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1/ Click on example in check box

2/ Click the send button

3/ Redirects to login / sign up dialog

4/ forced to switch to email

5/ log in to password manager

6/ do 2FA

7/ enter verification code

8/ redirects to dashboard

9/ example clicked never shows up

No. Just no.


Seems par for the course nowadays


Hackers, just let us try your product immediately


Anki.


Anki is a good way to preserve progress made, and even make enormous amount of progress(in the medium and long term), but I don't think it was going to be a complete solution all by itself.


this. i think many people don’t get that spaced repetition isn’t for learning new things the first time.


I am afraid I have to disagree. The very act of creating Anki cards or any flashcards, for that matter, is unparalleled for learning new material. I would consider it similar to the Feynman method in that it forces you to dive deeper into what you do not understand.


Then why can't i stop working on it for free? I've never been so passionate about working on open source; it's a compulsion at this point.


done on lightning network, so very little indeed.


Wait, lightning network is really cheap for moving money on existing channels, but channel openings still need to happen on-chain right? That would still mean one transaction per citizen to open their lightning channel. Or, at least, one output.


How does this sciencealert type garbage even reach the HN frontpage?


This story is an example of one of the rare few I'd like to open the Mollyguard cage and click the Downvote (on the submission) for.


Law of large numbers. Do what I did and flag it and move on.

More substantively, I agree with other commenters who have said all this shows is that there are people who have lower depression who wake up one hour earlier. Definitely does seem like clickbait.


> Do what I did and flag it and move on.

And yet here you are.


Ironically, the thread is now flagged, which proves my point. I get that it's fun to be snide on the internet, but is that worth it if you end up in the wrong anyways?


I genuinely wonder who benefits from people adapting to wake up (and potentially go to work) earlier.


If you don't like it, just need not to read -- what was wrong?


Seems lobsided. Sure Bitcoin suffers from high fees, but it serves well as a savings account. We've also started accepting litecoin payments on our site: I set it up once, and forgot about it. With Paypal it's a never-ending rigamarole.

I've recently closed my bank account, and started using something a bit more up-to-date (Revolut). I believe Bitcoin is the single biggest innovation driver in the tech sector right now.. but sure.. it's a scam.


Bitcoin is more like a security, with characteristics more akin to rare metals than a savings account. It's entirely unfit for that purpose.


That makes it a commodity, not a security. Securities are very specific things described by the SEC Act and the Howey test.

But if you don't like Bitcoin you can use USD based cryptos like DAI or USDC to transact and conduct peer-to-peer lending, purchase art work, save with higher yield, provide liquidity in a peer to peer marketplace, etc. By no means do you have to choose Bitcoin.


> Sure Bitcoin suffers from high fees, but it serves well as a savings account.

Does it? Your Bitcoin "savings account" would have lost over 45% of its value over the past month and a half.


A friend of mine paid another friend of mine $80 in BTC for a trip we did about 5 years ago. That BTC, never touched, is now worth $5000. At any rate, it's definitely volatile, because the asset class is still a small (but growing) potato in the grand scheme of commodities markets. One thing we can be sure of, it will never go negative in price, unlike oil.


Oil prices didn't go negative, the price of a financial derivative did.


True, but people often just use oil as shorthand for oil futures.


I'd be pretty alarmed if my untouched savings account grew by 6250% over five years.


Would you be alarmed if your untouched savings account debased by 50% or so in purchasing power since then?


Yes. That's the point. Bitcoin serves incredibly poorly as a savings account, along every conceivable axis.


When you save money, do you save for the long term or for 1.5 months from now? If you save for the long term, and you're earning 0.5% interest on your $10K, how much less can you buy with it now, in terms of real estate, rent, stocks, commodities, etc?

Also, note it is entirely possible to invest on what's called a risk curve. You can allocate some portion of your savings, maybe 5-10% as a hedge. No need to go all in. Maybe 0.5%. at any rate, your savings account has cost you 50% or more in purchasing power for meaningful assets in the past 5 years. While you've gained a great deal of purchasing power if you held crypto.


Depends on your timeframe.

Yes i've lost a lot of my net worth compared to last month.

Compared to last year, i'm up 3.5x.

That's one of the things i like about using Bitcoin as a savings account, it makes me think more longterm about my finances.


> I believe Bitcoin is the single biggest innovation driver in the tech sector right now

Not gonna lie, I laughed at this.


Can you please make your substantive points without swipes? It's hard for conversations like this to stay interesting and this sort of exchange tends to push them over a cliff.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


Yes sorry it was a typo. I meant to write:

> I believe Bitcoin is the single biggest innovation driver in the *fin*tech sector right now.

Obviously not the biggest driver in tech; i don't blame you fr laughing at this statement.


Ah, that statement makes much more sense when you correct it to fintech.

I think I’d be inclined to point towards “neo-banks” as being more innovative in that specific sector, but that’s within “reasonable to disagree” range.


I needed that too.


lord thanks for mentioning this.


interesting. normally I just save my model in sklearn, but I like how this does the caching transparently before even building the model.


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