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Here's your seemingly month reminder that there is only one cryptocurrency. Bitcoin.

NFTs are epitome of tulip mania. Bitcoin, while it does increase in value due to low supply, is the only secure and actually fair escape hatch to the global monetary system and holds value globally. Proof of Stake, and every single coin below Bitcoin, copied from Bitcoin, are similar to fiat and centralized. Ethereum is the worst of the bunch and is scamming millions.

This is the only reasonable comment made in the top 30 I see here. The rest arguing pedantically about politics, why? China is censoring, don't trust and use their phones. It's this simple. Why must most of you build up political facades just to comment on bad phones? Start from only truth.

Came back hours later after work and browsed levels.fyi a bit, I do see these total compensation levels specifically for FAANGs but misunderstood as you saying it was not for a FAANG and was a base salary. Probably just my understanding. I can see $500k-$1m for a FAANG with base/stock option/tenure/bonus.

Why not let us all in on a little secret and actually tell us what position and what certifications would be expected and required for this unicorn $500k job title? I know plenty of principle engineers, many of which are 10xers who make nowhere near this salary at all. So do tell a little bit.

To be very clear, to me the NSA or UAE NESA are one in the same. I wasn't pointing out one side being better than the other. He went from one, to another. NO government has any moral high ground, or character in my book. A state is a state. A state seeks to control and manipulate it's populace and others for it's own means. Period. And any government employee doing something as "just a job" for a state which infringes on any rights of a citizen is in the same book to me. For example, an IRS worker isn't any better than an NSA. One is spying on your finances and stealing your money, the other is surveiliing in the name of whatever hot-button lie of the month/year is up next. CSAM today!

Bingo. This is essentially the "PR" cover story that all ousted government employees seem to use once they're caught out. "Oh, I didn't realize I was even working for a murderous regime! I liked the paycheck though!"

>Article about AS8003

Entire comment thread is irrelevant bikeshedding.

So today, the low priority (and for the past few weeks) has been sitting at 6-7 satoshi per vByte. If you do not understand and watch the blocks to realize you can simply set to around 3-4 sats/vB and get in within 2-3 blocks when a block comes along with merely a few hundred transactions in it, sure you're going to pay about 65-75 cents. But I'll pay 10 cents and still get in, while you pay 75 cents. It's not zealotry to tell the truth about using Bitcoin regularly and those that use Bitcoin all understand the fees have been 10-75 cents max all year long. My own sources don't back me up? Anyone using Bitcoin at least once or twice per week the past solid 9 months can attest that transaction fees have been floating from 3-8 sats/vB and you can comb through ALL the blocks you want to figure it out. Or don't figure it out. You're here to spread FUD quite clearly, anyhow.

The fee was NEVER once $62 per tx in ALL of April, I sent numerous transactions all that month long for mere cents.

https://mempool.space/ https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/bitcoin-median_transact...

And considering I use Bitcoin frequently, and I'm constantly, on a weekly basis sending on chain for 5 cents, 10 cents max. I'm in within a couple blocks, every single time. You are straight up spreading FUD.

100% BULLSHIT. The fees on Bitcoin, on chain, have been less than 75 cents the entire year of 2021. The average tx on chain the past 9 months has been about 10-15 cents. Unless you stand here trying to tell everyone that 10 cents is a crazy transaction fee. Quit lying, or better yet quit spreading FUD purposely.

Actually physically go and affect change, rather than talking emptily on the internet?

Seems a silly question to even ask such a thing.

Alex Jones was never right wing, but has continually been tarred with being so by anxious liberal mobs. He was really anti Bush, and across partisan lines has always been against anything that could be construed as authoritarian.

I just want to be able to occasionally read a few tweets with no required login or account. Just the same with Instagram and similar, I just won't use it and I'll forget about it. I guess Twitter is next. No, I've never had a Twitter account. I don't have a Facebook account.

Division and confusion, and mixing of terms are direct strings of state and corporate control.

It's not fear though. Just watch how within the next five years or so encryption gets back doored. Mass surveillance is fully instated. Social credit score is implemented, and only state authorized programs may be installed upon approval to mobile devices and proprietary operating systems. Soon we will see The Ministry of Truth implemented. The past couple years the state is only after more power. Or, you can ignore reality and keep acting like everything is just normal and ok. Just as the continuous Middle-Eastern wars are designed, inflation will continue to increase to push all the middle class and lower into abject poverty and despotism is not very far away after that. Continuing to do these things slowly while dividing and confusing the mass of the public. This is no conspiracy whatsoever because this is exactly what is happening right this very moment. The most state power can be grabbed today via surveillance programs like that of the NSA/CIA and these false CSAM implementations "for the protection of the children." This is what the state has wanted, in every state, for 2,000 years. Increased government power and watch only goes one direction. What is very sad for me to see the past 20 years in tech is that if this is done slowly over decades and via confusion it seems very easy to get the mass of the non-thinking public to agree to illegal search and seizure, and to give up all freedoms and rights under a false guise of security.

"Regardless of popular sanction, war is mass murder. Conscription is slavery, and taxation is robbery. The libertarian in short, is almost completely the child in the fable, pointing out insistently that the emperor has no clothes. Throughout the ages, the emperor has had a series of psuedo-clothes provided for him by the nation's intellectual caste. In past centuries, the intellectuals informed the public that the state or it's rulers were divine. Or at least, clothed in divine authority and therefore what might look to the naive and untutored eye as despotism, mass murder, and theft on a grand scale, was only the divine working it's benign and mysterious ways in the body politic. —Murray Rothbard, For a New Liberty"

Good point, and well taken. I'm still on an 8Plus though.

And I already do, but as a default standard I would just much rather see a phone large enough to never need iCloud but of course I didn't address the other issues that will now come from a proprietary phone. I will make good on buying a Librem 5 in the interim and throw the iPhone right in the dumpster though if they push forward with on device scanning and such. I never leave GPS turned on, I don't give any apps access to such features, and I buy phones outright in cash and put them on prepaid from the start. This is not good enough. If the next set of surveillance features are scanning messages, photos, videos on personal devices then it's nothing but a rented device and the only option are custom fully open source devices.

Fuck the cloud. Offer 256 and 512GB iPhones and up and give a feature set to entirely and permanently disable cloud function. Save that, and I'll throw my iPhone in the God damn trash. I'll use a raspberry Pi or flip phone if I have to do so.

Exactly. While this guy sits in his high tower and consumes energy using his air conditioning (WASTE), owns a refrigerator to keep food (WASTE), and looks down on those working more hours. He sits and shitposts on HN using, gasp... electrical WASTE from his useless WASTE device. Breathing up oxygen(WASTE). You can see that anyone opposing virtuous view is a total exploitative threat actor. /s

Oh, you've taken on less work hours to enjoy your life? Maybe others are able to view that as a waste. Quit stretching things so much that you paint __everyone else__ as a threat or enemy.

"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me 156x in Ethereum and uh..."

Good ol' totally centralized inept Ethereum platform strikes again! Always good for some belly laughs.

It's centralized, it's basically a CBDC 1.0.

It's worse than fiat.

The CB1 receptors actually shrink up and recede with long term use and the effects change with aging. For many long term smokers, this long term heavy use does bring more anxiety. Stronger THC profiles with less CBN, CBG, or CBD in the flower being smoked, coupled with the terpene profiles present in the flower also have widely varying effects. Some smoke a kush strain that is heavy in caryophylene, myrcene, and/or linalool and feel a relaxing effect. For some, couch locking, sedative effects cause more anxiety. While still for others, sometimes lemony strains full of limonene and pinene causes more anxiety but for others the limonene gives one an energetic and uplifting buzz without the anxiety. It's also a psychoactive (THC) and so similar to hallucinogens, for some it's what anxieties are already in the head that amplifies anxiety once high.

Unless you dive deep into the latest chemical/terpene profiles or live in a legal state you may not have heard that much of the type of high actually comes from a compound effect of the terpenes present and level of THC to CBD to CBG to CBN. Every single strain and plant to plant should be thought of as a concoction of sorts.

What I have really mentally struggled with during the pandemic is this existential questioning of "What will I think, looking back at my life if it turns out I have a shortened life and what I have to show for it is that I've just sat at a computer 10+ hours a day my entire adult life?" This questioning has made me fully doubt everything. I certainly am not living life to the fullest as I'd always dreamed that I would. There's always the promise of retirement, savings, and traveling blah blah after your 50s/60s, but you can't do anything fun at that age(arguably, where I'm coming from here) and there is no promise we'll even be alive next year. Feel like I'm tricked into working my life away on stuff I do not care about any longer and spent so long to get here. Now I'm trying to switch to things I actually enjoy doing and figure it out. But, what if?

The average salary of a firefighter in the United States is $52k. Teachers average $15/hour. No clue where you're getting these outrageous figures other than if you're a Californian and think anything about California is "normal" in the sense of the rest of the United States. If 30+ states pay firefighters $50k, and teachers make $15/hr in 40 states... actually makes California look like what it is, a massive bubble.

$200k+ yearly salary is in no way at all, middle-class.

Good deal. Maybe they'll have to go back to the drawing board and quit making spinoffs of remakes, of remakes. And these lame duck "superhero" movies. Puke.

Here's where I'd like to insert the friendly reminder that all plants are living beings. You, as a living being must eat other living beings. Plants are intelligent and pass information to eachother via the web of mycelium and other unknown ways. Morality about eating only living plants, vs eating meats has always been flawed. As were the arguments about eating pescatarian and only eating fish because they "are not intelligent and can't feel pain." Don't fool yourself. You are eating living beings and you are not on some goofy moral high horse.

And again, Telegram __does__ have e2e 1-to-1 secret chats. It's just that the group chats do not. This doesn't stop you from starting a secret chat with each and every person you'd like to chat with e2e.

I think you, like many of us are tired of computers but reluctant to admit it after all these years of forcing the smiles. Time to switch to an entirely different and active? career.

Clickbait stub article. You aren't "quitting" by laterally moving from one slave job for an employer into another one remotely. Now, you're just enslaved in your own home! I've been working remotely for nearly 2 years now and work FAR more lately from home than the office. Quitting, the way that all these articles are making it sound would be changing your way of life. Quitting an office dev job to start working for another employer with deadlines and the same dev work from home really isn't quitting and it's just moving laterally into the same job.