cykros

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by cykros 4y ago
Probably also worth consulting with someone in their 50s that hasn't had kids. Having kids when you have an active social life seems like everything grinds to a half. NOT having kids when everyone you used to hang out with does is su
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by cykros 4y ago
You can work handing out food to hungry people. If you're making money though, you'll owe taxes, and those taxes will go to wherever the corrupt politicians decide -- often, right into the coffers of weapons manufacturers. Humani
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by cykros 4y ago
If he paid enough of the right ones in Bahamas, combined with their extradition policy being what it is, that'd be his one hope. American politicians might promise you a lot, but at the end of the day, the checks and balances don&#x27
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by cykros 4y ago
That depends on whether home is owned or rented, and where. Also, how long of a long run you're talking about.
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by cykros 4y ago
In my experience there aren't many things minecraft doesn't have a mod for -- though sometimes it is a matter of what version of minecraft you want it for. mods at the very least tend to trail the main release version by a few cyc
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by cykros 4y ago
I think it's likely he initially was using other investments that were similarly worthless, but which may not have been quite so obviously worthless to him at the time. Don't forget about the Luna/Terra debacle back in May,
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by cykros 4y ago
Some of that will ultimately be determined by whether or not it's against Bahamian law, rather than US law, which opens up a whole 'nother can of worms. The fact that he had over 100 companies he was operating makes this a dizzyin
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by cykros 4y ago
The block chain shows the bitcoin moving from one address to another. That's about it. It doesn't say what was exchanged for it, be that USD, FTT, or any other token, good, or service. And those addresses are potentially pseudony
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by cykros 4y ago
Except that if your elected officials decide to act in a way that would jeopardize your creature comforts, you can...tweet about it? Meanwhile, he'd just get new officials installed, and ensure that he maintained his comfort. See the
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by cykros 4y ago
Slackware. Only reason I've seen to use anything else is if doing a full desktop installation doesn't make sense, as the installer is largely geared around just installing most everything, or perhaps leaving out a category or two.
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by cykros 4y ago
This is what happens when you have a guy from the parks division at Disney suddenly responsible for the whole company. How Bob Iger was even allowed back after making the decision to appoint a successor from the parks division speaks to ju
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by cykros 4y ago
Vertigo comic books, in my experience, are a lot less guilty of this than Marvel, or even the classic DC variant. But then, Vertigo is specifically geared toward adults. Kids will, if left to their own devices, watch the same movie over an
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by cykros 4y ago
Been there, done this, and yea, I sort of forgot why it had its rating. Not something I completely think was the worst mistake ever, but perhaps could have been better addressed with a pregame primer of what was in the movie.
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by cykros 4y ago
The issue is, traditional exchanges are able to avoid taking custody of funds by a whole system of laws and contracts which provide for how the actual transfer of one thing for another takes place, completely separate from the exchange (typ
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by cykros 4y ago
NFT's are fine, in that the represent a token that isn't fungible, and as such, would be a great way which, if regulated, would allow for things like selling real estate (deeds) or automobiles (titles) and other things of this nat
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by cykros 4y ago
Most billionaires are terrified of unrestrained capitalism; they got where they were via government subsidies, regulatory lock-in, or simply measures came about at a time when they were big enough to afford regulations and their startup com
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by cykros 4y ago
I absolutely find at least the verified crowd on Twitter without knowing their usernames. Usernames, display names, and real names (if provided) should all be a viable way to find someone -- not sure this isn't the case already, but i
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by cykros 4y ago
Very good points. The similarities seem mostly to begin and end with "short form blogging". Livejournal and Tumblr had (much) more in common than Mastodon and Twitter. Even AIM vs IRC had more similarities (In case it's no
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by cykros 4y ago
Numbers matter here. If "all their crypto" is $500 worth, and represents a small portion of their wealth, and they're actively trading it, going out to a wallet isn't really that sensible. But yes, if they're sitti
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by cykros 4y ago
At the very least, a bank can look at stock in a private company, and before accepting it as collateral, demand to see cash flow and income statements, and perform its own valuations based on revenue, earnings (if they exist), debt to equit
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by cykros 4y ago
It boggles my mind that lenders aren't all wise to this nonsense, and severely mark down these assets, if not completely refuse to allow them as collateral. I suppose that at least many banks got very hard up over the last 10 years of
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by cykros 4y ago
Indeed. There's a reason FTX had a spread charged of 0.1% while more legitimate (hopefully) operations such as Coinbase and Kraken charge around 10x as much. If they're not making their money there, where exactly are they taking
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by cykros 4y ago
The cost of going to bars, coffee shops, and other common spaces was much cheaper in prior decades. If it costs you $10 to have a beer while waiting around at a bar to see who comes in, how often are you heading out? As for coffee shops,
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by cykros 4y ago
In other words, it's still above it's last major peak before this big cycle. I'm still WAY above what I bought in at total, and already took out a good 20x of the original principal. Wake me up if it gets below 14,000; that
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by cykros 4y ago
Many stock prices actually go UP when all of them are sold, at least to a single buyer. Most famously in recent history, TWTR. The amount they go up even has a name on the balance sheet: Goodwill. The other big example is IPO's. Time
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by cykros 4y ago
Usenet also enjoyed ISP's typically being willing to host them as part of providing basic Internet service at the time. Good luck asking Comcast and company to host the latest iteration of social media this decade.
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by cykros 4y ago
Sounds like it'd just be another Mastodon -- and heck, likely get federated (or in most cases, not federated...the whole issue with Mastodon) in with the rest. Back in the Usenet days we had killfiles to do user based filtering -- ever
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by cykros 4y ago
This is 100% the issue. When Mastodon started, it was like when IRC started -- one big server you could talk to just about everyone on. These days, it's like IRC was in 2000 or so -- many different servers you could talk to your smal
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by cykros 4y ago
Lol, cans of tuna. I laugh because the was a brief while that I was eating far too much tuna, having realized how cheap and lean a source of protein it was -- only to realize a few weeks later that you really are advised to avoid eating it
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by cykros 4y ago
Many preppers DO work to create parallel structures -- the "bomb shelter" approach is pretty plainly just a way to buy a little time in the event of catastrophe (but it does come in quite handy in the event of the far more common

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