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by gonehome 5y ago
Yeah, a lot of this assumes you get out of Canada at that point. Just like the people fleeing Russia or Ukraine. The thing crypto gives you is the capability to get your wealth out intact (at least whatever you had moved into self-custody).
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by gonehome 5y ago
That’s only true if you must transact in fiat. It’s mostly true today, may be less true in a future with this kind of restriction on on-ramps and off-ramps. Even so, it’d have to be a global restriction on all exchanges which is more challe
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by gonehome 5y ago
I agree with you. The capability added by crypto doesn’t mean everything else can’t exist or isn’t preferable a lot of the time for most people. I do think there’s a lot of room for the current tooling to continue to improve though which ma
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by gonehome 5y ago
https://www.matthuang.com/bitcoin_for_the_open_minded_skepti... You can choose to ignore the nuance, but it exists anyway.
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by gonehome 5y ago
You were lucky, I’ve heard similar stories where the money ended up lost (good faith deposit for a mortgage wired to fraudster).
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by gonehome 5y ago
A United world government could non-trivially prevent this (though enforcement would still be difficult at the individual level). We don’t have that though, and in practice today it’s useful in order to escape authoritarian dictatorships. T
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by gonehome 5y ago
Courts can also get involved in the BTC case too - it’s just an expensive and slow option in both cases (with uncertain outcomes).
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by gonehome 5y ago
I don’t know the content of the bill, but it’s a matter of degree. It’s harder to control your transactions when you have self-custody. It requires a higher level of coordination.
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by gonehome 5y ago
Yeah, the similarity there was more of my point. Wire Fraud theft often happens by scammers that have hacked title companies and send emails with fraudulent account numbers to people expecting them. Frankly banks also rarely help people sca
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by gonehome 5y ago
The latter option is illegal though? My understanding was you could legally move to the UAE for a time as a Canadian citizen and do what I described. It seems easy enough to not have day to day operations in Canada during that time. This se
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by gonehome 5y ago
Banks won’t protect you from wire fraud either. I’ve written this elsewhere when this topic routinely comes up and crypto is dismissed, but the capability of self-custody is the thing to pay attention to. Nothing else has this capability to
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by gonehome 5y ago
Yeah I think you’re right, but I’m American so haven’t looked into it that much since I wouldn’t give up citizenship for it.
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by gonehome 5y ago
Not great company - though you have to escape Eritrea in the first place, they don’t allow young people to leave (coworker I used to work with escaped and would talk about what it was like). In practice no way anyone living abroad pays taxe
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by gonehome 5y ago
There's no income tax. There's less appeal if you're an American since the USG taxes you anywhere in the world, but if you're Canadian there's a lot of appeal to live there for a few years as a resident. The people
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by gonehome 5y ago
I don't think this is a new thing (though doing them quarterly probably is) - we called them "internal liquidity events" where I used to work pre-IPO. They provide some liquidity to employees (probably at a price worse than w
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by gonehome 5y ago
Looking like it’s dead: https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/16/22980216/apple-iphone-min...
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by gonehome 5y ago
My logic is that refusing to engage is not an ethically superior position when the capability is necessary. Engaging in difficult, high-risk, but necessary issues as best you can is. That doesn't mean everyone needs to work on weapons,
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by gonehome 5y ago
Like anything difficult there are real risks and trade-offs, but just refusing to engage in difficult pragmatic issues is not the ethical position imo, it's just the easy one that feels good. It puts the burden of actual complex ethica
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by gonehome 5y ago
I hope you're right of course, but I suspect you're not: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=iphone+mini+discontinued&ia=web
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by gonehome 5y ago
Just a feeling - they barely mentioned it at the last iPhone event, sales numbers are purportedly poor. Maybe they’ll bring the body back as an SE, but we likely won’t have a high-end small phone again.
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by gonehome 5y ago
They fixed the battery life with the 13 mini (I had both). Sadly it seems like the 13mini will be the last one.
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by gonehome 5y ago
The first SE (iPhone 5 hardware) and the current mini have a great hardware design. All of the other SEs I would never consider, and the mini is likely EOL’d. Which is sad, because the mini is my favorite iPhone of all time.
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by gonehome 5y ago
Samsung? I can’t stand their stuff for this reason. I think the LG OLEDs are the best available option, but they’re not perfect either. NextDNS is also great for something a little easier to manage than PiHole (plus also easy to use outside
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by gonehome 5y ago
Only on tweet replies I think - you can’t downvote the original tweet that started a thread.
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by gonehome 5y ago
> “ How someone so unable to speak plainly could forge a career as a professional journalist I have no idea....” Most journalists are in the ad business - imo this is why they hate Facebook so much, they’re competitors and ad supported n
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by gonehome 5y ago
My guess is CS1 is often the first time a student has been given a problem they have to actually reason about to solve (rather than follow a script). This is hard to understand and adapt to and stresses out students that have been trained (
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by gonehome 5y ago
Thanks for confirming my suspicion of bad faith. Luckily others reading this thread can come to their own conclusions.
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by gonehome 5y ago
I really liked homework suggestions that (critically) included the answer key and walkthrough of solution! Doing problem sets in university without this made it way less valuable because you need the immediate feedback loop to learn and wai
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by gonehome 5y ago
I think it could be a generic problem that's abstracted away, but you have to absorb identity into the stack at the OS level. For a centralized authoritarian example of this you can consider WeChat. Unified API and auth layer that supp
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by gonehome 5y ago
+1 yeah greenwald would be someone I’d pick as an example of a bad substack in the class you were describing.

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