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Yes.

That said, it's novelty and working within set restrictions that makes it impressive.

Not the line count of the code, but the fact that it works within the set restrictions of making an n64 software renderer (novelty) with that line count of code. (also a novelty)

It's not important at all, it's novel. We have had hacky, and even gimped for quick hacks n64 emulation (compare Project 64 to say, Dolphin) since the late 90's-early 00's, but we haven't had a 512 line object software renderer. A novelty for those who like novel programming exercises!

You're strong enough to admit it, so feel less guilty. I'm as cynical as anyone else, but you do have to step back occasionally and see nice things for what they are: nice.

I think you're minimizing just how cynical you're being.

33 million dollars is not a fickle gesture, hand that money to MSF or EFF and watch things happen. Think of all the bullshit you have to buy to attend college, nevermind tuition. That'd buy you a truckload of books and calculators.

Just because he has x billions of dollars doesn't mean x millions of dollars is worth any less to others, especially charitable causes.

You're probably right though, but why not use the money to improve your public image after being crowned richest man on Earth? I can't think of a single good reason.

sincerely signed,

a cold, hardened cynic.

"If he has x billions of dollars he should give x billions of dollars" is what I get out of the comment.

33 million dollars is going to buy a truckload of TI calculators and other mandatory essentials.

33 million dollars buys more tuition than one dollar.

What, he's worth billions so he's gotta give a cool bil or it's pocket change?

33 million dollars is a shitload of cash for a donation, I'm pretty sure MSF wouldn't mind a 33 million dollar donation. They basically cry every GDQ event and thank people for 10 minutes straight. That's for ~1 mil.

33 million dollars buys a lot of books, a lot of stupid TI calculators, etc.

and rightly so! the boom of ICO's is proof of concept if I've ever seen it, even though almost every single one is a scam as far as I've seen. I've had to discourage friends from investing in obvious scam ICO's, unfortunately. And my mother who is the most gullible sucker ever.

It's pretty strange to see people so consumed with it. It reminds me of beanie babies, and my horrible step-grandmother who would send me in to buy them once she had hit her limit. She was an awful speculator and probably has a worthless collection today for all the money she spent on ebay back then. She'd drive to Vegas to buy them, neighboring towns, all over the place. Totally consumed by speculation gambling. It sickens a person to see someone so...lost in that temptation. I'm not sure how else to put it.

Trust me, those opioids would be just as easy to acquire with Amazon Gift Cards, Paypal, Western Union, a bank deposit, you name it pal.

If you're trying to stand on some kind of anti-opiate moral ground for why cryptocurrency is evil it's a poor hill to die on.

Well said. Legal tender is the difference here, USD comparisons are apples and oranges IMO.

as ETH is a volatile cryptocurrency and not US legal tender at all, while USD is the exact opposite: a fiat currency considered legal tender not only in the US but worldwide.

A friend of mine is a synesthete. He finds it a blessing and a curse in his day to day life.

Psychedelics naturally amplify this, and the fact that he can feel emotion through touch, taste a sound or hear a color fascinates me to no end.

He never knew he was one until I showed him the Wikipedia page for synesthesia, he just thought he was fucked up in the head.

The things he must feel and experience I can only hope to have a taste of one day before I die.

I found the documentary "Orange Sunshine" to be a very illuminating tale of licit (and then illicit) synthesis and distribution of psychedelics, mainly LSD-25 but they do mention psilocin, etc.

At one point they had produced 10,000 doses in one synth, a grief-fueled synth. An anecdote to be sure, but a hell of an anecdote I won't ruin by paraphrasing any further.

This naturally leads into the story of ALD-52, also known as Orange Sunshine. The analogue people liked more than LSD-25 itself. Which is an entirely new interesting tale of injustice and prosecutor overreach, with an entirely new bunch of folks.

"...And Justice for All" indeed.

Thanks for sharing, that's quite interesting IMO.

I don't see it as a knock against XMPP, just an interesting tidbit of information and an example of a wide-spread use case.

Moral opposition to drug use is irrelevant here, people want to get high and will find ways to do so, I think the usage of XMPP in Eastern Europe is a great example of why cryptography is important, and why everyone should have access to encryption.

The fact that telegram is used in Eastern Europe for drug purchases is very interesting as well.

It's a good thing people know how to use XMPP and can use it at will for anything they wish, including online drug purchases. Which are going to happen regardless of moral opposition, encryption centralization/decentralization, etc.

Like it or not it's a valid use case.

No, just an interesting tidbit of information regarding XMPP.

The count of green over the others is interesting to me.

I wonder if they just prefer green, or if the code made the number so much larger compared to other shades produced.

What a neat article, even for a layman like myself who seeks to learn how to program someday.

I love Hacienda Blue the best I think.

To tie this back on topic, opiates are really rather safe drugs, in terms of oral therapeutic usage, that have been made deadly solely due to prohibition. It's driven injection abuse through the roof as people try to get the most bang for their buck at any cost, and with the introduction of fentalogues into the heroin supply, we get a trumped-up (no pun intended) public health crisis that has a working solution in place.

The expansion of maintenance access, both to suboxone and methadone clinics, safe injection sites, needle exchanges and other hard decisions are going to need to be made more quickly than usual to stem the tide.

Harm reduction works, prohibition doesn't.

Well, let's ask just that question. How do you help Russia?

The drug testing and general doping corruption is seemingly top-down, not bottom-up. I don't see the Kremlin saying "sorry we got caught everyone, we'll play fair with everyone else from now on."

Well said.

I've moved to altcoins for sending money, the transaction fees of bitcoin finally pushed me to another one.

I wish I'd buy a little extra to speculate myself, but I'm pretty impatient so I'd better not.

I like internet freedom much better. So do the politicians looking to dress wolves in sheep's clothing.

that jet website Walmart is running saved me like 30 bucks when I upgraded my GPU, allowing me to get a much better GPU. (budgetary restrictions)

they had a 15% off your first three purchases sale, saved me some money again when I had to get a new HDD around the same time.

it got me to pull the trigger on their site over newegg, and I liked the little discounts you can get by paying with debit or forfieting free returns. it's a novel approach, and at least tries to appear consumer-friendly. I hope it does well.

sorry, I didn't mean to imply it would derail or threaten the existence of it. Like I said, money is going to be made by the state hand over fist just from tourism.

But for your regular person who's made due without a legal marijuana distribution network isn't going to start paying a premium on the regular for the privilege of retail. It's mostly a novelty, IMO, and may increase graymarket demand for untaxed marijuana for everyone BUT the people looking to do some weed tourism, etc.

Agreed. I was really pleasantly surprised about how wonderful this was.

It brings me back to my years as a teen playing Graphical MUD's like The Realm Online, basically a text adventure with some wonderful pixel art and a point-and-click adventure interface UI. Made by Sierra in the late 90's, sold to Codemasters, ruined by Codemasters, and then re-sold to a private family instead of a development studio. The game slowly died thanks to a lack of even a SINGLE programmer...until recently:

If you've never played The Realm Online, I highly recommend looking into the newly formed private servers, there are two of them (Sacred Temple / MistWalkers ) with a ton of changes since the people who own it have long since abandoned the game.

hopefully sooner rather than later.

when we said "regulate and tax it" for decades, we didn't mean give the blackmarket a greater marketshare by making the taxes exorbitant.

People are going to buy weed, if the taxes make it not worth purchasing legally the blackmarket will always be there to undercut it.

you have to COMPETE with blackmarket prices, you can't just jack up prices, legalize it and then expect people to stop paying $25 for 3.5 grams of top-tier marijuana.

no one is going to continually pay $75 for 3.5 grams, especially after the novelty has worn off.

If you have a who buddy will sell you the same amount of equal or higher quality for a 1/3rd of the price, would you pay 2/3rds more?

If cities add more tax on top of state tax, then it'll push more medical and recreational users right back into the untaxed newly formed gray market. Same with cities who don't open shops.

I think this is a result of being blinded by dollar signs instead of practical and thought-through policy.

Yes, it'll still rake in tax dollars and yes, people who don't know any better will buy from shops, like tourists.

But for the target market? I'm not so sure.

The ban was bullshit- good on disney for axing it.

Or they can datamine and advertise to you based on tatoos, sexual orentation, visbile brand names, etc. Pop the mic on and get some audio at the same time to futher personalize advertisements.

Unless you do not have a PC. A decent phone IS the PC in some homes.

most people don't start with heroin.

Keep in mind any solution, including painkiller cutbacks, is proven to result in increased heroin usage (see: oxycontin reformulation in the early 2000's. By the end if the decade all abusable oxycontin would be gone.)

People are dying because heroin is illegal. Full stop. Fentanyl cut in heroin is a result of a broken approach.

Im pretty sure it's criticism about the knee-jerk "emergency" declaration that has been nothing more than symbolic.

People ought to get used to erring on the side of freedom.

Heroin is being cut with fentanyl because heroin is super fucking illegal for nothing more than political leverage over 1960's blacks in the US.

Err on the side of freedom today, save 500 million in price gouged narcan tomorrow.

You can ban everything you want, lock up dealers and distributors, sue doctors, burn poppies etc all day long. You'll just step on more used syringes until each one of us has some tough fucking conversations with each other in these United States of America.

This is about fusion, not fission. Your point stands of course!

since they are technically inverse its important to clarify IMO.

The people you're talking about DO NOT BUY and HOLD. EVER.

The entire idea is to expose yourself to variable risk as little as possible.

so the coins are sent literally the second you can send them.

you don't sit on them for a day, even for a few hours.

you also pay through the nose for decent confirmations with BTC leading to forked coins like LTC/ETH being the de-facto way today, because you pay pennies instead of dollars to get a decent confirmation time.

Last year? Maybe, but not in Nov 2017 ;) Basically, you're wrong and should feel ashamed for being so ignorant.

Hey turfer, take another English course.