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Hey dang can I please ask you something? I tried to leave a message on another thread but you did not reply.

No need to, I quit. Clearly HN is what it once was. There is too much difference in values with other participants now.

No bad feelings, I think it is for the best.

Would you mind please deleting all my posts and comments?

I do not see how to do that. I will delete my account after that. Alternatively, you can do it yourself if you prefer.

No.

This is NOT capitalism. By putting the value to the product and the shareholders ABOVE the stupid policy, this person is showing discernment.

By finding a politically correct way to signal this to shareholders like me, this person deserve a promotion and an immediate bonus.

1. Because I want.

2. Because a few years ago, I could have, but right now, I can't because I'm fully retired of the software world to learn about restaurants.

3. Because by default, I take the side of the Chinese employee.

If the manager is innocent, he certainly has nothing to fear.

> I live in a new york. Our subway is clean

Litteraly where I stopped believing you.

It's dirty. Only DC has a somehow-clean subway, which stands out as a nice exception to the rule.

Evidence is the cleanliness of public transportation, the derelict public bikes and other 2 wheel battery assisted devices, the derelict laptops in school that provide them to student...

Maybe it's just a big anti communist plot, or maybe it's just human nature to not take care about things you do not own.

This is not a technological issue, but network effects: using SHA256 right now would make DOGE vulnerable to double spend attack.

If it reaches the top 3, it can switch to SHA256. For now, an usual algorithm is the best bet.

Anyone who has seen how public owned goods turn out would realize how much of a bad idea it is: for a budget similar to the DoD, you may get wait lines like in a DMV, with as much administrative fiddling as the NASA, with a quality of service as good as the DHS. If you are lucky, you may get as many choices as their are public transportation option in the midwest.

Thanks but no thanks.

I don't personally care. What I say is the audience will find a place to gather - if not on WSB, elsewhere.

There is a community, and a zeitgest. A large part attends WSB.

When these redditors will want to keep talking about their new fun project that is making the headlines, either the WSB mods will make exceptions again, or a new sub will be created.

> $1 Doge is a very strong psychological target for the retail fan crowd

Yes. Mark my words: the WSB crowd will make the USD/DOGE parity happen.

I've said that before (maybe not here except in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25969948 ), and I stick with my prediction: after they found how GME was game, their next logical step was going to be crypto.

The only true question is where DOGE will stabilize: below $2 or above.

It's a great crypto: to copy paste from an earlier comment, DOGE has the same UI as BTC as it is based on the same software (so just as secure and easy to add if you already support BTC payments), but with more digits (no need for satoshis as the smaller unit), lowest prices (people do not want to own fractional number of a coin like 1/100 of a BTC, they want integers), widely available on most exchange due to having existed for a long time...

There is a strong usecase, at least as strong as LTC. I see it as a strong contender for the 3rd crypto, as a medium of exchange.

Also, the community has refused before to reduce the emission rate (which would advantage holders), meaning they remain open minded.

Given that and their past involvement with various charities DOGE has all my support: when it started increasing 2 months ago due to the WSB crowd, I deployed a few full nodes to give a hand as people were complaining how long it took to sync the full chain.

Dogecoin promises just that, and could become a nice medium of exchange.

> BTC's price went up and it still can't be used as cash

No coiners as usual seem to ignore that Yens or Euros (or even gold bars!) can't be used as cash in the US.

To all the people complaining they can't use BTC as cash to buy food or clothes: give me just 1/10 of a bitcoin (or 5000 Euros or ...) and I will give you food (a good meal!) and clothes (I'll even throw in free shoes!)

The same offer applies for a gold bar!

Good take.

Here:

- X=neural network geometric configuration,

- Y=individual synapses due to the various neurotransmitters,

- Z=cytoskeleton (already suspected to play a role)

Yes, most of HN normies can't understand crypto, but more worriying is that a few people in the business seem to have a problem with DOGE.

All that matters is that it fills a need and keep growing. I am thinking of getting back in crypto, because I see a very bright future for DOGE as a 3rd coin: BTC for store of value, ETH for ??something?? (smart contracts), and a 3rd one as an medium of exchange not tethered to fiat.

I do not buy the argument of USDT or something stuck to fiat as a modern MOE. XRP had a half believable story (if used for international remittance).

Now LTC/BCH/DOGE are fighting for the same spot.

> It doesn't matter to me if the mascot for a coin is a literal butthole.

Even if I'm pro crypto, /r/Buttcoin is my favorite place online . I never start a day without reading buttcoin, for the quality of the various analysis, as opposed to the "it's just tulips and beanie babies" I get from HN

... which itself is extremely interesting if you leave aside its "dog" icon: it has the same UI as BTC, it is based on the same software, but with more digits (no need for satoshis as the smaller unit), lowest prices (people do not want to own fractional number of a coin like 1/100 of a BTC, they want integers), widely available on most exchange due to having existed for a long time...

There is a strong usecase, at least as strong as LTC.

The amount of insight and self reflection in your reply tell me you are now ready to succeed.

> I spent my life wanting to be just like him. Plaques and appreciation awards all over the house

That was your mistake: trying to please people. Life is not about being appreciated by others.

I would even say it is a measure of being wrong, because if you are appreciated by others, it means you got a sucker bargain, exerting way too much effort for too little gains.

> My uncle started a very simple sales business, spent 5 years doing a lot for a little, and then 35 years doing very little for a lot.

That's the idea! I bet he must not be very popular or appreciated by people.

> But what does success look like on the other side? It sucks

From the other angle, it sucks too. I am like your uncle: I see people destroying their lives by refusing to listen. I tried to help, more than once, only to see them laugh at me but fail while I succeeded.

I do not care much about the laughing part. I care more about the failing part. Because it is sad to see that people you want to see succeed keep failing, again and again.

I've tried to engage people - I think a year ago I was saying the same thing: buy just enough BTC than you can afford to lose, and you will eventually get a nice car. No more, no less, as the time of much larger opportunities are unfortunately in the past

Can't find it right now, only these similar conversation:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25320168

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25286566

Most hackers are too emotionally invested. They are unable to say "I was wrong".

BTW, Brian vision (replacing CC) will eventually happen, but with 2nd layers or stablecoins which have only recently become good enough, and were battle tested through the 2020 crash.

Very interesting, I'll give it a try!

Having more options is better than having less, so I don't see supplements ever going away - if anything, I believe they will grow in places where they are not as big yet (say, EU) and where there is no competition (so not in Asia due to TCM)

> The quality of discussion on HN about crypto is woefully out of touch.

Given most of the comments I read, I'd say HN is aging out - like facebook median age > snapchat > tiktok

Now I wonder what the replacement is - it must already exist! We just don't know about it yet.

N Acetyl Cysteine is a supplement that work wonders for respiratory infections, and against acetaminophen poisoning

Magnesium Glycinate is a supplement that works wonders for falling asleep - and likewise for melatonin

And that's just top of my head. I'm quite certain some doctors would like to ban supplements, but I think it may be due more to their desires to remove competition from the market

It seems tasty.

Can you get that in the US?

So Star Wars was right, and this is how freedom dies: with an applause.

Some of us try to start small businesses on the side, just for fun. I'm retired, but I do. I assume active devs do the same - buying a restaurant or a bar that suffered due to covid can be quite cheap at the moment.

Now that's been said, going through the person posting history with a fine comb like you did strikes me as rude.

I do not understand the opposition to bringing salt marshland species (at the bottom of the article)

The change will happen anyway - all we can do is speed up the environment adaptation by bringing in plants that will eventually find their way there anyway:

> A more radical approach would be to introduce marsh plants that are salt-tolerant in threatened zones. This strategy is controversial because it goes against the desire to try to preserve ecosystems exactly as they are.

> But if forests are dying anyway, having a salt marsh is a far better outcome than allowing a wetland to be reduced to open water. While open water isn’t inherently bad, it does not provide the many ecological benefits that a salt marsh affords. Proactive management may prolong the lifespan of coastal wetlands, enabling them to continue storing carbon, providing habitat, enhancing water quality and protecting productive farm and forest land in coastal regions.

I have friends in Europe, and they told me there is ZERO commercial availability: they can't pay Dell, Lenovo, HP ... to get desktops or laptops with that layout.

Can you confirm?

I feel pride to see I'm not the only one doing this!

> “She was rolling on the ground, shouting"

She needs to learn to hold her liquor better.

I do not fully understand indeed, but I really appreciate both of your replies as it gives a different perspective that I did not consider.

The human body is wonderfully done: you then throw up.

It was a smelly flight however. Sorry, plane ground! Sorry, seat neighbours!

But it was funny when the stewardess asked my why I was sick: I just told the truth, I was drunk! What was she going to do anyway? Throw me out of the first class and into the main cabin?

> „But the customs made me throw it away before the return flight. I couldn’t even take a sip.”"

B.S.

Before a flight, a highly paid (given what they do) security theather monkey tried to demand that I forfeit an expensive bottle.

Knowing full well how it works in most countries, where the loots are split at the end of the day, I said "watch this", chugged it down, and voluntarily surrendered the now empty bottle.

At least I enjoyed it partly!

Even if later I did throw up during the flight, I prefer being sick than my luxury bottle being stolen by a security theater monkey.