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by cowtools 4y ago
I think if we had a competitive, cheap and secure-enough micropayments system we could do away with advertisement-based monetization altogether. Creators could host their own videos, blogs, etc. on their own website and just charge a fracti
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by cowtools 4y ago
Those systems are proprietary. Once they scoop up a sufficient chunk of market share, they will abuse their networking effects to raise their fees and become less consumer-friendly. You will forever be stuck in the same situation trying to
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by cowtools 4y ago
So they also provide a service that imgur, catbox.moe, google drive, and others do for free?
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by cowtools 4y ago
>If credentials are stolen, crypto or otherwise, a scammer can then use those stolen credentials to make a payment. Crypto credentials are not comparable to bank credentials. Crypto credentials are a public key; you still need the secret
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by cowtools 4y ago
I think bitcoiners already use a new address for every transaction. They call it "HD Wallets". >Otherwise someone will use their tumbled BTC to pay you and you'll get blacklisted from using it in exchanges. This is a non-i
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by cowtools 4y ago
No. It's unacceptable that payment systems charge anything more than a fraction of a percent for each transaction. In any well-designed payment system the marginal cost per transaction is minuscule.
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by cowtools 4y ago
Well, in crypto there's still non-zero amounts of fraud if the merchant doesn't deliver their goods or if the sender executes double spend attacks. But theoretical double-spend attacks aside, almost all transactions require some m
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by cowtools 4y ago
If it's a micro-payment system then fraud doesn't really matter because the risk per transaction is low. In an ideal crypto payment system there's no double spending and no charge-backs. The only cost in cryptocurrency is per
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by cowtools 4y ago
>I don't think Patreon's reason to exist is because "sending money p2p is hard". Why do you think that? Sending money p2p is hard in a world where cryptocurrency is treated like an investment vehicle and not a payment
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by cowtools 4y ago
>People who want this aren't the odd ones, those who dismiss it are. fair enough. >I seriously doubt that, since you're the one who brought them up in an absurd attempt to deflect a common sense criticism of an obvious short
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by cowtools 4y ago
I use the downstairs toilet is for bulk shits, the upstairs toilet is for petite loads.
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by cowtools 4y ago
I don't really have anything against channers. I'm just saying it's a problem that one small group disproportionately complains about but does little to fix. I think that is pretty indicative of /g/ discourse which
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by cowtools 4y ago
I rename files as I download them (or copy them from my phone/camera) or I just remember the file name that I downloaded. I suppose it's a problem if you have to deal with many unnamed images, but if it really came down to that
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by cowtools 4y ago
The problem is that channers complain, but do not do productive things like file PRs. So problems that matter to channers will remain unresolved. If you want something done right, do it yourself. Commercial software is no exception to that.
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by cowtools 4y ago
I think the difference is that GtkFilePicker is a part of the running GTK program, like firefox for example. If you wanted to get all of nautilus' features, you would have to embed all of nautilus into your program, including features
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by cowtools 4y ago
I upload files all the time and for some reason I don't encounter this problem in gnome. Just give the files appropriate names? Seems like a channer problem. It's not suprising that no one from /g/ has made a patch yet.
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by cowtools 4y ago
Matt Damon told us fortune favors the brave. Everyone lost all their money- but they were brave in doing so! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gor-8erHxoY
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by cowtools 4y ago
Wayland doesn't need to be perfect, it just needs to an improvement over Xorg, which is hampered by its complexity and reverse compatibility.
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by cowtools 4y ago
Interesting, but I cannot imagine a usecase for this. I'll save a copy though. Looks like they also have an arm64 version.
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by cowtools 4y ago
>Why do you believe that victims should be punished? I don't believe victims should be punished. I just don't think victims should be rewarded either. I do think that the perpetrators should be punished. >Wouldn't it
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by cowtools 4y ago
only to the extent that the violent crime is preventable. Ultimately, the victim bears the risk and the rest of society will do what they must (policing, self-defense, investigation, justice, compensation) after the fact to prevent future v
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by cowtools 4y ago
>You can't both want crypto to have a real, material future and also simply blame the user for everything they get wrong or don't bother to educate themselves on. I can and I will. People know not to give out their credit card
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by cowtools 4y ago
Cryptocurrencies are secure and dependable in the way that I need them to be and they solve problems that I have with the banking and credit system. I mean, really. The security of the banking/credit system is not even based on public&
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by cowtools 4y ago
You don't know what a digital signature is? This is the equivalent of being mad at banks because you don't understand what a bank routing number is. >It's no wonder people keep messing this up. The type of user that doesn&
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by cowtools 4y ago
Huh? Cryptocurrencies operate just as expected, basically the same as they did ten years ago. Crypto never changed, the users did.
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by cowtools 4y ago
No. If you invest your money in something you do not understand, you deserve to lose it. I'm sorry you think that you need some authority to put their thumb on the scale and tell you what you can and can't do with your own money.
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by cowtools 4y ago
These scams, crashes, are exploits are non-issues to anyone with a reasonable degree of competence and skepticism. The solution is not to "fix" the system by removing user agency so that even an idiot can use it safely, but to edu
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by cowtools 4y ago
I disagree. Freedom is a word with many meanings. One of them is not exactly "strength" but "opportunity", which could be established through higher levels of individual "strength" and ability to shape one&#x27
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by cowtools 4y ago
The crypto space isn't rediscovering anything. Speculative investors and other noobs are discovering cryptocurrency for the first time.
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by cowtools 4y ago
Credit cards wouldn't need such stringent "protection" and surveilance if they were secure and dependable in the first place. Of course cryptocurrencies do not have such regulations. the purpose of cryptocurrency is to facili

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