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sparksparkapachon Show HN: Global Income Coin – Crypto UBI Project Backed by Gitlab CEO

Damn when did hacker news readers end up not reading the article. It literally says at the end it will be a token on Polygon, 1 cent fees for doing token related activity

sparksparkapachon Beanstalk Farms stablecoin project loses $182M to exploit

Should be the opposite, this is not even 1/10th of 1 percent of what's stored in defi. This shouldn't even be huge news. I don't even see any links to bug bounties on their site.

sparksparkapachon China's state media buys Meta ads pushing Russia's line on war

capitalism dictates that we should offer it to the ones with enough capital to spare, nothing we should do about it then

sparksparkapachon Despite rising wages, 61% of Americans are still living paycheck to paycheck

Yes, definitely an extreme. 120k in rural texas and you can live quite lavishly. That's 4x the median income in texas, probably even more that that for the area you are in if you described it as rural. You'd have to spend quite a bit on stuff to be living paycheck to paycheck on that salary in texas. the median income in texas was 30k in 2019, probably even lower during the time you are talking about. The people making 100k and living paycheck to paycheck are in high cost of living areas, and can probably only get that salary because they are in that area

sparksparkapachon Interview with Charlie Munger on Controversial UCSB Dorm

College kids smell very bad, windows were the one thing that would let people air out their smelly rooms. Windowless rooms are a terrible idea.

sparksparkapachon Kazakhstan to restrict crypto miners amid power shortages

This is just one and I'm sure there are more to come because if the practice is unsustainable a large part of the community would not support it in the long term. https://medium.com/celoorg/a-carbon-negative-blockchain-its-...

sparksparkapachon Kazakhstan to restrict crypto miners amid power shortages

There are quite a few carbon neutral chains that people do launch on. Most businesses do require energy but they try to offset it. People are trying to shift away from mining for the largest NFT blockchain though, ethereum.