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Hjfrf··on Welcome to Waifu Labs v2: How Do AIs Create?
The Pokemon Jinx was banned and redesigned, so it's offensive enough to some people.
Hjfrf··on Marak's GitHub account suspended after he erased his faker project
maxwellhill is suspected but not confirmed to be the same person as ghislaine.

They're also inactive for >1yr.

Important context for people who aren't going to read further.

Hjfrf··on Google fined €150M, Facebook €60M for for non-compliance with French legislation
What's the advantage over enforcement of Do-Not-Track?
Hjfrf··on Crypto: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Even that doesn't necessarily translate. What does +5 attack sword do in farmville?
Hjfrf··on Warning against storing passwords in Chrome after hackers target remote workers
I realise the Sun is not famous for responsible journalism.

Posting the name, feature list, and price of a specific malware tool in an article targeting non-technical readers is downright reckless though.

It reads like an ad.

Hjfrf··on Gameboy CT scan – design lessons learned
Firefox mobile moved the address bar to the bottom several months ago - it's good to see that being copied elsewhere too.

The bar at the top made sense for pc, but it's a clear improvement on mobile.

Hjfrf··on “Play-to-Earn” and Bullshit Jobs
Bullshit job from the OP is something more like high frequency trading or SEO.

There's not really a service that makes people happy, or a good being created.

It's just shuffling money around in a way that's net-negative for society.

Hjfrf··on A man who accidentally started an assassin hiring website
All you need is a security deposit from the assassins before they start taking jobs.

Plumbers already have a bond system like that, for example.

If there are enough hitmen, they can just pick up jobs near them.

It's not impossible logistically.

Hjfrf··on NFT Replicas: An app to mint a replica of virtually any NFT
In the current iteration, they don't solve that problem.

You still need a centralised entity to enforce ownership, making the blockchain redundant.

A future attempt might be better, maybe.

Hjfrf··on IBM and Samsung Unveil Semiconductor Breakthrough
The best part is that all the old ASICs go in the bin each time a performance improvement is found.
Hjfrf··on California is the only state to hide its spending – nearly $300B a year
The reason for pensions is that people don't generally invest enough money unless they legally have to.

Then the state is stuck picking up the bill for homelessness and healthcare and crime.

Hjfrf··on Oracle Giving Away 4-Core 24 GB Memory Ampere Instances
Nice. I assumed cryptocurrency fraudsters would stop these kinds of offerings for the near future.
Hjfrf··on Better CEO 'Taking Time Off Effective Immediately': Email
Big meeting with HR or CEO is completely normal.

Preferably followed up with various smaller meetings, but those aren't legally required everywhere.

Hjfrf··on Is Web3 Bullshit?
I only meant that coins are still being created for now, so the proportion of coins that a specific person owns vs the total is constantly falling, like in any inflationary currency.

If you measure current ownership as a percentage of final issued coins rather than current issued coins, then you've already priced in the inflation.

Hjfrf··on Is Web3 Bullshit?
Dogecoin is a copy+paste of bitcoin with a few config values changed.

That's why it shares the inflationary model.

The reason bitcoin is often described as deflationary is that many coins are lost, and the inflation is somewhat priced-in.

Hjfrf··on Is Web3 Bullshit?
Exchanges and stablecoin issuers are already involved in fractional reserve banking.

It's free money to them, why not?

Hjfrf··on Facebook risks meta flop, metaverse developers say
It's disappointing from reuters in particular

Is journalism now just taking somebody else's bad take and using couched language to imply but not state that it's true?

Hjfrf··on I moderate /r/kafka; people mistake it as a subreddit about kafka the product
Ibm is the worst for this.

I can't imagine a less searchable term than "I"

Hjfrf··on The Tinkerbell Griftopia
Nobody is using cryptocurrency as a currency, securities pricing is the only one that makes sense.

Net trade balance (as in fx) gives them no investment value either-it's called a discount curve for a reason.

Aside from that, there's stock to flow (lol) and technical analysis of volume/sentiment which are fine for day trading but ignore fundamentals.

How would you price them on fundamentals?

Hjfrf··on The Tinkerbell Griftopia
Try pricing any cryptocurrency in a discounted cash flow model.
Hjfrf··on Power Fx: open-source now available
Microsoft already offers several tools for that.

It feels like they're just throwing out new programming languages for no reason sometimes.

Hjfrf··on Taproot, Bitcoin’s long-anticipated upgrade, has activated
In the same paper they detail plans to sell shares of Chia network inc (of which Bram is CEO/chairman/owner) to retail investors through an IPO.

Selling coins or selling a company that holds coins. Whatever, it's all dumping.

Hjfrf··on Taproot, Bitcoin’s long-anticipated upgrade, has activated
Peer to peer on-chain transactions seem unkillable at this point.

Surely governments would target exchanges instead?

Without the dollars coming from retail investors, the value proposition for speculators disappears.

You could still trade bitcoin (slowly) at that point, but converting to fiat would be difficult.

Hjfrf··on Taproot, Bitcoin’s long-anticipated upgrade, has activated
Why comment "incorrect" on a factually true statement?

It's fine that you believe the dev is a nice person and will never dump on you, but they absolutely do hold a vast majority of issued chia.

Hjfrf··on Taproot, Bitcoin’s long-anticipated upgrade, has activated
The biggest problem with chia is still that Bram owns almost all of the tokens.

I see no reason to donate to his personal charity.

Hjfrf··on Ask HN: What do you think about the no-code movement?
I'm confused about the intended audience.

Power FX has a level of abstraction squeezed between MS's other options (excel formulae,power query M/DAX, Powershell, C#).

It gives the impression of a pet project rather than something users actually asked for.

Hjfrf··on REvil Ransom Arrest, $6M Seizure, and $10M Reward
You build a second layer.

All the hype benefits of pretending to use blockchain, without ever actually using it.

Hjfrf··on How profitable was/is tobacco?
Healthcare is the big one
Hjfrf··on Zillow to stop flipping homes, loses more than $550M, lays off 25% of staff
Developers could certainly do it.

A single padded first sale on a new development would be factored into offers. Classic wash trade.

Hjfrf··on The reports of Perl’s death have been greatly exaggerated
The list is based on search engine hits for "x programming".

That's probably fine for comparing c to c++ or perl. Searches for "scripting" or "coding" instead are not counted, which probably explains shell scripting below languages 20x less popular if you search by the name alone.

Powershell at ~40, bash not even top 50. You'd assume both are dead from this list.

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