u just learned that the us is even a trader of bitcoin at all.
you say this not referring to a seizure, right?
Ok HN what the f is happening. Why are people minusing a question? like.. can i just know what is even wrong here?
Readit Newsflattone commented on U.S. Feds Seized Nearly $1B in Bitcoin from Wallet Linked to Silk Road vice.com/en/article/akdgz... · Posted by u/jbegley
I find it extremely amusing that the US government has over the last several years become one of the world's largest traders in bitcoin. It's not quite the path many were predicting back in the early 2010s, but Bitcoin has been full of surprises.
If history is any guide, the bitcoin will be auctioned off sooner rather than later.
u just learned that the us is even a trader of bitcoin at all.
you say this not referring to a seizure, right?
Is the US ransom-ware-ing Russia?
Or anything similar?
Oh cool! I hate when i forget that i could be shopping.
flattone commented on Researchers discover new salivary glands in the human head sciencealert.com/chance-d... · Posted by u/smitty1e
flattone commented on Researchers discover new salivary glands in the human head sciencealert.com/chance-d... · Posted by u/smitty1e
I’m a little surprised they went to a press release but didn’t say they identified a structure in a cadaver. So, at the moment, this is sort of like a geological feature that’s only ever been seen using a satellite.
What does that mean? (Zero medical cadaver background, with regard tk the distance of validity between one or the other). Satellites are a lot more powerful (hehe) than our eyes, so my understanding Of your point failed.
flattone commented on Cognitive deficits in people who have recovered from Covid-19 medrxiv.org/content/10.11... · Posted by u/luu
What I’m wondering: people talk about long term effects and we have 9-10 months of data. I remember I had a cold couple of years back and couldn’t taste nor smell for 3 months or so. What about long term effects for people who have gone through other diseases like the flu for example?
Also what about things like haircuts. And other stuff. Burnt toast. Hang nails.
I apologize. I never get more than 4 hours of Sleep. And this seems like a friendly jab over wanting to compare the flu to a different virus.
Pure humor from an also honest place.
flattone commented on Don’t pay for 95% (2016) 5kids1condo.com/dont-pay-... · Posted by u/PascLeRasc
Living in the city is awesome because of the awesome things about living in the city.
Living in the country is awesome because of the awesome things about living in the country.
Some people prefer one or the other, even to the point of thinking their way is superior.
Welcome to humans.
flattone commented on Police are requesting data from smart speakers wired.com/story/star-witn... · Posted by u/seigando
I want a smart speaker in the kitchen, because for a few functions (timer, weight conversions and arithmetic) it's really useful, and hands-free which in that particular context is really important. I feel like I could build something that did this for me myself iff I could get the wake-word functionality. Does anyone know of any open-source wake-word detection that's feasible to run on a Pi?
Mycroft ?
I've honestly never understood why these sorts of posts (even for those larger companies with services everyone relies on) get so much traction on HN. I can very easily tell for myself when a site is down, and it's not hard to find most companies' service status page. Sure, if a few days later we get an interesting/detailed post-mortem from the company, I'd find that interesting, but "X is down" does not tickle me intellectually at all, and just wastes a slot on the front page. The inevitable speculation as to whether it was a bad deploy, a bad configuration update, a DDoS attack, whatever, is just not really interesting, though I guess (IMO unfortunately) enough people here find it interesting.
Of course, I'm here commenting, so somehow I got enticed to click through to the comments, so who knows what that says about me...
Following the events outage is usually a pretty interesting drama, to me.