Hacker News: nkuttler

New comment by nkuttler in "Binance lays off over 1k Employees"

nkuttler — Sat, 15 Jul 2023 00:08:24 +0000

> I could ask the same, because I haven't found many ardent defenders of cryptocurrency outside the tech circles of the so called developed world.

Not surprising, you live in a media bubble filled with people from the "developed world".

New comment by nkuttler in "Binance lays off over 1k Employees"

nkuttler — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 21:57:51 +0000

Bitcoin has absolutely nothing to do with web3, so you provided an empty list.

New comment by nkuttler in "Binance lays off over 1k Employees"

nkuttler — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 20:18:09 +0000

If your country's money and banking works for you I don't think I can explain to you why bitcoin is useful, you simply have no use for it. That your peers primarily use it for speculation says more about them than about bitcoin.

New comment by nkuttler in "Binance lays off over 1k Employees"

nkuttler — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 19:45:42 +0000

> the BTC network uses a staggering amount of power

Actually, bitcoin uses a ridiculously small amount of power for what it provides. See for example here https://www.lynalden.com/bitcoin-energy/ for an introduction to clear up this misconception.

New comment by nkuttler in "Founder of crypto lender Celsius Network arrested, charged with fraud"

nkuttler — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 20:01:04 +0000

> So most of the people using it are either bad actors or speculators

"bad actors" according to their government, which could mean people who simply want the right to vote, or to live free from oppression, secret police, etc.

New comment by nkuttler in "Mark Zuckerberg: “We’re moving very slowly” (2012)"

nkuttler — Sun, 09 Jul 2023 20:45:18 +0000

Opened in Firefox, nothing (presuambly adblock), openened in chrome, HTTP 429. Haha.

New comment by nkuttler in "Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake"

nkuttler — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 06:17:42 +0000

> Apple marketed the iPad Pro as a replacement for a computer

Nah, they were using an extremely narrow definition of computer, one where you can buy and consume stuff and do "cool" social media with the device. If that's not your use case you want a different kind of computer.

New comment by nkuttler in "Leo Tolstoy on why people drink (2014)"

nkuttler — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 22:06:20 +0000

> People do drugs to escape seemingly-insurmountable problem(s) in their life.

Some people

New comment by nkuttler in "GCC Adopts a Code of Conduct"

nkuttler — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 17:49:49 +0000

> Hi! Reminder: “guys” is an inherently gendered term.

That's not a ping, that's imposing your language on others. A ping would be something like "guys is a gendered term for some people"

New comment by nkuttler in "GCC Adopts a Code of Conduct"

nkuttler — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 15:06:01 +0000

I witnessed everything, the bullies used the CoC to justify their behavior and told me their committee encouraged their enforcement of the CoC in this way. People on the committee have published articles on the matter calling for such enforcement. Bullying is well defined https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullying, I specifically mean it in the sense of repeated abusive behavior by people with more power.

New comment by nkuttler in "GCC Adopts a Code of Conduct"

nkuttler — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 14:42:26 +0000

The fact that it was white people bullying people from all over the planet only made it worse.

New comment by nkuttler in "GCC Adopts a Code of Conduct"

nkuttler — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 14:37:42 +0000

I'm not sure what kind of details you're looking for?

New comment by nkuttler in "GCC Adopts a Code of Conduct"

nkuttler — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 14:07:34 +0000

Here's a shocking concept: language has context.

New comment by nkuttler in "Former US SEC attorney: 'Get out of crypto platforms now'"

nkuttler — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 21:10:27 +0000

Dunno, it seems like you started a thread with name calling.

New comment by nkuttler in "The Federated App Problem"

nkuttler — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 07:11:55 +0000

> A big problem is that you don't actually see content on other instances

What do you mean? On lemmy you simply click "all" and see a feed from all federated sources, on kbin that seems to be the default. When you open threads/posts you see comments from all sources. The other stuff doesn't exist yet as the platform is very new. You can help.

New comment by nkuttler in "The note Reddit sent to moderators threatening them if they don’t reopen"

nkuttler — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 21:13:34 +0000

I can take your GPL code and never show it to anyone any more, that doesn't violate the license. I also don't have to publish GPL code indefinitely simply because I showed it to you once. Terrible analogy.

New comment by nkuttler in "The note Reddit sent to moderators threatening them if they don’t reopen"

nkuttler — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 17:38:44 +0000

That sounds like toxic work, any sane person would rather move somewhere else and do something productive, like building a new community, or find an entirely new hobby.

New comment by nkuttler in "The note Reddit sent to moderators threatening them if they don’t reopen"

nkuttler — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 17:35:57 +0000

> in the hands of someone who openly says they aren't going to use it

Closing it IS using it, in a very public and visible way. They just don't like HOW it is used by the people who built it.

New comment by nkuttler in "Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private"

nkuttler — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 07:43:58 +0000

> reddit sti needs all those people who provide the content people browse for, etc

Seems like they are betting their future on commercial content producers. If you're on /r/all a lot of the content is already reposts, disguised corporate posts, professional reshufflers and karma hoarders, etc.

New comment by nkuttler in "The Reddit blackout will continue"

nkuttler — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 08:46:24 +0000

> commercial value of Reddit is not in r/AskHistorians, it’s in r/aww and r/earthporn and r/mildlyinteresting

That's incredibly short sighted but probably in line with how reddit execs view things. /r/aww and /r/earthporn are trivial to replicate on any other site, /r/AskHistorians is not. It's the small subs with loyal users that build an environment where the cookie-cutter content aggregators are profitable. Oh well, all for the IPO pump n dump.