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mailbag··on The Ethereum merge is done
0.5% of the world’s electricity.
mailbag··on GPT-4chan
do you feel the same way about reddit?
mailbag··on $100M spent on ETH gas fees for $200M of NFT sales
Users exchanged $100M for the ability to mint an NFT on Ethereum. We can argue about NFTs, but I'm confident these users felt like they received something of real value in return.
mailbag··on There's never been such a severe shortage of homes in the U.S. Here's why
Kift might be what you're looking for.
mailbag··on Exxon Is Mining Bitcoin with Excess Gas
I'd assume any data needed for the mining process is transmitted wirelessly. Sending electricity wirelessly is infeasible.
mailbag··on Static torrent website with peer-to-peer queries over BitTorrent on 2M records
can you expand on this some more?
mailbag··on Plane Belonging to Russian Oligarch Alexander Abramov Is in San Francisco
Can you give us a few examples of the twitter accounts banned for being anti-putin?
mailbag··on Cryptoland [video]
Art project for sure, and based on the engagement so far I'd say they've succeeded.

Here is some of their previous work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEtBHQu4DoM

mailbag··on More cases of Omicron observed in vaccinated people vs. unvaccinated people
Assuming restrictions on unvaccinated are reducing their rate of exposure, is this result that unexpected?

Edit: While I personally don’t support broad restrictions, I’d actually argue this is evidence that the restrictions are making an impact.

mailbag··on Report on Stablecoins [pdf]
Arguably, we've already seen multiple catastrophic crashes in cryptocurrencies.
mailbag··on Chinese live streamer does $2bn of sales in one day
A similar format has been running on cable television in the US for years as the Home Shopping Network or QVC.
mailbag··on Covid-19, Civil Unrest Could Trigger Mass Migration in Post-Pandemic World
I interpret it as being armed and the neighborhood watch are reasons for GPs feeling of safety.
mailbag··on Ask HN: Has anybody shipped a web app at scale with 1 DB per account?
I've maintained an enterprise saas product for ~1500 customers that used this strategy. Cross account analytics were definitely a problem, but the gaping SQL injection vulnerabilities left by the contractors that built the initial product were less of a concern.

Snapshotting / restoring entire accounts to a previous state was easy, and debugging data issues was also much easier when you could spin up an entire account's DB from a certain point in time locally.

We also could run multiple versions of the product on different schema versions. Useful when certain customers only wanted their "software" updated once every 6 months.

mailbag··on An Eve Online corporation has been hit with a GDPR request from an ex-member
crypto-shredding is arguably an option https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto-shredding
mailbag··on Hyperledger – Linux’s open source approach to blockchain building
Are you willing to share the blockchain project you moved to?
mailbag··on Is anyone doing “Tinder, but with video”? Why not?
For the French speaking dating pool

http://www.tuttiflirty.com/

mailbag··on Ask HN: How are you implementing GDPR-compliant soft deletes?
We're going through a similar thought process now for a blockchain based data-store. If the data is symmetrically encrypted and the key is deleted.. does that count as hard deletion? The data is unrecoverable.