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It maters since decentralization is not a silver bullet. There is always some main repo, and it is hard to change it, or even just inform people about change. If you want other people to participate in your project then hosting it on biggest/most popular service reduces entry barrier
Probably. Just checkout how much fallout RMS generates when sharing his opinion outside software domain. It will be always weird, to kick original autor from project, but it happens from time to time.
Re:Regulating Crypto: How we move forward as an industry from here on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @08:20AM (#34080347)
So outside drug trade and crypto lockers what constitutes the crypto industry? The only constant I know are pump&dumps, be it in form of alt-coins, ICO or NFT.
Re:Why fusion will never happen (2012) on Monday December 19, 2022 @07:06AM (#34051146)
Can it start generating electricity without waiting for steam to reach required temperature? For now we can only assume the worst case scenario and group it with fission in "up to 12h startup time". The report in https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=45956 compares existing power sources
It is a bit funny. Just few years ago most people said Twitter is mostly pointless, just a gimmick, and can't really compare to other social networks. It looks it has founds its niche in the end.
It is irrational, and I know it, but I had so many issues with drivers for Radeon 9550, almost 20 years ago that I am still afraid to buy another AMD card.
Re:Ask HN: Should HN ban ChatGPT/generated responses? on Monday December 12, 2022 @11:32AM (#33956657)
It is same idea behind https://xkcd.com/810/
Re:Hiding in plain sight? The argument for invisible aliens (2020) on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @08:04AM (#33893864)
There is pbs space video https://youtu.be/uTrFAY3LUNw about topic.
Limbs/organs are bad example since that is actually implemented in vanilla RimWorld, including organ trading.
It had optional graphical tilesets for a decade or so, this release is more about overhauling whole GUI. Some stuff was just plain annoying like having to manually create bedrooms from furniture. Some stuff was fixed by DF-hack project, for more sensible experience.
Re:FTX Contagion on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @06:13AM (#33878094)
It was always funny to watch BTC news and it's impact on prices. The "this is good for Bitcoin" slogan is not that weird when prices overreact to news, go in opposite direction than the expected impact of new information or has huge swings in price while nothing happens on financial markets.
Re:Mozilla Have Acquired Pulse on Thursday December 01, 2022 @11:27AM (#33818492)
There are always people who write that about anything here. Sometimes there is some hidden, no obvious complexity. Probably it would be best to ask Discord developers for estimate, their extended presence is similar.
Re:Install Docker in WSL 2 Without Docker Desktop on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @03:37AM (#33716612)
Strange, for me it mostly worked out of the box, only updating kernel was required. But I had huge issues with networking, VPNs just don't play well with WSL.
Re:Oxygen Not Included on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @03:33AM (#33716591)
Well this is the one I point to when someone claims that Dwarf Fortress is hard - that is simply not true - ONI is actually hard.

DF has many systems that generate cool history and artifact/art descriptions but have tiny impact on actual game. As long as you place few farm plots, you can produce enough food to buy out whole caravans. The game balance simply was never the focus. Same for performance of large forts.

Re:Stripe account suffered a card test on Monday November 21, 2022 @05:44AM (#33691102)
Just a reminder, that there were people banned by PayPal for doing just that. Or in PP words: keeping too low balance relative to revenue. Still beats having a few weeks of revenue(instead of single day) locked for 180days for arbitrary reason
7kW sounds low to me, no one around goes under 10kW, with 12-15 being typical. That said I never heard about home connection over 30kW. Power company charges monthly for available power, so no one goes with huge 3phase connection just in case they might need it.