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by ahtihn 4y ago
Same point as getting a margin loan against your stocks. Leverage.
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by ahtihn 4y ago
Accepting tokens isn't the issue. The issue is you can't put up the house you're going to buy as collateral for a DeFi loan. You need to have other crypto assets worth 1.5x or more than the house you're going to buy.
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by ahtihn 4y ago
I don't think they should knowingly allow it. On the other hand I don't think they should do anything about it proactively.
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by ahtihn 4y ago
What matters isn't percent of shareholders it's percent of shares voted. I'd find it very unusual if a company only required 1% of shares to be voted to reach quorum. With DAOs governance tokens are basically shares, so why d
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by ahtihn 4y ago
> You can also be mining at a loss and have it be completely rational, because it is less of a loss than turning it off and writing off the equipment. It depends what you mean by mining at a loss. It's never rational to mine when th
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by ahtihn 4y ago
> The taxes would be very painful. Why? If you get paid in bitcoin, the easiest for taxes is to sell immediately. The value of the bitcoin at the time you receive them has to be declared as income anyway. If you sell little by little ove
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by ahtihn 4y ago
Your last point is just completely wrong and has no basis in reality.
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by ahtihn 4y ago
> who would want to hold their money as IoUs at an institution with single digit backing when there is no upside compared to holding it in USDC Convenience, security? The backing doesn't matter, your bank account is insured. Why do
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by ahtihn 4y ago
The fact that you think you even need to defend yourself is a sign that there's something deeply wrong with where you live. The first step would be to somehow fix that. Make everyone feel safe enough so they don't feel the need to
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by ahtihn 4y ago
Why is it a foundational human right? Who decides that? It seems to me that a lot of people disagree. Human rights only exist because enough people believe in them. All of them, including free speech are up for debate and constantly need to
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by ahtihn 4y ago
> 2. There can be arbitrary changes to law too, with a change in power. Arbitrary changes to law aren't retroactive in general. If you did something in the past that has later become illegal, you can't be prosecuted. The same d
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by ahtihn 4y ago
> bigger esports I don't think there's anything bigger than League, at least in terms of viewership
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by ahtihn 4y ago
> that something interesting, like approaches using pure mathematics, are more auditable and, in the short- and perhaps long-term, more stable What approaches? Do you know of a known approach that isn't flawed in some way? Until pro
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by ahtihn 4y ago
> Meanwhile, Windows without hardware less than 2 years old is absolutely worthless. That is not my experience at all.
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by ahtihn 4y ago
So back to aristocracy?
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by ahtihn 4y ago
> 280-or-so days a year So working some week-ends and no vacations at all? There are about 260 week days in a year. Add bank holidays and vacations and you should ve closer to 230 working days in a year.
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by ahtihn 4y ago
Is this a joke? What is median household income for families in both of these cities? Fairly sure it's below 100k.
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by ahtihn 4y ago
> All the ones I use let you customise markers however you want Customisation requires everyone who ever works on that codebase to also do the customization. Defaults are important
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by ahtihn 5y ago
The fact that you have to pay attention makes it significantly harder. You have to be aware that cycles can cause issues and you have to think about the impact of cycles on whatever you're doing.
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by ahtihn 5y ago
How is this different than working around a GC? There are lots of things you can do in GCed language to avoid allocations and avoid running the GC when it matters.
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by ahtihn 5y ago
Staying away from illegal drugs is very easy unless you're already addicted.
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by ahtihn 5y ago
Do we? Where can I buy an IP address? Do all hosting providers support assigning an arbitrary IP address to a website? Let's say I have a hosted wordpress blog with a custom domain. How do I get a static IP for it?
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by ahtihn 5y ago
Because you don't necessarily own your IP, usually it's owned by your hosting provider.
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by ahtihn 5y ago
It also means you can lose control of your domain permanently if you make any mistakes with your keys.
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by ahtihn 5y ago
I still don't understand how this has anything to do with "user intent". What makes you think that the default user intent is to allow tracking? Would it have been better if the browser asked the user to choose? Do you think
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by ahtihn 5y ago
> The nail in the coffin was when Internet Explorer 10 decided to enable it by default [3], completely disregarding user intent. User intent? Really? Because user intent is to allow tracking by default?
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by ahtihn 5y ago
Why would a local news site care about GDPR compliance? It's not like enforcement is even feasible.
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by ahtihn 5y ago
> You have to trust the people who figured out the math, when they say "this math is secure". Not really. I'm convinced the math is secure given the current knowledge, because there's a massive financial incentive to
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by ahtihn 5y ago
> The board can argue that they believe that Musk will run Twitter into the ground They can’t argue that because it would be completely irrelevant to current shareholders. They can argue that the long term value is higher than Musk'
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by ahtihn 5y ago
Big tech isn't fintech and that's about the only thing that could be threatened. Even for fintech there's a lot of value in providing a streamlined user experienced on top of crypto so there's still room for intermediari

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