Sargos

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by Sargos 6y ago
> Americans would find it intrusive if Apple was strong enough to tell the US govt to back off. Are you sure? I remember people backing Apple when they were protecting users phones from FBI hacking.
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by Sargos 6y ago
I wish Apple would protect me from Apple
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by Sargos 6y ago
Honestly just curious, but how can you describe them as complete scumbags but still have "nothing but respect for these guys"? Is it just a platitude or do you really respect them even though they are bad people?
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by Sargos 6y ago
I don't think that's true and history has shown it isn't true. The US couldn't stop alcohol consumption during prohibition even using all of its power and a full conditional amendment at its back. The war on drugs has al
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by Sargos 6y ago
This is a nice thought but that ship has sailed especially with the invention of things like Bitcoin. Capital naturally moves wherever it's best used and there's no way for a government to really prevent that.
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by Sargos 6y ago
> IMO, there's a multibillion dollar company waiting to be founded to provide authenticity verification services for humans online. Any kind of widely used identity/authentication system would need to be a protocol and not a pr
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by Sargos 6y ago
>I don’t see why Epic couldn’t create their own gaming focussed device, and buy a bunch of exclusive titles including their own content. Nobody would buy a phone that only plays (a few) games and has very little useful apps. You're
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by Sargos 6y ago
Yes it can due to all phone apps being funneled through only 2 corporations. Until we get a more open mobile platform and a more decentralized mobile app store then governments have easy access to strict controls over what apps we are allow
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by Sargos 6y ago
I haven't really picked many of my leaders. Most of the government is appointed by the president so I have no say in that. I only get two choices for president neither of which represent me much at all. My congressional district is ger
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by Sargos 6y ago
Until our governmental system is overhauled to allow for more democracy and less powerful individuals then the citizens really don't bare much responsibility for the actions of our masters. I live in a gerrymandered district with no re
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by Sargos 6y ago
Both parties support this. Citizens don't really have a say in how most of the government works.
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by Sargos 6y ago
You can talk in the physical world without being in any particular country so none of the governments have a monopoly either. With that definition we don't even really need the concept of free speech as you always have a choice of wher
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by Sargos 6y ago
It's not easy to root most phones and when you do a lot of apps such as bank apps refuse to run and can be considered broken. It does exist as an option for very tech savvy people but the downsides are very real and not palatable to th
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by Sargos 6y ago
FileCoin is the incentivization layer for IPFS, both built by Protocol Labs.
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by Sargos 6y ago
The problem is that we don't know which of the ideas are good and which are terrible until we have hindsight.
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by Sargos 6y ago
Sort of like a credit score matched with landlords who vouch that you rented from them before. The longer that history the harder it is to fake and also the harder it is to just be the same person with multiple accounts. These systems usual
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by Sargos 6y ago
Identity is a huge topic itself with lots of projects doing fundamental research and experiments but essentially if it's a traditional physical government then it would work like it does today where you would use your government secure
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by Sargos 6y ago
It depends on your definition of illegal. It's not illegal in lots of places and is a gray area in most places. It's hard to know who would even handle the case since you're not sure who has jurisdiction, if anyone.
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by Sargos 6y ago
It's still an option but it's more work and harder to use and is pretty limiting in what you can do.
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by Sargos 6y ago
Thinking that buying coffee is an important use case for Ethereum is pretty ignorant. It's literally holding billions of dollars in value and building an ecosystem of companies that work together with a shared purpose. Just because you
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by Sargos 6y ago
You are confusing money with value. Value is what something is worth and is what people prize. Money is just a convenient way to transfer value. I think you got stuck on that one piece of money (USD) that went from buyer to seller but forgo
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by Sargos 6y ago
It says in the article that they ran out of time. Doing test runs would have required even more time.
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by Sargos 6y ago
Do you honestly believe, and this is a real question, that all of these brilliant people who come from well known companies spend nearly a decade of their life working tirelessly on building an ecosystem that many thousands of other develop
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by Sargos 6y ago
There's finance stuff which is mostly large organization to large organization. Everything from escrow, loans invoices, to things like RFPs and supply chain management. Then there's the NFT/Unique items section which is for g
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by Sargos 6y ago
Yes there are scams. There are scams with any new technology and people have dealt with them in various ways for hundreds of years. I don't think that will ever change but our ability to point them out and protect ourselves from them w
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by Sargos 6y ago
Proof of Work is on its way out already. Ethereum will be running on Proof of Stake soon which uses very little power. I'm not sure the traditional financial system would ever out-compete the cryptocurrency ecosystem even if you remove
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by Sargos 6y ago
It didn't happen on the App Store because Apple wouldn't have allowed it on in the first place
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by Sargos 6y ago
These threads make it obvious that most people would be okay with malls being the only place where shopping is allowed to happen. "Our local mall is great, I don't see a need for any other malls or standalone stores. Malls provide
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by Sargos 6y ago
>Remember the viruses and trojans and instability and all the rest of the Windows days, or Android? The era you are referencing was two decades ago and those problems stemmed from development processes that didn't take security into
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by Sargos 6y ago
I don't think it's entrapment as you were already seeding the file and they didn't influence you to do that.

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