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Re:Ethereum Is Green on Saturday May 01, 2021 @09:36PM (#27011621)
Which makes it only further centralized.
Re:Ethereum Is Green on Saturday May 01, 2021 @09:25PM (#27011558)
I remember when they were talking about launching PoS back in 2018. At this point it’s performing better than NASA’s SLS rocket but still significantly delayed
Re:Google I/O 2021 and Uncomfortable Questions on Saturday May 01, 2021 @09:23PM (#27011542)
It’s even weirder that Google’s security engineers would sign off on such a design. I am astounded
Despair over not talking about politics on work channels? Are they absolutely consumed with politics that they can’t focus on actual work tasks? I have worked with someone who insists on inserting a political topic or headline into every meeting and it’s distracting and exhausting
Would someone explain an NFT to me, as an adult (not ELI5)? I keep reading stories like this and don’t understand why it would be valued at 500k
Re:Michael Collins, Apollo 11 astronaut, has died on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @02:55PM (#26972779)
It's plausible. The moon's width is 2,158.8 miles, and I could imagine an explorer being >3000 miles from another human
Re:Michael Collins, Apollo 11 astronaut, has died on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @02:53PM (#26972751)
> The would not know at that point whether the CM pilot had his spacesuit helmet on or not, so they wouldn't know until they opened the hatch whether they had just killed him.

There were windows on the command module to look in, and if they weren't sure if he was responsive/unresponsive, they could tap iron onto the command module to let Collins know they were there and spacewalking.

It's an interesting thought process though, and I would appreciate the source if you can find it

Re:*.ycombinator.com Terms of Use on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @01:55PM (#26972140)
Strange that it mentions CCPA but not GDPR. Is HackerNews GDPR compliant? What are they tracking/storing?
It was actually worth the full read to me
The following quotes are fairly interesting and ironic:

> Larry Page and Sergey Brin were originally pretty negative about search engines that sold ads. Appendix A in their original paper says:

>> "we expect that advertising-funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers"

> and that

>> "we believe the issue of advertising causes enough mixed incentives that it is crucial to have a competitive search engine that is transparent and in the academic realm"

You don’t. You work with the leadership & security team. Any employee that clicks your phishing email gets an extra dose of security training. Those that forward the email to [email protected] get a nice compliment
Could they be renovated to serve lower power items like street lamps?
Re:Dark Ops Undercovered: Episode II on Saturday April 24, 2021 @09:59AM (#26924868)
> The following 16 URLs have been used to clone legit media sites, back-date articles and later file fake DMCA complains to Google

What are the consequences for abusing DMCA? Should they be stiffened?

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