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by aianus 9y ago
> Once we all agree that you can't do anything useful with the blockchain except buy drugs There are plenty of legal things that are difficult to purchase with conventional reversible electronic payments. Off the top of my head: Gam
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by aianus 9y ago
I am with a different bank now, but previously the bank above (Chase) was the only bank in Canada that offered foreign transactions without an annual fee or a 2.5% currency conversion fee.
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by aianus 9y ago
Not just undoing them; if my bank's ML fraud algorithm doesn't like my purchase, it won't let me make it at all! And the customer service rep doesn't know why it's happening and tells me he can't override it an
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by aianus 9y ago
I trained my predictive keyboard on Android on my Facebook messages and emails.
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by aianus 9y ago
People aren’t rational. There are many people around here in Toronto that will buy a home and rent it at a loss because “home prices always go up”. I did the math and my previous landlord was losing money on a cash flow basis renting to me;
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by aianus 9y ago
Sucks for the buyer too. Ever tried to use PayPal (or credit cards for that matter) to buy something from the US with a Canadian shipping address while you're living in Vietnam with a Vietnamese IP address? I did; I got fraud blocked.
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by aianus 9y ago
Depend on what you mean by financial services. For example, no bank can beat crypto in price for remitting ~$1k to Southeast Asia within a couple of hours. I spent years as a digital nomad and there was no traditional fiat solution that cam
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by aianus 9y ago
> But in this case I think it’s 100% fine, even expected in order to stop bad content (porn, abuse etc) from going through I was pretty shocked when FB filtered out a pornhub link I tried to send to my then-girlfriend on Messenger. I tho
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by aianus 9y ago
> I don't know how we get around this problem. Charge $0.001 to deliver an email. Maybe in crypto or some kind of PoW. Legitimate senders won't care about $0.001.
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by aianus 9y ago
The only vulnerability introduced by the servers at keybase is denial of service. I believe the protocol and clients are open source and there is no need to trust their servers for the key distribution part either (keys are cryptographicall
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by aianus 9y ago
I tend to think that mass shootings would turn out better if everyone was armed. It is so much harder to kill a lot of people if someone is shooting back at you. However , overall, it would be terrible policy because such a proliferation o
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by aianus 9y ago
Odds of dying in a jet crash are about 1 in 16 million per flight, odds of dying in a mass shooting in the US by living there for one year and doing random things and going random places are within an order of magnitude of that. I could hav
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by aianus 9y ago
"I will never fly on a plane. How can people keep flying when planes keep falling out of the sky every couple of months?"
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by aianus 9y ago
> Law enforcement is the right call for rapid response versus someone like myself with limited range time. This may not be true if you're right there and SWAT is 5 minutes away.
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by aianus 9y ago
> Resources that are wasted on stuff that we don't need is directly taken from other better places that those resources could have been spent on. The vast majority of people have skills and are employed in areas other than housing,
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by aianus 9y ago
It's over $100 or $150 here in Canada here before you have to use the PIN. Basically never have to use the PIN in day-to-day purchases. But yes, when the PIN comes into play it's slower than cash.
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by aianus 9y ago
> If we psychologically manipulate people into spending more than they’re naturally comfortable with, we’re creating a society that’s worse off for the people in it. If the average person didn't spend too much money on things they d
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by aianus 9y ago
Surprise: regulating and legislating doesn’t actually make bad behaviour go away. I too have had the experience of interning at a medical software company where security and patient privacy were a joke.
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by aianus 9y ago
You know the phone numbers of all of your FB contacts? Getting someone's phone number has always felt like a much higher bar than their FB since you could harass them with calls, SMS, etc and it's more difficult to block. Plus the
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by aianus 9y ago
The point is that humans who have poorer sensors and do even stupider things are allowed to drive. So the bar for self-driving is a lot lower than people around here make it sound.
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by aianus 9y ago
However bad the car was or wasn't at detecting the victim, it's nothing compared to how bad the human victim was at detecting the car (which presumably had its lights on coming down an empty street at night). Imagine if the victim
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by aianus 9y ago
> Would you really use mode to calculate "average"? Ever? Of course, to impute a categorical variable in a data set with empty values, for example.
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by aianus 9y ago
> simply jamming the brakes would engage the ABS leading to a longer stopping distance I was taught that the entire point of ABS is so that you can just jam the brake and have the shortest stopping time instead of modulating it yourself
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by aianus 9y ago
Bond purchases or helicopter money is essentially the same thing. 1) The government sprays more money around in welfare and salaries than they raise through taxes 2) The government issues bonds 3) The central bank prints money to buy those
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by aianus 9y ago
I do, but it's a lot easier to pick from a non-empty set. Just because they're initially attracted by superficial things (and probably subconsciously) doesn't make them bad people, any more than I'm a bad person for noti
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by aianus 9y ago
> Who's judging you? Some people might, but what do you care? Women do and I care because I like sex. When you have a luxury downtown apartment with a view and a sports car, it's playing the game on easy mode.
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by aianus 9y ago
Yes there are two distinct policies, both offered by Intact or their subsidiaries: 1. A commercial policy paid for by Uber which covers all Uber drivers while online. 2. A personal policy paid for by the driver which covers them while offli
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by aianus 9y ago
It's also great for literally carpooling on your real-job commute. You'll be online at peak times and with the destination set in the most popular directions.
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by aianus 9y ago
Yes. I drove part-time for Uber and the vast majority of Uber drivers are part-time. I had a real job paying 7x more during the day. If Uber didn't exist I just would have earned less. I assure you I wasn't earning $3/h thoug
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by aianus 9y ago
Absolutely false, I pay nothing extra to drive for Uber and my personal insurance knows exactly what I'm doing: https://www.intact.ca/on/en/personal-insurance/vehicle/car/u... The relevant quot

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