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6footgeek

Ex miner here (grasberg, Indonesia) - yes, we all had smartphones, at all times, and yes, we rarely had signal but if you went up to the surface / anywhere with signal, you would want your phone, so we all carried them.
Re:Ross Ulbricht was just granted a full pardon on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @03:26PM (#42797106)
Just him though? Just the first guy and not all of the numerous people that started clones after, were tried and all received much less punishment?
Actually I think their wild ideas are contributing to this discussion.. I think your apparent hurt at this suggestion is a bit silly tbh.

Hear me out. I hadn't heard of the prior work you are raging about. But I am interested in decentralised tech - so, by this person mentioning their idea it got me interested to read further. Then you entered and went a bit madlad on them.. I'm not sure why when you could have just said "good question, here is everything we know about the effort to do exactly this" and then maybe that hacker would have been inspired to go read and maybe contribute. Just my 2 cents ;-)

Re:Show HN: Astro App on Monday March 04, 2024 @10:55AM (#39591883)
This is great! I usually use https://telescopius.com/ but this has just made it onto my bookmarks, well done!
So what's the betting that X will be unavailable in Europe by end of day?
Re:Netflix Is Down on Monday December 11, 2023 @06:22PM (#38606879)
God speed on-call engineers. We salute you.
Re:The UK's Controversial Online Safety Act Is Now Law on Saturday October 28, 2023 @09:57AM (#38049836)
Absolutely. Not the only service but the following link will give you a rundown on geolocation based blocking: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/Develope...
Re:Ask HN: How to effectively code with only one hand? on Friday April 17, 2020 @05:32AM (#22897519)
Practice? My university lecturer was completely blind and it didnt stop him teaching us very valuable principles. His seeing dog was cool as well.
Re:Ask HN: How do you secure your Mac? on Thursday April 18, 2019 @03:40AM (#19689399)
My friend built this audit / lockdown tool for enhancing security defaults in Mac. Maybe you will find it useful :) https://github.com/0xmachos/mOSL
Germany!
*potentially.
Re:Ask HN: Books you read in 2015? on Wednesday December 23, 2015 @09:04AM (#10783283)
Ready Player One. by Ernest Cline. Brilliant geeky read (fiction) :)
Re:Dirty Coding Tricks on Friday January 09, 2015 @04:07AM (#8861384)
Me too, its a great bit of advice that I had never even considered before! bookmarked!