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by beaner 8y ago
Maybe they should. Is this actually true or just an assumption? It seems like for every Koch there is a Soros.
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by beaner 8y ago
If there's a "ruling class" conspiracy theory it's more reasonably rooted in the ivy league/Harvard/Yale/Princeton, not so much US universities at large. That just covers too many people.
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by beaner 8y ago
Outside of specific academic focus, nearly everyone I know who has graduated a US university thinks basically the same way.
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Coinbase is now valued at $8B after closing new $300M round(techcrunch.com)
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by beaner 8y ago
I didn't say that USDC is superior because it cannot communicate with the other two. I'm saying its superior because if adopted it would unite the two.
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by beaner 8y ago
Payments are generally batched because individual payments are slow and/or have restrictions applied, like time of day they can be sent or received, which are easier to reason about when aggregated. If you remove these burdens by havin
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by beaner 8y ago
That modern economics has programmed in accountability for slow, large payments doesn't mean the system wouldn't be better off if it changed.
578.
by beaner 8y ago
A system which makes no distinction between any of these use cases and treats them all the same sounds very appealing to me.
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by beaner 8y ago
How is that a common unified protocol? I can't send between the apps. Additionally, I need a debit card or bank account to use them at all. With crypto, you don't.
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by beaner 8y ago
Do you understand how ERC20 tokens work? Coinbase might be able to pull it back, but that doesn't prevent me from sending it at-will in the first place.
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by beaner 8y ago
If I want to send money to someone via square cash, they have to have the square cash app. Same with Venmo, and PayPal, and everything else... Venmo and PayPal are even owned by the same company. Have you ever asked why they're not int
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by beaner 8y ago
It can be traded directly. It's just an erc20 token.
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by beaner 8y ago
Except you can't send between the two. Isn't that so silly? You can send USDC to/from any wallet that implements it. This is a benefit of the blockchain, a protocol for money.
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by beaner 8y ago
> Manufacturers should be able to get only the Google Play store. Why? Google is a for-profit company that puts time and effort into developing the store. The play store may not actually be self-sustaining in terms of revenue. Perhaps it
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by beaner 8y ago
Amazon did it with the Kindle Fire, so it isn't impossible. Google doesn't make money on the devices themselves. Being able to enforce rules like this is their motivation for developing Android in the first place.
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by beaner 8y ago
Money laundering is when you launder money. Exclusive access to your own money is called financial sovereignty.
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by beaner 8y ago
HN seems super strongly opposed to Google providing censorship in China. Do they feel the same way about Google applying it to the rest of the world?
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by beaner 8y ago
The title says "data breach," but that's not what actually happened. They had a security vulnerability and fixed it. Yes, that's bad, but the title makes it sound like it was exploited, which would have been worse.
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by beaner 8y ago
> This isn't really about Coinbase as an exchange It is though. The author's examples are about end-user consolidation on platforms that are built on the decentralized network, not the consolidation of the network itself.
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by beaner 8y ago
Actually dark net markets work this way.
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by beaner 8y ago
That's not how it works. They could be the only exchange anywhere, but they'd still only be one node in the network. Exchanges greatly help the transition to crypto but they are not necessary for it's existence
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by beaner 8y ago
I don't know what you mean. Baking?
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by beaner 8y ago
One of the author's points seems to be decentralized technologies tend to have large points of centralization, so why does it matter that they're decentralized? For me, the answer is the ability to opt out. When it comes to crypto
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by beaner 8y ago
Not taking a side, what the heck is the chip in the photos if the story is inaccurate?
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by beaner 8y ago
I feel like there is a really large opportunity here for some other international supplier...
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by beaner 8y ago
Most of these sites do have high regard for your privacy. It's not all for ads. Much of it is just for tracking logins and preferences, but warnings for that are required now too.
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by beaner 8y ago
If such discrimination exists (it probably does), this will just change the bias to be against anyone who is part of a young, potentially child-bearing couple. It also seems utterly against my rights as a human, and unconstitutional.
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by beaner 8y ago
This doesn't seem to be true because things do get built with high safety today.
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by beaner 8y ago
It's funny to hear someone only ever make this argument when what is being censored is conservative. If it were the opposite way, and they were blocking results on, say, the travel ban, or competing startups, people would be up in arms
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by beaner 8y ago
I don't know that your post argues anything meaningful to me. Connecting ads to profiles over ads to search - okay. That doesn't seem super different. The point is the advertiser doesn't know who I am. That's mostly what

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