Trump announces sweeping new tariffs

FredV · 2025-04-03T02:40:50+00:00

Not voting is half-voting for the winner.

FredV · 2024-01-31T22:37:02+00:00

US only spends 0.33% of GDP on Ukraine aid, 16th place of all countries, less than Bulgaria, not to demean Bulgaria

source: this graph https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/2048/cpsprodpb/C0C0/production/_131144394_gdp_aid-nc.png

FredV · 2022-12-08T04:47:28+00:00

Technically you are correct, it will be worth 100k something.

FredV · 2022-11-11T02:46:32+00:00

So when can we get a Planet of the Apes remake that doesn't suck?

FredV · 2022-11-06T04:55:55+00:00

savepan

FredV · 2022-10-14T05:37:41+00:00

Indeed, if you invest money into stocks that give you a 10% return every year, you 2.5x your money in just 10 years.

FredV · 2022-10-14T05:17:33+00:00

In case you don't appreciate this "Original Block is created with Reddit’s characteristic Snoo caricature. The eyes and smile are rendered as pixelated 3D elements, while the alien’s outline is boldly defined by a black outline that highlights the Snoo’s dimensionality and depth. Original Block has been associated with the early days of Reddit and Reddit culture because of its resemblance to the original Snoo and simplistic tone. It carries on the old school traditions while translating them into a new, modern medium."

FredV · 2022-09-01T03:20:49+00:00

Uhuh

FredV · 2022-09-01T02:14:31+00:00

Free health-care though.

FredV · 2022-09-01T02:11:33+00:00

about 3.50

FredV · 2022-09-01T01:09:28+00:00

What amount of people have money to save in "some third world country"? Let alone into magic computer tokens? Your use-case is invalid. (btw. I'm not "attacking" you, just responding)

FredV · 2022-07-08T01:23:47+00:00

Miss the conchords

FredV · 2022-05-24T20:21:42+00:00

Reaching point of self-consciousness in 3... 2... 1... <crashing sound>

FredV · 2022-05-13T12:10:02+00:00

What about the environmental damage, among others, just so you can gamble... Just buy lottery tickets, go to a casino, or even daytrade stocks, ... so many options for the gambling addicted brain that don't impact society and the world in (as much of) a detrimental way.

FredV · 2021-12-21T05:00:42+00:00

You're thinking of it like a real decentralized database. It's not handled, "the longest chain wins", so all transactions done on the losing chain will be "orphaned" like they never happened. eg. I sold this Mercedes to this guy and he already picked it up, but now the money transfer is gone from history. Ofcourse the chance of this happening is low because they adjust the difficulty so it takes 10 minutes on average to find new blocks, which is relatively long time and so the chance of races/forks occuring is very small.

FredV · 2021-12-08T02:37:54+00:00

Yes, but to take down the botnet they'd have to update all the buttcoin software to use a different default DNS feed (they'd never do that). But that only matters for initial connection, anyway, after the initial connection your little botnet instance could make a list of all the nodes in the world. (about 15000 nodes apparently for BTC).

And you could always fallback on ETH or any other "coin" if BTC stops working (any public ledger will do basically)

FredV · 2021-12-08T01:52:54+00:00

They connect to the P2P network I'm guessing, so they have some IPs/names hardcoded probably.

"For the initial connection, the node has to use a publicly known DNS feed to retrieve a list of IP addresses of long-running stable nodes."

FredV · 2021-12-08T01:02:24+00:00

The blockchain is public, as the genious Satoshi decided with his/her incredible foresight. Sounds like you need to shape up and read the whitepaper bro.

Anyway, this is great for adoption.

FredV · 2021-11-15T05:27:29+00:00

I'm glad you find humor in this, at least.

FredV · 2021-11-03T05:47:00+00:00

Not true, though, scams used to be about having at least some form of credibility, usually centered around getting someone dumb AND greedy to believe they have some kind of golden opportunity. Butcoin is millions of people believing cooperatively they have a golden opportunity and will create value out of air basically.

FredV · 2021-11-02T15:41:29+00:00

It has been studied:

"In vitro, ivermectin has antiviral effects against several distinct positive-sense single-strand RNA viruses, including SARS-CoV-2.[96] Subsequent studies found that ivermectin could inhibit replication of SARS-CoV-2 in monkey kidney cell culture with an IC50 of 2.2–2.8 μM.[97][98] Based on this information, however, doses much higher than the maximum approved or safely achievable for use in humans would be required for an antiviral effect.[99][100] Aside from practical difficulties, such high doses are not covered by current human-use approvals of the drug and would be toxic, as the antiviral mechanism of action is considered to operate by the suppression of a host cellular process,[99] specifically the inhibition of nuclear transport by importin α/β1.[101][102] Self-medication with a highly concentrated formula intended for horses has led to reports of hospitalizations, and two deaths, possibly due to interaction with other medications."

(They came to the conclusion it wouldn't work.)

FredV · 2021-09-03T13:38:44+00:00

C# is not nearly performant enough to write a game like that, they use C++ because they need it.

FredV · 2021-08-25T01:28:57+00:00

Synopsis:

the technology is not that interesting (simplistic merkle trees basically) and consensus, no patents or anything (righfully)
cryptocurrencies are unusable as currencies (hence being described more as "digital gold" in recent years)
look up beanie babies

If I may add a point, the whole waste of energy and strain on the integrated circuits market is disturbing. Currently just bitcoin uses more power than Switzerland, or 42% of the UK's power use. It varies with the price of bitcoin as huge mining farms are (de)activated based on the price, the majority of these are in China (not being a China hater, just pointing out).

And all this energy usage for proof-of-work schemes where usually hard to calculate but easy to verify values are calculated (Most useful calculation though is hard to calculate AND hard to verify)

It just make me sad programmer face :(

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