randomhodler84

I’m sorry dang. I’ve gone too far. I’ll take a break for a while.

Yeaaah don’t use ECB.

AEAD or gtfo

What did the Roman’s ever do for us? :-) I agree with what you are saying.

We will never know where would have been if it wasn’t for the iron grip of the Christian church on western civilization for 1200+ years, but the secularization of society in the last 200 does indicate that we made rapid progress in medicine, human rights and science/technology when no longer were bound by the control structures of the church.

Narrator: they were.

Absolute truth. Lol. Buddy. God doesn’t exist, you have been lied to all your life by controlling beings who wish to fill you mind with ancient fairy tales to keep you in submission. Religion is a refuge for the ignorant.

Hacker news is not the place to be spreading fear, it is a house of science and engineering. We like logic, and freedom. You are advocating for ignorance and superstition.

It’s a is ref to https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0050.mediawi... however I don’t think that’s really in the same class to the Eth chain split. It was a db bug, it got fixed, “infra” bugs. Eth was a forced onchain state fix. “Business logic bugs”.

It is disingenuous to point to the 2013 incident and say this proves a lack-of-decentralization myth.

Not a good idea. Uhh, not expensive enough. They spend more anyway. 0days suitable for targeted surveillance go for 10-25x that.

Please go back to 1400 in your time machine. Those of us who live in the 21st century have no interest in your medieval fantasies.

The only controversy is that your parents, your peers have totally warped your world view to remove compassion, logic and reason. If it wasn’t so such a deadly result for the rest of us, I would say it was sad. But we must not be sad, me must call out a destructive though process that actively regresses humanity and ensure that it cannot harm others.

Thanks, sanity is overrated anyway.

Why indeed, I know how I consume media.

I support a wide range of monetization strategies and access to content by the most amount of people.

And Usury was well known to the ancients as one way to destroy a society.

Rent is not the basis of savings through investment, yield is; of which rent is one kind. Renting a movie at blockbuster made sense in the 90s as plastic shells of magstripe were a scarce good. Today, literally millions of devices could stream their entire lib for free via ad supported streaming apps.

We live in different times. Holding on to artificial constraints for old-times business model nostalgia will look so quaint in a few decades.

Uber and AirBnB didn’t get to where they are today without breaking a few laws and regulations. Archiving the digital legacy of our planet is far more important than imaginary property fantasies.

No not really. And I am childfree forever so I don’t have to put up with the little pestilence beasts and their Petri dish school crud. Very lucky!

Some occasional subway crud but when you catch COVID over and over again you lose weeks of your life. Also Because colds don’t cause long term damage, blood clots, etc.

This isn’t another cold. It could be mild, or you could wind up with complications from blood clots and inflammation for the next year, more…

That losing your taste? That’s brain damage, buster. Yeah just a cold…

Years ago I saw a NZ comedian called “boy with the tape on his face” with some Spanish speakers. They LOVED it, as did I. This is a wordless comedy show that also transcends language. He is known as “tape face” today with residency in Vegas.

There is something special and innately human about visual and physical comedy transcending language. Strongly recommended.

It’s just the clarity of thought that our lives will be in a cycle of pestilence and sickness until we die. Every 2020 fear of end of society will manifest in the next 6 months.

There really is not a lot to look forward to.

This is manifesting now with fiat vs Bitcoin. Fiat has a negative real interest rate. Bitcoin is for saving, and has a floating rate for exchange.

We don’t need the control of a CBDC. Bitcoin cannot be inflated or controlled by a State. The hardest money is one that cannot manipulated at a whim by elected or unelected humans.

I don’t not have that luxury to move. It’s not about me in a bubble.

It’s about humanity and a painful existence of pestilence. You might be “done” with it. Humanity is not. Virus is not.

A bubble is ignoring one of the greatest threats to our civilization today.

I just wanna go out in public and not get sick. It’s happened too many times now.

And that’s asymptomatic! I caught 3 trains today, and in all of them someone was visibility sick and didn’t care. Someone was having a coughing fit on the platform, no mask of course. I went shopping, and several of the staff and shoppers were also visibility sick. One shopper started coughing in front of everyone and they completely ignored it and carried on. At a fast food restaurant (outdoors) there were at least 2 tables with people visibly sick eating their food.

Really, going out in public is quite a risk these days. The sheer number of infected all around you is quite troubling.

I’d say virusaphobic. I have been sicker from others in the last year than in 2020 and earlier. I’ve lost a lot of life this past year.

So what are we going do? Big city life is going to be unbelievably poor unless we solve this problem.

Yes, however BA.5 is another beast. Post infection immunity lasts in the order of weeks it would appear.

No, stop staying this foolishness. In dense cities like NY, I would say at least 20% of the city is infected right now. Workers. People on the street. The subway is disgusting, there is at least one infected person per carriage coughing over everyone and refusing to wear a mask. You walk around and hear that infected lung with light mucus cough. It’s everywhere. Unless we get proper proper sterilizing vaccines, the world is going to be in a cycle of getting sick from it every few months. This is serious and infectious like nothing on earth. I am tired of the selfishness of people having an attitude that it’s not a big deal.

At this point the vax we had is for something that doesn’t exist anymore. There is no long lasting natural resistance. We need new tech and widespread adoption. If people are going to go out symptomatic and infected and spread an r=17.5 virus, and there really is nothing we can do to stop them, we need much better tech to save us.

At least derive some joy from the fact you are far more perceptive than most identifying the negative traits of humanity. Most never have a clue and just exist…

After seeing The last human - Kurzgesagt https://youtu.be/LEENEFaVUzU and realizing that for all Of human history we have though it was the end - and actually it’s more likely that as the first few billion humans we will be the source of fascination for many generations to come. Our digital record will be preserved and relentlessly studied. Maybe our thread here will be a footnote in a hologram in a few millennia.

Never liked the one way privacy of it, and it’s not a coin. It also adds nothing you don’t get already in the underlying cryptocurrencies.

It’s a payment protocol for arbitrary assets. You can pay in Bitcoin via Taler. I don’t think it will gain traction. The best payment protocol for Bitcoin today is Lightning Network, and is as open, and more sophisticated than GNU Taler ever was.

Yes, I ack that BTC is pubkeyhash and scripthash pseudononymous are not private.

High Yield? No way. Bitcoin can only be mined. It returns nothing. It’s a boring rock that can be transmitted over a communication channel. You have the same number of Bitcoins today, next half, next generation (provided you don’t lend or sell them).

Other PoS shitcoins could be considered high yield, in fact the yield is algorithmic and is independent of market value (which is an odd concept, as other reg high yield products will return capital explicitly to satisfy a yield.)

Taken further, yield may well be the “scam”. Bitcoin provides none of this.

Buddy, you have accused me of lacking critical thinking twice. I believe you are projecting. Critical thinkers generally don’t reduce an argument to “evil corps”.

I’m intrigued by why I would want to go back in time?

2020 post. Good write up on technical issue that demonstrated tooling and process to identify a superfluous regex compile in the base framework. Quick patch and suddenly it’s faster for everyone! Neat!

Avidity is a strange word, I don’t think I have ever seen it before. It exists in English, but it is a French loan word. I believe your perspective is one of someone in France. I am personally located in NY, but cannot vote. I have not been able to vote for over a decade in multiple countries now, and don’t really believe in it anymore.

I don’t really care if every EU citizen voted to make math illegal. While there is sanity elsewhere, and an internet exists, we can route around the madness.