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by glerk 4y ago
Device-level VPNs are very useful for bypassing geographic restrictions, but I wouldn’t rely on them for hiding traffic from ISPs, unless you are in control of 100% of what your device does.
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by glerk 4y ago
Some of these prediction contracts can be resolved using a decentralized oracle (I know this is the model Omen was trying to implement). But even if there is a trusted entity involved, a smart contract I can interact with directly using blo
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by glerk 4y ago
That's unfortunate to hear, I haven't followed these projects in a while. Looks like their competitor PolyMarket is now the most popular prediction market: https://polymarket.com/
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by glerk 4y ago
Those bits moved around in the "crypto world" represent real world things. Do you also believe that email has no real world applications because it just involves moving bits between computers or that the money in your bank account
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by glerk 4y ago
There are a lot of successful blockchain projects that respond to various use cases. On top of my head: - Uncensorable money: og bitcoin and pretty much everything else - Uncensorable money + privacy: monero, tornado.cash, etc. - Decentra
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by glerk 4y ago
> Algorand, Gemini & Circle: Crypto only > Not real-world projects. As discussed in the introduction, I am only discussing projects that have real-world effects outside of cryptocurrency balances. Gemini, Circle as exchanges, and
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by glerk 4y ago
Daily contacts are also a great alternative if your prescription isn’t too high. I used to use monthlies, and only recently found dailies with my level of astigmatism. The difference in comfort is pretty significant for me.
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by glerk 4y ago
This has been known since 2020. From the beginning, the public health message could have been "protect yourself using a N-95 mask", but for some reason they went with "protect others using a cloth/surgical mask". Th
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by glerk 4y ago
Trees can trap carbon, but only if you prevent them from burning or dying and decomposing.
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by glerk 4y ago
I tend to be overly “nice” in code reviews and phrase things more like suggestions and provide some justification for them: > have you considered x? It is standard practice in y to do z. > should we do x instead? I think it would be b
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by glerk 4y ago
Would you also argue that email is useless because you can just send a letter? I don’t think “crypto is useless because you can just send cash by mail” is a serious argument, sorry.
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by glerk 4y ago
Mullvad supports Monero now, you can save yourself the trouble.
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by glerk 4y ago
As in sending cash by mail potentially across borders? Is that really a solution?
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by glerk 4y ago
The globalized tech industry is already tailoring their content to adapt to local markets (try browsing YouTube with a VPN). This legislation is just another handout to a very small but influential special interest group, who would rather i
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by glerk 4y ago
Or sometimes, your government just decides your money doesn't actually belong to you [1]. But sure, we can call it "money laundering", if it makes that boot taste better. [1] https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage&#
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by glerk 4y ago
> So what is it actually good for? Among other useful properties, digital currency allows individuals to move their money across borders without anyone asking them where it came from, where it is going and taking a cut. Seems like a very
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by glerk 4y ago
You can certainly leverage yourself, but not anywhere close to infinity. How much sETH trades to ETH depends on the supply and demand on each side. The more sETH tokens you bring to trade, the higher the price of ETH will be.
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by glerk 4y ago
> Now, you take that new token, exchange into new ETH You can only exchange it back into ETH after the lock period is over. Sure, you can buy ETH from someone else in exchange for this token, but you will pay a premium for that: obviou
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by glerk 4y ago
This is not double-spend. You are spending your ETH to buy a token. This token can be converted back to ETH (plus some interest) at a later date. In the meanwhile, you can do anything you want with this token: trade it, spend it, stake it o
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by glerk 4y ago
Celsius is not even a DeFi platform. It is some company that was promising users high yields without providing any transparency about how the deposited funds were invested. Also, a lot of the rewards were paid out in Celsius’ own token (CEL
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by glerk 4y ago
Celsius is (was?) a centralized platform promising users high yields in exchange for them depositing crypto assets into a sort of savings account. Nobody really knew what Celsius was doing with those funds. It looks like the funds were inve
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by glerk 4y ago
Ah makes sense then. I remember seeing stuff like 3x+2=11 around the 4th grade, but definitely no quadratics or graphing functions until much later. Maybe the order the information is presented is just different and it doesn’t make sense to
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by glerk 4y ago
As someone who didn't grow up in the American school system, I am a bit surprised that Algebra I in the 8th grade is considered "gifted education". If Algebra I is about solving linear equations with unknown variables, I am p
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by glerk 4y ago
I think people in this thread are taking this a bit too seriously. To me this just looks like a novelty item, more akin to an art piece than a serious technology intended to be used on a daily basis. You gotta admit it looks pretty cool.
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by glerk 4y ago
These are very good points - in the long run the probability of a massive run is 100%, and the risks of it happening sooner rather than later are higher because of the incentive of attacking the peg intentionally. This can be said about a l
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by glerk 4y ago
> Today the global community of technologists sent a letter to Congress Bullshit. As a member of the "global community of technologists", I sent no such letter to Congress nor did I appoint anyone to send a letter on my behalf.
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by glerk 4y ago
> The crypto ethos is antithetical to that of non-commercial content creators - putting a crypto wallet address on a website is like [...] Yeah, so no true non-commercial content creator would use evil crypto. By the snark, I can tel
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by glerk 4y ago
> I am not aware of any non-commercialized crypto anything Say I am an amateur content creator and I set up a donations page for my fans. I have the choice between: - Setting up PayPal/Stripe/etc. who take a percentage cut, sel
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by glerk 4y ago
No idea if it's a "front", but if your threat model is state level actors Protonmail is not gonna cut it.
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by glerk 4y ago
There is a more tactful way to do what he did. It's ok to criticize business competitors, but calling them "mob bosses" and going on paranoid rants about them is not effective. It probably doesn't matter that much for hi

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