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Also, didn't Hunter Biden work for Burisma?

Deezer is awesome. The HiFi subscription has a lot of content at FLAC quality.

Google is already on the governing council of Hedera Hashgraph, as well as Boeing, EFTPOS, IBM, LG,and many others.

If I never had to touch Microsoft Word ever again in my career, that will be nice.

I suffered severe burnout. Then medical episodes from the stress, during my extended leave (4 months). I quit while on leave and never stepped back into the office.

You need to be real with yourself. Is my job killing me?

If your job is the source of your stress, you need to leave. Find another workplace or job that doesn't suck.

Leaving a toxic workplace is the best decision you'll ever make.

Nukes won't fly. Nukes are only useful for deterrence. MAD doctrine is legit.

Cuban Missile Crisis, anyone?

I wonder how much energy YouTube or Facebook use compared to Bitcoin?

We could argue that Facebook and YouTube are only providing entertainment value. They don't do anything especially novel or provide critical infrastructure.

Rockets that deliver payloads into space are INCREDIBLY bad for the environment. But it provides critical services and infrastructure for now and the future.

Bitcoin provides a novel, decentralised, secure, electronic digital currency. It's being used for that purpose currently.

The FUD is unreal. We accept that certain use cases can persist and use tonnes of energy, but others we think is a crime against humanity.

Use of energy should not be a measure of shame on its own. What use case is it providing now and in the future for that energy usage?

The future will require a lot more energy for things we don't even know about yet. We need to ensure reliable renewable energy will provide for us now and in the future. We should not shut down new technologies just because it uses a lot of energy. When energy is cheap and clean and plentiful, we shouldn't worry about using it.

Nuclear Fusion reactor technology currently uses much more energy than it provides in output. But when that technology is viable it will help us to produce reliable and clean energy. Should we outlaw nuclear fusion because it uses shitloads of energy for no benefit (currently)?

So cash, wire/bank transfers, paypal have never been used for fraud?

I have news for you. Financial fraud existed even before the concept of what we know of modern money.

I would be confident to assert that pretty much all financial infrastructure and instruments have been used for fraud, historically.

Crypto does not have a monopoly on that and you know it.

HN hates cryptocurrency.

And yet, all the comments on this thread are about banks/paypal freezing funds or transactions.

Decentralised digital money does have value and a use case. It's interesting that most here don't see that this kind of thing would not happen with crypto.

I was a customer for 16 years until they decided I couldn't use their services anymore. I had to fill out a bunch of forms and provide a lot of info to a financial services company who'd had a massive breach. I no longer use PayPal.

Victorian Government gave him exemption. And prior to Novak arriving, the PM said it was "up to the states". Then he changed his mind within 24hrs.

As an Australian I am ashamed of our government's actions. Purely political theater to appease their domestic base. But it has backfired royally on them. I hope the polls reflect this.

Never, I like rolling releases.

Why not test with a stub? Issue would have been picked up in testing even without Stripe integration.

And what kind of testing was done prior to Prod deployment?

I got my position 2 months ago. I went through 4 interview stages. I was external to the org before I was hired. So yes I would pass an interview, because I did.

I always look for a very fundamental way of doing x. But SO questions and replies almost always are about a very very specific use case. It takes a lot of careful searching to find the one line of code I needed for my use case.

Yes yes yes, swanky new website. But does it whip the Llama's ass?

On 25mbps internet connection, not possible.

Maybe in 10-15 years I can meaningfully participate in the metaverse, providing local infrastructure catches up, or satellite internet like Starlink becomes available

Nice straw man.

Perfect illustration of stereotypical HN reaction to thing. Focus obsessively on small details and that dominates the conversation. Nice.

Where there is software, there are bugs.

It's not defeatist, it's reality.

You can test, but testing does not prove an absence of bugs. It just means your tests did not reveal any. Maybe your testing is flawed, incomplete, inappropriate, biased etc.

Just saying for devs to "not write bugs" is pretty naive. Almost like saying "don't have car accidents". We don't want to have them, yet here we are. In complex environments, things happens that are sometimes outside our immediate control.

Mitigation against security vulnerabilities? Bug fixes? New features?

This question is intentionally missing the point.

If you think an internet-connected computer used for modern workloads can be treated like a lawn mower and doesn't need any updates over its usable life, you're dreaming.

If Fedora was rolling release, it would be a candidate for my daily driver.

The ocean is made up of drops of water.

Individual action has lots of impact at scale.

After the piracy of supplies last year during a pandemic, I must say this feels quite like karma.

We all won't be, only those still choosing to run windows. For those not doing so, we are not affected.

I moved jobs to secure a full remote position. The pandemic just highlighted what was important for me in life, and gave me less patience to put up with other aspects I would have tolerated earlier.

Ahh,I see you're a person of culture. Solus Budgie as OS is a good choice.