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Hitchie_Rawtin @lemmy.world
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UFC star Israel Adesanya mocks Auckland prosecutor to fans after drink-driving discharge
  • What's with UFC fighters people turning into dickheads once their career takes off they have money?

    This is the actual answer to its own question 99% of the time, they gain a misguided sense of their own self-importance through survivorship bias.

    Luckily we have people like Alex and Khabib who come along and - at least temporarily - humble the cunts.

  • 2023 was the year that GPUs stood still
  • Is there any issue with buying a card that was previously used for mining?

    If used by a home user who didn't know what they were doing they might have run it hotter for much longer than a typical gamer so the thermal paste might need a redo.

    If used by some miner doing it even quasi-professionally or as a side-gig I'd much prefer it over a 2nd hand card from any typical gamer (most miners) they've kept the voltage/temps low and taken care of it far better than a gamer who might be power cycling regularly and definitely thermal cycling even more regularly.

  • Tumblr is reportedly on life support as its latest owner reassigns staff
  • It seems that way to us on the face of it but the lines that've been trotted out are firstly the worry that money is coming from an illegal source whether underaged or trafficked and secondly that money laundering could be happening, OF would be/is an extremely easy way to clean dirty money.

    They used to have to set up actual businesses that did actual work in case a genuine customer appeared, now they can buy feet pics and jars of farts or whatever.

  • Phones should have FM radio again
  • It's funny how the few who're totally sold on Bluetooth go "ugh, but then you'd need a headphone jack" as if it isn't an upgrade for others which wouldn't affect their ability to use Bluetooth at all.

  • Cloud storage platform on its own blockchain?
  • Thanks for the downvote - cloud storage is one aspect of it, yep. It's essentially AWS with blockchain security, no tracking, biometric logins and no need for a firewall. It's not meant to be a replacement for Ethereum or Bitcoin - why would anybody want to build an immutable fully featured website? Something like Reddit but built to be immutable and uncensorabke would become the world's largest CSAM repo.

    The tokenomics are truly awful like any VC-bootstrapped inflationary coin although a huge amount is staked for 8 years, it's currently not decentralised enough with only 500+ nodes although I'd argue that that woeful amount is more decentralised than any chain where 3-4 pools decide what the miners and network does and it has zero ties with the WEF, they booked a room in the same building at Davos along with a few other tech companies. When my business has its manager meetings in a conference hall we're not suddenly in cahoots with the businesses in the other rooms either side of us. Ethereum has closer ties to the UN given they've worked directly with UNICEF.

    It does incorporate smart contracts though, which you don't seem to want.

    Anyway, I wasn't trying to convince you of anything or shill the coin - you asked a question and I answered!

    Next time instead of copying the /r/cryptocurrency rhetoric because "waah the price has dropped" maybe ask yourself why Vitalik considers ICP to be a sister network to Ethereum.

  • What Lemmy Client(s) Do You Use?
  • Your timeline would almost certainly be a little less stupid if you did that with gusto, but people who've disagreed with you can also post things beneficial to you or post insights you hadn't thought of or post advice you'd find useful. I was a heavy RES tagger on reddit and I'd often come across well-meaning or useful posts and comments from people who'd been marked for saying jawdroppingly stupid shit about some other subject.

  • Basic human needs
  • As are crepes. Yankakes are kinda gross, the baking powder gives them a really weird squeaky mouthfeel, kinda like rubbing cotton wool between your fingers but for the mouth.

  • The new system to replace Reddit coins and awards is here. You got out at the right time.
  • It was much worse in 2019, a post hitting over 100-200 was unusual and the comment sections were beyond dead. Most comment sections these days are still filled with hope, in 2019 suicide hotline threads were a weekly occurrence or more.

    We'll see anyway, the BTC halving has led to a run 3 times in a row so far, just like clockwork. Barring another recession I just see the same pattern forming.

  • Meh, I'd count that as a win.🤸
  • The benefit is the protocol can be used by any other ticket resellers worldwide very easily without having to set up some kind of multinational co-op and that the protocol/smart contract enforces the rules.

    Usually the argument I'd hear is "But couldn't any company do this with a database?" and the answer is "Sure they could - now show me a company with shareholders who profit off of their consumers getting fucked over habitually that's willing to do it."

    Ticketmaster thrives on being a law unto themselves, everybody complains about them, here's something that fixes it, proven to work for years, millions of tickets sold with no sign of a scalping market and the people who hate shitcoins throw their toys out of the pram and insist on maintaining Ticketmaster's dominance.

    Congrats I guess, you get what you deserve.

    Your conflating the idea of BTC or other currencies being decentralised with the needs of a specific protocol - not everything has to be shitcoin maximalism, it just has to be useful to the businesses and consumers using it. Purchases being made though normal money is a feature, not sure why you'd want it to be crypto since you hate it, you don't want to force people to see the boring backend stuff that shouldn't matter to them, that's what smart contracts are essentially for. The protocol enforces a ruleset, that's it. If it was designed to be transferrable wherever to whomever without using the protocol the original negative point you had at first (which you seemed to think is a bad thing, as do I) would now exist with people selling wallets and such.

  • The new system to replace Reddit coins and awards is here. You got out at the right time.
  • Oh there's a ton of interest but just kept to shitcoiners for now - the subreddits are nothing like they were during the bear market around 2019, back then it was a ghost town even with a subscriber count of 800k but now they're still very active due to an influx of millions of users (6m subs on the main shitcoin sub).

    It'll all likely swing back up in the next two years and become a media and scam frenzy again, then another crash, rinse, repeat.

    Reddit shilling decentralisation and ownership knowing how they've acted the last few months is hilarious though, they've been prideful of saying "nope you don't own shit,now fuck off somewhere else" and spez bootlickers have been parroting it endlessly too. Seems odd that they're the people Reddit are going to have to advertise this... Fauxnership to.

  • Meh, I'd count that as a win.🤸
  • GUTS tickets?

    They mention the protocol prominently but don't make note of the token standard they use (ERC-721, maybe ERC-1155 these days - aka NFTs).

    You can't really sell your wallet as easily as you think, it's tied to your GUTS account which you've verified on your phone along with all of your personal details so the new meta fantasy you'd have to imagine is somebody selling tickets with phone or selling a GUTS account with maybe a burner phone number but also your actual personal details attached (this hasn't been happening...at all), it's not like selling somebody a BTC private key. Different protocols can have different rules built in.

    One of Netherlands largest comedians uses them and was delighted with the eradication of scalpers after they sold 50k tickets in a few hours for him. Ziggo Dome partnered with them (big 17k concert venue) and has also extolled the virtue of a scalperless ticket seller/reseller.

    I get it, you hate shitcoins and anything related to shitcoins is immediately cancer - but this exists and it works and has worked millions of times.

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  • until it's actually too late

    Don't worry - with everything else we've done to fuck up the environment and ignoring the filth in the oceans... it's probably already too late! We'd have to massively curb consumerism to get the happy ending and...ooh, new shiny toy!

  • Meh, I'd count that as a win.🤸
  • They're pretty good for getting rid of ticket touts but the company doing that is based in the Netherlands and it's slow to spread elsewhere. The protocol's rules mean you can't resell for more than face value and they've sold over 4m tickets that way.