Grustaf

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by Grustaf 4y ago
This is technically true, but crypto currency does make the most sense when there is no middle-man. If you merely replace the backend of the banking system with a blockchain, nobody would care.
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by Grustaf 4y ago
I mean you don't need people to manually make money transfers anymore, but I don't think many people do that. Banks have a lot of different jobs, very few of them are obsoleted by crypto, at least so far.
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by Grustaf 4y ago
Yes exactly.
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by Grustaf 4y ago
I don't agree at all. It is definitely a nice feature, but as with everything else, it's a trade-off. Most people, today, want these features, but it's definitely not true that a payment system "has to" have them. C
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by Grustaf 4y ago
I guess it differs by geography, but here in Sweden, when I accidentally transferred €10k to an old account that didn't exist anymore I wasn't the least bit concerned that the money would get lost. I would have been extremely surp
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by Grustaf 4y ago
Of course it should be part of the discussion, but the article seems to think that crypto people are unaware of it. They're not, they just think it's worth it.
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by Grustaf 4y ago
For most people it isn't. Maybe at some point it will, if governments let the money printer brr even more, or if we see more of what Canada did. If that is amplified by say 10x, I think a lot of people would start to reconsider.
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by Grustaf 4y ago
Yes, it is, in the traditional financial system. Crypto is an attempt at building an alternative, with different trade-offs. You might not agree with the trade-offs, most people don't - I mostly don't, but it's definitely a c
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by Grustaf 4y ago
I was referring to people in crypto. Obviously the general public prefers traditional payment systems because most people have no problem trusting that the banks will do the right thing.
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by Grustaf 4y ago
If it's immutable, it only needs to be audited once.
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by Grustaf 4y ago
This is not necessarily a flaw in the technology, it's just one way in which it differs from what we are used to. I think most coiners, who skew strongly libertarian, would argue that it's up to you to make sure your smart contrac
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by Grustaf 4y ago
I'm very sceptical of blockchain (though I've been in crypto off and on since 2013) but most of the arguments in this article are non-sensical. For example: > But even if all code was without mistakes, blockchains can’t do anyt
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by Grustaf 4y ago
Going to Japanese and back is probably more effective than passing through 10 Indo-European languages as I think it did for me, all the ones I remember were at least IE. The sentence came with exactly the same meaning.
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by Grustaf 5y ago
I'm often contacted by recruiters that have no formal connection with the company that is hiring. They simply find wanted ads, go look for people that sort of match the requirements. When they find some, they'll take them to the c
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by Grustaf 5y ago
Thanks for the thoughtful response! But I'm actually not interested in the computational side of biology, it might be a way in but I really don't find IT interesting, it just happen to be very lucrative, so as soon as I can I want
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by Grustaf 5y ago
The thing is I DON'T want to do anything related to computers, it's just a good way to make money.
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by Grustaf 5y ago
So you're working in bio but yearning for IT? I'm almost the opposite. IT pays the bills, but I wish I was in evolutionary biology.
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by Grustaf 5y ago
> It pushes you to become a better person I'm sure this is true, I've noticed a lot of the best football playing kids in my son's circles are short, and often immigrants. > There is no chance you can be unfit, fat or aw
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by Grustaf 5y ago
I am not talking about you, just saying that if you're charismatic height is not relevant, any tinder girl that says she only dates tall guys will forget that if a short rock star shows up. No idea why you'd say Gabe is famous ric
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by Grustaf 5y ago
Very interesting name for a voice coach.
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by Grustaf 5y ago
What people say is not important, obviously no-one will say that, but in practice nobody cares how tall Mick Jagger is, or Gabe in The Office.
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by Grustaf 5y ago
I agree about practice, but going into a bar and making business connections is pretty different from going to the gym. In five minutes of googling you'll find excellent training programmes, so detailed that a child can follow them. Bu
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by Grustaf 5y ago
> And it's structured, so if you are shy about sudden surprise situations, it can be comforting to know what is expected That’s what I mean, I believe people like the OP tend to be concerned about daily life, random encounters, comp
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by Grustaf 5y ago
I’d say it’s just a matter of exposure and practice. If you force yourself to spend a lot of time in the kinds of situations that make you awkward, eventually you’ll figure out how to handle them, how to speak, how to react, what to say whe
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by Grustaf 5y ago
That doesn’t sound like it would help with every day awkwardness, does it? I presume that’s what OP wanted help with.
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by Grustaf 5y ago
What does global maximum even mean? The best animal of all? Evolution did at least create the most powerful animal, us.
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by Grustaf 5y ago
Also doesn’t mean it isn’t.
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by Grustaf 5y ago
Wanting to drink may be like a depression or a cold, but proceeding to buy and consume alcohol is something you actively do. Or are you saying alcoholics lack free will? Then I suppose drug addicts should be immune from prosecution if they
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by Grustaf 5y ago
Well the wheels alone are not enough, a draisine bike is not as efficient as a pedal powered bike!
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by Grustaf 5y ago
I don't know about shame or moral failure, but alcoholism is obviously different from cancer or a broken leg in that you can control it yourself, even if it might be very hard for some. A lot of other conditions also benefit from a mor

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