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by chabes 7y ago
I’m all for finding alternatives to the ad-based models that plague social media (and the web, in general), but how will people without bank accounts use such a system?
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by chabes 7y ago
Why so quick to assume? Maybe you’ve never heard of Fold app or Bitrefill. Some of us are actually trying to build a circular bitcoin economy. These companies not only offer onramps and offramps to the ecosystem, but they actively fund and
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by chabes 7y ago
As far as I understand it, using the browser with the default settings is basically like using Chrome with ad blocking (and tracking protection and all of that) already built in. The only opt in part is allowing ads, which you get paid for
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by chabes 7y ago
The article talks about Illinois as an example, but their main agricultural focus is corn and soybean production, which mostly becomes animal feed. It doesn’t surprise me that it would be hard to buy actual food in a place like that.
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by chabes 7y ago
Should trademarks for generic everyday terms be allowed in the first place?
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by chabes 7y ago
Not someone who doesn’t have to ask permission to spend their own money. FDIC is meant to protect deposits in banks. If I don’t need to trust a bank, why would I need FDIC?
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by chabes 7y ago
Multiple responses here claiming that “micropayments are solved” Yeah, maybe for folks in Silicon Valley who have bank accounts. What about the other few billion people?
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by chabes 7y ago
What about people without bank accounts?
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by chabes 7y ago
Hoping this will be good for rural internet. Not holding my breath, though
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by chabes 7y ago
I didn’t start with bitcoin in 2011. I closed my bank accounts in 2011. I started with bitcoin in 2015. The main reason my life savings is almost nothing is because it came from almost nothing. $50 here and there isn’t much, but it’s more t
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by chabes 7y ago
I’ve been spending bitcoin as long as I’ve been accumulating it. Can’t say the same about most other hodlers, however
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by chabes 7y ago
You assume my life savings is substantial enough for me to care
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by chabes 7y ago
I wish I had known about bitcoin back then. It would have made things a lot easier. I didn’t learn about bitcoin until 2015, and even then, I had very little disposable income to experiment with. Still don’t have much income. Definitely no
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by chabes 7y ago
Salary? Edit: silliness aside... When I get paychecks, I have to either get them cashed at the bank that issued the check, at a grocery store, or through a friend or relative who has a bank account. I request cash for payment, when possible
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by chabes 7y ago
What do you mean by “real growth”? No interest earned? What I want is the ability to safely store value. Saving money in a bank account wasn’t working for me, because monthly fees took literally my last pennies, which led to overdraft charg
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by chabes 7y ago
I closed my bank accounts in 2011. Cash is my currency of choice for most things. I use bitcoin for long term savings. Cold storage is safer than a bunch of cash under the mattress.
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by chabes 7y ago
This isn’t about salaries, or about Amazon not being able to afford to do the right thing. Amazon has a surplus of money.. enough to buy other large corporations, like Whole Foods. And Jeff Bezos has so much money, he literally doesn’t know
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by chabes 7y ago
It doesn’t seem like it’s being enforced in the US, currently..
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by chabes 7y ago
Beards are not actually as hot as they might seem. Think of how a shady forest buffers the temperature. Compared to the surrounding area, it is cooler in the heat of the day, and warmer in the cold of night
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by chabes 7y ago
You’re correct. I was confusing another part of the article that talked to folks on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation
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by chabes 7y ago
> Inspectors are typically former industry workers and may have perverse reporting incentives. Places like ND and WV are rife with corruption between wealthy drilling corps and regulatory bodies. This is a major part of the wider issue.
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by chabes 7y ago
Downplaying this so much is a bit disingenuous, I think. It’s already shown to be having a negative impact, without the spill being properly investigated yet. The real problem comes down to the state giving priority to the industry instead
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by chabes 7y ago
It’s on a native American reservation. Has there ever been a time in the history of North Dakota that the state has held any sort of priority for its natives? Even without the oil industry being involved? The state of North Dakota has direc
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by chabes 7y ago
Some herbal tea is fine, and even recommended for certain kinds of fasting
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by chabes 7y ago
Tl;dr from the article: > All the claims from the article that I looked at, that can be interpreted as something specific and tested in a real data set, turned out not to be correct. If Taleb hadn’t blocked everyone who disagrees with hi
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by chabes 7y ago
A single LED emits plenty of light. Just not compared to daylight. And this was for many days..
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by chabes 7y ago
In the article, it describes keeping an LED lit for 350 continuous hours. Lots of room for improvement too
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by chabes 7y ago
I stumbled across some interesting history related to this when doing a research paper in college. Basically, because of a huge apple crop failure in the Santa Clara Valley, as well as having recently laid railroad crossing the area (this w
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by chabes 7y ago
Or that it was grown and bottled in the Hamburg region of France
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by chabes 7y ago
> We don't let margarine be called butter. What about “peanut butter”?

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