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antocv··on Can progressives be convinced that genetics matters?
Yes everybody can learn to code and get rich if they just put their will into it.
antocv··on Apple says photos in iCloud will be checked by child abuse detection system
They dont want competition.
antocv··on Stupidity is a specific cognitive failing
It was still pretty stupid to not see that situation is the situation in 1915 and calling for a cease-fire and peace talks, stop right there, for the benefit of all sides.
antocv··on The Bitcoin mine with its own power plant
Why only carbon, why not tax any polluters?
antocv··on FSF-calls for white papers on philosophical and legal questions around Copilot
A Cosinger would be illegal unethical, profit killing, anti democracy and ultimately anti our very own freedom to own intellectual property. /s

The same difference as allowing Google to prosper while beating down ThePirateBay, another search engine.

antocv··on Ethereum dev Virgil Griffith back in jail after checking $1M Coinbase account
Are you talking about the US, UK or NK?
antocv··on Ethereum dev Virgil Griffith back in jail after checking $1M Coinbase account
Hilarious, land of freedom, justice muh democrazy. Hilarious.
antocv··on Air France cancels flights as Russia withholds clearance
The narrative is "that was different and totally valid course of action while we must now keep pointing fingers at Belarus look at how bad they are" and "disregard that Spain apologized to Bolivia".
antocv··on Belarus 'diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist', opposition says
Ryanair plane wasnt grounded by anbody, they just chose to land in Belarus.
antocv··on Belarus 'diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist', opposition says
This is literally not a whatabout since we are discussing the same actions here, forcing an airplane down and breaking international laws, norms and traditions.

Let us try to decide if some of the posters here are hypocrites or not.

antocv··on What happens to all the dead electric-car batteries?
> so they probably didn't have enough time to think about this

How can they not have time to do their job? What are they busy with, getting away with bribes?

antocv··on Ethereum staking – More sustainable crypto
Same can be said why ETH PoW wont be displaced. Too much is already invested in it. Move to a different project altogether, if you want a sustainable future.
antocv··on Ethereum staking – More sustainable crypto
Why wait for ETH when we already have a better sustainable currency, more secure and which supports ETH contracts out of the box? Avalanche.
antocv··on Ethereum staking – More sustainable crypto
You cant kill a PoW chain, see Dogecoin. Sad but it is what it is.
antocv··on Ethereum staking – More sustainable crypto
You can stake with Avalanche (AVAX) today for a smaller price which will be decreased in near future. ETH like all other classical nakamoto algorithms have a limit on number of participants in consensus. Avalanche has no such limit on decentralization without sacrificing security or throughput.
antocv··on Ethereum staking – More sustainable crypto
Miners will rebel and continue mining, some will mine on an ETH fork and others switch to other coins. GPUs will not be returned to gamers anytime soon.
antocv··on On the Instability of Bitcoin Without the Block Reward [pdf]
I hate the entire cryptospace and all the damn shilling of every shitcoin in every corner of the internet. I hate it with a burning passion, I hate all the shitcoins which overpromise and deliver shitty SQL servers.

If it is good enough you and others will be able to find it, without anyone needing to name-drop or shill it. If it isint easy to find, well it isnt and deserves to die. But please if/when you find it, dont shill it, dont mention it.

antocv··on On the Instability of Bitcoin Without the Block Reward [pdf]
The way to understand this, ask if PoS would have been bitgold released in 2009.

As bitcoin wasnt valued in 2009-2011, its value in USD was basically zero. Yet the cost of attacking the PoW even during that time was the cost of electricity which was higher than zero.

PoS, if it was released in 2009 instead of PoW, the cost to attack it would have been zero, as the price of bitcoin was.

There is a solution to this but none of the shitcoins have it implemented, instead chosing to give the creators all the power and majority stake.

antocv··on Termux is an Android terminal emulator and Linux environment app with no rooting
Battery usage is basically zero, since I schedule it to run during evenings and night-time when it is charging with the termux-scheduler-thingie. Android wakes the script up, when those conditions are met, no battery waste. The script when waken up - it checks if the file left over from last time is older than 1h, if so continues to sync, otherwise exits.

Setup of a ssh connection is similar to https, rsync exchange of rsync is usually "all good" and thats it. Rsync otherwise is a very efficient but not very documented protocol network-bandwidth-usage-wise.

Mesh? Syncthing, tried it, sucked for reasons I cant remember now. Nextcloud - had it for years, mind you I was contributed to nextcloud the android app, fixing many bugs, but still it caused me data loss / picture loss. Which I only found out after implementing the rsync solution and seeing OMG rsync found so many pictures Nextcloud was supposed to keep in sync for the past year but it just bugged over.

antocv··on Termux is an Android terminal emulator and Linux environment app with no rooting
The thing with these apps is, not your suggestion in particular, is its not ever as it was 20 years ago "use this app it does this", now it is, "use this app it will maybe ask to ship your data to NSA or China, ask for account registering signup, for sure it will make some network calls to who knows where and include adtracking and other nastiness, and will nag about some license or buy-up".

Termux, ssh and rsync. Thats it. It works. I tell my phone, try to rsync when its been charging for at least 5 minutes and its evening time. Hurray.

antocv··on Termux is an Android terminal emulator and Linux environment app with no rooting
Termux, Termux-api, there is a termux job scheduler thing. Also rsync and openssh on it.

Then you copy the ssh public key from the phone to your "home-server", and setup a job scheduler to run rsync - now you have better than nextcloud syncing of your phones pictures/what-have-you with your home-server.

antocv··on Animation of how bridges were built in Central Europe in the Middle Ages [video]
Exhibit 1.

All the worlds information at its fingertips yet it still perpetuates a misunderstanding.

antocv··on Ask HN: Video recommendation platform as a way to compete with YouTube?
> To circumvent the fake title/bait & switch practices, you could allow users to flag videos as misleading, vote them as spam, etc. Put the number of flags next to the video, add the ability to not even see flagged videos.

And who would flag the bad users?

This just increases slightly the discomfort of bad guys, but does not prevent it at all. Instead they will flag competitive videos and such.

Nobody has solved "decentralized trust" yet, if ever.

antocv··on Climate Disruption Is Now Locked In. The Next Moves Will Be Crucial
> Even if we intentionally blow a nuclear power plant, it will not be an extinction event, not even close

The parent commenter did not call for 1 more nuclear power plant.

Increasing the scale of reactors to "replace fossil fuels", increases the chances, that some of them even a dozen would cause environmental destruction for which no known method of cleanup exists.

May I call you lightgreen and other fission-proponents to move to Chernobyl or Fukushima and live there as an example to others?

antocv··on NASA Detects Lattice Confinement Fusion
Pyroelectric fusion may also be of interest to you https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyroelectric_fusion
antocv··on Climate Disruption Is Now Locked In. The Next Moves Will Be Crucial
Yes, lets hurry up this extinction event.
antocv··on What vertical farming and ag startups don't understand about agriculture
Hipsters and eco-paying-premium people dont have money, not even close to the money provided to vertical ag tech farms.

Capital intensive to develop the automatic reaping bots, which will also cost more to operate compared to current "pour diesel into tractor and pull the earth up and shake it to extract so many potatoes". Destruction just costs less.

antocv··on What vertical farming and ag startups don't understand about agriculture
Hey man no way, you have been living my dream!

First I wanted to just grow berries, then I realized, pesticides and so on, so add another plant to fight that attacker instead of pesticide, then add another plant to protect that plant by being attractive for those other bugs which kill the bad bugs. Then I realized, this would eventually be a forrest with just more berries and edible fruits than normal. Thats where the problem appeared, reaping it would be hard to scale, indeed even planting such a forest would be hard to scale with current mechanical means.

I have a few designs for robot-like planting and pickery, yet all I currently have in realization is 2sqm dirt with potatos, carrots, strawberries and another pot of blueberries. :-/

Then another depressing realization, even if I made this on 100ha of land and produced a lot of nice fruits, berries, roots, the pay-off in money would probably not be worth it.

antocv··on Ask HN: Dear open source devs how do you sustain yourself
> The rich aren't obligated to hand you money

> use your own money to support open s...

Why should he feel obligated to support others?

antocv··on Ask HN: Dear open source devs how do you sustain yourself
Sad and similar response from both of them, ie "you shouldnt need money"

This is a major failure of free and open source, not having a business plan at all while those who do have a business plan, Google, AWS, Microsoft are reeking in the billions in profit from the free labor provided by foss-developers.

Why cant developers of the software (say coreutils) make profits on it? Why cant developers put constraints on the softwares usage, ie you arent allowed to use it unless you pay. Pay to buy software freedoms model.

Meanwhile, Microsoft/Google is using the same software to make a profit and it says to its customers "pay monthly to be allowed to use this foss". Thats all fine. Strange.

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