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samarama··on Fire Sale: $300M San Francisco Office Tower, Mostly Empty
Then, just put the bathroom and kitchen at the core of the building and the living space at the edges of the building.
samarama··on Computer science is a liberal arts degree
Do you have an example of an academic field of study that is less of an art and more structured than Mathematics?
samarama··on Computer science is a liberal arts degree
Mathematics is the most science and least art form possible.

Every other field of study has more artsiness than Mathematics.

However, Mathematics also still has a lot of artsiness to it.

samarama··on Ask HN: Why is Hacker News so anti-crypto?
What banks are you using, because cross border transfers take 2-5 business days.
samarama··on Ask HN: Why is Hacker News so anti-crypto?
> Even if cryptos could solve all problems that FIAT has, that does not mean it is a better solution to the problem that FIAT solves.

That sentence literally refutes itself.

samarama··on Ask HN: Why is Hacker News so anti-crypto?
No, if that wasn’t an option, then the root causes such as wasteful spending, not holding politicians accountable, student loan crisis wouldn’t even happen in the first place, because those that are committing those misdeeds currently are the same that are printing the money.
samarama··on Ask HN: Why is Hacker News so anti-crypto?
> It might be an extreme problem to you, not to everyone else.

So mass inflation is only an extremely problem to me? This is probably the most false claim possible.

> This has been solved again and again by different companies, be it wise.com or others

Except they constantly freeze user accounts for no reason.

> Except for the fact that nobody can get their money back after they have been scamed. There is no authority to complain to or reverse a transaction. Wich makes it useless for the masses.

Of course there is, all the exchanges have to comply by with law enforcement and that’s what they are doing. This way, since the transactions are all public and can be traced endlessly it’s very difficult to evade law enforcement through scams.

Thats also why this $4.5B scam was caught https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-09/nyc-coupl...

samarama··on Ask HN: Why is Hacker News so anti-crypto?
That is the case, because Engineers have a bad understand of global finance, business and money.

That’s why they don’t understand the problems that crypto is solving.

If you look at the comments here, you’ll see that many comments are saying that crypto isn’t doing anything useful.

However, crypto is literally solving the extreme problem of infinitely printable FIAT money and very slow and expensive cross-border transfers, which might be the most impfactful invention of the last 2 decades.

On top of that, crypto adds transparency, accountability, interoperability, decreases fraud in every possible market.

However, hacker news doesn’t understand that, because they simply don’t global finance, global markets, business and moneys.

samarama··on Show HN: Slow Social, a social network built for friends, not influencers
Yes but it will be an empty desert with anything below 10m users, because only then would an average user would have 100 friends and 10 posts per week.
samarama··on Vampire Attack Twitter
How so, NFTs are exactly about requiring to own a picture to use it and that nobody else can use it.

Crypto is exactly about strengthening copyright.

samarama··on Show HN: Slow Social, a social network built for friends, not influencers
The issue is you have built in a mechanism to prevent the site from gaining critical mass.

In order for a user to check the site, there would need to be 50 posts from their friends that they can read through.

For that to happen, they would need 500 friends for them to make 50 posts a week.

In order to reach 500 friends, you would need 100 million users, before that the network would be empty with nothing happening.

It’s better to limit the number of posts to 1 per day.

This way, you would be able to have some stuff going with 50 friends in some areas and 3 million users.

However, you need to get to 3 million users somehow with no value in your network, maybe you can get this through posts like this, but very difficult.

You also need to let users upload their contact list otherwise you won’t be able to build your social graph.

samarama··on How destructive are nuclear weapons really?
Where did you get that number from?
samarama··on Elon Musk to join Twitter’s board of directors
Science denials isn’t political “idea”, it’s just plain and destructive science denial.
samarama··on Elon Musk to join Twitter’s board of directors
Puberty starts at 8 for many children already and for most at 11.
samarama··on Elon Musk to join Twitter’s board of directors
Only that these idiots become one radicalized group of 40% of Americans and try to topple the United States again.
samarama··on Elon Musk to join Twitter’s board of directors
A Twitter with unlimited speech will become a racist and propaganda hellscape.

Imagine Trump will be brought back on Twitter, he’ll radicalize 40% of Americans into QAnon disciples and try to topple the United States government again. He’ll have thousands like him joining in in spreading mass amounts of fake news exactly like the Russian propaganda machine.

You’ll see extreme science denial, a boatload of new Covid myths, drinking bleach, Ivermectin, Covid is just the flu propaganda all over again, just 5 times worse.

samarama··on Retirees who live on cruise ships
Ok but you also travel much less by ship than by plane and you also have your additional CO2 footprint by driving around on vacation.
samarama··on Ask HN: Any weird tips for weight loss?
Increasing muscle mass is one of the fastest way to lose fat, because muscle mass burns calories in your sleep.
samarama··on Research: ‘Ukraine war costs Russian military €20B per day’
That’s not a good analysis.

Maybe it costs $20B/day overall including sanctions, but military spend only should come out at around $2B.

samarama··on Bitconnect founder indicted in global $2.4B cryptocurrency scheme
So you’re just a troll without any carefully researched knowledge.
samarama··on Bitconnect founder indicted in global $2.4B cryptocurrency scheme
That’s why the vast majority of L1s are not proof of work.
samarama··on Tibia (1997) is one of the earliest and longest-running MMORPGs
Ah sorry, here you are https://extrastar.wixsite.com/Starwalker
samarama··on Tibia (1997) is one of the earliest and longest-running MMORPGs
I’m building a game like this right now with a small team. It takes place in an O’Neill cylinder and if you die, you die. The goal is also to survive for months, which allows a player to make their character much strong that starters and have much better equipment. It also makes them targets though, so they need to build a tribe that protects them.

The game is built in Unreal Engine 5 with hyperrealistic graphics.

It’ll go live in a couple of weeks for alpha testing, so if you want to test the alpha, you can sign up on the website. https://extrastar.wixsite.com

samarama··on Tibia (1997) is one of the earliest and longest-running MMORPGs
Why did they leave it to rot did it not make any money?
samarama··on Social engineering scam that nearly cost me all of my ETH
Your arguments are mostly usability. However, there are already many services that gives you additional utility such as insurance, backups etc.

Crypto already has replaced money in several countries, especially third world countries where it has replaced money for 30% of the population that have protected their funds against inflation thanks to the inherent scarcity of respective cryptos.

samarama··on Social engineering scam that nearly cost me all of my ETH
Probably because you are rich, but 99% of humanity aren’t.
samarama··on Social engineering scam that nearly cost me all of my ETH
> 1 is questionably valuable and arguably harmful If it’s mutable, it’s centralized, so you’re wrong.

>2 is increasingly untrue

That’s also incorrect, Ethereum has become more decentralized every year

> 3 and 6 aren't inherent benefits of Ethereum and 5 aren't true Yes they are. Ethereum is deflationary and will became three times more inflationary later this year.

> 7 is speculative and begs the question.

No speculation here, check here yourself for just a small overview https://www.defipulse.com/

samarama··on Social engineering scam that nearly cost me all of my ETH
Except beanie babies have no inherent value, but ETH has vast inherent value in numerous ways

1. Immutability

2. Decentralization

3. Cheap, fast, secure cross-country money transfers

4. Protection against inflation

5. Independence of banks or arbitrary freezes of your funds

6. Access to a vast variety of financials services

7. Is quite likely the replacement of money

The fact that people still don’t get that in 2022 is astonishing.

samarama··on DNA has a 521-year half-life (2012)
In a ship with 20 million parts, 19.9 million can probably be automated, but there’s simply 100k parts that can’t always be fixed 100% in advance.
samarama··on DNA has a 521-year half-life (2012)
Good points, but why is it 15 years for 0.1%?
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