mark024
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8 years ago
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on: China is considering shutting down local cryptocurrency exchanges
I wish I would be holding a lot of coins... even if bitcoins drops 50% is still worth a lot, I know the privileged elitist HN guys hate it for some reason, while probably is saving lives as we speak in Venezuela, but my tone is probably due experience dealing with Chinese, and their efficiency in farming every bit of value form everything they touch, for example their recently started to farm pubg.
mark024
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8 years ago
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on: Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index
who decides what value is? you? if it would not provide value people would not be using/buying/mining, "one man's trash is another man's treasure", for a guy in Venezuela bitcoin can be the difference between life and death..
mark024
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8 years ago
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on: Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index
Don't remember seeing any article about how many houses we could power by not playing computer games.
mark024
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8 years ago
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on: Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index
demand & offer, if the energy were more expensive, fewer would mine and the difficulty would drop, I wish I could mine on my low powered laptop, but if you want to raise the pitch forks against bitcoin, on the same logic, we could stop playing computer games, watch movies/shows/tv etc, even using modern phones, the old nokias that lasted a week one one charge would do fine.
mark024
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8 years ago
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on: JavaScript is Eating the World
npm and the huge number of dependencies scares me, I remember in WordPress plugins would get hijacked and you would get an update that backdoors or inserts some vulnerability, other than this, I spend 3-4 hours 2 days ago, trying to merge 2 json datasets by doing some averages, and simply could not do it, the numbers were in string format, and it would work for some and get NaN for other, or would just concatenate them as string, I was working in typescript and using "number" was concatenating, weirdest thing ever, I just gave up.
mark024
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8 years ago
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on: Jim Mellon and high-profile partners roll the dice on an anti-aging upstart
I would spend half a billion and for myself first and foremost, why would I save money for, to be the richest guy in the graveyard.
mark024
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9 years ago
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on: Too Much Experience to Be Hired? Some Older Americans Face Age Bias
Just recently I saw a reddit thread about a black web developer women being paid much less than her coworkers, she overhead her boss talking on the phone about hiring another guy because they have a lot of work, talking about how he affords it, because he pays her so little and he can get away with it, because "what she's going do", "who is going to hire her" a black developer woman.
mark024
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9 years ago
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on: Too Much Experience to Be Hired? Some Older Americans Face Age Bias
you're a young white male? of course you won't understand, "keep improving yourself" what an elitist thing to say from the IT bubble.. most profession plateau, it doesn't matter if you have 10 or 20 years of experience, even in IT it doesn't.
