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by aww_dang 4y ago
Backed tokens are still a trust liability with the issuing party. They have a place and are interesting, but it would make sense to limit the scope of exposure.
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by aww_dang 4y ago
There are people who believe explicit works of fiction. Marvel movies come to mind. I'll know we've arrived when super hero films begin with a disclaimer. The runtime of the podcast was 1:34:27
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by aww_dang 4y ago
I don't understand why they would market it as a source of accurate text or some kind of oracle. Language models are useful for generating text. Believable or entertaining works of fiction. The extra parts about truthiness and the dang
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by aww_dang 4y ago
This whole debacle feels like a whataboutist's dream. There are problems all around the world. Some are normalized and accepted. Others are foreign to us and easy to object to. Overall it feels like humanity can do better. Many have wr
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by aww_dang 4y ago
Democracy is generally an appeal to legitimize the decision making process. It is less about allowing individuals to influence the outcome and more about PR. Whatever the outcome, it looks better than the perfectly legitimate, "This is
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by aww_dang 4y ago
There are a few anti-clickbait title filters. Questions posed in the title are changed to statements. Either it is or it isn't. In this case, "HN Changes Submitted Titles" is more informative and concise. Your post doesn&#x27
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by aww_dang 4y ago
I've had similar experiences where purely informational sites are flagged twice a week as phishing. What is going on here? Is "Safe Browsing" the new go to for negative SEO?
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Mastodon instance keeps getting flagged for phishing(support.google.com)
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by aww_dang 4y ago
Outside of HN the impression I've had is that Twitter is an unprofitable company which is overstaffed. There's also an image of idle employees pursuing political crusades unrelated to the bottom line. Elon is cutting the workforce
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by aww_dang 4y ago
>What would help us both would be a very specific question to a very narrow topic. That would allow me to be relatively brief while providing full meaningful context to the question at hand. Exactly this. If the questioner is experiencin
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by aww_dang 4y ago
>You are looking for a Crypto utopia where everyone is as "enlightened" as you. I'm not sure how you read my comment as elitist or utopian. All I'm asking here is that paternalists don't ruin it with saviorism, r
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by aww_dang 4y ago
That's fine if you want to champion the cause of the normie. Just don't do it in a paternalistic way. If people were satisfied with the high transaction costs and regulatory overhead of traditional finance, they wouldn't be i
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by aww_dang 4y ago
The market is cracking down on these exchanges by bankrupting them. I'd prefer a privately run auditing and voluntary accreditation model.
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by aww_dang 4y ago
Self-custody means users withdrawing their coins from exchanges or other custodial services. >"Well, of course your accounts got hacked, because you didn't create a separate 27-character totally random password for every single
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by aww_dang 4y ago
Use of the US dollar is compulsory. Thankfully, cryptocurrencies cannot make the same claim. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham%27s_law
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by aww_dang 4y ago
Turtles all the way down. The US central bank backs the US dollar with "The full faith and credit of the US government" https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/currency_12770.htm
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by aww_dang 4y ago
The great part about this is that you are not forced to use cryptocurrency. It is entirely voluntary. I like cryptocurrency as an open platform. I don't have a problem with the market clearing out the speculative mania. I do disagree w
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by aww_dang 4y ago
If that's his shtick, then yes.
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Saint Kitts and Nevis – Citizenship by Investment(stkitts-citizenship.com)
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by aww_dang 4y ago
He's out 20k in equipment. How much did he make from his online presence? How much can he make from a legal settlement or GoFundMe campaign? Can he parlay these events into a bigger online presence and fame in the conspiracy sphere? As
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by aww_dang 4y ago
I don't understand the fascination with Elon and his Twitter takeover. The constant drama over who he's firing or under what terms. The endless stories about his management techniques. I get that people come here to procrastinate
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by aww_dang 4y ago
If killer robots are inevitable, it makes sense to start with less than lethal robots. Just change the weapons or ammo. edit: Please don't read this as an endorsement of violence of any kind. Thanks.
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by aww_dang 4y ago
Could be nothing, could be something. Exchanges regularly stop deposits/withdrawals of various chains. Usually the stated reasons are technical.
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by aww_dang 4y ago
>Do we approve of this behaviour in a normative sense? What is the approximate amount of taxes for Mr. Thiel of which you would approve of? How much wealth should he retain? If a single individual does not have the right to confiscate yo
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by aww_dang 4y ago
I like to use Bootstrap for CSS, because I'm not a designer and I want a graceful experience on all devices. Plain JS can easily be thrown in there. You can also just use the default HTML form submission behavior. Bootstrap offers some
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by aww_dang 4y ago
Feels like everything just works on Chrome and Firefox, but Safari is the new IE.
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by aww_dang 4y ago
Indeed some 40% of Binance's reserves are in their own tokens. https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/crypto-n... >What does it mean for a financial product to be "otherwise strong"
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by aww_dang 4y ago
FTX was in bed with regulators and SBF was calling for more regulatory capture. The "reasonable regulation" trope is fit for parody.
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by aww_dang 4y ago
As I understand it CZ was referring to an entirely private fund to provide liquidity to projects he felt are worth saving. This is not another gov. supported bailout. >“To reduce further cascading negative effects of FTX, Binance is form
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by aww_dang 4y ago
https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/margaret-talbot https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/02/01/can-joe-biden-... >Can Joe Biden Restore America’s Belief That Government Is

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