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Re:Using Euro coins as weights (2004) on Sunday October 20, 2024 @01:59PM (#41897195)
Just FYI this is illegal in many areas.
Re:Memento Mori on Thursday November 17, 2022 @06:54PM (#33647756)
The worm at the core.
Re:Is Stupidity Expanding? Some Hypotheses on Thursday October 15, 2020 @05:35PM (#24794319)
Fear is a big one. Getting you in these emotional states makes it easier to influence your way of thinking.
Re:Rediscovering CardDAV on Sunday April 12, 2020 @01:13PM (#22849557)
I remember years ago getting mysql, php, nginx, dovecot, postfix and horde to work together to get ActiveSync to my android. Took a long time and lots of reading but in the end it felt great. Then a week later a horde update broke it.

In hindsight it's probably better to spend the money on a hosted solution.

Re:War and drugs: Together since forever on Sunday August 11, 2019 @08:55PM (#20671593)
Oh yea. Mostly weed and some opium. In my company over 50% of us smoked weed.
Re:War and drugs: Together since forever on Sunday August 11, 2019 @12:05PM (#20668727)
Just an anecdote of mine. I'm sure there was plenty of drug use in other provinces but my personal experience was in the Helmand. I try not to talk about other places and units I don't have experience in.
Re:War and drugs: Together since forever on Sunday August 11, 2019 @10:32AM (#20668325)
Drug use by Marines, Taliban and Afghan police/army during the Helmand province campaign needs its own study and book.
A lot of this was used in Ramadi the year before.
Re:Spontaneous knotting of an agitated string (2007) on Sunday September 09, 2018 @01:23PM (#17946844)
This is what we do with climbing rope, fold it.
Re:Reddit partial outage on Monday June 11, 2018 @12:47PM (#17285967)
Wow I didn't know it turned out so bad. Even then reddit isn't much better either. Damn the internet has turned into a cesspool or maybe I don't remember it was a cesspool 20 years ago too.
About a decade ago I found this out the hard way... Damn dog missed over a hundred pounds of HE under its nose.
Re:How the US Pushed Sweden to Take Down the Pirate Bay on Thursday December 14, 2017 @07:52AM (#15921867)
Wow that is a name I haven't read or heard in years. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, father of modern anarchism.
Re:Did Bitcoin just prove it can't scale? on Saturday December 09, 2017 @12:12PM (#15886744)
Like all tech it's a double edged sword.
Re:Did Bitcoin just prove it can't scale? on Saturday December 09, 2017 @12:03PM (#15886677)
That wouldn't work because mining blocks also validates transactions.
The blockchain contains the data of billions of dollars of transactions. I would say that is very far from meaningless.
Re:The Bitcoin bubble – Greater fool theory on Thursday November 09, 2017 @11:13AM (#15663561)
It can be done easily. I would say it will be done in the future by governments and forced on us. The amount of control a government would have with a forced cryptocurrency is the only problem I see.
Re:The Bitcoin bubble – Greater fool theory on Thursday November 09, 2017 @10:09AM (#15663004)
Bitcoin may be a finite supply but cryptocurrencies in general are infinite. So can you really say it is a fixed monetary system?
Re:The Bitcoin bubble – Greater fool theory on Thursday November 09, 2017 @09:54AM (#15662850)
I think bitcoin and others are way beyond being a currency or commodity. We should think of it as an entirely new kind of asset that needs new definitions and theories. People are trying to fit this new tech in their old definitions or theories and it's not working.
I'm sure you rely on the government to keep your fortune safe.
The universe is a bubble!
With the recent bust of AlphaBay we know bitcoin mixers are vulnerable. It looks like Monero will take over as the favorite cryptocurrency of new markets especially with I2P integration.
I believe it is forked from i2pd.
Re:Daimler Uses Blockchain to Issue Bonds on Friday July 14, 2017 @11:10PM (#14774857)
I would say the problem they are trying to solve is security settlement between different institutions. I guess right now each institution has their own database of who owns what and it's difficult to transfer ownership between them.

What if there was one or many massive global shared ledgers all these institutions ran nodes for? You could transfer ownership of a security between someone in China and Europe instantly.

Re:Daimler Uses Blockchain to Issue Bonds on Friday July 14, 2017 @10:58PM (#14774822)
Re:Why Do DMT Users See Insects from a Parallel Universe? on Friday February 10, 2017 @10:35PM (#13620830)
SG-1 fixed this once...
Reminds me of The Thirteenth Floor.
Which provider has those prices?
This is my experience as well. You need to speak French.
Re:Micro-Dosing: The Drug Habit Your Boss Is Gonna Love on Sunday January 08, 2017 @07:55PM (#13353191)
Even without steroids your body loses a lot of mass after you stop lifting heavy weights.

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