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by cecida 6y ago
Despite what Crypto Bros say, all they really want is to get filthy rich with real money.
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by cecida 6y ago
Meh, social network mixed up with some sort of cryptocurrency bullshit. Hard pass from me.
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by cecida 6y ago
Imagine being worth 185 billion dollars and still obsessing about your workers advocating for better pay and conditions? What a miserable existence that must be. Bezos has always struck me as a man who cares about nothing else only his own
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by cecida 6y ago
Ya, I signed up for it a few weeks ago based upon a recommendation here. It's a brilliant RSS reader. Has every feature I want.
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by cecida 6y ago
If you are a fan of Bitcoin then you don't care about the environment. It's as simple as that.
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by cecida 6y ago
Most of the loop holes have been closed in Ireland over the past few years. I'd look at the Netherlands, Malta or Luxembourg these days if you're looking for shady booking accounting practices. It helps that the Collisons' ar
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by cecida 6y ago
Stripe are an engineering first company. You even see the Collison brothers posting here on a regular basis. Creating great tech is built into the DNA of the company. Great to see them investing further in their home country as well, and me
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by cecida 6y ago
It's a microcosm of the hellscape that results when critical infrastructure is broken into tiny parts for profit.
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by cecida 6y ago
I've reached the consensus that any company investing in Bitcoin doesn't actually care about the future of the planet.
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by cecida 6y ago
Temporarily. For all the talk of crypto replacing central banks and the FIAT system, people heavily involved in crypto want to be able to cash out and buy their Lambo and have fun not being poor. So there will be a rush to use fiat gateways
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by cecida 6y ago
I think this gets to the crux of it. Tether/iFinex isn't just a bad player, it's a bad player that has become the plumbing of the crypto space.
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by cecida 6y ago
This is spaghetti language. What problem does Bitcoin solve? Economic inflation, deflation, hard money, computer science theoreticals. I'm talking about all proofs btw. So I'd have the same questions about ethereum. This is very f
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by cecida 6y ago
The problem with trying to suggest that Bitcoin is a fundamentally flawed idea is that you will be down voted to oblivion. As a computer science concept it's rather mundane. We know what merkle trees are. It's an extremely wastefu
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by cecida 6y ago
I traveled to SF a number of times with work 2 years ago. I'm not trying to sound like a smug social democratic European, but I couldn't get over the homelessness, the petty vandalism, the rubbish, and the overall air of menace in
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by cecida 6y ago
Visited, signed up, kicked the tires, installed it on my phone, and just upgraded to a supporter account. Has some very useful features.
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by cecida 6y ago
God, Yahoo Pipes is a blast from the past. Yahoo did so many things that were new and interesting, but never seemed to be able to bring them altogether into a cohesive product.
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by cecida 6y ago
I purchased a Nvidia Shield Pro before Christmas (an unbelievably slick piece of tech btw) and signed up for GeForce Now. I'm based in Ireland, as are the local Geforce Now servers (presume it's running on Azure). A surprisingly d
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by cecida 6y ago
Downloading Winamp from Tucows so I could listen to illegally downloaded NOFX mp3s. The good old days when the WWW was so new and exciting for me.
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by cecida 6y ago
Microsoft Office 365 with 1TB of OneDrive storage per person for up to 6 people for €69 a year is almost impossible to compete with.
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by cecida 6y ago
Sounds like an enormously complex Rube Goldberg machine.
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by cecida 6y ago
I'm not trying to be contrarian here, but why would someone continue to use Vim and Emacs when all of its lovely features have been integrated into products like VCode? It just reminds me of serious men with beards working on mainframe
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by cecida 6y ago
I've checked out Nextcloud a few times, but it really needs a sizeable and trustworthy brand that would host it for you, allow you to point a custom domain at it, and provide zero config email/calendering out of the box. I'd