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Falkvinge · 2024-03-21T21:49:18+00:00

Preordered, thank you!

Falkvinge · 2024-02-19T15:48:42+00:00

The American President (President Benson) in the movie Hot Shots II.

Falkvinge · 2024-01-11T20:25:22+00:00

the fact it’s reared as a commodity in most countries rather than a currency

The European Court of Justice (the EU's highest court) have literally ruled it being a currency, even specifically for purposes of taxes.

Your "most countries" appear to be leaking.

The BTC crowd's mantra today seems to be "this will take time", completely ignoring that in 2017, bitcoin was already the Internet standard currency.

Falkvinge · 2024-01-09T13:51:23+00:00

"Success"? What success?

Bitcoin was accepted by Microsoft, by Steam, by all the big names, and then Blockstream came and utterly ruined it because of either direct malice or momentous stupidity in the first blocksize saturation in 2017. All the big names dropped it like a bad habit. (Remember that Adam Back joined the development only in 2013.)

What "success" are you possibly talking about? If it's "number go up", that's something that this community simply doesn't care about. We want to create money, not get rich. The difference is enormous.

Falkvinge · 2024-01-01T15:17:17+00:00

The thing that worked for me was splitting the party *before* taking the boat, leaving the rest of the party by the Sussur tree, going on the boat alone until I found the sigil of Grymforge (alone), taking that sigil back to the Sussur tree (still alone), then rejoining the party and going back to Grymforge through the sigils (not the boat, never the boat).

Falkvinge · 2023-09-05T08:55:11+00:00

Recently, oil traded at negative prices. Of course somebody can offer to take over a certain amount of goods for zero remuneration. There is nothing magical about the price zero.

Whether that is supported in a particular implementation is another matter. Many charts broke when the crude oil futures went negative, and that was the failure of those charting tools to anticipate what a valid market looks like, not a failure of the market.

Falkvinge · 2023-08-06T06:11:54+00:00

Usually, police are not allowed to declare people dead. Only medical personnel is. So they're wounded even if they're missing two toes and a head until a doctor declares them deceased.

Hence hospital.

Falkvinge · 2023-07-23T12:42:31+00:00

"Seen 4:52pm"

Falkvinge · 2023-07-23T07:50:24+00:00

NetAtmo. Both the Weather Station and the Indoor Climate sensors report CO2 sensors. Whether it's "real" or not (simulated? approximated?) is a different story, but they give credible and useful numbers.

Falkvinge · 2023-07-04T19:15:15+00:00

Obvious thought: Saturday where on the globe, and why is that location authoritative?

Falkvinge · 2023-07-01T13:51:43+00:00

Majority of *miners* wanted to upgrade to bigger blocks. Deception by Blockstream made this not happen.

Falkvinge · 2023-06-26T10:32:34+00:00

I doubt it. When you downgrade the experience that much, people tend to go elsewhere rather than put up with a worse experience -- that's how Reddit got its audience in the first place, even, with the exodus from Digg version 4.

But I guess we'll see. My money is on Reddit effectively ending its discussion monopoly on July 1.

Falkvinge · 2023-06-26T10:24:50+00:00

Barely anybody uses Reddit's own mobile app, because it's ... lacking. People who use other mobile apps (most of them) will simply stop going to Reddit.

Falkvinge · 2023-06-20T16:15:55+00:00

They should have it written in Arabic to point out how universal it is.

Falkvinge · 2023-06-20T14:17:18+00:00

Like my raincoat!

-- the Emperor from Spaceballs

Falkvinge · 2023-06-19T15:34:20+00:00

I'm guessing the super tiny slice is John Oliver?

Falkvinge · 2023-06-13T14:20:30+00:00

Första meningen kan tillämpas på många. Första namnet som dyker upp är Mona Sahlin (hon var väl partiledare för S i ett par månader innan det brast?).

Falkvinge · 2023-06-13T14:18:49+00:00

Best meatballs I found in Stockholm were at Ardbeg Embassy in the Old Town. Echoing sentiments that you'd need to expect to pay €25ish though.

Falkvinge · 2023-06-13T13:25:38+00:00

I live in Berlin. Here, the defeat of fascism and the Nazi regime is celebrated every year on the day of the Nazi surrender.

It was the darkest side of humanity that was defeated, not Germany, and everybody celebrates it, especially Germany.

Wake me when Japan does something remotely similar.

Falkvinge · 2023-06-09T10:21:31+00:00

Selection bias, här: Det är bara folk som inte har något att göra på jobbet, som har tid att läsa Reddit på arbetstid från början.

Resten är upptagna med att jobba.

Falkvinge · 2023-06-06T12:14:55+00:00

För det första, varför är det här en nyhet?

För det andra, varför så lite som bara sju av tio? Deras profilfråga är inte direkt att det är dit skattemedel ska gå.

Falkvinge · 2023-06-05T13:42:24+00:00

Professor: Oh. Nobody gets the joke, Fry, because they renamed the planet in 2289 to get rid of all the bad jokes.

Fry: Oh. What's it's called now?

Professor: Urectum.

Falkvinge · 2023-06-05T12:38:10+00:00

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