hackingforfun

8 ms·

91.
by hackingforfun 5y ago
Just wondering, are they currently lying about having made these guidelines before? I haven't heard anything about that myself. I also do remember some news articles saying the government's mask guidelines were so hospitals coul
92.
by hackingforfun 5y ago
Yeah, based on what you said, I agree it was idiotic. I personally still don't think it's a hill worth dying on though, but that's just my opinion.
93.
by hackingforfun 5y ago
Yeah, fair, I still don't know what them recommending this earlier would've done though. It just would've made the shortage sooner, right? It seems that's what they were trying to prevent. I do get that people don&#x2
94.
by hackingforfun 5y ago
Yes I do understand that. I just hope people would put things in perspective and be a bit more rational. I think racism, bias and all that comes from people taking hard line stances on things, possibly things they inherited from their upb
95.
by hackingforfun 5y ago
I saw the flip flopping on masks and thought it was silly for them to do that. However, I also was not going to not get the COVID shot over that, because, based on my own assessment, getting the shot made sense. Anyway, I'm just surpr
96.
by hackingforfun 5y ago
> no disrespect but i know plenty of liberals who will not get the vaccine. Anecdotally, the liberals I know seem much more open to the science behind the COVID vaccine and I don't know any of them who didn't get the shot. >
97.
by hackingforfun 5y ago
I still think the pandemic should be managed. I agree the world could've done better at the start, but I don't think that nothing should be done now. Just my opinion.
98.
by hackingforfun 5y ago
Just so I understand, the one thing about flip flopping on masks cost them to lose faith in all medical experts? Doesn't that seem a little unreasonable? I agree we shouldn't have flip flopped on masks, but I don't think ma
99.
by hackingforfun 5y ago
> Yet sick Chinese people were free to spread over the world for months with no response except down-playing it. > When politicians knowingly lie to everyone's faces and take harmful actions against the people, pushing toward a m
100.
by hackingforfun 5y ago
Coinbase may have the highest volume in the US, however, there are several other viable US exchanges: Kraken, Gemini, Binance US and FTX US.
101.
by hackingforfun 5y ago
USDT has more supported trading pairs and liquidity, particularly for crypto exchanges in Asia. It just seems more popular there for whatever reason. If I had to choose USDC or USDT though, I'd rather hold funds in USDC. In general I
102.
by hackingforfun 5y ago
Personally, I don't think I'll ever need to hide crypto from the government and I pay my taxes. However, I figure that it could be regular thieves with guns, too. I get that this thread was going in the direction of government,
103.
by hackingforfun 5y ago
Lightning network transactions occur in seconds, if not milliseconds [1]. https://lightning.network/
104.
by hackingforfun 5y ago
Trezor [1] and Ledger [2] are both hardware wallets that can have a passphrase which would generate any number of wallets, each derived from the user's private key, but each generating a different public key. If someone has say 20 dif
105.
by hackingforfun 5y ago
It sounds like BK channels interact with NMDA receptors, which are glutamate receptors. Glutamate is an excitatory neurotransmitter. My understanding is that inhibiting glutamate is partly what makes alcohol relaxing (the other is it'
106.
by hackingforfun 5y ago
I agree. I intentionally don't hold stablecoins. As I mentioned I'd rather hold actual cash. One nice thing about stablecoins is they can be transferred around the world 24/7, and there are various high APRs for lending ou
107.
by hackingforfun 5y ago
Bitcoin is already valuable to someone, maybe not you, but someone (in fact, quite a lot of people). Many of the people that consider that Bitcoin has value don't care about gold at all, some do, some don't. By the way, these sa
108.
by hackingforfun 5y ago
I don't think you can sell traditional investments like stocks in seconds unless it is within designated trading hours. Crypto you can trade 24/7, although fiat wires out to traditional bank accounts still operate within certain
109.
by hackingforfun 5y ago
China vs crypto has been going on since 2013 [1]. Open source, decentralized crypto is a direct competitor to China's CBDC, which they have already developed and are trying to distribute [2]. Of course China would want to squash all
110.
by hackingforfun 5y ago
There is no nipping this in the bud. That's the point. It's already too late.
111.
by hackingforfun 5y ago
I think Angular is still pretty popular as well? I receive almost as many job listings for Angular as I do for React.
112.
by hackingforfun 5y ago
I love this idea! But there's no way politicians are going to vote for it. This points to part of the problem, that politicians are first and foremost for themselves, not for their people.
113.
by hackingforfun 5y ago
Each individual can have a unique identifier that is not linked to their identity. It could be a public key that they generate from their private key. We'd have to figure out the details of how that would work exactly, i.e. making su
114.
by hackingforfun 5y ago
Let's say, hypothetically, that voting for the president was done on a public blockchain, that anyone can audit, and there were cryptographic guarantees that the people voting are who they say they are. Does that not make that voting
115.
by hackingforfun 5y ago
> Only reason people jump on cryptocurrencies is their pyramid scheme type nature, get in first or lose out. Or they see benefits in the technology? > People want to spend currencies, why would you ever spend bitcoin when it's de
116.
by hackingforfun 5y ago
Anyone can create a crypto now and it could become a predominant one, if it provides enough benefits or has the right marketing. To me that's the difference. It's essentially technology, that iterates, and the market decides.
117.
by hackingforfun 5y ago
Public blockchains have way more transparency than existing systems. Please provide an example of an existing democracy you consider to be more transparent, i.e. every single action that is made is public.
118.
by hackingforfun 5y ago
> Fundamentally it's the antithesis to democracy. No one is forced to use crypto. No one is forced to mine it. No one is forced to use it at all. Is this not democratic? The users choose whether they want to use it, miners choos
119.
by hackingforfun 5y ago
I agree about THC being a symptom reliever. I myself don't care much for CBD, although I have heard it works for some people. Anyway, I'm just not sure I'd put cannabis in the same class as alcohol, tobacco and coffee, in t
120.
by hackingforfun 5y ago
I disagree, especially considering high THC strains. In general, coffee, tobacco and alcohol are milder. People can do stupid stuff after having too much alcohol, but I'm not sure I would consider that psychosis. Having too much THC

More ›