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by gonehome 4y ago
Lots of great stuff - not sure if it's on there, but I like the story about a user complaining they couldn't send an email farther than 150 miles. Turned out to be related to some sort of timeout (and 150 miles being around the ti
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by gonehome 4y ago
Yeah - I'm pretty sure that's what I did. It has you fill out the forms electronically, but all that does is put the text into the field which you then have to print, staple your photo to, and mail. You can't submit anything
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by gonehome 4y ago
Yeah that's what the article mentions, but sounds like that's not available to most of the public (and the comment I replied to seemed to not be talking about that?)
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by gonehome 4y ago
Where are you seeing the ability to do it online? You can't as far as I can tell (I just did it). > "Currently, the process requires filling out a renewal application called DS-82, providing a passport-sized photo, and calculat
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by gonehome 4y ago
Most of the complaints were about the subscription model - the comparison to the ad model is relevant. What features and utility were lost? It has way more features and utility now that it had previously. The happy path is the 99% use case,
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by gonehome 4y ago
Yeah I agree, I like 1Password a lot, but also wish they kept the native app.
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by gonehome 4y ago
+1 1Password is really great, the best among the available options by far imo. Most of the negative commentary about it doesn’t matter (I personally prefer native apps to electron apps). The complaints about it being a subscription are weak
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by gonehome 4y ago
"If Twitter was fairly valued by Elon Musk before the crash then it would be fairly valued now" That's a big if - I think a lot of this stuff is more speculation than any sort of fundamental cash flow valuation. A lot Twitter
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by gonehome 4y ago
Yeah - but that's dumb bullshit. He can't legally pull out because of that. He waived all of that to force Twitter to agree to the deal (because it'd be basically impossible for the board to reject it). This made sense at the
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by gonehome 4y ago
I’m a huge musk fan, but I still think his trying to get out of the Twitter deal is lame buyer's remorse and his arguments are weak. I see it as mostly unrelated to this mudge issue.
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by gonehome 4y ago
Yeah - comparing mudge's history with the email the Twitter CEO sent to internal employees and the situation seems crazy? Always hard to know from the outside, but this paired with Jack leaving seemingly frustrated with the board looks
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by gonehome 4y ago
I pay for 4 annual substacks, but I don't use patreon. I generally have a rule where I won't pay for something if it doesn't remove the ads. The podcasts I pay for have private links that have ad-free versions (except for Hon
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by gonehome 4y ago
Yeah, I don’t like that either but that’s really on the creator. I prefer the patreon model or at least when they put ads at the end.
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by gonehome 4y ago
Pay for Premium - YouTube is one of the few services that actually lets you pay to stop the ads, it’s worth it. I wish that also fixed all the bad product design that results from building something corrupted by ad incentives. You can also
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by gonehome 4y ago
> “ I can download any show or movie I want and have it playing in minutes without having to deal with multi platform bullshit.” Is this as true as it once was? It seems most of the old trackers are offline or dead now. I’d guess because
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by gonehome 4y ago
I have no interest in helping the people trying to evade taxes (at least they’re not the group I care about), I care about the people that want private transactions and pay their taxes. There are good reasons to want privacy around financ
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by gonehome 4y ago
This feels like another version of the 90s cryptowars - a lot of the arguments are similar. Encryption enabled regular people to have private communications, but at the cost of bad people also having private communications. Tornado cash all
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by gonehome 4y ago
Yeah - I never want an in-app browser. I wish it could be broadly disabled at least as an option, though I'd be fine with apple just removing the capability entirely. It's particularly annoying with account cookies and such when I
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by gonehome 4y ago
Which particular ones? The DevEx auth stuff or the incentive fixing bit? The ID model is probably where I'd start since it's what fixes spam/moderation problem in a way that can actually work without centralization. When IDs
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by gonehome 4y ago
Urbit is trying to build the tools that enable this (in part by fixing the ad driven engagement incentives that lead to centralization and the current state). One interesting bit is if you’re making vegetables when everyone else is giving a
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by gonehome 4y ago
I remember reading that it’s a big problem at Cisco. In your dad’s example what ended up happening? From your description the guy who refused to work in the higher caste should be fired imo.
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by gonehome 4y ago
> "You do wonder what effect that might have on the chance of the economy then recovering again within a reasonable timeframe." Yeah - my take on this is if the government has failed the people to this extent then the people ha
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by gonehome 4y ago
The Punkt also has Signal: https://www.punkt.ch/en/products/mp02-4g-mobile-phone/ I think these are neat, but have an iPhone 13 Mini because it’s hard to beat Apple’s quality and privacy work.
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by gonehome 4y ago
Often it’s someone comparing a cheap modern version with some super high-end appliance from the 50s (because cheap low margin options didn’t exist back then). If you were buying a $7k fridge today to compare - that’d be interesting.
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by gonehome 4y ago
It’s pretty scalable - just depends on technical capability. People in countries like Venezuela and occupied Ukraine have managed to make it work.
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by gonehome 4y ago
> “This entire comment is very misinformed.” Could be the reply added to most of HN comments about Bitcoin/crypto. Thanks for replying.
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by gonehome 4y ago
The fact that you could hold some % of your wealth in BTC (in self custody) and have insulated yourself from the failure of the Lebanese currency is evidence that it is working .
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by gonehome 4y ago
It’s strictly better and gives you more options. You can try to get out of your country with your wealth intact. It doesn’t magically solve all your issues, but it’s definitely better to have some access to your wealth than having it confis
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by gonehome 4y ago
Other comments laid it out already, but you don’t understand the underlying issue. Volatility is unrelated to the risks I’m talking about. Your criticism doesn’t sound harsh, just wrong.
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by gonehome 4y ago
It's also a hedge against local currency failure and can be useful in an emergency situation as shown here. Hoarding USD could also work, but it may be harder to get and it's definitely harder to protect/move in large amoun

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