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o_p··on I quit my job to focus on SerenityOS full time
>I chose the name SerenityOS because I wanted to always remember the Serenity Prayer.

Whats with operating systems and religion

o_p··on Master List of Logical Fallacies (2018)
Reminder that arguing something is false because theres a fallacy in the argument its a fallacy itself too, ad logicam.
o_p··on The Tether Ponzi Scheme
Pro tip: the deposits in your bank account are not backed by actual money 1-to-1
o_p··on The overfitted brain: Dreams evolved to assist generalization
Or sleep is needed to clean the toxins in the brain and dreams are just a funny consequence of disconnecting you from the world
o_p··on Nvidia cripples cryptocurrency mining on RTX 3080 and 3070 cards
How hard can it be to reverse engineer the drivers and remove the protections? Theres economic incentive now after all
o_p··on Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge
I think the final outcome of this is that people will go to the next hot PoW coin and the eth "elites" will be left alone playing oligarch
o_p··on The man who didn't invent Flamin' Hot Cheetos
As fake as the american dream!

I like how this guys became successful by literally lying

o_p··on Vaccinated Americans now may go without masks in most places, the CDC said
Im not vaccinating period. If you try to force me with this bs Im just gonna bribe the nurse here sign this paper and good fucking bye.
o_p··on Colonial Pipeline Paid Hackers Nearly $5M in Ransom
Should had paid for cybersecurity or not pay misery bug bounties. Attract talent to the blue team!
o_p··on Facebook moderator: ‘Every day was a nightmare’
Sounds like a good job for psychos
o_p··on Amazon Sidewalk
Some skiddie will have a lot of fun hacking the entire neighborhood :-)
o_p··on Game developers sharing their salaries on Twitter
"If you get physically bullied just become stronger" is the opposite of society
o_p··on Game developers sharing their salaries on Twitter
>I truly do not understand why anyone stays at these game studios for 5+ years and allows themselves to be absolutely robbed blind by pitiful wages and cost-of-living raises.

Maybe thats why your advice is "just be good"

o_p··on FBI subpoenaed Apple for data of Sci-Hub founder
Lets rename it to Wageslave News
o_p··on Tesla Car Hacked Remotely from Drone via Zero-Click Exploit
That was a "move along citizen" move, the US already uses these techniques to assasinate targets.
o_p··on Charlie Munger calls BTC disgusting and contrary to the interest of civilization
Good idea, I'll make the logo
o_p··on Charlie Munger calls BTC disgusting and contrary to the interest of civilization
"Surrender to the US monetary global hegemony for the enviroment"
o_p··on Charlie Munger calls BTC disgusting and contrary to the interest of civilization
The calculations are useful to ensure the transaction is valid.
o_p··on Charlie Munger calls BTC disgusting and contrary to the interest of civilization
The elites are disgusting and contrary to the interests of civilization.
o_p··on What is Chia cryptocurrency and why is it bad news for hard drives?
Theres nothing wrong with exchanges on top of bitcoin, in fact, that will be the solution for the tx costs and energy problems. But HN is too stubborn to get it, remember, if you do the opposite of what HN youd become rich :-)
o_p··on SSD makers start warning that mining products like ChiaCoin will void warranty
"If you use the product, that voids wararnty"
o_p··on Horses and Sparrows: The myth of 'trickle down' economics
>These two statements demonstrate that the author is not an economist

Thank god, I was worried it was going to be a waste of time

o_p··on Neutron stars may be bigger than expected, measurement of lead nucleus suggests
A black hole is just a very heavy object
o_p··on The more complex crypto seems, the higher the pyramid schemes can go
That doesnt make any sense at all, buying shares does not increase the company value as someone is selling on the other side, you could be buying when the price drops. If what you said would be true, you would make profit by just buying more shares!
o_p··on The more complex crypto seems, the higher the pyramid schemes can go
But the central bank doesnt print money to throw it into a vault. The commercial banks borrow that money to lend it themselves to the people for consumption and investing, so printing money definitely haves an effect on your buying power even if its not 1 to 1.

Maybe you live in a country with a independent central bank but many countries are far more corrupt and the goverments make their central bank print money for themselves and have huge inflation rates. Cryptocurrency gives them a way to protect their savings from that.

o_p··on The more complex crypto seems, the higher the pyramid schemes can go
But you host git on a centralized server, blockchain git when
o_p··on The more complex crypto seems, the higher the pyramid schemes can go
Unless you are participating in an IPO. Buying stocks its not investing in the true sense you mention, you are just transfering ownership of stocks but that money doesnt fund any enterprise.
o_p··on The more complex crypto seems, the higher the pyramid schemes can go
You are obfuscating with technical terms the fact that the central bank haves the power to devaluate your cash savings.
o_p··on The more complex crypto seems, the higher the pyramid schemes can go
I hoped HN to have a more informed take but I guess not.

Blockchains solve the problem of having a decentralized public database, currency is just a particular use

o_p··on Gravity batteries try to beat chemical ones with winches, weights, mine shafts
what if you lift ion batteries instead of iron
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