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The problem with BTC going down is that it's a double whammy of not only BTC going down but also the cost of its shovels going up

Before: BTC pays $100k but a shovel costs $300

Now: BTC pays $70k but a shovel costs $$??

Bitcoin asked the right questions but came back with the wrong answers


What's a shovel?

They're using the analogy of mining for gold. the cost of a shovel/pitchfork goes up when the price of gold goes down - which is a double whammy

you didn't answer the question. A shovel in this case is the equipment + energy needed to mine (GPU's etc.)

Which is pretty much obvious to anyone who has heard of bitcoin in the year of our lord 2026

Especially since the "sell shovels during a gold rush" has been used to apply to nVidia


But the person upstream hasn’t. It’s not obvious to them. Which is why a good answer has to include the detail.

I think the main problem is that you lose the surface anodization and might end up with a more frail surface there (surface, the structural integrity is going to suffer but not much I guess)

I'm surprised RHEL is requiring AVX2 models, they usually had some slack in processor requirements (though I'm sure not as big as Debian)


"We have two versions of Outlook and none of them are working"

There are four ̶s̶i̶x̶ ̶(s̶e̶v̶e̶n̶ five counting the web version) maintained Outlook variants on Windows 11, last I checked and I have issues with each one. Search especially, but then that has remained an unsolved problem for 30 years. I am sure "AI" will finally solve this.

Edit: Have checked and found that two I thought were still maintained (16 and 19) were EOLd in October.


> you can buy a PASS age verification card at the local post office for 15£

If there's one thing the UK internet has taught me is that some brits will throw a fit for every minor inconvenience they face

"Dole appoint at 10am 30min from home!?" Means it's an unsurmountable challenge from them as they might be hangover from the previous day and what do you mean I have to pay the bus fare to get there?

Of course the privacy point stands. But their complaint is not about privacy, is about the effort


It would be ironic if Xorg launched a twitter competitor using a custom update protocol (an X extension) over the network and TCL

knowing how xorg currently operates (it doesn't, it has a successor) it'd be a wayland protocol negotiated over dbus and mainly opposed by the GNOME people


A collection of strongly opinionated crypto experts running on hopes more than money is no way to run a government^W^W a messaging app

> C@+ (try to search this one nowadays)

I think not even Wikipedia knows about this (at least with a quick search)


Got the name a bit off, see other HNers replies.

This number is probably not counting equity (not sure a CFO would have a variable compensation as well)

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