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Re:Early Bitcoin Investor Roger Ver Charged with Tax Fraud on Wednesday May 01, 2024 @02:12AM (#40220089)
Bitcoin has funded my very early retirement so I'm far from a cynic but if you honestly think that the current manifestation of the core Bitcoin fork is more representative of the mission and philosophy of Bitcoin than the Bitcoin Cash fork then you are either a grifter or in need of a history lesson.

I would point to Bitcoin's relative success (in terms of exchange rate) over Bitcoin Cash as a measure of its failure. It's a twisted perversion of what us early adopters fell in love with.

You need to comprehend the complete loss of trust in authority. This has gone so far as to be inverted: if the government, academia, media, etc enthusiastically endorse something then it is assumed to be harmful until proven otherwise.

I say this as someone who shares this mindset. It is as shocking to me that you would queue up for a dangerous vaccine, support mass 3rd world immigration, consume slop full of soy and seed oils, etc as it no doubt is to you that I would be an openly racist anti-vaxer who gets his steaks and eggs straight from the farm (and would my milk too, if it wasn't illegal here).

It doesn't help at all that the champion of pasteurization was one Lord Rothschild, whose only two addresses to UK parliament were for Zionism and the prohibition of raw milk. If one is considered a program of genocidal supremacist hatred of my people, it's a very tough sell that the other is supposed to help keep me safe and healthy.

Even if this is true[1], surely you can see the long-term harm of this?

What is the Netherlands without the Dutch? Your nation is your people. It's your blood, your history, your family, your culture, your shared values and heritage.

I would much prefer my children and theirs after them have a homeland where they can live in peace and harmony with their own kind, than to live in a soulless economic zone as minorities surrounded by foreigners who hate them.

Frankly, it makes me sick when people use these arguments as a justification for the dispossession of their own heirs, the destruction of everything their own ancestors toiled for countless generations to deliver to you. You have no idea how precious it is if you think GDP can ever quantify it. F*ck the economy.

[1] It doesn't even come close to compensating for the negative economic effects of the migrants who are not successful startup founders, studies and articles focusing on whom are heavily censored and taboo.

Re:Getting worried about bird flu on Saturday April 27, 2024 @05:10AM (#40178526)
Watch all the same types queuing up to get seven injections of whatever Pfizer has in store for them this time.
If you think that will increase their appeal then you don't truly understand why diamonds are valuable. It's what they represent.

The princess doesn't want a gem on her finger that has been cultivated by a nerd and comes with a "vegan, soy-based, cruelty free" approval on it. She wants a warlord to return from conquering and pillaging foreign lands, leaving rivers of blood in his wake, to deliver the prize to his queen as a symbol of her value and his material investment and dedication to her.

Obviously no woman in her right mind is consciously thinking that, but that's the psychology behind it. "Bloodless" is icky.

Re:A Beginner's Guide to the ESP8266 on Thursday April 25, 2024 @06:28AM (#40155676)
That's not what it's designed for. That's like asking how to run your iPhone on AAAs.

The hobbyist solution would be to find some obscure product on AliExpress with a holder for 2xAAAs and a 5V boost regulator with a USB connector. It's janky and inefficient, but that'll power your board, or your iPhone.

The 'proper' solution would be to then take this prototype to an optimised design in your ECAD software of choice, integrating a AAA holder and choosing an appropriate regulator, and having some PCBs assembled.

I'm not sure what else you could want. If the latter sounds daunting to you, it would be very easy for even an inexperienced EE on Fiverr to whip up for you.

Re:A Beginner's Guide to the ESP8266 on Thursday April 25, 2024 @06:20AM (#40155619)
If you're this new to electronics though, you're better off buying a hobbyist development board like any of those suggested in the guide. You don't need to concern yourself with this. Just plug in the USB cable.

If you're designing your own board, you would simply enter 3.3v and >150mA into the parametric search on Mouser, Digi-Key, TI, etc and pick whatever part takes your fancy.

This is so simple that there isn't any need for a guide. The datasheet for whatever regulator you choose will tell you the recommended input capacitance, output capacitance, inductance, any configuration resistors, etc.

Same goes for battery charger ICs, which can be just as simple or far more advanced, and there are new devices being announced all the time for everything from tiny energy harvesting applications to USB PD, which is what I mean when I say it'll be obsolete by the time it's announced.

It's daunting at first but you need to take the plunge: find a part that interests you on Mouser, integrate it into a design according to its datasheet, and order some PCBs. You'll be amazed how accessible it is.

Re:A Beginner's Guide to the ESP8266 on Thursday April 25, 2024 @03:33AM (#40154573)
That's like your nan being frustrated that there isn't a single definitive guide to buying a laptop.

There are so many factors that it's a near-impossible task. And even if you somehow managed to do so, it would already be obsolete by the time you stopped typing.

The datasheet (for each of the ESPxx, regulator, etc) will specify power consumption in different states. But sadly there's a lot of misleading amateurish pseudoscience in Arduino-land so you're best to ignore everything else (which would even include a guide like this, for example).

>Black and white

Tell us what you really think, loxist

for 0.25-6 h per day

That's nice and all, but 15 minutes is a much lesser achievement than the headline implies.

Re:Paradox of Plenty on Monday April 15, 2024 @09:50AM (#40040546)
Of course there's a strong genetic component. For an extreme demonstration, no amount of cultural pressure is going to prompt the emergence of these attributes in a population of watermelons or earthworms.
Re:Paradox of Plenty on Monday April 15, 2024 @07:59AM (#40039355)
You stopped reading just shy of your answer:

>...would not have survived the winter.

Re:Why is Montreal a stolen car export hub? on Monday April 15, 2024 @02:40AM (#40037630)
Yeah but how good's the food? So vibrant.
Re:Paradox of Plenty on Monday April 15, 2024 @12:58AM (#40037201)
Is it not obvious that scarcity provides the harsh and unforgiving conditions for the natural selection of positive traits?

Taking Europe, for example, our ancestors would not have survived without their adaptation to the climate and its consequences, breeding cooperation, empathy, industry, invention, efficiency, etc. A frivolous, impulsive, unintelligent people seeking immediate gratification would not have survived the winter.

Oh please, it's not supposed to do that at all. That's what we're supposed to pretend we believe that it's supposed to do.

They hate you. They hate our children. They cheer and gloat as we are dispossessed, deracinated, and replaced.

Do not forget it. They despise us in the fullest, genocidally-total sense of the term.

(Boy that got flagged quickly. "Shut it down, the goyim know!")

Re:Stuff that is backwards in Australia on Monday April 01, 2024 @03:04AM (#39891540)
Beat me to it. I was going to point out that there's a ye olde black and white photo in my town's information centre of that one time we had snow here!
Re:How Couples Meet on Monday March 25, 2024 @08:30PM (#39822962)
Interesting article on the founders: https://jewishjournal.com/mobile_20111212/132669/
Re:How Couples Meet on Monday March 25, 2024 @08:25PM (#39822918)
>a sure way to depopulate a population and cause frustration on everyone

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_w...

The mass immigration will continue until morale improves.

>You see people on Tinder dates sitting at a restaurant table each still scrolling

Do you actually? That's appalling.

Some time ago I was on a second date with someone (met through a friend, not Tinder) whose phone was frequently pinging the Tinder notification sound. She was very pretty, I was under no illusions about the level of competition, but I was so insulted by the disrespect. Imagine not even putting your phone on silent! Had no idea it could've been worse, god help me if she got it out and started swiping.

Re:You've Been Thinking About Inflation All Wrong (2022) on Thursday March 21, 2024 @10:02AM (#39778616)
Exactly.

"Did you know if you ignore the effect of inflation on half of your take-home income, you can pretend inflation is half the actual rate?"

Well, no shit.