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by carlosdp 7y ago
You can't use Apple Pay on top of a bank account that doesn't exist. 1.7b of the people in emerging markets don't have access to banking services. 500m+ of them have internet/cells and many have Facebook/WhatsApp. H
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by carlosdp 7y ago
Calibra = Facebook's subsidiary Libra wallet company Libra = currency itself
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by carlosdp 7y ago
No, it's about increasing revenue per user for their fastest growing market (emerging market) by giving access to the 500m+ unbanked people that have internet/cells/FB/WhatsApp in these markets a way to access the digita
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by carlosdp 7y ago
I have this issue too, I think it also has to do a bit with cultural background sometimes. I grew up in a hispanic family in a majority hispanic community, where my everyday conversation with people was people talking over each other. It wa
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by carlosdp 7y ago
Yea but afaik, they don't address data privacy. You should only deploy code that deals with public data.
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by carlosdp 7y ago
I agree in that they are probably comparing the wrong aspects of S3. You're not going to be able to compete on the speed anytime soon probably, and maybe even the capacity if it really takes off. But, anyone here that works on an Amazo
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by carlosdp 7y ago
IPFS isn't decentralized cloud storage though. Unless you host your file yourself on your IPFS node, your file is not guaranteed to be available. Hence why Filecoin is a thing they are working on.
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by carlosdp 7y ago
I like to imagine sometimes how these kinds of "revelations" happen in tech newsrooms. Reporter: Tell it to me straight, do you listen to the recordings? Google: Well yea, that's how we train the... Reporter: WE GOT 'EM!
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by carlosdp 7y ago
YC Startup School is free, you can just sign up before the July 22nd deadline.
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by carlosdp 7y ago
I mean, the claim that he worked at a secret lab on alien tech should be the suspicious part... The burden on proof is on him to prove the story is real, not on others to disprove the stuff he makes up.
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by carlosdp 7y ago
He was registered at some vocational school is Los Alamos at the time he said he attended MIT, besides the fact that MIT says they've never heard of him. He says shit like "the gravity orb was activated by a an electric pressure&q
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by carlosdp 7y ago
From what I understand, records show he worked at Los Alamos, but not his role, so he could have been a janitor for all we know. We also know he didn't actually go to MIT like he claims, and the way he explains the "alien tech&quo
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by carlosdp 7y ago
I don't have to have a Facebook account to use Libra, I don't have to give them any additional information unless I use their app.
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by carlosdp 7y ago
"Banking services" does not mean just bank accounts, it means any services that depend on money being elsewhere, not in your hands. That debit card you use, it's backed by a bank. Most credit cards are backed by banks. Econom
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by carlosdp 7y ago
Yea this is one of Apple's largest advantages as a platform, they really don't want the Macbook to fall out of favor as the developer's machine of choice.
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by carlosdp 7y ago
Literally what they say it's designed for: giving access to the digital economy to the 500m+ people in emerging markets that have internet + phone, but no banking services.
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by carlosdp 7y ago
> Libra is invite only and they invited their business friends. That's a big assumption. They were able to get their business friends to sign on, probably because they are already friends. I'm sure they asked a lot of other g
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by carlosdp 7y ago
Yea, it wasn't Calibri in this particular case. It just happens with Calibri a lot.
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by carlosdp 7y ago
In theory, sure. In practice, the miner implementations are the ones controlling the chain. The only difference is, I can name the CEOs and leaders of many of the Libra companies, I don't know who the leaders of the mining pools are.
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by carlosdp 7y ago
It has price stability, that's a big one.
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by carlosdp 7y ago
Bitcoin is not more decentralized than Libra today[1]. Libra has 28 members, going to 100. The top 11 bitcoin mining pools control 99% of the hashrate. [1] https://www.blockchain.com/pools
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by carlosdp 7y ago
> And a font copyrighted in 2015 appeared on an another email supposedly dispatched in 2011. This keeps happening in court, mostly with Microsoft Word Calibri. It's kinda funny how effective such a simple oversight is at proving doc
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by carlosdp 7y ago
It's not even the amounts that would be the killer if it's capital gains taxed really, it's the overhead come tax filing time for the average American.
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by carlosdp 7y ago
They don't have to go that extreme, they could just tax Libra coins like securities. That would create a huge burden on their use as currency in the US.
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by carlosdp 7y ago
How is a year ahead of launch "last minute"?
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by carlosdp 7y ago
I didn't skirt around it. Your argument was hand wavy and essentially saying "they must be in control because why else would they do it?" My counter-point is the reason is very clear, and very upfront in their materials. >
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by carlosdp 7y ago
They explicitly encourage crypto exchanges in the materials, actually! They even designed/are developing a smart contract language called Move to facilitate DAO exchanges and the like.
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by carlosdp 7y ago
I mean, it is decentralized... The only difference is the member companies are publicized and we know who their CEOs are, whereas the mining pools that account for the grand majority of Bitcoin's hashrate, for example, are virtually na
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by carlosdp 7y ago
Because it's digital. In the west, we have a digital abstraction around our fiat money (credit cards / ACH bank transfers) to send our money easily (sorta). In the emerging markets Libra is primarily targeting (Facebook's fas
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by carlosdp 7y ago
Most cryptocurrencies are too price volatile to be a store of value / transaction method, and most crypto currencies aren't directly supported by an app with 2.3b users (FB/Whatsapp).

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