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by cowtools 4y ago
I think it might have something to do with the convection current of the hot water. Perhaps the higher initial velocity allows the ice crystals to nucleate faster?
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by cowtools 4y ago
If it's backed by bitcoin for example, and you're trying to peg it to USD, then the spending power of your treasury in USD will depend on the price of bitcoin and the peg will just break when the price of bitcoin falls too far. Fe
543.
by cowtools 4y ago
I don't think this addresses my main points. Uniswap is only between cryptocurrencies. As I said earlier, those cryptocurrencies are either other stablecoins, or non-stablecoins. If it's backed by stablecoins, then it's centr
544.
by cowtools 4y ago
From what I understand, stablecoins generally fall into two categories: 1. Relies on some central entity to buy/sell it as to peg/back it to another asset. 2. Relies on some central observer to sign exchange rates so that the syst
545.
by cowtools 4y ago
No offense, but I highly doubt that. >The first is handled by arbitragers who can mint/redeem it for other decentralized assets (it is fully collateralized by a treasury of decentralized assets). Sure, but the parameters of this min
546.
by cowtools 4y ago
I think stablecoins are fundamentally a centralized technology. It betrays the purpose of cryptocurrency in the first place if there's a single point of failure that can be regulated to hell.
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by cowtools 4y ago
I don't know about "Fei" in particular, but stablecoins generally fall into two categories: 1. Relies on some central entity to buy/sell it as to peg/back it to another asset. 2. Relies on some central observer to s
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by cowtools 4y ago
To be fair, Matrix is a very email-like protocol. I think it makes sense to have it in an email client, especially if you're going to have RSS feeds as well.
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by cowtools 4y ago
I think you are doing this wrong. If I want to install some software on linux, I install it from my distro's package repository or I compile it myself. There's no reason to expect different linux distros to have binary compatibili
550.
by cowtools 4y ago
Until it doesn't... which is the topic of the article. If it's centralized, it can and will be regulated
551.
by cowtools 4y ago
I think the scarcity is a bad feature for a currency used for payments. It encourages users to hold instead of spend. I imagine that's a major reason why we don't see many payment-oriented cryptocurrency use-cases. The allure of s
552.
by cowtools 4y ago
I don't think that the town squares and forums of the internet should be controlled and paid for by advertising companies. Nazis are not banned on any moral or political basis: It's purely a buisness decision. It sounds fine but w
553.
by cowtools 4y ago
There is no such thing as a decentralized stablecoin
554.
by cowtools 4y ago
uBlock Origin is still availible on Firefox mobile, just not all addons
555.
by cowtools 4y ago
Windows users have been conditioned into thinking it's acceptable to install invasive, malicious closed-source software. Hardware vulnerabilities are the least of their issues. The windows security model has been completely broken from
556.
by cowtools 4y ago
I agree completely. In the current political climate, there's no reason for the anti-gun-control crowd to compromise with the pro-gun-control crowd: their opponents do not hold strong principles. There's no middle ground or end go
557.
by cowtools 4y ago
I can't imagine disabled WebGL is that specific of a fingerprint. Surely there have to be millions of consumer devices out there without OpenGLES2 support, right? However I agree that privacy.resistFingerprinting is probably the way to
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by cowtools 4y ago
I want Firefox on iOS, and I want Tor Browser on iOS, and I want Lynx on iOS, and I want wget on iOS, and I want youtube-dl on iOS, and I want to run whatever the hell I damn well please on iOS. Underhanded? It's pretty clear that your
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by cowtools 4y ago
>Tor can make you stand out just by mere use of it That's always a concern with obfuscation networks. But that concern decreases with the number of other users on the network. The more that people start to use Tor, the more it becom
560.
by cowtools 4y ago
What ever happened to personal responsibility? I think it died with "don't post your personal information on the internet", considering the way which young people use social media these days. Edit: the article you linked has
561.
by cowtools 4y ago
4chan isn't interested in you unless you feed the trolls
562.
by cowtools 4y ago
sure, unless you happen to step on anyone's pet theory about the jews/illuminati that apparently control the world.
563.
by cowtools 4y ago
If you give up your freedom for safety, you will eventually have neither.
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by cowtools 4y ago
Would it really take an AI researcher to bot this website? There is not even any CAPTCHA here as far as I know >and yet have an agenda to prop up various companies or scams So not too much unlike the average user then? Arguably this enti
565.
by cowtools 4y ago
Before reddit, these sorts of forums were hosted on their own websites. I think having a forum on reddit these days is a major liability. I wonder if these forums would benefit from being hosted in a more de-centralized and durable manner.
566.
by cowtools 4y ago
How is that sensible? What makes israel different from any other nation such that they ought to be immune from all criticism?
567.
by cowtools 4y ago
By the looks of it,the r/drama website is still pretty alive. I think I read an article on here about it a couple months ago.
568.
by cowtools 4y ago
I agree. I think it's fundamentally a flaw of the voting system: the idea that previous users should be able to anonymously and indirectly influence the visibility of a message or post to future users.
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by cowtools 4y ago
I don't think there is a single point in this comment that I agree with. >This is a story about how science cannot change the underlying "natural" state of a person. I don't think that's necessarily true. In the
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by cowtools 4y ago
It's pretty far from anonyminity when you have exchanges KYCing users and companies like chiphertrace actively tracking them

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