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  • hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.world•Been there
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    8 days ago

    This might be controversial but hear me out:

    The idea of an international independent currency that can be made use of anonymously and therefore not controlled by anyone is a great idea.

    Most smaller coins are just scams, reimplementing the same protocols that earlier schemes did and eventually adopting a clear pump & dump characteristic.

    However, I personally believe that bigger coins like etherium that don’t fold as quickly and stick around are genuinely a good idea.

    Moreover, there’s use cases where transactions are tracked for different systems, for example tracking an interconnected energy grid and usage of households.

    And then you also have to consider that block-chains themselves can just be used to keep a fulsome record of something, with the main goal of decentralizing control over that record. I’m sure there will be quite a few use cases for it that make more sense and it’s quite a shame the stigma of crypto got attached to it.

    If you wanna learn more about how block chains are actually researched, you have to dive into academic publications, but then you will find out scientists have a very different vision for this technology which is way more useful. And for the sake of actual science, I hope they don’t get buried under the stigma of crypto, because oftentimes these are just very smart people with lots of passion for something that they genuinely see value in.


  • It exists to identify if whoever is visiting is a human or a bot.

    Why?

    Because if it’s a bit it’s likely automated and there’s a variety of reasons to not want automated requests to come through. Some of them are:

    • because lots of “hackers” try to hack systems by automatically trying to find security vulnerabilities in a server, service etc.
    • because automated requests can be done faster, so they can happen more commonly, and they use resources, and if there’s too many this genuinely affects server performance budget
    • bunch more reasons




  • Lots of people chimed in regarding battery, which is a legitimate issue.

    Another thing though is ARM. Phones usually have a different processor architecture and this architecture used to be incompatible with lots of server software. I remember being pissed at because I couldn’t even host a TeamSpeak Server on it because it wasn’t compatible. Now this was a while back and I’ve heard compatibility has gotten better but still, do some research beforehand.







  • No shaming, fair question.

    From a societal ethics standpoint I don’t see a reason why any decision in this would be reprehensible. Both seem like valid lines of thinking to me.

    If your social support is stable enough even without your partner, I think that’s doable and might be fine.

    Now I’m also considering whether you are able to take care of an aging partner as well as a younger child or teenager which might be another thing worth considering.

    I think I personally would lean towards keeping the child but mind you I’m a 30 yo guy with no partner, so I have a very different perspective on this.

    Anyway I hope whatever decision you make, you will make it work.


  • American’s reactions will range from despair to triumph. Most of them feel sad about it at the minimum. But I think they will be mainly responding to the state of affairs, after all a nuke just reflects the extreme voices currently in power in the US.

    I personally will grieve the world before the new nuke dropped. I would be scared of escalation and I would probably also get more radical in my beliefs. I would probably find fairly radical activist groups and join them and try to supply them with my time and knowledge as much as possible.

    Basically a nuke will change my methods. I will basically look at the current geopolitics as beyond repair and I will try my best to make my voice heard forcefully, so we can role the dice and hope for better leaders. Maybe I will have to donate my freedom.

    But until that part of me dies that still hopes we can get there with our current system, I will be a holdout and just make my vote count.





  • I wouldn’t call it mindfulness because that has a weird spiritual undertone but I fully agree.

    I specifically wanna highlight that the most important actions of kindness are small things and whenever you remember to be kind you will automatically respond that way, because it will be your modus operandi in social interactions. It sounds cliche but the truth is if you prioritize it, it sticks in your mind and often those tiny interactions reflect what is important to you.

    That said of course this is not a substitute for taking the effort too. Sometimes it’s annoying to say an extra phrase of kindness but it’s important.