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by evandale 3y ago
> We can argue about if Apple/Google deserve 30% but pretending people actually want crypto for any reason other than avoid rules/regulations is silly. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36405348 > I have
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by evandale 3y ago
> Just because the bottom of a slippery slope looks awful, or can't be seen isn't a reason to do, or not do something - because I can construct a million awful slippery slopes for any action you do, or not do. Who said anything
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by evandale 3y ago
It's known that iOS is the best platform to make money and targeting iOS makes more sense because of that. They probably have an idea of how much they're willing to spend to fight Apple on this because if they win it will be huge
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by evandale 3y ago
What makes you think that will happen?
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by evandale 3y ago
I replied to this comment and I'm sufficiently happy with my explanation. What's disagreeable about my statement in the context of answering the parent's question? > People really like to use the slippery slope argument to
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by evandale 3y ago
Coming to the conclusion that something can't happen because there exists a law that forbids it seems like it requires some faith in a system that I'm not willing to accept.
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by evandale 3y ago
That's because if a bad actor was given the opportunity to make a lot of money doing the worst possible thing they could do with something someone will do that thing eventually 100% of the time, no exceptions. This isn't even an &
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by evandale 3y ago
This might be simplistic or ignorant - but does the essential core of crypto boil down to having a public trust ledger? Could a use case of crypto (and NFTs) be a replacement for PGP? This whole signing a physical product to prove it's
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by evandale 3y ago
I don't know why this is flagged. Saying "US companies are not allowed to buy EU" is lower quality IMO. Not being allowed to do things has never stopped people from doing things and it isn't adding to the discussion. At
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by evandale 3y ago
> Bicycles are not vehicles to many people Those people are wrong. It's as simple as that. In the eyes of the law bikes are vehicles nearly everywhere. It's settled and not up for debate or discussion. I believe the entire poin
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by evandale 3y ago
> A few more buses and trains are not going to cut it. So add more buses and trains. > You need to outcompete the convenience of a personal car. More buses and trains will make this happen. More bike lanes will make this happen. With
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by evandale 3y ago
> Why are you jumping to defend low-quality writing and clickbait on HN? Simple - I disagree that it's low quality and click-bait. It has nothing to do with enemy of my enemy, I don't even know which two enemies we'd be ta
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by evandale 3y ago
I'm not sure how refuting a weak augment is a personal attack but I strongly encourage you to contact dang if you feel like I was disrespectful and he'll give me the talking to I deserve and possibly ban me. He's a really fri
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by evandale 3y ago
I would do the same. The park will likely add a "bicycles excepted" sign to indicate bicycles are exempt because implicitly most people know that. I think the point of the game is to demonstrate there are some people who will argu
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by evandale 3y ago
That's fine - and I would ignore the sign too but that wasn't the question being asked in this quiz. It explicitly said do you consider a bicycle a vehicle and it is a vehicle by law nearly everywhere. Many roads nowadays have a &
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by evandale 3y ago
> I mean why not You can't possibly be serious or be in good faith. Giving AI the blanket ability to censor with no human controls will destroy us faster than giving AI the blanket ability to launch nukes with no human controls. Tha
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by evandale 3y ago
> The reason to allow emergency vehicles to go through the park must then outweigh the benefit of the ‘no vehicles allowed rule’. Exactly, the Hippocratic oath supersedes the no vehicle rule.
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by evandale 3y ago
Those people get annoyed by everything and try to impose on people and prevent joy in the world. Bikes riding fast in parks and murdering children does not happen anywhere at any significant scale. It's a made up fear, just like the &q
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by evandale 3y ago
It is a mix of pedantry, iamverysmart, ackshully, treating dictionaries as prescriptive (the English dictionary is _descrptive_ and the French dictionary is _prescriptive_) and a bunch of other nonsense. The entire world agrees bicycles are
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by evandale 3y ago
I was similar, a bicycle is a vehicle and I even called the toycar a vehicle because I think they were talking about those cars kids build and race down hills. I was considering more about "how is this typically powered?" and &quo
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by evandale 3y ago
You can get standing desk mats :) I got one for this reason.
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by evandale 3y ago
wolverine876: The question is whether crypto in particular facilitates crime, and it does. evandale: Cash has been used for facilitating crime since currency was invented wolverine876: How is that relevant? The question obviously isn't
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by evandale 3y ago
except the community voted for a new normal...
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by evandale 3y ago
Cash has been used for facilitating crime since currency was invented and it will always be far easier to commit crimes with cash than with anything else and that will never change until humans find a better way to fund crime. Bitcoin may b
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by evandale 3y ago
It is decentralized in a way, like cash, but it's not as safe as cash. Technically cash isn't decentralized but for all intents and purposes it may as well be. Especially USD because anyone in the world will accept it. It's a
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by evandale 3y ago
Can you start the free trial anytime after registration? I'd like to register to poke around but wouldn't be ready to start using it yet.
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by evandale 3y ago
That isn't true. I have a PornHub subscription that uses bitcoin. There's nothing speculative about it and it's completely legitimate. I've also used to to purchase indie games instead of giving Steam/Google/Ap
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by evandale 3y ago
This is an interesting idea, is there any reason why the government owns the supply of money but they don't own a way to transfer it? Especially with electronic money, why isn't there a government payment processer? It kind of tou
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by evandale 3y ago
It will help if you have a way to turn bitcoin into your preferred currency and vice versa. It's an option, not a complete replacement.
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by evandale 3y ago
The actual questions you should ask in this situation are: How many people who use bitcoin would use this product? How many want to use this product and don't know how to use bitcoin? How many people CAN use bitcoin for THIS purchases?

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