EscapeFromNY

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by EscapeFromNY 3y ago
Tip culture became popular in the American South during the slavery era, as a way for former slaveowners to "employ" former slaves without having to pay them directly. https://time.com/5404475/history-tipping-
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by EscapeFromNY 3y ago
Sorry lol. They were offline when I posted though https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36294244 https://downdetector.com/status/reddit/
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by EscapeFromNY 3y ago
There's a list here https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/ Or there would be, if reddit weren't offline
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by EscapeFromNY 3y ago
They put an impressive amount of work into that site. There are notifications and an autoupdating counter, and even a livestream. https://www.twitch.tv/reddark_247
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by EscapeFromNY 3y ago
I just tried it and it's exactly what I was hoping for! Unfortunately though the terminal can't run standalone: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/34442
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by EscapeFromNY 3y ago
Fellow light theme user here. Forced terminal colors are the bane of my existence. I would kill for a contrast-aware terminal emulator that forces every character to have a minimum contrast with its background.
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by EscapeFromNY 3y ago
When it comes to the US, a lot of people treat "freedom" as a euphemism for war. (see: Team America) I wonder if "protection" will start becoming a euphemism for surveillance.
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by EscapeFromNY 3y ago
I like to tell people that a US state is the size of a European country, and USA the country is as large as Europe the continent. "Oh, you're from Europe? What language do they speak in Europe?"
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by EscapeFromNY 3y ago
Yes please! I got called lazy as a kid since I had trouble getting up at 5:30am daily so I could walk to school. My generation is already fucked, but maybe we can fix things for the next one. EDIT: and my school district was staggered the w
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by EscapeFromNY 3y ago
If you replaced the subject matter with something more mundane, this exchange would be hilarious. It almost reminds me of a Monty Python sketch. 1> Here's a paper that calculates the average lifespan of humans. The average lifespan
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by EscapeFromNY 3y ago
Reddit's valuation has been tanking even before this drama. https://www.businessinsider.com/fidelity-marks-down-stripe-r... They're so eager to screw over their users, they couldn't even wait until after the
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by EscapeFromNY 3y ago
You might be interested in https://github.com/ellie/atuin > Atuin replaces your existing shell history with a SQLite database, and records additional context for your commands.
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by EscapeFromNY 3y ago
> Which is an entirely different metric Of course not. If you disagree, at least try to present a coherent argument instead of just talking about squirrels. What entities do you think are missing from the list: exchanges or exchange-lik
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by EscapeFromNY 3y ago
> There is nothing in the paper to support this claim The paper literally says, "75% of the real bitcoin volume has been linked to exchanges or exchange-like entities" You may think the source isn't perfect, but at least
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by EscapeFromNY 3y ago
> Because there is certainly plenty of speculation outside of those entities. Sure. And there's plenty of non-speculative activity outside of those entities as well. The paper explicitly looks at on-chain activity only. > Because
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by EscapeFromNY 3y ago
https://old.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/1401qw5/incomplet... There's the list so far. Definitely some heavy hitters in there. Note that if you want to see the full list you'll have to click
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by EscapeFromNY 3y ago
Probably one day, yes. And then the cat and mouse game will continue.
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by EscapeFromNY 3y ago
Each of my links has examples of people exchanging goods and services in bitcoin for various reasons. Do you consider that productive economic activity (the "P")? If you don't: why is it productive when I buy a car using doll
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by EscapeFromNY 3y ago
You don't have to bet, the data is in the paper I linked. 75% of bitcoin volume is speculation. Meanwhile in the traditional economy, 95% of global financial activity is speculation (see below). What level of speculation would you say
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by EscapeFromNY 3y ago
Sometimes yes, sometimes no. In the second and third links, what laws were being evaded?
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by EscapeFromNY 3y ago
If it's hurting more than it's helping, then we should probably get rid of it. But you'd need to bring some data proving as much. The attention grabbing headlines that linger in your memory are a biased sub-sample. For bitcoi
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by EscapeFromNY 3y ago
The article skips directly from #4 to #6, so I'll nominate something for #5: ranges should not be iterators. Instead they should impl IntoIterator and the iterators should be separate types. That way ranges can impl Copy without any is
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by EscapeFromNY 3y ago
There are plenty of real world uses. - https://time.com/5486673/bitcoin-venezuela-authoritarian/ - https://coincodecap.com/danish-reporters-in-ukraine-buy-used... - https://news.ycombin
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by EscapeFromNY 3y ago
In your analogy, "Facebook et al" seems equivalent to "Binance et al". And OP asked about journalists too. Imagine if CNBC ran an article titled "Facebook fined for privacy violations - is this the end of the intern
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by EscapeFromNY 3y ago
Say voat again, I dare you
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by EscapeFromNY 3y ago
I had a similar experience. I brought a gold bar to Jumbo and tried to buy a croissant, and the cashier just looked at me funny and asked for my card. That's when I realized gold is worthless
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by EscapeFromNY 3y ago
It's an interesting point, but I think you've stretched it a little thin. Taking one of your examples, I don't think anyone would ever say "it's reasonable to treat the web as interchangeable with Facebook". Su
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by EscapeFromNY 3y ago
I would restore from an off-site backup.
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by EscapeFromNY 3y ago
At the end of the day, figuring out whether new crypto companies are trustworthy might be as much of a burden as figuring out how to handle the keys yourself. If you really don't want to self-custody, probably the next safest option
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by EscapeFromNY 3y ago
Most of my commercial transactions are still in fiat. I do use crypto when I can, and yes it's done straight from a local wallet. I use an android app called Cake Wallet and the private key stays locally on the device. I keep as much o

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