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syntaticSugar··on Plastic Straws Aren’t the Problem
Will it tho? Or rather the free market won't? Isn't a majority of the push for more environmentally safe products a result of the market demand?
syntaticSugar··on Tesla Released a $1,500 Surfboard That Sold Out in a Day
Kook move telsa, kook move
syntaticSugar··on L-theanine, a constituent in tea, and its effect on mental state (2008) [pdf]
r/nootropics
syntaticSugar··on How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Electric Scooters
Could be a reputation system implemented, I'm guessing each scooter has a unique identifier, folks could report a scooter left imporperly. This would hurt the user whom left it there's score.
syntaticSugar··on The New ID Theft: Millions of Credit Applicants Who Don’t Exist
Paywall uhhhhhg
syntaticSugar··on Gates says billionaires should pay 'significantly' more taxes
Link is dead
syntaticSugar··on The Decentralized Future
Your right, they can be at your secrity module cost.

I currently (as I understand the state of pos) see pos useful for other the other blochain ESC stuff and pow for a safe currency (BTC)

syntaticSugar··on Kodak’s Dubious Blockchain Gamble
I guess you could say that the fact it's using a block chain, any form of processing the transfer of ip/rights of the hash desired, can be out sourced. Bitpay, meta mask,. Etc

Side note I see no reason to use pow for this application, pos seams like a more appropriate security tradeoff

syntaticSugar··on How Duolingo achieved a 50:50 gender ratio for new software engineer hires
"We made a decision to revisit our typical list of schools and only visit the universities that had more than 18% of female undergraduate computer science majors"

So instead of having a very wide search Feild for applicable people, they reduced it for the sake of being sexist. Great

syntaticSugar··on Decentralized Blockchain-Based Electronic Marketplaces
I think what he/she meant was the code base
syntaticSugar··on Bitcoin exchange Youbit shuts after second hack attack
The perks of being an exchange is you get access to many streams. Things are already broken up on little pieces for you. You act as a Tumblr
syntaticSugar··on Build-a-Coin Cryptocurrency Creator
I think he did described ethereum..
syntaticSugar··on Ask HN: What are new applications that can be built on blockchains?
Yes, but the idea is now we can remove the custodians out of the mix. Why pay airbnb? The networking, booking, hopefully identity verification can all be done p2p