A word to the unwise is insufficient. https://www.paulgraham.com/word.html
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A word to the unwise is insufficient. https://www.paulgraham.com/word.html
Source?
You might be surprised by the tremendous amount of value in AI posts. AI considers context NI doesn't.
> haven't seen a use case but crypto yet.
BTC is up 500%+ since 2 years ago. This looks like a use case to me. It maintained purchasing power better than stocks and bonds.
This comment read to me like AI slop.
No way? You studied this personally and can prove it?
Transaction Fees On Bitcoin Lightning Network Are 1,000 Times Cheaper Than Visa And MasterCard
Nothing more? Proof-Of-Work wasn't innovative?
With fiat you have high risk of losing 50% of USD's purchasing value within 2 years, which already happened, and which is not far from being robbed, as have happened to millions of people too.
Accurate data illuminate a lot of things.
Compared to that for energy consumption, Bitcoin is superior really.
I want to build an app. Not to enter an email in a textbox.
Phind user for ~2 years.
Why not publish the invention on a blog?
Why not keep the invention a secret?
Since there isn't proof that such computers don't exist, the answer is: wrong.
What could have prevented this failure?
Cloudflare's software could have included a check that refused to generate the feature file if it's size was higher than the limit.
A testcase could have caught this.
I also have the same questions I had 48 days ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45364282
How would fake content not be able to fake the proof?
What's to prevent fake content from generating cryptographically signed photos and videos that embed a JSON manifest with the same characteristics as this service?
I won't download it to see how it works.
1. After talking to the company recruiter.
2. After the interview, not hearing anything back for more than a month.
3. Before the interview process, sending a resume and not getting back an automated email that says we got your email, or an email that says we're no longer hiring for this position, or we hired, or whatever. How am I supposed to write a cover letter that the job post suggests without knowing if the job is a ghost job that doesn't actually hire?
Some of the options don't show at all, I get a blank screen. Coming from Tor.
Good idea!