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there is no centralization on Lightning, its a separate layer ontop of bitcoin

It's a tab that I can also use with anyone else that has Bitcoin Lightning. I can pay for my VPN with it and buy gift cards online, or can settle it back to the Bitcoin blockchain. So its more of a complete payment system than a tab.

Oh the thing I use it most often for is micropayments on people commenting on Reddit. If you say !lntip 100 on reddit a bot will send a lightning micropayment of 100 satoshis to someone. Pretty cool! https://www.reddit.com/user/lntipbot

does anybody know how this actually works? is it a database and its settled through corportations whatsapp has setup in each country?

Bitcoin Lightning has solved two of those specific problems for me. I keep a BlueWallet (BTC Lightning network) on my phone and use it for small payments with my friends. When it gets to a larger amount I settle onto the bitcoin main blockchain.

I saw a Chinese copy of a Nazi pistol (mauser broomhandle) and at distance it is a 1-1 copy but on closer inspection you realize instead of being machined every single part was filed by hand by someone. It must have taken an incredible amount of time to make a pistol that way. Also they tried to copy the stamped lettering but most of it is jibberish. Very interesting.

The US was set up initially to have a solution for this exact problem! The idea was every state could pick it's own laws and the federal (not capitalized yet) government could NOT override any state or local. The Federalists threw all this out and instilled the foundation for the hyper powerful Fed we have today. This Federalist system led to the rise of things like a national bank and a standing army. I have no idea how history would have played out if the feds didn't win so it's hard to say which system would have been better.

some of this might be the scammers seeding the address themselves so people see others sending to it?

I am a gambler and I think this is a sure bet so 10%

Is this relevant to hacker news?

I like using buddy or ma'am. Everyone can be my buddy until they do some action that proves otherwise.

Most of the top line Porsche are very performance oriented versions of each model with some pretty radical departures from normal car features. Lack of back seats, rollcages, hard racing suspension, loud. The people that buy these are after race cars for the street.

Before the Harrison narcotic act in 1914 there was never such a thing as an "illegal drug" there were laws about adultering products with poison but the concept of illegal drugs or a "war on drugs" didn't exist before 1914 in the US.

I am not sure how addicts were treated by law enforcement historically but would be curious to hear about that. Just my own intuition says they probably were treated under existing vagrancy laws "Vagrancy laws took myriad forms, generally making it a crime to be poor, idle, dissolute, immoral, drunk, lewd, or suspicious."

Police are people too and when you escalate to violence and destruction you might get answered with force. Making this an us vs them and not having any proper form of discourse between the parties is causing the explosive reactions on both sides.

Those people had to deal with starvation, disease, warfare, and cannabilism constantly. This is not an opinion there is archeological evidence showing the percentage of people who died violet deaths https://slides.ourworldindata.org/war-and-violence/#/1

A really good book on this is by Steven Pinker from Harvard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Better_Angels_of_Our_Natur...

some of this is money laundering

She is my role model and I am a 30 year old man with a beard!

This makes as much sense as saying slavery exists because the Earth formed from space dust.

You are right about rate limited internet. Something else to consider is renting some rack space is super cheap and can come with free internet and electricity. Last time I checked a few years ago in DFW it was $60 a month with 1Gb/s and some IP addresses for 1RU.

Many small and medium businesses have a "business" ISP circuit. This typically doesn't have caps and has the option of a dedicated IP. Speaking from experience I was an ISP network engineer for a big telco years ago.

For someone who is interested and capable the costs are an order of magnitude lower for self hosting. Your right for the most part small business would be better off using an existing cloud, they dont have the skillset to properly design and manage something like this themselves.

Do you think that with integrating AI/ML techniques fully into manufacturing automation that in our lifetimes people will become fully obsolete for this kind of work? As a cloud/software/network guy I am curious to see someones opinion who is knowledgeable in this area.

Creating the Federal reserve bank closed the loop. The politicians and corporations are able to control the whole system of money/power independently of what any outsider wants.

Print the money, give it to your friends, buy/create the politicans, make the laws, enrich yourself, repeat the cycle but with more power and wealth this time around.

I think it was between $2-6 usd but I literally just landed and was grabbing a bite to eat at a small place at maybe 1-2am.

Same here, when paying with USD in San Jose C.R. I had a food stand reject the first few $20s I tried because they were not in good enough condition. Interesting to see this in action.

Why don't people start lawsuits against them for these unfair business practices? If the damages to your company are small you can even file a local small claims court case. https://kahlerfinancial.com/financial-awakenings/weekly-colu...

First I have to have a stable OS. Then I have to make kernel updates to support the kind of process management I want. Then I have to fix the other kernel bugs affecting my update. Then I have to modify the network drivers. Then I have to ... 5 years later what was I even working on in the first place?

Price for performance. It plays the latest games at high resolution without being a CPU bottleneck. In gaming benchmarks the 3600 is usually within a few fps of the 3800x. https://youtu.be/9OXbhgnHvXQ

Government pensions on the other hand...

I don't mind the little badge trinkets you get on reddit right now to pay for a reward for someones post you like. This isn't that at all this will suck. There will be a ridiculous amount of farming / shilling / astroturfing.

one could argue that it is a scam but so far it has benefited everyone enough so that they don't notice

the Fed is actually privately owned by a consortium of banks

https://www.globalresearch.ca/who-owns-the-federal-reserve/1...