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witweb commented on Bye Bye Gmail m24tom.com/bye-bye-gmail/... · Posted by u/tklenke

Since we're all posting about our favourite email provider, Purelymail has been one of my best discoveries of the last year or so. Ten dollars a year (though it's expected that price will go up) for as many mailboxes as you like. There's a webmail too in case you don't want your own IMAP client. I migrated every email I had (except an unmigrateable @gmail.com) to Purelymail over Christmas and I couldn't be happier.

witweb · 2 months ago

Purelymail is really good. I've been using it for over 4 years now and haven't had any issues around deliverability or availability. It might not be fancy but it has almost any feature you'd want.

witweb commented on Unlearning perfectionism arunkprasad.com/log/unlea... · Posted by u/akprasad

witweb · 4 years ago

Great article, in which I find myself partially. I have tried for many years to be quite perfectionistic but mostly because of the feeling of not being good enough. It's a pretty destructive behavior as you're always anxious and imagining the worst. At some point at university, I was able to slowly discard this behavior, although this development is certainly not over yet. What helped me most were good friends and a part-time job in a consulting firm, which I absolutely hated btw. But overall I learned to focus more on the important things and generally to care less. I'm generally happier with my work and don't let setbacks get to me as quickly. Rather, I take them as a challenge to become even better. (Starting my first job as an engineer after university soon btw! :))

witweb commented on Adobe tricks users into a 12 month contract twitter.com/darkpatterns/... · Posted by u/zdw

sibit · 4 years ago

For anyone stuck in this dark pattern here is a trick I've used in the past:

Adobe won't let you cancel without paying the remainder of your subscription fee however you can switch to a different plan. As soon as you switch you'll have the ability to cancel your "new" plan within 14 days. If you cancel after 14 days they'll charge you the early termination fee.

witweb · 4 years ago

Thank you so much, I was able to successfully cancel my plan for free!

witweb commented on Proof-of-Stake and Stablecoins: A Blockchain Centralization Dilemma lynalden.com/proof-of-sta... · Posted by u/yasp

TTPrograms · 4 years ago

I keep seeing the argument that Proof of Stake is more centralizing than Proof of Work, but it doesn't really add up with what I'm seeing in practice - Bitcoin mining centralized heavily around cheap electricity sources and companies that can afford SOTA dedicated mining ASICs. In contrast, anybody can become an ETH staker by purchasing the requisite amount of ETH (currently worth around $128,000, previously closer to $32,000) and make profitable return on it. You also retain a liquid asset that can be sold back at a later date. With the staking pools even this lockup amount can be reduced arbitrarily.

For a consumer to participate in PoW based on current miners it seems like they need to buy perpetually out-of-stock specialized ASICs for a sunk cost of $10-15k with the expectation that they'll break even in about a year and probably need to refresh in 3. The hardware management aspect as well as the variable cost of electricity seems to incentivize centralization of mining significantly.

Being able to standup a staking node with commodity hardware seems far more accessible.

witweb · 4 years ago

I don't really get your point here as you don't have to buy ASICs every X years with PoW consensus. A friend of mine mines with his 3070 in a mining pool and makes a small plus with it. Hell, you can even mine with a 7 year old PC. Will you ever find a block? Probably not, but you're still securing the network and may get lucky. I don't see how this incentivizes centralization any more than PoS. With PoS, you have to be part of the network by spending money on a token while with PoW, you just need an existing PC with some compute power.