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What are your thoughts on gene manipulation? I feel like its gotten a bad rap

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What annoys me the most about the conversation is that we never split the conversation into 1. what the technology can do and 2. what humans do with it

The tech is amazing if we have more yield, less pests and less pesticides. But what humans make of it could be shit if we throw farmers into economical dependence on big companies

I'm undecided overall. But I want the conversation to be nuanced about these perspectives

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US marshals should have reverse DCA'd 1000 BTC every month but thats hindsight

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Note to myself: Always check if someone has already posted.

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might be something for @k00b to add to his to do list, if not already on there: an autocheck before posting a link to see if someone else already posted it.

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We tell you when the link is a duplicate of what someone else has posted. You can demo it by putting a link from the front page in the link form.

We don't prevent you from doing this however. Plan is just to make it very expensive to repost a link within a week or so.

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I tested it out. I think making it expensive makes sense.

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First post here :) feels good
Do you know any lightning project with dev bounties anywhere ?

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Welcome!

Sphinx chat has a whole page of bounties. :)

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Another Monday in bitcoin land
Everything will go as planned
ASICs, silicon, it's all just sand
I'm sorry if I'm rhymes are canned

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your rhyme is fine
but you got problems with time

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Are postings in non-english languages welcome on stacker news? For example in Germany we have a very strong Bitcoin community with a very high activity: new posts, translations, podcasts, apps. I would publish or link everything so that German-speaking stackers take note of all the new content. Any comments?

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This looks to be the future direction on non-English languages, as far as I can tell:

By default you would only see english posts (so the same as currently), but if you add more languages in your config page, you would see those too (if you have more than 1 language, then the selection flags could show up in the "create new post" page).

Stacker News will have other languages tab or we need to fork it to make it available to other languages?
#29249

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I am OK with other language content. If I really want to read it I can translate it.
Will be nice if posters would put a title or excerpt from that post in English.
But yes, it will be nice to see SN with subs dedicated to specific languages.
@k00b are you planning such thing?

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Watching my native currency tank whilst holding Bitcoin

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currencies are put upon us, they are not native to us

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which one is it? 😀

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The good ol' GBP!

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right... I've been reading today that it hit all time low in USD terms 😀

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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @gd 26 Sep 2022

Almost parity with USD. The worst part is that it's policy-driven, and policy makers have already announced that more of the same is to come very shortly.

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The math doesn't lie. All of them shitcoins are going to 0.

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Messing around with my fun project at UselessShit.co while learning React 🙂 Today I'm working on expanding the card generator features. At the moment it's only possible to include a lightning gift to a single bookmark/business card so I'm looking for a way to implement batch lightning gifts creation.

Also wondering if anyone tried to make a personalized card already and is willing to share the design 😀

Have a great Bitcoin Monday ahead!

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Cool project buddy!
I'm thinking of creating cards/stickers for coffee shops with an LN payment QR on it for the shops to receive tips. Maybe also add a link to a quick guide to LN & Bitcoin. Wdyt? Any suggestions?

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Thanks!

Once I'm done with bulk lightning gifts creating feature, I'm going to add sticker format to the generator. I've already bought some sticker paper to mess around with. Also could add an ability to easily include QR code to receive tips 🙂

Maybe also add a link to a quick guide to LN & Bitcoin.

A proper FAQ is on my mind recently. Would you be able to perhaps share some links with guides? I'll happily add them to the site 🙂

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Looking forward to that!
For FAQs, I'd say a somewhat unbiased and trusted site would be best for beginners (which seems to be your main target) - like Investopedia
Then you could add Intermediate level stuff - e.g. exchanges have good guides/FAQs on Bitcoin
And then for an even deeper dive Lyn Alden's 'A Look at the Lightning Network' is a good one, that comes to mind

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Hey @ShareblockHolmes, sticker format is available at my website with the qr code for tips feature 😉

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Thanks for the suggestions! Appreciate it 🙂

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