mix of things.

omg, this is awesome!

I used to play Tetrinet years ago, and I loved it!

How about not messing with people? Let them claim it.

The mount for the 4K display sucks. I don't know why the hell they designed it this way, but it's a rectangle that protrudes about 5cm in front of your display. This mean that it forces your keyboard to be placed closer than it should depending on the distance you use it.

I really wanted the 27-inch LG UltraFine 5K (https://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-27md5kl-b-5k-uhd-led-monit...), but I heard many complains about it not being as reliable as you'd expect, then I decided to get the LG UltraFine 4K (https://amzn.to/3qs2pFW) a little over a year ago, and I don't regret at all spending so much more for a display, than I'd normally expect to.

Now, I want to update to Apple's Pro Display XDR, but can't justify paying ~7 times more on it for now. Although 24-inch and 4K was a huge improvement for someone like me, used to only using a MacBook display (I spend the workday programming, and love photography), I still feel like 4K isn't enough.

I can't comfortably open my editor/browser, while also watching a video, for example. For some time I've tried to use my MacBook 15 Pro as a second display, but that didn't work either. I hate the fact that there're small differences in color/brightness, even though the quality of either individually is superb (the external is slightly better)... The only thing that helped a little bit with regards to using multiple displays was using the iPad to play videos thanks to AirPlay, but this is suboptimal.

Jeez! So, are you telling me that cloud isn't someone's else computer? Damn it.

No. Invalid comparison. If you legitimately discover a cryptocurrency wallet private key by sheet lucky, and such cryptocurrency has no backing = is based in pure thin air, such as the case of Bitcoin, and there are public nodes which doesn't require you to abide by contracts that would forbid you to do so (which is supposedly all nodes), you're good to use that as you wish and it won't be a crime.

It's unethical to steal something tangible. Bitcoin has no tangibility whatsoever. You can't steal it.

> If a private key is copied, it must have been done so illegally or accidentally. Any other option means the cryptography is defective.

I agree if you're talking about an evidence such as a high-quality video or even photo with everything leading us to believe it's legit. However, we can not be as confident if we're talking about a BTC token. While extremely unlikely, there might be faulty algorithm implementations, problems with the algorithm, etc., that might lead to this situation.

Very unlikely? Sure, but we've to give the benefit of the doubt.

No. You're accessing computer resources that you don't own and you aren't authorized to.