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It's hard to listen to recently, he's suggesting working out and eating vitamins instead of a vaccine. He still has an influence on people and he's spreading misinformation.
Rogan is against wearing masks but demands all of his guests to be tested for COVID-19 before going on his show which is kind of contradictory.
That’s not the point, I didn’t say that it would be a good idea. The point is that it would work with just 100 or a 1000 miners if no one has 51% of computing power, hence the computing power is a consequence of Bitcoin’s success.
This seems like a pretty flawed idea and an attempt to justify the incredible amount of electricity required by bitcoin.
It's not "required", it's only that high because it has so much success. Bitcoin would be working with only one miner running, the first blocks were minted on a private computer.
That's a straw man argument, you can't change the discussion of YouTube vs Bitcoin to rice fields vs private jets. If you have the freedom to view Bitcoin as an unnecessary luxury I can view YouTube in the same way. Why is no one talking about banning YouTube to save the environment? The price of Bitcoin is suggesting that people see merit in it's use and the hashing power is being used to keep the network safe. It can only be viewed as waste if the argument stands that Bitcoin is unnecessary and I would argue that it's very necessary and more efficient than the current financial system.
To put this in perspective, YouTube (243.6 tw/h) uses about double of Bitcoin's (124 tw/h) energy consumption, but there is no outrage about that. People care about the environment if it doesn't take away their comfort, airconditioning use is about 2000 tw/h globally, expected to triple in the next 30 years, some of the outrage on Bitcoin is being written in airconditioned rooms by people that drive combustion engine cars.
If you compare Bitcoin's environmental footprint to the whole financial system with air cooled offices around the world, with equipment, server rooms it doesn't come close.
A positive side of Bitcoin mining is that it's geographically independent and it can move to where they have too much energy which cannot be stored. In some cases the abundance of energy would be wasted through gas flaring which puts more CO2 into the atmosphere. Now they can get rid of their excessive energy and store it in the form of Bitcoin.
* https://thefactsource.com/how-much-electricity-does-youtube-... * https://research.arcane.no/news/equinor-partners-with-bitcoi...
That was hard to read, it doesn't feel like someone who is mentally stable, clinging on to an idea he once had. Sometimes you have to listen to the world, adjust your ideas and move on, maybe he should have listened more to the world instead of expecting the world to listen to him.
Went to the github Microsoft package and came across this issue, posted by one of you.
What I use to switch git identities is direnv (https://direnv.net/) which automatically loads specific config based on the dir that you are in. You can use it to switch AWS profiles, proxy settings, npm settings, maven settings, git configuration and so on.
To be honest, at the start of this epidemic it wasn't that clear how dangerous the virus was or how easily it would spread. First it happened to Wuhan and we all thought that it wouldn't happen to us, then it happened in Italy and we still thought that we would be fine.
Thinking that it won't happen to you won't make it go away unfortunately, your country isn't special, if no drastic measures are being taken like full quarantine this will happen to you too.
My country is in full lockdown and still a lot of people don't see the gravity of the situation. People dismissing it as less dangerous than influenza are misinformed.
They didn't include more information because they implemented the OpenID Connect specification which is awesome. That means that you can use any OIDC library and it will work for Apple, even verifying the keys. If you want to know more you should read up on OAuth2/OIDC/JWKS.
Apple's public key can be found here.
In present days it's really hard to get factual, correct, unbiased news.
If we ever want Bitcoin to evolve from a store of value to an actual payment method we have to come up with something that does at least better than VISA's 8000tx/s and that's just not solved with going from 7tx/s to Bitcoin Cash's ~62tx/s. We have to be able to compete with every payment method out there and we should be able to handle peak throughput during sales period.
Another important factor is the 10 minutes confirmation time, nobody wants to wait for 10 minutes at the counter before they trust you walking out. We need something with instant verification and low fees and increasing the blocksize will never do that.
Democracy is fundamentally broken, the examples go far and wide accross the globe.
Lobbies are winning from the population and governments don't give a damn about the people who put them in office.
How can we fix it?
You can't predict the future, when ARPANET was developed they didn't have the internet in mind as it is today, but it was a new technology which evolved and will keep to evolve.
I think it will be the same with Bitcoin, it might be dead if it will stay in the form that it is today but my guess is that it won't be the case.
Take a backup or charge it for example.
I'm growing tired of people saying that they want a full touch screen. Good luck holding your arms up 8 hours a day while sitting.
Every new thing that Apple does gets a lot of negative attention, remember the launch of the iPad? It was being mocked and laughed at but now everyone seems to have a tablet. Remember this?
https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/400/1*9tNGJOMAcFprbQrUFp...
Another argument I saw is "they force users to look down at their keyboard". I still have to meet the first user who uses the function rows blindly, besides the esc key it wasn't that useful and everyone was looking down at the keyboard to find the right keys already.
It intrigues me and I would like to try it out.
I sit at my desk and that's apparently what's important.
After everything it indeed sometimes feels like it comes down to this. They want to see you physically sitting at your desk for at least 8 full hours, that's the only 'measurement' in productivity that most companies seem to care about.
I just can't wrap my head around the fact that it can happen like this, wide in the open with everyone watching. Before the coup I was already amazed that I heard news about he taking over a critic newspaper and the next day publishing pro Erdogan propaganda, it's just beyond belief what is happening.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-04/turkish-g...
Gives great insights in various matters for simpletons like myself.
"they sell things that are locked down, both physically and in software"
Well, I can understand the physically part, but fortunately you can solve it with money, you just have to pay for your hardware upfront, it is expensive, but I work on my MacBook Pro > 9hrs a day. It's four years old now and doesn't need replacement yet, it's doing fine, the battery is doing fine.
Most people only look at how much an item costs at the time of purchase, but a fairer comparison would include the span of time that your device is sufficient and you don't need replacement.
I use my laptop for my job, the amount of money I make with a laptop outweighs the cost of a laptop by far. Most professionals in their job invest in good material, why would it be different in IT?
As for the software part, the software that Apple provides is astonishing to me. For example wiping a HD multiple times is just a setting, in windows you can start looking for freeware for doing the same thing. It comes with so many possibilities out of the box, I can't think of anything that I would want to do that I can't do now.
Just yesterday I sat next to a guy running Ubuntu and I couldn't believe what I saw, when he tried to search his hard drive he typed in his search parameters.. but then the first thing that popped up were shopping items, faster than the items present on his hard drive... Really?!?
A MacBook pro isn't perfect and it is costly but it's simply the best option for me now.
Is there any interesting lecture that got you this far or did you study source code?
You are completely right but from a legal standpoint their launch is very interesting either way.
Why do I see so many similar posts? Is it cool to turn something down other people want and make a blog post about it?
The internet these days is much like McDonald's, instant gratification and quantity over quality.
When the major software company after making the web a resourceful place decides that taking notes is the next problem to tackle means that absolutely every problem in the world has already been solved.
We just don't understand yet what we can do with it, I think we need to see bitcoin as the raw protocol and now we have to build layers on top of it to handle security/transactions properly, what those layers are and what it looks like is yet to be decided. Any company can now be the company for bitcoin that google was to the internet if they solve the right problem.
It will be possible to do everyday payments with it, it's not that because that bitcoin is decentralised that no centralised value can exist with it. It's just so beautiful that you can interact with it any you want. Take for example mint.com that has to acquire and integrate with each and every bank separately, with bitcoin anyone can build a mint.com with the blockchain. It has the potential to change the world in ways we cannot imagine yet.
I'm even dreaming about open governments where we can actually see the governments spending... I'm a dreamer.
I almost got a heart attack listening to the 'Binaural Test', I have a v-moda crossfade m-100 and it's so incredibly realistic.
It's even freaky when I know that it's just an audio file playing.
Because beer and other alcoholic beverages taste good?
I can imagine in what a position you are in, you see all the potential in the world, a lot of these world problems unresolved and you want to make a lot of money quickly.
Just realise yourself that becoming a billionnaire overnight is impossible, it seems like you want to do too much in too short time. When you have the feeling that you can't get anything done and that you aren't performing of what you should be performing at that time, you're stuck in an inner circle of dissappointment for yourself, whatever you are doing it will never be good enough. The best thing you can do is to take a step back and just do nothing for a while, it just doesn't seem best to put this much pressure on yourself. Maybe it's not for you but it helped for me, start to meditate and just know that you can't do x amount of things at the same time.
Being a hacker is good and all but a good product just takes a lot of time and effort. The design has to fit, the functionality has to just be right, these are things that you really can't handle on your own or in a short period of time. I would really advise you to study or work a day to day job and try to earn money with making things that you like to make until you regain mental stability. It's also a good way to come in contact with interesting people.
When you would find a day to day job, try to make a living and save up for when you want to make a product.
Noooo... I want to give them my money.
Faith in humanity... restored, thank you for being this nice.