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by alexb_ 4y ago
Anything relating to NFTs sounds like the absolute opposite of a recession-proof job.
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by alexb_ 4y ago
Well, if you showed that pixelated image to someone who has never seen Obama - would they make him white? I think so.
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by alexb_ 4y ago
I imagine it's viewing porn not as "evil" but as "something we should absolutely never even come close to touching or talking about and is best left as something we pretend doesn't exist so we don't get regulat
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by alexb_ 4y ago
Porn is actually a really good litmus test to see if a money/media transfer technology has real promise. Pornography needs exactly 2 things to work well - a way to deliver media, and a way to collect money. If you truly have a system t
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by alexb_ 4y ago
I think that this doesn't actually try to "propose" anything, but is rather a thought experiment of what would need to happen to prevent our eventual doom (and that something being so unachievable as to be impossible to imple
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by alexb_ 4y ago
Personal income also increases with inflation, unless of course you are in a recession, where "all other things held constant".
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by alexb_ 4y ago
>selfhosted AAAAAND you lost literally 95% of every single person who might even consider using this. Stop trying to make "fediverse" happen. It's not going to happen. All you do is end up putting great developers into p
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by alexb_ 4y ago
What? I log into my account (which is set to use old.reddit.com by default) and I have never had a single one of these issues.
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by alexb_ 4y ago
The reason it's different is the same reason that every flame war on the internet starts - over text, you don't have any social cues, facial expressions, tone of voice, etc to fill in the context. So your brain will fill in the ga
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by alexb_ 4y ago
Discussion of controversial issue results in people being angry at eachother and less productive - why are people trying to turn this into a way that they can be angry at Meta? There are plenty of legitimate reasons to hate them, you don&#x
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by alexb_ 4y ago
Makes sense. Although I would be surprised if pure carbon, of all elements, had a negative effect on our ability to live ROFL.
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by alexb_ 4y ago
Aren't graphite and graphene different structurally?
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by alexb_ 4y ago
Love this! Reminds me a lot of RetroGameMechanicsExplained with the very clear visuals showing exactly "how the computer thinks".
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by alexb_ 4y ago
According to many officers being white does give you the right to be an asshole, and laws like these are just selectively enforced.
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by alexb_ 4y ago
I understand a lot of people here are saying "but it's only about noise level", but I think they are all forgetting that it's a judgement call from police and involves selective enforcement. Laws will be ignored for pe
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by alexb_ 4y ago
not cycling 30 miles to go to work
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by alexb_ 4y ago
When you stop being able to participate, know anything about, learn about, or do anything else in a community without the internet, what other choice do you have?
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by alexb_ 4y ago
There is absolutely zero legal usecase for cryptocurrencies. None. "oh but it might be useful for doing-" you are wrong. Full stop. "but what about censorship" Circumventing government censorship is, by definition, illeg
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by alexb_ 4y ago
Oh lord, a hybrid cross of "sovereign citizen" and "cryptocurrency geek". This is an unholy combination. No, none of your fantasies are correct or true in any way. Rich people don't need to escape government, they c
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by alexb_ 4y ago
>Crypto will succeed because the rich...corrupt...liberarians want it to Just because you want something to happen doesn't mean it will. Especially when you have to assume that we live in some fantasy world where nobody can be trust
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by alexb_ 4y ago
"Why is so much of our science dangerous? Why not marry safe science if you love it so much? In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you on the butt on the way out, because you are fired!"
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by alexb_ 4y ago
That has absolutely nothing to do with what I'm saying. What I am saying is that cryptocurrencies are so horrible in every way except anonymity that the ONLY reason you would use it is for illegal activities, speculation, or paranoia.
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by alexb_ 4y ago
Remittances and online retail is already done quite well with centralized systems. "Trustless decentralization" is only relevant when you are doing things illegal. Which, as it turns out, is the main usecase of cryptocurrency.
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by alexb_ 4y ago
I think this is a really good video. It might not apply to everything you are thinking about, and is mainly centered around the fighting game community. But I think it can say a lot about the behaviors that we all do to try and keep a commu
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by alexb_ 4y ago
And as we all know from 2008, large accounting firms would never lie about the quality of other companies for their own benefit.
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by alexb_ 4y ago
cryptocurrency people telling me that burning money in exchange for a token is a good idea actually is the last thing I expected when I posted this yet, somehow, I am not in any way, shape, or form surprised
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by alexb_ 4y ago
Idk, try paying your rent or buying lunch with Tether and see how that goes for you.
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by alexb_ 4y ago
The entire concept of a "stablecoin" reminds me a lot of something from SIGBOVIK 2014. Keep in mind, this was written in 2014, before any stablecoins actually existed, and that SIGBOVIK is supposed to be a joke conference where pe
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by alexb_ 4y ago
Fair enough - I literally just googled "how many videos on youtube" and stuck with the first result. Not very scientific but I also don't really care that much
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by alexb_ 4y ago
Definitely does not work for everything - Google likes to see dates on the site and associate it. Search "Super Mario 64" for a direct example.

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