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  1. Comment on How are you dealing with inflation regarding everyday enjoyment? in ~life

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    I wouldn't have called it a crisis back then but I'd say around 2018. It got especially worse after a month where the currency had a huge drop post-covid however.

    I wouldn't have called it a crisis back then but I'd say around 2018. It got especially worse after a month where the currency had a huge drop post-covid however.

  2. Comment on How are you dealing with inflation regarding everyday enjoyment? in ~life

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    To give more context, the current economic crisis is caused due to past horrible mismanagement (lowering credit rates when inflation was going up), a major earthquake that has happened a year ago...

    To give more context, the current economic crisis is caused due to past horrible mismanagement (lowering credit rates when inflation was going up), a major earthquake that has happened a year ago and a self-fulfilling inflation cycle. The current minimum wage is so much below the poverty line where you would not be able to feed yourself without going to debt.

    The only saving grace is that interest rates has been getting hiked recently but it is still below both the official(~70%) and unofficial(124%) inflation numbers. Still, it is estimated that it'll take years for the economy to recover.

    It's not horrible if you are a university student though. State/Public Universities provide much cheaper food and housing(if you're accepted to the dorms). I've even heard a 40yo adult enroll in university again for this.

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  3. Comment on Are Free Software developers at risk? A potential threat to Free Software developers looms in the form of an ongoing lawsuit in the UK involving Bitcoin and its core developers. in ~tech

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    Small correction: A blockchain prevents any point in history being modified without points between that point and the current point being modified but it provides no 'resistance' whatsoever. The...

    Git itself is a blockchain (git is the source code version management software used by Bitcoin). Because it's a blockchain there's resistance to starting over from scratch.

    Small correction: A blockchain prevents any point in history being modified without points between that point and the current point being modified but it provides no 'resistance' whatsoever. The resistance for Bitcoin's case comes from the proof of work algorithm. You essentially need to do enough work to surpass the amount of work others did from the point of modification, not only that but you need to work faster than the miners on chain(aka having 51% of the hash power) so you can pass their work and make people accept your chain.

    Also that's why it's easy to change git history even though it's a blockchain. You can just rebase it and amend the commits. There's no separate mechanism that determines which history is genuine.

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  4. Comment on Reddit pops as much as 70% in NYSE debut after selling shares at top of range in ~tech

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    It's available as a torrent, I can share a magnet link if you want. (1.6 TB; zstd compressed)

    I’ve been meaning to snag a copy for ages…

    It's available as a torrent, I can share a magnet link if you want. (1.6 TB; zstd compressed)

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