Comment Re: Meh (Score 4, Funny) 62
That's the problem with randomness. You can't never be sure
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Comment Which movie is this? (Score 1) 138
Which movie is this? âoePlanet of the Apesâ or âoe28 Days Laterâ? I need to prepare myself
Comment to have the answer 'no' translated (Score 1) 132
That is, "no"
Comment Ireland forced to raise taxes by EU (Score 0) 189
Apple and Ireland appealed the decision in 2019
- Ireland: "We don't want to apply taxes"
- EU: "You are forced to charge taxes!"
Comment Advice from a high inflation country (Score 1) 261
Advice from a high inflation country. Stop producing them, and mandate that payments can be rounded down if nor the customer or the store have pennies
Submission + - Linux 6.10 Honors One Last Request By Hans Reiser 1
DVega writes: ReiserFS lead developer and convicted murderer Hans Reiser a few months back wrote letters to be made public apologizing for his social mistakes and other commentary. In his written communications he also made a last request for ReiserFS in the Linux kernel
“Assuming that the decision is to remove [ReiserFS] V3 from the kernel, I have just one request: that for one last release the README be edited to add Mikhail Gilula, Konstantin Shvachko, and Anatoly Pinchuk to the credits, and to delete anything in there I might have said about why they were not credited. It is time to let go.”
Comment In other news (Score 1) 495
In other news, 23 scuba divers were arrested for hate crimes
Comment In other news (Score 1) 135
Google Maps still ahead of Apple Maps in 96.9 Percent of the US
Comment The Measure of a Man (Score 2) 74
Comment Re:Before a human walks on Mars... (Score 1) 285
There have been at least eleven births in Antarctica, eight at an Argentine base (including the first one) and three at a Chilean base.
Comment Re: Parallax. (Score 1) 425
If you get your lens closer enough of the phone to hide the camera you will get a fisheye view because now the lens is much closer to the center of the phone than the edges. You could correct this by post-processing the photo, but in the end you are still doing tricks in other to hide the camera
Comment Re: All lies (Score 2) 688
Firefox changed "A" to "X", and instead of saying: "A" was better because all these reasons, you are saying: Where is my "A"? How can I restore "A" again?
These are not valid objections.
Comment Re:Strange conclusion (Score 4, Funny) 333
A few centuries ago, we could have concluded that there is an absolute limit to human life span because at some point someone can't eat anymore while he lost all his teeth.
Do you know about soup?
Comment Cryptocurrency too useful to disappear (Score 0) 465
One way to evaluate the value of any given currency is to look at its usefulness.
Paul Krugman, a critic of Bicoin, said:
Gold’s value comes in part because it has nonmonetary uses, such as filling teeth and making jewelry; paper currencies have value because they’re backed by the power of the state, which defines them as legal tender and accepts them as payment for taxes. Bitcoins, however, derive their value, if any, purely from self-fulfilling prophecy...
But what Mr. Krugman doesn't realize is that cryptocurrencies offer a unique advantage over other kind of payments. Instant, unblockable, long distant, anonymous money transfers. No other currency or payment method allows that.
Let's see some possible uses:
- You are a gay man in Uganda. You want to make a donation to an organization defending homosexual rights without disclosing your sexual preferences to the government.
- Some whistleblower revealed some corrupt/shade practices about your government. The government immediately blocks any financial money transfers to that site
- You want to buy any service or intangible asset (eg. porn, software, data) without the transaction recorded in your credit card and without revealing your identity
For the first time it is now possible to do these things. And these things are too valuable to disappear. Cryptocurrencies are here to stay.
Comment The Earth Is Round (p < 0.05) (Score 4, Insightful) 124
There is a classic article by Jacob Cohen on this subject.
Also there is a simpler analysis of the above article
